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Title: Problem playing custom campaigns for Freespace 2
Post by: fett80 on August 17, 2008, 10:51:45 am

Hello, couldn't find this specific topic:

I'm trying to play a custom campaign (in this case, The Aeos Affair V2.0) with Freespace 2 abandonware (V1.2), so there are no game cds.  In the campaign list, it's there and selectable, but when I go back into the main menu screen (I guess it's a hangar bay with all the doors), I can't get through the doors to the campaign because the game asks for the Freespace 2 cd.

The full game also asks for the cd (because I couldn't download the separate cutscene files), but when prompted, I have the option of cancelling and I continue with the full game.  With the custom campaign, however, there is no option to cancel.

I tried a download changing to an executable file which includes a no cd crack, but no luck.

Is freespace 2 abandonware set up differently than Freespace 2 retail, and what can I do to fix the issue to play this and other mods?  (I've tried a couple of other custom campaigns and got the same result).

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Problem playing custom campaigns for Freespace 2
Post by: Jeff Vader on August 17, 2008, 10:56:51 am

HotU? Yeah, the no-cd crack there doesn't fully work. You can play the FS2 campaign, but any custom mods won't let you proceed without a cd.

Solution? FreeSpace_Open. See this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,55772.0.html) for installation instructions. Note that you can skip the first step, since you already have the retail game itself. Just continue from there on.

Title: Re: Problem playing custom campaigns for Freespace 2
Post by: fett80 on August 24, 2008, 12:16:47 pm

Hello again,

I've down loaded Freespace Open.  When I go into the launcher, and try to open fs2_open_3_6_9 in the browser, I get the error message "This application has failed to start because OpenAl32.dll was not found".  The file is in the main Freespace 2 folder as per the FS2 Open installation instructions.

Are there supposed to be .dll files in the main directory?  Because I don't see any.

Title: Re: Problem playing custom campaigns for Freespace 2
Post by: Jeff Vader on August 24, 2008, 12:25:02 pm

Install OpenAL (http://fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/latest/oalinst.exe). My bad. I didn't take into concideration that installing OpenAL was listed before installing FS2 on the instructions.

Title: Re: Problem playing custom campaigns for Freespace 2
Post by: fett80 on August 24, 2008, 02:10:41 pm

Works great!  Thanks again.