1. Foreword
This is intended solely for locating physics preset files in both CBPC and SMP. This does not contain anything about how to configure these files.
2. Definitions
Wildcards:
Windows systems have supported wildcards in file names since the early DOS days.
An asterisk (*) matches any number of characters: he*.txt will match the following: hello.txt, help.txt and he.txt
A question mark (?) matches any single character: he?.txt will
1. Foreword
This paper is intended to help with reading Papyrus logs, and solving issues reported in them.
Papyrus logs are not crash logs, unlike what has been claimed in the past. Papyrus logs are only useful in a crash, if an actual crash log hints at it. In the rare case that Papyrus is involved with a crash, it most likely shouldn’t be read literally, but rather be used to measure the general health of the Papyrus engine. See section 6 for more about this.
1. Foreword
Since there seems to be quite a bit of confusion on the internet about which ini keys the game reads, here's a method for dumping all sections, keys and default values straight from the exe. It uses an x64dbg script to dump everything from the winapi calls. Data is filtered in a separate Python script. The setup is quite barebones, but it does the job.
2. Disclaimer
The results have not been verified, but at the time of writing I have no reason to
1. Foreword
This paper is intended to instruct non-developers in reading Crash Logger SSE (and to some extent trainwreck) crash logs. You will most likely not find anything useful here, if you already know the Assembly language.
I've dabbled with Assembly for well over 10 years now. I've managed to temporarily delete my OS by writing to the wrong part of the RAM memory. I've solved issues in 3rd party software that confused the developers. I've cracked old software for ed