Randori99

Thanks for the information. I've got everything in place but my install sets are not up to the task. I'm going to need to shelve my mod plans for the time being and wait for a steam sale on the franchise. I think there is a good chance of that in the upcoming month.

That is unfortunate, but thanks for the reminder.

I used the command: xcommodhelper -v -c ewconfig.xml x- "c:\program files (86)\steam\steamapps\common\xcom enemy within" It ran without error and said the patches were applied, but the program crashes on start. I think I have the checksum problem I recalled reading about. Error text is: "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142)" I don't recall reading about a fix for that issue but I was looking for other information at the time. Can anyone point me to a fix for that? I'm sooo close to making this work.

Thanks for that. I've tried to hex edit the .exe with a find and replace but it keeps breaking the .exe. Trying to find the offset seems to always return an error suggesting that the file is not big enough to have such an offset. Looking for the offset in decimal (unlikely but what the hell) breaks it again. I've used the Resource Hacker to veiw the RCData 1020, 1033. Edited Sectiod base health to 6 for a quick new game check. The .exe breaks again. If I was looking at the wrong .exe then it should work without changes but every little mod seem to break it. Quite frustrating that I can't seem to make such a tiny change.

I've been trying to use modpatcher v0.12 to insert a modified DGC.mod into XComEW.exe and I keep getting a file not found error. Everything is in the .exe's directory. Patcher.bat launches everything with the .mod file as a parameter. The cmd box opens with the file path which seems to indicate that everything is where it needs to be, yet the error persists. Has anyone gotten past this particular error? Edit: I was thinking the issue might be using an incomplete copy of the original .ini to make the .mod. so I adjusted a fresh and complete DGC.ini. Still file not found. I must be missing something very basic.