[captain-custard]

ok now im lost , my pc is bugging , none of my freespace stuff will run FS, tbp etc , when i click the launcher nothing comes up on the screen , not even the firewall asks me if i want to unblock it , seems like ive lost something important to fs any ideas ,
i dont even know what to post im so shocked ..........

its running xp and that seems to be having a few problems , everything else games wise seems to be working and program wise ......

please help , 

[Snail]

Reinstall FS?

[Rodo]

download a new build and select it as the new exe on the launcher.

[captain-custard]

tried 15 different builds and its not just fs, my tbp, btrl,wingcommander,earth minibar  all wont run , all different launchers all different folders it looks like im missing something fundamental that the fs engine needs to run , could it be an open gl issue , if so where can i download one ?

[Rodo]

mmmm OpenAL maybe??

[captain-custard]

ive reinstalled that already and theres no beer in the house

[Mars]

Coulda fooled me

[Rodo]

mm you got me then, anything else happened before this? have you changed you video card driver or something?

[captain-custard]

nothing , had to reinstall my modem software , but my xp seems to have taken a hit in the head ...... mmmmm i wonder if micro**** has snuck an update past me brb

[captain-custard]

nope no changes in updates i guess i need to go through my xp and see whats missing, looks like there is no fs multi for me tonight

[Rodo]

sorry man, I dont seem to come up with anything else right now.
I would reboot my pc on those cases XD

[FUBAR-BDHR]

nothing , had to reinstall my modem software , but my xp seems to have taken a hit in the head ...... mmmmm i wonder if micro**** has snuck an update past me brb

Did you check your network config in the launcher?  Maybe it's looking for the old modem driver. 

[captain-custard]

yip ive done all that its not loading any part of fs no start video etc and all my online gamesseem to work except for the fs variants ive tried rebooting, reinstalled openal, opengl , nvidia drivers stopped my overclock , reinstalled direct x, run antivirus , etc gunna run a combo fix probably just to see, really dont want to reinstall everything, just got the feeling its my xp install thats wrong a few things have changed on it and i havent changed it .......

ok im off to check withh combo fix

[IceFire]

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del and select Task Manager.  Click the 'Processes' tab.  Then start the FreeSpace launcher and start it up.  Watch the processes tab...it should have FreeSpace show up somewhere.

Also...most builds come with a debug build.  Use the debug variant of the EXE instead.  Lets see whats happening.

Also, do you run any security software?

[captain-custard]

mm this is abuild thats been in place for over 1year , it shows up in the task manager but does not run , i run avg and the windows firewall i have tried with both disconnected still no joy ...... i really have no idea whats going on as this is across the board of fs as i mentioned earlier, im going to give up for the night and ill try a reinstall tomorrow if neccesary but i think its my xp install thats died in all honesty ...... thanks every one for the help

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Can somebody move this to Help & Support?

[captain-custard]

ok i completely reinstalleed fs and still no go , no fs based application works on my computer , i can load up the launcher but once i choose and try to start it freezes my system, same for all variats btrl, babylon, etc

so the sole thing i can think it has to be my xp install, so if anyone can guess what i could be missing in my xp install that would stop fs  from working but allows  need for speed , tony hawks, halo,resident evil ,brian lara cricket to work and all of my other apss including ftp and chat stuff please tell me , have i lost a .dll

i really dont want to reinstall xp as my dvd drive is a little ****ty , andalso the fact that id have to install 200gb of apps after that ....


please , i dont think i can survive without playing fs multiplayer...

[Jeff Vader]

If the game froze at the splash screen, I'd suggest that your firewall was indeed notifying you that FSO is trying to access the Interwebs. But as far as I could figure, the game freezes at a different point on your end. And I think the Windork firewall doesn't query about new software. Or I wouldn't know. Never used/trusted the damn thing enough to find out.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Have you tried starting it in window mode?  It's under dev tools in the launcher. 

@Lobo:  Well at least we didn't post the same thing at the same time this time.   

[castor]

Also try with "-noaudio"