2.12 VQ nerf

magnate · #1 July 28th, 2004, 10:10 AM

Hi all,

Back after a long relapse into Diablo II, and looking forward to investigating 2.12 .... but my half-finished SP game won't load, Nagot Gik Fel says "error - game is broken". It's a 2.11 game with a VQ pretender - so I was expecting to see some kind of "player is cheating" message, but to be able to carry on.

I've searched this board for "2.12 VQ" and similar terms, but can't find anything. Surely this has happened to someone else, continuing a 2.11 game with a VQ. What do I have to do?

Yours confused,

CC

Norfleet · #2 July 28th, 2004, 11:21 AM

There appears to be no issues known with continuing a 2.11 VQ game under 2.12, so that's not the cause of why your game is broken. Admittedly "Game is Broken" is not a terribly informative error. Maybe it's just corrupt.

magnate · #3 July 28th, 2004, 12:48 PM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
There appears to be no issues known with continuing a 2.11 VQ game under 2.12, so that's not the cause of why your game is broken. Admittedly "Game is Broken" is not a terribly informative error. Maybe it's just corrupt.

Hmmm. Did I preserve everything I needed? (I have reinstalled since I Last played 2.11) I saved the "newlords" dir and the game dir ("cc3"). Was there anything else?

CC

magnate · #4 July 28th, 2004, 11:27 PM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
There appears to be no issues known with continuing a 2.11 VQ game under 2.12, so that's not the cause of why your game is broken. Admittedly "Game is Broken" is not a terribly informative error. Maybe it's just corrupt.

I've now tried all my old SP games, and I get the same error for all of them. I didn't get it upgrading from 2.08 to 2.11, but I do now. Am I overlooking something obvious? Has anyone else had the "game is broken" error, and know what it is? Is it something as simple as the timestamps on the game dirs (somehow the game knows it didn't create them)?

CC

archaeolept · #5 July 29th, 2004, 12:33 AM

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the game dir ("cc3").

the game dir? there isn't a game dir in domII

did you put all your save games in a dir that you named "game"?

Norfleet · #6 July 29th, 2004, 12:50 AM

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Originally posted by archaeolept:
the game dir? there isn't a game dir in domII

did you put all your save games in a dir that you named "game"?

The "game directory" would be the directory with the name of your game, like "Fat_Obstreperous_Jerks", or something. If you put all your saved games in a directory you named "game", though, then yeah, you broke it.