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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: BlazeME on January 14, 2005, 10:57:54 am

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: BlazeME on January 14, 2005, 10:57:54 am

and its crashed! I got all of the needed files (zpack and the installer) then played the training but on the first real mission, the game crashed on me. :confused:

What should be the problem?

It can't be my hardware... :p

3.0 Ghz P4 LGA775
1024 Mb Corsair RAM
ATI X700 Pro 256 Mb
MSI 915P COmbo Motherboard

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: StratComm on January 14, 2005, 12:24:01 pm

It could be that there's a model missing from the media vp's; specifically the alt-textured cain.  I don't think that'd cause a crash in the first mission, but it's possible.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: karajorma on January 14, 2005, 12:45:12 pm

Did you just get a crash and nothing else? No error message popping up on screen? Try it again without mv_music.vp as that's exactly what I'm getting.

EDIT : Hmmm. You're using the ZPack. I don't know if the music files are in that.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: BlazeME on January 14, 2005, 01:01:41 pm

Hmmm... ok, I'll try and play without the music vp. There was no error messages when it crashed.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: redmenace on January 14, 2005, 03:42:35 pm

remove the z pack and the music vp.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: Bobboau on January 15, 2005, 07:20:24 am

and make a new pilot.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: BlazeME on January 17, 2005, 10:34:44 am

Ok, it works without the zpack and music installed. But whats the point of playing on source if their are no changes from the zpack?

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: mitac on January 17, 2005, 10:44:42 am

Try the separate VPs, which, added up, basically have all the same content as the zpack. I also had trouble with ZPack, and that helped, for some weird reason.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: -Norbert- on January 17, 2005, 01:09:52 pm

The zpack is just the sum off all the other?
No wonder that it caused trouble when used with the others together.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: mitac on January 17, 2005, 01:20:35 pm

In case you're referring to my post, Norbert, then you misunderstood me. :) ZPack didn't work, the single VPs worked. Might have been a screwed download.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: -Norbert- on January 17, 2005, 01:53:36 pm

For me the ZPack didn't work either.
And I had it additional to all the other VPs.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: PrISM on January 17, 2005, 02:13:21 pm

I had this same exact problem and it's the music .vp in the zpack.vp. Download this file (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/Downloads/musicTBL.rar)  and put it in the freespace/data/tables folder. This is fixed the problem for me.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 17, 2005, 02:21:12 pm

Bug should hopefully be fixed in this build
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,29644.0.html

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: Grimloq on January 17, 2005, 02:28:20 pm

*shrug* i extract all the VP files into my data folder. tis easier to deactivate tables then. or remove a single file.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: BlazeME on January 17, 2005, 02:48:15 pm

I have downloaded all of he vp's individually now. It looks pretty awsome :yes:

I am still having a few problems:
1. The voices have echos (really annoying :hopping: )
2. The interface (when not in space) has blue lines around the buttons
3. The text has wierd lines around it. Sometimes the text is upreadable.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: StratComm on January 17, 2005, 02:49:50 pm

Blue lines (and probably the text lines) sound like antialiasing errors.  Echoes sounds like an inadvertantly activated EAX effect.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: Trivial Psychic on January 17, 2005, 02:51:45 pm

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Originally posted by BlazeME

2. The interface (when not in space) has blue lines around the buttons
3. The text has wierd lines around it. Sometimes the text is upreadable.

Do you have the -pcx32 or -pcx2dds flags activated?

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: BlazeME on January 17, 2005, 05:15:31 pm

Yep,  -pcx32 is on but the other one isn't. What will this do?

So how can I deactivate the EAX?

I fixed the AA problem. I had activated it thought the ATI CCC to force apilcations to use it.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: karajorma on January 17, 2005, 06:30:41 pm

Turn off -PCX32 it's a big waste of memory. In fact I'm surprised that the launcher entry hasn't been changed into "Don't turn this on. It seemed like a good idea at the time....."

As for EAX go to the audio tab in the launcher and choose DirectSound instead.

Title: First time on the source...
Post by: BlazeME on January 18, 2005, 01:44:08 am

Thanks all. It works great now. :cool: