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tenhunter
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Forgetools issue

December 6, 2008 10:28:27 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

When I try to open Sins Developer it gives me DLL errors and tells me to reinstall the program, I am having a bumpy road learning to mod this bloody game!  Any thoughts, sorry to jam up the forums with my stupidity...  I am to stuburn to just give up.

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Ryu-no-o
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Reply #1 December 6, 2008 11:46:10 AM
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Try the forge tools thread. They might know what to do.

 

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Reply #2 December 6, 2008 12:54:38 PM
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I can't remember if it was actually a DLL error I was getting when it crashed but the last time installed Sins it didn't install DirectX (presumably because I had a newer version already) and while the game worked the ForgeTools would crash at launch.  I just ran the DirectX install on the Sins CD manually and it fixed the problem.

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Reply #3 December 6, 2008 2:12:49 PM
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The problem is a the newer version of DirectX? That just doesn't make sense, but I'll try it. Better than nothing.

 

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Reply #4 December 7, 2008 11:55:59 AM
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DirectX versions install various dll versions of their respective files, numbered incrementally.  For instance, an older version might install d3dx9_27.dll while a newer version might install d3d9x_30.dll.  The newer versions do not always include some of the older dlls.  The ForgeTools were crashing in my case because I was missing a few of those older versions that the Tools needed.  The DirectX version included with the Sins CD has everything you need though so give it a shot.  If that's the problem it should fix it.

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Reply #5 December 7, 2008 10:12:44 PM
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I did this and it still crashes, its just says a different DLL file is missing now... bah.

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Reply #6 December 7, 2008 10:19:01 PM
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d3dx9_36.dll    <================== THIS IS WHAT IS MISSING!

Go on internet, type it, download it, add it to SINS original game folder (where the application,etc data is and VOILA!! PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!

 

 

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Reply #7 December 8, 2008 9:45:50 AM
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Doesn't work I tried it, I downloaded Fmod.dll, binkw32.dll too.  Than I get a new error:

Sins Developer.exe ENTRY POINT NOT FOUND

The procedure entry point _BinkCopyToBufferRect@44 could not be located in the dynamic link library bink32.dll

 

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