[wolf421]

  Ok, now I have followed the offical install instructions twice (screwed it up the first time, deleated it and reinstalled it after deleating the folder and all files). I have tried to run it on each of the fs2 open builds with the update (both regular and debug) and each time I have gotten no where...at last count I had over 50 errors pop up in the debug window starting at line 1502 and ending somewhere around 4250 I think (half dead to the world when I got to that one!!!) gave up and went to bed... The next morning still the same thing with each build from  (12-22-2005 to current 3.6.7 offical release).
I have gone in and extracted the ships-adv.tbl file and renamed it and placed it in the tables folder. Then went in and changed all the "inital to initial" saved the file.. Tried even the fix that I found here in the forums, nothing has worked so far.... And being that I have played fs2_open and beat the game in under a week, I already have the open al files installed and all the latest drivers for my system installed.
Any help please....

System specs:
amd sempron 2200+ oced to 1.8ghz
80 gig hard drive
1gig system memory
geforce fx5200 oced to 300/450 open_gl 2.0 installed
windows xp sp2 with all updates
creative soundblaster live 24bit with all updates eax enabled

[karajorma]

It's only the first error that's important really Post it and we'll try to help The line numbers can either be the place in the code or in the table and unless we know which one they're useless (And even then they aren't that helpful).

The actual error though can be very helpful.

[wolf421]

heres the first one...

Error: ships.tbl(line 1502:
Error: Required token = [+delay:], found [+relative_angle:        45,0,0]
in ship: EA Freighter 1.

File:c:\fs2_open\code\parse\parselo.cpp
Line: 606
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    fs2_open_Red_2006-01-09_d.exe 009feecf()
    fs2_open_Red_2006-01-09_d.exe 007e0da2()
    fs2_open_Red_2006-01-09_d.exe 007e32c8()
    fs2_open_Red_2006-01-09_d.exe 007e3696()
    fs2_open_Red_2006-01-09_d.exe 006c2d24()
    fs2_open_Red_2006-01-09_d.exe 006cf269()
    fs2_open_Red_2006-01-09_d.exe 006cf599()
    fs2_open_Red_2006-01-09_d.exe 00b10297()
    kernel32.dll 7c816d4f()
------------------------------------------------------------------

[wolf421]

I just tried a run with the 3.6.7 build in debug mode heres what got spewed out...

DEBUG SPEW: No debug_filter.cfg found, so only general, error, and warning
categories can be shown and no debug_filter.cfg info will be saved.
==========================================================================
Setting language to English
soundcard = DirectSound
** MAX_CHANNELS set to 64.  DS reported 64.
GR_CPU: Family 6, MMX=Yes
Initializing opengl graphics device...
Res:1024x768x32
OPENGL INITED!

  Vendor     : NVIDIA Corporation
  Renderer   : GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
  Version    : 2.0.1
  Extensions :
      GL_ARB_depth_texture
      GL_ARB_fragment_program
      GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow
      GL_ARB_fragment_shader
      GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
      GL_ARB_imaging
      GL_ARB_multisample
      GL_ARB_multitexture
      GL_ARB_occlusion_query
      GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
      GL_ARB_point_parameters
      GL_ARB_point_sprite
      GL_ARB_shadow
      GL_ARB_shader_objects
      GL_ARB_shading_language_100
      GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp
      GL_ARB_texture_compression
      GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
      GL_ARB_texture_env_add
      GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
      GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
      GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat
      GL_ARB_texture_rectangle
      GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
      GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
      GL_ARB_vertex_program
      GL_ARB_vertex_shader
      GL_ARB_window_pos
      GL_S3_s3tc
      GL_EXT_texture_env_add
      GL_EXT_abgr
      GL_EXT_bgra
      GL_EXT_blend_color
      GL_EXT_blend_func_separate
      GL_EXT_blend_minmax
      GL_EXT_blend_subtract
      GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
      GL_EXT_Cg_shader
      GL_EXT_draw_range_elements
      GL_EXT_fog_coord
      GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
      GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
      GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil
      GL_EXT_packed_pixels
      GL_EXT_paletted_texture
      GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object
      GL_EXT_point_parameters
      GL_EXT_rescale_normal
      GL_EXT_secondary_color
      GL_EXT_separate_specular_color
      GL_EXT_shadow_funcs
      GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette
      GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
      GL_EXT_stencil_wrap
      GL_EXT_texture3D
      GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
      GL_EXT_texture_cube_map
      GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp
      GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
      GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3
      GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
      GL_EXT_texture_lod
      GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
      GL_EXT_texture_object
      GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
      GL_EXT_timer_query
      GL_EXT_vertex_array
      GL_HP_occlusion_test
      GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip
      GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat
      GL_KTX_buffer_region
      GL_NV_blend_square
      GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color
      GL_NV_depth_clamp
      GL_NV_fence
      GL_NV_float_buffer
      GL_NV_fog_distance
      GL_NV_fragment_program
      GL_NV_fragment_program_option
      GL_NV_half_float
      GL_NV_light_max_exponent
      GL_NV_multisample_filter_hint
      GL_NV_occlusion_query
      GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil
      GL_NV_pixel_data_range
      GL_NV_point_sprite
      GL_NV_primitive_restart
      GL_NV_register_combiners
      GL_NV_register_combiners2
      GL_NV_texgen_reflection
      GL_NV_texture_compression_vtc
      GL_NV_texture_env_combine4
      GL_NV_texture_expand_normal
      GL_NV_texture_rectangle
      GL_NV_texture_shader
      GL_NV_texture_shader2
      GL_NV_texture_shader3
      GL_NV_vertex_array_range
      GL_NV_vertex_array_range2
      GL_NV_vertex_program
      GL_NV_vertex_program1_1
      GL_NV_vertex_program2
      GL_NV_vertex_program2_option
      GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap
      GL_SGIS_texture_lod
      GL_SGIX_depth_texture
      GL_SGIX_shadow
      GL_SUN_slice_accum
      GL_WIN_swap_hint
      WGL_EXT_swap_control

USING REFRESH_RATE OF: 0
USING REFRESH_RATE OF: 0
  Found extension "GL_EXT_fog_coord", and function "glFogCoordfEXT()".
  Found extension "GL_EXT_fog_coord", and function "glFogCoordPointerEXT()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_multitexture", and function "glMultiTexCoord2fARB()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_multitexture", and function "glActiveTextureARB()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_texture_env_add".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_texture_compression", and function "glCompressedTexImage2D()".
  Found extension "GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc".
  Found extension "GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic".
  Found extension "GL_NV_fog_distance".
  Found extension "GL_EXT_secondary_color", and function "glSecondaryColor3fvEXT()".
  Found extension "GL_EXT_secondary_color", and function "glSecondaryColor3ubvEXT()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_texture_env_combine".
  Found extension "GL_EXT_texture_env_combine".
  Found extension "GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array", and function "glLockArraysEXT()".
  Found extension "GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array", and function "glUnlockArraysEXT()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_transpose_matrix", and function "glLoadTransposeMatrixfARB()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_transpose_matrix", and function "glMultTransposeMatrixfARB()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_multitexture", and function "glClientActiveTextureARB()".
  Found extension "GL_EXT_draw_range_elements", and function "glDrawRangeElements()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat".
  Unable to find extension "GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object", and function "glBindBufferARB()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object", and function "glDeleteBuffersARB()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object", and function "glGenBuffersARB()".
  Found extension "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object", and function "glBufferDataARB()".

  Max texture units: 4
  Max elements vertices: 4096
  Max elements indices: 4096
  Max texture size: 4096x4096
  Texture compression enabled: YES

Size of bitmap info = 760 KB
Size of bitmap extra info = 52 bytes
ANI cursorweb with size 24x24 (25.0% wasted)
Using high memory settings...
Wokka!  Error opening file (interface.tbl)!
Unable to parse interface.tbl!ANI 2_radar1 with size 170x170 (33.6% wasted)
ML Freespace Multi Log - Opened Sun, Jun 04, 2006  at 04:31PM
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Windoze reported 16 joysticks, we found 1
Current soundtrack set to -1 in event_music_reset_choices
cf_get_file_list_preallocated looking for type=7, filter="*-mus.tbm"
Wokka!  Error opening file (armor.tbl)!
Unable to parse armor.tbl!cf_get_file_list_preallocated looking for type=7,

filter="*-amr.tbm"
cf_get_file_list_preallocated looking for type=7, filter="*-wxp.tbm"
couldn't find particle pcx for Disruptor
BMPMAN: Found EFF (Disruptor_Particle.eff) with 11 frames at 25 fps.
found ani Disruptor_Particle for Disruptor, with 11 frames and 25 fps
BMPMAN: Found EFF (particleexp01.eff) with 21 frames at 20 fps.
couldn't find particle pcx for EA Light Rail Gun
BMPMAN: Found EFF (trailrail.eff) with 11 frames at 10 fps.
found ani trailrail for EA Light Rail Gun, with 11 frames and 10 fps
couldn't find particle pcx for EA Heavy Rail Gun
found ani trailrail for EA Heavy Rail Gun, with 11 frames and 10 fps
couldn't find particle pcx for MF Shokrai
found ani trailrail for MF Shokrai, with 11 frames and 10 fps
couldn't find particle pcx for Deathwalker
found ani Disruptor_Particle for Deathwalker, with 11 frames and 25 fps
cf_get_file_list_preallocated looking for type=7, filter="*-wep.tbm"
Wokka!  Error opening file (difficulty.tbl)!
Unable to parse 'difficulty.tbl'!  Code = 5.
ships.tbl(1501):Error: Required token = [#End], [$Subsystem:] or [$Name], found

[$animation:triggered].
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you ask for tech data, error codes....he.he.he. "I deliver in spades..err usually in tactical nukes!!!" lol

[Trivial Psychic]

First things first, when you did the inital-to-initial thing, which build did you play on?  I got a similar situation to this when I was playing under some late February builds.

Assuming you're playing under anything more recent than 2006/03/01, an example of what your turret01a subsystem should look like on the Freighter 1 follows:

Code: [Select]

$Subsystem:                   turret01a,       1.0, 2.0
    $Default PBanks:        ( "EA Light Plasma Turret" )
    $animation:triggered
    $type:initial
    +relative_angle:        45,0,0
The important parts are the $animation and $type lines.  If its different than that, post what your tables have there.

[wolf421]

mine are the same as yours, even checked the spelling... Begginning to wonder if the main exe 3.6.7 that came wih the update was damaged in the download... wait a second... I just checked all  of the fs2_open exe's I have and none of them are newer than 2006-01-09.... I'm going to look for a newer updated build of the exe. that may be the freeking problem all along....will post the results after I find one....thanks...

[Trivial Psychic]

Of the builds included with the 3.3a patch, 367 is the oldest.  It was released around the beginning of September of last year.  The other 2 were CVS builds from late December and early January, as the dates indicate.  The table example I posted was for builds from March 1st or newer.  I wouldn't advise useing builds newer than the 21st of May.  The reason for this was added into the Install thread under Problems and Solutions, at the bottom.

[wolf421]

I finally found a build that will actualy run the game it's one of the betas, but hey it lets me play. One of the things I noticed right off the bat is the game play is more intense than fs2 ever thought of being.
I tried the surivor missions and was really impressed by the smooth graphics and the handling of a starfurry. Now if this build I am using will run fs2...I'll be almost in heaven...thanks for the help on my problem....now to download and have fun all evening long   

[Trivial Psychic]

Glad its working for ya.