I bought Freespace 2 from GoG a few months ago and played it (not completed it though) for some time, and then moved on other games. Then just lately I've been revisiting some of my GoG-bought games to install mods for some of them and re-play them anew with new sounds or textures and models and so on. So I gave a try to the well known Freespace Source Code Project, I had heard of it many times before but never actually tried it, and now I am.
I got the "installer" from that page: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,42854.0.html
The first link on that page, the 19MB installer, is the one I have. I have read the information below and I saw that:
«The Installer requires an internet connection to install. This is because:
1. It checks to see if it is out of date by pulling the number of the most recent version off of the web.
2. It automatically takes you to the download page of the most recent version if your version is out of date.
3. It makes sure all the files are up-to-date.»
That's fine and I have nothing "against" web-based installers, but I would have never expected the process to take more than one hour. I do not know if their servers are slow right now as I type this, or if my connection speed sucks (800kb/s download), although I can't tell at what speed it's actually downloading right now, but as I type this the installer has been downloading and installing files from that web-based installer since the past 60 minutes or so and it doesn't look like it's done.
So... with that said, even though I like the concept behind that (to get up-to-date files, basically) I would really appreciate to know if there is any known "full" stand alone/off-line installers for that mod? I would prefer to get it once after one big download instead. I wouldn't say a thing if it took maybe 10 minutes or at least no more than half an hour... but now it's getting ridiculous, thanks. By the way I'm posting this here since my registration to that forum still hasn't been completed for some reason (server issue I'd presume).
EDIT: It finally took 1 hour and 38 minutes to complete, I'm relived. I think it just downloaded the entire game again (the equivalent of it I mean, or quite near that if not much more), that mod got to be big, the game's folder size is now about 6GB after the mod completed the installation, amazing for a 1999 game, even with a mod. Now I can't wait to try that thing.
I got the "installer" from that page: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,42854.0.html
The first link on that page, the 19MB installer, is the one I have. I have read the information below and I saw that:
«The Installer requires an internet connection to install. This is because:
1. It checks to see if it is out of date by pulling the number of the most recent version off of the web.
2. It automatically takes you to the download page of the most recent version if your version is out of date.
3. It makes sure all the files are up-to-date.»
That's fine and I have nothing "against" web-based installers, but I would have never expected the process to take more than one hour. I do not know if their servers are slow right now as I type this, or if my connection speed sucks (800kb/s download), although I can't tell at what speed it's actually downloading right now, but as I type this the installer has been downloading and installing files from that web-based installer since the past 60 minutes or so and it doesn't look like it's done.
So... with that said, even though I like the concept behind that (to get up-to-date files, basically) I would really appreciate to know if there is any known "full" stand alone/off-line installers for that mod? I would prefer to get it once after one big download instead. I wouldn't say a thing if it took maybe 10 minutes or at least no more than half an hour... but now it's getting ridiculous, thanks. By the way I'm posting this here since my registration to that forum still hasn't been completed for some reason (server issue I'd presume).
EDIT: It finally took 1 hour and 38 minutes to complete, I'm relived. I think it just downloaded the entire game again (the equivalent of it I mean, or quite near that if not much more), that mod got to be big, the game's folder size is now about 6GB after the mod completed the installation, amazing for a 1999 game, even with a mod. Now I can't wait to try that thing.
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