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Vaipa wrote:
The wierdest thing happened to me yesterday when I started the game: I've seen the first blue screen in 5 years.
sorry never ever did see something like that caused by FFED3D, but many other progs especially microsofts own

I'm experiencing the exact same symptoms you described in your post, mate (missing military installations, no Rockforth Academy to kill even for the scripted mission).It's very frustrating, cos I'm trying to do every scripted mission and am thus now "stuck" until I resolve this invisible-base issue. I've flown around the planet for days at very low altitudes (1-10km) and seen nothing, tried zooming in with the planetary view-finder - all to no effect. As with your situation for recon missions, I had no trouble locating the military satellite. It's just the bases!Did you ever get an answer from anyone as to how to resolve it?Help in this regard would be much appreciated.

Dasuke wrote:
I'm experiencing the exact same symptoms you described in your post, mate (missing military installations, no Rockforth Academy to kill even for the scripted mission).It's very frustrating, cos I'm trying to do every scripted mission and am thus now "stuck" until I resolve this invisible-base issue. I've flown around the planet for days at very low altitudes (1-10km) and seen nothing, tried zooming in with the planetary view-finder - all to no effect. As with your situation for recon missions, I had no trouble locating the military satellite. It's just the bases!Did you ever get an answer from anyone as to how to resolve it?Help in this regard would be much appreciated.
Which scripted mission are to referring to? Imperial? Federal? Bombing? Photo?Did you take out the satellite first?Details would be nice.

I'm referring to "Destroy Rockforth Legal Academy" for the Empire, in particular, though I remember having tried doing a "Classified" mission for the Imperial Navy early in the game and having encountered the exact same problem as CommanderJameson above (arrived, destroyed satellite, proceeded to planet but found no military base to subsequently photograph).In terms of details for the Rockforth quest, I've tried arriving early, on time and late and haven't managed to find the Academy despite much searching, both from flying around low for days, flying in orbit looking for a graphic for the Academy or looking through the interplanetary viewfinder zoomed in. It's not there, through no fault of my own (that is, I have explored all the quoted methods of finding a military base (be it to bomb or photo)). I don't get attacked by any defence craft from the invisible Academy either (as I fly around the planet), as is suggested will happen frequently on your approach, but DO get a repeated message like "You will die!", to paraphrase. Nobody ever comes to kill me, however, and no enemies are seen on the scanner map or otherwise.I run a Dell XPS 630i, 4GB RAM, intel core 2 quad 2.67GHz, Geforce 9800GTX2 (1GB).Please let me know if you need any more detail, I'm not too sure what else you might need to know. The due date of the Rockforth mission is 2nd Aug '51 - as mentioned, I've tried being early, bang on-time and late, all to no avail.

It could be some sort of bug between your computer and the game,remenber the game is still a w.i.p.If you can,can you upload your save game.

PINBACK wrote:
It could be some sort of bug between your computer and the game,remenber the game is still a w.i.p.If you can,can you upload your save game.
Yeah.. it sounds like a bug to me.. prolly no one upgraded the scripted mission bases into D3D or sumthing. I know that they were different models then the regular space stations. I'm gonna try to play to that point and see if I can figure it out.

I get the same problem as above, missing military installations. My work-around is to save before you jump into the system, open the save up in JLFFE, jump, save and open up again in FFED3D. Your instillation will appear that way.

mick6116 wrote:
I get the same problem as above, missing military installations. My work-around is to save before you jump into the system, open the save up in JLFFE, jump, save and open up again in FFED3D. Your instillation will appear that way.
I wonder if anyone posted this bug over at the FFED3D forums?

Cheers for that Micki, it worked loading with GLFFE. You have to load a save preceding having jumped into the system, though. Thereafter, you can save as soon as you hyperspace in, and load back up with FFED3D and the base will remain there.

Shingen wrote:
I wonder if anyone posted this bug over at the FFED3D forums?
There is a bug thread on the EG forum but I think it more to do with getting the game up and running.Strange how it effects some and not others?.

New bug! I tried working around it by loading up GLFFE, to no avail.Essentially, I'm in the throes of completing Thargoid Part II. I Land in ???? and the Thargoids tell me they'll inspect my ship. They inspect it, then the dialogue comes up offering me their warship vs alien artifacts. It gives me two options "Yes / No" (boxed). I click Yes and get a click noise to confirm i pressed a button. The Yes / No option boxes disappear, but the dialogue giving me the options remains. I dreamwalk a day, and all that happens is the Yes / No boxes reappear. I click Yes again...dreamwalk 24hrs....yes/no boxes reappear. I did this several times. I loaded several times, fooled around with the dreamwalker...eventually, after MANY attempts, it somehow accepted my "yes".Is there something easy in the code that can fix this? Surely a 1995 bit of programming isn't too hard to sort out?

Promise I will upload a new FFED3D download at the end of the week. I will remove all old links/downloads to not confuse any one and I will make a 1 package download and multiple file download.What will it have?- Latest package from elitegames.ru (Nov 2009)- Latest models pack (Jan 2010) plus any models/skins it was missing- Latest version of JSGME (Generic Mod Enabler)- All mods in the enabler will have descriptions and easy to read and add.I will create instructions of course to use it. Been testing the JSGME mod tool and very simple to figure out and works well in my testing of its functionality. I think people will like this package. I will be removing extra folders that are really not needed to hopefully bring down overall file size.If someone wants a mod added to this package post a link to it or upload it to the download area, before this Friday.

All the files are currently being uploaded to the server. I will be removing all other versions of FFED3D from the server. So give me a bit and please read the first post for all info when I am done.http://www.spacesimcentral.com/ffed3d-f53/ffed3d-complete-package-t568.html#p2338

Hi DarkoneJust downloaded all 4 parts and given it a quick flight test, ........all systems are go! A great download and I can see just how much effort you put in to this. Every Elite fan salutes you! Thank you Darkone for putting together this great package! Now to try out this new Mod Manager! Oh one more thing, a new special FFE3D version of Buffet (the FFE editor) is due out very soon. It will be loaded with lots of great features. I have asked it's author if it's ok to upload it to the SSC and he has given permission. Initial release will be beta with the final release to come soon after once all the bugs have been shaken out. Watch this space or check out the Frontier Forum for more info.

Thanks Geraldine.I'm just glad that the multi-part download works good for people so far, I know people have had issues in the past and I just wanted to try to solve these issues. I scrapped over the Elite-Games forums and I pulled in every single mod/texture I could find. So what you see in the mod manager is what isn't included in the latest compiled version of FFED3D and the latest model pack.I liked the Mod Manager personally think it will be great for people that are new to FFED3D. And might save me some time because I can just upload files for people to add to their MODS folder. :)That editor sounds great Geraldine, feel free to upload it or if you want me to upload it just send me all the link info.

Oh Darkone, just you wait until you see what the author is promising the new Buffet can do. For a sneak peek of SOME of the features, check out this thread on the Frontier Forum http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1537You know I can see how FFE3D is starting to mature as Oolite did, into a wonderful game. Well done one and all!

Darkone wrote:
All the files are currently being uploaded to the server. I will be removing all other versions of FFED3D from the server. So give me a bit and please read the first post for all info when I am done.http://www.spacesimcentral.com/ffed3d-f53/ffed3d-complete-package-t568.html#p2338
Hi, could you upload it to megaupload, because download is very slow, and stops at 9mb :/

Things I do for the community... :)http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8AX9WSKZAlso put the link in the first post.

Im Having a problem getting icons to appear when being windowed mode.Is There any way to have icons without going to fullscreen.I have NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS And have Direct X 9.C

Paholainen wrote:
Im Having a problem getting icons to appear when being windowed mode.Is There any way to have icons without going to fullscreen.
I run FFED3D windowed at 600x400 and the icons appear ok.