BEGIN CAMPAIGN reported an error
Pil-Nick opened this issue · 4 comments
Affected versions
10.0.0
Build information
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Description
After version 10.0.0, when I configure and click BEGIN CAMPAIGN, I always get the error message shown below. Even if I am using the first Caucasus mission and all configurations are the default configuration, this error message will still appear.
Save game and other files (save game required, bugs without saves will be closed)
@Pil-Nick , do you by any chance have non-ASCII characters (e.g. Chinese characters) in any of the following paths:
- The directory where you installed DCS,
- Your "Saved Games" directory or
- The directory where you installed Liberation?
Having non-ASCII characters in these paths can be problematic.
No, here are my three paths:
G:\liberation
G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld
C:\Users\PilNick\Saved Games\DCS
Do you have any mods or custom aircraft payloads that have non-ASCII characters? Basically the error is happening because Liberation is trying to load some .lua files that define payloads that units can have but can't understand a character. The places it looks are:
\MissionEditor\data\scripts\UnitPayloads
\CoreMods\aircraft<aircraft name>\UnitPayloads
\MissionEditor\UnitPayloads
\Mods\aircraft<aircraft name>\UnitPayloads
OK, problem solved. It should be my C:\Users#\Saved Games\DCS. There are many residual files in it. I deleted it and restarted DCS to generate this folder, and then restored the backup settings file. Now dcs_Liberation can be used normally.