Question: Invisible Vehicles (no icon)

[STuG]

WINSPWW2 7.11 [CD version]

Several German vehicles appear to be 'invisible' (they have no icon) in the encyclopedia, purchase screen, and battle map. Affected vehicles include the following.

SdKfz 7/1 Flak - Icon 1325
SdKfz 7 - Icon 1160
Steyr RSO - Icon 1156
PzKw VI Tiger - Icon 1317
PzKw III L - Icon 1329
SdKfz 8 - Icon 1163 [the picture also appears to be wrong]
SdKfz 10 - Icon 1166
SdKfz 7/1 FlaK - Icon 1320
SdKfz 7/2 FlaK - Icon 1335
SdKfz 11 - Icon 1169 [the picture also appears to be wrong]
Pz KV1e 753(r) - Icon 1311[the picture also appears to be wrong]
Pz KV1 C 755(r) - Icon 1311[the picture also appears to be wrong]
Flakpanzer 1/A - Icon 1337 [the picture also appears to be wrong]
Flakpanzer 1/A - Icon 1337
MunitionsPz III - Icon 1172
Pz T34b 747(r) - Icon 1339
Pz T34a 747(r) - Icon 1338

Here is a screenshot of the PzKw VI Tiger - Icon 1317 in the encyclopedia.


Here is a screenshot of the SdKfz 11 - Icon 1169. Note the picture.

[Mobhack]

Have you installed, in the following order:
Base Game
- then the consolidation patch
- then the 2013 patch
- then finally the 2014 patch

And all into the exact same directory?

End users that see "invisible" vehicles tend to have a missing patch or to have applied patches in incorrect order.

Another way to lose patches is to install to the /program files/ hierarchy if you have windows versions beyond XP - we advise against that in the installation instructions. (These instructions are in the text message box that comes up in the installer). Later Windows may re-direct the files into your personal folder space instead of the actual game folder if you do so. Read the "installing in vista and seven" sticky thread at the top of the main forum, if required.

Reinstall from the base game up with all the patches applied in the correct order to a folder outside of /program files/ and you should be good to go.

cheers
Andy

[STuG]

@Mobhack
I installed everything in the following order
The base game CD version
Patches 1,2,4,5,6 when they where released
Then the 7.11 patch (I was under the impression that it had replaced the 7.0 patch)

Did I do something wrong?

[DRG]

THIS AGAIN !!!

This is NOT a question of "Have you installed, in the following order".......... it is MOST DEFINATLEY because you have not patched the game correctly as has been pointed out on more than a few occasions on this forum. It's not just the missing icons that's indicates this is the case the screen borders were changed in 2013 so you missed that patch and the ONLY way to get this back in shape so there are no more erroneous "bug" reports is repatch everything in the order Andy listed and when you do everything will work correctly.

Next patch will be another consolidator with all patches after the winSPWW2 Consolidation Patch rolled into on patch . This is at least the 6th time this has happened, most have not been reported on the forum's but directly to me through Shrapnel. We write right in the patch the order they should be patched and I really don't know what else we can do to make it clear there is more than the latest patch so I'm finally going to solve the problem once and for all. It means everyone will be DL a bigger patch than they have to but that's the way it goes



Don

[DRG]

Originally Posted by STuG

@Mobhack
I installed everything in the following order
The base game CD version
Patches 1,2,4,5,6 when they where released
Then the 7.11 patch (I was under the impression that it had replaced the 7.0 patch)

Did I do something wrong?

You missed the 2013 patch. That's why those Icons are missing and why you are still seeing the old screen borders and background. Go back, DL the 2013 patch, install it into your game then install the 2014 patch again

here's what everyone else sees for the SdKfz 11

[DRG]

The next question would be......... are you still running the game from Program files seeing as you are running from the original CD version ??

[STuG]

Deleted all my WinSPWW2 files (and WinSPMBT for good measure) and reinstalled outside of the programs folder. Applied patch 5, 6, 7.11, and now everything is working fine.

[DRG]

You may want to check your hard drive for wayward files. If you simply installed the 2013 patch previously without reading the instructions you will find it was installed into C: That's likely how it was "missed" if you had been patching regularly with the updates we have provided

We had to move to C: from Program files because of Vista and Win7