help please

areyouforit · September 20, 2001

most of the time when i play ebfd a message pops up it says that illegal stuff and on the top it says "ddhelp" do any of you know what to do with this i am starting to hate it alot i was playing mutiplayer just now and it closed and the thing popped up please help please!!!(i almost never get to finish a game i play as jki9789 so please dont get mad because i d/c

cause i dont do it on purpose)

P.S. please post to help me cause i get tired of it ::)

areyouforit · September 21, 2001

are you guys gonna help me or not i know i sound pretty rude

but hey its ok when i cant play this game cause it so good

im working on a mod for it but i can stop trying if you guys

dont help (this new mod might let you get units that you

cant play with i might make it so that the frigate can be used to pick up new units thatll be awsome.)

im working on the mod right now but it might take a while to

release it cause i dont have a site i might try to email it to

gob though

bob_fox · September 22, 2001

Have you tried re-installing the game? That can help.

riper · September 22, 2001

If you have a mod done, please submit it to Dune Editing (http://editing.dune2k.com) by mailing it to Riper8@hotmail.com

Riper

areyouforit · October 10, 2001

hey guys what ever happened to helping a fellow player?

i still need some help with this you know it still comes like 2 times a week and riper sorry about the mod and also the reinstalling didnt work.

areyouforit · October 10, 2001

***for riper**** you cna read my post about it if you already havent it is called ... <<my mod>>

Gobalopper · October 10, 2001

Is ddhelp a program on your computer? Maybe it is conflicting with Emperor...

areyouforit · October 11, 2001

no i dont have a program named that but i think dd stands for something in the game.

riper · October 12, 2001

Give me the exact error message including the Stackdump and all those numbers you should see and Ill see what I can do.

Riper

areyouforit · October 12, 2001

ok on the top bar it has "ddhelp" and then on the bottom it has the error message with ,"this program has performed an illegal operation". right next to it, it has a close button and a

details button the details button says some stuff and ill try to get it to you when that error message pops up again.

and oh yeah this is how it works see first everything goes black and then it shows emperor shutting down and then im back in windows and ddhelp pops up and then i have to press close to get it out of the way (and emperor has shut down already anyways), but after when it goes away i click on emperor and the screen with emperor (in big letters) pops up

(you the one before, the ads for ea and westwood) and then it dissapears and (doesnt come back)i try clicking on emperor but that happens all over again, so i have to shut down my computer and then restart it, then finally , emperor works but then sometimes ddhelp pops up again. but now whenever it does i just restart my computer and play all over again.

p.s. sorry for the long post.

alphabeta4000 · October 20, 2001

a your computer probably can't handle emperor if it doesn't work after reinstalling. It happenened to me but luckily the changes that made it happen were temperary you may have a permanent problem sorry

Riper what are you doing here? he needs help not somebody going "give me mods! give me mods! give me mods!"

ZyNTaX · October 21, 2001

As for as I remember ddhelp is a part of M$ DirectX, and ddhelp is DirectDrawHelp, you should try installing DirectX over again, or upgrade to a newer version of DirectX

I hope this can help you out...

areyouforit · October 22, 2001

thx ill try it.

nemafakei · October 23, 2001

Weird. Deja vu.

I'm sure I posted an almost identical post to Zyntax's in response to a similar question. What happened?

This is either my messed up memory or my message didn't reach the board somehow.

riper · October 24, 2001

alphabeta4000, I believe you heard me say 'give me an exact description and I'll help you out' rather then gimme mods gimme mods. I dont want mods. They take too much time to upload. Id be way happier if new programs were made instead of mods.

Riper

nemafakei · October 24, 2001

Surely they need only a few KB to upload? (messing around with the rules files etc?)

riper · October 25, 2001

Yeah they're 32 kb only, but it's not fun to upload. I'd rather upload a 3.2 mb program than a 32 kb mod. Though mods can only be found at my site so it's still necessary to keep uploading.

Riper

alphabeta4000 · October 26, 2001

what kind of programs? Are you talking like map editors, mod editors and stuff like that?

riper · October 26, 2001

Anything. Preferably original ideas. Liked the Map Information Manager and DuneEx, though I hate Map Packer. Just programs you know, doesnt matter what.

Riper

Stealth · October 26, 2001

>:(

Riper Obviously you need to work on some of your diplomacy skills. For a person that runs a site that uses other peoples content they provide , you should learn to be a little more neutral in what you post.

" Preferably original ideas " Quote from your previous post

Well to start with I Rarely ever look at others programs. If i happen to duplicate something in another program it is because i need to or feel it is necessary for the program to operate as i intend it too..

" And second, it allows you to create Readme files for your map, which makes it a competitor to the Map Information Manager. " Quote from your site

Well this is really trivial !

For one it is a little stupid not to inlcude something when one is creating an archive of files where a readme is expected. On top of that you should know better , I`m sure your aware of just how easy it is to load and save stuff out of a notepad style object. Now don`t you think it would be rather friggin stupid to leave that functionality out just because some other program does it too, one that i have never looked .

"One, the file size is only 10 kb smaller than a zip file, so that's not worth it. " another quote from your site.

Well the point was not to compress the crap out of it with some obscure compression scheme. The point was to at least maintain a reasonable file size with what a zip could make , and also so other people would have a chance at making utilities that would work with it. Being as i know there was at least one other person that knows how to uncompress /compress rfh files i used that compression method for that reason. While i certainly could have used some other scheme , I doubt there would be many others that would be able to use the same.

You failed to see the whole point the progarm tries to address,

which simply was to make it easier for people to figure out what files they need, and how to pack them up.

Certainly there is people that do not understand how to zip files with paths etc, and then you also have the problem of the end user putting them someplace else. So although two people can have the same map files if they are in different directory names , they will not be able to play that map.

It doesn`t matter to me if another person comes up with a program that does the same thing in a better way, I don`t pretend to be a great GUi designer, for that reason i published the file foirmat that i used. So another person could design something to work with the files.

Right about now I am somewhat miffed.

a few more quotes of yours

" though I hate Map Packer"

"Personally I wouldn't recommend this product"

Well i`ll tell you what.. You dislike my stuff that much ,take my content off your site and be sure not to post anymore .

I don`t want my content on a site where the webmaster is not going to give everything an equal chance. Good or bad the users will decide for themselves what is good for them.

I`m not going to tell you how to run your site , but i am saying i don`t want my stuff there if you keep doing it the way you are now.

areyouforit · October 27, 2001

A little off topic Stealth

bob_fox · October 27, 2001

Areyouforit, did you fix that problem you were having?

Stealth · October 27, 2001

I could have sworn i already answered the original question some time ago.

riper · October 29, 2001

Stealth cool down. The point of a review is to give your opinion on a program right? If I say it's not that good then so be it. That doesn't mean people won't download. Quote from my site: "But it's a small download so get it and decide for yourself". I didn't say don't download it. I dont hate you or your programs. I personally think you did a great job with the Campaign Unlocker and the discovery of XBF files. I just don't like this program. Please, it's just a review. I will continue to post your stuff wether you like it or not. And if someone else disagrees with a review, I asked for user reviews so send it in and I'll post it. Sheesh. No offense meant dude, don't take it so damn personal.

Riper

alphabeta4000 · October 30, 2001

Hey stealth since you've made a few programs why don't you try to make a program that could test if emeperor would work or not. EG click unit to test click test and see if the assigned weapon/s works. This would be great for mods or even see if the graphics for something new work.

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