Registered: May 2001
Location: Canada
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Well, my copy does. I didn't have Freespace 2, but since you guys said the demo is gonna be released soon, I bought it on my little trip to the US. Got the Sci-Fi SIM of the Year Edition too, 3CDs.

So I get home (1000km away from where I bought it, in Canada) and it doesn't autoplay. I run FS2autoplay.exe/setup.exe and it says the file Isset_se has an error:

ISSET_SE caused a general protection fault
in module SETUP.EXE at 0001:000036d6.
Registers:
EAX=00000262 CS=434f EIP=000036d6 EFLGS=00000212
EBX=00000000 SS=4347 ESP=0000564a EBP=89d25656
ECX=000099e4 DS=4347 ESI=0000009b FS=0000
EDX=89d15b0f ES=0000 EDI=00005b0f GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 8b 57 0c 8b c8 8b f2 03 46 0c 13 56 0e 26 3b
Stack dump:
434f009b 0004009d 5b0f5b07 3553566c 00000000 5b0f0262 00000052 2e9d5682 5682434f 00042eac 013e5b0f 00015b2e 00044347 43475b0f 095d585d 0000434f

There isnt even a readme.txt file in any of the CDs. Second CD has trailors and some movies, whole 3rd CD has rest of movies and some goodies (pics, music).

So I cant return it, (1000km away) and its not available in Canada... and I'm not gonna order it online and spend more money.

Lates.

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I had odd problem with FS1... It didn't work... And the I returned the game and got a new copy of it and that worked splendetly But no problems with FS2... So, tough luck :P

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Umm...d00d.....EVERY time I go down to my local EB, there is at least 1 copy of every FreeSpace game made....although the Sim of the Year Edition disappeared pretty quickly.

This is yet another reason why you never buy games away from home.

Hopefully you bought it at a chain store that has an outlet nearby.

And thanks for defacing the forum with "FreeSpace 2 Sucks" when the topic should have been "I'm having trouble with FreeSpace 2" or "Need FS2 Help".

You're lucky I just didn't delete it without reading.

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I had a problem with Freespace 1 also. I had to copy the disc to my harddrive and install from there.

Freespace 2 works great! I recently bought it (two months ago, just for this mod) at Best Buy which was selling it in a package with Total Annihilation for 15 dollars US.

I already had TA so I just gave it away...

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I'll try copying to HDD and installing from there

I DID get it at a chain store, but gotta return it within 3 days... I think I'll ask interplay, maybe they have a patch for something like this

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What chain? I've never heard of a three day return policy, especially when the item is defective. Call Interplay, maybe they will exchange it....

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Yeah, faulty CD.

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EB has a 10 day policy im pretty sure.

I'd take it to the closest store anyways and explain the situation. Have your receit!

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The name of the store is Software etc

It has a return within 7 days policy. I bought it 4 days ago.

But, good news! I copied CD1 onto my HDD and installed, and it worked!

FS2 is great! I'll see if I can edit my topic name. Thanks a lot Valen2k1!!!

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Glad I could help!

Check with Software Etc about exchanges for defective product. It may be 7 days for a REFUND, but if you are exchanging for the same title it may be different. That's BS if you get stuck with a bad disc.

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