Movie Battles II just crashes...

[afi]

Creating an account at MBII takes like one minute. Your problem can't be that bad, if that is too much work for you.

[Cerez]

The client mismatch error comes from the incorrect cgamex86.dll file being loaded, so deleting any config files won't help here.

 

I think I've identified the problem then. OpenJK (and jamp) used to incorrectly load game DLLs from the GameData/ folder as the first place to look. This would override all mod/base folder DLLs. I fixed this problem a few months ago, but it seems like MB2 hasn't been updated to include my fix.

We've got it, @@Xycaleth! We have a confirmed fix for the client mismatch error:

 

1. Create a clean installation of JKA with the 1.01 patch installed.

 

2. Install MBII there, and make sure you've run a few checks on your MBII download (using the launcher settings) to make sure that the download/installation completed successfully.

 

3. Switch to using the "MBII client" in the launcher settings.

 

4. Copy cgame.x86.dll from "GameData/MBII" out directly into your GameData folder. Make sure that you have a jampgame.x86.dll from your default JKA installation also present in your GameData folder.

 

5. Launch MBII using the launcher and join a server. Voila!

[Xycaleth]

Edit: Perhaps I need to copy jampgame.x86.dll and cgame.x86.dll from "GameData/MBII" into "GameData" to fix this client mismatch, then?

No, neither cgamex86.dll, jampgamex86.dll nor uix86.dll should ever be in GameData. Ever.

 

I downloaded MB2 just now to test things out and it works fine for me. Can you check that you have the GameData/MBII/MBII.pk3 file? In there should be cgamex86.dll, jampgamex86.dll and uix86.dll.

[Cerez]

No, neither cgamex86.dll, jampgamex86.dll nor uix86.dll should ever be in GameData. Ever.

 

I downloaded MB2 just now to test things out and it works fine for me. Can you check that you have the GameData/MBII/MBII.pk3 file? In there should be cgamex86.dll, jampgamex86.dll and uix86.dll.

Okay, so in the end, after all this confusion, this whole mess comes down to this:

 

1. The local "create game" feature will crash (if you're using a custom screen resolution no matter what). This has no fix until a patch is released for the MBII client.

 

2. Make sure your JKA installation has been patched to 1.01.

 

3. Make sure you've run multiple checks on your MBII download/installation (enable this in the installer-launcher's settings) until all shows as OK.

 

4. Clean everything out of your "GameData/base" folder but the assets0-3 PK3s -- as any DLLs there will interfere with MBII's client.

 

5. If you're still getting a "client mismatch" error, make sure you have cgamex86.dll removed from your "GameData" or "GameData/base" folder.

 

6. Use the launcher to launch with the "MBII client" (choose in settings) and join an MBII server.

 

This still means that you need a separate installation of JKA just for the MBII client, however. All my tests indicate that the MBII client is loading stuff from "GameData/base" in terms of DLLs instead of looking in "GameData/MBII" for them. That is until it can't find them in "GameData/base"...