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bigkabuto
High Emperor
Joined: 14 Sep 2001
Posts: 591
Location: Holland/Groningen |
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That little loading this is mad annoying...always when i reboot my pc and start up gothic 2 it's gonna load that Disk file thing again, and it easily takes up to probably one minute...i've checked this out...in the system folder of GII, this is the file who does that
Vdfs32e.exe -VDFS Init tool-Piranha Bytes
So i've copied this file to a different folder not in Gothic II folder and loaded up GII, but now the gothic II is just there waiting to start, exactly the same amount of time with the init tool...can this be disabled? it's annoying, Gothic never needed this...
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Sat Jun 14, 2003 3:34 pm |
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Brolli999999
City Guard
Joined: 06 Jul 2002
Posts: 131
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at least you have the game  , does this happen to every one? |
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Sat Jun 14, 2003 3:46 pm |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
Copy the file back and live with it for now. Some people had similar problems on the German v1.30. There was some unofficial tool which fixed it in 90+% of the cases.
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Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:12 pm |
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Kiwi Boy
High Emperor
Joined: 03 Jan 2003
Posts: 1086
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quote:
Originally posted by Gorath
There was some unofficial tool which fixed it in 90+% of the cases.
Would you like to introduce this unofficial tool, please? It may be helpful for some of us, both in the present and future.
Thanks. |
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Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:41 pm |
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bigkabuto
High Emperor
Joined: 14 Sep 2001
Posts: 591
Location: Holland/Groningen |
Ah so you all have that Virtual disk file loading thing when you start GII?
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Sat Jun 14, 2003 9:25 pm |
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Alistair
Guards Lieutenant
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 151
Location: Cambridge, England |
I don't have G2, but I can tell you that PB packaged G1 in a format called VDFS. This is probably what you're seeing now. I can't help you with performace issues, but VDFS is nothing external to Gothic. If that helps at all  |
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Sat Jun 14, 2003 10:07 pm |
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elkston
High Emperor
Joined: 21 Sep 2002
Posts: 691
Location: North Carolina, USA |
It is probably required. This virtual file system thingy is most likely used by PB to index into the large data files that ship with the game. Lots of individual bits of content like voice files, text, graphics, etc. are most likely packed into one large file. This makes installation/distribution less error-prone and also makes accessing game data more efficient.
The VDFS allows the developers to access these game resources like files in a real file system and hides the details of how they are physically stored in the big "blob" files that are actually on your hard disk.
Well.. that's my best guess.
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Shmaugus
High Emperor
Joined: 20 May 2003
Posts: 493
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whoa...  |
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Sun Jun 15, 2003 3:45 pm |
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Iron Man
Dazed and Confused
Joined: 07 Dec 2002
Posts: 773
Location: Location Location |
I got that virtual file thingey as well. I didn't get it in g1 however (probably because at the time of g1 my pc was around the high end, sigh, technology sucks, in a good way).
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
quote:
Originally posted by Kiwi Boy
quote:
Originally posted by Gorath
There was some unofficial tool which fixed it in 90+% of the cases.
Would you like to introduce this unofficial tool, please? It may be helpful for some of us, both in the present and future.
Thanks.
I donīt have it right now. Maybe later.
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 9:00 pm |
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Kirkr
Village Dweller
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 15
Location: England |
Try moving the file vdfs.exe from your Gothic System folder and putting it somewhere else (e.g the root directory). This worked for me. Now Gothic 2 loads extremely quickly.
Prior to that I was getting the vdfs thing running every time I ran Gothic 2, and the game was taking four and a half minutes to load. Now I`m up and running in less than a minute (including loading save game). |
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:13 pm |
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[PB]Nico
Keeper of the Bugs
Joined: 15 Jul 2001
Posts: 237
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quote:
Originally posted by Kiwi Boy
Would you like to introduce this unofficial tool, please? It may be helpful for some of us, both in the present and future.
May I introduce you each other. Kiwi Boy, Unofficial Tool. Unofficial Tool, Kiwi Boy.
- nico
Vdfs32e.* are the english ones. |
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Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:11 am |
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Kiwi Boy
High Emperor
Joined: 03 Jan 2003
Posts: 1086
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I ran the vdfs32e.exe file at the .\Gothic II folder, and the program displays an error dialog: "The application has failed to start because Vdfs32e.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
So, should I re-install the game in an attempt to fix this problem?
Last edited by Kiwi Boy on Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:27 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Tue Jun 17, 2003 5:44 am |
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[PB]Nico
Keeper of the Bugs
Joined: 15 Jul 2001
Posts: 237
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Well, I should have mentioned it: UT becomes (very quickly) inconvenient if one (YOU) doesn't read the manual:)
.nico
quote from the f*** manual: "Installation: Extract Vdfs32e.exe to [GOTHIC2]\System\ (override/replace existing file)" |
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Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:58 pm |
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Kiwi Boy
High Emperor
Joined: 03 Jan 2003
Posts: 1086
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quote:
Originally posted by NicoDE
UT becomes (very quickly) inconvenient if one (YOU) doesn't read the manual:)
... but it'll become (very quickly) convenient once it works properly.
Anyways, thanks for your help. No need to wait for another %$# 20 minutes to process those VDFS stuff. |
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