[jdjtcagle]

only thing I'm missing is the flags file...

[karajorma]

Maybe you have old dll's or they've gotten corrupted. Try redownloading Taylor's build or simply use Phreak's radar build and see if that helps.

[SadisticSid]

He never mentioned using one of taylor's builds, unless it was implied?

jd, try running FS2 without any flags, directly from the FS2 directory without the launcher - see if that allows it to run. If it does, make a shortcut to that file, and add the flags to the end of the command line one by one, testing it after each. Remember to use the right build if you have multiple ones in your directory. I think the launcher and flags issue is a separate one

[jdjtcagle]

Kara:  haven't used them yet...
Didn't work anyway

Sid: Vanilla Fs2?

Funny, I just tried to run Coolmons builds and it worked!!!

But 3.6 vanilla or taylors doesn't work...

[karajorma]

Originally posted by SadisticSid
He never mentioned using one of taylor's builds, unless it was implied?

I figured that since his problem sounds exactly like mine and mine was only with Taylor's build and was caused by the dll's that there was a good possibility that it was the same problem as I had.

After fixing this problem I did briefly have another problem caused by the movies until I remembered to turn off the movie code but since 3.6 isn't working I doubt that the cause is the same thing.

[jdjtcagle]

In a attempt to avoid reinstall, I finally got the launcher to work...
But any build I already tried before is infected and wont work, is there any way to fix that?

[karajorma]

How did you get things to work?

[jdjtcagle]

First I deleted all builds (except the Vanilla Fs2.exe, then I ran Vanilla Fs2.exe, gave me a couple of errors, which is normal because I have SCP stuff in my folders. Got out of the load up screen and the launcher would now work...

Now I need to figure out how to get SCP builds to work...

[karajorma]

Can you get me a snapshot of your FS2 folder? I still suspect something is wrong there. The problem is too similar to mine to have a completely different cause.

[jdjtcagle]

Ok...

[Skippy]

Were you using the 5.2 Launcher ?

[jdjtcagle]

yes

[Skippy]

Where is your FS2 Open exe ?

[Flipside]

And why are your Fred 2 options showing in the filename?

[jdjtcagle]

FsOpen EXE is whatever I decide to download, newer or older

Fred 2 options is:  From the shortcut... "D:\Program Files\FreespaceSCP\fred2_open_r -fredhtl -mod Inferno.exe" -fredhtl -mod Port

P.S.  The reason it says -fredhtl -mod Inferno.exe"  just don't worry about that

[Skippy]

Running with 2 -mod options won't help

[jdjtcagle]

I said ignore it!!!

I'm not, I originally added it to the end of the shortcut name, until I found out I was doing it wrong... Just never changed it back

[Kazan]

skippy: however running "-mod moda,modb" will do you good

[WMCoolmon]

You do realize that adding the command line options to the filename of the program does nothing, right?

[jdjtcagle]

Of course, although it took me a while to figure it out...  When I figured it out, I was/still am too lazy to remove it