[starfox]

Greetings y'all...

This is seriously driving me nuts, I haven't been able to get SCP to work on my new rig, not for a single time. Whatever options I change in the launcher, I always get the same message. On the other night, I left Freespace Open Installer to do its job, and I'm trying to get the game working as I write, but to no avail. The vanilla FS works just fine...

I also installed Wing Commander Prologue, and tried that, but no luck, same problem here:
"Freespace has encountered a problem and needs to close"
Even the latest TBP 3.4 Beta refuses to work
Now if I remember correctly TBP 3.2 worked fine, but immediately after updating it it fails to work.

Now, I've been little busy with school, but just for the safe side, is there something I have missed ?
Hopefully, someone can shed some light into this and help me out to put end to this.

If you need any information, please don't hesitate to ask.

[karajorma]

OpenAL?

Did you install it? Have you tried running the debug build to see if that gives you anything different? Posting the Data\FS2_Open.log it creates will help too.

[starfox]

I did install OpenAL and the fs2_open_3_6_9_debug gives me the same error. FRED2 works fine though, no errors there.

==========================================================================
DEBUG SPEW: No debug_filter.cfg found, so only general, error, and warning
categories can be shown and no debug_filter.cfg info will be saved.
==========================================================================
Passed cmdline options:
  -2d_poof
  -env
  -jpgtga
  -mipmap
  -missile_lighting
  -glow
  -nomotiondebris
  -spec
  -cache_bitmaps
  -ballistic_gauge
  -dualscanlines
  -orbradar
  -rearm_timer
  -targetinfo
  -3dwarp
  -ship_choice_3d
  -warp_flash
  -snd_preload
  -mod mediavps
  -fps
  -stats
Building file index...
Searching root 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\mp-710_adveffects.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\mp-710_effects.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\mp-710_models.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\mv_adveffects.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\mv_core.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\mv_effects.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\mv_models.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\mv_music.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\mediavps\mv_textures.vp'
Searching root 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\FS2MVEcutscenepack.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\FS2OGGcutscenepack.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\multi-mission-pack.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\multi-voice-pack.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\root_fs2.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\smarty_fs2.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\sparky_fs2.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\sparky_hi_fs2.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\stu_fs2.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\tango1_fs2.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\tango2_fs2.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\tango3_fs2.vp'
Searching root pack 'D:\installed games\freespace 2 scp\warble_fs2.vp'
Searching root 'f:\'
Found 25 roots and 12562 files.
Setting language to English
Initializing OpenAL...
  Using 'SB X-Fi Audio [8000]' as OpenAL sound device...

Here is my fs2_open log

[karajorma]

Ah. In the launcher check on the audio tab that you're not using anything other than generic software for your sound device. Other settings have been known to cause problems before.

[starfox]

IT WORKED !!!

Thanks a lot for your help !
I never the answer would be so simple.

[Kyuuketsuki]

Hi,

I'm new to this place and to WCS but I've played Wing Commander since the first release as well as Privateer and Strike Commander ages ago so you can imagine that I was intrigued by the project to launch (re-launch?) this game.

Anyway, I downloaded it, installed it and got the "freespace has encountered a problem" message ... so I did a search, ended up here, mucked about with the configuration settings, people suggested deleting launcher6.ini and eventually did manage to get it running with the audio switched off (which is dead boring though the graphics look cool).

Anyhoo ... I have looked through a number of threads, I'm not a programmer (Windows server support though I much about with python at times) and though I got some hints (like it being the audio, I have no idea what to do about it ... sound generally being quite a nice thing I think).

Any ideas?

EDIT: I tried putting the following in Custom Flags under Features as was suggested somewhere:

-ambient_factor 100 -spec -glow -jpgtga -mipmap -2d_poof -missile_lighting -cache_bitmaps -targetinfo -ship_choice_3d -wcsaga -snd_preload

Kyu

[karajorma]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,48160.0.html

I'll bet that your problem is a dodgy OpenAL install.

[Kyuuketsuki]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,48160.0.html

I'll bet that your problem is a dodgy OpenAL install.

... but the standard instructions didn't seem to fix it, what eventually seemed to work was uninstalling the OpenAL altogether ...of course I installed that many things I got a bit lost and it may well be I didn't quite uninstall everything. AH well ... it seems to work now so thanks

Kyu

[Kazan]

that's strange... a X-Fi should be able to go hardware mode.. i'm using an SB Audigy 4 in hw mode.

[karajorma]

The very newest creative sound cards have been known to work in hardware mode. I've heard of a couple of cases of them failing though. Very little else works at all in hardware mode.