VIP - Closed discussions of Old Versions

[RELee]

VIP:R works fine for me on my new Vista laptop, but it only started working properly after I went on the internet and updated my video driver to the latest, greatest version for Vista and my hardware.

I also right-clicked my desktop icon, went into properties and set the program to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP. I expect setting that flag insures the system memory is treated a bit different.

Also, make sure your user is set to have administrative privileges.

Realize that my laptop was provided courtesy of my employer. This honker is dual-core and has a separate video card with dedicated video RAM and either 2 or 4 GB of system RAM (it's not right in front of me at the moment), so it is far from a borderline system.

I have had one random CTD since changing all the settings above, but restarting from an autosave allowed me to continue just fine, so it was just random.

Oh yes, I almost forgot. I always do the following.

Under the Victoria directory:
I rename the AVI directory to AVI.backup or AVI.original, or whatever. What you rename it to doesn't matter. Just rename it so it does not try to run the opening movies. It also doesn't hurt to do the same to the music directory. If you want to listen to the game music, I would recommend you use Windows Media Player instead, or another third-party player of your choice.

Definitely try renaming the AVI directory.

That's all I have at the moment. If I think of anything else, I'll post it.

 

[RELee]

i was supporting the CSA as TUR spanish civil war style.

Whoa! Didn't see that coming.

 

[RELee]

Almost forgot. I do one other thing as well.

I modify the terrain display in Victoria to one more like EU. Very simplistic and it helps to reduce the loading time of the game as well as give it a smaller memory footprint, at least at startup.

Get the details for this nifty little alteration from this thread.

Make sure you make backups first, just in case.

 

[Dietmar1982]

Almost forgot. I do one other thing as well.

I modify the terrain display in Victoria to one more like EU. Very simplistic and it helps to reduce the loading time of the game as well as give it a smaller memory footprint, at least at startup.

Get the details for this nifty little alteration from this thread.

Make sure you make backups first, just in case.

why do you bother with the memory saving, when you have so much spare memory.
i can understand the annoying video's, but the beautifull map

and if you have 4 GB RAM in you laptop, i would go out on a limp and say that might be a little overkill. But what the hell, i'm properly just jalous because my Xp Laptop 'only' has 1.5

EDIT: Ohh forgot one thing, this is to RELee, what resolution are you playing, have you changed it with Unkowns tool.
Maybe i should do that, I am playing it on a widescreen monitor, and Germany is awfully wide

 

[OHgamer]

Wow, I didn't know that. That's really dissapointing.

It's been that way in base Victoria games all along. AI simply prefers standing armies, and there is nothing I know of in the AI files to change that behavior that we could modify.

 

[OHgamer]

i was supporting the CSA as TUR spanish civil war style.

Well, we can add TUR as one of the allies CSA has, but unless you directly ally with CSA and make a full commitment, I see no reason why the general historical direction of the war should not be maintained. TUR is definitely not one I'd have thought would even care about the US Civil War, but hey alt history players are what make this mod such a challenge to develop, since there's always things coming out of left field that we do not consider even within the realm of the potential.

 

[RELee]

why do you bother with the memory saving, when you have so much spare memory.
i can understand the annoying video's, but the beautifull map

and if you have 4 GB RAM in you laptop, i would go out on a limp and say that might be a little overkill. But what the hell, i'm properly just jalous because my Xp Laptop 'only' has 1.5

EDIT: Ohh forgot one thing, this is to RELee, what resolution are you playing, have you changed it with Unkowns tool.
Maybe i should do that, I am playing it on a widescreen monitor, and Germany is awfully wide

That beautiful map is impossible for me to decipher when I'm attempting to determine terrain for combat purposes. The simplified map is much easier for me to figure out, and helps prevent me from sending 100,000 troops to their death on a march into the mountains against a fortified foe. Plus, you need to realize that earlier laptops I had were not nearly so powerful as the one I have now.

As for my resolution, I just use the default that Victoria plays at. I've not modified it nor am I using Unknown's Resolution Changer. Just never had a need or desire.

 

[Door Number 3]

VIP:R works fine for me on my new Vista laptop, but it only started working properly after I went on the internet and updated my video driver to the latest, greatest version for Vista and my hardware.

I also right-clicked my desktop icon, went into properties and set the program to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP. I expect setting that flag insures the system memory is treated a bit different.

Also, make sure your user is set to have administrative privileges.

Realize that my laptop was provided courtesy of my employer. This honker is dual-core and has a separate video card with dedicated video RAM and either 2 or 4 GB of system RAM (it's not right in front of me at the moment), so it is far from a borderline system.

I have had one random CTD since changing all the settings above, but restarting from an autosave allowed me to continue just fine, so it was just random.

Oh yes, I almost forgot. I always do the following.

Under the Victoria directory:
I rename the AVI directory to AVI.backup or AVI.original, or whatever. What you rename it to doesn't matter. Just rename it so it does not try to run the opening movies. It also doesn't hurt to do the same to the music directory. If you want to listen to the game music, I would recommend you use Windows Media Player instead, or another third-party player of your choice.

Definitely try renaming the AVI directory.

That's all I have at the moment. If I think of anything else, I'll post it.

Woo hoo it worked! Thanks ReLee, I was scared I wouldn't be able to run it on my laptop and it's one of the games I play the most.

 

[RELee]

Woo hoo it worked! Thanks ReLee, I was scared I wouldn't be able to run it on my laptop and it's one of the games I play the most.

I'm really glad to hear it. I would be thoroughly in an angry bear mood for at least a year if I discovered I could no longer play Victoria, in any of her many guises. It seems that no matter what latest, greatest gaming wonder I purchase I always seem to migrate back to Victoria before too long, so I completely understand your fear.

It always feels good to be able to help.

 

[unmerged(62752)]

Liberal Revolution

I was wondering when the Liberal Revolutions ends? I'm playing VIP:R. I must say it's a great mod and I'm enjoying it very much. OHgamer's great Prussian AAR was a great figuring out how the economic side of the game works.

 

[JMS424]

Not sure how to do a screenshot, but . . .

Craziest stuff ever. Play Ricky:VIP, and Darfur has annexed Egypt, and a good chunk of the middle east (jordan, israel, lebanon, and syria), as well as Crete. Totally nuts. I eventually conquered Crete and a chunk of egypt, so i could satellite them and lose badboy points.

 

[Orm]

To make a screenshot, push the F11 button and a file called screensave#.bmp will be created in your Victoria folder. Convert that file to .jpg format using MSPaint for example, .bmp files are large. Then find a place to store your pic that allows you to link to the picture here, photobucket.com for example.

 

[Dysken]

Alternate way is to press prt Scr on your keyboard and then open ms paint and press Ctrl + V, then save it as a jpg.

 

[Dysken]

I believe it ends sometime in the early 1850s.

 

[Orm]

It usually does in Vanilla V:R, don't know about VIP though.

 

[OHgamer]

It's similar to base Victoria, it will happen sometime in the early 1850s, in the same quasi-random way.

 

[unmerged(62752)]

It's similar to base Victoria, it will happen sometime in the early 1850s, in the same quasi-random way.

Thanks

 

[unmerged(57220)]

Need help with Peru

Hi , i am a veteran from EU2, HOI 2, but new (and totally n00b) at victoria.

Well i got victoria sunday, just downloaded revolutions, and just downloaded VIP , everything is nice, and I wanted some tips to play as Peru.

I've readed the Wiki a lot of times as well as some AARs.

In VIP, Bolivia controls the peru-bolivian confederation wich is historically correct since Santa Cruz, the Bolivian president, was also the leader of the confederation.

So i have to play with Bolivia untill i get the event that destroys the union then load the game and play as Peru, the problem is that Peru is really weak, weaker than in vanilla!!

Any tips of how to play with it? i think Peru has some potential even if paradox just gave it few provinces, I think becoming a democracy for immigration is a a must do to our little population, but not sure, nor am I sure of wich factories to build, i've read the "Brazil new players AAR" that says that steel factories are the best choice for a southamerican country so I have gone for thouse so far.

Any advice would be really appreciated,im really having problems playing it, specially after I industrialize , notice im a noob, so by industrializing i mean building some steel factories and making some POP to clerks and craftsmen, but always when i do that my budget "dies" i pass from having an average 15-20 pounds a day to a deficit.

 

[RELee]

It's been a while since I tried my hand at Peru, and that was with a vanilla version of Victoria, just don't ask me which version it was. So, I won't be much help with anything Peru specific. I remember I was kept busy with the Bolivian revolution in my multiple attempts at getting a handle on Peru, so I don't envy you your choice of a first country to play.

As for factories, if you are in a position to make a choice of what to build, I would not discount the choice of glass. Glass makes a decent profit and IIRC, only requires coal as an input which is an easily imported product. It is a rare game that coal is not available. Plus, glass factories are cheaper to build and expand than most.

I remember early games of Brazil where glass factories gave that first boost to my production which helped to feed the building of the more profitable steel factories, but this was back in the 1.03c days when I was required to plan and build everything myself.

 

[Collock]

"1) for Korea, it could be that the capi is trying to biuild a factory that you have not got the techs for. Each building type allowed is triggered by invention, so you have to have those inventions first before capis can build them, even if they have the money. Unfortunately, the capi build logic does not seem to check for techs when it comes to the earlier types of factories.

2) on Japan, that is not so much a bug as the game engine calculating that Japan would do better to have factories first before railways in terms of production and output of goods in demand on the world market. So factories for some nations get heavy preference before capi logic tells the game to build railways. Again, I'd disagree and for most developing nations it probably makes more sense to use the state to build railways at level one tech everywhere first before converting capis, as you get significant improvements in output once you get your first rail level in place for whatever factories your capis build once you create them.

Long story short - having capis as an unciv or low-ranking civilized nation is not really worth it until you have knowledge to be able to build most of the basic kinds of factories and until you have a basic railway network in place first. The inefficiencies (as well as the bug issue) make having a capi really not very useful."

1. Interesting, I had half the beginning factory inventions discovered already. I guess I did not wait long enough so my capi finally tried to build a factory I had the invention for.

2. What was annoying with Japan is that I was civilized, had level two and some three railroads built across Japan, had at lest the third level in all techs, besides naval, had level four railroads researched, and almost all my providence factories were under 80% utilization. I think was played at lest 10 years being civ and never saw one railroad get built. They would build factories just not railroads. By then 70% of my pops were into factory production.


It might already be know but there is another railroad bug. Three times once playing as Japan, China, and Korea I got a random railroad build event. This in all cases was before I had built any railroads. In each case I could not find any railroads built. For some reason it looks like the event fires but does not actually build a railroad.