The unpacker crashed

[Motep]

Welll...it did. Im at a loss as to why, and I was wondering if any of you have encountered the problem and have a solution.

[Motep]

Am I the only one who has experienced this problem, then?

...

or am I the only one too stupid not to be able to get around it without help...

[irishron2004]

Vista, right? The only way around it in Vista I found unpack each pack seperately.

[Motep]

Same thing. It is failing to open animation files.



It got up in the upper 20,000's last time before it crashed. But today, it wont even get past this file.

[Motep]

I suppose I could try that.

I turned the User Account Control back on and the unpacker is running. Lets hope it doesnt crash again.

[Motep]

It failed...again...

[Motep]

I found the files that have been unpacked (man, I hate vista, btw) however, I donr know if there is anything important I need to know about the other files that did not unpack.


DAMN! I dont have the unit models....

[irishron2004]

All the farther I ever got unpacking in Vista was 26k-27k and it just ran out of memory with gb ram and 200gb hd free space. When I had Vista (went back XP) I had to rewrite the unpack.bat file for each pack and unpack it that way. Time consuming and frustrating but it works.

[Motep]

Thats what tomorrow is for.

Thank you, by the way.

[Motep]

All the farther I ever got unpacking in Vista was 26k-27k and it just ran out of memory with gb ram and 200gb hd free space. When I had Vista (went back XP) I had to rewrite the unpack.bat file for each pack and unpack it that way. Time consuming and frustrating but it works.

how do you do that?....

[irishron2004]

If I remember my DOS right and it's been a long time since I unpacked mine, here is the unpack_all.bat: unpacker.exe --source=..\..\packs\*.pack --destination=..\..\ --verbosity=1. Replace the * with data_0, it sould unpack data_0.pack. If it works, do the same for data_1, data_2, etc.
Good luck.

[Motep]

....I dont know how to do that...

Im bad with dos...

[irishron2004]

....I dont know how to do that...

Im bad with dos...

I'll make it as simple as possible. Put these in your tools/unpacker folder.
In tools/unpacker folder you will find unpack_all.bat and in notepad it will look like this:
unpacker.exe --source=..\..\packs\*.pack --destination=..\..\ --verbosity=1.
For data_0.pack, edit it to look like this:
unpacker.exe --source=..\..\packs\data_0.pack --destination=..\..\ --verbosity=1
and save it. Now you can run it and should only unpack data_0.pack. This should help you unpack the other four. If not holler and we'll go through it, again. Good luck.

[Motep]

I'll make it as simple as possible. Put these in your tools/unpacker folder.
In tools/unpacker folder you will find unpack_all.bat and in notepad it will look like this:
unpacker.exe --source=..\..\packs\*.pack --destination=..\..\ --verbosity=1.
For data_0.pack, edit it to look like this:
unpacker.exe --source=..\..\packs\data_0.pack --destination=..\..\ --verbosity=1
and save it. Now you can run it and should only unpack data_0.pack. This should help you unpack the other four. If not holler and we'll go through it, again. Good luck.

ohhh...I didnt think of opening it with notepad...

Ill have to test it later on the other computer once my brother is done conquering the world..

[Motep]

It wont let me do anthing to it

I cant edit anything, and I cant open it with anything else but the *&^*&ing command crap!

[irishron2004]

ohhh...I didnt think of opening it with notepad...

Ill have to test it later on the other computer once my brother is done conquering the world..

Let me know how it comes out either way. Conquering the world? Ever play the old DOS Risk? That was my first conquering the world. It would work okay on win3.1 or dos, but after that put the disk in the box.

[pevergreen]

it wont let you open it?

Right click, open as, notepad?

Failing that, rename the file as a .txt

If your computer doesnt show extensions, tools, folder options, view then unclick "Hide extensions for known files"

Thats it for XP, shouldnt be that different for vista.

[Motep]

with vista, you have to go to the control panel, then to appearance and personalization, from there to folder options. Then you click on the view view tab and clear the check on "hide extentions for known file types".

There is a reason I prefer xp...

Will now try unpacking.

HA! It worked. Many thanks.

Wait...Somewhere in pak 3, file 3-4kish, it fails. "file not found"

Ah well, its only tgas, and I can get them adequately online.