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Offline Borealis4x (OP)

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No Sorium on the Gas Giants
« on: August 19, 2016, 11:50:34 PM »
So in my game there wasn't any sorium on Neptune or Jupiter. I understand that minerals are randomized but I can't help but feel that gas giants should by default have some hefty amount of the stuff on them, especially in the starting system. Is there a way I can add it with the Space Master in unharvested form? All it allows me to do is add it to the planets inventory as a harvested item.
 

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Re: No Sorium on the Gas Giants
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2016, 12:11:07 AM »
So in my game there wasn't any sorium on Neptune or Jupiter. I understand that minerals are randomized but I can't help but feel that gas giants should by default have some hefty amount of the stuff on them, especially in the starting system. Is there a way I can add it with the Space Master in unharvested form? All it allows me to do is add it to the planets inventory as a harvested item.

System view (The button that looks like a sun) get you to a screen that lets you specify minerals. 
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Re: No Sorium on the Gas Giants
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2016, 09:47:40 AM »
I get an error when I try to use system view :(
 

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Re: No Sorium on the Gas Giants
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2016, 05:16:31 PM »
I get an error when I try to use system view :(
Which error?
Do you always get it when you try to access this window?
 

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Re: No Sorium on the Gas Giants
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2016, 02:05:13 AM »
That would probably be the mssmswhatever.dll missing problem. The general fix is to install simple shutdown timer, however some of the results I found had my browser warning about viruses.
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Re: No Sorium on the Gas Giants
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2016, 04:12:59 AM »
Why didn't the required dll download with the game?
 

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Re: No Sorium on the Gas Giants
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2016, 08:03:27 AM »
Maybe microsoft doesn't allow redistribution of that file without paying?  I dunno.
Anyway, you need msstdfmt.dll to be registered into windows for the system information map to display planet images correctly.
Download the dll from here : http://www.dlldump.com/zip/dllfiles/M/MSSTDFMT.zip thenextract the dll into C:\Windows\SysWOW64 , open a command prompt and enter the following:
regsvr32 c:\windows\syswow64\msstdfmt.dll
That should register the dll, but its possible you might need to be in administrator mode, alternatively download simple shutdown timer from here :http://www.pcwintech.com/simple-shutdown-timer .
Do not download it from jaleco.com which is actually virus (at least panda says it is).
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Re: No Sorium on the Gas Giants
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2016, 06:27:59 PM »
no it's because that file was part of windows when VB6 was a thing so it didn't need to be packaged,  it's not needed/used in 64 bit versions of windows, so needs to be added.
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