[The E]

That seems to be Win 7 or the server edition, right? If so, you might want to check <User directory>/Appdata/Local/VirtualStore/Program Files (x86)/gog.com/FreeSpace 2/ and see if the data landed there.

[Leuthesius]

Nope, nothing there.

Its win7prox64

Is there anybody here on the "staff" that has teamviewer?

There's a reason I wanted to just have an installer do it all. Mods are always a pain to set up manually, and I haven't touched FSOI in nearly five years.

[General Battuta]

Mods aren't that bad to set up any more - each mod just goes in its own folder in the FreeSpace 2 directory.

[Leuthesius]

I guess I meant the program itself. I'm down to MV_Advanced_3612.zip and FS1oggmovies.

That shouldn't make any effect with anything as far as the launcher goes. It's telling me that the binary isnt in the same directory.

[General Battuta]

That's pretty weird. Have you run the FS2.exe at least once to set the necessary registry keys? You could also try WXlauncher: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=67950.0

[Leuthesius]

Yeah, I ran FS2.exe before anything else. Launcher is giving me "Error - The Launcher must be in the same directory as the binary you are trying to use."

It will still open, but there are no real options.


Ok, I take that back. I figured it out, there's a browse button for a reason. I think it's fixed now. It was trying to open 3_6_10 and I dont have that, I've got 3_6_12r. :|

Don't mind me, just noobing it up all hardcore. Hey, I'm a great pilot and I fix computers for half of my living, but this stuff just makes me want to slam my face through walls.

Where's the mod downloads? The installer apparently never got to that part.

[General Battuta]

Well, that depends what you want. At this stage in the game I would recommend Vassago's Dirge, Blue Planet 1/2, and Wings of Dawn as the cutting edge. Each of these can be downloaded from ModDB, and Blue Planet and Wings of Dawn have their own subforums here.

ED: all three require the 3.6.12 MediaVPs, and Blue Planet 2 requires that Blue Planet 1 be installed and up to date in a folder named 'blueplanet' in the FS2 directory.

[Scotty]

Yeah, I ran FS2.exe before anything else. Launcher is giving me "Error - The Launcher must be in the same directory as the binary you are trying to use."

It will still open, but there are no real options.


Ok, I take that back. I figured it out, there's a browse button for a reason. I think it's fixed now. It was trying to open 3_6_10 and I dont have that, I've got 3_6_12r. :|

Don't mind me, just noobing it up all hardcore. Hey, I'm a great pilot and I fix computers for half of my living, but this stuff just makes me want to slam my face through walls.

Where's the mod downloads? The installer apparently never got to that part.

If you have the launcher.exe in another folder like "launcher", remove it and try again.  The launcher.exe and the FSO build you want to use must be in the same folder, in this case, "Freespace 2"

[jr2]

Wasn't this problem solved by deleting launcher.ini and running again?  Or just editing it so it indeed pointed to the correct place?

[The E]

No.

[jr2]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=56279.msg1180353#msg1180353

"The launcher must be in the same directory as the binary you are tying to use."
Delete the file "launcher6.ini" from your \freespace2\ folder.

...Yes?

[The E]

You said "or just editing it so that it points to the right place".

Which won't work.

[jr2]

Err... IIRC, I've done that before to fix the problem.  But I could be mistaken, and that fix may have changed since I did it.  Anyways, deleting the launcher6.ini will cause FSOpen to re-create the file with the correct settings in it so that should definitely fix the problem.

EDIT: Downloaded fresh install with Installer and got the same error message; just fixed it by modifying the launcher6.ini file;

In the section

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#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
[launcher]
exe_filepath = fs2_open_3_6_12r_INF.exe;
Note the exe_filepath ... it was set to a file that wasn't downloaded by the Installer didn't exist (fs2_open_3_6_10.exe or somesuch).  I edited it to the correct filename and it works now.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Well, that depends what you want. At this stage in the game I would recommend Vassago's Dirge, Blue Planet 1/2, and Wings of Dawn as the cutting edge. Each of these can be downloaded from ModDB, and Blue Planet and Wings of Dawn have their own subforums here.

ED: all three require the 3.6.12 MediaVPs, and Blue Planet 2 requires that Blue Planet 1 be installed and up to date in a folder named 'blueplanet' in the FS2 directory.

Also Silent Threat: Reborn, and first of all the FS Port (if you haven't played FS1 yet). There's a list here with all FS mods known to man, and most of them you can find on the Wiki as well.