I was installing FS2 on a friend's computer, but the Launcher was never able to read the flags file. As near as I could tell, it was because the FS2 EXE couldn't create the flags file, since the read-only checkbox was checked.
We tried everything, including using attrib to unset the read-only attribute, but nothing worked. (He was using XP in single-user mode, and I checked users and he was an admin, and there was no security tab to be fudged with.) Eventually, I copied over my flags file for 3.6.5, set it to read-only, and the Launcher used that instead.
Once he got it started up, he ran into a bug where text would disappear at th top of the screen in the interface, and ingame, the top of the HUD would often disappear. While playing the training mission, he got right up to the drone, and about 3/4 of the HUD, from the top down, disappeared. (Usually HUD disappearances were accompanied by a flash of white over the screen where the HUD was disappearing.) I thought this might be related to using the font fix (He had an FX5700, and I'd forgotten whether or not it needed to be checked for the card.) He didn't want to quit playing to try unchecking it though.
Has anyone encountered similar bugs to these (Maybe found a fix for them)? Yes, I did search.
