What happened?

[djconklin]

I re-fired up the the game, get about a year and half into the game and my dissent goes up by .01 every month, even if I up the consumer goods to cover the .01. I can't find what possibly would cause it.

Vanilla HOI3, version 1.4?

 

[Count Blue]

You need SF And FTM and in the end TFH.
AKA The extensions for the game.
The base game is hardly playable, never was to my knowledge.

I wonder where you got it from because I found nowhere a plain base game.

The minimum I got was with Semper Fi the first extension.
The second version I bought came with all three extensions.

 

[Kovax]

The 1.3 and 1.4 patches for the base game were "mostly" playable (before that, anything even remotely resembling WWII was purely accidental), but offhand I don't recall anything about rising Dissent. I'd check the press laws and other law settings to see if one of them isn't causing the increase, and check the ministers for any traits that could cause the issue. Spies might also be able to cause Dissent in the base game, but I don't remember if that's true or not, so you might need to use counter-espionage to remove any enemy spies operating within your country.

If possible, pick up the Semper Fi expansion and download the official patches for it, which should bring you up to where you can actually complete a campaign without things breaking the game more often than not. For the Motherland and Their Finest Hour add several nice features, but they're nowhere near as essential as the first expansion (and its final patch), which fixed several major game-breaking issues.

 

[djconklin]

You need SF And FTM and in the end TFH.
AKA The extensions for the game.
The base game is hardly playable, never was to my knowledge.

I wonder where you got it from because I found nowhere a plain base game.

In reverse order: I picked it up from Steam. I dl'd the extensions. Now it seems that some "redistributable" program on my computer is too new. So, how do I go backwards, as it were?

 

[Count Blue]

In reverse order: I picked it up from Steam. I dl'd the extensions. Now it seems that some "redistributable" program on my computer is too new. So, how do I go backwards, as it were?

remove it and install fresh?

 

[Kovax]

The C++ redistributable files that the game requires are no longer included with the latest C++ updates, so you have to add them manually or uninstall the new version to reinstall the old, or something to that effect. There's info and links in the Support forum, I seem to recall. It's been a while, so I'm kind of hazy on it.

 

[djconklin]

I deleted several of the newest redistributable files and re-installed Semper Fi -- when I goto start the game I get a 404 code in the HOI box and the game says that I'm on v. 1.14 -- is Semper Fi working or not?

 

[mrsund]

Its working fine, look at Kovaks post.

"The C++ redistributable files that the game requires are no longer included with the latest C++ updates, so you have to add them manually or uninstall the new version to reinstall the old, or something to that effect. There's info and links in the Support forum, I seem to recall. It's been a while, so I'm kind of hazy on it."

You have to do som digging n fixing.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...sues-fixes-workarounds-etc-megathread.612732/

 

[djconklin]

I deleted several of the newest redistributable files and re-installed Semper Fi -- when I goto start the game I get a 404 code in the HOI box and the game says that I'm on v. 1.14 -- is Semper Fi working or not?

Works fine now. I was afraid that I'd eliminate one too many of the redistributable files.

 

[djconklin]

Another day, another set of problems!

1) If I run tfh, I don't get to select a mod, but the game works.

2) If I use For the Motherland, I get to select the mod, but then I'm told that the hoi3_tfh.exe does not work!

 

[mrsund]

I Think that most often you should launch the game with the Launcher, but check with the actual mod, it could be different.

Check also that you put the mod in the right folder, for tfh-mods it should be:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron 3\tfh\mod

 

[djconklin]

I'm not using Steam; but thanks for your help!

 

[Count Blue]

Another day, another set of problems!

1) If I run tfh, I don't get to select a mod, but the game works.

2) If I use For the Motherland, I get to select the mod, but then I'm told that the hoi3_tfh.exe does not work!

Most likely your mods are i nthe wrong folder.

The correct mod folder is
\Hearts of Iron 3\tfh\mod\
and not
\Hearts of Iron 3\mod\

 

[EmperorDomitian]

I recently installed windows 10 that did not come with the older C++ so i had to download them. if you have an old game on your gamelist in steam you could maybe try to boot it up and let it install the older C++ redistributables. before i did that my TFH launcher did not show the mods but just the empty white box without a background. it fixed itself when it installed the redistributables

HOI3 does not install the nessasery redistributables for that, how i fixed that i merely booted AOE2HD on steam and it installed the needed ones since i could not access the older ones on the microsoft site, i could only get the newest and 12.0 ones.

 

[djconklin]

>Most likely your mods are i nthe wrong folder.

Nope; they are in the correct folder.

New problem, or maybe an indicator of what is wrong: I go into the HOI3 folder click on the application and it comes up (For the Motherland) and I can choose which mod (if any) that I want to use. I tell it to start and after awhile the screen where I can chose single or multi player comes up, but now it says Their Finest Hour!