[brinlong]

I highly doubt anyone remembers little ol me from about 5 years ago, but despite managing to not play any freespace in almost 4 years, I've gotten sucked back into it, and I'm trying to pick up the pieces from my earlier coding days, since there are still projects out there I'd like to get involved with.

Trouble is, I only have FRED2 files from what I guess are now the Dark Ages, and almost none of them can open using FSO 3.6.10. Is there anyway to convert old FRED 2 files?

[The E]

Well, in principle, FRED2_Open should be able to open old missions just fine. What error messages do you get?

[brinlong]

Just a generic unable to load. I redownloaded it fine, and I know it was fuctional when it was posted since I got feedback on it. Recognizes the file type and opens FRED 2 but then it goes to pot

[The E]

Good thing with FRED2_Open (the FRED builds that come with every FSO engine build) is that they have way more meaningful error messages, especially the debug builds. Run a FRED debug build, make a note of all error messages that crop up when trying to load your mission, and then post them as well as the fs2_open.log from your data folder here.

[brinlong]

Realized that I may have been auto opening fred2 instead of the open, and I got a ton of errors.

Error: The required OpenGL extension 'GL_EXT_texture_env_add' is not supported by your current driver version or graphics card.

File: gropenglextension.cpp
Line: 437


Call stack:
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Error: Current GL Version of 1.1 is less than the required version of 1.2.
Switch video modes or update your drivers.
File: gropengl.cpp
Line: 2980


Call stack:
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    fred2_open_3_6_10_debug.exe 0051dc32()
    fred2_open_3_6_10_debug.exe 0051d757()
    fred2_open_3_6_10_debug.exe 004576ed()
    fred2_open_3_6_10_debug.exe 0044d651()
    fred2_open_3_6_10_debug.exe 009c5da2()
    fred2_open_3_6_10_debug.exe 009c5704()
    fred2_open_3_6_10_debug.exe 009c32a9()
    fred2_open_3_6_10_debug.exe 009c3745()
    USER32.dll 7e418734()
    USER32.dll 7e42bdf1()
    USER32.dll 7e428ea0()
    USER32.dll 7e42ce7c()
    ntdll.dll 7c90e473()
    USER32.dll 7e42e442()
    USER32.dll 7e42e4dc()
------------------------------------------------------------------

Figure I need to check my graphics drivers, but anything else?

[The E]

Not from that. That basically says that your card/driver does not have the capabilities needed to run FSO. What card are you using?

[brinlong]

Actually, that apparently did it, as is loading my old files. I guess FYI, its a Radeon X300.