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Title: OSX user needs install help!
Post by: General Battuta on July 28, 2016, 12:12:38 am

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I am relatively certain I have installed everything correctly and copied everything correctly.  Data is now all in a folder in Applications called "Freespace 2."  FSOinstaller worked without errors.  I unpacked wxlauncher.  Run it.  wxLauncher finds /Applications/Freespace2/FS2 Open 3.7.4 without trouble.  Audio detects Built in Audio.  Joystick detects no joysticks, which is fine, because I have none.

Click Play.  Status bar at bottom of screen: "FS2 Open exited with a status of 255."

Advanced settings tab:

"The executable did not generate a flag file.

Make sure that the executable is an FS2 Open Executable."

Thoughts?

Is this a 32/64 bit issue? Is this a wxlauncher issue?

I've asked him to just click on the 3.7.4 app and see what happens.

Title: Re: OSX user needs install help!
Post by: niffiwan on July 28, 2016, 12:38:23 am

That sounds like the executable isn't correct, can they confirm they downloaded the OSX executable with the installer and not the Windows/Linux/FreeBSD executables?

Otherwise, hoping an OSX expert can comment on the thread.

Title: Re: OSX user needs install help!
Post by: jg18 on July 28, 2016, 01:57:12 am

What version of OS X are they using? I think that with post-3.7.2 the minimum is Lion (10.7) if not Mountain Lion (10.8).