First Decade Tiberian Dawn

[ChaosLacky 0]

Does any version of TibEd work on the original C&C (Tiberian Dawn) included in The First Decade release?

 

Whenever I try I get the error:

Run-time error '75':

Path/File access error

 

I use Windows Vista and have tried it in compatibility mode for Windows XP but got the same results.

Edited November 9, 2009 by ChaosLacky

[Nyerguds 102]

its exe file is 100% the same as the normal version, which can be edited with TibEd 1. It might be a user rights problem. Make sure you take ownership of all the files.

 

And what exactly are you "trying"? Running the program, or opening the game in it?

 

[edit]

 

Huh, Koen, does it actually read the stats from the exe? I tried if my 1.06 version would still work, and noticed that the Adv Comm Center's "Capturable" option was still enabled when I loaded the exe in your editor... but I disabled that in 1.06c.

Edited November 9, 2009 by Nyerguds

[ChaosLacky 0]

Oh, well what can cause that error then? Does the exe have to be on the same partition as the operating system?

[Koen 2]

Are you running as a normal user, or as an user account with administrative privileges?

Probably TibEd cannot write to C&C95.exe in the game folder, or maybe it cannot write its own backup copy in the "Program Files\TibEd" folder. Which answers Nyerguds' question: TibEd will copy the C&C95.exe the first time it runs the TibDawn editor to its own folder, and from then on, it is the master copy TibEd will use (because TibEd cannot know if the version in the game folder is still original).

[Koen 2]

Fixed! I addressed this issue in the TibEd 1 installer: it will now set the permissions on the TibEd\backup folder to writeable, and it will make C&C95.exe writeable as well. Get it from here.

[Nyerguds 102]

Ahh, right, I remember now. So to 'reset' the program to see a new original I need to remove the backup copy. Thanks

Edited November 11, 2009 by Nyerguds

[Nyerguds 102]

Wait, then why did it load the data from the exe in the backup folder instead of from the one in the folder I specified as game folder???

[Koen 2]

The first time you run the C&C95 editor, it will copy the C&C95.exe file to the TibEd backup folder. Then, TibEd assumes that this is the "vanilla" version it should base all its editing on. When you hit "remove changes from game", this is the executable that will be put back into the game folder. If you remove it from the backup folder, then TibEd will copy it again. If you apply changes the game, then TibEd has no other way of knowing whether the file in the game folder hasn't been edited before - so it puts the backup in place first, and then applies the changes.

[Nyerguds 102]

I know all that, but it has nothing to do with what I asked. I edited the exe in the game folder with my hex editor, while TibEd still had an older version as backup. And then when I started TibEd, it read the data from the backup file instead of from the exe in the game folder. Shouldn't it read the game settings from the exe in the game folder?

Edited November 16, 2009 by Nyerguds

[Koen 2]

No, because (by design) the user always expects to start with the original version of the game settings. At least, that is how it is for the other editors, and I carried this over to C&C95.

[Nyerguds 102]

Ahh, right, I understand now. So you always start with a "clean slate", and load the tibed projects if you want to continue editing something you did before? Hmkay.

[comander starlin 6]

i need to look for that disc i had all my old projects on i fell like doing some classic moding.