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Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 06, 2005, 07:41:43 pm: Im running on a HP Computer, P4 processor, with some really advanced Omega NVidia card. And for some odd reason, when i play on Freespace: The Great War, when im in game, ill hit tab, and for some reason, i get that wierd clicking noise like you normally would when your Afterburners run out completely. Well the afterburners dont even fire. And during the briefings, the screen wont even switch over to the next stage of the briefing automatically like it normally would. And i also get this same problem for Freespace 2, can anyone help me with this problem, because im really missing playing these two great games and the mods the people create.

-Razgriz
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 06, 2005, 08:08:14 pm: :welcome:

For the afterburner, its XP being XP... Try the SCP to fix it in FS2, or compatability mode for FS1.

For the Breifing, well, we're at a loss... I and a few others have that problem, and cannot trace it back to anything distinct... You can sometiomes get it to work by pressing Shift-(Right arrow) and then using the left arrow...

Try the SCP as well, as you'll have more fun :p ...
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: InfernoGod on February 06, 2005, 08:11:29 pm: :welcome:

Interesting problem. I'll look into this.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 06, 2005, 08:12:05 pm: Your gonna have to elaborate on that, where exactly is the SCP and how to get it, and what exactly is it? *notes it has been ages since hes roamed these forums*
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Taristin on February 06, 2005, 08:23:01 pm: Err.. hippo? FS: The Great War is FreeSpace 1... not 2. :p
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 06, 2005, 08:26:07 pm: yes, and both bugs effect both games, at the same time, regardless. :ha:

The SCP forums:

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&forumid=50
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: WMCoolmon on February 06, 2005, 08:34:59 pm: http://scp.indiegames.us

http://dynamic6.gamespy.com/~freespace/fsdoc/index.php?pagename=GettingStartedWithFsscp
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Taristin on February 06, 2005, 08:38:30 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hippo
yes, and both bugs effect both games, at the same time, regardless. :ha:

Yes, but DLing the SCP doesn't fix FS1's problems! :ha:
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: WMCoolmon on February 06, 2005, 08:38:31 pm: There's always the port (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/fsport/). :p
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 06, 2005, 08:38:30 pm: I never said it did, read the post better

double :ha: :ha:
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Taristin on February 06, 2005, 08:42:43 pm: :ha: :ha: my ass.

I posted my reply at 9:23, and this pops up under your post:
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Last edited by Hippo on 02-06-2005 at 09:30 PM

And no.. The Port just isn't the same, no matter how hard it tries.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 06, 2005, 08:47:58 pm: :wtf:

thats in all my posts anyway, and there, i just re-edited it, without changing anything, so your quote is incorrect! :p
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Goober5000 on February 06, 2005, 08:48:39 pm: Just run the game in Win98 compatibility mode... that'll fix it.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 06, 2005, 08:51:34 pm: Did ANYONE read my post?!

I said that already!
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Goober5000 on February 06, 2005, 08:53:45 pm: Eh, it wasn't very apparent. And you didn't specify which compatibility mode. :p
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 06, 2005, 08:53:56 pm: ANY compatability mode works. Therefore, further specification is moot.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Night Hammer on February 06, 2005, 11:45:15 pm: Seems we got ourselves an ACE COMBAT 5 fan......:yes: I like you already Razgriz
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Triple Ace on February 07, 2005, 12:43:29 pm: Quote
Originally posted by InfernoGod
:welcome:

Interesting problem. I'll look into this.

No big speech this time?
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Kie99 on February 07, 2005, 12:41:56 pm: :welcome:

Exits are to your right and left, and flamethrowers are under your seat. Be careful, though, as they are sometimes filled with water, so bring your own Napalm or try to club someone with the non-working shotguns in the weapon closet. Also, be careful while wandering the ventilation shafts. If you see a large, six-legged creature that looks really pissed, it’s probably Carl, give him your lunch and he'll hopefully go away. In the event of an emergency, pray. The Plasma rifles in the forward locker are released only by an Admin, [V] God, or hyperintelligent shade of the color blue. Oh, and whatever you do, don't mention the word Freespace followed by the number 3.

The game is called DeScent: Freespace, not Decent Freespace. :)
BTW InfernoGod :ha:
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: karajorma on February 07, 2005, 12:43:59 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Razgriz
Your gonna have to elaborate on that, where exactly is the SCP and how to get it, and what exactly is it? *notes it has been ages since hes roamed these forums*

Boy are you in for a treat! ;) FS2_Open will blow your mind compared with retail :)
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 07, 2005, 02:52:54 pm: Well scratch FS2, i cant even reinstall the thing now since i cant trust no one around the house to put the CD back when they are supposed to as not to scratch the bloody thing :mad:

As for Descent Freespace, how do i get it to run in Windows98 mode? Cause im running Windows XP, which in my opinion is a POS
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Kie99 on February 07, 2005, 02:59:59 pm: create a shortcut to it, then right-click the shortcut then click properties. Then the compatibility tab.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 07, 2005, 03:05:05 pm: K, thanks, and if anyone knows on if there is a download for a FS2 file that it does NOT require the CD let me know...Someone scratched Disc 2 so i cant play OR reinstall the thing
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 07, 2005, 05:02:40 pm: Either the HoTU version, in Karajorma's FAQ, or head to game-warden.com and find all three ISO's uploaded for use... I'd reccomend the ISO's, since they have everything...
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: StratComm on February 07, 2005, 05:46:09 pm: If you've already got it installed, just run the SCP. Getting the ISO's is probably a good idea for backup or whatever, but the SCP serves the same function as a crack as you don't need the CD's to play it.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 07, 2005, 06:00:52 pm: Nope, FS2 isnt installed, thats why i need the installer if anyone knows of any that way i can install it without the two cd's
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 07, 2005, 06:01:49 pm: FS2 is three CD's, and if you download the ISO's, you can burn them to blank cd's, and have fully functional copies with minimal work...
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: karajorma on February 07, 2005, 06:17:00 pm: Problem is that MatthewPapa isn't hosting the download on GW for the time being due to the massive bandwidth drain he got when someone posted the address on the somethingawful.com forums.

If you have BitTorrent you can always get it here (http://www.tbp-bt.com/)

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Originally posted by Razgriz
As for Descent Freespace, how do i get it to run in Windows98 mode? Cause im running Windows XP, which in my opinion is a POS

Right click on the FS.exe file. Choose properties>>compatibility>>Run this program in compatibily mode for>>Windows98
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 07, 2005, 07:27:06 pm: HOLY MOTHER!!!

Thats one HUGE ASS torrent file download :eek2:
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 07, 2005, 07:36:45 pm: But worth it :) ...
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 07, 2005, 07:41:51 pm: Oi i can see ima be restless at school to get home asap tomorrow...still got 12:30 hours left :hopping:

P.S: Do i need blank CD's to burn this into, or is it the installer and such to where i dont need the cd's to burn the information into?
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Taristin on February 07, 2005, 08:03:37 pm: Err. You can probably mount them with the daemon tools.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 07, 2005, 08:17:27 pm: Daemon Tools?

*feels like an idiot ofr asking so many questions, but also kicks his own ass for being gone for so long*
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 07, 2005, 08:21:33 pm: Its a program to run ISO's, instead of having to actually burn them to a CD... Raa can probably link to it... It emulates a CD drive apparently, and makes things like even CD switching quick and painless...
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: WMCoolmon on February 07, 2005, 08:20:27 pm: Lets you mount the isos as virtual drives.

It's probably better to just burn them, so you still have the ISOs, but you can remove them from the hard drive.

All the SCP is designed to be installed from the hard drive to the hard drive so there should be no problem with running it from the HD.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 07, 2005, 08:27:06 pm: if i burn them to CD's, what size of Blank CD's would i need to get, the big 72-82 Minute ones or what?
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 07, 2005, 08:28:38 pm: they should all be less than 600mb, so a 700mb CD will be fine for each...
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 07, 2005, 08:34:02 pm: Yay, so im only really wasting a good half day for the file download, and a good 5 dollars for 3 blank 700mb CD's, good deal to me for such a kick ass game :D
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 07, 2005, 08:52:33 pm: Thats the spirit! :)
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: FireCrack on February 07, 2005, 09:00:18 pm: 5 dollars for 3 cds! where do you live?
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 07, 2005, 09:02:11 pm: Well im joking, i got like a 20 pack for like 5-10 bucks....I dont know how much just 3 will run me...but i can also ask my friends at school if i can 'bumb' some off em :drevil:
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 08, 2005, 02:22:30 pm: ok....i got the entire FS2 thingy (all three of the .rar files) And i downloaded the Daemon Tools, someone mind explaining where i go from there?
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: karajorma on February 08, 2005, 02:36:45 pm: use WinRAR to unpack the rar files. Install and run Daemon Tools.

A little red icon will appear in your system tray. Right click on it. Choose Virtual CD/DVD ROM. Set number of devices>>3 (You might as well mount all the CDs at the same time. You can turn this down to a reasonable number later :D ).

Left click on the icon. Choose Device 0. A file requester pops up. Choose the first .iso/.cue or .nrg file that you unpacked. (not certain which format was used for this but Dameon Tools won't care.)

The FS2 installer should pop up if you've got autostart selected. If not just go to my computer and treat it like you would a normal CD Drive.

Repeat with devices 1 and 2 to insert the other CDs when you're asked for them.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 08, 2005, 02:43:28 pm: Ok...I unpacked it all...I just did the Freespace1.rar file, and theres a lot of stuff in it, which one of those icons do i upload into Daemon?
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Razgriz on February 08, 2005, 02:57:40 pm: Disreguard the last post, i got everything to work and as i type now, the game is installing, thanks for all the help guys! :D
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: karajorma on February 08, 2005, 06:23:35 pm: No problem.

I'm always happy to help people rejoin the community. :)
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Black Wolf on February 09, 2005, 03:16:06 pm: Nope, FS2 only. V never released the FS1 source.
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Hippo on February 09, 2005, 05:30:49 pm: Not that it can't be found however... :nervous:

But nothing has ever been done with it, as its coding is apparently more archane than FS2's...

*is sure Goober will say arcane is the wrong word*
Title: Decent: Freespace The Great War problem
Post by: Goober5000 on February 09, 2005, 07:07:46 pm: Depends on what you want to say. Arcane works (it's not spelled with an H :p) but you may have wanted to say archaic.