[wolfen]

Well I had everything LOL I was actually done installing and modifing reg entries, had FS1 and FS2 both working with the fs2 port, then I figured good I can uninstall FS1, well, I uninstalled and deleted the wrong folder LOL. I lost the files folders, port launcher, and everything for fs2. Just got done dling everything again that I havent put on a disk yet.


(I feel so stupid I could scream)

[Dark Hunter]

Stupid thing I did: to get rid of a virus my computer insisted that I had, I downloaded a mini-program from Symantec to delete it. Well, the virus was gone, but so was a crucial startup file. The computer couldn't start, so there was no way even to reinstall stuff. The drives ended up formatted and EVERY SCRAP OF DATA was lost. I had over 11 Gb of info on it!

The moral of this story is: NEVER use Symantec.

[wolfen]

Brother I used to swear by symantec, until I changed hard driver from a 20 to a 120 gig, so I could backup movies, while I had teh 120 in I found NOD32, well the first 120 gig died, so while I was waiting for the warrenty replacement I put the 20 gig back in that had norton A/V on it, I uninstalled Norton and installed NOD32, when I ran nod I found 36 viruses in the system restore files just waiting for a roll back, I havent had a single symantec product on my computer since.

You do know how to completely rid yourself of Symantec stuff right? If you don't I can tell you, uninstalling it doesn't get rid of the stuff in the local settings and regeistry.

[wolfen]

Oh heres another thing that makes me feel stupid, I cant get the SCP launcher to work now. Some error about the orange beam and a tbm

[Dark Hunter]

The .tbm is a modular table. It's like an add-on to one of the main code tables. It sounds as though a mod you installed is having a conflict in the weapons.tbl. Can you post the error?

[wolfen]

I cant get a screen shot of it, I'd have to write it down, but all the things I dl'd came from here, their the Freespace main campain, the FS2 main Awakeings, and silent threat, I got them all working. I can create a host, but the only thing there is the AI. I'll write it all down and post it on here tomorrow at around 1800 EST.

[Dark Hunter]

Hmmm.... must be the Lucifer beam causing the problem. Unsure of which campaign it's from though, I think all of those (except FS2) have a unique Lucifer beam.

[wolfen]

I cant wait till tomorrow LOL here it is

Error: mu_tech-wep.tbm (3)
Error: Required token=[$model file: ], found [ +nocreate ]
in weapon: @subach HL-7

File:parse/parselo.cpp
Line:551
[ This file name points to the location of a file on the computer that builds thid executable


Call Stack
________________________________________
________________________________________

then it talks about the debuger, I clicked teh debuger with no joy.

[Dark Hunter]

So I was wrong.



Subach....... weird. Why the hell would a normal weapon be having problems?
Can you open said table file (use Notepad/Wordpad) and then copy&paste the entry for @subachhl-7?

[wolfen]

I'll try to, its been 15 years since I did anything like that. I'll have to do that one tomorrow, though my daughter just called her cars broke down again .

[Wanderer]

You are using too old build (probably 3.6.7s). Build you are using does not recognize the +nocreate flag. Get more recent build from here

[Mars]

Stupid thing I did: to get rid of a virus my computer insisted that I had, I downloaded a mini-program from Symantec to delete it. Well, the virus was gone, but so was a crucial startup file. The computer couldn't start, so there was no way even to reinstall stuff. The drives ended up formatted and EVERY SCRAP OF DATA was lost. I had over 11 Gb of info on it!

The moral of this story is: NEVER use Symantec.

For system maintainance I use:

CCleaner
Lavasoft Adaware
AVG Free anti-virus
Microsoft Defragmenter

[wolfen]

Mars, I HIGHLY recomend te NOD 32 A/V to everybody
Adware SE is one of teh best
I never heard of cc cleaner
but MS defragmenter doesn't do anything but defrag.
Heres my list of cleaners and things

NOD 32 A?V
Ghost surf 20056 platnium
MS regclean
Abexo free registry cleaner
Fast defrag ( a memory defragmenter)
HDDcleaner ( a free hdd space deletion tool, wirtes o's to deleted files on the hdd to govt specs)
MS defrag

I can guarentee that mine is clean as a whistly when I'm done running them too

NOD 32 A/V is available at nod32.com for $35us

[wolfen]

Thanks wanderer, I'll try that one.

[wolfen]

Ok somewhere along the line I screwed something in FS2 up really bad, I can't get the main hall to come up no matter what I install, move, update, or whetever, so I'm back to square one, the first thing I ever learned about computers is that when all else fails start over from scratch LOL this shouldn't take more than a few dl's cause I deleted everything. Sometimes starting over is the best way.

[wolfen]

Is the Freespaceport website down? I can get to the main page where it says website or forums, but if I click wensite is comes up with a black screen?

[Dark Hunter]

Nah, I've never been able to get in there either. Blank screen for me too. I wonder if our computers don't have those fonts they warn us about on the page just beforehand?

[Mehrpack]

Stupid thing I did: to get rid of a virus my computer insisted that I had, I downloaded a mini-program from Symantec to delete it. Well, the virus was gone, but so was a crucial startup file. The computer couldn't start, so there was no way even to reinstall stuff. The drives ended up formatted and EVERY SCRAP OF DATA was lost. I had over 11 Gb of info on it!

The moral of this story is: NEVER use Symantec.

hi,
i dont like symantec too, but maybe you was to fast to formate your harddrive.
i dont want to make you cry, but if you have in the future the same problem, then its better you know it.

if you have windows XP / 2000 you had start from the cd and theres a repairer which check if all nessacry files of windows there or are the right version.
the second thing is a repair installation.
there installed the installer windows over the other windows and save all settings, the only thing is there you have to reinstall the drivers and updates.

with older systems is there a way too, like win9x, but this is more difficault.

Mehrpack

[Dark Hunter]

Except that it refused to read any disc put into the drive. 

[wolfen]

Nah, I've never been able to get in there either. Blank screen for me too. I wonder if our computers don't have those fonts they warn us about on the page just beforehand?

Ok them how do I get the Awakenings voice and music files?
I originally got them from there. And I cant find them on the forums  ( except the link to file planet, a place I'm not subcribeing to for 2 files)
I tried Silent threat, but it ctd du to a lack of something, so I'll deal with that later.
Only files I need right now are the FS1 main and awakenings. I'm going to try my pci file recvoery tool and see if that can undelete them
But I used to be able to get on the website with no problem, maybe I have a bug and need to run NOD.