[DEV] Installation guide & general hints

[AoP]

Alright Ladies,

We know that there's been a few people that are having some crashes with the mod, so this is where we'll give you the low down on information to install and hopefully stop those crashes all together.


**** Installation ****

To install, first make sure that your "vanilla" Crysis is patched to 1.20, then patched with the hotfix to 1.21.

Then,

Unrar the File named "MWLL-OpenBeta1.rar" with either 7Zip (www.7zip.com) or Winrar (http://www.rarlab.com/)

To do this, open the file in one of the programs mentioned above, then click "Extract to"

Make sure to extract to “C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis”

Or If your using Steam, extract to "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\crysis"

Once You've extracted, navigate to C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\Mods\mwll\

In this folder you will find the MWLL Launcher.exe, right click this and click "send to > desktop (Create Shortcut)"

Alternatively you can add a " –mod mwll" in the target line of a shortcut to the crysis executables.

The target line will look like this “"C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\Bin64(or Bin32)\Crysis.exe" -mod mwll”

Next you need to install your actionmaps.xml to your profile in Crysis

To do this copy the file “example_actionmaps_for_joystick.xml” from your "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\Mods\mwll\" folder

Then paste the file into your "My Documents\My Games\Crysis\Profiles\Default(and YOURPROFILE if you've made one)

Then rename your original actionmaps.xml to something different if you plan to play crysis again in the future, and rename "example_actionmaps_for_joystick.xml" to "actionmaps.xml"



**** Beta Tips ****



-Giving yourself a name in game-

When you first play online you'll notice your name is Nomad. To change this you need to go to the main menu, go to profiles, then hit New Profile, the name you give your profile is the name you use in Multiplayer. ( Remember that when you do this, you have to reinstall the action maps for your new profile like in the example above)

-Crashes-

I myself have had quite a few crashes and found that by following the instructions below, you can reduce some of those crashes.

If you experiencing crashes try the following:

Navigate to your "My Documents\My Games\Crysis" folder, and delete your shaders folder, by doing this, the cry engine will re-download the shaders for the mod. I find this helped to stop most of my crashes in game.

If your experiencing crashes before even getting in game try deleting your "My Documents\My Games\Crysis" folder all together. Don't worry this will be replaced upon the first start up of Crysis.

And remember to replace your Actionmaps.xml after doing this as to not mess up your in game controls.

Also if your willing, you may want to uninstall your other add-ons for crysis as this may interfere with mod.


-Crashing In The Menu System-

Try to disable your Anti Virus, as it seems that any file change in the Crysis Directory is triggering your Anti Virus.

AVG - Real Time protection, set to off or shutdown helps as well - Thanks lessergod

OR do the following with AVG to add a path:

"Tools > Advanced Settings > Resident Shield > Directory Excludes > Add Path" -Thanks Scarfox

[MWLLKeeper]

Crashes when the running the game from steam or using the ingame mod launcher.

For any user of steam, or anyone who launches the mod from the ingame mod launcher, this is known to cause crashes. This at one time was completely non-functional, and due to the lack of extensive mods never REALLY got tested before crysis became an unsupported game by crytek, so more than likely it is broken. However, launching directly into the mod fixes many crashes. Here are the steps:


For Steam:

Launch steam.
Right click crysis
click properties
click "Set Lauch Options"
type in  "-mod mwll"
Click ok and your are good to run the game. Note, this runs the mod every time you play crysis, delete this line to revert to the old game.

For others:
Use the provided launcher