coppro
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It seems that in 2.0.13, if you modify drod.ini while playing, all holds will be corrupted. If you export players then reinstall and reimport, it works fine.

mrimer
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coppro wrote:
It seems that in 2.0.13, if you modify drod.ini while playing, all holds will be corrupted. If you export players then reinstall and reimport, it works fine.

I don't quite understand what you mean. Would you elaborate, describing everything you did step-by-step? Also, can you reproduce this situation at will?

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coppro
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Okay, I was playing on MetDROiD Prime, connected to CaravelNet. After clearing a few rooms, I decided to remove one of my mods, so I exited the game screen and then removed the files and modified the ini file. I never closed DROD. When I resumed my play, I hit Continue and then the scren just reloaded. Same with all the other holds. Hitting New Game gave me an error. Only one message was in DROD.err, something about not opening a file. I exported my player file, then reimported it into a backup I'd made. It worked fine. So I switched the backup for the original, than backed it up. I attempted to reproduce the glitch, but it didn't work at first. It eventually did though, so I think that the timing of the ini/image/tim access is vital. Obscure to be sure, but it happened twice.

mrimer
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coppro wrote:
I decided to remove one of my mods, so I exited the game screen and then removed the files and modified the ini file. I never closed DROD. When I resumed my play, I hit Continue and then the scren just reloaded. Same with all the other holds. Hitting New Game gave me an error.

This is not a bug. The ini file is only loaded once, when you start up the game. You'll have to exit the game, then modify drod.ini, and then restart the game in order for your ini changes to take place.

Removing graphics files that the game expects to be there will prevent you from playing rooms with those graphics, which is why New Game didn't do anything. Your holds were not corrupted.

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

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[Last edited by mrimer at 03-19-2006 05:38 PM]