Hey all. I've been playing FreeSpace Open for a year now without any problems on my windows vista, then win7 laptop, so imagine my surprise when I ran smack into the most annoying problem I've ever had when trying to run it on my new desktop. It's a Dell Inspiron 570, 64- bit Windows 7, 3 GB of RAM, AMD Athlon 2 X2 240 Processor (2.8 GHZ). I installed FSO at c:/games/freespace and am running the 5.5e launcher and the 3.6.10 executable- everything fresh from Turey's installer. So here's the problem: when I go to run the game the launcher comes up fine, but after I hit "Run" and "OK," the game does nothing for 10- 30 minutes, and then starts, usually right on top of whatever game I've given up on FSO for. I tried re-installing FS2 and FSO, to no avail. I included the patch and file the wiki said I needed, and nothing's working. I've only ever gotten one error message, and that was when I freshly installed it. It was the "IMPORTANT NOTE: There was an error while installing this section. You may need to run the Installer again in order to ensure that this section works correctly" message, and I re-downloaded and replaced all of the files indicated in the FAQ, but nothing was fixed. My computer isn't slow in general- quite the contrary, in fact. FSO is the only application that behaves like this. Please help!
