[Ryan]

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.

[Huggybaby]

Torrents are the best way...
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/841688/Freespace_2_new_tracker?tab=files#torrent

[jr2]

My siggy?  (Hades Combine).. or the torrents will work, they are resumable.

[Polpolion]

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.

[jr2]

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. 

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)

[Polpolion]

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. 

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!

[jr2]

*shrugs* I'm keen (well, ok, so maybe I'm not) but clueless.

[hip63]

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

hip63

[karajorma]

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.