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Title: Sol A history help
Post by: Govenator on March 25, 2014, 07:54:56 pm

Hello all,

I recently tried to get Sol a History to work but now it is crashing the game and is unable to load. 

I have downloaded the additional Inferno 1 release and its patch which was required but I'm not sure if it is located correctly.  I have tried putting it in a separate INFR1 folder and just putting it in the Freespace folder.  Both options are not working for me. 

Can someone help me with this?

Thank you.


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Title: Re: Sol A history help
Post by: General Battuta on March 25, 2014, 08:17:39 pm

Can't look at the log right now but seriously, never ever put anything in the FreeSpace folder directly.

Title: Re: Sol A history help
Post by: Govenator on March 25, 2014, 08:49:15 pm

Your not the first person to tell me that General (your the second). 

It was originally the only way I could get some campaigns to works.  That being said I have cleared out my freespace 2 folder of any "extras" as far as I can tell and I will not make that mistake again.  Instead I'll ask for help on why they don't load.

Anyways I appreciate the help and take your time, no hurry.

Let me know if there is anything else I need to do and thank you.

Title: Re: Sol A history help
Post by: headdie on March 25, 2014, 09:02:25 pm

ok so...

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Found root pack 'C:\Games\Freespace 2\INF_2Patch.vp' with a checksum of 0x7c988dc5
Found root pack 'C:\Games\Freespace 2\INF_Main.vp' with a checksum of 0xb7e1e9e6

need to be in C:\Games\Freespace 2\INFR

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Searching root pack 'C:\Games\Freespace 2\Homesick.vp' ... 41 files

needs to be in homesick mod folder

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WARNING: "$Default IFF not specified for species Terran in species_defs.tbl!  Defaulting to Friendly." at species_defs.cpp:246

hmmm surprised at that one but might be worth cleaning out the above mentioned VPs and running again as it's possible that there is a species_defs.tbl in one of the VPs overrunning the one needed for Sol

Title: Re: Sol A history help
Post by: Govenator on March 26, 2014, 12:00:18 am

Hello Headdie,

Thanks for the help and I did as you recommended.  Unfortunately for me it still didn't work. 

I was able to get the game to work by going into the Mod.ini file and renaming the secondary list to say "mediavps".  I previously had changed it to "mediavps_3612" which is the name of the folder my Mediavps's are in but that seemed to crash the whole thing.  So now it works for the most part (after changing it back to "mediavps") but I'm getting warnings at the beginning of the game.

I have posted my latest open log and could use some help eliminating the problem. 

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Title: Re: Sol A history help
Post by: Govenator on March 26, 2014, 12:01:53 am

Also I wanted to add the graphics looked a little bit weird compared to the other mods I have played.  I'm not sure if thats due to the inferno build or if something is messed up.  This is the original reason I switched the name of the mod.ini file to "mediavps_3612".   

Again thanks for the help.

Title: Re: Sol A history help
Post by: Macfie on March 26, 2014, 05:04:11 am

Where did you get your version of Sol A history?
There is an upgraded version that is here:
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.108
You might try using the upgraded version.
I recently played it with the current nightly build and the 3.6.14 mediavps without any problems.

Title: Re: Sol A history help
Post by: Govenator on March 31, 2014, 07:47:15 pm

Thank you Macfie.  I was able to get it running.  Graphics are just a little different.  For example the subspace portals.  Pretty fun campaign! 

Title: Re: Sol A history help
Post by: InsaneBaron on March 31, 2014, 08:07:12 pm

One of the best. Good luck!