[Jeff Vader]

I'm running Vista. It is like the screen has been pulled down and to the right.

As Herra Tohtori explained, the game states that you're running at 1280x1024. And your monitor's resolution is 1440x900. You can see that the vertical resolution used by the game exceeds that of your monitor -> **** happens. Try HT's suggestions. They should correct it.

@Jeff Vader, if I run FSport, when I go to the campagin room, I only see an option  to play the Freespace2 campagin....

Screenshots or it didn't happen. If you've selected the mods the way your fs2_open.log states, there should definitely be a "FreeSpace: The Great War" campaign in the campaign room. Accompanied by Silent Threat and Operation Templar. I'll show my own screenshots in a minute to make the point.

Also, please remember to create a NEW PILOT for each mod. FSPort is a mod.

Edit: The flight deck as seen when FSPort is active. The red rectangle is placed around the Campaign room doors.
The campaign room as seen when FSPort is active. The red rectangle is placed around the correct campaign. Which should be visible when FSPort is active.

[The E]

Please post a new fs2_open.log

[JoeCool]

Screenshots or it didn't happen. If you've selected the mods the way your fs2_open.log states, there should definitely be a "FreeSpace: The Great War" campaign in the campaign room. Accompanied by Silent Threat and Operation Templar. I'll show my own screenshots in a minute to make the point.

Also, please remember to create a NEW PILOT for each mod. FSPort is a mod.

Edit: The flight deck as seen when FSPort is active. The red rectangle is placed around the Campaign room doors.
The campaign room as seen when FSPort is active. The red rectangle is placed around the correct campaign. Which should be visible when FSPort is active.

Ah, you were right, I was looking in the wrong area! Still though, I get the Warrning "Invalid type Subach HL-7" when trying to run the Freespace: The Great War.


New fs2_open attached.



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[The E]

Well, yes, because you haven't selected the FSPort campaign in the campaign room. Without doing that, the game will try to load the FS2 campaign, and naturally run into problems.

[JoeCool]

Well, yes, because you haven't selected the FSPort campaign in the campaign room. Without doing that, the game will try to load the FS2 campaign, and naturally run into problems.

Well, I did the last time and still got the "Subach HL-7" warning. I think though, because I cannot see/select the bottom right of the screen I have to hit esc to get back to the main menu, therefore, the FSPort campaign is only highlighted, but never selected, as such.

[The E]

Okay, here's somehing to try. Open the Launcher, go to the features tab, and select "Use fullscreen window" from the Dev Tools list. If you still get the "oversized screen" error, use a smaller resolution like 1024x768.

[JoeCool]

BOOM!!!!

I tried your idea, and it worked! I was able to run it at 1024x768 in a window. Not ideal, but still, better then nothing. That got me thinking though. I wnet to my desktop and turned it down from 32bit to 16bit......BOOM! Its running at 1440x900 in full screen! Wow! It is some change from the graphics before!

Thanks to everone for helping me in this thread.

Also, thanks to all the people who made tha mod!

Hugs all round!

[Topgun]

You need a better graphics card then.

[Cobra]

PC Specs; Ausus 590 SLI, AMD 6000+, 8800 GTX, 2 gigs of RAM, 500 gig hardrive

Really? I always thought the 8600 was much better.

[Herra Tohtori]

BOOM!!!!

I tried your idea, and it worked! I was able to run it at 1024x768 in a window. Not ideal, but still, better then nothing. That got me thinking though. I wnet to my desktop and turned it down from 32bit to 16bit......BOOM! Its running at 1440x900 in full screen! Wow! It is some change from the graphics before!

This is curious, because your GPU should definitely be able to run the game in 32bit colour, and moreover the debug log said all the time that the game used 32bit colour (same as desktop). By your account, now the desktop is 16-bit and the game 32-bit, which is not how things are supposed to be set up.

I wouldn't consider the issue "fixed" until everything works properly. As a default, you should be running desktop at 32bit and the game at 32bit.

[Topgun]

Maybe its a driver bug. Update your drivers.

[JoeCool]

Update!

It looks like you guys were right, all is not sorted. Things were going fine, I played through many mission and was having a great time. I got as far as the mission where I have to fly the SF Dragon through the Shivan patrols so I can scan their freighters.

Upon loading this mission the game crashes. I have noted the when, on the top left, it says it is loading "modle load gun platfromo3.pdf" I get a warning noise and the desktop cursor appears on screen, if I hit enter the game continues to load. Then as the game tries to load "modle load support02.pdf" I get an error noise, again the desktop cursor appears, when I hit enter this time the game crashes.

There is no message other then the standerd Windows report one.

My GPU drivers were uptodate, I have since reinstalled them, just to be sure. No effect.

fs2_log is attached.

I hope you guys can help me out again  

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[Herra Tohtori]

This looks like a completely different issue. Skilled professionals have been dispatched to the crash site.

On a note related to previous problem and how you solved it - are you still running Windows desktop at 16-bit colour or 32-bit colour? This doesn't have anything to do with the new problem, but running desktop at 16bit and game at 32bit is not the way it's supposed to be done, so please clarify what the current settings are.

Running the desktop at 16-bit will result in significant loss of colour depth and subsequently visual quality of the desktop environment, which includes all things done on the OS (web browsing, image editing, videos etc.)...

[JoeCool]

This looks like a completely different issue. Skilled professionals have been dispatched to the crash site.

On a note related to previous problem and how you solved it - are you still running Windows desktop at 16-bit colour or 32-bit colour? This doesn't have anything to do with the new problem, but running desktop at 16bit and game at 32bit is not the way it's supposed to be done, so please clarify what the current settings are.

Running the desktop at 16-bit will result in significant loss of colour depth and subsequently visual quality of the desktop environment, which includes all things done on the OS (web browsing, image editing, videos etc.)...

Great, hope they get here soon; I was wanting to play a little tonight, after college.

I'm still running it with my desktop at the 16bit and the game at 32bit. I never really thought of it as a big deal, just something to get the game to work. I always saw it more as a wide screen issue, as apposed to a GPU one. I have had to do it with several games, BioShock1, BBC:2, IL2, Fallout1, to name just a few. When I have encountered the problem I have turned the desktop down to 16bit, when I wanted to play the game, after I'm done, I but it back up to 32bit.

I never really found out why, I mean, my rig is far from top end (it is 2 and a half years old) but its OK. I have been able to run all the games mentioned on full graphics. I fact I can still run new games on full graphics, Mafia II, for example.

[JoeCool]

Anyone?? Please guys, if you can, I was having a great time with this game.

[The E]

Please unpack the attached archive into fsport_mediavps\data\models.



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[JoeCool]

Please unpack the attached archive into fsport_mediavps\data\models.

Thanks The E. Still no joy though. When I went to c\games\freespace2\fsport-mediavps/date, I have no models folder, only a folder called cache and a text doc called multi. I put the support02.pof file in cache first, when that had no effect I created a model folder and put it in it, still on effect.

I hit esc instead of enter when I got the warning as it was trying to load "model load gun platform03.pdf" this time. I got the following:


Assert: idx < (int)GL_vertex_buffers.size()
File: gropengltnl.cpp
Line: 275

ntdll.dll! KiFastSystemCallRet
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! SCP_DumpStack + 354 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! WinAssert + 208 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! gr_opengl_destroy_buffer + 94 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! model_unload + 1421 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! model_free_all + 97 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! doexit + 266 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! exit + 18 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! Warning + 701 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! do_new_subsystem + 488 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! read_model_file + 6315 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! model_load + 754 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! mission_parse_handle_late_arrivals + 185 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! mission_parse_maybe_create_parse_object + 340 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! post_process_ships_wings + 93 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! post_process_mission + 49 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! parse_mission + 1531 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! parse_main + 449 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! mission_load + 215 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! game_start_mission + 198 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! game_enter_state + 482 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! gameseq_set_state + 310 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! game_process_event + 242 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! gameseq_process_events + 152 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! game_main + 782 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! WinMain + 330 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! __tmainCRTStartup + 358 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! WinMainCRTStartup + 15 bytes
kernel32.dll! BaseThreadInitThunk + 18 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 99 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 54 bytes

[The E]

Please post a new log.

[JoeCool]

New log attached. Hope you can work some magic 

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[The E]

Can you try playing with a regular build? Or does that crash for you?