[Firartix]

Hey !
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and have been playing FS2 for a couple days now.
I finished the FSPort campaign and started the STR one
But... After several missions, (actually the one where you protect the Particle Accelerator from Pirates), everything went crazy

In fact, ships started to "disappear" at any time ! For now i only experienced it on that one mission
The ships are still targetable using the "Target nearest hostile" key, but there is no picture of it and distance is NaN
I tried to restart the mission several times but that didn't work... Then i tried to go farther in the mission.

Here's what i noticed :
 - The Particle Accelerator and it's pods are in that nowhere space since the start of the mission
 - One of the two drone freighters disappear after some time, where as the other one disappear once killed (no explosion, but kill is counted)
 - All the shivans and pirate wings besides the first one spawn in that nowhere space too
 - The first 2 GTI freighter picked up cargos correctly if i remember correctly

After waiting some more time, even stranger things happen :
Some of the Alpha Wing ships start disappearing ;
then the 2 Kappa wings warps in, and i get asked to scan one of each wing.
After scanning Kappa 2 of the first one, my ship got warped in that nowhere too ! The screen goes full black, Subspace don't work, but weapons do. It's kinda strange.


Now about what i believe to be possible causes :
 - Well.. i used my FSPort pilot, since STR uses FSPort.. uh, right ?
 - I use some nightbuild from a few days ago (then around 5800), however, the site where i downloaded them (FSPort & STR) said it was tested for build 5024. However i didn't had any problem with FSPort.
 - The version of FSPort i downloaded on that website is 3.1.1. I believe there are more recent one, but i couldn't find them anywhere...


Then, if you can give me some hint on what's going wrong or anything, please tell me
Thanks in advance

[Galemp]

Huh. Well, I'll tell you now that it's not a FSPort problem, it's an FSOpen problem. It sounds like you're doing everything right.

Try using the 3.6.10 Official Release, that's more than capable of running the game. Nightly builds implement cutting-edge features that may not have been fully bugfixed.

Also I'm glad to see another Ubuntu user able to get the game up and running without problems.

[Firartix]

This worked fine, thanks for your help
Well... actually i don't have time to test it right now, but the Particle Accelerator appears normaly at start then i guess there won't be anymore problems.

I guess after finishing that campaign i'm going to try multiplayer mode

Thanks again for that fast and ... uh well, i guess, accurate help

Oh and BTW don't laugh too much about me talking English that bad, i'm French ><

[MatthTheGeek]

Oh and BTW don't laugh too much about me talking English that bad, i'm French ><

Regarde-moi : on peut être français et très bien parler anglais

[Galemp]

Oui, ily a plus des anglophones qui parlont anglais tres mauvais. (Sorry, my French is rusty.)

If you're interested in multiplayer, I suggest you talk to people on the IRC channel. They will help you get a game started.