Sh2 Steam Edition - Economy Mission 4 Broken?

[Blanko2 0]

Hello - first time posting here but I've loved stronghold 2 from release till now. 

Started playing the steam edition and it looks likes in the economy mission 4 the cart transports don't affect the granary level at all?
I've tried different food types but the bar doesn't increase at all after the cart arrives into the granary, no matter how many carts I send.

I've verified the files and there's no issue, but I'm honestly not sure what to do beyond this point since it's such a weird bug. I never ran into this with the retail version.
I appreciate any help, but I don't really expect much, thank you guys!
 

[Lord_Chris 267]

Hi Blanko2, thanks for your question.

I have to be honest when I say this is the first time I've ever heard of this bug as well. To confirm you've definitely referring to mission 4 (with the Wolves)? https://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/300-sim-campaign-mission-4-outlaws?_fromArticle=1

Or did you mean Mission 5 with Sir William's Castle?

I'm presuming you've tried the mission a few times to make sure it wasn't just a one-off bug, but I guess another question is does this bug happen anywhere else in the game, or just this mission?

[Blanko2 0]

oop i counted the start files wrong it's mission 5, my bad

I've tried restarting the game and retrying the mission a few times and no dice. in the first mission where you have use the carts they worked fine, i could get stone and wood to my own estate

even in the same mission i can get food to my own estate and i see the granary in sir william's estate fill up, too, it's just the bar that is unaffected. 

when the bar hits zero the ui for it kind of messes up too and goes past the boundary. 

i don't really know how I would check that bug elsewhere in the game tbh... i guess if there's another mission with a timer and a resource bar that decreases, maybe? 

Edited May 22, 2022 by Blanko2

[Blanko2 0]

i've re-downloaded my retail version and I'm gonna see if i get the same issue 

[Lord_Chris 267]

Did you have the same issue with the retail version? I guess the next step here would be to check and see if any of the buildings you placed in your own estate could be affecting the path the carter takes to the Granary... Stronghold 2 can be weird like that sometimes, particularly with moving invasions. It might be worth trying different building placements, to see if this is having an impact. Try to keep your buildings as clear as possible from the various points the Carter travels to.

[Blanko2 0]

oop sorry forgot to update here coz i posted in a few places - ended up sorting it out w reinstall
couldn't try it w retail because i ran out of CD key installs and securom is taking forever to get back to me about resetting them

[Lord_Chris 267]

I'm surprised you could even get it to run the installer with SecuROM in the first place because Microsoft disabled that about 7 years ago, offhand, I think. I'm sure it was September 2015. However I'm pleased you managed to solve the problem.

[EaglePrince 233]

That's why I put my old PC with Windows 7 on it under my bed, I didn't throw it away just so I could play some of those good ol' games the old way!😁

And I know: virtual machines, and stuff like that, but this way I'm playing safe! Plus, the old PC is not old enough to be considered a garbage, I could use it for work too in case of need...

[Blanko2 0]

8 hours ago, Lord_Chris said:

I'm surprised you could even get it to run the installer with SecuROM in the first place because Microsoft disabled that about 7 years ago, offhand, I think. I'm sure it was September 2015. However I'm pleased you managed to solve the problem.

h-uh that's interesting. Maybe it would fail to run even if i installed it succesfully then?
it's the GamersGate version of the SH Collection so it's technically digital but the installer does seem to do securom activation

[Lord_Chris 267]

16 hours ago, EaglePrince said:

That's why I put my old PC with Windows 7 on it under my bed, I didn't throw it away just so I could play some of those good ol' games the old way!😁

 

Totally, I have two Windows machines at the moment. Ironically, they both came originally with Windows 10 pre-installed but I removed it. One I bought in 2015 runs better on Windows 7 than Windows 8, and the other I bought two years ago and I use for work mainly, which uses Windows 8. To be honest, I'm going to stop using Windows altogether soon and just go to Linux instead. I already use it for my business anyway so it just makes sense - plus there's software you can use called Wine that will allow you to run Windows programs on Linux machines. I've already checked and all the Stronghold games are compatible. Happy days 😆

14 hours ago, Blanko2 said:

h-uh that's interesting. Maybe it would fail to run even if i installed it succesfully then?
it's the GamersGate version of the SH Collection so it's technically digital but the installer does seem to do securom activation

The so-called "security vulnerability" (KB3086255) that Microsoft fixed by disabling SecuROM was physical to the machine so you'd need disk drive access to exploit it anyway. I honestly don't know whether a digital download would work so that's an interesting question actually. My immediate instinct would say it probably wouldn't work, but if games are still being sold via a digital version then maybe there's some workaround that exists.

In Windows 7 & 8 you can uninstall the aforementioned update to make it work again, but in Windows 10 the functionality was completely removed. I have heard stories of such workarounds existing in Windows 10, but as I've never really used it I can't comment much. As always with Microsoft though you get a lot of smoke and mirrors, particularly when it comes to security.