[Zantor]

I couldn't find my old topic among the conglomeration of the others, so I'm making a new one.

Good news about running FS2. I merged that VideocardFS2Open registry key and the FS2 Open R executable that comes with the torrent runs flawlessly; I have had a few crashes, and I'm thinking it is due to running out of memory or the like. Sometimes there is so much to render that lots of swap (virtual memory) is used, and so I will sometimes hear the hard drive crank. Reducing the detail while the intensity is high will help fix that problem.

I have NOT gotten the FS2 Retail HotU crack pack to run the campaign with primary weapons useable. That is not a problem since FS2 Open is running just fine. I like FS2 Open better because of the fact that it uses OpenGL. I canNOT run the latest standard CVS build for some reason, and I will soon acquire an error log or something to help diagnose the problem.

An issue I am currently having is what I think is a bug in the retail campaign. In the mission "A game of TAG", which as you may know is your first assignment with the 134th Barracudas, You get to the point where the corvette and AWACS stop and there is still a directive to destroy 4 ships in the enemy wing Virgo. When I see that and look on radar, even with the AWACS, I don't see any enemy ships on scope. Will someone please explain this?

I have also upgraded to Win2K Pro SP4. So far I like it, and have had few problems with it.

That's all so far. I guess now I'll have to browse for some custom campaigns that people have made. I am also looking at getting the CD images and burning them so I can run FS2 Retail, but I will need to know if there is a link to such a torrent...

[karajorma]

Check the general page of my FAQ for a list torrents and eMule links.

[Zantor]

Thanks, Karajorma. I think I can remedy the campaign mission bug with some fix, but I don't know what to do. Ideas, anyone?

By the way, the latest CVS build won't work on my system. I'm wondering if it has to do with my recent transition to Win2K Pro SP4, or there is a but in the EXE. When I run it, it ends up assembling an error log. When I get the opportunity, I will submit it.

[HangTime]

Thanks, Karajorma. I think I can remedy the campaign mission bug with some fix, but I don't know what to do. Ideas, anyone?

I had exactly the same bug.  Only way I could get round it was by downgrading fs2open to 3.67, and also replacing the VPs with the older release.  Once the mission was complete I put the CVS build and 368 VPs back on.

Definitely a bug with CVS build IMO.

[Wanderer]

Virgo wing uses rand in their arrival cue.. i thought that bug was already fixed?

[karajorma]

Not good. This appears to be a problem with the rand SEXP but I don't know if it's my error or Goober's. Unfortunately I'm getting bluescreens whenever I try running anything that uses Direct X after a few minutes so I can't do much at the moment even if RL wasn't getting in the way at the moment.

[karajorma]

Okay I checked the mission and the problem isn't the Rand SEXP as far as I can tell. Those Taurvi's are out there. Problem is that they're just sitting there doing nothing and I've got no idea why. I doubt that the alterations to rand are responsible for that as if that were the case I'd expect them to not have jumped in at all.

I'm attaching an edited version of the mission which gives you better radar range (while the AWACS is alive). Put it somewhere that FS2 will find it (in the mediavps\data\missions folder if you have it) and give it a try. I'll bet those Taurvi's are sitting out there for you too.

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[taylor]

I put this on my bug this the other day when I noticed it as well.  I know the wing is there since I can easily check their status in the debugger, and I know that they are moving at least some (the position vector changes), but I haven't had a chance to debug it any further than that.  If I fly directly at the sun in the mission (with time compression) I can eventually catch up the the bomber wing in route to the Warspite.  Other than a couple of obvious bugs with regards to error handling the rand sexp deffinitely works fine so that's certainly not the problem.

Does anyone know the first build this started with?

[Zantor]

Not good. This appears to be a problem with the rand SEXP but I don't know if it's my error or Goober's. Unfortunately I'm getting bluescreens whenever I try running anything that uses Direct X after a few minutes so I can't do much at the moment even if RL wasn't getting in the way at the moment.

I was able to finish the mission, at the sacrifice of losing the Lucidity. When playing a mission where I have to ensure that larger ships survive, I ensure that as many as possible are alive--basically I put forth my best effort to have the least losses.

[Mura]

i don't think that this is the right place to post this, but i can't find any place better (or im too lazy to find it)

i got the fs open with the launcher and everything, i wont get the vp's cuz my pc is a bit old and don't want to melt it...
the thing is that everytime i open the launcher it gives me a "fatal error" which says: "failed EnumAdapterModes in UpdateAntialiasList"....

then i try to run it, and it just wont open, (the screen flashes black, goes into 640x480 and then comes back to desktop) i already browsed the fs2_open file... any clue why it does that???

(sorry for the lame grammar, if applies)

[Zantor]

Having issues getting sound to play properly, I have switched back to Winblows 98 SE. (Winblows is a family joke for Windows)

[kahansen]

I'm also havin trouble with "A game of TAG".
The bombers actually appear when Command says so, but a while after I destroy them, Command says that the bombers are comming (again).
This time, the bombers don't show up! I've tried running full timecompression towards the star, as someone suggested, but I don't think they spawn at all.

Help would really be apriciated! 

[karajorma]

They do spawn. They're simply lazy and can't be bothered to attack you for some reason.

Anyway
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,39508.msg803837.html#msg803837

[kahansen]

I see I wasn't clear enough. (sorry for any inconvinience)

They DO attack (and that quite excelently too...)

My problem is that couple of minutes after I waste them, I get a radio message saying
that a new wing of fighters have jumped in, and the VIRGO [4] mission indicator changes
back to "not completed".

[karajorma]

Yeah. I was refering to that second wave. They hang around out of range for some reason. Anyway the link I gave you has a fix for the problem

[Goober5000]

Yet the underlying problem in the source remains, doesn't it?  Is it in Mantis?

[karajorma]

Taylor says he thinks he knows what the cause is. I was just going to leave him to it and feel sorry for any bug that decided to throw down with him