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Offline Ryan

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Non-Broken link to fs2?
I know ive been on and on and on and on and on and... bla about errors

But i can't find a retail version of freespace that does NOT have a broken link or is not 1 huge file

HOTU= Bad link, won't work

Turey's installer= Bad thing. Freespace2/Fred2 cannot find directory route. I don't blame this on turey, i would guess it works fine. I just have the computer skills of a monkey, and can't figure out how to work it

I have NO, repeat, NO freespace 2 things with me, i had the disks, but there lost in the mess that is the computer room. no files, nothing. just a boring demo.

Goggle shows afew links, most broken. Trying Hades gives me 1 huge file with no installer, so after i burn to a disk, then what? is the installer in the huge file?

Can somebody PLEASE just put up a link to a WORKING link to download a retail version of freespace 2? i don't need the other Open stuff or extra campiagns, just a working retail version. so that i can go try to kill something other then my need to kill something!

Sorry if i sounded rude.

 
 

Offline jr2

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Re: Non-Broken link to fs2?
My siggy?  (Hades Combine).. or the torrents will work, they are resumable.

 

Offline Polpolion

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Re: Non-Broken link to fs2?
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html -- all download links


Why do you persist in ignoring my posts? This is the third time I've posted this. And also like I said earlier, you need to run FS2 from a directory that has no spaces in the name.

 

Offline jr2

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Re: Non-Broken link to fs2?
And also like I said earlier, you need to run FS2 from a directory that has no spaces in the name.
Not true unless you use an old version of the Launcher.  5.5 has this issue fixx0red.

EDIT:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,47534.msg967151.html#msg967151

I stated this bug was fixed in v 5.5 of the Launcher.  That is correct, right?  If so, can you confirm this?  Thx   :)
Correct, it was fixed in the 5.5 Launcher.  But it is not, and has never been, a bug in FS2/FSO.  It was just some stupid requirement of the Launcher, which basically was there to correct a bug that should have just been fixed in the first place.  By the time that I got to it, the problem code had already been removed/replaced, but the space check was left in foar no reason.  :doubt:

Some installers could have trouble with spaces in the folder names, but that too would just be an installer bug and have nothing to do with FS2/FSO itself.

The only requirement that FS2/FSO has regarding directory names is that:
 1) The path must contain valid characters for the filesystem/OS
 2) The total path must be less than 255 characters ('total' being all the way down to "data/somefolder/somefile.xxx")
 3) paths and filenames must not contain multi-byte characters (like Chinese or Japanese for instance)
« Last Edit: June 10, 2007, 02:45:33 pm by jr2 »

 

Offline Polpolion

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Re: Non-Broken link to fs2?
And also like I said earlier, you need to run FS2 from a directory that has no spaces in the name.
Not true unless you use an old version of the Launcher.  5.5 has this issue fixx0red.

EDIT:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,47534.msg967151.html#msg967151

I stated this bug was fixed in v 5.5 of the Launcher.  That is correct, right?  If so, can you confirm this?  Thx   :)
Correct, it was fixed in the 5.5 Launcher.  But it is not, and has never been, a bug in FS2/FSO.  It was just some stupid requirement of the Launcher, which basically was there to correct a bug that should have just been fixed in the first place.  By the time that I got to it, the problem code had already been removed/replaced, but the space check was left in foar no reason.  :doubt:

Some installers could have trouble with spaces in the folder names, but that too would just be an installer bug and have nothing to do with FS2/FSO itself.

The only requirement that FS2/FSO has regarding directory names is that:
 1) The path must contain valid characters for the filesystem/OS
 2) The total path must be less than 255 characters ('total' being all the way down to "data/somefolder/somefile.xxx")
 3) paths and filenames must not contain multi-byte characters (like Chinese or Japanese for instance)

OK you win. But I still don't know why he was ignoring my link so much. I don't even know why he missed the thread in the first place. It's stickied and right there!

 

Offline jr2

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Re: Non-Broken link to fs2?
*shrugs* I'm keen (well, ok, so maybe I'm not) but clueless.

 

Offline hip63

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Re: Non-Broken link to fs2?
How about in 100 mb chunks:

http://hosted.filefront.com/hip63/1915136

and the patch for the above files

http://hosted.filefront.com/hip63/1935621

see if that will work for you

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Offline karajorma

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Re: Non-Broken link to fs2?
I hope you still have Turey's version installed. The reasons why you're getting that error are actually very simple and are probably just due to a bad shortcut.
Karajorma's Freespace FAQ. It's almost like asking me yourself.

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