Blau on 26/1/2007 at 03:09
I was trying to install one of christines FM's manually following her instructions, and it seems now I cant play the original SS2 game, whenever I go to play it just loads Ponterbee Station, I can play other FM's but (now that i use ss2 mod manager) whenever i deactivate them, it will run ponterbee by default.
Am i gonna have to re-install or what? :(
tripwood on 26/1/2007 at 04:17
Your earth.mis must have been overwritten. Get the original back and overwrite it.
Nameless Voice on 26/1/2007 at 11:30
SS2MM needs to be installed into a 'clean' install of SS2, as it takes a snapshot of the folder when it is first run so that it knows which files to look after.
Even if you manually uninstall Ponterbee, SS2MM will still think it should be keeping backups of those files (even though they're not there), and you may run into difficulty later.
For example: if you have earth.mis present in your SS2 folder when you install SS2MM, it will treat that as a file that is supposed to be present. If you later move all your .mis files to a secondary load path, so that the game will fall back on the originals if no FM is installed, then you install an FM with an earth.mis and then uninstall it, SS2MM will see no earth.mis to restore and decide to keep the earth.mis from the FM, making you unable to play the original game until you manually remove it.
You'd probably be best off to install a clean copy of SS2, copy any configuration and binding files over from your old install, and then install SS2MM.
