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Offline bfobar

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Problem with Launcher and hi-rez graphics
on: December 29, 2005, 09:01:25 pm
Hi. I wanted to use the search feature, I really did. Since it's broken I'm just going to post a thread and ask for help.

I just deleted and reinstalled freespace 2, patched it to 1.2, installed the 3.6.7 SCP as per the instructions, and installed the mv_zpack. It already looks great, but for some reason it won't let me access the High rez graphics pack in the video tab of the launcher. I checked and sparky_hi_fs2.vp is sitting right there in my FreeSpace2 folder where it belongs. I'm guessing maybe there's a registry key or preference file that doesn't realize that I indeed have the required files for high rez graphics, but I don't know where to start looking. The original FreeSpace install comes off of the retail game of the year disk set, and it's a full install with all the bells and whistles. I have an older athlon xp with a Gforce3 Ti, winders xp, and 512 mb ram.

Any ideas?

P.S. I just found this SCP stuff and I'm thrilled so far with what I'm seeing!
 

Offline Fenrir

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Re: Problem with Launcher and hi-rez graphics
Reply #1 on: December 29, 2005, 09:04:29 pm
I don't think I've ever seen that checkbox clickable, yet the high-res has always worked. You should just be able to set your res. to 1024 x 768 or whatever and be good to go.
 

Offline bfobar

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Re: Problem with Launcher and hi-rez graphics
Reply #2 on: December 29, 2005, 10:43:57 pm
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...... That must be why the ships look so darn good. I just started the main campaign again and was drooling over a spiced up Orion.
 

Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: Problem with Launcher and hi-rez graphics
Reply #3 on: December 29, 2005, 11:39:23 pm
It autodetects it, I think. You just need a file called "sparky_hi_fs2.vp" in the same folder as the launcher.
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Offline taylor

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Re: Problem with Launcher and hi-rez graphics
Reply #4 on: December 30, 2005, 12:08:32 am
It probably did something at one point but now it's a useless control basically.  It doesn't even check to make sure that sparky_hi_fs2.vp even exists for that matter.  If you have a valid exe then it should automatically be set.  Whether the box is checked or not has nothing to do with what the game does either.  I think that at one point the checkbox only gave an error in the Launcher if you tried to set 1024x768 res, but I can't say for sure since I don't use the Launcher.

The game binary has it's own check for the hi-res graphics anyway so it's going to do what it does regardless of what the Launcher is set for.
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