[MP-Ryan]

Has anyone who gets the placement issue in the Derelict mission "Rites of Passage" tried this new build yet?

Taylor, when I get back to my PC in a week or so I'll test out this build and see if it duplicates that crash issue I reported in Mantis.  If so, I'll send you all the log files for the new build (and if not, I'll get the other log to you as soon as possbile).

Is this just a compilation of fixes since RC7.9, or is there a list of new corrections made for this build?

[Culando]

Ok, I've delurked and found that INFA was finally released, yay. Time to reinstall FS2 and set it up to play. Went to get this, the latest concoction by the SCP people, and I'm already having a problem. It's probably (I hope) an obvious problem. I probably forgot to download something. Anyway, here's the issue.

I downloaded the build here, and I opened up the launcher. I selected fs2_open_3_6_9-RC8.exe and hit ok. Then I got this error message. "This application has failed to start because OpenAL32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

Is this just another reinstall FS2 issue? Though, that'd be strange as I just reinstalled it last night to be safe. Any help would be appreciated.

[karajorma]

It quite literally tells you the cause. You need to install OpenAL

[Culando]

That'll do it. You SCP folk are always tossing new stuff at me whenever I delurk.

Thanks a ton for the help.

[CP5670]

I think the fade sexps are broken in this version. I'm almost certain they were working fine in 7.9, but I'll need to double check it.

[edit] Yeah, it works fine in 7.9. I have made a mantis entry on this.

[Starman01]

@Taylor : I'm getting reports that the game (WCS) hangs when the movies are being played, I encountered that myself, though not everytime.
Any idea what could causing this ?

[taylor]

@Taylor : I'm getting reports that the game (WCS) hangs when the movies are being played, I encountered that myself, though not everytime.
Any idea what could causing this ?

Not really.  It's only really been tested when using OpenGL though, so see if the people getting hangs are using D3D or not.  I don't think that should actually make it hang, maybe just display weird, but it's something to consider I guess.

And I suppose that by "hang" it means that the movie doesn't play and that hitting SPACE, ENTER or ESC doesn't get out of the movie, correct?  It could be something related to the timer in that case, and it would just sleep for a long time between frames and that would give the impression of it freezing up.  I'm not really sure why that would happen though.  I'm using the same timer code as is used for MVEs (with minor changes for frame time reporting differences) so it's a little strange if it is a timer/sleep problem since that base code has been in use for quite some time.