Mb wont load

[scruffbag]

i installed MR's marianas scenery,along with all the other addonds it needs,and now mission builder wont load.any ideas??

 

[simonu]

When you say MB won't load, does it give an error message or does it just crash?

scenery on its own won't affect MB. It is object DPs that can cause it problems

Next question for you, how many aircraft are in the install?
If 90 plus that will be your problem.

Next, did you add any ships?

The most stuff you have proberbly added is infrastructure.

We can get down to that once plane numbers are ruled out

 

[scruffbag]

i only have 70 odd aircraft,and it crashes.also when i try to go to advanced info,in game,that will cause a crash too.i havent added any ships.

 

[simonu]

Have you added object names to mdlnames.txt ?

 

[scruffbag]

i did,probably 50 or so

 

[simonu]

Ok what I want you to do is temporarily disable mdlnames.txt, do this by right clicking it select rename, change it to mdlnames.tmp; windows will ask if you are sure you want to do this, you are.
Once you have done this try and start MB and see what happens

 

[scruffbag]

ok,i tried that but no good

 

[simonu]

yes I missed a step, now create a false mdlnames.txt
just right click an empty space in the CFS2 folder, select new txt
obviously name it mdlnames.txt
do not worry that it has no bytes in it

 

[scruffbag]

all i can add is a new folder

 

[simonu]

task bar,
File New Text Document

 

[simonu]

We need to establish wether you corrupted mdlnames.txt by deleting or overwritting the end of file marker.
The quickest way would be to replace it with an empty file.
Mission Builder has no problem with an empty file, I just did the same on mine.
It does have a problem whith a missing file, I had a five year old yelling at me as well You will forgive me for forgetting

 

[scruffbag]

im assuming the task bar is at the top,it says file in the top right?i clicked on that and i can only add new folder.

 

[scruffbag]

no worries.i cant see an end of file marker,so it msu have been deleted or whatever.bugger.

 

[simonu]

can you not think of another way to make an empty txt file ?
try using notepad to create it

 

[simonu]

Did you add airbases to ..\INFO\Airbases.dat ?

 

[scruffbag]

no,dont know much about pc's.i just copied and pasted the marker form airbase.dat to mdlnames,but that didnt work either.

 

[scruffbag]

i did add some airbases yes.there is a marker at the end,with a space between the last airbase enrty and the marker.

 

[simonu]

I have to cook supper for girls now, I may be mistaken about the file marker, My mdlnames doesn't have one But that doesn't help, creating an empty version is a quick way to establish wether that file is the problem.
If you don't know much about PC s, are you ready to change that?

 

[scruffbag]

yes i am.thanks.catch ya later mate.

 

[simonu]

What OS are you using? XP Vista or Win7