[colecampbell666]

I searched, the closest I could find was a review site called SharkyExtreme.

[pablo]

To Lobo.

I am glad you showed me the graphic.

In general it looks like yours. However, I do not have the same string that you have in the top window under features. I have a simple one line string which is of a different build. So I already see a problem with my installer.

I have 3_6_9 and you have 3_6_10. So there is obviously something different between mine and everyone elses that I can tell.

I know I need to imput some flags and have not done that yet. But I do not have all the flags that obviously you do for inputing. Which was why I waited before doing it.   

Please advise steps and listing of all the flags.  A copy paste for me would be nice but I can hard put it in.

I clicked on the so called trusted installer and it gave me 3 6 9 on a 5.5c build.  I notice that yours is a 3 6 10 ona 5.5d build.  So I think I may need a new link for the newer installer.

I have clicked on debug and all the other items that are exe available. Some work some appear as though they may not have done anything. But that can be true or false since I am not sure what I should be looking for specifically for each to know if cetain ones did what they were suposed to.

But no I do not have exactly what you have from your graphic. Its close but not the same.

[pablo]

I will see if I can find the link to the sharky installer. I came across it in the same general way I found this forum. I was looking for installing Freespace 1 and 2 on my XP machine. I clicked on several sites before I found this one. I was even suprised to find that I was already registered through stardoc to post here.

But I will see If I can find the link to the installer 3 6 12 also called Sharky's installer from some other website.

But Right now I just want to play Freespace! Right now I can not play freespace 2 at all because of some glitch on my older system but I can play Freespace Great War and Silent threat.

I would like to play them both on my current machine.

I have the installer that was suggested and finally got it to sort of work or it may be working fine but I may not realize it.

I do know that I have a build problem as it seems everyone has a newer build than I do.  What the hell? Even in the instructions for my installer it says to install 3 6 10 5.5d verison but with no link to it.
Thus I installed what I had a link to which is the 3 6 9  5.5c version.

So either I am missing something or I downloaded the wrong thing!

[pablo]

I went back to try clicking on the 3 6 10 FS 2 debug again.

I get an error on all the debug stuff and all the exe items now with the notice error of:
"This application has failed to start because OpenAL32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

Considering of the amount of problems I have had in installing reinstalling this installer, I am wondering what the hell right now.

[Jeff Vader]

This application has failed to start because OpenAL32.dll was not found.

Have you installed OpenAL? If not, do install. Link in my signature.

Edit: Now that I've read this more carefully...

I clicked on the so called trusted installer and it gave me 3 6 9 on a 5.5c build.  I notice that yours is a 3 6 10 ona 5.5d build.  So I think I may need a new link for the newer installer.

The Installer is quite up-to-date. fs2_open_3_6_9 is the latest official release of the FSO game engine. Most 3.6.10 builds are also reliable, but since none of them has been officially named as thefs2_open_3_6_10, the Installer doesn't download them. The Launcher you have is also new enough. The 5.5d differs only so that its joystick detection code is improved.

I have clicked on debug and all the other items that are exe available. Some work some appear as though they may not have done anything. But that can be true or false since I am not sure what I should be looking for specifically for each to know if cetain ones did what they were suposed to.

At this point I'd like to point out that the debug builds are to be used for tracking specific bugs or errors. Once you get everything working, stop using them and use the normal FSO builds instead.

As for the command line options, if you can see them on the Launcher, select at least Enable specular, Enable glowmaps, Enable jpg/tga textures (if you're using 3.6.9) and Use models for ship selection. If you can't see any options whatsoever, there is something horribly wrong with your FSO builds.

[jr2]

Ya, the Installer should have told you to install OpenAL... it usually does in a message at the end.

[colecampbell666]

Yeah, 3.6.10 is experimental, and thus may have problems. 3.6.9 is official, and is what a beginner should use. You can get Launcher 5.5d in my signature.