[Mooseman]

I just bought a re-released version of Freespace 2 from England. The weapons aren't loading causing the whole mission process to stop. Are there any patches I can download to fix this problem? I have the 1.2 patch installed but still no luck.

Stryder
(aka Mooseman)

[karajorma]

What exactly have you got installed?

FS2 Only?

FS2 + FS2_Open?

Do you have mv_aseffects.vp installed? I've heard of that causing problems.

[Mooseman]

Hi:
It's a bare bones original copy of FS2 from England. Nothing added at all. Just the 1.2 upgrade patch so far and Babylon 5 missions.

[karajorma]

Which B5 missions? R3? They definately won't work on retail.

Which mission are you loading?

Shows how much attention I pay to post counts that I only realise I hit 11000 over 100 posts later

[Unknown Target]

You need the Babylon 5 mod to play the Babylon 5 missions.

[Mooseman]

The training missions load but, after that none of the weapons load in Freespace 2 commercial version no B-5 add on. The weapons dir is empty. I think the original install is at fault. It left out critical info in the mission dir I think. I was going to upload the notepad file but I don't see the option here. Is that normal??

[karajorma]

You're really starting to lose me now Mooseman. There's no weapons folder in FS2.

As far as I can make out you're trying to play TBP missions on Freespace2 retail without actually downloading TBP itself.

Unless you can make it a hell of a lot clearer than this what you're doing I think the only advice I can give you is to uninstall FS2 (and any TBP stuff you have), delete the Freespace 2 folder and start again with a fresh install of FS2.

[StratComm]

Or he could just be using a bad pilot file.  Try making a new pilot before you do anything else within retail; since Taylor fixed pilots for FSO we tend to forget the bugs that crop up with the old code.

[Mooseman]

Sorry. I don't mean to be so vague. I'll try again:
I have a commercial (bought) version of FS2. I just acquired it from England over E-Bay. With it came a seperate disk labelled Babylon 5 and and the FS2 1.2 patch. I installed FS2 and then the B-5 missions add on. Then as soon as I start the game, it gives me a Debug error that say it can't locate the weapons files, and mission briefing files. The game still goes on though. But after the training sessions, I have absolutely no weapons at all and the mission console has nothing in it. Just the type set.
I'm not running it with FS-2 SCP and have it in a completely seperate directory/folder for example SCP is in C:\games\FS2\ and the other is in C:\games\Freespace2\. So there is no sharing of files between FS-2 SCP and the new FS-2. It will even look on the internet, after stopping, and has checked for the latest update, and says it is up-to-date.
Again I'm sorry about the misinformation but I really don't know this program that well.
Again I thank you for your help with this.


Bruce

[Mooseman]

FS2 caused an Access Violation in module FS2.exe at 001b:0044b9a6.
Exception handler called in Freespace 2 Main Thread.
Error occurred at 2/12/2005 15:00:54.
C:\games\freespace2\FS2.exe, run by Owner.
1 processor(s), type 586.
1024 MBytes physical memory.
Write to location 00000000 caused an access violation.

Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=001b EIP=0044b9a6 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=57a30000 SS=0023 ESP=0012f7f0 EBP=00b01c88
ECX=15e8c000 DS=0023 ESI=00000000 FS=003b
EDX=6f430000 ES=0023 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f3 ab 8b cb 83 e1 03 f3 aa 8b 7c 24 10 33 db 3b
Stack dump:


   Module list: names, addresses, sizes, time stamps and file times:
C:\games\freespace2\FS2.exe, loaded at 0x00400000 - 2318336 bytes - 3832e1aa - file date is 11/17/1999 11:11:08
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Audio3D.dll, loaded at 0x013a0000 - 65536 bytes - 3f4264fe - file date is 8/19/2003 05:36:16
c:\progra~1\mcafee.com\vso\McVSSkt.dll, loaded at 0x01940000 - 106496 bytes - 408fefc3 - file date is 4/28/2004 10:54:12
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech\Scrolling\LgMsgHk.dll, loaded at 0x01970000 - 24064 bytes - 3ffdab07 - file date is 1/8/2004 09:50:00
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WmJoyFrc.dll, loaded at 0x01980000 - 200704 bytes - 3d1276b7 - file date is 6/20/2002 11:43:36

[Goober5000]

Hmm.  Can you link us to the ebay page?  If you purchased it fewer than 30 days ago the page should still be active.

[Mooseman]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Hmm.  Can you link us to the ebay page?  If you purchased it fewer than 30 days ago the page should still be active.

OK, Give me few minutes.

Stryder

[Setekh]

No problems, Mooseman. Sorry, can you describe that additional Babylon 5 CD a little more? Sounds like those mods are causing your retail installation some trouble.

[Mooseman]

Here is the link,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8163143033

The mods aren't even in the same folder as the "New FS2". It's a clean install with no mods what-so-ever. I think it is bad coding in the FS2.exe file. Or even within the .dll. maybe even the .vp file themselves. Let me know if the link works.

Bruce

[Mooseman]

Originally posted by Setekh
No problems, Mooseman. Sorry, can you describe that additional Babylon 5 CD a little more? Sounds like those mods are causing your retail installation some trouble.

You could be right. Maybe I should uninstall and re-install the original FS-2 only?? What do you think no B-5?


Bruce

[karajorma]

I definately think you should avoid the B5 CD for now.

Before you reinstall check Data\Tables. It should be completely empty. If it isn't make a new folder called Data and rename to old one.

Also check the main folder for anything ending in .vp You should only have these ones.

# root_fs2.vp
# sparky_fs2.vp
# sparky_hi_fs2.vp
# stu_fs2.vp
# tango1_fs2.vp
# tango2_fs2.vp
# tango3_fs2.vp
# smarty_fs2.vp
# warble_fs2.vp

[Mooseman]

I'll give a try and see what happens.

MM

[Goober5000]

Okay, the seller describes the Babylon 5 mod as "no use to me without the game".  That means it's not the latest version, which is a complete standalone game.

Go to the B5 forum and download the latest version.  It installs separately from FS2 so you'll have no conflicts whatsoever.

[Gregster2k]

Originally posted by Mooseman
Sorry. I don't mean to be so vague. I'll try again:
I have a commercial (bought) version of FS2. I just acquired it from England over E-Bay. With it came a seperate disk labelled Babylon 5 and and the FS2 1.2 patch. I installed FS2 and then the B-5 missions add on. Then as soon as I start the game, it gives me a Debug error that say it can't locate the weapons files, and mission briefing files. The game still goes on though. But after the training sessions, I have absolutely no weapons at all and the mission console has nothing in it. Just the type set.
I'm not running it with FS-2 SCP and have it in a completely seperate directory/folder for example SCP is in C:\games\FS2\ and the other is in C:\games\Freespace2\. So there is no sharing of files between FS-2 SCP and the new FS-2. It will even look on the internet, after stopping, and has checked for the latest update, and says it is up-to-date.
Again I'm sorry about the misinformation but I really don't know this program that well.
Again I thank you for your help with this.


Bruce

Isn't the SCP supposed to be in the same dir as FS2? I always had problems when I tried to run them in separate directories.

[karajorma]

I think what he means that he's done is install a second copy of FS2 in a different folder from the copy he has and is running FS2_Open on. Now why you'd do that is beyond me.