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Various tech support stuff

SITREP: After a very long hiatus, nothing has changed so far, except for most likely ONE thing on my computer; and that's my graphics card. I now have an AMD Radeon RX 580, and I have no idea how to limit the framerate on the game so it can run halfway decent, and I've not yet changed Rex's placement, and I may have messed up on using Sublime Text to where the files are not readily accessible, I'll be looking through the posts here to see what to do as far as getting my goal of having him in my group is concerned... Providing I can maintain motivation to do so

Hope everyone's doing okay so far
 
Bandicam works, though having to run it every time I want to run POTC does make this a slight bit cumbersome, though it's nice to have an FPS counter when I need it, good to know I'm running at over 1K FPS XD
 
I've just had a thought to ask, so... since I can't buy ammo in the stock game, does anyone suppose that it might be an anti-piracy measure that the game has since I don't have the game disc? Or would that not really matter and it would be just one of those bugs that's getting in the way? And is there a way around it?
 
If I'm not mistaken, ammo simply does not exist in the stock game, it was added by the mod.
 
You should be able to buy cannonballs, chainshot, grapeshot and bombs for the ship, but not powder - the stock game does not use it. Pistols do not have ammunition at all in the stock game.

If ship ammo is not for sale in your game, I don't think it is an anti-piracy measure, though it may be a fault in whichever version of the game you have. Can you upload the files "PROGRAM\STORE\goods.h" and "PROGRAM\STORE\initGoods.c"?
 
I SHOULD(?) have the latest and US version of the game, I don't quite remember where I got it from, but I otherwise have no issues, especially given the modifications I made, as I'm sure everyone's aware of what I did
 

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Both those files show all four ammo types - balls, knippels, grapes and bombs. (But not powder - that was added in the mod.) So the ammunition should be present. I have no idea why it doesn't show up in stores for sale. Can you fire the cannons anyway? Or are you unable to fire because you have no ammunition?

Is there a way to change game settings such as control keys?
 
Grey Roger said:
Both those files show all four ammo types - balls, knippels, grapes and bombs. (But not powder - that was added in the mod.) So the ammunition should be present. I have no idea why it doesn't show up in stores for sale. Can you fire the cannons anyway? Or are you unable to fire because you have no ammunition?

Is there a way to change game settings such as control keys?
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Oh they show up in the store, I just can't buy them for some reason, the counter doesn't change to show that I'm attempting to buy the ammo, it just stays locked at "0", even if I have enough money to buy some, if you want, I can record me trying to buy the ammo

And yes, there should be a way to change the keybinds in the stock game
 
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Ender Shadowborne said:
Oh they show up in the store, I just can't buy them for some reason, the counter doesn't change to show that I'm attempting to buy the ammo, it just stays locked at "0", even if I have enough money to buy some, if you want, I can record me trying to buy the ammo

And yes, there should be a way to change the keybinds in the stock game
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Is there room left in the ship?

Can you buy anything else? Or sell something else, then try buying ammo.
 
Hammie said:
Is there room left in the ship?

Can you buy anything else? Or sell something else, then try buying ammo.
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Yes to both

It's worth noting that empty ships are what I'm attempting to buy ammo for, these ships already have captains, so on and so forth
 
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I have an idea of what might be going on. Might not work but could be worth a try.

Go out to sea. Tell your companion ships to heave to drift and sail up to them so that you can transfer goods between your ship and one of those ships. Transfer some cannonballs or other goods to that ship and then exit the interface. Open the cargo hold interface in the menu and discard the goods you just transferred to that ship. Now go back to the store and see if you can buy ammunition.

I remember there being some bug about cargo hold space not being cleared properly so you have to do workarounds like this, which also means that the Quick Repairs ability doesn't work properly.

If this doesn't work then try buying some other goods in the store and then discard them to see if that fixes it. If that still doesn't work, go out to sea to swap ships so that you have direct control of the companion ship, and try buying ammunition for it in the store. Might have to discard some goods first. Then go out to sea again to swap ships again so that you have your own ship again.

If this still doesn't work then I don't know what the problem could be. It would seem too advanced for this game to have an anti-piracy measure, so that wouldn't be it. Could be another bug in the stock game or specific to the US version. Having more than one ship doesn't seem to work all that well overall in the stock game, though.
 
Baste said:
I have an idea of what might be going on. Might not work but could be worth a try.

Go out to sea. Tell your companion ships to heave to drift and sail up to them so that you can transfer goods between your ship and one of those ships. Transfer some cannonballs or other goods to that ship and then exit the interface. Open the cargo hold interface in the menu and discard the goods you just transferred to that ship. Now go back to the store and see if you can buy ammunition.

I remember there being some bug about cargo hold space not being cleared properly so you have to do workarounds like this, which also means that the Quick Repairs ability doesn't work properly.

If this doesn't work then try buying some other goods in the store and then discard them to see if that fixes it. If that still doesn't work, go out to sea to swap ships so that you have direct control of the companion ship, and try buying ammunition for it in the store. Might have to discard some goods first. Then go out to sea again to swap ships again so that you have your own ship again.

If this still doesn't work then I don't know what the problem could be. It would seem too advanced for this game to have an anti-piracy measure, so that wouldn't be it. Could be another bug in the stock game or specific to the US version. Having more than one ship doesn't seem to work all that well overall in the stock game, though.
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I thought of the same thing, though I never did it when I thought of it because my initial evaluation of the method was deemed too tedious, but I suppose if I absolutely need to, I'll do that method anyway, been a while since I've been on the game though. I also figured it possible to have anti-piracy measures, but I suppose not
 
Ender Shadowborne said:
I thought of the same thing, though I never did it when I thought of it because my initial evaluation of the method was deemed too tedious, but I suppose if I absolutely need to, I'll do that method anyway, been a while since I've been on the game though. I also figured it possible to have anti-piracy measures, but I suppose not
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No, I can’t even buy the ammo for my own ship…
 
Been a while, still can't buy ammo, not for ANY ship, despite the hold being empty, I can buy everything else just fine, just no ammo
 
Others have also reported this but I haven't been able to reproduce the problem.

If you start a new game and go to the store, are you able to buy ammunition then or that also doesn't work?
 
Baste said:
Others have also reported this but I haven't been able to reproduce the problem.

If you start a new game and go to the store, are you able to buy ammunition then or that also doesn't work?
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That's a negative, also doesn't work

I guess it's also worth mentioning that my configurator for the game reports that options file and engine.ini are missing? (But they exist?)

I also tried deleting all of my save games to see if that would help, turns out, the answer is no... sadge
 
Then it seems deleting and recreating the options file also wouldn't help, and something else also seems to be wrong with the installation.

One guy got it to work by reinstalling the game. We couldn't figure out why but it could be worth to try if you haven't already. Uninstall the game completely and then reinstall it, and make sure to not install it in any Program Files directory.

Here are also the files I uploaded in this thread, except for the UK engine.ini as further investigations have indicated that it makes no difference.
In addition two other files are also included - sea_patch.dll and vsync_patch.dll - and they are currently being evaluated as a solution to among other things the FPS and slowdowns problem. If you are limiting the FPS with the NVIDIA control panel or other program then remove those settings so only these files are in effect.
 

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