ECP Mod

[General Barron]

PPPLLEEAASSEEE tell me that the next ECP will fix all the crash to desktop problems.

It isn't certain yet, but the answer to that is likely "yes".

[Ball Zack]

Hey if it helps, I found that by going into your OFP/users/playername/saves folder and clearing out any old mission and campaign saves that you don't need anymore, you will experience the crash to desktop bug less frequently.  Hope this helps.

[Sektor]

Whats with the ECP? Is it abandoned?. Will there be any updates? Will i ever see water going up high in the air when a big gun shoots the boats? And the new dust from bullets with bits  and peaces of dirt flying around? Will i ever?

[sim]

hey

errrmmm, most likely yes!
 

sim

[Sektor]

What does that mean? Do you have any solid informations or you're just being optimist, like me?

[PsyWarrior]

Greets,

The latest (fairly recent) information PSYPROD has from the ECP indicates that they are still very much alive and running. Unfortunately, they appear to genuinely be too busy to talk to anyone at the moment...

Hopefully, this will clear up in time, and we'll be hearing something from them soon, either way.

I think that ECP has too many specialist OFP editors for it to go under. I will be very surprised if this is the case, at any rate.

-Supr. Cmdr. PsyWarrior
-Psychic Productions

[The Avon Lady]

I've found a bug that I believe is ECP related or related to the ECP's Dynamic Range plugin. I believe it should be easily reproduceable by anyone. I encountered it when playing a specific mission in the Retaliation campaign, the Black Hawk mission (07_airport).

At the point in the mission's intro where it cuts over to US troops getting ready to board two UH60 Blackhawks, OFP starts freezing up and CPU and/or paging starts going out of control.

Looking in file Flashpoint.rpt, I'm getting a lot of entries like this:

===FROZEN====>>>>>>BEG
Version 1.96
Fault address:  0053C108 01:0013B108 C:\Program Files\Games\OperationFlashpoint\FLASHPOINTRESISTANCE.EXE
file:     07_Airport
world:    eden
campaign: retaliationieu
battle:   intro
mission:  07_Airport
Prev. code bytes: FF 8B 18 85 DB 0F 84 19 02 00 00 8B 73 54 85 F6
Fault code bytes: 89 74 24 64 0F 84 0A 02 00 00 8A 86 26 01 00 00

Registers:
EAX:23938B98 EBX:22B38900
ECX:23935900 EDX:0000000B
ESI:17ED4EC0 EDI:00000000
CS:EIP:001B:0053C108
SS:ESP:0023:0012F54C  EBP:00000CB1
DS:0023  ES:0023  FS:0038  GS:0000
Flags:00000206
===FROZEN====>>>>>>END

I've seen this bug before. That was when I ran the same Retaliation mission using the GMR Explosions mod with Wright's sound pack two weeks ago. Obviously, something in both GMR and ECP or the sound packs is similarly bugged and something in this intro is triggering both of them the same way.

[Cool Z]

What is ECP's homepage? (If there is one)

Thx in advance.

[Wadmann]

Hey Cool Z,


    The home of ECP is right here at OFPEC. Just click here!


                                             Wadmann

[Gooner861]

Ok ive just downloaded ECP it won't work, ive followed these instructions:

Installation / Updating:



Download and run the ECP Core installer to either install or update the ECP mod.

You can manually set up a shortcut to the ECP by doing the following:


Create a shortcut to your 'FlashpointBeta.exe' file and modify the shortcut's properties.


In the target box, following 'FlashpointBeta.exe', place '-mod=@ECP'. Eg:

"C:\Program Files\Codemasters\OperationFlashpoint\FLASHPOINTBETA.EXE" -mod=@ECP


Hit Apply and then OK.

But it won't work. Where exactly is the FlashpointBeta cos when i click on the ECP shortcut the computer has to browse the system looking for FlashpointBeta. Ive also just downloaded OFP version 1.96.

Help i really wanna try this out sounds and looks so good.

Cheers

Gooner

[Planck]

Gooner.......Just append:

-mod=@ECP

to the OFP short cut that you are using.

It doesn't need to be Flashpointbeta.exe

FlashpointResistance.exe shortcut would be equally as good.

For example....the shortcut I use has this in the Target field of the Shortcut Tab on my shortcuts  properties dialogue:

C:\Games\OperationFlashpoint\FLASHPOINTRESISTANCE.EXE -nosplash -nomap -mod=@ECP


Planck

[Gooner861]

Bloody hell!!!!!!!! This is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

[Cool Z]

Thx waddman, it's awesome.

Planck, what does -nosplash do?

[Planck]

 -nosplash switches off the title screens you get whilst the game is loading.


Planck

[Cool Z]

Thx planck!