2_FNV_Pre-optimization_2.76 batch not having the desired effect

[Marjuna]

Hello Forum. Whilst following the "FNV QUICK-START GUIDE" (being directed by EssArrBee's Fear and Loathing guide) I encountered a problem with the 2_FNV_Pre-optimization_2.76 batch file.

 

After having extracted all the prerequisite .bsa's from the NV Data folder seemingly successfully, I moved on to sort them with the first given batch. The Working directory was/is structured correctly with the Vanilla Extracted folder being adjacent to the 2.76 zip contents. That part is good. However, when I run the batch (as administrator) and click a key the cmd window ends within a couple seconds. The guide details this process to take 5-40 minutes. Within in these few seconds, the folders described in the guide are created but most are empty. The exception being Vanilla Exterior Textures (which seems to pull a scant and random amount of files each time I've re-tried this) and obviously Vanilla Extracted. 

 

Things I've done to remedy the situation:

• Deleted the folders and extract the vanilla .bsa's anew
• Migrated the Working folder to different spots on the hard drive
• Ran the batch as NOT administrator
• Re-downloaded and/or replaces DDSopt, DDSopt.ini, FNV Batch Files
• Read other threads 
• Used the google

To no avail though. I'll provide extra clarity or images if needed.

I am requesting help. 

 

 

 

 

[Kelmych]

Based on your comments I assume that you compared the "Working Folder Vanilla Extracted Screenshot" with your folders in the Working directory before running the batch file and they were the same, right?

 

Administrative privilege isn't actually required. The test was added in the hopes that some unforseen problems might be reduced by using it, but I haven't heard of that happening so far. Just to make sure, your "Steam" program is installed in a directory that isn't UAC controlled (e.g., C:Games or D:Games), and it isn't installed somewhere inside a UAC directory (e.g., C:Program Files (x32)), is it? If so you need to follow the instructions to move Steam elsewhere. If you need to move Steam, there is a pointer to the instructions in the "Clear and Present Danger" guide I wrote (see my signature below).

 

The batch files don't use DDSopt, so it isn't related to the problem. All the cases I've seen where the batch file didn't work and the files were in the right place were caused by permission problems of some sort. The batch files have evolved largely by adding more tests and workarounds for permission problems and some differences in Windows installations; the portions of the batch files that actually sort files haven't changed much.

 

If the comments didn't help with the problem, you might want to create a temporary version of the batch file that provides more information. If you are comfortable with using Notepad++, open the batch file and remove "/njs " in the 4 lines that start with "%Windir%system32robocopy". Removing this will cause robocopy to put a summary of what it processed into the log file.

[phazer11]

The link in your guide is broken btw Kelmych (I was just checking to make sure it was easy to find) for some reason it doesn't like to link from the STEP wiki I guess if you google the link it works but just thought I'd mention it.

[Kelmych]

It's fixed now.

[Marjuna]

Sorry for my absence; I wasn't at home for most of the weekend.

 

Admittedly, I did not compare the "Working Folder Vanilla Extracted Screenshot" to my working directory upon first doing this. However, checking it now, they are the same. I got to migrating Steam from Program Files (x86) to no effect.  So failing all this, I am going to delete those bits of the batch and report the log here. At least, I hope that's what you were intending.

 

Okay, I am quite the idiot. It had been working most of the time I just wasn't being patient with it.

 

Originally the cmd window DID close immediately and I thought the big immobile blocks of text in the cmd window NOW were an extension of that. Well crap. Seems to be in working order now though. I'm unsure as to what made it dysfunctional at the outset though.

 

I suppose this did actually help me, though, if only to see my own error.

Thanks

Edited August 25, 2014 by Marjuna