Circle of Eight Modpack 5.8.x/5.8.xNC General Commentary & Discussion Thread

XP, i installed patch 1 & 2 and the net framework 2.0, im considering completly deleteing eveything to do with it and trying a clean install and hope it helps, i believe i did install patch 3 at first but i replaced it with patch 2 once i was aware of the incompatabilities, it could be that but im unsure if that would stop a file working altogether :/

 

I can't get mine to work either. I already have the Front End installed, but when I try to activate 5.80 or 5.80NC, it hangs up. I give it plenty of time, but if I click anything on the computer, it locks up and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to get out of it. And on everytime I bring up the front end, I have to run the fixer to get the Dll file replace.

Any help?

 

How much is plenty of time? It takes my comp up to 10 mins to load the mod. Mine too seems to lock up during the process. If you stop it in the middle, it screws up the activation and can disrupt game play. Can you try to activate it before you to go to bed so the comp has all night to power through the activation?

 

I think it only appears to "hang", especially if you're doing sth else in background. Leave it be for a while, and it will "unhang" after activating. That's what happened to me anyway. Didn't the popup window warn NOT to ctrl-alt-del out of it, specifically for people with urges to do so?

 

I beg to differ. The other day the 5.8 activation did hang my computer.

I started the activation, waited about a half hour with no results, and went to dinner. I figured after 4 hours it would be done taking into account the warnings about the lengthy activation time. After turning my monitor back on I got some "Ahh Crap" message from Front End. I clicked out of it, restarted my computer and started the process again. The second time around it worked flawlessly and no problems since.

 

Is...it...possible? Did they really just modify this most annoying thing in the game? :twitch:

I just killed a couple of black puddings with ranseurs and longswords, and they DID NOT split into two! Someone was listening to my prayers!

I will miss the times of just sitting at the site of the Hedrack fight and creating 30+ black puddings and then killing them all with fireballs, lol. The game gets VERY laggy when there's 30+ black puddings stumbling around in one place.

I really didn't expect them to modify this particular thing but I'm not complaining. I just really hated it when you're trying to move everyone away from the puddings so the wizard can let loose but one gets in close enough for an AoE and then suddenly there's two+ and you're right back into it again, lol. Irritating.

 

Switch to blunt instruments and mash them like potatoes.

 

Necro, you sure those were black puddings not grey oozes? Also, Double-check their resistances, maybe you confused them with sth else.

 

I gave it 20 minutes, then an hour and a half, still no luck.

 

Any word on THIS bug I mentioned? I prevented it by reloading and deleting the bugged save, but now the problem popped up with Ronald yet again (thankfully the rest of the party is still unaffected).

 

Hi
I had the exact same thing happen to me. I downloaded 5.8 NC, unpacked it into the root folder, started the Front End, clicked on Activate, and waited. After about 90 minutes (I did other things in the meantime) the module had not activated, so I shut down my lpatop and went to sleep. The next night 5.8NC activated in about 4 minutes with no problems.
The Royal Canadian