[DragonFly]

Hiya!  I haven't played FreeSpace 2 in a long while, so I installed it from my game CD's.  However, the game seems to lock up.

This occurs with the Freespace 1.2 patch with a clean install, or with Fs2_open installed.  The game loads fine, I get the cutscene, but at the menu screen, after I move my move a bit, the game freezes.  If I wait for a few minutes, it unfreezes, but if I move my mouse again, it freezes again.

My specs are:

AMD Athlon X2 64 4400+
2 GB of Ram
Geforce 6600 GT
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS

I do use a wireless mouse and keyboard, but they still register in Windows (I'm forced to CTRL-ALT-DEL out of the game).

How can I remedy this error?  Thanks for any help! (oh, and I am new here...)

[Polpolion]

Lock on to target DragonFly! Fire!



Welcome to the HLPBB! there are exits to your right and left. Threre are Flamethrowers under the seats, but due to buget cuts, we ran out of napalm and started using holy water. You can try to club someone with the non-working shotguns, or there are plasma rifles in the weapon lockers, but those can only be opened by an admin,  god, or hyper-intelligent shade of blue. While wandering the ventelation ducts, should you come across a Shivan named Carl, give him your lunch and he just might let you go. Enjoy your stay at the HLPBB!


As for your problem, I have no idea :/

[Dark Hunter]

Oh god you're not starting this intro to HLP thing again? Or is this something you guys do all the time and I just don't know it? This is the second time I've read a post like that.



To the dude with the problem: To me it sounds like not enough RAM, but as your computer has more RAM than mine does that can't be right, cause my FS2 works fine.
Could you post the version of FSOpen you have, as well as possibly the list of features you have activated (look in the Launcher for this info, if you don't know)?
Don't know anything about that patch so can't help you there. Nor do I know anything about graphics cards except that mine is really good. 


PS It wasn't Carl that wanted the lunch, it was the "Big Red Spider Thing". If you come accross Carl, pray for death by integrated plasma cannon, since that is less painful than him stabbing you.

[CP5670]

Are you using FS2 open 3.6.7? It's probably the dual core in that case. Try setting the process affinity so it uses only core or get one of the more recent FS2 builds, which no longer have this problem.

[Dark Hunter]

Oh hey question! Just saw a thread talking about 3.6.9   Is that version up now? I've been using 3.6.8 for a while and would like prettier graphics (as thought the graphics on 3.6.8 aren't already pretty enough!)

[DragonFly]

Thank you so much!

Setting the processor affinity worked great!

[Mars]

Oh hey question! Just saw a thread talking about 3.6.9   Is that version up now? I've been using 3.6.8 for a while and would like prettier graphics (as thought the graphics on 3.6.8 aren't already pretty enough!)

Currently the 3.6.9 version is in its release canadate stage (the final stages before release) which you can get here from this thread, but there's a new CVS that eliminates the target in HUD bug that caused the game to crash when debris were targeted, get that here. Either way you go, you'll need the Alpha patches on the RC 2 thread.

[Polpolion]

PS It wasn't Carl that wanted the lunch, it was the "Big Red Spider Thing". If you come accross Carl, pray for death by integrated plasma cannon, since that is less painful than him stabbing you.

All the times I've seen it, it was writtin like that. And I've seen more than one of these.   :/