"Could not find version string for script files."

[DontShootMe!]

Hello again!

While trying to reinstall the game after an uninstall (Windows glitched on me...again), I came across the "could not find version string" error.  I haven't modified any files on that system yet, so I don't think it was anything I did.  I simply let the installer put everything in its default directories.  The game is going on a Windows 10 Home 64 bit system, if that helps.

Here's what I got on the log file:
---- endianness initialization -----
found little endian system

---- filesystem initialization -----
Adding game dir: /usr/local/games/ufo//base
Adding game dir: ./base
Added packfile ./base/0base.pk3 (15 files)
Added packfile ./base/0maps.pk3 (931 files)
Added packfile ./base/0materials.pk3 (54 files)
Added packfile ./base/0media.pk3 (11 files)
Added packfile ./base/0models.pk3 (2890 files)
Added packfile ./base/0music.pk3 (64 files)
Added packfile ./base/0pics.pk3 (875 files)
Added packfile ./base/0shaders.pk3 (37 files)
Added packfile ./base/0snd.pk3 (362 files)
Added packfile ./base/0textures.pk3 (2721 files)
Added packfile ./base/0ufos.pk3 (136 files)
Could not load './base/0videos.pk3'
Adding game dir: C:\Users\byron\AppData\Roaming\UFOAI/2.5/base
using C:\Users\byron\AppData\Roaming\UFOAI/2.5/base for writing
executing filesystem.cfg
executing default.cfg
couldn't execute config.cfg

----- network initialization -------
libcurl/7.31.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 libssh2/1.4.3 initialized.

------ server initialization -------
added 12 maps to the mapcycle

----- console initialization -------
Console initialized.

------- video initialization -------
SDL version: 2.0.0
I: setting mode -1
I: disable multisample buffers
I: set swap control to 0
available driver: windows
available driver: dummy
current desktop mode: 1440x900@60Hz (SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGB888)
driver: windows
found 2 display(s)
use fake fullscreen for the first display: 1440:900
I: 1024x768 (fullscreen: yes)
I: got 0 bits of stencil
I: got 24 bits of depth buffer
I: got double buffer
I: got 8 bits for red
I: got 8 bits for green
I: got 8 bits for blue
I: got 0 bits for alpha
I: got multisample disabled
I: got 0 multisample buffers
GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
GL_RENDERER: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
GL_VERSION: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 382.33
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OpenGL version detected: 4.5found GL_ARB_multitexture
found GL_ARB_texture_compression
found GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
using GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
found GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
found GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
found GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
using GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
max vertex buffer size: 1048576
found GL_ARB_fragment_shader
found GL_ARB_shading_language_100
GLSL version guaranteed to be supported by OpenGL implementation postfixed by vender supplied info: 4.50
found GL_###_framebuffer_object
using GL_ARB_framebuffer_object
max draw buffers: 8
max render buffer size: 16384
max color attachments: 8
found GL_###_draw_buffers
using GL_ARB_draw_buffers
max supported vertex texture units: 32
max supported lights: 8
max texture units: 4
max texture coords: 8
max vertex attributes: 16
max varying floats: 124
max fragment uniform components: 4096
max vertex uniform components: 4096
max texture size: detected 16384
...but using 2048 as requested
Using low resolution globe textures as requested.
R_LoadProgram: 'world_low' loaded.
R_LoadProgram: 'model_low' loaded.
R_LoadProgram: 'warp' loaded.
R_LoadProgram: 'geoscape' loaded.
R_LoadProgram: 'combine2' loaded.
R_LoadProgram: 'convolve3' loaded.
R_LoadProgram: 'atmosphere' loaded.
R_LoadProgram: 'simple_glow' loaded.
SDL_ttf version 2.0.12 - we need at least 2.0.7

------- sound initialization -------
SDL_mixer version: 2.0.0
... requested audio rate: 44100
... available audio driver directsound
... available audio driver winmm
... available audio driver disk
... available audio driver dummy
... actual audio driver: directsound
... audio rate: 44100
... audio channels: 2
... loaded ogg vorbis support

------- input initialization -------
0 possible joysticks
no joystick found.
Allocate 3 megabytes for the ui hunk

------- web initialization ---------
... web access not yet configured

----------- parse scripts ----------
0 script files

Could not find version string for script files

Thanks for the help!

[DarkRain]

Taht's odd

----------- parse scripts ----------
0 script files

Could not find version string for script files

Apparently the game can't find the script files (0 script files) but

Added packfile ./base/0ufos.pk3 (136 files)

The pk3 containing the scripts was added successfully, don't know what the problem might be, but you could try to unpack the scripts and see if that works:

Extract the contents of 0ufos.pk3 to <ufoai dir>\base\ufos, you might need to create the 'ufos' directory as it most likely doesn't exist, pk3 files are simple zip files, so just about any archiving utility should be able to extract the contents.

I'm not a windows user, but I recall that windows doesn't like it when you modify program files/directories, so if you installed UFO:AI to the default location you might need to jump some hoops before windows will let you change things, if that's a problem you might try to put the extracted files into C:\Users\byron\AppData\Roaming\UFOAI\2.5\base\ufos instead

[DontShootMe!]

Hmmm...this looks like it may be more of a hassle than I'd thought.  Debugging the game isn't all that hard with all the help out here.  Debugging Windows...now I feel the first twinges of despair.

I'll start jumping hoops and trying manual installs and stuff.  Thanks for the clues!

[DontShootMe!]

if that's a problem you might try to put the extracted files into C:\Users\byron\AppData\Roaming\UFOAI\2.5\base\ufos instead

Bingo.  That was what I needed to do.  Something about Windows 10 makes the AppData folder the preferred location for a lot of programs, like when I use Daz3D or some other stuff.  No wonder all my work under the Program Files folder didn't have an effect.

Thank you for the tip!