hello ya'll. i'm a relatively new lurker around here. i never had fs2 retail, and over the past few years have grown so space-sim starved that i finally looked up fs2. i downloaded the HoTU version. i have upgraded it with all of the files from the ftp site, and fs2o v 3.6. i have also applied the new media_vp files to it. here's my two problems:
1) i have no music. none. ever. all i ever get at any point in the game is the repeated clicks of windows telling me it can't find my music (at least that's what i assume windows is trying to tell me). the clicking is driving me insane. i did download the warble_vp and put it in the main dir, but to no avail.
2) it may just be me, or i may not have installed them properly, but i can;t tell much of a difference, if any, after installing fs2o, or the media files. well, that's not entirely true. there is a slight (read: virtually nonexistant) improvement in textures, and the light effects (engines, beams, etc) but not the astronomical (pun intended) changes i expected. i did play the game for a while before i installed fs2o, so i'm not a total philistine in this regard. just a moderate one. but equally confusing is that when i installed the media files, nothing changed. i didn;t have any versions of them installed previously, so i didn't have to overwrite or move anything.
3)i also have another question. other than no one has done it, is there a reason that there are no in game voiceovers? is there a technical reason why it can;t be done? or has no one gotten around to doing it? just curious.
anyway, please pardon the obvious ignorance that i am imposing on you, and please don;t think that i didn;t look for the answers elsewhere. i may have missed the relevant info, but i did scour the forum, faq's, and wiki's. if anyone can help with the above stuff, i'd be ever grateful. i dig the community one way or another and hope to be here for a while.
system specs if you need them:
win xp
p4 3ghz
120gig hd
ati radeon 9800 pro
1gig ram
directx 9.0b
thanks again all.