[fett80]

Hello, couldn't find this specific topic:

I'm trying to play a custom campaign (in this case, The Aeos Affair V2.0) with Freespace 2 abandonware (V1.2), so there are no game cds.  In the campaign list, it's there and selectable, but when I go back into the main menu screen (I guess it's a hangar bay with all the doors), I can't get through the doors to the campaign because the game asks for the Freespace 2 cd.

The full game also asks for the cd (because I couldn't download the separate cutscene files), but when prompted, I have the option of cancelling and I continue with the full game.  With the custom campaign, however, there is no option to cancel.

I tried a download changing to an executable file which includes a no cd crack, but no luck.

Is freespace 2 abandonware set up differently than Freespace 2 retail, and what can I do to fix the issue to play this and other mods?  (I've tried a couple of other custom campaigns and got the same result).

Thanks in advance.

[Jeff Vader]

HotU? Yeah, the no-cd crack there doesn't fully work. You can play the FS2 campaign, but any custom mods won't let you proceed without a cd.

Solution? FreeSpace_Open. See this thread for installation instructions. Note that you can skip the first step, since you already have the retail game itself. Just continue from there on.

[fett80]

Hello again,

I've down loaded Freespace Open.  When I go into the launcher, and try to open fs2_open_3_6_9 in the browser, I get the error message "This application has failed to start because OpenAl32.dll was not found".  The file is in the main Freespace 2 folder as per the FS2 Open installation instructions.

Are there supposed to be .dll files in the main directory?  Because I don't see any.

[Jeff Vader]

Install OpenAL. My bad. I didn't take into concideration that installing OpenAL was listed before installing FS2 on the instructions.

[fett80]

Works great!  Thanks again.