[Drogoth]

Hey guys, I really wanted to get the new hi res briefing animations, and followed the instructions on the 3.3 release thread, but they just won't show up, I still have the old small ones. Anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

[mjn.mixael]

The download links for the hi-res animations are in the release thread under 'Optional Downloads'

[Drogoth]

Yeah I downloaded them and put them into the fsport folder like it says, still no luck

[mjn.mixael]

Debug log please. Instructions here.

[Drogoth]

here it is

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[mjn.mixael]

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Found root pack 'C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Freespace 2\fsport\tango_hi2_fs1.vp' with a checksum of 0x5dc643cb
Found root pack 'C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Freespace 2\fsport\tango_hi3_fs1.vp' with a checksum of 0x574465ef
Found root pack 'C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Freespace 2\fsport\tango_hi4_fs1.vp' with a checksum of 0xade5fc50
Found root pack 'C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Freespace 2\fsport\tango_hi5_fs1.vp' with a checksum of 0xe0fd80ae
None of those checksums matchup correctly, but their file counts are accurate. I'm inclined to think these files are OK.

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Found root pack 'C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Freespace 2\fsport\tango_hi_fs1.vp' with a checksum of 0x44e81e9f
This one is wrong and should be deleted. You need 'tango_hi1_fs1.vp' which you can get here.

After you do that, if it still doesn't work. You may need to redownload hi2-hi5 which you can find in the release thread under Optional Downloads.

[Drogoth]

thanks man ill give it a shot

[Goober5000]

Also, at the risk of stating the obvious, make sure you are playing in 1024x768 or higher resolution.

[Drogoth]

...... I feel stupid. Thanks Goober hahahahahaha

[Goober5000]

[Drogoth]

It would seem that with solving one problem comes another.

The briefings are amazing btw, props to the people that put those together, just. Wow.

Problem being, the Typhon now crashes my game. I've played the new FSport recently, completely a play through yesterday to be exact, and I experienced minor lag when in mission if I had the Typhon in view of me (I'm pretty sure that owes more to my garbage computer then anything else) but I got to enjoy the high poly model in game with little lag at all.

Now if I even try to look at it in the tech room, the whole game just freezes completely.

Is this because I was playing on a lower resolution last time around? If so, I wouldn't be surprised, like I said, my computer is a problem child, but I was wondering if anything else might be the cause and if there is a way for me to fix it besides choosing between a HTL Typhon that loads or amazing looking command briefings. Thanks in advance and sorry for being a bother xD

[Cobra]

Depends on the (crappy?) specs of your rig. The Typhon has over 100,000 (is it 100k, or am I confusing it with the Hades? or am I pulling random numbers out of my ass? I just remember the Typhon's got a ****load.) polygons and uses really big textures. Depending on what you have, the Typhon will make your drivers and FSO crap themselves and give out, like the subspace tunnel effect does for my laptop's weakass processor.

When you try to the view the Typhon, does the music keep playing or does it do that annoying half-second loop when it freezes, or just stops altogether? if it keeps playing it's loading the model and creating a cache file for faster load later.

If not, run a debug build one more time when you play a mission and  view the Typhon in the tech room and see what it spits out.

[Drogoth]

Yeah total freeze, allthough interestingly. While the music cuts, the annoying voice of anne reading the last entry I was on continues till its done

[Rodo]

Sorry to butt in, but you've got the game installed in /Program Files/ right?, IIRC that could cause problems.

[Drogoth]

I do yeah, but I haven't had crashing problems before changing the resolution