[Musopticon?]

Sweet. New community to join.  Too bad FS2_open  refuses to work and makes this kind of assertion:

Assert: Web_cursor_bitmap >= 0
File: e:\languages\visual studio projects\threepointsix\fs2_open\code\graphics\2d.cpp
Line: 1181

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    game_init()    WinMainSub()    WinMain()    WinMainCRTStartup()    kernel32.dll 7c816d4f()
------------------------------------------------------------------

More on that subject: Depug Spew gives this kind of info...

Cannot get hadnle to monochrome driver
Setting language to english
Wokka! Error opening file (strings.tbl)
Error parsing 'strings.tbl'
Error code = 5.

I can see the loading screen with the game title, but after that it just crashes and gives these error logs.

My specs a good enough for the avanced stuff and FS 2 is patched. Also the vpMedia files are supposedly the newest ones available and FS2_open is version 3.6(with the launcher of version 5.2). Have a happy moment of brainstorming.

[Ypoknons]

Hardware specs, flags enabled and ....

language of FS2, please?

(I suppose I've seen SCP with German FS2, but I'm not sure if it works with other languages.)

[Musopticon?]

Will do,
Specs:
Amd Athlon 64 1833 Mhz
1024 Mb DDR Ram
Geforce 6600 with slightly older drivers(newest Forceware caused some issues with my older games)
Win XP with Service Pack 2
Tons of space.

Language:
English

Flags enabled:
Wut?

[Musopticon?]

Oh, and if I try to load FS2 from the main exe(without the FS2_open launcher) it gives me this:
-
--------------------------
Error!
---------------------------
Error: Error parsing 'weapons.tbl'

Error code = 2.


File:C:\projects\freespace2\code\Weapon\Weapons.cpp

Line: 1432


Call stack:

------------------------------------------------------------------

Then the menu works fine, but when I try start the first campaign mission(briefings work); CTD.

[Ypoknons]

Musopticon? please sit tight for a moment here - this is beyond me; please wait for a more technically inclined person to come along in a few hours.

Flags are the command line extensions, like -glow, -spec that turn on and off functions in SCP. They're set in the launcher by the checkboxes.

[Musopticon?]

Thanks, no hurry. I'm not dying to play here.

Just for the heck of it; I unchecked everything from the "flags" and told the game to launch with the minimun settings. Still the same error.

[Grug]

BTW...

[Musopticon?]

Heh, thanks.

[karajorma]

You're basically describing the problems I'd expect to see if you are missing the original vp files so I suspect you have one of two problems.

1) You've put FS2_Open somewhere other than your Freespace 2 folder.

2) You've deleted (or somehow corrupted) your standard media.vp files. The Media VP files Do Not replace these. They merely add to them.

[Musopticon?]

Well, that helped. I had merely installed it into the wrong directory.

Right now I'm having my ass handed to me by NTF-pilots, but all looks very shiny. Thank you everyone.

[karajorma]

No problem. I'll have to put this one into my FAQ. I've seen it enough times