[Black Wolf]

Well, more accurately it's probably an OS problem, but it seems to only affect FRED. Whenever I run FRED, it never seems to fully initialize. It loads, and it starts using Memory, which task manager confirms, but I can never actually see it, or use it, it's simply not there, as if it didn't load at all. Task Manager tells me it's still responding, and I can end the process without fuss, but it's just not there. Anyone else had this problem? I'm running WinXP Pro?

BTW - FRED Open (Version R) still works, but rooting around in the task manager has shown it uses 97 mb, compared to FRED original's 20 or so... That's not normal is it?

[Shinobi]

I had that problem as well. It was the beginnig of the end as one after another programs stopped working...
I rectified the problem by fdisking my cmputor
btw- is that problem on your new or old computor?

Shinobi

[Black Wolf]

New I only just got everything reinstalled. I don;t want to have to format again...

[diamondgeezer]

Never heard of anything like that before. But FRED_Open does take up an obscene amount of memory - some builds have been known to eat up nearly 200mb

[Flipside]

Hmmm... had this myself, firstly, try selecting Fred2 in your task manager and clicking 'Switch to', if that doesn't work, you need a different version of Fred, I'm afraid, try the Inferno Build in Phreaks siggy, I find that one is a nice stable fallback

Flipside

[Solatar]

I had a similiar problem, but FRED would just crash.

I solved it by running FRED from a different directory than that which I played fs2 in.