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Offline colecampbell666

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My suggestion is to delete anything in your FS2 folder and download it again. Use Turey's installer, it will get everything right first time.
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Re: Invisible asteroids? Look here for the solution.
My suggestion is to delete anything in your FS2 folder and download it again. Use Turey's installer, it will get everything right first time.

Alternative solution: I will explain when I get home (give me 4-5 hrs from the time of this post)...  But yes, re-downloading all 3.5 GB of data will, most likely, fix the problem.

  

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...Sorry about that... I was quite late, (my fault, too) and then I forgot to post a link to the work I did here.  Look in my sig, under Troubleshoot FS2: MD5.

 

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That makes sense. No wonder I didn't see any asteroids in the Derelict campaign.
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It's a sticky it doesn't matter.... Does it?

 

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
:bump:

OK.  I have a question: What is the advantage of keeping retail compatibility?

 

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
So that newbs will come and ask for help with problems, and get roped into FSO.

What is the point?
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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
Uhm...

:nervous:

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
OK.  I have a question: What is the advantage of keeping retail compatibility?
So that the Port will remain compatible with retail, naturally.

The goal of the Port is to allow FS1 to be played on FS2.  Not FSO, FS3, or anything else.  FS1 is retail-compatible; ST is retail-compatible; and we decided ST:R should be retail-compatible too.

Note that retail-compatible does not mean retail-restricted.  The Port has FSO enhancements; they just won't work on FS2.

 

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
Err ... OK ... thanks for the response, even though it still doesn't make a lot of sense, especially since using retail is about equivalent to living in a cave around here ... :nervous:

 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
Err ... OK ... thanks for the response, even though it still doesn't make a lot of sense, especially since using retail is about equivalent to living in a cave around here ... :nervous:
Some people are scared of installing new software, like game engines. Or they have low-end computers but fail to understand that the MediaVPs are not a requirement for FSPort. A simple mod for FS2 just might sound tempting.
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23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

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Offline jr2

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
Well, y'know, retail won't change... so once you've pushed the retail-compatible fork to its max, perhaps you might wanna fork, if there's any benefit.  I mean, the FS2 retail engine has limitations.  Once the Port has improved to meet them, what's the point of continuing to be restrained by it?  Also, if you push the FS2 retail engine to its max, the whole point of being able to run the Port on retail (ie, with lower-end computers) is prolly compromised anyways.  But if it's possible to always allow retail compatibility, then I guess it works fine.  Heh... it's going to be moot anyways as soon as a version of Windows becomes prevalent that won't work with Retail.  Does Vista work with retail, when using compatibility for 95 or 98?

 

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
Vista doesn't even work with FSO*, so that's a bad example.

But as I said, retail-compatible does not mean retail-restricted.  We have plenty of FSO features in our projects.  And now Galemp is working on an FS1-era HTL pack.


*Some people have reported running FSO on Vista.  These people are either Microsoft corporate shills, or have been driven insane and are hallucinating.
« Last Edit: June 02, 2008, 01:08:57 pm by Goober5000 »

 

Offline Snail

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
Vista doesn't even work with FSO*, so that's a bad example.

But as I said, retail-compatible does not mean retail-restricted.  We have plenty of FSO features in our projects.  And now Galemp is working on an FS1-era HTL pack.


*Some people have reported running FSO on Vista.  These people are either Microsoft corporate shills, or have been driven insane and are hallucinating.
Apparently Woo is a corporate shill...

 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
Vista doesn't even work with FSO*, so that's a bad example.

But as I said, retail-compatible does not mean retail-restricted.  We have plenty of FSO features in our projects.  And now Galemp is working on an FS1-era HTL pack.


*Some people have reported running FSO on Vista.  These people are either Microsoft corporate shills, or have been driven insane and are hallucinating.
Apparently Woo is a corporate shill...
There was that other option as well.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
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18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
Given what I know of Woomeister, I'd hazard that hallucinations are far more likely than him being a shill. :D ;7
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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
What's a shill?
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Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
Probably a shill.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []

 

Offline CaptJosh

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Re: Port and Silent Threat: Reborn FAQ
*content deleted following testing* Pirate mission crash related to use of March 14th Xt build. Mission works fine under a 3.6.9 svn build.
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