Welcome to the Knowledge Base. Here you find a lot of information about Known Bugs, Frequently Asked Questions and more about Descent Manager tools.

Here is a list of Known Bugs:

• DETLEF32 V1.0 Beta 03 refuses to startup if no D1/D2 is installed
• DETLEF32 V1.0 Beta 02/03 sometimes can not add a site
• Descent Version Manager (DVM) is unable to detect Descent 3
• "Check for new version" does not work in DETLEF 03
• DETLEF32 V1.0 Beta 01/02 hangs on startup or while updating lists
• RCK03 did not update from RCK02
• The Win32 installation program HINSTALL32 refuses to install to a different directory than the default one
• The DEMo-Editor produces demos that just crash Descent
• Error "No Saved Games" in SaveGame-Editor
• Textured view does not work in Polytron32
• Polytron32 Beta 04 crashes with an "Object required" run-time error
• DETLEF32 V1.0 Beta 01 displays "invalid information file" when trying to download something
• Descent Manager for DOS does not find any installed Descent version
• Run-time error 380 at startup of any Win32 module
• Known Bugs in Descent Manager SERVMAN32 V2.0 Beta 02
• MVEEXTRACT32 Beta 02 crashes with Run-time 372 at startup
• VPVIEW32 V1.1 crashes when trying to open a file
• CAMPEDIT32 won't open FreeSpace 2 V1.01 player files
• VPVIEW32 V1.1x crashes with a run-time error 35600 when clicking "File|Open"
• HOGVIEW32 Beta 02 does not offer to open MN3 files
• ANIVIEW32 crashes when numbers01.ani of the original FreeSpace Demo is opened
• ANIVIEW32 Beta 02/02b may save corrupted bitmaps of the frames
• CAMPEDIT32 won't open some FreeSpace 1 player files
• TBLVIEW32 and FSMVIEW32 startup with "splash not found" errors
• VPVIEW32 does not open TBLVIEW32 or FSMVIEW32 automatically when opening the associated files.
• VPVIEW32 does not loop music although its set to "Loop music files only"
• PILOTVIEW32 shows errors when opening pilot files who are playing custom campagins
• MODELVIEW32 V1.0 Beta 01 Bugs
• DETLEF32 V1.0 Beta 03b is missing newly added sites
• DETLEF32 V1.0 Beta 04 might have problems with updating some site lists
• VPPBUILDER32 V1.0 Beta 01 does not open any .VPP files
• ANIBUILDER32 V1.0 Beta 01 might produce ANI files with color-corrupted frames

Here is a list of questions we get frequently. You can either look at a specific one by clicking on the item below, or directly view all at once.

• What system requirements does Descent Manager (DOS modules) have?
• What system requirements does Descent Manager (Win32 modules) have?
• Can't I run Win32 modules under Windows 3.1x when Win32s is installed?
• Are there any problems when running Win32 modules under Windows NT 3.51?
• Why is the DLLPAK so large?
• Why do you use Visual Basic then? E.g. Delphi would make much smaller files...
• Why don't you use InstallShield for the installation?

Here is a list of articles that will provide technical information about Descent Manager Tools:

• What DLLPAK does and installs
• What StIf is and does

Here you can read the What's new files (a.k.a. History files) of every module. These files contains information about what has been added, changed or fixed in a version update.

• Version History for Descent Manager ANIBUILDER32
• Version History for Descent Manager ANIVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager BRIEFS32
• Version History for Descent Manager CAMPEDIT32
• Version History for Descent Manager DEMOEDIT/DOS
• Version History for Descent Manager DETLEF32
• Version History for Descent Manager DSPY32
• Version History for Descent Manager FSMVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager HAXMEDIT32
• Version History for Descent Manager HAXMEDIT/DOS
• Version History for Descent Manager HOGVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager LVLVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager MODELVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager PICVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager PILOTVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager PLREDIT32
• Version History for Descent Manager POLVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager POLYTRON32
• Version History for Descent Manager SERVMAN32
• Version History for Descent Manager SRVADM32
• Version History for Descent Manager STATMAN32
• Version History for Descent Manager TBLVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager VBMVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager VPPBUILDER32
• Version History for Descent Manager VPVIEW32
• Version History for Descent Manager VPVIEW32 V2.0

You might not get an answer to your question browsing this Knowledge Base (please double-check!), or you simply want to give feedback on one of our Tools. If so, eMail us: DescMan@descent-network.com. Please only use this for support questions, if you have searched these pages and did not find your problem listed. This will save us quite some time, which we can then use to improve our utilities and work on new ones.