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Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: fs2freak88 on January 14, 2003, 04:43:45 pm

Ok, this one is not a FRED question. It has to do with the game itself. I've played through the main campaign once. I've also played many other missions and was replaying the campaign. Then, during one mission, it just booted me back to the desktop screen. So, I'm like ok, its just one little bug. Then it did it again. And again. I tried a tech room mission and it did it. I've tried reinstalling the thing twice now, with no virus scanner open or ad blocker. The bug just strikes when it wants, which is often. Now, I can't even open the game, I can't even get to the intro movie for that matter. This is really frustrating. Any suggestions are very welcomed and needed. Thanks.

Mark

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: aldo_14 on January 14, 2003, 04:50:38 pm

Hmm...never had that.  Have you updated directX or your drivers recently?  It doesn;t sound like it's to do with FS itself if you've reinstalled it, so I'd guess its to do with your system somehow... what's your config?

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: fs2freak88 on January 14, 2003, 05:15:28 pm

P3 500
13.6 GB HD
384 MB RAM
Windows XP
Turtle Beach sound card
GeForce4 MX 440 64 mb ram

Hope this answers your q.

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: Nico on January 14, 2003, 06:03:02 pm

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Originally posted by fs2freak88
Turtle Beach sound card

raaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! memories! That was one of my "have to get that" when I was younger...

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: Vasudan Admiral on January 14, 2003, 06:14:39 pm

do you have any mods installed? cos i once had the ai tbl corrupt itself and crash fs like that. i thought it was some software conflict....

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: fs2freak88 on January 14, 2003, 07:44:58 pm

Could someone please name the Files that originally come with the game? That would be very helpful. I thought I deleted mods but i could be wrong...

Mark

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: Whitelight on January 15, 2003, 12:38:41 am

The game will only delete game files when uninstalled, if you do have mods installed they will be in the games\freespace2\data directory in the following subdirectories ( effects, interface, models, maps, hud and tables... Depending opon types of models used, capital ships wouldn`t use the hud subdirectory, unless they are shielded as the fighters and bombers do.. That`s all that i can think of right off, hope this helps..

(edit) if you use a modded *.vp file it will be in the games\freespace2 directory..

Side note, all the game data is in the *.vp files
root_fs2
smarty-fs2
sparky_fs2
sparky_hi_fs2
stu_fs2
tango1_fs2
tango2_fs2
tango3_fs2   those are all the game data files as you requested

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: Stunaep on January 15, 2003, 08:14:07 am

and you might just try renaming your data folder, copy the players folder from it, then create a new folder named data, and paste the players folder inside.

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on January 15, 2003, 01:00:28 pm

NO! Try not!
Do! Or do not!
There is no try.

Just delete all your tbls, or move them.

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: Stealth on January 15, 2003, 01:14:46 pm

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Originally posted by venom2506


raaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! memories! That was one of my "have to get that" when I was younger...

yeah, when i saw that i did the same thing :D :D


hehehe, lol fsfreak, you got a GF4 running on a 500 mHz machine.  that's quite ironic, i don't know why ;) :D

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: Stealth on January 15, 2003, 01:16:31 pm

i've got a better idea:  why not say "screw the MODs"... you can't play them anyway since FS doesn't even run,

so...


uninstall FS, then delete your entire FREESPACE (or freespace2, depending what you're talking about) directory, then delete that from the recycle bin! then when you're done, restart!  then reinstall.  so there's no chance that any Freespace1/2 component is left! :D

:D

if that doesn't work, post here again

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: Vertigo1 on January 15, 2003, 03:20:15 pm

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Originally posted by Stealth
i've got a better idea:  why not say "screw the MODs"... you can't play them anyway since FS doesn't even run,

so...


uninstall FS, then delete your entire FREESPACE (or freespace2, depending what you're talking about) directory, then delete that from the recycle bin! then when you're done, restart!  then reinstall.  so there's no chance that any Freespace1/2 component is left! :D

:D

if that doesn't work, post here again

Before doing this, be sure to backup your Players directory.

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: Whitelight on January 15, 2003, 08:34:51 pm

fs2freak88 I guess you didn`t expect this kind of a responce to your post :yes: :D

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: fs2freak88 on January 17, 2003, 03:05:32 pm

Thank you Stealth, your suggestion worked. FS2 is now up and running like normal. Hopefully this won't happen again.

Title: A Serious Problem
Post by: EdrickV on January 17, 2003, 07:36:42 pm

FYI, when FS2 crashes to the desktop that usually means the crash was a GPF (General Program Fault) and that details of the crash were appended to the errorlog.txt file. (Much of that is too technical for me to decipher, but the first part of it can give people an idea of whether this is a crash that people have seen before or not.) If it crashes a lot, then finding the right entry can take some time.