I've looked at other posts on this subject, but I can't quite see how to fix it. I'm trying to open FF1, and get "failed to load character def". I haven't merged any files, and I removed the last few hero files that I made. Still, no go.
Help?
Okay, I got Customforce to load, but there were no characters listed. I don't remember if it is supposed to be this way or not.
Okay, I kept looking for things that might be wrong. I opened the character.dat file and erased the last entry, and saved as 2character.dat, and closed Wordpad. I went to the directory, renamed character.dat to character.old, renamed 2character.dat to just plain character.dat, and the thing works.
So, this worked for me, but I don't know why it got messed up in the first place.
I posted too soon. The game loads, but none of the built-in characters are displayed in the character creation section.
Now, I've seen this error before, but it was in FFvt3R, and not FF1. I never figured out what caused it, but I ended up having to do a complete re-install.
:faint
While running the patch, I got a Fetch Error during diff, some kind of error patching the Characters.dat.
Now what?
And I discover that the reinstall didn't install the whole game. None of Irrational's generic meshes ever made it nor did the art.ff file.
Found out that the original game didn't uninstall. Tried it again, and it worked. Now I can't reinstall it.
Is this Steam acting up or something? :blink:
Original CD on a Windows 10 machine.
I took possession of the folder where it is supposed to install, and it goes through the motions but doesn't do anything. I checked to be sure it wasn't installing on the C drive even after I told it to use the D drive.
I got it to install on the C drive with no trouble at all. Now it says it is missing zlib-1.1.3.dll. Even if I found it, where would it go?
When I click on the icon, it makes sure I have permission, then the hard drive spins and nothing... The same thing happens when I try to open FFXEdit. I did get CTool and FFEdit to work. Now I have to figure out why it erased several characters.
FFv3R still works.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/clukdzzpb8f3jme/zlib-1.1.3.dll.7z
It goes in your main FF1 directory. I hope this helps get you going. :thumbup:
Thanks!
I can click on the .exe file and I get the little whirling circle, it asks if I want FF to alter stuff on the disk, but nothing loads.
I'm sorry DG, this is a new one on me. I hope you can figure it out!
Oh joy; Nifscope doesn't work either.
I've been trying to roll the update back, but so far, it won't let me.
Which version of NifSkope are you using, and what kind of error are you getting?
I don't know, and it won't open so I can check. I don't get an error message, according to Process Explorer it loads into memory then unloads, same as FF.
Are you having any Non-FF related PC issues?
Scads, but it was fine until the forced MS update yesterday. Now very little "Microsoft" software is able to run on my machine.
i try not to up date cause it screws every thing up for some reason :thumbdown:
It still won't load.
FFv3R still works. :angry:
It still won't load. I can peek at Process Explorer real quick when I try to start it. It shows up in the existing process then disappears, just about as fast as you can say it.
Is there a log someplace that might tell me what is going on?
I've been trying to figure out what's happening here, but I can't make heads or tails of it.
Here's a thought: The version of FF I have had on this computer was put there by a friend, and it was fixed so that it was not necessary to have the disk in the cd drive. I've re-installed from my original disk, though, so does it still need the disk? The disk is still in there, but I've moved FF to the D drive. Is there someplace I need to tell the game how to find the cd drive? I can't remember if I did this when I put FFv3R on the D drive; I do need the disk in the drive for it to run.
I had a funny idea, so I installed FF1 on the C drive to see if I could get it to run there. I patched it, left the CD in the drive, and I get a little spinning wheel, then nothing.
Any suggestions at all?
Hrm. I'm afraid you've I'm not tech savy enough to know what needs to be done regarding the different drives. You have CD versions of both games that won't run? What version of Windows do you have?
I wonder if the Steam or GOG versions might work better.
I'm using WX, but it ran just fine for several months. FFv3R seems to work.
Man, that's so weird. I've not had trouble with either of them in Windows 10 recently. And it is a disk version? I think I might try the Steam version and just see if that makes any difference.
I had trouble with the disk version too. I think the problem may be in the registry entries for FF. If you uninstall and then reinstall to a different directory, Win10 looks for the first install for some reason. I believe you have to uninstall, reboot, and then reinstall for Win10 to recognize the new directory, and possibly reboot after the reinstall as well, just to make sure. I don't remember exactly, but I think this might force the registry change.
This affected me on the editor installation. I now run the GoG version, and Win10 wanted to use my old disk install directory for the editor. I finally got everything to work, but it was a time consuming process.
Hope that all made sense, and hope you can get it working.
Spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to fix this. I didn't. I have made sure the files are not read only, took possession of the FF folder, set it up to run under every compatibility mode they had (it worked under Windows 7, but FFv3R runs under the compatibility mode as WXP Service Pack 2 just fine). I've used a program manager to watch as the FF program and a .dll load, then are killed. I believe it is a security issue, and despite being an Administrator, it doesn't believe that I should run the program.
The annoying thing is as time goes by (and I mean weeks), other stuff starts acting funny. At first, I was able to convert FF1 .nifs to FFv3R easily; a few weeks back, I had to create a folder just for conversion,and it took an hour to set up the permissions so that it will let me convert. I suspect that eventually that will stop after a later update.I am going to try again to put it on the C drive, but am open to any and all suggestions.
The only other thing I can think of is your AV program. Are you using the Win version or a third party?
You may have to create an exception in the AV if it has that ability. Sometime I get a "Windows Firewall has blocked execution of this program" error even though I use third party AV software.
You can also try disabling the AV program for the install.
Sorry if you've tried all this before, just throwing stuff out there.
I actually had to uninstall every single Add-On one by one, until every thing FF related was removed from my PC. Then I had to restart my PC, and do a Clean re-Install of everything. It took me a while to figure it out, but once I did, it finally worked.
Man, I wish that I could help you, Glob, but I have no clue what's going on with this. :(
Okay, do you have to have Python to make FF work? In among the assorted thing I've done , one has generated an errormessage that Python is incorrectly installed. I need to know which version I need, also.
Not to my knowledge. I never had python installed until well after FFvtTR came out.
Quote from: Cyber Burn on April 15, 2017, 03:21:24 AM
I actually had to uninstall every single Add-On one by one, until every thing FF related was removed from my PC. Then I had to restart my PC, and do a Clean re-Install of everything. It took me a while to figure it out, but once I did, it finally worked.
And now Daglob's luck has hit me as well. Both, my Win 8.1 Laptop, and my Win 10 Desktop, have stopped playing both Games.
At least with my Win 10 though, I am getting an error message for FFvt3R:
(http://i.imgur.com/jMrAsCp.jpg)
Not exactly sure what it means though.
Have you modded the game at all since your last run? In particular, have you modified the mod that you're trying to launch?
Sometimes when I modify data files using python scrips like the ChangeActiveDefenseDuration (paraphrasing the name), I get similar errors.
Yeah, I was gonna say; thee is a .dat file messed up. I still have FFv3R, but even after this long, FF1 won't run.
Quote from: spydermann93 on August 27, 2017, 12:55:44 AM
Have you modded the game at all since your last run? In particular, have you modified the mod that you're trying to launch?
Sometimes when I modify data files using python scrips like the ChangeActiveDefenseDuration (paraphrasing the name), I get similar errors.
This is actually for the Main Game, no Modding done to it except altering the FX and Sounds Dat Files.
FFv3R has quit working. Well, mostly, anyway. I can still open the game and create characters, but actually playing the game is impossible. The Danger Room doesn't work either. I'm pretty sure that it's a memory problem; apparently Windows has a bunch of Svchost files that take up a little memory and either are not supposed to be nor cannot be "killed". There also seem to be some "stealth" programs WX loads into the memory and are not listed in taskmanager (I found this out when I shut down the machine and was informed that such and such was still running and was I sure I wanted to close or something like that).
When feasible I'll see if I can increase the memory.
I'd run some heavy duty anti-viral on the machine cause there shouldn't be a whole lot of svchosts running...and stealth stuff always makes me questionable...
CB, that happened to me once when I accidentally opened the campaign tab while FFEdit was pointing to vanilla FF2. If you do that, it screws up the campdef somehow. Just replace that file and things SHOULD be okay, if it is the same thing that happened to me.
DG, DJ is right. You might also try some programs like CCleaner:
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/registry-cleaner
Quote from: BentonGrey on November 01, 2017, 06:53:41 AM
CB, that happened to me once when I accidentally opened the campaign tab while FFEdit was pointing to vanilla FF2. If you do that, it screws up the campdef somehow. Just replace that file and things SHOULD be okay, if it is the same thing that happened to me.
DG, DJ is right. You might also try some programs like CCleaner:
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/registry-cleaner
Is CCleaner good? I hear a lot of people use it, but I've always been a bit wary of it. Would you guys recommend using it?
Are you in admin? I found that win10 will change setting unless you are in as admin user. Then I use the steam fforce.exe. fixed nearly everything.