[Asteroth]

I need to apologize ahead of time, I am a rather large noob at the moment so I again must apologize if the answer to my question is patently obvious.

I hear of powerful graphical mods, and even when I go to go the SCP page on Wikipedia i can see screenshots of the awesomeness, but I don't seem to be able to find any single mods for just graphical upgrades. If someone could point me in the right direction I would be much obliged, I have a pretty powerful computer too, so I want it ALL.

Also, a smaller problem that I'm probably going to fix on my own soon, but whenever I try to open FS2 Open it tells me: "Invalid MOD ini multiple mod parameter, only -mod calls are allowed"

[Rodo]

graphical upgrades are mostly found in the new MediaVp's that the FSU team made, you can find the VP files and the instructions on how to install it here

If you mean only mods... well it depends, most of the mods have some upgrades but not as much as the Mediavp's... maybe the most graphic heavy would be either Blue Planet or PI.

For the mod thing, check the lines you wrote in the mod spot in the Launcher (the only place where you can type commands) there you should have something missing... post the lines and we can help you with that.

[maelstrom0511]

hey I had that problem once... it was because a mod folder had a hyphen ( - ) in it, i renamed it without the hyphen and edited other mod.ini files that referenced it. Is it the cause of your problem?

[Asteroth]

For the mod thing, check the lines you wrote in the mod spot in the Launcher (the only place where you can type commands) there you should have something missing... post the lines and we can help you with that.

Well, I can't open the launcher because it gives me that error.

[General Battuta]

What you're looking for are the MediaVPs. Check the Freespace Upgrade Project forum. (Be careful, it's easy to get a corrupt download.)

[Jeff Vader]

For the mod thing, check the lines you wrote in the mod spot in the Launcher (the only place where you can type commands) there you should have something missing... post the lines and we can help you with that.

Well, I can't open the launcher because it gives me that error.

Throw launcher6.ini to the recycle bin and then try again.

[Titan]

Freespace can't really be referred to in terms of mods. mods are basically resources (like new ships and effects) for people that make campaigns. Though it can be considered a mod, very few mods (in the traditional sense) exist without an accompanying campaign.

The only big 'traditional' mod is the mediavps- which are the graphical enhancements that can be used with just about anything.

[Asteroth]

For the mod thing, check the lines you wrote in the mod spot in the Launcher (the only place where you can type commands) there you should have something missing... post the lines and we can help you with that.

Well, I can't open the launcher because it gives me that error.

Throw launcher6.ini to the recycle bin and then try again.

Still nothing. It probably has something to do with some of the mods I've recently installed, leaving some of their residue in there that's messing it up. Here's a screen shot of the folder to help:

[General Battuta]

Okay, good rule of thumb:

Mod material does not, under any circumstances, go in your main FS2 directory. Put it all in subfolders, sorted by mod, then select those folders with the launcher.

This includes the MediaVPs.

[Rodo]

mmm might be the FSport vps you have flying around over there, save fsport3:1.vp ; fsport-missions.vp ; and mv_core.vp to a different folder before trying any further.

[Asteroth]

That's what I figured, but I couldn't get some of them to work without doing that. I moved the files out. It still doesn't work, but that probably contributed to cleaning it up. The thing is, I'm not quite sure anymore what does and does not belong in there anymore.

[Jeff Vader]

1. Remove launcher.ini and mod.ini from your \freespace2\ folder.
2. What are devil.dll, ilu.dll and ilut.dll? They most certainly have nothing to do with FreeSpace.

[Titan]

Have you run the installer? Redoing it might help

[colecampbell666]

He's got 3.6.5 in there. That points to it being a really old install. Install RC2 from my sig, run the debug build, and upload fs2_open.log from /data.

[Asteroth]

He's got 3.6.5 in there. That points to it being a really old install. Install RC2 from my sig, run the debug build, and upload fs2_open.log from /data.

In addition I deleted all the previous versions of Open and FRED.
Good News: The launcher works
Bad News: Open debug doesn't. Well, it does kinda, says: "Unrecognized command line parameter -2d_poof, continue?" Yes, opens it but closes a split second thereafter, saying some really long error to do with a Cain's weapon systems

[General Battuta]

That's fine -- now go grab the log file from /data.

[Asteroth]

Data has a lot of stuff in it. Mostly empty folders, but out of the files there there is no "fs2_open.log" or anything like it.

[General Battuta]

Hrm. Can you post that error with the Cain?

[Titan]

he means run fs so that you get that error again, then just paste it in here. It automatically is put in your clipboard. 

[Asteroth]

Warning: Unable to find WEAPON_LIST_TYPE string "FighterKiller#Shivan"
in ship: SC Cain's default secondary banks.

File: PARSELO.CPP
Line: 2525


Call stack:
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    parse_ship_values()    parse_ship()    parse_shiptbl()    ship_init()    game_init()    game_main()    WinMain()    WinMainCRTStartup()    kernel32.dll 76a04911()
    ntdll.dll 77d5e4b6()
    ntdll.dll 77d5e489()
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