Okay, so, installation. Seems to go just fine. But it's always the Mission Zero that's the most difficult.
Run from the launcher!
First! It complains there is no disk in the hard drive.
Cancel through that.
Then!
Could not load in ChoosePilot-m!
ntdll.dll! ZwWaitForSingleObject + 21 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObjectEx + 67 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
Fs2_open_Wings_of_Dawn-EX7.exe! <no symbol>
Fs2_open_Wings_of_Dawn-EX7.exe! <no symbol>
Hit okay after that.
Could not load in Pop2!
ntdll.dll! ZwWaitForSingleObject + 21 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObjectEx + 67 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
Fs2_open_Wings_of_Dawn-EX7.exe! <no symbol>
Fs2_open_Wings_of_Dawn-EX7.exe! <no symbol>
Fs2_open_Wings_of_Dawn-EX7.exe! <no symbol>
Fs2_open_Wings_of_Dawn-EX7.exe! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
"This mod has generated 1 Warnings/Errors!" No background, the cursor exists but creates a bunch of afterimages as I move it, and the text is rather blurry. Still, I can click "Okay" here.
And then a pilot screen with the text, but nothing else, and nothing can be interacted with. I must either hit escape, which closes it, or alt-tab out and close the program from its right-click menu on the taskbar.
Not running from the launcher produces the same result, and this result is consistent either way. It doesn't change.
Win7, ATI Radeon 5700HD, etc. Yes it's an old card. Running on two monitors (it starts pretty small, kicking everything to my secondary monitor when it's open; I'd adjust it, but I'd have to be able to get at the ingame options first)