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    CMFI won't start - nothing happens

    in CM2 General Tech Support

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    6 hours ago, rocketman said:

    If I remember correctly when I installed I had missed one license key which was with a CMBN purchase at the same time (engine update probably). So carefully check your purchase history.

    Edit: I also installed from the all-in-one file.

    Bought the Big Bundle with all the modules so I only have the one license key.

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    CMFI won't start - nothing happens

    in CM2 General Tech Support

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    Thanks for the response,

    Added the .exe and folder to the Windows Defender exclusion list. Didn't help.

    Will have to double check with our IT guy at the office he ran the AV uninstall if he made use of a utility.

    Laptop - I've been through the blurry text issue when I first purchased so I know about the dedicated GPU profile adjustments to avoid it - that's not the issue through steam.

     

     

     

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    CMFI won't start - nothing happens

    in CM2 General Tech Support

    Posted · Edited by AVR

    Were you able to get it working?

    I've been having the same problem with CMFI for a few months now.

    CMFB works fine and up until a couple of months ago so did CMFI. I played my turn in a H2H game, quit and later in the day tried to launch the game for another turn but all I get was the blue windows spinning circle for about a second then nothing. Uninstalled and reinstalled probably 5 times with no effect. Then I managed to get it running a few times by either,

    1. Running the .exe as administrator (worked for a about a week)

    2. Moving / copying the .exe in and out of the directory (worked for about 2 weeks)

    Then for some reason that I don't have the technical skill to understand - neither of the techniques worked anymore (only came across them on the forums).

    The only fix that consistently worked was to launch the game through Steam but it makes it a stuttering, laggy bitch to play and a miserable experience.

    Tried uninstalling again and this time around I cant even get the activation menu to load after install - just the little blue windows circle for a second again then just me starring at my desktop while voicing profanity. (even after running the EngineGSClean tool from Battlefront). Managed to get the activation screen to load when launching through steam but now I'm back to the laggy experience.

    I know its got nothing to do with my antivirus as out frustration to identify the issue I uninstalled it completely just to check if the game would launch - it doesn't.

    I want to add CMBN and CMRT to my collection but I cant get pass taking a $200+ gamble for a product that might not work, spent a week downloading every single mod and scenario for these titles in preparation for the purchase.

    Desperately curious if you were able to fix it and if so how?

     

     

     

     

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    Any plans for Vin's animated text to be updated

    in CM Final Blitzkrieg Maps and Mods

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    On 12/31/2016 at 11:42 AM, Mad Mike said:

    How detailed do you need that tutorial to be?

    Basically it's quite easy:

    1. RezExplode the newest brz archive containing the new strings.txt (e.g. final blitzkrieg v200.brz).
      Note: Mac users are already sh*t out of luck at this point, since there still is no RezExplode utility available on Mac, as far as I know.
      But you can try to ask a friendly Windows user to provide the file for you, they are platform independent ;).
       
    2. Locate the Animated Text Mod folder, rename the strings.txt in this folder to something like strings_old.txt.
       
    3. Copy the exploded strings.txt from step 1 into the Animated Text Mod folder.
       
    4. Open both files (strings.txt , strings_old.txt) in Notepad++. Use the Notepadd++ plugin "Compare" to easily compare both files.
       
    5. Locate the "Soldier State Display" section, it should also show the most differences in the "Compare Nav Bar" (currently around line ~5200).
       
    6. Copy the animated text blocks one to one from the strings_old.txt into strings.txt.
       
    7. Save strings.txt, delete strings_old.txt.

    Voila, you're finished. Takes about 5 minutes, I'm doing this regularly now for all updates. Just don't want to go through the extra effort of packaging, uploading etc., which in any case takes longer than doing the adjustments. Anyway, it's not my mod ..

    Hi,

    Thanks for the guide. Just want to confirm is it only the "soldier state" section we need to update. I tried this for CMFI using the "soldier state" section from Vins CMFI201Heavy Mod and copying it line by line to the "exploded" original strings.txt but I still end up with unit names and equipment descriptions all messed up.

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