Issues with D3 Mercenary

Samuel Dravis · Post by **Samuel Dravis** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:16 pm

I'm trying to run Mercenary on Win2K. I can play the Retribution campaign perfectly fine, but for some reason Mercenary doesn't want to go. When I select "New Game" and hit the "Descent 3: Mercenary" campaign, it gives me a "Unable to load level file merc1.d3l" after showing the intro video. I installed Merc to my "Descent3" folder, and it looks like everything is where it's supposed to be, so I have no idea what's causing this...

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:32 pm

It works fine on my computer

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:37 pm

Hmmm...first of all, do you have D3 patched to 1.4? If you haven't, do that before anything else. Your install of Merc might have been corrupted; try uninstalling D3 and reinstalling everything from scratch. If you don't want to lose your pilot files/savegames, back up anything with a .plt extension in the main D3 directory, as well as the files in the "savegame" folder, before uninstalling. Also, if you have any ship logos/audio taunts saved, back up your custom\graphics and custom\sounds directories as well.

SSX-Thunderbird · Post by **SSX-Thunderbird** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:50 am

If you installed Mercenary on top of 1.4, you will need to delete D3, reinstall it, install Merc, and THEN patch to 1.4.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:01 am

Install D3
Run D3 once
Install D3 Merc
Run D3 Merc
Patch to 1.4
Play game.

Samuel Dravis · Post by **Samuel Dravis** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:58 am

Thanks for the replies everyone - I got it working. It seems I had to reinstall everything in order. I had originally done D3, 1.4 patch, then Merc. I finished up the first 2 levels in short order. Thanks again!

Defender · Post by **Defender** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:14 pm

Ya, merc is 1.3 I believe.
By going 1.4, then merc you reverted some files, so Merc go boom.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:10 pm

Actually, you could've just re-run the 1.4 patch after you installed merc over D3 1.4. It'll see the 1.3 files just fine and update them. (I know because I've done it before.)

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:30 pm

I have done the same Installed Merc(1.3) over a 1.4 install.. worked like a charm