area 51 server

[Dark Asylumn]

I cant get into area 51 it tells me i have an invalid 3a.iwd file

[Malificent]

Go into your files...delete that map...it'll help

[Dark Asylumn]

I did but it still says its invalid even now that it is gone

[Malificent]

3a.iwd...hmmm you should have more than that tho...look at the error messages. There are more...

[Dark Asylumn]

no just says invalid 3a.iwd file

[LittleTooT]

the j.iwd will have to be deleted as well, put them in recycle bin, you can restore them if you want to go into the other servers.TooT

[Dark Asylumn]

no even with the j out also it still references the 3a.iwd invalidity

[LittleTooT]

Not sure then, you are going into C/ Drive, program files/ activision,/ COD 2/ main etc. PM an Admin, Rick James, Phuckitman or one of the others. I'm sure that they will know why.

[Ph4nt0m]

Vista or Windows 7 ?, Do you have User Account Control (UAC) enabled ?

[Dark Asylumn]

vista and have to run it in xp mode

[ROCKAPE]

For vista look in   appdata-local-virtualstore-programfiles-activision-callofduty2-main

 

 

 

you may find it here,let me know.

[Dark Asylumn]

See Rockape thats why your the Sh!t!!!!!! I got my first peek into the area 51 server thank you so much

[inade]

Dont tell anyone what you saw in there

[Dark Asylumn]

lol I wont

[LiquidStool]

This seems to be a bit of an ongoing issue with Area 51, i had the same issue with the same packs, 3a.iwd and J.iwd  It was made worse by the fact that i would download the 3a.iwd on Area 51, then, when i went into the DM Server, it would say i had an invalid 3a.iwd file!  Of course, the easiest thing to do is just rename those packs (3a.iwd.bak)rather than deleting them, this saves having to download the correct pack in game.  Phantom did explain why he thought this was happening if i remeber rightly it was something to do with the downloader downing different .iwd files to those that the server was running.  This was further complicated because i sometimes run the downloader, sometimes i download in game.  How i understand it, each server runs different map packs, even though they might be the same name, the content will be different.  Is that right??  Or am i a complete cock??!  Maybe i'll just stick to updating my "Whaletail Of The Day Thread".........

[Ruggerxi]

There is many many map packs we run on COD2, and the way COD2 is setup the game reads all the map packs everytime any map is played. Some maps have files that conflict with one another. There is nothing you can do on your side to fix this.

[dawgy]

i was having this problem rugger when making my map but when i changed the names of the scripts so that it only called mine they stopped conflicting..... so maybe when u get some time u can rename double scripts....