[Solatar]

What exactly have you installed? Just to be sure.

[jr2]

@superlaxer:
Some directions for you to read, they might help:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/intro.html
If you need a download, try the one found here:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,39499.0.html
Hope these help.

EDIT: Oh, and BTW to get up to the latest, most stable version after downloading from above:
Get the Launcher from http://fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/3.6.9-RC2.zip , and then update your engine with the one found here: (RC3)
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40557.0.html

[AlphaOne]

Umm Jr2 does this mean that if I want better graphics from the game i have to get those updates as well? I have FS open installed because i have the Derelict SCP installed on mi Pc.

Oh and as a side note wouldnt it be better for all the lates patches or builds or whatever to be posted in a Thread of theyr own with the older versions beeing archived somewhere and the newer version introduced to replace the older ones? that way you alwais have only 3 or 4 links thee instead of all the links to all the versions etc posted wich can be a bit confusing you know.


Its just and idea!

[Ace Pace]

Umm Jr2 does this mean that if I want better graphics from the game i have to get those updates as well? I have FS open installed because i have the Derelict SCP installed on mi Pc.

Oh and as a side note wouldnt it be better for all the lates patches or builds or whatever to be posted in a Thread of theyr own with the older versions beeing archived somewhere and the newer version introduced to replace the older ones? that way you alwais have only 3 or 4 links thee instead of all the links to all the versions etc posted wich can be a bit confusing you know.


Its just and idea!

Nowdays it's very easy to get FS2 Open up and running, download Shivansps's torrent.

But for a short note: If you want better graphics like those shown off, yes, you do need the MediaVPs. It's generally a good thing to have those as some mods like to make use of them even if you don't run all the extra effects.

I'm pretty sure the moment 3.6.9 comes out we'll have a compiled DL thread.

[karajorma]

Oh and as a side note wouldnt it be better for all the lates patches or builds or whatever to be posted in a Thread of theyr own with the older versions beeing archived somewhere and the newer version introduced to replace the older ones? that way you alwais have only 3 or 4 links thee instead of all the links to all the versions etc posted wich can be a bit confusing you know.

 Apart from mod developers and coders no one should be using recent builds. At the moment we're forced to point people in the direction of recent builds because that's the only solution we have when someone finds a bug in 3.6.7. Hopefully from 3.6.9 we can keep stable and development branches seperate and thus not have these problems.

Of course early adopters will be more than welcome to run the bleeding edge builds but if they find that confusing then perhaps they shouldn't be doing that.

[superlaxer]

thx jr2 the link for the freespace 2 game worked and the game works but theres one problem evrything works exept of black space i get the hole background white but then i turn i can see black stars help how do i fix this i dounoded (Freespace 2 SCP Pack v1.5c, by ShivanSpS)

[Ace Pace]

thx jr2 the link for the freespace 2 game worked and the game works but theres one problem evrything works exept of black space i get the hole background white but then i turn i can see black stars help how do i fix this i dounoded (Freespace 2 SCP Pack v1.5c, by ShivanSpS)

The pack came with another patch, 1.8, that you can DL by going to the same thread. Also, it might be a problem in the MediaVPs. Go down to Recent Builds sub forum, go to any release candidate thread and Dl the two patchs that are there.

[superlaxer]

o and olot of times the game freezes and it cant remember my name on the login screen and when i start the luncher is says it has to be in the freespace dir and it cant read or something with flag files! o my aim name is (jon super ninja) 1 space between each word contact me and tell me what to do

[karajorma]

Check my FAQ's installation guide. That should show you what a proper FS2_Open install should look like.

[superlaxer]

ok now i got evrything to work the only problem now is sometimes the game goes to the microsoft error messige you know the one were you can send a error report how do i fix this problem

[KappaWing]

Just go ahead send the error report and micro$oft will gladly help you with your Freespace woes. 

Actually I encountered a problem like that and It went away after I swictched to OpenGL.

[Annorax]

Oh and as a side note wouldnt it be better for all the lates patches or builds or whatever to be posted in a Thread of theyr own with the older versions beeing archived somewhere and the newer version introduced to replace the older ones? that way you alwais have only 3 or 4 links thee instead of all the links to all the versions etc posted wich can be a bit confusing you know.

 Apart from mod developers and coders no one should be using recent builds. At the moment we're forced to point people in the direction of recent builds because that's the only solution we have when someone finds a bug in 3.6.7. Hopefully from 3.6.9 we can keep stable and development branches seperate and thus not have these problems.

Of course early adopters will be more than welcome to run the bleeding edge builds but if they find that confusing then perhaps they shouldn't be doing that.

Will two branches also mean two separate CVS repositories so the three of us who run FS2_Open on Linux and thus compile CVS builds for ourselves can choose between stable and testing builds?

[Goober5000]

Yes.  And there are more than three.

[taylor]

Will two branches also mean two separate CVS repositories so the three of us who run FS2_Open on Linux and thus compile CVS builds for ourselves can choose between stable and testing builds?

Yep, just grab a checkout as normal but with the tag "fs2_open_3_6_9" and you'll get the 3.6.9 stable branch.

I'm going to use that branch as the base for all of my upcoming code since I need something stable to run with.  None of my new changes will hit that branch in CVS, they will go to the unstable branch instead, but it's going to be nice to finally have a stable base to develop on top of so I don't have to worry about broken builds and bugs that are outside of my own new code.

And like Goober said, there are more than 3 Linux users of FS2_Open.  A LOT more.