Topic: Thanks for the patch, but no thanks.

[FireSoul]

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Actually it's probably the movies. Point the icon at StarFleetOP.exe to skip the movies and fill in the Start In directory information.    

Not once he's already in-game like that. The saved games I say.

[Cleaven]

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Not once he's already in-game like that. The saved games I say.  

I think I should concede the point because I only remember crashing out upon logging into a D2 server, and skipping the movies fixed that problem.  

[Age]

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Not once he's already in-game like that. The saved games I say.  

I think I should concede the point because I only remember crashing out upon logging into a D2 server, and skipping the movies fixed that problem.  

What did I say in my post Cleaven my shiplist is fried  and FireSoul is partly right.It is OP not SFC3.  

[Pestalence]

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Not once he's already in-game like that. The saved games I say.  

I think I should concede the point because I only remember crashing out upon logging into a D2 server, and skipping the movies fixed that problem.  

Cleven, I think you have OP mixed up with EAW.

OP does not have an opening movie.. the desktop shortcut put of box points to StarfleetOP.exe, not SFCOP.exe

due to a glitch in the patching process.. the desktop shortcut can get fubarred in OP, as such, shuttles and fighters could not be seen or used in game..

however, launching the Starfleet OP.exe file directly, or creating a new shortcut for your desktop from the StarfleetOP.exe fixes this issue..

Now on EAW, on install it points to SFC2.exe, which does play the movies.. and that will cause the game to crash when in loading screen...

however, removing that shortcut and making a new shortcut directly off of the Starfleet2.exe file corrects this problem or launching Stafleet2.exe directly will fix the problem.

The problem the first poster is having is either :

a) patched on top of an earlier OP Patch, most likely v2501g from the Interplay web site

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b) Forgot to remove the save games files out of the Stock OP game

the best course of action is to uninstall, delete the OP game directory, reinstall SFC OP (say no to Direct x 8), patch using SFC  OP Patch v2500-2552, then remake his shortcut to StarfleetOP.exe

Hope that this helps.

 

[Strafer]

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OP does not have an opening movie..  

Well, it does. The same as EAW, only OP's ends after the various credits instead of going on to the good part.

[Cleaven]

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Not once he's already in-game like that. The saved games I say.  

I think I should concede the point because I only remember crashing out upon logging into a D2 server, and skipping the movies fixed that problem.  

Cleven, I think you have OP mixed up with EAW.

OP does not have an opening movie.. the desktop shortcut put of box points to StarfleetOP.exe, not SFCOP.exe

due to a glitch in the patching process.. the desktop shortcut can get fubarred in OP, as such, shuttles and fighters could not be seen or used in game..

however, launching the Starfleet OP.exe file directly, or creating a new shortcut for your desktop from the StarfleetOP.exe fixes this issue..

Now on EAW, on install it points to SFC2.exe, which does play the movies.. and that will cause the game to crash when in loading screen...

however, removing that shortcut and making a new shortcut directly off of the Starfleet2.exe file corrects this problem or launching Stafleet2.exe directly will fix the problem.

The problem the first poster is having is either :

a) patched on top of an earlier OP Patch, most likely v2501g from the Interplay web site

or

b) Forgot to remove the save games files out of the Stock OP game

the best course of action is to uninstall, delete the OP game directory, reinstall SFC OP (say no to Direct x 8), patch using SFC  OP Patch v2500-2552, then remake his shortcut to StarfleetOP.exe

Hope that this helps.

 

On the contrary OP DOES HAVE opening movies (yes, those moving picture things with the Taldren and Paramount logos) if you use the SFCOP.exe to start with as it was in the beginning. If it wasn't for the incompatibility of the movie player with newer OS's people would still use it to start the game instead of now using starfleetop.exe and having to enter the correct Start In info. I first encountered this crash in both OP and EAW after upgrading to XP. Changing both to the main exe fixed this movie related problem in both games.

But because this is a single player problem I will agree with Firesoul and mark it down to old campaign files.