What the hell is vanilla bf2142.....like could you make it extreamly simply....i dont know what a launcher is. I dont even know how to work a cell phone.......

Vanailla BF2142 - Unmodded 2142
Launcher - the little thing that comes packed with First Strike which you need to run it

Even though the have claimed the custom shaders have been "completly" removed from FS, it has been proved (in multiple ways, by totally different people) that they haven't.  However, the bits that have been removed make problems less likely, and fixing them alot easier.

Even though you managed to get FS working, I feel that bitching about the problem, publically, as often as I can will be a quicker way to actually get something fixed.

Hope to see ya ingame when I get back from my hols

Unfortunately, when I lunch the FS launcher I get a black screen and a message of "firststrike.exe has stopped working".

Bummer.

So the shader thing has been fixed, eh? I've got a new video card coming this weekend so I might just have to jump back in and re-visit FS.

See y'all soon, hopefully.

RSF has 16 player maps in rotation only.

They took Shaders out I think. Because it broke too many peoples Vanillas?

I've been playing FS since just about day 1, but I haven't logged on or even had it installed on my system in many months.

The breaking of vanilla's shaders is what did it for me as I like to have 2142 as an option to play when there are no FS servers available.

If this issue could be ironed out once and for all I would re-install FS and try to be more active in servers.

Also, I've found that the bigger maps are not so much fun to play with a small handful of people logged on, but smaller infantry oriented maps can be fun with 6-8 people. It would be cool if servers could somehow skip these larger maps until, say, more than 8-10 people were logged on.

Thanks