Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:58 am by Centauro
OFF TOPIC (Kinda)
Talking about DeusEx... I'm having problems to run the much praised Zodiac Mod and Hotel Carone.
Zodiac Mod won't load succesfully. The situation:
1. Windows 9x. Had Deus Ex GOTY version installed, never patched until...
2. To play Carone & Zodiac, I applied the final patch 1.112fm (DX normal game running fine after that),
3. Then I installed Zodiac (Full Version, I didn't omit the Zodiac.ini option in the installer)
4. The Zodiac was installed in the appropiate folder (C:\DeusEx\) and installation finished succesfully.
But...
When launching the mod, it gave one of those errors that are mentioned in the Zodiac website. The ones that _shouldn't_ happen if you had the latest patch.
Since it was mentioned int the Zodiac setup program, I checked out the zodiac.ini file, and it was really short compared to the original deusex.ini, don't know if that was intended, but it didn't had the game engine section. So I guessed that's why the error said "can't find engine" or something like that. I copied some portions of the original deusex.ini to zodiac.ini (whatever wasn't there), and moved the Zodiac maps to the original maps folder, since the .ini it still read Paths=..\Maps\*.dx, not pointing to the Zodiac Maps folder. After that, the "engine" error came no more, and I got it to load the DX-Zodiac animated logo but when the menu comes out it is only the normal DX menu, and New Game launches the normal DX intro and liberty island mission. I console-opened the Zodiac intro map, and later the TongBase map but the characters weren't responsive to my presence. I guess that might have to do with they expecting Paul, not JC... so it didn't work.
Searching Google for info, I came across an old discussion about Zodiac, where they talked about the installation of the mod needing the editing of user.ini, zodiac.ini and moving some stuff across folders. I'd like to know the exact steps, because those things I did first were just on intuition (I know nothing about programming)... As I see it, it seems like the installer didn't do all that it was supposed to do, and I'm on 56k dialup so it was a pain to download it all, and I couldn't easily do the separate downloading of parts 1, 2 and 3 again. Help, anyone?
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