OFF Mission fails to load

[hakjar]

Hi,
perhaps someone can answer this little Q. When I try to fly a mission or campaign I get "mission file failed to load" and a black screen with just the menus on. This give the ability to return to "officers mess" without a crash but thats all.

Any ideas fellas :)

[redhammer]

Ive got no ideas, but if its any comfort i have same problem, all u can do about it is to inform dev team

[Winder]

What was your install folder name?

Please look here:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=10562

HTH

WM

[Winder]

Do this little test.

Navigate to :

C:\Documents and Settings\"User Name"\Application Data\Microsoft\Combat Flight Simulator 3.0

NOTE this is the standard CFS3 Folder

Delet the UISEL.XML

Retry OFF

Post back

WM

[hakjar]

I installed it into C:\Program\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields.

In accordance with the first post I made about the installation folder.
The reply I got ther led me to believe only the main folder was critical.
Is it necessary to have the total path as :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields

Since I dont have this "program files" folder I dont want to create it.

[hakjar]

Same result with that file erased :mixedsmi:

[Winder]

Hakjar - I would like to work one on one with you to solve this issue - I will PM you my e-mail address and we can go through this one step at a time over e-mail.

We have quite a few folk who installed and are running A-OK but of course we are talking PCs/OSs etc etc so these issues are expected - unfortunately.

Cheers

WM

[pop]

Yes I get this error as well....I've tried deleting uisel.xml from the cfs3 folder as well as the ww1 folder...I've even tried deleting the entire ww1 folder and the error message remains...

...I had off running a few times but it would reboot the computer when I tried to select different planes; it would throw up a plane texture page (an image of the entire page) in the top left corner of the screen freeze and then reboot....after doing this a few times I now get the mission fails to load error...

...note I've had this strange phenomenon occur in my regular install of cfs3 (unmodded and patched) but it would be fixable without a hard reboot and it hasn't actually happened in a while...it seems to have normalized itself....?...

[Polovski]

Pop what video card do you have exactly, and how much video ram does it have? Sounds like a memory issue especially if CFS3 has the same problem.

[Insane]

Hi, I've the same problem. It all started when I wanted to start a campaign. The strange things is, I even get the message when I want to start a "quick combat". Luckily after pressing the messagebox in CFS3 the menu on the right is available with the possibility to start the mission (And then everything is working fine).

Greetings, Roland

[pop]

I have an Asus v9999 GT (6800) 128 mb ram
P4 3.2
1 gig ram
.....?.....
...yes cfs3 seemed a little flaky since I've reinstalled it.....I've had the same install for years now-through multiple xp reinstalls (you don't need to actually reinstall cfs3 as long as you have the installed folder) but it finally stopped working so I tried a new fresh install (the old one is still on my computer)...one thing that remains through the 2 installs is that the 'unmentionable' doesn't work now and I have to have the cd in the drive....but now these intermitent graphic problems which may or may not be related to the mission fails to load error.....the graphics problems certainly seem to have caused the intial crashes which may have as a byproduct these errors....?..... dunno...?.....

[Winder]

I am trying to trace the cause of this issue - but I cannot reproduce it here and many folk do not have this problem - if I can reproduce it I can fix it.

This will take some time I am afraid.

Best

WM

[pop]

For my part I'll try different things and let you know if I figure it out.....of course I'm off shopping with the wife now as Christmas is a comin' so who knows how much time I'll have for this.....if worse comes to worse I'll try a reinstall.....

[stumpjumper1]

add my name to this problem as well have been following the thread about how to fix it same problems tho illbe watching for answers and ideas btw guy thansk for the addon much appreciated

[WildBat]

I got the mission failed to load on the campaing too. QC works fine though.

[WildBat]

After I tried campaing and got misson failed, the QC mission fails too.

Hope this helps in troubleshooting.

QC worked fine before I tried the campaign.

[WildBat]

Went into workshop en initialised OFF again, deleted the old pilot and enlisted a new one, and now it says pilot name is not found i UIsel.xml when I hit the quickcombat key in the manager

[Polovski]

What path is the game installed in now WildBat ?

[Winder]

I have not been able to reproduce this problem but here is something I would like the users who have the Mission Failed to Load Error, to try.

Extract this bat file to the main CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields folder and double click it in explorer then try OFF again.


.........................

Tomas go to workshops and press CLEAR ALL PILOTS then try again

[vschoell]

Hello guys,

same "Failed to load mission" problem on my installation.
in QC in can press button fly now. then it works. in campaign theres no chance. in Campaign i can only go back to main menu (off).

i´m so unhappy ....

[Polovski]

Read WM's post above please

[Winder]

me too...

[Winder]

Another thing I would like users who are using non US character sets:

Goto Control Panel - Regional Settings (Languages) and select US keyboard and US Language and try again.

WM

[WildBat]

What path is the game installed in now WildBat ?

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields

Application folder

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas\Application Data\Microsoft\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields

[WildBat]

WM that bat file didnt do anyhting for me, when it comes to the pilotname not found in UIsel.xml error..

Werid thing is that QC worked fne, flew 4 QC before I tried the campaing and then in campaing it failed to load mission file and after that same happened in QC.

Reinstall?

[arrow]

I have a message destination folder missing???

[Winder]

Tomas two things -

1) you need to run US character set - or do what Lionel(Bzhyoyo) has done here:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=10592


And then you need to press the Clear Pilots Button in the Workshops and enlist a new pilot.

HTH

WM

[Winder]

I have a message destination folder missing???

Go to workshops and press the Manual Install Button - read the read.me

HTH

WM

[bzhyoyo]

Reinstall?

Try this first, I had the same problem and solve it with this :

go to your language settings, choose your language and customize.
Replace the "," for decimals by a "." (like in the English system)
That worked for me.

EDIT : posted at the same time as Mark.

[WildBat]

Deleting the UIsel.xml in the apps folder did the trick WM.

Now I will test if I still get mission failed to load error.

[Winder]

Thanks Lionel - sometimes long shots pay off eh? :wavey:


WM

[WildBat]

I did that, with the decimal thing, and no go, still get mission failed to load.

I will try it again, but this time I will delete the UIsel.xml again.

[WildBat]

Same thing. Mission failed to load. Pilot is loading fine now.

[Winder]

Can you select US keyboard and US character set under Control Panel Regional settings, languages etc and reboot? Then try again.

WM

[WildBat]

Ill try it but if I have to do that everytime I want to play OFF it will be a hassle Id rather live without.

[Polovski]

It's to see it fixes it WildBat, once a problem is isolated a fix can be made.. you have to make sure you know what the fix is first though ;)

[WildBat]

Nope didnt fix it.

And XP converted back to Danish language on exiting OFF.

Strange things when I start notepad it has danish keyboad, but XP had US keyboard, then i stareted OFF and when exiting XP has set kb to danish again.

All this after change of language and reboting.

So I am still no go.

[WildBat]

A quick note.

XP has US kb set but every time I open any application (browser, notepad and word) it changes to Danish.

Probably does that with OFF to then.

[Polovski]

OK well Wm is looking into the possiblilties at the moment have to hang in there for now.

[WildBat]

No worries. :wiggle:

I have waited this long, I think I can bear to wait a little longer.

Oh on another note.

THe first time I managed to get into the cmaoaing manager, it showed the mission in distance to be between 600-1100 miles long, flying time to be like 60-110 hours long. I dont think they had that much fuel onboard back then. Does this help any?

[bzhyoyo]

Thomas, did you try just changing the comma to a dot for decimals as I suggested ?
keep Danish as a language but just customize this thing. It did the trick for me.

[vschoell]

Guys,

the language setting did it for me. my errors (failed to load mission) is away. now after changing to "english (USA) the waypints are in the map. that was surely the problem. the waypoints wasn´t there before (german setting) ?!?!?

strange ... the problem is the language setting .... WM hope it help´s

vschoell...

[Boelcke]

Hi, got the same problem; will try the language trick, but here my specs, hope it helps it it´s a hardware problem:

AMD 3700
Geforce 6800GT (256 mb)
1 Gig Ram
Detonator 78.01

[Boelcke]

no, changed to english (US) didn´t make it; think we have to wait for a fix - but beside that: great immersion, great planes; going on with "testing"...:applause:

[WildBat]

Thomas, did you try just changing the comma to a dot for decimals as I suggested ?
keep Danish as a language but just customize this thing. It did the trick for me.

Yes I did that too. Didnt work.

[Insane]

For me it did work! Setting changed to US really did the trick. I am Flying a campaign right now.... :d

[Boelcke]

triedn it a second time and now the campaign works but quick missions have the same old "file not loaded" screen

[pop]

FWIW I had US English all along and still got the error...?...cfs3 is very touchy though, I suppose you can arrive at the same error from many directions...I had some qc going at one point......

..one note that may be of interest...I did have a problem starting the sim from within the manager (it hung forever)..I had to click directly on the Shell.exe to fly the sim....

[Polovski]

POP running shell.exe will mean most of the OFF stuff won't be available, you have to run OFF Manager to play properly!!!

[Polovski]

WildBat, sounds like something is corrupt. Have you tried a through scandisk ?

[WildBat]

Corrupt? Well could be but I did a defrag just 1 week ago.

Ill try a scandisk.

[hakjar]

Hi Winding Man,

thanks for your efforts. If i set the bootup language of my PC to English(US) with equivilent keyboard and run the .bat file everything works perfect. :ernae:

However, all other programs behave erradically when doing so. Unfortunately this leads me to conclude that running OFF on a non native US system isn't feasible without too much hassle.

So regrettably since i really liked OFF (in stark contrast to CFS3) I now will forever put this away and onto a dark shelf because on my system it causes to much problems to run.

Best regards to you all and a big thank you for your hard work. It's not easy to foresay on which systems problem will appear :mixedsmi:

Håkan

[Winder]

Thanks Hakan - yes I never saw the language issue coming. All beta testing was done on English XP set for English(US, SA UK) etc.....

To internationalise OFF would take some doing and I reluctantly cannot commit to that.

So I apologise for this.

Best

WM

[Boelcke]

best testing is real live

[hakjar]

Solved my problem. Read "possible fix thread"..

[pop]

Thanks....for my part the error message was most likely as you said from not starting the game properly (though I did try that a few times).....I have it running pretty good now just had to keep trying a few times-cfs3 is very finicky and sometimes just starts working if you try enough......I just have to watch my scenery and graphics settings or I end up with the white box problem where ground objects are represented by these boxes instead of their rendered selves.....

[lemonadedrinker]

Hello. In Mission set-up I get as far as the pilot against the ammo boxes and the plane in the background -- the camera pans, the pilot starts scratching things and the camera pans again. the 'hanger' drop down menu tag is visible all the time but there is no way to get flying from there and I have to go back to the officers mess.Is it me? as in QC you are just led out to the aircraft etc etc and can just get on with it!!
Lemonadedrinker.:snowman: :snowman:

[Polovski]

Just you lemonadedrinker ;)
um press esc if you have the top right hand menu showing.. that's the config screen.. now on the left you see missions? Select it,

Now you should see your mission listed on it's own.. pretty straight forward frmo there. Once you fly and succeed or crash then you exit to the hangar to go see your results in OFF Manager.

[lemonadedrinker]

Just me,huh?!!
It's probably an age thing... go to the mission page, go to the field, press escape and then fly....yippeeeee
Lemonadedrinker.

[lemonadedrinker]

I select a mission, attend the briefing,sort out my string vest and pipe tobecco and press 'fly'-- then we go outside to the plane and the 'hanger' pull down is there, but
there's no escape. The drop down menu reads-display..sound...multiplayer...control...realism.. .save campaign(grayed out)...about...help...handbooks...web...officers mess and lastly hangar.
It's me right? I get to this screen after pressing 'fly' and that's it!! How does anyone this daft get into the RFC?
Lemonadedrinker.

[Polovski]

No idea how you got that maye you pressing the wrong keys or have an odd key assigned on your joystick.. anyway press ESC! to remove the menu and just fly.

[lemonadedrinker]

Good Morning Polovski:wavey:

This is my last message about this as I am sure it will get sorted and I apologise for wittering on:redf:

'esc' doesn't do anything---the camera continues to pan. Mebbe I 'll just re-install everything and see whether that helps.
Thanks for your time and a great Christmas to you and the team:ernae:

Lemonadedrinker.

[Polovski]

um not sure then if you have a menu in the top right hand of the screen, then you need to remove that menu first. (little orange up arrow does it too). Other than that maybe it crashed no idea. But normal procedure as I say is to Go to Hangar from OFF Manager, then at the first screen in CFS3 where you see the plane and the pilot panning, click on "missions" then "Briefing" then keep clicking there ;)

[Ripcord13]

First, I Printed out the doc file and followed it precisley. When I start OFF with my new OFF Manager icon (yes I have greated a pilot,deleted the xml file and have the CD in) I click "go to hanger" and my screen goes black with the hour glass sitting there. If I hit the enter key the start up screen will show and then when I chose QC and click "fly" the program hangs up. If I try to start OFF with the Shell.exe in the OFF folder I get a "missions fail to load" message. Yes I have the right path to OFF. I have tried 3 complete new installs of CFS 3 and OFF. What is wrong?

[Polovski]

http://www.polovski.com/OFFFAQ.htm#Q.__I_get_odd_errors_when_running_OFF_M anager,_some_VB_runtime_errors_what_do

Tried those?

Check through the FAQ.. especially if it's a non English XP.

[Ripcord13]

Click OFF manager icon get to start up screen pick QC click "Fly" button program hangs up, click "Officers mess" to leave game get message "generic error occured while saving xml document to file". English speaking PC with the correct .dll installed and registered. ???????????

[Polovski]

No idea mate.. try clicking "manual install" in workshop. Are you sure CFS3 runs fine on its own?

[Ripcord13]

CFS 3 runs fine on it's own, I have done everything by the "Book" (printed copy of the doc). Deleting OFF.....!!

[Winder]

Cool Cheque is in the post! Rather play tiddlywinks its easier.

[Polovski]

So did you go through the link I printed??
Could be an XP issue.. it is XP yeah? As you can see many people up and running so it does work honest ;)

Yep full refund on it's way :D

[Winder]

I am locking this thread PLEASE READ THE DOCS AND FAQ!! we cannot keep answering to these simple issues.

If after that you still are not up and running BROWSE/SEARCH THE FORUM AND YOU WILL FIND THE ANSWER YOU SEEK.


WM