Unpacking issues

[JohnHamm]

I unpacked the main.pack and the patch.pack ran the game and it worked, I then shut down my pc and went to work. When I came home I went back to play the game but it would just get to the first screen and sit there never moved. I had to shut down and re-boot, fortunately I had copied the original files and just put everything back to normal and it worked fine. anyone have any ideas?

[JohnHamm]

So i;m the only one?

[Ketzerfreund]

Does it do the same thing when you only unpack main.pack? There have been issues mentioned about unpacking patch.pack (and back in demo times also demo3.pack - that's why alpaca actually created a means to repack).

The last time I tried starting E:TW with an unpacked patch.pack the game stuck in a loop during the first intro video and then crashed...


Note: if you want to make changes to a file in main.pack that is not replaced by a file in patch.pack, there is no need to unpack patch.pack, since packs always get the preference over unpacked files.

[JohnHamm]

Well it worked ...So I guess you are right as long as I don't unpack the patch.pack I should be alright. I saw alpaccas packing tool I can't say that I follw it well enough to repack all the files in patch.pack or main.pack so with any luck (hint, hint) he may be kind enough to make it as a standard file for us, once we start heavy modding.