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New Features: • Northrop Grumman E-C2 Hawkeye has been added to the game, this vehicle can spot players for the driver and passenger (much like the sensor twinbow). In addition it comes with a new reconnaissance job, simply fly to the points marked on the radar and then land to collect money for your recon flight. In order for the sensor markers to show up the Hawkeye must be in the air. • Added 31 new scores to the high score system, 95% of them are for tracking job earnings and time spent in the jobs, you can now show off just how long you spent grinding at the cash register! • Added a setting to force team the players on join, say good bye to the pointless team selection screen on join. • Added 32 street signs to the industrial area and removed the static street in the nuclear power plant. Tweaks: • UFO Disaster now has 25% more health. • The delay to repair a street sign now starts after it was repaired instead of after it was damaged, this allows the player to repair it once instantly before having to wait to repair it again (better for team working the street sweeper job). • Stripper job now pays 1/4th of what it used to. • Street Sweeper job now pays 4x as much. • The mutants on MA front lines now die after 2.5 minutes of trying to hunt the player, this should resolve the game getting stuck and the player being forced to hunt them down. • The Mech’s health on MA front lines has been corrected, it well not stay invulnerable and suddenly die all at once. • Added a shiny pass to the X7-32 to make it look more futuristic. • M12 Gun Motor Carriage rounds now have way more range (shouldn’t die midair anymore). • M12 Gun Motor Carriage now needs to deploy before it can fire, this takes about 5 seconds. • The new WWII vehicles rounds don’t blow up min air if they run out of range anymore. • Objective Markers and Sensor Bow Marker now shows up through the fog. Bug Fixes: • Fixed a checking system bug that would cause you not to check in if you checked in prior to midnight and then the time rolled over to the next day. • Fixed some vehicle entry markers being rotated to the side. • Fixed a minor weapon selection bug with cops that caused them to have weak weapons when chasing people with a high wanted level. • Fixed some issues with the druggy screen effects that could cause them not to happen at all. • Fixed an issue with visiting Mars and the spawn screen fade, basically if you went to Mars and then respawned the spawn screen wouldn’t fade blue anymore. • Fixed a bug in the Nuclear Strike Disaster that allowed players to collect money in areas where no nukes could hit. • Fixed the DJ light effects board not working, players can now change the lighting in the DJ room once again. • Fixed the weather service control being also triggered by the DJ booth. • Stolen debit cards system no longer will report “0 cards returned” if you press the return card button when you have no cards. • Fixed possible crash with the DM spawn point code. • Fixed a bug that could cause some planes to be able to fly backward, this should also fix the AI flying backward on the main map  • Scud Missiles are now type flying, which might help with their network synchronization. • OGEL Cat will not die on creation anymore  • Mountain Lions Skin type has been changed to one that doesn’t take falling damage, it shouldn’t kill itself by jumping off cliffs anymore. • Leaving the Night Club will not cause the screen to fade blue for a second anymore. • Wheels on the Mobile Flak Truck now turn as it drives. • The attack of the Quadrupedal Abomination is not called “Antlers” anymore. • Canada Buggy now is created in its spawn zone. [blurb]This patch adds a new aircraft, job, records, and tons of bug fixes and tweaks![/blurb]

If I had a guess I'd have to say the ECW client side scripts aren't running. But I'd think a repair should have fixed that, maybe delete the dlls and try the repair again.

Nah, black screen started on my main PC months if not years after I'd had ECW already installed on it without problem.

Yeah I have also noticed that it works fine on all fresh installs of windows for me as well, makes me suspect a bad windows update or some program that I installed.

@SlikRikHoly crap long time no see, how's it been going man, what have you been up to? I'm currently working on a pretty big ECW update.

Out of curiosity, if you go into dxdiag what feature levels does your computer support?

@TK-421 @ComradeBonnie @Cat Just found out what I did wrong (accidently released it for testers only) download now works for everyone.

You're really suppose to just supply power to the island and use the JCOSS to take the ship out, it can be destroyed other ways with enough time however lol.

I saw @Killing_Youin game this weekend and all my personal computers (which I update the same way as you guys do) also have been able to connect. If you make the launcher show more details does it show what file its failing on?

Awwww sweet super out of date versions of APB, ECW, and TSR

Try doing a repair first, if that doesn't work try deleting the ecw folder in: C:\ProgramData\W3D Hub\Launcher\package-cache\games Sorry about the delay btw, I've been out of town and didn't get notifications that people had issues updating.

[blurb]Double job payouts this weekend starting at 3/10/2018 12:00 AM CST - 3/12/2018 12:00 AM CST to celebrate the new config file system![/blurb] New Stuff: • Added some new code for the config file which will allow Weekend events to kick off without me being around. • Added some more content to the game data for something new that will be coming soon! Improvements/Tweaks: • Updated the AI door entry points file with more info as to what type of door it is (going to be used for a new thing coming soon!). • Minor AI improvements for the Giant Vengeful Spirit deer and other AI bosses that share its AI. • Minor server performance improvements. Fixes: • Fixed the health bar for the massive UFO event, should show up proper client side now. Note: This update includes all the changes from the previous server update.

[blurb]A "quick" balance update for disasters before tomorrows event.[/blurb] Disaster Tweaks: Rebalanced UFO Disaster, it is now much easier to kill. Added a message to the UFO Disaster so the player now knows when they damage it enough that the power systems start to fail. Massive UFO now regains health after firing its super weapon (IE the lose condition). Sirens now stop after the UFO fire's its superweapon and begins to flee. Mutant detection code is now one function instead of a bunch. Shortened the max length of the Mutant Disaster from 25-35 minutes to 15-20 minutes. Reduced the number of abominations from the Abomination Disaster from 25 to 15 (they hit the server pretty hard). Mutant disaster now ends once all mutants have been killed instead of continuing until the time ends. The Clan Invasion mech's now properly give the player a high score record that kills them. The Clan Invasion mech's now pay $25,000 for players that kill them on foot, $12,500 in tanks, and $2,500 in aircraft with a 2.0 multiplier for players that kill them close up (within 150 meters). Minor Fixes: Improved how the Super Mutant perk works. Fixed a bug in the church code that allowed players to ask about the current crisis in states that the church had no valid responses.

These two dlls used to be used in ECW back in the days of Rp2, helped some people with crashing, you can give it a try but I kind of doubt it'll do much. (Sorry about multiple posts btw, switching between devices and trying to head to bed so I'm going to be lazy not to clean up all these posts). d3dx9_42.dll d3dx9_32.dll

Fake, its actually directx9. The version of scripts that ECW has runs 9 instead of 8, but I don't think you'll have nay luck getting it to run with 8.

Renaming scripts2 to scripts will probably lose your ability to spawn into game/get through the tutorial (it doesn't try to hook into shaders.dll or bhs.dll without it thus uses the original dx8 that stock ren did). :\

Reduced max disaster time from 5 hours to 3.

It'd require a fair amount of planning to make it seem like more than "I'm with a bunch of bots that don't shoot me" type of thing. I have thought about it a few times though, just haven't really came up with a solid idea yet.

[blurb]Double favorite vehicles and improved AI for Pets and MDGs![/blurb] New Stuff: • You can now favorite two vehicles! • Pets will now open doors to your home instead of destroying them. • Greatly improved the AI for the Mobile Defense Gun, it now will not attack your own pets. • Mobile Defense Guns won’t will not attack vehicles you (or other players depending on what setting you have it on) are currently in. Improvements/Tweaks: • Mobile Defense Gun now use the player name instead of the player ID, this will prevent them from befriending incorrect players after you leave the server and someone else joins with your player ID. • Redid the object sync code, it should now complete syncing all the objects before the player leaves the spawn room, so hopefully players will no longer be able to see the objects pop into proper position. • Ballista and Mobile Flak Truck are now on the random vehicles list. • Ballista, Pirate Ship, Mobile Flak Truck, and several aerospace vehicles will now show up on the desert death match map. • Tweaked the points at which the speed alarms go off for the Stuka and the Shilone so players aren’t tricked into thinking they’re going to slow when they can still go much slower. • Removed the camera collisions from the street signs. • Increased the purchase delay for the pirate ship, should help prevent players from buying two on top of each other. • Removed the plasma ceiling guns from the advanced weapons room, this should make it more of a stealth mission. • Mobile Defense Gun has had its price bumped from $1,000.00 to $5,000.00. • Improved how the disconnect code triggers, this should improve the PIN screen (there have been a few issues that randomly force players to reenter their pin number, hopefully this will be fixed now). Bug Fixes: • The rewrite of the sync code potentially make it more stable, but I doubt the crash that could have happened ever did. • Pirate Ship is now immune to EMP effects. • Pirate Ship’s sink animation no longer collides (so the player will now fall into the water when it dies correctly). • Pirate ship passengers will no longer be stuck in the floor. • Pirate ship z entry marker is now visible on the outside of the ship. • Fixed the spelling of the Vacant Building. • Fixed a bug with the favorite weapons code that would cause your favorite weapons phone numbers not to show up if you didn’t have them favorited in order (IE if you had slots 0 1 and 3 used you wouldn’t see 3 in the list). • All favorite weapons phone numbers will now correctly allow you to add them to the redial number (and have a description). • The AI mountain lion on the ski hill will no longer take falling damage, I’m hoping this will keep it from dying all the time. • All cash registers in the movie theater now work. • Rotated desert flak cannon once again in hopes that it won’t dump you into the ocean anymore. Note: Several records were also reset.

[blurb]Welcome a pirate ship and ballista to the ever growing list of units![/blurb] New Stuff: • Added the ballista, a slow moving weak unit that fires large bolts that do extreme damage. • Added the pirate ship, which is able to catch fish as well as having a powerful broadside cannon attack. Improvements: • Doubled the speed differences required to detect a collision on vehicles, this should help get rid of the random collision damage vehicles take on the server. • Updated the taxi paths so taxies can now pick up players on the new pathways added in the last patch. • Updated how the chinook drop works (doesn’t have collisions anymore) which should help keep them from lagging when they collide with things midair. • Cleaned up the anti-spawn kill script; it shouldn’t print out messages twice anymore. • Optimized the hardened warrior perk, it should be less intensive on the server when the player takes lots of damage. Bug Fixes: • Fixed a floating street sign near the pet shop. • Turrets in the army base shouldn’t appear floating anymore (hopefully). • Fixed a bug with the police patrol job not updating the radar points, something that I must have broke when I optimized that code.

@Threve Throw this in your data folder. input02.cfg

Hey nice to see from you again Dthdealer, comics made me chuckle. Anyways onto why you're actually here: 1. This issue is caused 90% by a need to install/reinstall directx9.0c. 2. No, in fact I'm contacting Brandan right now to redirect the forums link to here and to kill that download, its a super out of date version (probably 3 years or more old). 3. Works on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 for me, although a lot of people seem to suffer from black screens. 4. If you have a working copy of Windows 7 you should be able to install the W3dHub Launcher and install ECW with no problems (you might get black screens in game after the install but you should at least be able to get it installed with the new launcher, if the new launcher isn't working on a clean install of Windows 7 (ideally fully updated) we'll have to pull Danpaul in here). Edit: I stand corrected, that version of the game is almost 5 years old.

[blurb]A Boomerang and Throwing Spear have joined ECW's ever growing list of weapons![/blurb] New Features: • Street signs have been re-added to ECW! These used to exist before 2.0 but were removed due to their performance impact. There is now a config setting that allows the host to decide if the signs can be run over or not (allowing for performance saving, this might get turned off if the server seems to suffer from it). • The Throwing Spear now joins ECW’s ever growing list of weapons (although this has been the first new addition to that list in a long time). • Another new weapon is the Boomerang, which is one of the few ranged weapons with unlimited ammo (it comes back after being thrown). • The Turrets in A69 and other military complexes are now dropped in by chinooks instead of instantly respawning and being able to kill you (this was actually added a long time ago but it must have got lost in a roll back). • Certain parts of town will now appear more lively as I’ve added more pathways to the path network for the AI, expect to see cars using more back roads. • EcwServerSettings.ini now allows the host to define the debug phone numbers instead of them being hard coded. Tweaks: • The crime system now announces bounties at a steadier rate, should make it easier for players to know where they are in the crime system. • Train crossing script zones have been resized to hopefully reduce the double gate opening animation seen client side (kind of doubt it will now that I’ve watched the issue happen more but it’s worth a try). • Mysterious Tower now does 1/10th of the damage it used to, should make it easier to destroy. • Welfare Checks and the Cannon Fodder perk payouts are now multiplied by the JOB_PAYOUT_MULTIPLIER (which for the server is currently set at 2). Bug Fixes: • Fixed a bug in how the crime system calculated crimes committed, hopefully will fix negative crime counts, if this is the issue of negative crime counts it should also make the bounty ladder easier to climb. • The driver and passengers of the Box Truck/Mobile Flak Truck will no longer take damage from explosions outside the vehicle. • Cloak generate item now displays the correct price tag of $200,000.00. • Mobile Flak Truck’s PT now displays its price. • The black mesh under the map used as a terrain crack fix now longer has collisions, also fixed the small piece of it showing at the Nuclear Power Plant. • Fixed several spelling mistakes and typos.

I've actually seen the black screen on Win 7 as well, although it didn't start happening on any version of windows until about the last year I'd say :\

That's very odd since ECW actually uses your forum name instead of the set nick name option...