Hi all, and thanks for the amazing work in all this!
I'm having a problem after installing the 1.8 update. I download the 1.5c torrent no problem (been keeping it seeding too). I installed that and played, with only an occasional crash, but nothing that can't be continued again. It's great!
But now, after installing the 1.8 update, the game crashes during load. I load from the launcher and click RUN, then the splash screen comes up, but it's like 4 times too big and goes off the bottom-right of the screen.
This is the debug info that gets pasted into the clipboard:
Error: bad DDS file compression. Not using DXT1,3,5 cubemap.dds
File:D:\C++\Freespace\fs2_open\code\graphics\GrD3DBmpman.cpp
Line: 503
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]
Call stack:
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Can anyone advise? I installed 1.8 into the same folder that 1.5c was installed into. That's right, yes?
Cheers!
Just to clarify the above, I went back to fs2_open_r_Kara_20060429.exe and everything worked OK again. Just realised that's what I needed to do, after reading the previous page of this thread.
I'm running Direct3D - tried OpenGL but immediately get the Blue Screen of Arrrgghhh when I click Run.