Turning on LAA tag (4 gig) for Steam users.

Paladin-Solo · Post by **Paladin-Solo** » Tue, 20. Oct 09, 04:23

I Copied the entire X3TC folder before doing this, and I advise you do the same just in case, though i had no problems.

Download the 2.5 patch straight from Egosoft, run the patch installer, change the directory that the patch installer uses to where steam puts it the X3 folder, usually Steam/Steamapps/Common/X3TC.

Then use CFF Explorer found here ( http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php ), open the X3TC.exe file with CFF explorer, select file header on the list on the left, and now on the right side box in the bottom right click on the blue box that says click here and you'll be shown a list of boxes, check the "app can handle >2 gb address space", then overwrite original file.

Steam had no issue starting the game when i did this.

fxfighter · Post by **fxfighter** » Tue, 20. Oct 09, 11:07

Cheers for this, it seems to be working for me (works with the small 2.1-2.5 patch, didn't bother trying the big patch).

Going to go have a test of how the game runs now!

Update: Well it does use the extra RAM but still has crashing issues for me by the looks...

Evans3rd · Post by **Evans3rd** » Wed, 21. Oct 09, 02:05

Paladin-Solo wrote:I Copied the entire X3TC folder before doing this, and I advise you do the same just in case, though i had no problems.

Download the 2.5 patch straight from Egosoft, run the patch installer, change the directory that the patch installer uses to where steam puts it the X3 folder, usually Steam/Steamapps/Common/X3TC.

Then use CFF Explorer found here ( http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php ), open the X3TC.exe file with CFF explorer, select file header on the list on the left, and now on the right side box in the bottom right click on the blue box that says click here and you'll be shown a list of boxes, check the "app can handle >2 gb address space", then overwrite original file.

Steam had no issue starting the game when i did this.

I'm using a DVD 2.0 version and this fixed the LAG issue for me.

TSM · Post by **TSM** » Wed, 21. Oct 09, 02:16

fxfighter wrote:Cheers for this, it seems to be working for me (works with the small 2.1-2.5 patch, didn't bother trying the big patch).

Going to go have a test of how the game runs now!

Update: Well it does use the extra RAM but still has crashing issues for me by the looks...

You have tried swapping the ram slot by slot? some ram can be fine in one slot and not in another, it's worth a try, also check ram seatings as vibration can cause memory error's and unexplained crash to desktop's.

ctstone14 · Post by **ctstone14** » Wed, 21. Oct 09, 02:25

Bravo! Your suggestions worked great. Just checked in-game and it seems to be working fine. Egosoft - if you're reading this - please make this an option when you put out your next patch! Or better yet, fix the issue in the first place! Thanks...

fxfighter · Post by **fxfighter** » Wed, 21. Oct 09, 09:37

TSM wrote:
fxfighter wrote:Cheers for this, it seems to be working for me (works with the small 2.1-2.5 patch, didn't bother trying the big patch).

Going to go have a test of how the game runs now!

Update: Well it does use the extra RAM but still has crashing issues for me by the looks...
You have tried swapping the ram slot by slot? some ram can be fine in one slot and not in another, it's worth a try, also check ram seatings as vibration can cause memory error's and unexplained crash to desktop's.

I have quite thoroughly tested the RAM and though it is always possible that there could still be an issue with it, that seems very unlikely given that bad RAM would usually cause occasional BSOD or entire system lock ups at one time or another.

Currently this is the only game (including the many steam games) that has these few issues and I know that doesn't necessarily prove it is this game but I would consider it reasonable to believe that these are X3TC specific issues. I am unsure of what to do from this point to test any further without some way of turning on extensive logging to see what is happening up until the point that the game either drops the fps (losing the hud) down to an unplayable level or crashes to desktop.

corhen · Post by **corhen** » Sat, 24. Oct 09, 21:45

IF steam auto-updated already to 2.5, how do i use this?

esoom · Post by **esoom** » Sat, 24. Oct 09, 22:05

corhen wrote:IF steam auto-updated already to 2.5, how do i use this?

I think you can just run the patch installer and it will overwrite the steam patch. I deleted 09.cat/dat just in case, and the fix worked for me. I think the patch installer just extracts 09.cat/dat and x3tc.exe to the directory you pick and overwrites without checking any of your game files.

corhen · Post by **corhen** » Sun, 25. Oct 09, 02:55

yea, i tried it, with the steam updated version, and i got error, IDK, either 501, or 051

Musicker · Post by **Musicker** » Wed, 28. Oct 09, 02:54

Ok this is really frustrating. I just tried the above procedure, having the steam client - everything worked fine, except now my game comes up in german. If I could read german, I wouldn't have a problem, but since I can't, this is a bit of a bummer.

I know I was in the english patch section, but when after two downloads and reinstalls it still came up in german, I even went to fileshack and downloaded it yet again to make absolutely sure it was the english patch. After 3 reinstalls of the 1.01 > 2.5 patch now, the game still comes up in german and I can't for the life of me figure out why or change it back to english!

any help would be appreciated.. I can't play!

Thanks,

eladan · Post by **eladan** » Wed, 28. Oct 09, 06:32

Check that the lang.dat file in your TC directory contains the code 44.

Musicker · Post by **Musicker** » Wed, 28. Oct 09, 12:35

Thanks Eladan, that's the tip I needed. I had checked that file last night and it had number 48 in it, but I didn't have any clue what that meant at the time. I have no idea how or why it changed itself, I certainly didn't do it manually! I had even tried deleting that file right before re-running the patch I downloaded from FileShack, and it still re-appeared with 48 in it.

I'm back to english now, so thanks again.

Carlo the Curious · Post by **Carlo the Curious** » Wed, 28. Oct 09, 16:37

Musicker wrote:I had even tried deleting that file right before re-running the patch I downloaded from FileShack, and it still re-appeared with 48 in it.

Why did you download the patch from Fileshack instead of the Egosoft site?

Musicker · Post by **Musicker** » Wed, 28. Oct 09, 18:19

I tried twice from Egosoft's site first and it kept starting up with the german version, that's why I tried from Fileshack. I was just trying something different, wanted to make sure there wasn't something crossed up on ES's site.

Hrodeth · Post by **Hrodeth** » Sat, 7. Nov 09, 11:37

Thank you very much for providing this. Bugged me to no end when 4gb usage was disabled.

I'm not on the Steam version, but I assume this will work for me as well.

Just wasted an hour and a half of transporting resources, only to have the game slow to a halt in Mars!

This should fix it =)

Jezmond40 · Post by **Jezmond40** » Tue, 17. Nov 09, 12:28

Hi any ideas I follow the instruction but it wont allow me to overwrite the X3TC.exe file.

Anyone else had this issue?

Thanks

Jerry

frymaster · Post by **frymaster** » Wed, 18. Nov 09, 02:31

what error do you get when you try to overwrite it?

you should be able to copy the entire game directory somewhere else and apply the patch... you'll just have to make a manual shortcut to the new location and remember that starting it via steam would still launch the older version

Jezmond40 · Post by **Jezmond40** » Wed, 18. Nov 09, 16:29

Sorted it now ran in administrator mode, which did the trick.

Derax · Post by **Derax** » Wed, 30. Nov 11, 15:48

Because of my "long" past history of trying to get oblivion running smoothly I became somekind of CFF-Explorer freak.

The funny part is that terran conflict has this thing "on" as a default? Is this normal?

(Hope I don't bring up a theme which is outdated )

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Wed, 30. Nov 11, 16:10

Yes, that's normal. Have a look at the changelog in your documents folder in the X3:TC main directory.

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