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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Grzegorz on February 04, 2008, 05:16:31 pm

Title: Unable to run FS2SCP because of... FRED2? Newbie question
Post by: Grzegorz on February 04, 2008, 05:16:31 pm
At the beginning - sorry for my bad English. I have searched this forum rather carefully by using "search" function, but i haven't found anything useful in solving my problem with FS SCP. I have a strange problem trying to launch FS2 SCP. I have installed it by Torrey's Instaler, and when I try to launch it, I have an error message: "Freespace2/Fred2 cannot be run from a drive root directory". And that's it - no other error messages. Game isn't complying about video card, drivers, system specifications, but about... Fred2.

My configuration:
CPU: Pentium IV 3,00 Hz
Video Card: Ge force 6800 GS 256 Mb
RAM: 1024 Mb
Windows XP

Original Fresspace 2 runs without any problems, so what did I wrong?  :confused:
Title: Re: Unable to run FS2SCP because of... FRED2? Newbie question
Post by: Jeff Vader on February 04, 2008, 05:20:09 pm
1. It's Turey's.

2. Where did you install FSO? My Documents and the desktop are examples of bad choices.
Title: Re: Unable to run FS2SCP because of... FRED2? Newbie question
Post by: Grzegorz on February 04, 2008, 06:29:21 pm
1. I run the "spell check" function, and it change my Turey'a into Torrey's - sorry for that. Instaler is great, and it makes installing FS SCP a cake walk.

2. No, that's not it. Finally I managed to launch FS, by using "run" in the Launcher, but double clicking on the FS icon still gives me a error mesage.
Title: Re: Unable to run FS2SCP because of... FRED2? Newbie question
Post by: General Battuta on February 04, 2008, 06:46:57 pm
You should be using the Launcher anyway. The icons are not the way to do it.
Title: Re: Unable to run FS2SCP because of... FRED2? Newbie question
Post by: Grzegorz on February 04, 2008, 07:00:21 pm
Well, I guess you 100% right - when I'm using Launcher everything runs pretty smoothly. Thanks for help, and sorry for bothering anybody with such a penny-ante question.
Title: Re: Unable to run FS2SCP because of... FRED2? Newbie question
Post by: karajorma on February 05, 2008, 04:57:11 am
2. No, that's not it. Finally I managed to launch FS, by using "run" in the Launcher, but double clicking on the FS icon still gives me a error mesage.

Call up the icon's properties option and check what it says in the Start In box. My bet is that it's blank when it should say C:\Games\Freespace2 or where ever you've installed the game.