http://forums.bistudio.com/ en Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:36 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.bistudio.com/images/misc/rss.png http://forums.bistudio.com/ http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154872-buldozer-error-Shaders-not-Valid-(Mismatch-of-exe-and-Data-)&goto=newpost Sun, 12 May 2013 16:51:27 GMT I had a problem loading buldozer.exe from Visitor3 When clicking the option Project\Connect to Buldozer, it always gave me an error that reads... I had a problem loading buldozer.exe from Visitor3

When clicking the option Project\Connect to Buldozer, it always gave me an error that reads "Shaders not Valid (Mismatch of exe and Data?)"

I have been able to find only of thread here on the forum talking about it (http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...-%29&p=1159033), but none of the solutions listed there worked for me.
Until I discovered something that made the difference.

Apparently the buldozer.exe file is nothing but a copy 1:1 of the game executable. In my case the Beta version of ArmaOA.exe.

After discovering it I did the following:

**** MAKE A BACKUP OF ALL OF BOTH YOUR P:\bin FOLDER AND OF THE EXECUTABLE buldozer.exe BEFORE YOU DO THIS!!! ****

1) Renamed my actual copy of buldozer.exe to buldozez.old (the one that installed with the BI Tools 2.5.1 - NO NEED TO DO THIS IF YOU ALREADY BACKED IT UP)

2) Copied the beta C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\betaArma2OA.exe to the P:\ root and renamed it buldozer.exe

3) Extracted a copy of the beta Arma2OA bin.pbo (mine was in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta\expansion\dta\bin.pbo)

If you are using ExtractPBO as I am doing, you should now have a bin\bin directory with the following 5 files in it:
config.cpp
PboPrefix.txt
Shaders_DefPP.shdc
Shaders_DefPS.shdc
Shaders_DefVS.shdc

4) Moved only the shaders files (Shaders_DefPP.shdc, Shaders_DefPS.shdc, Shaders_DefVS.shdc) to P:\bin\ and overwritten the one that were already in place

Done!

Now when I launch buldozer from within Visitor3 i don't get the message any more and buldozer load just fine.

I haven't tried it myself, but I imagine you should adapt this case scenario to your own configuration.
If you just own Arma2 for example you should go to your Arma 2 installation folder and copy Arma2.exe and extract the bin.pbo located under the Dta folder, same if you have Arma 2 OA with no beta installed use the Arma2OA.exe and the bin.pbo located inside the \arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\dta folder.

I copied this thread also in the above mentioned one that was really old so that more ppl may benefit from it.
Should I have missed anything or reported something incorrectly, please do not hesitate to correct me; I am totally new here and having an hard time setting it all up to work properly.

I hope this have been informative to you.

Happy editing!!! ]]> tgm0 http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154872-buldozer-error-Shaders-not-Valid-(Mismatch-of-exe-and-Data-) http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154065-Arma-2-oa-deticated-Server-Problem!&goto=newpost Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:20:17 GMT Hello. My friend got a problem with his deticated server. Everytime we play on it it works fine... But when both leave the server restarts. When... Hello. My friend got a problem with his deticated server.
Everytime we play on it it works fine... But when both leave the server restarts.
When no one is on the server its on ''Creating''. can anyone help please? ]]> Psycho5553 http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?154065-Arma-2-oa-deticated-Server-Problem!