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Ok, I've done some searching and stuff but haven't been able to find anything, so...

I got the HOtU version, downloaded the vps from the FTP, and got FS_Open, followed all the instructions to set things up, etc.

However, I'm having problems with the voices. In the speech tab of the launcher and in the Tech Room, the voice plays, but at super-fast speed, so I can't even undertand what it's saying.

During the missions, there's no speech at all, which makes the training missions a pain because the little text windows pop up and disappear so fast I can only read about the first line or two, and during the normal missions it's difficult to follow the happenings without constantly pausing to read the text since it's not talking to me.

I was under the impression that the VPs were supposed to take care of this, but they don't seem to do anything. Also, when I delete all the viles from data\voice (but not the directories), the game won't run.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on what the problem might be here.

PigLick

 

Offline karajorma

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That's a little odd. What error did you get after deleting the voices? Cause AFAIK FS2 shouldn't give a damn about whether voice files are found or not.

Which vp did you download? Where did you put it? (You need to put stu_fs2.vp into your main Freespace2 folder). The file you have should be 169,108KB in size.

As for the speech in the techroom that is another matter. The synthesised speech speed is controlled by the speech Control Panel in Windows. If you don't have this then you probably get it by clicking on the get additional voices option and installing the extra two voices.  (I have no idea when the control panel turned up on my XP machine so I'm not 100% certain that it was installling this that created it).
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Aha, thanks for the info. For some strange reason, all my .vp files were tiny little ~100k files. I'm not sure what happened with that. Strange. Anyway, replacing them with the real .vp files fixed everything up, all seems well. =)

Checked the speech control panel in WinXP too and it was there, so I got that sorted.

Once again, thanks for the help!

PigLick

 

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No problem. Every time I help someone with HotU problems my understanding of how it's put together gets better :)

The real irony is that though I've somehow ended up as the resident HotU expert I've never used it :) I suppose I should just download it one day and install it on my second PC so I can figure out the best way to tell people to handle it :D
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