Well this has turned into a nightmare.
So I decided to reinstall FS2Open recently, and for once everything seemed to install...or so I thought. There was no Launcher.exe when I looked though the installation directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Freespace 2). Which is odd. So I looked around and found wxLauncher, and after installing it, it found it couldn't find any builds for FSOpen.
I then manually downloaded the Windows files for
this thread, however not only does wxLauncher not find them, but attempting to use the shortcuts to launch FSOpen results in a crash of the application (see Logs). Bizarrely, the regular Freespace 2 shortcut can now open Vanilla Freespace 2, but it has the "Insert Disk 2" error.
I'm not sure how I should fix this.
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