Blitzkrieg-Mod - The Holy FAQs
Your Guide to fix problems with Blitzkrieg-Mod for Company of Heroes
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General questions: Q 1: What do I need to play Blitzkrieg?..3 Technical problems: Q 2: When trying to join a game I get the error "Incompatible Version".3 Q 3: Where do those "$No Key" errors in the game come from?..5 Q 4: Blitzkrieg won't start!...6 Q 5: Blitzkrieg crashes!...7 Q 6: I wasn't able to solve my problems with this FAQs, what now?..8
Q 1: What do I need to play Blitzkrieg-Mod? A: You need either CoH, OF, ToV or a combination of any of those three. For example CoH + OF would work, also CoH + ToV or even ToV alone. At least ONE of them is a must though. You also need the latest patch for your game. Either run auto update or check the Relic-website for the newest patch. Also Google might come in handy if everything else fails. Last but not least you obviously need Blitzkrieg. It is always available in two versions: the FULL Client that has everything included, and the latest UPDATE, that has every Patch for BK since the last FULL Client included. Download and install the latest FULL Client and then download and install the last Update (if available). Tip 1: Upgrading from old FULL Clients to the current version does NOT work. If you have an old version of BK installed (f.e. v1.70) you can't just download the latest Update (f.e. v2.51) and be up-to-date again. The Updates only have the content/changes since the last FULL Client included, so for a v2.x Update to work you need a v2.0 FULL Client first. If you update from a older version to the latest Update (f.e. from v1.75 to v2.51) it MIGHT work, but you'd miss a lot of features, won't have new units, get strange errors and bugs and can't play with others online. So this isn't a good idea to begin with. Tip 2: You don't need all Updates to be up-to-date. If you have v2.0 FULL and want to get v2.51 you don't have to patch to v2.5 to be able to apply Patch v2.51. The latest Patch always includes previous ones since the last FULL Client, so v2.51 also has v2.50 already in it. Q 2: When trying to join a game I get the error "Incompatible Version". A: This problem can have several reasons, let's start with the most common ones that are easy to solve. a) You and/or your friends have different versions of CoH/OF/ToV or Blitzkrieg installed. Make sure all of you have the latest (or at least the same) version of the game AND Blitzkrieg Mod. If one of you has CoH v2.600 and BK v2.5 he won't be able to play with someone with CoH v2.601 and BK v2.51 or CoH v2.600 and BK v2.51 for instance. If someone has OF and the other one ToV or CoH isn't important, so you don't have to rush to a Shop to get ToV just because your friends have it, that doesn't matter. Important is only the game version and Blitzkrieg version, those have to be identical [check Q 1: "What do I need to play Blitzkrieg?" for details]. 3

b) You and/or your friend(s) have the "Model Details" in the CoH options on "Low". In order to work BK needs every player to set his "Model Details" in the CoH Options to "High". If one player has a lower setting there it will cause the incompatible version error. In case you aren't sure which setting this is (f.e. If you have a non-English CoH version), just check the picture below. It is the 2 nd option from above in the left row (marked red). Also make sure the Slider at the bottom right is at "Max" at the right side of the bar (like in the picture below). If those two options don't fix it also try to set "Shader Quality" to "High
c) You and/or your friends has an additional Skinpack installed for Company of Heroes. Sometimes this can also lead to incompatible versions if one player has different skins then the other player. The player with the skinpacks should completely remove them.
d) You and/or your friends had or still have other mods installed besides Blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg was only tested on regular Company of Heroes. If another Mod is installed in CoH at the same time this can also cause problems. Most mods place their content in a subfolder of the Company of Heroes folder (f.e. BK places them in ".\Company of Heroes\Blitzkrieg") and that content is only loaded when the Mod is started with the Mods shortcut. After the Mod is shut down the files are unloaded again. This keep the regular CoH installation untouched so you can still play unmodded vanilla CoH. Unfortunately some Mods copy their content directly in the CoH folder and overwrite existing files there. This applies especially for small Mods that only change a few values. If another (big) Mod like BK is then installed afterwards this can lead to a couple of problems [check Q4?: "BK won't start" to read more]. So if one player has some of his vanilla CoH files altered that way he can get the incompatible version message because files of other Mods have altered his CoH files and thus make his CoH files differ from the ones of the other players. If you know which files had been altered and if you have made backups then you are a good boy and can simply change everything back to normal. If you have no idea what files could be changed or if you have forgotten to make backups then the solution to this problem will surely convince you to make backups in the future: completely reinstall CoH. With completely I mean deinstall it, delete the remaining folders (the initial game folder AND the folder in ".\Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Games\") and then reinstall it. After that you have a clean CoH and can start installing OF and/or ToV and then patch up to the latest version again. This whole procedure can take several hours so it will teach you to make backups before installing Mods in the future, I promise [I'm saying this as a guy who has gone through this already.]. ;-)

Q 3: Where do those "$No Key" errors in the game come from? A: Those errors can happen for several reasons and indicate, that the text for a certain object/action is missing. a) If you have a lot of them you probably have a version of CoH with an unsupported language in BK. Currently BK supports German, English, French and Polish game versions.
Tip: If your game has a different language then you can play BK anyways (with English texts). Simply go to your "Company of Heroes\Blitzkrieg\Locale" folder and copy & paste the "English" folder in there. Then rename that copy to your game language, f.e. "Spanish". Then go into the "Spanish" folder and rename the.ucs file in there to "Blitzkrieg_SP.Spanish". Then your game will be able to find a text file that fits your language settings and will be able to load texts for BK. b) If those errors are rare or if it's just one then most likely we forgot to add a text for that object/action. Nobody is perfect and sometimes such an error will slip trough unnoticed. Just report it to us and wait for the next patch and it will get fixed. c) If there are some of them, then you maybe have upgraded BK from a very old version and not from the last FULL Client. Make sure you have the latest FULL Client installed before applying the latest BK Update. Those ingame texts are changed/corrected pretty often so skipping a FULL Client always results in quite a few "$No Key" errors. Read Q 1 on how to install Blitzkrieg correctly to fix this. Q 4: Blitzkrieg won't start! A: If a Relic-Error-Message pops up after you tried to launch BK this can have several reasons (obviously a lot BK errors can have several reasons). To find out what exactly could be the problem check your "Warnings.log" located in ".\Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes\". Directly at the top you should see some lines with a timestamp before them. Check EACH of them if it mentions a problem. Filepath-Errors like "19:28:03.62 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'DLC1\DataArtHigh\'" are normal, so don't be scared if your Log is full of them. If you have checked the Log for the exact error, here are the solutions to them. a) You had or still have other Mods installed that messed up your CoH installation. When you try to launch BK and it tries to load its files this results in a conflict and causes the crash. The Log should only mention loading BK (f.e. "19:28:03.62 MOD -- Mounting BlitzkriegDLC1, 1.0"), so only Blitzkrieg files should be mounted, if it mentions another Mod or another Mods file then this could be the problem. Delete the other Mod to solve it.
b) A file of another Mod is conflicting. A file conflict looks something like this: Failed to load file CoH\Engine\Locale\English\PattenMod.English.ucs due to overlapping range with Blitzkrieg\Locale\English\Blitzkrieg_SP.English.ucs-- FATAL EXIT -In this example the.ucs file of the other Mod (.ucs files have the texts for the Mod in it) was placed in the "Locale" folder of CoH by the other Mod. That way it is ALWAYS loaded when starting CoH or a Mod. So when BK tries to load its own.ucs text file (located in the "Blitzkrieg/Locale" folder so it only executed when BK is started) both.ucs files conflict with each other because they try to change the same texts. This results in a crash and BK won't start. Delete the conflicting file(s) and BK should work. Tip: Those error reports in the Warnings.log are a great help to find out what exactly is wrong and mostly indicate how it can be fixed, so use them to your advantage.

Q 5: Blitzkrieg crashes! A: There are a lot of possibilities (here we go again.) why this could happen. Look in the Warnings.log to find out the exact crashing error. The Log is located in ".\Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes\" and the reason for the crash is usually somewhere at the bottom and marked as "FATAL EXIT". So what could be responsible for a crash? a) You don't have the latest drivers for your Hardware installed. Also you should use the latest Software updates for your Operating System (running Windows-Update is a good choice to ensure this). If you have installed the latest drivers and the problem isn't solved, read on. b) Your PC can't handle the CoH Graphic Options you selected. Yes, yes, everyone says that his PC is uber and can run every game without problems. Also you might say that CoH runs smoothly with ULTRA settings without problems. I'll tell you a secret: it doesn't for the most people (including me). Even though the game might run smooth and the performance test in the options might indicate that ULTRA settings will run smooth they very very often cause crashes or graphical issues like flickering textures. Sometimes the game even randomly crashes. Also keep in mind that BK has a much higher unit limit then vanilla CoH and also new High7
Detailed textures. This requires a lot more performance then vanilla CoH and that fact is not calculated by the performance test. Just reduce your settings to "High" to get rid of those problems and crashes. If the problem doesn't get fixed that way read on. c) Sometimes the game crashes with a strange error like: "SIM -- Attempting to query bag not associated with this group type.Group is of type 8. Query is for type 1. Group name: 'sbps\races\axis\soldiers\pioneer_westwall_squad'-- FATAL EXIT --" The Westwall-Pioneers are the Wehrmacht Defensive-Doctrine special Pioneers, so this clearly is a BK bug. Unfortunately we don't have ANY idea what causes this and how it can be fixed. It SEEMS to happen a lot more often on slower PCs then of HighEnd machines and is most likely caused by a AI player that tries to use that squad. Then something horribly fails causing that crash. It also seems to happen more often on certain maps. If you experience it and want to play the same map again, remove the Player that caused that error and replace him with a AI Player of another faction (if the crash was caused by your AI Wehrmacht ally, replace him with a Panzerelite ally in the next game on that map). But sometimes the game will crash again (f.e. it could still crash because one of your AI enemies causes a similar one with another unit), then don't play that map again anymore. I fear there is no better solution to this right now. I hope we can get this fixed in the future, as it is annoying as hell. d) Some players reported crashes during a game or when loading a map with an error-message saying their "Temp-Folder" (the Windows temporary files folder) would be full. They could solve the problem by closing unnecessary background programs like Xfire. It's worth a try. Or clear your temp folder by using the Windows Clean Manager. How to run: Go to Start Menu, select execute in the right menu, then enter cleanmgr.exe (without quotation marks) and run it. You can also increase the amount of virtual memory for your PC. How to increase the amount of vRAM. Click Start, right click My Computer and click on Properties. Navigate to Advanced System properties. Then navigate to Performance Options. In the Performance Options select advanced. Navigate to the Virtual memory menu and click on change. Change the Initial Size value and Maximum Size value to a higher value. Click on set and then click Ok. Click Ok multiple times to close all the dialog boxes. If you for some reason cannot change the values, first uncheck the box which says: automatic use of system file page memory. Then select the option user defined size. 8

e) Another weird error is responsible. There are at least a dozen reasons why the game could crash and I can't get into everyone of them. If none of the above methods worked, create a post in the Forum and describe your problem and system spec. Maybe someone had a similar problem and know how it can be solved.
Q 6: I wasn't able to solve my problems with this FAQs, what now? Then register at our Forum (http://forum.blitzkrieg-mod.de), read this Thread (http://forum.blitzkrieg-mod.de/index.php?topic=6.0) and describe the error as detailed as possible in our "Technical Support" Forum. The more details you can give us regarding your PC, the error itself and the solutions you already tried, the higher the chance that we'll be able to help you.
This FAQ isn't finished yet and will be expanded & updated from time to time. Last Update: February 25th 2011 Good luck in fixing the problem and hopefully have fun playing Blitzkrieg. SHADOW Frehelias 9

7 August 2007

By: Filip Truta, Games Editor
Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation - More Details from the Game's Publisher
Rated, dated, last details out. all you have to do is wait until 28th September
Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation is an RTS historical PC game, developed by Nival Interactive and published by Ascaron Entertainment. The latter is also in charge of distributing the game, occurring on the 28th of September, this year. The PC only title has been rated 12+ by the PEGI rating system. Now that we're getting closer to the game's launch, the publisher has revealed some more information about the game. Check out what "strategy" really means in Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation!Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation comes with a tremendous focus on new strategic opportunities, global war and gritty realism of WWII battles, the official report informs. On the side of Soviet Armed Forces, US Army or German Wehrmacht you plan entire operations and lead your men into fierce action, choose reinforcements and use a wide range of new weapons in three full-blown campaigns that span the globe. A new graphics engine and significant advances over the original game place you in control of the most dramatic and bloody conflict of the past century.And here's how you need to play. According to the report, gamers have to decide what missions to fight, accumulate and call in any type of reinforcements, capture train stations or airfields to receive more troops by rail, or secure air supremacy during the entire operation. Also, you will need to accomplish tactical objectives and missions to support your war efforts at a strategic level and ensure your combat efficiency in the decisive battles. Promote and assign commanders to combat units to expand your tactical advantage with over 50 unique skills and real-life abilities. Order engineers to plant TNT charges and blast passing enemy units, use linked grenades for extra damage, suppress infantry with flak fire and master other new combat techniques introduced in Blitzkrieg II.Some of the game's main features are listed below: Plan your actions strategically, choose what missions to fight, what reinforcements to secure. Control of over 250 authentic WWII units and 60 types of infantry. Open new tactics and abilities as units grow in experience. Use structures and terrain for cover, destroy everything in your path, fight day and night under any climatic conditions on the ground, sea and in the air! Experience intense WWII battles in a stunning full 3D interactive environment, thanks to the advanced Enigma Engine with true Line Of Sight and Line of Fire systems. Step, if you dare, into the fury of multiplayer action with match-making and auto-rating support at the special dedicated server. Create war the way you want it with the versatile Map and Mod editorRemember, Blitzkreig 2: Liberation launches 28th September 2007, only for the PC, as a historical RTS game.
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