My apologies... *it works! another question, though*

[who]

here's the deal, i used to spend countless hours playing fallout 2. after a while, i grew tired of it; but recently i decided to dust off my old copy of the game.

while doing a search for the character editor, i came across the mods that this site offers for the game. i decided that some of these mods might breathe some new life into the game, so i downloaded a few.

my problem came when i attemped to use the ultimate warfare mod

now, i'm not the most computer literate person out there, so you guys will have to bear with me here...

i attempted to extract the zip file to the fallout 2 folder as listed in the directions. this simply made a new folder inside the fallout2 folder titled "UWM". this folder contained the "data" subfolder which contained the art, protos, etc. folders. of course, this made no difference in the game.

i then extracted the zip to the data folder in my fallout2 folder. no luck here either.

finally, i manually copied the data files from the extracted zip files, and replaced the fallout2 data files with the ones in the UWM folder. this didn't work either.


so, what am i doing wrong?

isn't there a program that will automatically extract the files into the proper locations? if so, can you point me in the right direction?

i'm using windows XP if that makes a difference.

thanks in advance!

 

[MIB88]

Really easy here. Take that data folder that was created when you extracted UW mod, and place it in your Fallout 2 folder. When you installed FO2, inside the folder there was the game, critter.dat, master.dat, and a datta folder, right? The data folder from the mod is supposed to overwrite the one that was installed. Also, if you have a patch000.dat file, either remove or rename it.
So, your FO folder should have the above named files, and a data folder containing a maps, data, proto, etc. subfolders.

 

[who]

thanks for the quick reply!

Really easy here. Take that data folder that was created when you extracted UW mod, and place it in your Fallout 2 folder.

this is actually the first thing i did. when it didn't work, i manually replaced the data files in the fallout2 folder with the UW data files.

...i was suprised when it didn't work

Also, if you have a patch000.dat file, either remove or rename it.
So, your FO folder should have the above named files, and a data folder containing a maps, data, proto, etc. subfolders.

will the patch.dat file make a difference? if so, could that be causing the problems?


either way, i'm going to try doing it all over again. knowing me, it was user error

i'll try again and report back in a little while.

 

[Oracle]

will the patch.dat file make a difference? if so, could that be causing the problems?

Yes, and yes again.

The patch000 will overwrite the data folder with the data thats inside the patch000 file

 

[who]

ok, this time i deleted the fallout2 data folder and replaced it with the UW data folder, and it worked.

before, i had just deleted and replaced the individul folders inside the fallout2 data folder.

thanks, guys!




...now another question.

this mod really slowed down the game. about half the time(especially when i access my inventory list), the cursor is just dragging.

is there a fix for this, or is it just the nature of these mods?

could my slow computer be the problem? the game ran fine before...

 

[MIB88]

Sorry, can't help you there. I've never played this mod. My only advice is to just make sure there is nothing else running in the background.