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It is just a recovery crane, even if we wanted to do a tow truck that had the ability to drag a vehicle it would have to be done on a mission-only since otherwise you'd be towing a covered vehicle that does not match. Not to mention I doubt it's entirely possible in the first place to do it right in the first place. Aside from that, from the pictures I've seen of the vehicle in real life it does not look like they really use it to tow, it looks like it's been reconfigured as a retrieval device rather than a towing vehicle. I am not 100% sure on that one though. I'd rather have a Pickup-truck based tow truck personally but unfortunately due to the fact that the vehicle prototype from the accident is not loaded into a virtual object on the bed of the tow truck but rather a generic covered vehicle it would just look stupid to me.

See Stan Below, he usually is right, I just guess.

Where did you buy the CD?

Just make sure whichever you get has a really nice Video Accelerator Card (NVIDIA for example) 3-4 Gigs of ram and at least 2.0Ghz, preferably more. You can pick up a computer like that for slightly over 1,000 US. Obviously you want a decent sized Harddrive, and the rest of the things come down to what types of purposes you intend to use it for. I use a notebook for gaming and I have yet to find a game which it won't play, and no, it is not a gaming-specific computer.

Moved your topic, Online play topics belong in the Multiplayer-Online Section, Just title it as LA MOD. Welcome to the forums

I am not sure if the game came with a manual anyway, most games especially the lower-cost ones have digital manuals (a PDF Manual) on the DVD/CD to save a buck on the printing costs involved in making the book manual, regardless of how much some of us would rather have a legit book instead of a print-out copy.... Such is the tightening of the gaming communities wallets even though profits are still high :1046275873_shakehead:

What is your connection speed/method of connection as well as your Operating system? Vista for example if you have an unstable connection or are doing too much will say a file download was completed occasionally when it is nowhere close. Obviously the file is corrupted in this case, but you recieve a message that states it completed sucessfully. DO NOT use a download accelerator or manager to get the file, just download it as normal through IE/Firefox whatever you use.

I looked through your log and what I am guessing here (merely a guess) is that chances are your computer is interfering with the installation of the game it's self. From what I read in your posts you could get the game to load up, do whatever you wanted to do, which I guess is freeplay and when you click on a unit it crashes? All of the UI Texture files are claiming to not be found in the log file so chances are something is preventing them from installing properly. IF this is the case that you can load the game and load a varient of the game options and it only crashes after you try to click on a unit, here would be my suggestion. What I would like for you to do is the following items step-by-step: 1).UNINSTALL THE GAME 2).Go into the default install location (IE C:\Program Files\Wizardworks\Emergency 911\) and remove all reminants of it's existance (IE from wizardworks on needs to be deleted manually from what the game de-install missed). 3).Temporarilly SUSPEND your ANTI-VIRUS, it is rare in the current day, but occasionally an antivirus will prevent a program from installing/functioning correctly, the very same issue happened to me just the other day with an older application I had to install on my computer. 4).Now, Run the installation as an ADMINISTRATOR, hopefully you know how to do this since apparently we all have diff software sources for the game. 5).Once it is installed, before you do anything else go into the shortcut properties and give it administrative rights. 6).Try to run the game now with the Anti-Virus STILL suspended, if the game functions fine, go ahead and close the game and RESUME your anti-virus software and reboot the game to see if it still works fine. NOTE: Your AV/Firewall should NOT stop you from playing the game under normal conditions unless you have the SS(Nazi) version of such software. The only thing your firewall should try to do is prevent the game from going online, which unfortunately most of our routers/networking gear does anyway, so I give the odds that your AV/Firewall is the cause of the problem is fairly low. Just in case Temporarilly Suspend the Anti-Virus during the Installation and the first loading of the game this time. The Administrative Rights Should be left on for the game permanently unfortunately. If this does not work I suggest since you neglected to mention how you recieved your copy of the game that you reaquire the software copy if it was a digital download (which is what most of us deal with). It is possible that the download either did not complete correctly or was otherwise damaged, occasionally a file will claim that it has successfully downloaded completely when in fact it is not completed. Typically they will NOT work, but occasionally especially with older Install applications they will still try to install regardless to the fact that the file size does not match. Remember IF you purchased a Digital Download version of Emergency: 911 First Responders it comes Pre-Patched, so do not install any patches to the original game. For EM4/Deluxue I am not sure how they ship today. Hope this helps you to repair your game so you can enjoy it, if not please be a bit more specific with what you are trying to do when it crashes as well as what version of the game you have because the log file is saying the UI files are missing. Emergency 4 Emergency 4 Deluxue Emergency: 911 First Responders

Ask for permission but as a general rule: Script permissions will most often be approved. Buildings are lower odds but you can try. Vehicles usually will require you to put forth some effort on a model of your own. Persons models should be permitted as well more often than not. Always ask for permission and remember these general rules and you'll probrably get permission for a reasonable request of usage. Note to users requesting script usage: If you have recieved permission for usage of a script that has associated scripts required to work, you also recieve permission to use those directly associated scripts. (EX: Firestation script would automatically be assumed to include the "gotofirestation" script)

I am not too sure here but from what I remember of SIS chips they were fairly inadequate for gaming with high end games, this game probrably would not work with that card. Aside from that I have never heard of 1.37 GB of ram, how in the world did you manage to get that exact number of ram, most people have twin chips in their computers (ex. 512x2 1gigx2 etc.) Someone else will have to tell you about the rest but I believe your SiS Display is the problem. Also IF you have a logfile in the root directory of the game (ex C:\Program Files\WizardWorks\911 - First Responders\logfile.txt) attatch that so we can review that if you want an exact reason, right now the best we can do is guess. HP PC AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3300+ 1.81 GHz {Speed 2.4 GHz} 1.37 GB of RAM {128 MB shared with video} Windows XP SP-2 SiS 760 display chip. Moderator Related task: Please do not post repeatedly in a row, if someone has a solution they will reply, posting just for the sake of it will not increase the desire of others to attempt to fix your problem.

I am pretty sure this truck is not a Tow Truck in the normal sense, I believe it's purpose is mostly to recover overturned large vehicles like 18 Wheelers or busses and the like that have ended up in ditches or tipped over. I am not even sure if this one (the one modeled for the game) has the ability to physically safely tow a vehicle down the road, it looks as though from the pictures I saw of the exact one in the game it is designed to retrieve only. This is not to say that others could not possibly tow, but at the end of the day the only way that this thing could tow a vehicle would be in a scripted event in a mission anyway, not in freeplay. I am uncertain if the rotation can be restricted, or if it would be worth doing since the game has trouble placing large vehicles properly to do what they are supposed to (see ladder truck for a great example). If it were restricted, it is possible that the 180 degree limit would make it virtually impossible to get the vehicle in position to retrieve what you were aiming for. Anyone who has ever tried to make a vehicle park properly into a space in this game understands what I mean by the fact that the vehicles do not cooperate with you in which direction they drive or what angle they decide to stop at. For that reason alone I question the validity of making a restricted axis of rotation.

The boom currently can swing 360 but on the real vehicle I believe it is restricted to about 180.. The equiptment currently carried is the fire ext. the saw the axe etc.. all things you might need. I do not know if the jaws are on it (though they should probrably be).

We believe they took the whole mod and just replaced a few things with their stuff, which is probrably how they got everything to work so easilly... Expect no less from morons. :1046275873_shakehead:

Not originally, no.. I have to press a button for admin rights every time and I hate it so I was happy when I did not have to do it... Unfortunately now I do :1046275873_shakehead:

Unreal... This is why people do not do mods and when people mod games they lock the files.... The most pathetic part is, with some of the thefts had they just had the gull to ask they probrably would have been permitted to use some of what they did. Go get em!

Thankye for the © Rights, I appreciate muh words being protected :1046275747_biggthumpup: Maybe a video will come later on.

It just wants to be an administrator, I guess it feels the need to be special. I can tolerate it but if anyone knows why it wants the rights please chime in, nothing config wise changed, remember it had the same problem prior to me reinstalling.

No, the cfg isnt set to read-only (nothing in the folder is). I was able to make it run under ADMINISTRATOR only (vista) even after the UAC for the folders was removed, which is how I had it setup before and it did not require administrative permissions to run properly, so I don't know why it needs it now.

Dunno what I did, worked fine, changed screen resolution to an unacceptable one, ctrl alt del to close, changed the settings manually and ended up still with the problem. Then I reinstalled and it's still doing it. Only change is installation of FRAPS.. Stan help.

I had a similar problem with my old computer doing that during the game (seemed to only like to do it in em4/fr) but I believe it is probrably related to the card overheating or the card being overburdened by the game.... Don't hold me to it but the issue only happened after a long while of playing and was easilly repaired by restarting the machine, so it is probrably overburdening.

The truck is currently under the fire department, and from what I gather from it, it appears as though it's meant only for retrieval anyway not for towing like most of the heavier wreckers.

Please do, we both are useless in russian so we need someone who can send them the appreciation.

NICE! that's going to look great in the super-secret 2D MOD! EDIT: Guess the secrets out :1046275873_shakehead:

I need a HEMTT As for the ruskies they're really bright considering that they wrote on the screenshot where they stole the vehicles from... morons.

Teach me how to make models pwwwwwwwwweease? :1046275747_biggthumpup: