GECK is aligning tabs improperly

[gir489]

I'm trying to modify the conditions of some of the conversations in Old World Bllues and the conditions box's header tabs are always as small as possible. Any idea on how to fix?

 

 

[bjornl]

Have you tried moving the lines? The 'indent' can be grabbed with your mouse and re-positioned. Also as I just discovered some MODs impact the GECK. I have not nailed it down yet but I had two issues myself:

1: world spaces would not render in the GECK but were fine in game.

2: Protectrons (and seemingly only protectron) could not be viewed in the GECK.

Uninstall/reinstalling did not resolve this. Neither did downloading just about a new pair of everything (from the game, the drivers, the GECK, etc). But backing up the game directory then uninstalling the game, deleting that directory and the one in 'my games' (again backed up first), reinstalled the game and no issues.

[gir489]

Have you tried moving the lines? The 'indent' can be grabbed with your mouse and re-positioned. Also as I just discovered some MODs impact the GECK. I have not nailed it down yet but I had two issues myself:

1: world spaces would not render in the GECK but were fine in game.

2: Protectrons (and seemingly only protectron) could not be viewed in the GECK.

Uninstall/reinstalling did not resolve this. Neither did downloading just about a new pair of everything (from the game, the drivers, the GECK, etc). But backing up the game directory then uninstalling the game, deleting that directory and the one in 'my games' (again backed up first), reinstalled the game and no issues.

Hmm. Interesting theory. I will try this. Moving the lines just causes them to retract to 0,0,0,0 as soon as I load a new cell.

 

EDIT did not work. I purged all files and registry entries that contained Bethesda, Fallout or GECK. Still busted.

 

I plan to edit a lot of dialogue, so resizing these tabs constantly would get on my nerves.

 

 

 

I'm going to try a Windows 7 VM and see if that solves the problem, because that's the only thing left I can conclude that is the problem. Unless the devs didn't notice this at all, which is near impossible to believe.

 

And of course the VM doesn't support DX so I can't f*#@ing use that. Awesome. 10/10 GECK coders.

Edited October 7, 2013 by gir489

[bjornl]

I am running Windows 7 Pro (64bit). I agree that GECK is horribly unstable. Weird errors which only show up there. But everytime I have hit this error it was a game/mod setting which had some error which while it made no sense was resolved by scrubbing FNV from the system and doing a clean install. I can't speak for anyone else, but I spend more time fighting with GECK then modding... some of that has no doubt to do with my limited GECK experience as thus far I have done more dabbling then hard-core modding.

 

You are running the latest version of the GECK, right?

[luthienanarion]

This seems to be a problem exclusive to Windows 8 users including myself. I've gotten into the habit of expanding the fields every time I need to check or add conditions.

[bjornl]

This seems to be a problem exclusive to Windows 8 users including myself. I've gotten into the habit of expanding the fields every time I need to check or add conditions.

I have not run the GECK on Win8 yet. Is this issue resolved by using compatibility mode?

[luthienanarion]

 

This seems to be a problem exclusive to Windows 8 users including myself. I've gotten into the habit of expanding the fields every time I need to check or add conditions.

I have not run the GECK on Win8 yet. Is this issue resolved by using compatibility mode?

 

Beats me. I don't and never have used "compatibility mode" for anything.

[bjornl]

 

 

This seems to be a problem exclusive to Windows 8 users including myself. I've gotten into the habit of expanding the fields every time I need to check or add conditions.

I have not run the GECK on Win8 yet. Is this issue resolved by using compatibility mode?

 

Beats me. I don't and never have used "compatibility mode" for anything.

 

Hmm it might be worth a try if the tabs annoy you. I know GECK became much more stable on my system by using compatiblity mode for WinXP sp3 and "run as administrator". You probably know how to do this, but in case someone who does not finds it...

Right click on the The Geck's ICON (on your desktop, for example)

Select properties

Click on the tab labeled Compatibility

The compatibility level is on the top, the privilege level (Administrator) is at the bottom.

Click on Apply and OK.

 

I'm not saying this will do anything for you as my only Win8 PC is currently down and even after it is repaired it lacks the horsepower to be of much use to me; but on my Win7 64bit PC I found it made the GECK crashing stop. As in it has not crashed since I did it weeks ago (before it would crash after an hour or two).