[Tengert]

Hello everyone here on this hard light production forum. I am new here.
To start off I like to say it's good to see others out there who love Freespace and Freespace 2. I really enjoy them, as well since I was younger.
I really like the fact someone is out there keeping the games somewhat up to date, and keeping the feel of them.

But alas I digress, I recently downloaded the Installer for the more advanced freespace, and ran it, getting almost all the mods installed.
 Though when I tried to run it, it only ran on the old textures and models from the actual game files.

Here is what you need to know,
 1. I bought it on steam and it is setup to run on steam.
2. Running it through steam gives me an error of, "Cannot be run through root drive directory."
3. I can run it from inside the files using FRED2.exe, and it starts the game, and is playable no next textures or models present.

Any help will be nice, I want to get it to run on the newer models.

Thanks, to any help given.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Hello and welcome.
In order to run Freespace Open, you also need a launcher to set up which mods you want to use and which version of fs2_open you want to use, and use that to launch the game (although you can point Steam to the launcher's .exe).


Look into you Freespace 2 folder, there should be something called "wxLauncher", try running/installing that.

Once you've got the launcher running, point it to your FS2 folder, set things up in the Basic settings tab, select the mod "MediaVPs 2014" in the mods tab, then hit "Play".


Then you should be good to go .

[Lepanto]

Welcome, new person!

Even if it might be hard to figure out FSO's complexities and get started playing, boy is it worth it. You've got SO much content to look forward to!

And that's not to mention maybe making your own stuff down the line.

[deathspeed]