Black Wolf wrote:Aha - ye olde GeForce font error. First off, upgrade to 1.2 if you haven't already - that will fix many problems, and should get it running in WinXP - it worked for me. Failing that, try running it in compatability mode for Win 98 or something.

Alternately, you could attempt to download Freespace Open, which is the product of the Source Code Project - essentially, Volition released the source and a massive community effort was undertaken to upgrade the game and fix bugs. It now looks a lot better, has a bunch of cool new features, runs faster (or at least has the potential to, depending on hardware quality and whether you turn on the graphical features) and has basically had a bunch of cool stuff added. Most people use FSO these days, and mods are generally made with it in mind.

Unfortunately, setting it up isn't particularly easy, and the links to most of the files are on another forum, which is currently down. If you're really interested and can't wait though, we could probably find some links for you.

BTW - you're not the 'kaydog' ex of the VBB are you?

Error: Could not load animation cursor for the mouse pointer

File:C:\projects\freespace2\code\FREESPACE2\FreeSpace.cpp
Line: 7086

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Error: Too many fonts!
See John, or change MAX_FONTS in Graphics\Font.h

File:C:\projects\freespace2\code\Graphics\Font.cpp
Line: 753

Call stack:
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Error: Could not load exp04 anim file

File:C:\projects\freespace2\code\Fireball\FireBalls.cpp
Line: 486

Call stack:
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ok - from that chat:

to get it working you will need: -FSO 3.6 (from http://fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/fs2_open_3_6.exe ) -the media VP (from http://fs2source.warpcore.org/mediavps/mv_zpack.exe or download bits of it from here: http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/ ... genumber=5 )
-the launcher 5 (from http://www.randomtiger.pwp.blueyonder.c ... ncher5.rar) the launcher is needed to enable all the features of FSO

Once they're all downloaded and ALL put in your main FS2 directory, run the launcher. Through the launcher, you set which features you want enabled, and tick them in the 'Features' menu.


So, d/l the media vp from here: http://fs2source.warpcore.org/mediavps/mv_zpack_a.exe since you'll need it, put it in your Games/FreeSpace2 folder along with the launcher and the FS_Open 3.6 exe file.

Then run the launcher (you'll only need to do all this once), go to the 'browse' button top right, select 'fs2_open_3_6.exe' (the FS_Open 3.6 exe).
Then, go to the features tab and choose 'graphics' from the 'list type' drop-down menu. tick the following:



Specular

Glowmaps

32bit textures

jpg,tga textures

Models instead of ani

Disable vertical sync

Stops fog intersect hull

Then select gameplay from the list type menu and uncheck both the flags in there.
In dev tool, select only -fps so you can see your framerate in-game.
In the 'custom flags' text box, enter '-ambient_factor 85' and click ok.
And that should just about do it for the features tab. The other tabs are like the original launcher, so i'm fairly sure you can figure it all out from there.
Once done, click ok, and then run to get ingame, and after creating a new pilot, you enjoy a really beautiful new FS

Top Gun wrote:Doesn't the FTP server have copies of the original FS2 VPs on it? Replacing the installed files with working copies might do the trick.