[Jeff Vader]

I'm thinking about hardware/driver issues, concidering that the latest Nvidia drivers are 17x.xx or something like that. How do they "kill" your OS? You do uninstall any previous ones before installing the new ones, right?

The music thing happens, because the mv_music.vp in the 3.6.10's contains a .tbm that messes up everything else and makes the aquitaine track play in the main hall regardless of mods.

[Alpha1]

After Uninstalling an manually removing remnants of old drivers and registry entry's, the 175.xx drivers work, but still my tv doesn't work correct and is interferring with the performance of the primary display - the reason why i never updated the drivers.. nVidia still hasn't fixed that. But even now, with new displaydrivers (the rest is up to date) and the file u gave me put into the specified folder, Earth is missing. Other planets are where they should be (i played some FS 2 and fs port missions - as well as further missions of the mod, where nice planets could be seen in the Backround). Most important is, that the ships are there an FSO looks very good!
I'll declare victory and move on, but i'm still looking forward to solve this problem... i don't really like things which aren't 100% ok.
If anybody has a solution or a proposal, i'm glad to hear it.
Thanks so far

[colecampbell666]

What video card do you have?

[Jeff Vader]

According to the log, a GeForce 6610 XL.

[Alpha1]

Yeah... very old but enough for good games A shame nVidia didn't manage to get the new drivers working with a TV! But thats not so important, the new ones make no better work than the old ones.
More important is, that this mod rules fantastic story, cool missions and pretty ships. I never expected this gamedesign. Wonderful.

[colecampbell666]

Um dude, make sure that the 175 drivers work with your card, they may have dropped compatibility with that card in older drivers.

[Saturn]

Hi,

 I just started trying FS Open and it played the main FS2 just fine so I downloaded the blue planet file and thought I followed  the guide but when I select the mod in the launcher, it opens, then crashes with the following error:


Error: Can't open model file <none>
File:J:\src\cvs\fs2_open_3_6_9.final\code\Model\ModelRead.cpp
Line: 1902
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------



Where did I mess up?

Thank you

[ShadowGorrath]

Turn on 3d ship selection, and make sure you have the mediavps.

[Saturn]

ShadowGorrath,
I have launcher version 5.5d and I can't seem to find the 3d ship selection, under game play it lists: use models, enable 3d warp, enable flash upon warp, Babylon project, and wing commander boxes.

I do have the mediavps under the main freespace2 folder in a mediavps folder.

What I did figure out was I put the blueplanet mod inside a folder I named BlueplanetMOD and then unpacked it there, it didn't seen to work. I just tried creating a blueplanet folder and moved everything in there and it now seems to load the first mission. I can't play it now as I am at work but at least I made it past the that error above. I am still trying to figure out what is supposed to be in a mod .ini file but I am looking forward to playing all these campaigns and missions.

Thanks for responding!

[Jeff Vader]

ShadowGorrath,
I have launcher version 5.5d and I can't seem to find the 3d ship selection, under game play it lists: use models, enable 3d warp, enable flash upon warp, Babylon project, and wing commander boxes.

The command-line itself is -ship_choice_3d, but it is described in the features as Use models for ship selection. Tick that one on.

I do have the mediavps under the main freespace2 folder in a mediavps folder.

Good.

What I did figure out was I put the blueplanet mod inside a folder I named BlueplanetMOD and then unpacked it there, it didn't seen to work.

Please specify. What exactly did you "unpack"? If a zip/rar/7z, good. If a vp, bad.

I am still trying to figure out what is supposed to be in a mod .ini file but I am looking forward to playing all these campaigns and missions.

There is a downloadable mod.ini in the first post of this thread. Download it and make sure your MediaVPs folder is called mediavps. If not, change it or change the word mediavps in the mod.ini to correspond with the name of your MediaVPs folder.

[colecampbell666]

Affirmative. Make sure to leave the .VP files whole and unmodified. Your BP folder should look like this:

[Saturn]

Lobo,

Thanks for the explanation of the 3d ships, I did have the "use models" ticked.
I had a rar file that I downloaded. I did NOT do anything with the vp file.
I did download the mod.ini file that was somewhere in this thread but it does have the mediavps in it spelled exactly as it is under my Freespace2 directory. (I did read the guide under the FAQ link in your signature).

Colecampbell666,

In that file I do NOT have the 2bppatch.vp file but I do have the blueplanet1.vp file along with the following files:

credits.txt
FS2.bmp
mod.ini
settings.ini

Is this okay?

Thank you all for the help. 

[colecampbell666]

That's probably your problem. Get the patch from the first post, and then run a debug build, and then post \data\fs2_open.log.

[Darius]

2bppatch is only needed if you're getting a missing model in the mission "Ceremony", which is the Mediavp's Cain model. This is fixed by using mediavp's (which are required), so is probably not really needed at all

[Saturn]

I have been playing this tonight and wish I could complete it but I need some sleep. I have not had a problem.  Since I just had downloaded the file and the first post said the patches were now embedded I never ran a patch file.

I am really enjoying this campaign and story line. Well done and a sincere thank you!

[azile0]

Campaigns I'm waiting for:

Aincient - Shivan war
Blue Planet : War in Heaven
Fate of the Galaxy
Silent Threat : Reborn
Just another Day 4 ( WIP?! PLEASE?! )

[Saturn]

 :)I am up to the Forced Entry mission and I an going to have to go down to easy or very Easy to get through this one. I know there is a lot in thhis thread on the mission but I am not ready to look at ll the spoilers yet.

I am playing this on a Toshiba Tablet PC and it only has an intel 965 video chipset with shared memory. I think I have everything turned on and I in this mission I definitely get a little bogged down. What order would would you turn off the eye candy to get maximum viewing at a lower load?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I don't think you need to turn down the eye-candy at all. Just set the in-game details settings to Medium and you should be okay.

[ShadowGorrath]

Instead of making everything look ancient by turning the settings to medium, try turning off the normal maps or the enviromental maps ( env mapping ).

[Jeff Vader]

Indeed. Certain people have experienced notable performance increases with Blue Planet when they have turned environment mapping off.