CBLoader and Windows 10?

Subject: Re: CBLoader and Windows 10? Wed Jan 18, 2017 3:29 pm

Will see this eve if I can get it working... not sure why this will help but the error message and some online scrounging implies it might

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Subject: Re: CBLoader and Windows 10? Wed Jan 18, 2017 11:47 pm

found an installer andinstructions and redid it from the beginning on the new lap top and its all working fine but I did loose a bunch of character files... grumble grumble.

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Born To Be Kings and Heros -- From the Ashes Phoenix
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” - Lazarus Long via Robert Heinlein.

One suspects Lugh Long-hand Samildánach (a wright/carpenter, a sailor, a smith/bronze craftsman, a healer, a champion, a harpist, a poet/historian, a sorcerer, cupbearer) would agree.

Subject: Re: CBLoader and Windows 10? Sat Jan 21, 2017 4:41 pm

Anyone interested in installing this ask me...

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Born To Be Kings and Heros -- From the Ashes Phoenix
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” - Lazarus Long via Robert Heinlein.

One suspects Lugh Long-hand Samildánach (a wright/carpenter, a sailor, a smith/bronze craftsman, a healer, a champion, a harpist, a poet/historian, a sorcerer, cupbearer) would agree.

Wannabe Adventurer Posts : 6 Join date : 2017-09-18

OMG! Please help me. I had an old Vista PC that had my offline generator on it.

Now I have a new Win 10 box and I tried the old method (as remembered) to install character generator and CBLoader. Fail ...

The message I get is after it merges the part files it says something about writing to protected memory.

- I have .net 3.5 and 5 installed.
- I installed the character generator, cbloader, the march update, and the october update, BUT the oct update failed. It just gave some odd system error.
- I tried both as-is from that install and copying my AppData folder from the old system to the new one and no differences.

Help, please!

Last few lines of log file:

9/18/2017 11:33:26 PM - Debug: DLL unload:Address 0x56930000,(unknown)
9/18/2017 11:33:26 PM - Debug: Waiting for next event
9/18/2017 11:33:26 PM - Debug: DLL Load:Address 0x56930000, C:\Program Files (x86)\Wizards of the Coast\Character Builder\D20RulesEngine.dll
9/18/2017 11:33:26 PM - Debug: Could Not patch file: It is likely already patched.
9/18/2017 11:33:26 PM - Debug: Checking for merge and extract.

Subject: Re: CBLoader and Windows 10? Tue Sep 19, 2017 12:56 am

series0,
Did you install the builder in a non-standard folder like the instructions earlier say to do? It usually works if you make a new folder on the Desktop and install it there.

GF

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Subject: Re: CBLoader and Windows 10? Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:19 am

That's odd. I've heard of some issues with a Win10 install, but I can say that the 3 times I've installed in on a Win10 machine, it has worked just fine without doing anything 'special'. I'm assuming you've used this same install previously with success? I have all of my install bundle saved in a folder (and backed up) so I can use the same files/method each time.

Are you able to get through the install completely? I've also found that if I set the shortcut to "run as administrator" it tends to have fewer issues.

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Wannabe Adventurer Posts : 6 Join date : 2017-09-18

I DID NOT use a non-standard folder. I will try that.

Same install has been used on two other Vista machines (and several laptops) with success.

Install all works with 4 components:

Character Builder, March update, October update, CBLoader. BUT, October update fails with strange error. I have tried just running without it. Fails as well.

I will also try run as admin. Update coming soon.

Wannabe Adventurer Posts : 6 Join date : 2017-09-18

Used t he non-standard folder now. It worked ... better. The Oct install worked.

But, the backups I have did not include the part files in the custom folder, only the cbloader files. That means some updates are ... lost. So I can rote copy in the finished combined files I have and it works when I load it, but, I have to do it again to get them back every single time. Oddly, this is true even when I run no update for start. I do not understand that.

Didn't have to run as admin.

Did anyone ever write an XML interface to easily design new part file components to inject? I can't believe no one did. I made a few manual updates that worked ok for my homebrew warlock and bard classes. But the lack of custom part inclusion was a big flaw in that tool. It's also insanely hard to eliminate sources with those thousand entries to uncheck.

Wannabe Adventurer Posts : 6 Join date : 2017-09-18

And really the question is, does anyone have access to the entire spec for the xml part file? The schema? Anyone, ... Beuler?

Subject: Re: CBLoader and Windows 10? Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:24 pm

In the following thread I have a Post with the full CBuilder and CBLoader files uploaded and linked for others to use.

http://4enclave.forumotion.com/t181-cbloader-for-posterity

Please check there for the files including the .Part Files for all of the official Content and a bunch of 3rd party stuff too. Some times you need to start over from scratch or close to it at least.

GF

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