Ergo's FixPack [mods]

[Gilliatt]

Thank you for your mod Ergo.

Is v1.80 fully playable on a French version of the game or do I need an English one?

[Ergopad]

French is supported, so it should work.

[Gilliatt]

Thanks for replying. I have downloaded the mod and am looking forward to use it when I get a new PC that can play the game.

[Remus]

Just picked up drakensang and awaiting my Christmas vacation next week so i can hole up in my room and and play this game non stop, from what i've read about your mod it will be a much added improvement to ...i hope a very good and long immersive rpg

[Ergopad]

Just picked up drakensang and awaiting my Christmas vacation next week so i can hole up in my room and and play this game non stop, from what i've read about your mod it will be a much added improvement to ...i hope a very good and long immersive rpg

Hope you like it, I tried to improve the things that I and other people didn't like about it. And I've noticed that lot of those things have actually ended up one way or other in Drakensang 2 (The River of Time).

The learning curve is quite steep and the new ruleset takes a time to learn, but after five hours of gameplay (there over 40h of it!) you start to get the idea. I recommend to read [url="http://forum.dtp-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=12047"]this FAQ[/url], it's a bit long-ish (takes ~20mins to read), but it should help you to understand the ruleset. I've really fallen in love the ruleset and personally consider it better than D&D. There is lot of other good info and active forum there as well.

First area is a bit dull, as well as first city quests, but once you get the dark swamparea, then it gets interesting (after first few hours of gameplay).

[mogqwai]

Thanks! and a bit of advice

Ergopad, thanks so much for this 'fix' it's very helpful and adds some interest to the game. Excellent work!

I also want to add that I noticed many posts here and on dtp about people that can't get the installer to find the right directory. I had the same problem at first but I remembered some old dos rules. I have my game installed on my E: drive so when it asks me where the drakensang\export\ directory is, it needs to be typed like this: "E:\Progra~1\Draken~1\export\" without quotes and on whatever drive letter your game is on. I think it wants the path in the old dos format for all folders with names longer than 8 letters.

This worked for me anyway and I hope maybe it will help some others, because imho this fix patch is worth it.

Cheers! and have a great holiday everyone!

[marius34253]

Hello

I have a Polish version of the game.
Does this fix will work on Polish version?

Thank you in advance for help.

[Trucidation]

Pardon the necro, but the installer was annoying me so I put it under the magnifying glass - and after adding a debug echo of the folder input I figured out what was wrong.

Most people with the English version I assume are using the default install location. Which under Win7 is "Program Files (x86)" or previously "Program Files". Note the space there?! That's why the goddamn batch file kept "not finding" the folders, it was choking on the whitespace.

Encasing the source folder variable in double quotes fixed it... but of course it doesn't help, since further down in the batch file more commands refer to it and append more folder/file names. You have to encase the whole thing in quotes, not have them only for part of the name.

Which is why the ONLY way the installer will work is if (1) you install to a non-standard folder path that has NO spaces in it like e.g. C:\Games\Drakensang\, or (2) you manually edit every single %variable% in the damn batch file and replace it with the hardcoded game folder path.

I don't know why it works with non-English Windows, but my money is on their folder names NOT having spaces. One guy posted using the short DOS 8.3 filenames, yeah that should work too.

Anyway, screw that, I figure might as well use the manual instructions. Which were supposed to be edited into the first post according to the OP but he didn't >__>

In case anyone missed it, here they are again.

Manual installation:
1. Go you your game folder (...\drakensang\export\db) where all the .db4 files are
2. Copy sqlite3.exe, game.sql, static.sql, locale.sql there
3. Open command prompt (cmd.exe)
4. Run "sqlite3.exe static.db4<static.sql"
5. Run "sqlite3.exe game.db4<game.sql"
6. Run "sqlite3 locale.db4<locale.sql"
7. Go to your export folder (c:\program files\drakensang\export)
8. Create folders "textures" and and "gfxlib".
9. Go to your textures folder and again create folders "icons" and "armor"
10. One more. Create "characters" folder under "gfxlib" folder that you just created
11. Copy all files from Ergo's_Fixpack\textures\icons to drakensang\export\textures\icons
12. Copy all files from Ergo's_Fixpack\textures\armor to drakensang\export\textures\armor
13. Copy all files from Ergo's_Fixpack\gfxlib\characters to drakensang\export\gfxlib\characters
14. Play!

Meh. Let me clarify them, since he isn't 100% clear or correct.

1. Extract all files from the v1.80 mod you just downloaded.
2. In the extracted files, look in the Ergo's_Fixpack folder for the following files:
- sqlite3.exe
- game.sql
- locale.sql
- static.sql
3. Copy these 4 files to the game's install subfolder "...\drakensang\export\db"
4. Open a command line prompt at that location (...\drakensang\export\db)
5. Type in the following 3 commands, then close the command prompt.
- sqlite3.exe static.db4<static.sql
- sqlite3.exe game.db4<game.sql
- sqlite3 locale.db4<locale.sql
6. Go up one folder to the \export\ folder (...\drakensang\export)
7. Copy the following folders from the extracted files to this folder:
- gfxlib
- textures

That's it. What the OP missed is copying the contents of the weapons folder, so if you followed his steps you'll be missing some stuff. Which probably accounts for that error one guy posted earlier.