nightchild on 13/6/2021 at 20:16
Sorry for spamming the forum. Is my last attempt to ask for help with that mission failing to load.I won't bother you again. I need either a save from the beginning of Reanimator or some guidance on what to twik in which files so to make this mission start straightaway and bypass the normal procedure of: loading Enemy+ going down the hatch+mission complete+loading next mission + failing to load.
Thanks in advance. (My issue in a nutshell is that Enemy fails a lot to load and if by change it loads, next mission won't load at all. If I skip Enemy I may have better chances to try and make Reanimator load)
A.Stahl on 14/6/2021 at 03:24
Ctrl+Shift+End cannot help you? Just skip the level, save at the beginning of the next and repeat until you there...
>Enemy fails a lot to load
Something interesting in logs? I remember Patriot to have rather long load times but there weren't any crashes (and I'm using Linux -- a strange running environment for the Thief)
baeuchlein on 14/6/2021 at 14:48
nightchild, I am sorry that I could not manage to upload savegames earlier, but now they're online.
(
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmV4DcMDnt19gTOwgNmyT422b2ts) is the OneDrive link which leads to a zip file containing six savegames. All were made with a Thief 2 NewDark v1.27 (made with T2Fix v1.27d). Their in-game names state which mission and what difficulty level they are for. The first three are for "Reanimator" (mission 9 3/4, so to speak) with the first (
game0000.sav) being for Normal, the second for Hard, and the last one for Expert difficulty. The other three (beginning with
game0003.sav) are similar but for the last mission, "Patriot", just in case it fails to load for you as well.
In all these saves, I have just (re-)started the appropriate mission and bought what I think would be a useful set of thiefy tools from the shop. All saves are from a point very close to the starting point; in "Reanimator", I steered Garrett a few steps away from an enemy who would possibly attack him instantly instead, and in "Patriot", the game starts on a train (well, sort of), so it's about one or two seconds away from the starting point.
Hopefully, you will now be able to finish the campaign in a somewhat normal way.:)
nightchild on 14/6/2021 at 14:59
Oh Lord!!! You are a life saviour!!!!! I can't start to tell you how much I appreciate your help. I was banging my head on the walls not being able to finish the damn campaign. I will d/l them as soon as I get home. To answer your skipping missions question, I did it but when I was loading Enemy to skip it, it wouldn't load, so I had to do it again and again, so..... bah! I didn't search for the logs information, never though about it to tell you the truth. A million thanks for getting into all this trouble!!!!!
nightchild on 14/6/2021 at 15:32
btw, that is Angeloader's log:
2021/6/14 18:8:28 1.5.2 Started session
2021/6/14 18:8:28 GetFMArchivePaths
GetFMArchivePaths : subfolders=true, Exception in GetDirectories
EXCEPTION:
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Δεν ήταν δυνατή η εύρεση μέρους της διαδρομής 'C:\Users\chrisanthi\Documents\t2missiondarkloader'.
σε System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1.CommonInit()
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1..ctor(String path, String originalUserPath, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption, SearchResultHandler`1 resultHandler, Boolean checkHost)
σε System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)
σε AngelLoader.FMArchives.GetFMArchivePaths()
2021/6/14 18:8:28 Main
Exception thrown
EXCEPTION:
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): System error code: 3
Το σύστημα δεν είναι σε θέση να εντοπίσει την καθορισμένη διαδρομή δίσκου
path: 'C:\Users\chrisanthi\Documents\t2missiondarkloader'
search pattern: *
σε AngelLoader.WinAPI.FastIO.ThrowException(String searchPattern, Int32 err, String path)
2021/6/14 18:8:28 FindInternal
Exception getting files in C:\Users\chrisanthi\Documents\t2missiondarkloader
EXCEPTION:
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): System error code: 3
Το σύστημα δεν είναι σε θέση να εντοπίσει την καθορισμένη διαδρομή δίσκου
path: 'C:\Users\chrisanthi\Documents\t2missiondarkloader'
search pattern: *
σε AngelLoader.WinAPI.FastIO.ThrowException(String searchPattern, Int32 err, String path)
σε AngelLoader.WinAPI.FastIO.GetFilesTopOnlyInternal(String path, String searchPattern, Boolean initListCapacityLarge, FileType fileType, Boolean ignoreReparsePoints, Boolean pathIsKnownValid, Boolean returnFullPaths, Boolean returnDateTimes, List`1& dateTimes)
σε AngelLoader.WinAPI.FastIO.GetFilesTopOnly_FMs(String path, String searchPattern, List`1& dateTimes)
σε AngelLoader.FindFMs.FindInternal(Boolean startup)
2021/6/14 18:8:28 GetFMArchivePaths
GetFMArchivePaths : subfolders=true, Exception in GetDirectories
EXCEPTION:
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Δεν ήταν δυνατή η εύρεση μέρους της διαδρομής 'C:\Users\chrisanthi\Documents\t2missiondarkloader'.
σε System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1.CommonInit()
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1..ctor(String path, String originalUserPath, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption, SearchResultHandler`1 resultHandler, Boolean checkHost)
σε System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)
σε AngelLoader.FMArchives.GetFMArchivePaths()
2021/6/14 18:8:28 (one) scanned FM was null. FM was:
Archive:
InstalledDir: Nosferatu-20171030T185342Z-001
2021/6/14 18:8:43 GetFMArchivePaths
GetFMArchivePaths : subfolders=true, Exception in GetDirectories
EXCEPTION:
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Δεν ήταν δυνατή η εύρεση μέρους της διαδρομής 'C:\Users\chrisanthi\Documents\t2missiondarkloader'.
σε System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1.CommonInit()
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1..ctor(String path, String originalUserPath, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption, SearchResultHandler`1 resultHandler, Boolean checkHost)
σε System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)
σε AngelLoader.FMArchives.GetFMArchivePaths()
2021/6/14 18:9:17 GetFMArchivePaths
GetFMArchivePaths : subfolders=true, Exception in GetDirectories
EXCEPTION:
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Δεν ήταν δυνατή η εύρεση μέρους της διαδρομής 'C:\Users\chrisanthi\Documents\t2missiondarkloader'.
σε System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1.CommonInit()
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1..ctor(String path, String originalUserPath, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption, SearchResultHandler`1 resultHandler, Boolean checkHost)
σε System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)
σε AngelLoader.FMArchives.GetFMArchivePaths()
2021/6/14 18:9:54 GetFMArchivePaths
GetFMArchivePaths : subfolders=true, Exception in GetDirectories
EXCEPTION:
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Δεν ήταν δυνατή η εύρεση μέρους της διαδρομής 'C:\Users\chrisanthi\Documents\t2missiondarkloader'.
σε System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1.CommonInit()
σε System.IO.FileSystemEnumerableIterator`1..ctor(String path, String originalUserPath, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption, SearchResultHandler`1 resultHandler, Boolean checkHost)
σε System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)
σε AngelLoader.FMArchives.GetFMArchivePaths()
baeuchlein on 19/6/2021 at 19:36
The first line is completely normal. The other ones are error messages.
One of the error messages in Greek apparently says that a part of the folder to the missions and/or path to that folder cannot be found. This seems to be the cause for all of the error messages listed above. Either this path/folder really does not exist, or maybe it is too long. At least for the original Thief 2 game, there have been reports in the past saying that the path to the Thief 2 game should not be too long. I do not remember how many characters were allowed for it, and I also do not know whether any of these limitations still apply to Thief 2 NewDark and/or AngelLoader, or whether the path to the missions has such limits.
There is also the possibility that Windows restricts your access to these folders, which can sometimes be the cause for weird errors and bugs when Thief 2 has been installed in C:\Games or C:\Program Files, but that does not seem to be the case here.
Whether any of this is responsible for your loading problems wih the Patriot missions, I also cannot say. Unfortunately for you, but fortunately for me, everything works on my computers.
