Co8 8.1.0 bugs

Does anyone have links to where I can download 1080p versions of all of the wallpapers that have been used for all of the different versions of the co8 modpack? They would make great desktop backgrounds.

Also does anyone have a link to download those unofficial movies that played before you got to certain places, like Emridy meadows and nulb? I liked having them in my game.

 

I don't know if this has already been reported, but:

Temple of Elemental Evil\data\slide\emridy01.jpg

has a typo - the word "battlefields" is incorrectly typed as "battlefilields". This typo goes all the way back to 2008:

http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6340&highlight=battlefilelds





Winston, here's the link to the optional movies:

http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3390

 

Thanks.

I still can't launch the game from the front end with intro movies disabled. It freezes the game every time it gets to the main menu. Also, I haven't extensively tested, but if I run the game in windowed mode and leave it in the background alone while I'm using a different window (internet browser), after a certain period of a few minutes the game crashes.

 

I found some by google images.
I mean the pictures you use for the different versions of the co8 modpacks.

And if you mean the intro cinematics, I can't disable them without the game freezing at the main menu, it only seems to work enabled.

 

So I tried a few more times. Every time, if intro movies are disabled, the main menu will freeze after a second or two and be unresponsive.

I did think of a workaround that just tested successful however.
-Navigating to C:\Program Files (x86)\Temple of Elemental Evil\data\movies
-Rename AtariLogo, TroikaLogo, and WotCLogo to something that is not detected by the game (I just added ".bak" to each one of the names)
-Launch the game with intro cinematics enabled, they will not play and you will go straight to loading + movie (can disable if you dislike it as well)

Would it be possible to change the front end x "disable/enable intro cinematics" option to make it so instead of whatever protocol it goes through that somehow causes the game to freeze, it renames/moves the intro cinematic bik files to achieve the same result?

 

That's very odd. What exactly does it do, what are all of the files involved and affected?

I can do it manually but not with the button. And when I relaunched TFE-X just now, the button read "enable intro cinematics" when I previously had them already enabled, so it seems my manual renaming was detected.

 

It's got to trigger something else if it's causing the game to freeze while manually renaming doesn't.

Oh dang. So there's new movies for those areas though?

 

I tested further. I have exactly pinpointed the problem that lies with the "enable/disable intro cinematic" option in TFE-X.

Manually renaming the intro files with ".bak" on them worked, or at least I thought it did.\

There are four video files that make up the intro.

I initially thought that the method TFE-X used to "rename" the files was at fault, because after I pressed the button, look at what happened in the second picture. TFE-X does not rename the files, it appears to give them an entirely new extension.

However, this was not actually the reason for the game freeze/crash when disabling intro cinematic. See my first picture. What I did was manually rename the files and the game ran fine, despite TFE-X's method of apparently giving a new extension to the file and not merely renaming them.

Notice one that is not like the others in the first image? That manual fix ran the game fine with no freeze on the main menu.

I ran one more test to verify my suspicions. I moved the "introcinematic" file and pressed the TFE-X "disable intro" button so only 3 of the 4 files would be affected, and then moved back "introcinematic" in its original form to the movies folder. There was no crash on the main menu. So I re enabled the intro cinematic option and then manually changed the name of "introcinematic" ONLY, letting all other 3 videos play. There was a successful freeze on the main menu. I recreated this two more times to verify.

The introcinematic file is the cause of the freezes/crashes coming from TFE-X's "disable intro" option. Attempting to remove this file or cause the game to not see it will create an unrecoverable screen freeze approximately 3 seconds after you reach the main menu of the game.

Solution: Make TFE-X's "disable/enable intro" option only affect the following 3 files.