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Russian Steel 1.2 doesnt show up in menus - 5/28/2002 7:10:37 AM

MacCready

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I downloaded the new russian steel 1.2 and then unzipped it into the spwaw/campaigns folder.

Doesnt show up in the campaigns menu anywhere?

What did I do wrong?

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Nested folders? - 5/28/2002 7:54:08 AM

MrPlow

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Has the dreaded "Nested Folder" gremlin struck again?

Contents of Russkaya Stal' folder should go directly into Campaigns folder, I think (as long as it doen't overlay an existing campaign suffix - I believe it's # 22), rather than in separate folder.

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- 5/28/2002 7:58:59 AM

RussianSteelDar

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Macready:

I'm guessing you may be one level too deep in the directory structure of windows...just another reason to quietly put Bill Gates out of business...

Kevsharr (and myself a while back) had similar difficulties...

Try the following and let me know if you have success - if not I'll try and help you get going.

"Kevsharr:

First, in WINDOWS, open your SPWAW directory on C: drive and then get to a screen where you can see the SCEN, SAVE, and CAMPAIGN folders (plus many others). DO not click on CAMPAIGN to open it.

Now, go download the RS file. Then you unzip it showing all the files. Then "control-A" to select all the files (or hold the shift key down and click them all). You should see most of the files begin with c022xxxxx.xxx - this means they will load into the slot 22 campaign game which comes empty with SPWAW but can b e filled with user generated games.

Drag the files over the desktop to the CAMPAIGN folder and release the mouse button. You should see the CAMPAIGN folder darken and then there will be a pause while your system copies the files.

Now, you can double click CAMPAIGN to open it and scroll down to see if there are a bunch of c022 files. If there are, you are done. Now open SPWAW from the SPWAW menu and get to campaign - you should see Russian Steel on the first screen of campaigns. You're ready to go!

You have to use WINDOWS to load Russian Steel into the SPWAW directory and then open SPWAW and play.

Let me know if this doesn't work.

Brad"

I found that if I had double clicked CAMPAIGN (and this opened the window so that I could actually see the c0xxx.xxx files inside) and then dragged files into it, the path didn't get properly updated and it didn't show on the SPWAW menu.

You can swap out xxxx.cmt, .dat and other files and there's no problem...but...

...the pointing seems to be dominated by the UCAMP file - I've noticed that unless you update the UCAMP file, any changes to the battle files will not be picked up...

And I found out the hard way that the first load of the game has to be at the SPWAW level not at the CAMPAIGN folder level.

Hope this helps. Lemme know if otherwise.

If RS1.2 is in the CAMPAIGN folder as a folder icon and not as c022xxx files then the above is the most likely solution...

Brad

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- 5/28/2002 8:17:45 AM

MacCready

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Within my campaign folder was a nested russian steel 1.2 directory.
I just moved everything where it should be..
Works fine now,thanks.

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