After getting numerous emails about setting up FSO, I've decided to make a guide for newbie's trying to get Freespace Open working on their computers... If we could sticky this, that would be great! If this is supposed to go in General Freespace, please excuse my mistake
Getting Started with Freespace 2 Open
1: GO here and download the 3.6.7 Freespace Source Code Project Release.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,35266.0.html 2: Download it, an place all the files into your Freespace 2 directory... Run the Launcher, and select the Freespace 2 Open Executable, and configure your settings for tha game (you should be able to run it on all high settings, depending on how old your computer is..)
3: Play FS Open and enjoy the nice graphics!!
If you want to run FS2 Fan Made Campaigns, download the campaigns, and put them in a directory with the name of the campaign on it and then select the MOD section of the launcher... Click the Slect MOD button, and select the folder with the campaign files in it.... that should do the trick...
If you have trouble running the Official FSO Builds, you can Try using a CVS Build of FSO. The only difference is that they arent tested for such a long period of time, and are updated weekly, and for some reason, seem to work better for some other campaigns..... I use CVS builds myself instead of official builds, because they just work better for me... You can get CVS Builds here:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,34852.0.html If you play the Inferno Campaign, and are having trouble running it on FSO official Builds, try using the Inferno CVS Build Instead....
Hope this helps everybody.... Zman
