You just downloaded the naw mod. You say, "dis iz gonna be da coolest mod of all time!"
You get in your chair, AND FOLLOW THE N.A.W MOD 5.2 Installation instructions
INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
All ready to upgrade your Nations At War to Rev 5.2.
Download the NAW 5.2 Patch exe...double click the .exe ...
the installation program will open and after a few "next"
clicks the program will find your BF2 mods folder and install the patch.
http://rapidshare.com/files/113117160/NAW-5.2-Patch.exeNew to Nations At War thought you would give it a try.
Download the 5.2 Stand Alone exe...double click the .exe ...
the installation program will open and after a few "next"
clicks the program will find your BF2 mods folder and install the mod.
Additional Map Packs can be downloaded from the "Downloads" section.
these should be installed in order as they contain updates for prior released maps "sometimes".
NAW MAP PACK 5 -
Upgrades previous maps with map "id numbers,
loading map images as well as 3 fix's for
previously released maps and 7 new maps.
This should be installed last to update all previosly released maps.
YOU TRYED THE INSTALL DIRECTIONS ABOVE AND NOTHING HAPPENS IT WONT INSTALL.
IN VISTA ULTIMATE 64 OUR EXE HANGS FOR A WHILE AS THE DATA HAS TO BE
EXTRACTED TO THE CACHE, BUT IF IT DOSN'T RESPOND FOR A WHILE REBOOT LET
ALL PROCESSES START AND RETRY,
NO JOY YET? OK COMPARE THE FILE SIZE OF THE FILE YOU DOWNLOADED WITH THE
FILES SIZES ON OUR SITE YOU MAY HAVE GOT A BAD DOWNLOAD.
RE DOWNLOAD FROM ALTERNATIVE SOURCE AND TRY AGAIN.
Use the desktop icon "Play Nations at War" to play Nations at War.
You just INSTALLED the naw mod. You say, "dis iz gonna be da coolest mod of all time!"
You get in your chair, go to the SP menu, click the map, and hit SP, almost ready to faint.
You're loading, saying to yourself, "Time to kick some butt!"
when all the sudden the music starts looping, and you get the fatal CTD.
what version of bf2 you running mine says 1.1.2965-797.0 in bottom left when log in
IF YOURS IS DIFFERENT GET THE BF2 PATH FROM EA OR PLANET BATTLEFIELD.
If your good and patched already lets move on.
now if you crash to desktop just as your starting to play try adjusting your grafix card settings in bf2 to medium see if it will load then if it duz your card has no balls sorry.
if it still ctd on you read on.
Now, don't be paralyzed. There are two main ways to track down what gave you this...
1. Running in windowed mode
EA/DICE made something good, and that is windowed mode.
To simply run the game windowed, right click the shortcut, click properties,
and see that target box? Copy and paste this to replace whats in the target box.
"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +fullscreen 0
Now you'd replace the C:\Program Files\etc. with the directory that you installed BF2 in.
To use a different mod, just add this on the end:
+modPath mods/naw
Run the game now, and it will be windowed. If not, add this on the end.
+szx 800 +szy 600
example "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 0 +modPath mods/naw
Now, play as you normally would. Once you get to the part that CTD'd last time,
it may pop up an error message, telling you what's wrong. No matter what button you hit, it exits out of the game.
No error message? Then we turn to our last resort.
2. The BF2 debugger
This thing... is the most painful thing to come to the world. It is honestly usually my last resort, if the above didn't work. To get ahold of the debugger, you need to install the editor, which can be found here. Run the included BF2_r in windowed mode. Now, bunker down for the masses upon masses of error messages. Simply click continue on all of them. Just don't try doing anything else, even if it seems it will never go away, because after, hmm 30 minutes it will. Once you fight your way to the loading screen more error messages will come, so continue hitting continue. Make sure to pay attention to where it CTD'd last time. Once you get to where it does its infamous CTD, it will pop up an error message. Pay special attention to this message. It will tell you what's wrong! Take a picture and post it somewhere where you can get help. At this point, you can hit cancel, as it probably won't continue.
Making a proper shortcut
This is an example of what not to put as our shortcut:
C:\Program files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\naw
This is what it should be:
"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +modPath mods/naw +szx 800 +szy 600
Some known causes of CTD's and solutions (please expand):
* Missing a navmesh - you'll have to make one for yourself. See this to learn how.
* Crashes on 14-15% - most likely (not all the time) because of islands in a navmesh. You'll have to fix it in 3ds max/Maya. See above link to learn how.
* CTD on custom maps - increase your graphics to at least medium (thanks FFOLKES)
* If neither the debugger or windowed mode work - it is associated with your graphics (thanks FFOLKES)
* It seems that the game hardcodes certain characters to be used with certain installations. This is unconfirmed, but this may be the situation (confirmation needed).
This list will be expanded in the future. See this for more problems and solutions.
Hopefully that answers what to do if you get CTD. Cheers
ALSO YOUR SYSTEM SPECS ARE VERY USEFUL TOO SO INCLUDE THEM.
IF YOU POST ON THE FORUM WITH A PROBLEM.
SOMETHING LIKE THIS:HI MY NAME IS PETER I LOVE YOUR MOD BUT I GET CTD ON "NONE BUT THE BRAVE IN SINGLE PLAYER.
MY SPECS ARE.
O/S "VISTA ULTIMATE 64BIT
MEMORY "4GIGS"
CPU "E6500"
GPU "8800GTX"
32BIT/64BIT "64BIT"
IF YOU HAVE A INSTALLING PROBLEM INCLUDE.
SIZE AND NAME OF FILE IN QUESTION. "NAW-5.0.EXE"
PLACE WHERE YOU DOWNLOADED IT FROM. "FILE HOST"
and someone will answer your question,
DONT POST LIKE THIS!I JUST DONTLOADED YOUR F@#$%ING MOD IT TOOK 8 WEEKS AS IM ON DIAL UP AND IT DONT FRIGIN WORK WHAT THE
HELL YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT!!!
OH AND DON'T POST ASKING WHERE THE SUB IS OK!
ITS OBVIOUSLY IN ONE OF THE WATER MAPS SO HAVE FUN LOOKING FOR IT.
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