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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: Petrarch of the VBB on August 17, 2008, 11:47:25 am

Title: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on August 17, 2008, 11:47:25 am

Of late, my connection has developed a disease whereby it disconnects randomly. Obviously, this spells disaster for any downloads I have going.

So, is there a torrent anywhere of the MediaVPs? I've tried downloading them normally several times already, only to get disconnected and end up with corrupt files.

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: Bob-san on August 17, 2008, 11:58:49 am

Try DownThemAll and good MD5 hashes.

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: General Battuta on August 17, 2008, 12:07:41 pm

A torrent would be a great idea. There's an old installer called the Shivan_SPS pack, but I get the sense it's a bit dodgy, and it only comes with the 3.6.8 VPs anyway.

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: Topgun on August 17, 2008, 12:16:48 pm

try firefox. I have disconnected my internet while downloading and it doesn't seem to phase it.
EDIT: What the...! Petrarch is back!!!

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: General Battuta on August 17, 2008, 12:28:37 pm

Oh, right -- if you use Firefox 3, you can just resume the download when the connection hiccups.

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on August 17, 2008, 12:32:31 pm

I dunno about being back, as such. I just pop in when I want something. -_-

Anyway, the point is, I'm getting a crash on the 3rd mission of the campaign, and I think it might be a corrupt VP that's causing it, as it doesn't happen if I run the game without the MediaVP mod tag.
So, if I can download them in such a way that they don't get messed up, I'll be able to tell if that's what's causing it or not.

'course, if anyone can suggest what else it might be, that would be useful.

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on August 17, 2008, 01:20:11 pm

It's the jump node. Both FS2 and FRED crash when there's a jump node on screen.

What's all that about?

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: Jeff Vader on August 17, 2008, 01:23:17 pm

What build? System specs? Tried running a debug build (preferrably a 3.6.10 one)?

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on August 17, 2008, 01:28:54 pm

Tried 3.6.9 and 3.6.10, same thing happens.
System spec is: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200, 4GB PC6400 RAM, Radeon 4850 512MB, Vista Ultimate

I've sorted it now anyway, by copying the default FS2 node model into the MediaVPs directory.

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: Bob-san on August 18, 2008, 07:48:42 am

What Catalyst drivers were you running? And from the sounds of things, you encountered a bug.

Title: Re: MediaVP Torrent?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 20, 2008, 08:07:25 pm

Sweet holy jesus-biscuits. Petrarch :o, you never call. My one living tie to squadwar. (In the net-sense) *clings to his shoe* don't go!!