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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: T-LoW on February 08, 2012, 04:55:28 pm

Title: Overall chaos
Post by: T-LoW on February 08, 2012, 04:55:28 pm

Hello, support-Team. I would really appreciate if someone could take a look at this thread:

http://freespacegalaxy.de/forum/index.php?mode=viewthread&forum_id=10&thread=102&z=last


Despite that it's written in german the OP said he's getting overall error messages (FSport and FS2) and postet some log-lines. He used the installer.
I'm sure you can help or tell me, how I can help him - I'm not that familiar with the debug-messages.

Thanks for reading.

Title: Re: Overall chaos
Post by: MatthTheGeek on February 08, 2012, 05:04:23 pm

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Invalid type "Subach HL-7" found in loadout of mission file...skipping
As a pretty wild guess, sounds like what happens when you try to run the FS2 campaign with FSPort as a mod, which is pretty frequent among newbies who don't know the retail campaign is selected by default, and hence that they have to switch campaign before they can play.

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Trying to put into 127 byte buffer:
fighter2v-01-debris-shine.dds
Sounds like what would happen if someone installed FSO in Program Files or something silly like that : absolute filepath getting too long.

Can hardly formulate any other hypothesis on those two without a proper debug log. I also suggest you tell them to come ask here directly, because a proper, solid and reliable FS community is much better to ask support than a random unknown German forum.

EDIT:

Quote from: T-LoW on February 08, 2012, 04:55:28 pm

He used the installer.

BAD. The installer is broken and has been for ages. STOP DOING THAT. MANUAL INSTALL guys. Srsly.

Title: Re: Overall chaos
Post by: T-LoW on February 08, 2012, 05:55:02 pm

Thank you, Sir! I'll tell him :)