[Molaris]

ok, so I wanted to make a BIG space battle (yay!! ^_^ ) as a first time deal (just started with FRED cause I love Freespace 2 and i LOOOOVE designing maps for ALL sorts of games). just a cap ship, couple corvettes and cruisers on each side. Nothing big. I went to load it and NONE of them were firing beam cannons. I had gotten a message saying 1 type of gun had failed to load, but it wanted to know if I would like to continue anyway (I thought it was the Kayser on the Pegasus). Any ideas?

And does FRED always bog down a PC?

[Shivan Hunter]

editors -> mission specs -> all ships beam-free-all by default. There are loads of settings because the SCP is awesome, but it's at the far right.

[General Battuta]

ok, so I wanted to make a BIG space battle (yay!! ^_^ ) as a first time deal (just started with FRED cause I love Freespace 2 and i LOOOOVE designing maps for ALL sorts of games). just a cap ship, couple corvettes and cruisers on each side. Nothing big. I went to load it and NONE of them were firing beam cannons. I had gotten a message saying 1 type of gun had failed to load, but it wanted to know if I would like to continue anyway (I thought it was the Kayser on the Pegasus). Any ideas?

And does FRED always bog down a PC?

You should go to the FRED view menu and hit 'show ship models' to improve your framerate.

[Droid803]

Something tells me you should the the FRED walkthrough.
Should be mandatory to complete before asking for help IMO.

[Marcov]