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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Vandervecken on April 19, 2009, 02:03:08 am

Title: Avoiding excessive downloading with FS2 Open
Post by: Vandervecken on April 19, 2009, 02:03:08 am

Hi all,
I found FS2 Open recently and played my way through freespace 2.  I'd like to uninstall it, but I want to archive some of the fs2 open content, so I don't have to download it all again later.  Is it feasible to zip up the fs2 open stuff and then just uncompress it into the fs2 directory when I reinstall the game later?  Which folders should I archive?  Hard to tell where fs2 ends and the open source stuff begins.
Maybe it's easier to say which stuff is from the retail install and shouldn't be archived.
Alternatively is there a way of downloading a set of files I can install a particular version of fs2 open from, without additional downloading at time of install?

Cheers
Vandervecken

Title: Re: Avoiding excessive downloading with FS2 Open
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 19, 2009, 02:06:40 am

Retail contents include:

• \freespace2\data\ directory
• FRED2.exe
• Freespace2.exe
• FS2.exe
• root_fs2.vp
• smarty_fs2.vp
• sparky_fs2.vp
• sparky_hi_fs2.vp
• stu_fs2.vp
• tango1_fs2.vp
• tango2_fs2.vp
• tango3_fs2.vp
• warble_fs2.vp

Title: Re: Avoiding excessive downloading with FS2 Open
Post by: Vandervecken on April 19, 2009, 02:52:27 am

Thanks!

Title: Re: Avoiding excessive downloading with FS2 Open
Post by: karajorma on April 19, 2009, 04:00:04 am

If you have a suitably large place to put it, there is no reason you can't just archive the whole folder and then put it back later. Last time I needed to reinstall I simply copied everything to a DVD, reinstalled, copied it all back and ran the launcher.

FS2 does not need to be installed from the CDs as when you run the launcher it creates all the needed registry settings. FSO works in much the same way.

Title: Re: Avoiding excessive downloading with FS2 Open
Post by: Rhymes on April 19, 2009, 07:31:32 am

  *activates URed

:welcomered:

FS2 is pretty unique in that once the files are actually installed, the game doesn't care where they come from, so long as they work.  Literally, you can archive everything, and then put it back if and when you want to.  No installers, no DRM, no BS.  Gets a 10/10 in my opinion.

Title: Re: Avoiding excessive downloading with FS2 Open
Post by: haloboy100 on April 19, 2009, 10:56:05 am

Quote from: karajorma on April 19, 2009, 04:00:04 am

If you have a suitably large place to put it, there is no reason you can't just archive the whole folder and then put it back later. Last time I needed to reinstall I simply copied everything to a DVD, reinstalled, copied it all back and ran the launcher.

FS2 does not need to be installed from the CDs as when you run the launcher it creates all the needed registry settings. FSO works in much the same way.

Really? So you can throw it around wherever you want as long as you activate the launcher before you play?

God damn, I wish games had that much flexibility today. :D

Title: Re: Avoiding excessive downloading with FS2 Open
Post by: The E on April 19, 2009, 10:57:35 am

Yeah, FS2 is pretty much stickware, really.

Title: Re: Avoiding excessive downloading with FS2 Open
Post by: karajorma on April 19, 2009, 11:19:10 am

The retail version required you to have the CDs. The GoG version and FS2_Open do not.