Ad.exe possibly not working on WotLK DVD?

[Younguns]

Is it possible that all of the DK quests that I've been reading about not working properly, could be due to Ad.exe not reading the DVD/CD's for WotLK properly? Starting at level one maps is for the most part working properly, which would be mainly the original WoW and TBC cd/dvd's, but starting at level 55 seems to screw up, which is only on WotLK. So it makes me wonder about the dbc folder that gets built is built correctly for WotLK.

I am just curious and trying to expand my knowledge.

Can I get a mod or admin to move this to General Discussion...that's where I had intended for it to go.

[antiroot]

never had an issue with ad.exe and wotlk, but until vehicles and some spells are fully implemented DKs are very unusable and their starting zone can not be finished without using an admin to force complete many things

[Younguns]

That's what I am wondering about. WotLK has regular areas in it like the othe two releases, so that would perform as usual, but it also has a different way of starting a character as compared to the earlier versions. Wouldn't that mean there would be different code involved as well? Code which Ad.exe may not be able to phathom due to it being written to extract info in the form of the earlier releases.

I just think that having a different way of doing something on the 3rd release may have messed up something in Ad.exe's ability to extract the info. You know, something ad.exe was not prepared for and it may have gotten overlooked. I don't know, I'm new to all this...lol...so thanks for bearing with me as I lean more.

[antiroot]

as far as how it starts a character, i believe it is just like any other character except the core has some special DK specific code that causes them to not receive their talent points the normal way for their first 55 levels (which are granted as quest rewards)

for the stuff that doesn't work (grand theft palomino) for example depends on vehicles which don't work not because data can't be extracted, but because support for vehicles has been finished in the mangos core yet

can you specify exactly what you think is not working, i think that would help everyone get on the same page and then provide you with a better answer

[VladimirMangos]

No universal tool ad.exe exist in world. _Different_ versions of ad.exe for _each_ client version exists. And its will not work with diff client verison. Need use exactly ad.exe from used repo or build own version for provided in used repo sources.

[Younguns]

I was just trying to figure out if there was a common source of possible error that might be causing alot of the DK quest to not work, and the first place that I thought about was the ad.exe possibly not decoding parts of the WotLK dvd correctly. That maybe there were some exta data not making into the dbc folder. After all, most of Northrend works, excluding the vehicle ones.

Thanks for the input.

[Patman128]

What do you mean WotLK DVD? ad.exe only works on installed WoW clients, you have to install the game discs onto a folder on your computer and then use ad.exe.

[Younguns]

I was refering to installing from the dvd, then running ad.exe on the installed folders afterwards. Thanks for correcting.

[VladimirMangos]

and ad.exe mostly not related to any quests work. At least directly. Start search problem from ad.exe hmm... look strange.

[Younguns]

Was just a thought...a fleeting one grant you, but at least trying to use n00b braincells here.