Multimedia Pack Fail

posted on January 11th, 2010, 5:50 am

Still can't install the Multimedia Pack.  I'd really like to as I'd like some sweet sweet music in game.  I completely re-installed Armada for the sake of the patch and I got nothing so I'm outof options.  As I install I get the message during the loading of the pack that certain things could not be extracted.  Anyone else get this problem?

posted on January 11th, 2010, 6:06 am

Probably a corrupt Multimedia file. Mine seemed to be extracted fine.

posted on January 11th, 2010, 8:02 am

by any chance when you installed the game did you uninstall the old one first, then get rid of any saved games, or maps, it seem to work for me

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:27 am

Redownload the Multimedia package and complete deinstall fleetops including savegames and settings.

posted on January 11th, 2010, 5:56 pm

Redownload the Multimedia package and complete deinstall fleetops including savegames and settings.

  Tried that already .  I've completely wiped Armada Clean, reinstalled, re-downloaded the Pack ... 

posted on January 11th, 2010, 6:04 pm

Yeah - having the same problem (in addition it also disabled all sound for my FO installation). Tried wiping and reinstalling (FO + multimedia pack) as well to no avail. I'm now back to FO only (with sound), but would like to install the multimedia pack...

posted on January 11th, 2010, 6:52 pm

.... I install manually since I have a directory with the actual MMP tracks. This way I can just copy and paste.

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:33 pm

Yeah?  The Extractor just seems to be problematic.  If I had the files themselves I could just put them where they need to be.  Can I steal the files out of the installer?

posted on January 11th, 2010, 9:59 pm

Yeah?  The Extractor just seems to be problematic.  If I had the files themselves I could just put them where they need to be.  Can I steal the files out of the installer?

If you need to extract files from installer use 7zip (it is free). Hope it helps.

posted on January 11th, 2010, 10:20 pm

welcome to the forums sectoid. i waited a long time before my first post too. hopefully the game will benefit from your input.

your knowledge will be added to our own. 

posted on January 11th, 2010, 11:08 pm

are you by chance using windows 7 64......i had an issue where id said it didnt install correctly the first time (although all the files looked like they were in the right spot) i just let it install again with "recommended" settings which i assume meant xp compatability mode.

posted on January 12th, 2010, 12:37 am

Nah I'm using XP.  Never wanted Vista and seems like 7 would just be a waste of money.

  Anyway can I use WinRAR to open up an installer?  If not is there any way a person can just upload the files somewhere and tell me where they need to go?

posted on January 12th, 2010, 1:36 am

Winrar didn't work for me, however installer is doing a little bit more than just placing some files in their respective folders - music files in it are mp3s (which are not supported by armada2 I suppose), so installer is making wav files from them (you can use whatever sound convertor you have - vlc should be able to do that; installer is using lame command line) and then replace files in /data/sounds/music (all of them) and /data/sounds/effects/shellstr.wav with those contained in installer.

posted on January 12th, 2010, 8:34 am

So I 7(un)zipped the media pack... ran the lame.exe command line (lame -V2 .mp3 .wav), put all of the wav files in the appropriate locations... and FO crashes on startup.

(uninstalling/reinstalling FO again...)

... any other ideas?

posted on January 12th, 2010, 9:03 am

Ok - I got it to work for me(!!!!).

I'm running vista, and I think the UAC (crap) is getting in the way. You'll notice that the FO installer requires admin privileges, and will create the program files FO directory with said privileges. The multimedia installer, on the other hand, does .... ask...

Ok. I don't know what the problem was. However, I did right-click and "run as administrator" the multimedia installer and that did seem to do the trick. Or it could have been the 4th (f'n) time that I uninstalled, reinstalled, installed media pack...


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