[MT]

Long time lurker (you guys can save the plasma beam shot for now ) but need to ask something:

A friend of mine is playing SCP and he has Microsoft Sam for the voices instead of the original voices in the missions. According to him, if he unticks the simulated speech options at the speech tab on the launcher, he gets no voices at all.

Oh, he is currently stuck at As Lightning Falls, so I think getting the voices fixed before the next mission is something very good (even critical, IMO). 

Incidentally, on my speech tab, it says Speech API 5.1 not installed and all other buttons are not usable. However I have no audio problems.  (Note that I am using a Shivansps pack downloaded in the middle of last year, off mininova I think. As such I think my pack is old and is probably not up to date). The executable file used by the launcher is: D:\Games\FreeSpace2\fs2_open_r_20060425_Kara.exe


I might want to post on the Rebels and Renegades mission, regarding saving the Hinton (not with the ramming but with it being consistently being wasted by the Sobek), but I figured that is probably more suitable in the general forum (and even then it might be a old topic there).

[karajorma]

It is old. That executable is over a year old as you can see from the backwards date in the filename. I don't remember that specific bug with it but I wouldn't be surprised if that is the cause.

You could try using Turey's installer to update.

[MT]

Thanks for the reply.

As for my friend (with MS Sam for voice), he downloaded it only a week ago. I think he used Turey's installer, since he can't use BT at his university dorm.

[Snail]

Lol, I just typed DIVE DIVE DIVE Hit your burners, pilot!

BTW, MT, nice name.

[karajorma]

I'd suggest getting hold of one of Taylor's X builds for your friend then (I haven't got a link handy) as he doesn't compile voice into his windows builds so this issue shouldn't arise.

You might also have luck with 3.6.9 Release Candidate 8 for exactly the same reason but I know that Taylor fixed a rather nasty bug between that release and the 3.6.9 Official release 12 days later and I don't particularly want to recommend it unless the X build isn't a better suggestion. 

[Turey]

Have friend post pic showing names and sizes of files in his FS2 folder.

[karajorma]

Yeah sounds like a corrupt stu_fs2.vp now that I think about it.

[Marly]

Hey Turey, heres that screenie:



Hope thats what you were after..?

[karajorma]

Well that does rather solve the problem. Stu_fs2.vp isn't corrupt so much as missing completely.

The Official .vp files have the following names

    * root_fs2.vp
    * sparky_fs2.vp
    * sparky_hi_fs2.vp
    * stu_fs2.vp
    * tango1_fs2.vp
    * tango2_fs2.vp
    * tango3_fs2.vp
    * smarty_fs2.vp
    * warble_fs2.vp

Not all are needed to run the game but if you copy the ones your friend is missing from your own PC it should solve his problem.

[Marly]

Any idea of a site where these files are downloadable from?  Im on a uni connection and it has some seriously strict P2P restrictions on it so im a bit limited in where i can find them.  I checked the site for download links but the only one i found was a dead link.

[karajorma]

I was basically suggesting you got MT to bring them over on a CD

But failing that Turey's installer should be able to install them. Run it again and check you haven't missed something.

[G0atmaster]

emailing them to yourself also works.  Although a CD would be the best bet.  If you can't burn a CD and can't attach files to emails, PM me your email, and depending on the size, I'll send them to you sooner or later.  If they're more than a few megabytes, I can't email them from home (dialup woes), and if they're more than a gig, I can't put em on my flash drive to email them from somewhere else, so it will be the weekend at the soonest if that's the case.

Or you could ask soembody to put it on an FTP server.  A number of people here have hosting capabilities.

[MT]

I was basically suggesting you got MT to bring them over on a CD

But failing that Turey's installer should be able to install them. Run it again and check you haven't missed something.

I am practically halfway across the world from Marly. We are fellow forumites elsewhere.

I have problems with Megaupload and Rapidshi... I mean Rapidshare but I also have a few dropsend accounts that i can use. There are no changes in the voice file across versions of SCP, since my copy of SCP is a year old, right?

[karajorma]

The SCP never touched the retail VPs.

We install on top of of retail so those files should always remain the same.

If Marly isn't local to you then there are ways to simply download the missing VPs without Turey's installer but I don't know the URLs for the files. Razorkiss or Turey are the people to ask.

[Turey]

Here's the relevant URL:
http://fringespace.org/downloads/scp/retail/stu_fs2.vp

[Marly]

Downloading now, hopefully it'll work.  Thanks for all your help guys.

Does this just go in the root directory or do i need to put it in one of the sub folders?

[Wobble73]

Downloading now, hopefully it'll work.  Thanks for all your help guys.

Does this just go in the root directory or do i need to put it in one of the sub folders?

Put it in your root directory along with the others below 

Well that does rather solve the problem. Stu_fs2.vp isn't corrupt so much as missing completely.

The Official .vp files have the following names

    * root_fs2.vp
    * sparky_fs2.vp
    * sparky_hi_fs2.vp
    * stu_fs2.vp
    * tango1_fs2.vp
    * tango2_fs2.vp
    * tango3_fs2.vp
    * smarty_fs2.vp
    * warble_fs2.vp

Not all are needed to run the game but if you copy the ones your friend is missing from your own PC it should solve his problem.

[karajorma]

I'd recommend you get at least warble as well from the same site too.

[Marly]

Okay cool, the voices are there now 

Can't thank you guys enough for your help, youve been great 

[Wobble73]

I've just thought, shouldn't the FS2Oggcutscennepack.vp be under the Data/movies folder? Just incase he ever plays the Port, won't the cutscene's being here not interfere with the port's movies?