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gmax half-an-install-problem

Fern

Fern

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Hi, All

My friend who doesn’t speak English is having a problem with his gmax install, and it is a weird one.

He did a clean install of gmax 1.2, downloaded from Discreet. His machine DID NOT have gmax 1.1 installed.

His FS2004 export works perfectly. However, his FS2002 export gives him “can’t find MakeMDL” errors.

I gave him my FS2002 gamepack, just in case, but that gives him “mismatch” errors.

Did anyone experience similar problems?

Thanks

Fern
 
Hi Fern,

Are the two gamepacks installed correctly, as indicated in the Fs2004 GMax SDK documentation? Else they might not work together well.

Another option is the language setting, the Fs2002 gamepack requires the dot set as decimal character in Windows. In some countries the comma is used.
 
Comma vs Period

Hi, Arno

Once again, right on the nose! My friend asks me to thank you and I thank you too.

This can be a major problem for folks outside the area that uses the comma, and it already was in Cobol days (he's in Brazil), easy to forget. He had that problem three or four years ago when we started. This is a new machine for him with a new Windows install and, because the FS2004 export worked, it was easy to overlook.

Thanks!!!

Fern
 
It happened to me as well the first time I used GMax. Here in the Netherlands we also use the comma normally. Even for some of the tools I have made myself, like CAT, this problem appeared at first. It is just too easy to forget to test with all possible settings.
 
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