RedbeardMtn

Congrats on being ahead of me on the Rockies roster. I had not heard that they lost Chris Nelson to the Yankees, pretty sure that will prove to have been a mistake a few years down the road. Now thats what I call up to date!

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SUCCESS! Just as with many times before, a clean install solved the problem. What I did: a clean install of MVP 2005, followed by install of MVP 12, followed by both MVP 12 patches, and a copying of the schedule updater folder from MVP '94 solved the problem. Thanks for the help!

Just checked, the MVP 12 folder is read-only, so I unchecked that box, applied setting, and it went through and applied the changes to the directory. But when it finished applying the changes, I went to properties again, and Read-only was again checked, essentially disregarding the changes it had just applied. The folder being read-only seems like a likely culprit for the problem, but I don't understand why it would be re-checking the read-only box after applying the changes. I've never encountered that problem before, but browsing online it seems there are a lot of other people with the same problem with Win7, where it won't let you make a folder not-read-only. I am the only user/account on the machine, I am the administrator. I went through the motions of checking the security permissions, and it should be fine. However, I am not even sure that the read-only issue is the problem, as my MVP '94 will work with the schedule updater, and it is also a read-only directory. It's also weird that the folders are read-only, but I am able to add and edit files within the folders. I'm going to try a reinstall of MVP 12 with a clean MVP install now and see if I can rebuild from the ground up. Thanks for the advice!

Yep, the way I always did it before when it used to work on the old computer. That's why its so frustrating, I'm doing nothing different than I used to, but it doesn't work any longer, except for the '94 Mod.

I just tried to run Schedule Updater from the desktop, the black box was on the screen for longer, maybe 2-3 seconds, but still vanished. I did just load up the MVP 94 Mod itself, just to try something, and the schedule updater does work when I'm running that mod, just not with my updated MVP 12, so perhaps I'm inching closer to the root of the problem. Obviously schedule updater WILL work on the machine with the right circumstances, now I'm just trying to figure out how my current MVP 12 install is preventing it from behaving properly, thanks for your advice,

Great, than I have nothing to blame for the same problem as all the others, where a black screen pops us for a second and then disappears. Apparently this is a problem without a solution for a number of us. At least having the proper year is rather irrelevant to the gameplay, as the proper schedule is all that matters. I've gotten used to the players being 16 years old.

Is there a way to get Schedule Updater to work with Windows 7? I have never been able to get it to work since I got a new machine, even running as admin or in compatibility mode.

I don't recall ever seeing it rain in the game either. I guess the only weather effects in the game are when you go to play a game and it says it has been rained out. Would be interesting to play in the rain or snow, but probably not that interesting, Probably would be similar to Madden, where the snow or rain effects have an overexaggerated impact on several aspects of the game, and lead to stupid mistakes. Would be kinda cool to see batters shivering or players slipping on the field, but my guys make enough errors as it is.

Having seen the Mets-Rockies game cancelled because of snow yesterday, and probably today, made me wonder, has anyone ever seen it snow in any game of MVP? I am guessing the answer is no, as I've played with the Rockies so many times and never seen it, but curious if anyone knows if snow exists in the game at all?

Solved my own problem. For anyone else in the furute with the same questions about where to put the datafile, after much digging I figured out that you can just put your choice of datafile in the mvp/data directory. Thanks for again for all your hard work Daflyboys!

Hi, I LOVE your sliders, but I cant figure out what to do with the datafile.txt file to get it to work. Tried to rename to datafile.big, obviously thats not the way. Tried to install the whole simgamepack.rar, didnt get it either. I love the view from directly behind the pitcher, and really want to get that into my non-Classics games. Any suggestions? Thanks for all your hard work!!! Red