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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: masonchumpia on June 03, 2007, 11:07:57 am
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How does one go about uninstalling fs2_open? I haven't been able to find any documentation regarding this. When attempting to remove Freespace 2 through the Add/Remove Programs dialog, Windows tells me that the directory in which I installed Freespace cannot be found. Is fs2_open like the typical Windows setup that tucks random DLLs away into various locations or will I be safe in deleting the fs2_open folder?
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:welcome:
Uhhh... why in the world would you want to get rid of FSOpen???? :eek2:
To uninstall FSOpen, I believe all you'd have to do is delete the fsopen.exe, the fred2open.exe, the Launcher, and the Media Vp's folder. Then you'd still have retail installed, but without Open.
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Can I just say...
Burn the heretic! :P (j/k)
Well actually, Dark Hunter, FS2Open IIRC modifies the registry of your retail install so it's much less simple than that. I'm not sure but it looks to m that masonchumpia wants to delete FS2 altogether.
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Delete the folder, then, if you want to, delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Volition" and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Volition, Inc." in regedit. The last step isn't needed because it shouldn't mess with anything else, but if you want to remove all traces, that's how you do it.
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I meant that if you want to revert to retail you have to do some messing around in regedit too.
Deleting Retail FS2 normally is easy enough.
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I meant that if you want to revert to retail you have to do some messing around in regedit too.
Shouldn't have to.
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I was pretty sure it modified the registries.
Whatever.
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It does, but since SCP is Retail compatible, it doesn't mess with the ones Retail uses, they are still intact, so you don't have to change anything.
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Hmmm... I guess you're right then.
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if you want to revert to retail id just delete the freespace folder and re-install retail through its installer.
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That's a waste of time. Just delete anything you don't see in this picture.
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/FAQ-Images/Installing/CleanInstall.jpg)
You don't even need all of those files in fact. :D
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well theres alot there that doesnt need to be there. ereg and mindspring can go, the updater and patchw32.dll can go, i doubt they even work. just manually install the final patch. the pxo url can be dumped to, another thing which probibly doesnt work.
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I agree. My point was that you don't need to waste 5-10 minutes reinstalling the entire game when you can just delete files and have the same effect.
The updater works though :)
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ah, i had just assumed that the patch host isnt online anymore. none the less oncew youve patched the game, you really dont need it anymore. the only retail files i even use are the vps, everything else i just cleared.
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Why not just move the SCP files into a folder?
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Well presumably they're uninstalling the SCP because it didn't work for them, they didn't like it or they can't spare the space for it any more.
You're being a bit of an idiot uninstalling the SCP but keeping retail otherwise since a proper SCP installation doesn't interfere with you playing retail in the slightest.