please help me!!

B

Bunny

It Wandered In From the Wastes
my FT never used to do this, im getting really frustrated now i dont know what to do!!

i reformated, and installed FT, haveing it previously on my comp working fine..

ok, everytime i finish the first mission, and goto bunker alpha, there is no one in there excpet for the guards with the power armour and eviroment armour

except.. on the map it shows there is lots of people, and you can see floating words, but i cant talk to anyway because there is no one there, barter, general barneky, elders etc

ive reinstalled 4 times and patched, direct x etc etc,

please help me!
 
Try and down the FOT CD 3 patch. I think this was something to do with a faulty 3rd CD. Im sure this related to the sprites. Its 76MB big so I hope you've got a fast connection. Also you could try copying the files off the CD again. It could be caused by the CD being dirty or scratched, or even the CD ROM drive. Try installing it from a different drive as some drives can read CDs better than others

http://ftp.interplay.com/pub/patches/FOT_3CDPatch_032301.exe
 
i tried that patch still doesnt work D:


mayby ill use another cd drive but gahhhhhh to much installation :S
 
Start by asking yourself the following question: "What has changed on my PC since FOT was working?" This should hopefuly give you a clue and point you in the right direction.
Any new hardware? CDROM. Video Cards etc...
Any new Software? Drivers, updates, security patches... MODs

After you have back up your saves (try it from a new start in case the saves are curupted)

1) Uninstall FOT
2) Delete FOT program folder
3) Scan the regisrty for any remaining FOT references and delete them - Be careful if you any used to regisrty editing, in fact just skip this step
4) Defrag the HDD
5) Run scandisk and check for bad clusters.
6) Reinstall FOT
7) Test without installing patches
8) Install version update patch
9) Test again
10) Install any other updates one at a time and test after each one.

If not you might need to reinstall windows on a worst case scenario. Just try and logicaly go through the options one at a time
 
lol

thanks alot man

but.. myh comp has always been the same, and ive done all of that allready

im really wanna play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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D:
 
Reinstall again using the largest install into the default directory. If the problem persists, unpack all *.bos files into their correct location so that you have all these directories in these locations:

directory.jpg
 
Clean the CD perhaps? Or at least check for scratches? Maybe even write a backup copy of the CD and try playing with that
 
The largest install should write all of the needed files to the hard drive. So if he got the game fully installed then the cd obviously doesn't need cleaning and this problem doesn't sound like it is the result of a dirty cd.
 
I have seen another game(JediKnight 2) that would install the game without any errors being displayed, but the one of the main game was would get currupted. There were ne error messages to indicate that the file was at fault, turned out a few poeple had the same problem, and by copying it from the CD to the HDD manualy would usauly be enough to fix it, or using a different CD ROM drive. Different drives seems to have better or worse ability to read disks.
 
All the sprites missing are in the same BOS file, so check through them to see if any are corrupt, it might not the the cd that is damaged but the area on your HD where you are installing to. Perhaps try uninstalling and installing to a different path, so instead of using the full path, program files/14 degree east etc create a folder directly under C:\ called FOT (or whatever) and then install the game to there.
 
The HDD will still try and write it back to the next availble space on the disk, which will be the same place, afte ryou uninstall the game. This is why I said to defrag the disk as it will rearange the contents in the process, hopefuly allowing you to install it onto a good area of the disk. The location isnt set by the path as this is just a refernce that is looked up in the FAT (file allocation tables)
 
i still need help

it used to work, ive tried everything and it still doesnt work

ill beat the first mission, and then when i get to the base no one will be there!!

only the first few gaurds are visable, everyone else is on my map and they have the word bubbles, but their not there and i cant use anything or click them what the fuck
 
In the Fallout Tactics/core/ folder there should be a bunch of *.bos files if you did the maximum install as suggested. List all of the ones that are there and we can better see what is going on. There should be 40 of them.
 
i have in Fallout Tactics/core/ as of follows:

entities_0.bos
gui_0.bos
locale_0.bos
loc-mis_A.bos
loc-mis_ABCDE.bos
loc-mis_B.bos
loc-mis_C.bos
loc-mis_D.bos
loc-mis_E.bos
loc-tutor_A.bos
mis-core_A.bos
mis-core_B.bos
mis-core_C.bos
mis-core_D.bos
mis-core_E.bos
Mis-Main_0.bos
mis-tutor_A.bos
sound_0.bos
sound_amb.bos
spr-character_0.bos
spr-character_AB.bos
spr-character_ABCDE.bos
spr-character_ABD.bos
spr-character_B.bos
spr-character_D.bos
spr-character_E.bos
spr-critter_0.bos
spr-critter_ABCDE.bos
spr-extra_0.bos
spr-mechanical_0.bos
spr-mechanical_DE.bos
spr-missspec_A.bos
spr-missspec_ABCDE.bos
spr-missspec_B.bos
spr-missspec_C.bos
spr-missspec_D.bos
spr-missspec_E.bos
spr-missspec_F.bos
spr-sprites_0.bos
tiles_0.bos


with a total of 40....

but i also installed the bonus mission so there might be anther extra one in there for it..

i dunno wtf
 
Ok, that is good. Now use winzip to open each of them that start with "spr-" and extract the files to the Fallout_Tactics/core/ directory. This will create a new subdirectory called "sprites" into which all of the sprites will be located. Hopefully once this is done your problems will be solved.
 
i tried that but it diddnt work

although i FINALY got it working!!

this is what i did..

seeing as my brother has the game on his comp and it works, i decided to copy it all off his comp on to 3 cds

i tried reaplcing it with mine, it diddnt work

then i came here and saw your post which made a lightbulb turn on

i reinstalled my fot fully, and decided to replace my spr- files with my brother

fantastic! it worked, one of my spr files was about 1 & 1/2 mb smaller then my brothers

so to come to conclusion, ive decided one of my cds is fucked up, and doesnt write down the full file

which is odd

so now if i wanna install fot, i have to fully install it and replace the spr- files with my brothers


thx alot for all your guys help

:)
 
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