[nubbles526]

Finished download, and opened WinRar. Click extract, then pop, an error.

[Jeff Vader]

Redownload? 7-Zip (link in signature)?

[nubbles526]

Still same thing. Appears to be broken file.

[Jeff Vader]

Have you tried the mirror?

[colecampbell666]

Yeah, the mirror was the only one to work for me.

And FF3 is still on release candidates.

[Jeff Vader]

And FF3 is still on release candidates.

No. The final was released 4 hours ago. Check getfirefox.com if you don't believe otherwise.

[colecampbell666]

I checked 2 minutes ago and it still had the 2.0.0.14 up there. Now it's changed. Probably just DNS.

[chief1983]

Firefox 3 was available at getfirefox.com and mozilla.com/firefox at 2:00 PM CDT, or just under 11 hours ago.  The launch was supposed to have been 2 hours prior but it took them 2 hours to get their servers capable of handling the load.  The addons page was non-functioning for nearly another hour after that.  They may have experienced intermittent outages after that point, but those pages did indeed point to the correct place after those times.  I just need to see if they managed to break that record.

[Jeff Vader]

I just need to see if they managed to break that record.

What do they need to break the record? Seems to be going at roughly 5 million at the moment.

[Insomniac34]

is there any way to just download the normal mapped ship models aspect of these MediaVPs if I want to keep everything else from early releases?

[colecampbell666]

You'd have to download the appropriate MediaVP, and then extract the files.

[Jeff Vader]

A quick inspection reveals that at least Assets, Core and Effects contain models.

[blowfish]

But normal maps have to do with textures, not models.  You can extract texture-normal.dds and texture-height.dds (one may not exits) from MV_Assets.  To use them with older VPs, however, you will probably have to rename them to texturea-normal.dds and texturea-height.dds.

[General Battuta]

Question. Will a laptop using an Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics chipset be able to handle normal maps?

What I've read says the chipset supports Shader Model 3 (and 4.)

It's an OS X Leopard MacBook.

[colecampbell666]

Try it. I doubt it will have enough power, but it will should support them.

[General Battuta]

It looks like you need updated drivers for the SM3/4 support, but I can't find them for Mac.

Oh well! It runs everything else pretty smooth (Advanced MVPs and all).

[Aardwolf]

Although I like (most) of the new effects,

something non-graphics/collision-related: in "The Romans Blunder", why the heck are the cargo containers friendly? Command yelling "invalid target! hold your fire!" never used to happen, and I am certain that the cargo containers have always until now been either neutral or hostile.

Also, somewhat off topic, but why is there no 3.6.10 option for the "version" field of mantis' error reporting screen?

[Tahna Los]

I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I'm having problem with the Loki model.

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[Cobra]

What are your system specs? Those usually come in handy when reporting a graphics issue like that.

[Vasudan Admiral]

An almost identical problem happened on page 23 of this very thread actually. That one turned out to be the graphics card overheating due to a clogged fan, but it's also possibly attributable to ATI cards, older FSO builds and possibly graphics card drivers.

So, first make sure your machine isn't overheating, then if that doesn't work or isn't the case grab a new FS build from Recent Builds. Failing that check your graphics drivers are up to date.