However when I run the "FreespaceOpenSetup.exe" it looks like it runs . . . but on inspection of the log that is displayed it seems to fail getting the core files.
Now I have a different problem it seems. This utility is claiming to be outdated . . it then points me to the website but I do not see a standalone FSOPEN installer. Only the "Freespace2Setup.exe" which loads the whole game.
I'm a bit confused now . . . . so any guidance would be appreciated!
I knew this was going to be causing people problems, but I really wanted to get people to stop using the .exe version, as it wasn't going to be updated for 3.6.9 Final, so I took it down. I was still getting easily 80 downloads of it a day, and I'm hoping that the people downloading the .exe version will get the .jar version, instead of not getting anything.
This had not worked for me yesterday, but I discovered why today. First off the file d/l's as a zip and needs to be renamed to a jar. Easy enough.
That's your browser's fault, not mine.
But you need this set of JAVA utilities for it to run. Simply having JAVA installed is not good enough. Check this URL :
http://www.fsoinstaller.com/downloads.html
Look for the link called JAVA UTILITIES. Follow its install directions and you must have JAVA already installed on your system.
When I first ran this and pointed it to my clean FS2 installation (patched to version 1.2) it claimed it was outdated and d/l a newer version of the ZIP file. After renaming this to JAR it seems to be running and updateing. At least it is finding the various files. AND it did get the latest version of FSOpen which was my original problem.
The Java Utilities aren't NEEDED, but they're there to make things easier. You could open a command prompt and type
java -jar FreeSpaceOpenInstaller.jar
but you'd need to make sure that both java.exe and FreeSpaceOpenInstaller were either in the current directory or accessable through the path variable.
