I have to figure out how to validate things, so we don;t have to bug Kazan

I renamed my special effect file by adding .bak to the end of it and didn't get the hacked table error because the game wasn't using it... if that is his problem.

Heres how I did it.
I have windows explorer to display file extensions, so a txt file will be file.txt instead of file when renaming it.

I went to my root fs2 directory, (e:\games\freespace2\ for me) and then renamed the mv_speffects.vp to mv_speffects.vp.BAK , the game doesnt detect the effects so they werent being used... and there fore no problem. Obviously that means anything in that file will not work though, and I don't know exactly what it does, never played with it on.

doing such things removes "some" weapon firing animations...not all... but if you don't use the guns it shouldn't be a big deal. As for taylor's build, let me rephrase, "JUST" installing it does not fix it, you need to install it as well as the multiplayer weapon fix, and viola, seems to work just dandy, so far anyhow...

I think i know how to validate things now.

So, will work with Lighty to figure out what vp's need in multi.

Will advise.