Well after Playing yesterday - still unable to scan market data into TCE - I have not had use of this TCE for months now. I have gone to 960 systems and have no records of them. Getting pretty frustrated. Like I said when I first started Elite I installed TCE. It worked fine - could scan prices and all seemed fine. I still had a lot to learn on use TCE effectively, but none the less progressing. So I thought fine and donated. At that point commodity scanning stopped working and hasn't worked since. Anyway I went back to configuration and it had been changed back to EliteOCRcmd.exe. The only access I have to past system/station visits is the fact that I run EDStarmap (EDSM) along side TCE, and a pile of hand scribbled notes on paper. I am not by any means a software engineer - just a game player. So I don't know how to find out how or what has gone wrong. It has to be simple - everyone else seems good to go. I have to use my Ipad with EDDB loaded on it and do my planning the old fashioned way. I may just ditch TCE and try someone else's. But TCE was so nice at first I hate to give up. I know very little about inner software engineering - I could easily destroy all program functioning. So I know I didn't do something internal to stop it's functioning. I start TCE up every time and load what data I can so it might help others - but for me TCE has been totally useless - cant use it all.
Just an update. OK I thought try updating to 1.2.2. Got nothing but errors. All I would like to do is take my game time and play a ED - not spend all day wondering why or if I should keep trying TCE. Maybe people who don't know engineering shouldn't attempt using this. Don't want to cause trouble. Just where else do you ask questions.
Hi Yt Noyz,
let's try together to encircle your problems, you encounter in using TCE. You saying, you got errors after the update, but please tell me, where you got the errors and what they are saying?
EDMC is the best way at the moment to get all commodity, outfit, shipyard and ship data, but if you don't like it, EliteOCR is the best alternative.
But beside of that, I suggest you renaming the folder of your last installation of TCE and install a fresh version (1.2.0 full + 1.2.3 update) without your old database, setup the required folder paths at the Configuration window and launch. We will import your old gathered data later, when all running well with the fresh install (perhaps you can provide me your last database folder for a check? If you like, send it to eventure(at)ki.tng.de).
Now lets start in registering the market, you are currently. Open the Market Database panel, click on NEW ENTRY an select the actual market from the list. Add data, if required and SAVE it to the database.
Thereafter open the Commodity screen of ED and go to COMMODITY > SCAN PRICES in TCE. Select CLEAN SCAN and press START OCR SCAN. If nothing happens, please go to CONTROL > OPTIONS and activate the OCR PROCESS WINDOW at the bottom.
When clicking START OCR SCAN again, you will now see a message box after some seconds, which displays the command line for EliteOCR, an error message from EliteOCR and an EXIT command in the end (perhaps you can make a screenshot of it and post it here).
If you have not yet checked the manual or the FAQ's in how to use TCE and it's database on an update, I recommend to do so.
So head up and go into it, we will make it and your fun in using TCE will return soon.
Best regards,
Eventure