First Strike Forums — Odd issue with launcher.

Re: Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-13T00:26:12Z

FSDev| JayBiggS wrote:

And fun games they were!

Aye, was good to catch up and shoot some sh** together, has been a while.

Re: Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-12T10:21:03Z

Ok good. An update for the launcher has been issued as well which should correct the widescreen issue and mean people don't have to edit the config. The launcher will automatically update itself with that.

Re: Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-12T02:19:28Z

And fun games they were!

Re: Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-11T23:49:17Z

Worked great, I didn't even bother to completely reinstall anything. Just deleted first strike and used the installer. My game still says its 1.5 but it definitely is 1.6 since I just played a few games with another FS_Dev.

Re: Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-11T21:14:29Z

PM sent (top right of forums is the PM button beside New Posts, Active Topics etc).

Also, check out the insall help video if you haven't yet seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtOVYCtlFL4

Re: Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-11T21:10:10Z

Sure I'll try it out.
I'll dust off the ol 2142 disc and start from scratch just to be sure.

Re: Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-11T21:06:20Z

Hmm, ok, that is a little weird.

No not heard of eyefinity being used with it!!

We're having a slow uptake on the 1.6 full installer due to a lack of responses from our testing team. If your interested in trying it let me know and I'll send you a link via pm.

Re: Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-11T21:03:24Z

It shows 1.5 both in 2142 and in First Strike, Like I said I'm guessing I did something wrong and rather than mess with it too much I'd rather just wait for the full installer. I did however have some fun enjoying some 1.5, I forgot how much I loved this mod.

PS I know its most likely impossible but have you ever heard of anyone getting this to work with eyefinity? resolution of 5040x1050? A man can dream right?

Re: Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-11T20:48:36Z

Hmm, something certainly sounds odd. If (while in FirstStrike, I don't play 2142) I go to community, change mods, mine shows as FirstStrike 1.6 (1021). Have you taken a look at the new video I posted? I know it may not be much help with the widescreen thing, but for the basic installation it might help.

I have fired off your config query to the programmer of the launcher to get some advice. Hopefully he will respond here, if not I will pass on any information.

Odd issue with launcher.

2014-02-11T18:46:11Z

First off I was having issues installing the latest 1.6 update and I'm still not sure if its installed. If I check the mod list under community in BF2142 it still shows version 1.5. But I'm just waiting for the full installer because I'm sure its just because I've messed something up. (haven't played in quite a while so it went through a lot of updates)

Regardless the real reason I'm posting here is I was having an issue with the new launcher.
It would start to launch the game and then the game would crash much like vanilla bf2142 would do if I forgot to run it with +widescreen 1.
However the mod still launched just fine with the old launcher. After some fiddling around I found the config xml file for the new launcher and added that launch parameter manually(the +widescreen 1).
Now it works but I'm sure that kind of advanced modification was not intended for the normal user.
Any thoughts?

For the record my resolution is 1680x1050 however I tried almost all of the resolutions in the new launcher in windowed and fullscreen, all crashed before I added the widescreen parameter to the config.