WIP Beta released Black Hills A desert world 1.2.3 1.0

Re: Black Hills A desert world 1.2.1

The game just keeps crashing to desktop upon loading to it. I install the new version, read the readme and still crash to desktop.

 

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Hmm, this is turning out to be an unlucky day for me. It's easy to find problems when the same thing is happening. But, mixed result are occurring.

Could both of you try downloading this mis file and placing it in the alpha_prerace/levels/blackhills folder?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qfbqkh8pd4cxjkh/blackhills.mis


Aboroath, I am able to replicate your error on an older version of beamng. In the loading screan, does it say "loading datablock" in the lower right comer? If this is your problem, I would recommend running the updater. A portion of your game is probably not up to date.

Creeper, unfortunately I can't seem to replicate your problem. So, let's hope the mis file above helps.

 

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Mine isn't letting me unzip it, it comes up with errors like ! C:\Users\Home\Downloads\blackhills1.2.1 (1).zip: Unexpected end of archive
Any ideas?

 

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My slow internet might have corrupted something with the zip file during the upload process. You could try removing the (1) part of the filename and see if things are fixed.

 

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It happens with both, I tried re downloading it and that is where the (1) came from.

 

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Are you opening the file with the default windows thing or a third party program?

Based upon your reply and some testing on my part, both of my earlier ideas have been disproved.

 

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I'm using winrar.

 

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This might be the problem.

Could you try the following two methods?

- right click and hit extract

- double click and drag the zipped file's contents to another folder

If neither of these methods work, you could try downloading 7zip and giving it a shot.

 

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Thank you guys very much for the explanations and suggestions. As soon
as I get home from work I will look into this immeadiatley. Hang in there Ouerbacker!

I use 7zip on all this and so far has worked flawlessly.

 

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None of these work, any more ideas?

 

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Based upon dropbox's website, the company's servers are located in the US. You're in Australia. Some of the data might be getting corrupted between point a and point b. Later today, around 1-4am est, when nobody will yell at me for messing with the internet, I'll upload the file directly to this website.

 

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Good timing.....I should be enjoying a cup of tea around 1am PST.

 

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I got it to work, had to completely erase it from my downloads, and then re download it. Thanks for the help, I should have tried everything before complaining.

 

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Unfortunately, it still crashes, but not instantly, like 5 seconds into the loading it crashes. D:

 

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1st idea
Under blackhills/art, there is a file called "datablocks." Right click and delete this file or move it to a directory outside of beamng.

2nd idea
right click and delete blackhills_0_basetex, which is located under levels/blackhills.

3rd idea
If the previous ideas don't work, could you try some other maps and see if any of them have a similar problem.

 

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Well after 2 hours of deleting, tweaking, downloading, updating, deleting again tweaking again and re-downloading again I have found that the main folder name "blackhills 1.2.1" causes
the resource error. Once I renamed the file to just "blackhills" it works fine it's the latest version. I've had that issue before when tampering with vehicles or terrains. Interesting
if anyone else has this problem and if not then I have some kind of nasty conflict going on.

 

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The folder that seems to be the main folder is just the file that I stuck blackhills in before zipping. In other words, its only purpose is to make it easier to to distinguish one version of blackhills from another. I guess I should have mentioned this. When you double click on the blackhills1.something file, there should be a file called blackhills within it. This is the file that should actually be drug into beamng's levels folder. On the first post of this thread, I have now clarified this.

 

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I took the contents of the latest update and put them in the original "blackhills" folder and then deleted any folders referencing "blackhills 1.2.1". It seems a total and complete separation of the two files is what beamng wants
to see or the new update file needs to have absolutely everything in it referencing "blackhills 1.2.1", effectively making a whole new file. I think that's how other modders handle updates?

 

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Well.
1st idea: File was already not there.
2nd idea: Didn't work.
3rd idea: All other maps work fine.

I did all 3 and still crashes at loading.


Here is my computer specs, since it could be the computer:

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750
CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processer
Memory: 8.00GB RAM (2.96 Usable)
Resolution: 1920 x 1080, 60Hz
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit.

 

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I'm pretty sure its not the computer.

Your problem might have something to do with the directory that you put it in.
When you double click on blackhills in the levels folder, does it look like this?



If yours doesn't look like this, could you take a screenshot of it?