Crashing in Tactical Combat with UM3

[Terpoma]

Hey everyone,

I've been playing Ultimate Mod 3 as the first mod I've tried with BOTF, and I'm very much enjoying it! Being limited to TNG ships was always a big game weakness for me, so seeing all the new ones in action is a lot of fun!

However, in the later game, BOTF crashes to desktop whenever I try to start a tactical action (ie, immediately after i press the "fight" button on the popup).

As this didn't happen at all for the first 100 turns, I'm guessing it might be due to one of the later ship models. If this isn't a common problem, I may have installed the mod incorrectly. So if I go through my steps, can someone point out if and where I've gone wrong?

1) Clean install of BOTF
2) Installed Joker's XP patch (Botf-102-W2K-XP-9x-English-German.exe)
3) Installed Standard for Modders pack (I may have gone wrong here - I can't find anywhere that explains how to install the pack. So I just plunked the unzipped files into stbof.res)
4) Installed the mod in the same way.
5) Replace EXE file with the mod's.

If anyone knows where I may have gone wrong, I'd appreciate it! I'd be somewhat disappointed if I had to continue the game fighting the battles on auto-resolve.

Thanks!

[sean_west]

Goto the download section and you will find hades patch which should be installed. This will help with the crashing.

[thunderchero]

hades patch will have problem if installed on UM3 due to new ships use 512x512 gifs and hades will only run on 256x256 gifs and that applys to both versions of hades

thunderchero

[sean_west]

Sorry, I am using the Beta version of UM4 which has the reduced gifs

[alekssandros]

I want the UM4!!!!!!!!!!

WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee

GIVE IT TO US! MY PRECIOUS!!!!!!!

[sean_west]

Here are the links for UM4

http://www.4shared.com/file/42559903/31 ... Beta2.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/42916472/db ... Beta2.html

you need both file,

install it the same way you did 3