Getting missing files without reinstall?

[marauder]

Ooops, originally posted this in the "bugs" forum,  should of posted it here!

(Hoping to get missing files mentioned below so uninstall/reinstall isn't necessary. )

 Sorry this is so longwinded!

Firstly, I should mention, I updated AH from 2.06 Patch1 to 2.07 patch2 in this forum thread: http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174479  not by using the online auto-update feature.
(Just in case they are different downloads)

Anywhoo... after the update, I started AH and this "Plane Cache" screen comes up:

and, everything is fine, until plane "BF109G-2" comes up. Then, the plane after that causes the
"Program has encountered a problem & needs to close" etc. error notice to come up:
 .
 If I restarted AH and just clicked on the "Cancel" button during the "plane cache" screen at game startup, AH finishes loading and runs fine.
So, I thought I'd try to recreate this error while playing AH too. I went to the Hangar (because the error seemed to be something to do with the ingame planes) and brought up the clipboard. Then, I clicked on each plane in the clipboard list until I got to the plane after the "BF109G-2"; see screenshot:
 
 It's the "Bf109G-6", and, sure enough, when I clicked on that plane, the same "Program has encountered and error and needs to close" (seen during the "plane cache" at startup) message came up again and AH crashed. Error recreated.

I went to the "Aces High II/cache/stdshape" folder, to look for any files having to do with the "Bf109G-6" plane and (correct me if I'm wrong) both the "Bf109G-61_256.TCA" & "Bf109-61_512.TCA" files seem to be missing. And, shouldn't there also be a "Bf109G141_256.TCA" file in there too?!
See screenshot; there are only 3 "Bf109Gxxx" files there in the "cache/stdshape" folder (highlighted):


BTW: I run AH at 512 max texture size, which would explain why the missing "Bf109G141_256.TCA" file did not cause this error.  

If I'm right about this error/missing files, could you post an update patch or just the missing files somewhere? So all others with the missing files could get them?
I'm looking forward to jumpin' back into the AH fray... ahem, furball!

[Clifra Jones]

It does not necessarily mean the file is missing. It could mean it is corrupt.

Why not just reinstall the game? All you need to do is copy your settings folder to some other location and uninstall the game and re-install it. You may not even have to uninstall it.

Take it from someone who does this stuff for a living. Chasing down software problems is far more time consuming and frustrating than just doing a re-install. I routinely reload systems from scratch rather than try and find out what is causing these kinds of problem. It saves a ton of time and effort.

[StarOfAfrica2]

Something else you can try is to change your max texture size from 512 to 256.  See if it downloads fine now.  I've had that problem before.  More than likely though,  like Clifra said,  you have a corrupt download.  Clear out the folder and try it again.