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Title: How to seperate freespace retail files from my installation?
Post by: IronForge on August 30, 2009, 08:20:12 am

say I need a reinstall but don't have the files anymore and just want a clean reinstall of FSopen, how do I extract the retail files from my current installation seeing I will need it?

Title: Re: How to seperate freespace retail files from my installation?
Post by: Herra Tohtori on August 30, 2009, 08:46:29 am

Quote from: IronForge on August 30, 2009, 08:20:12 am

say I need a reinstall but don't have the files anymore and just want a clean reinstall of FSopen, how do I extract the retail files from my current installation seeing I will need it?

You will only need to backup the following files:

root.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

Backup these, and build your new FS2_Open directory around these.


Basically, all you REALLY need to run FS2_Open (excluding additional content) is these retail files, a FS2_Open build and the Launcher in same directory. That gives you the basic installation, and from there the game will generate /data/* directories that it needs for storing pilot data etc. Then you just add mod directories for the community-made content like mediaVP's and campaigns and so forth.  :)

Technically you don't even need the Launcher, but it's the easiest way to generate the necessary registry entries on Windows if you don't actually have the game installed.


EDIT: If you want to preserve your pilot files, you should also copy the /data/players/ directory.

Title: Re: How to seperate freespace retail files from my installation?
Post by: IronForge on August 31, 2009, 08:19:42 am

Allright, may you please tell me where I can dig out the said files? I want a clean reinstall and just want to put them in my USB drive before I wipe my hard disk. Obviously my USB doesn't have space for the entire FS thats why I'm asking which files to salvage.

Title: Re: How to seperate freespace retail files from my installation?
Post by: The E on August 31, 2009, 08:20:45 am

 :wtf:
They are in your FS2 directory. Provided you have FreeSpace installed, that is.

Title: Re: How to seperate freespace retail files from my installation?
Post by: colecampbell666 on August 31, 2009, 10:36:06 am

They should be in the main FS2 directory, /Games/FreeSpace2.

Title: Re: How to seperate freespace retail files from my installation?
Post by: Thaeris on August 31, 2009, 12:22:29 pm

That is... if you have a Games directory.

If you downloaded it from GOG, you should be able to re-download the installer if necessary. Of course, you could keep the installer on your flash drive. That will take about 1.2 gigs, if I remember correctly.

-Thaeris

Title: Re: How to seperate freespace retail files from my installation?
Post by: IronForge on August 31, 2009, 09:08:55 pm

I had it from way back, someone gave me a copy on a usb stick. HAve just been updating with every release since then.