FBI Uplink: glut32.dll

[Azati Prime]

The FBI mod has been running great for awhile but recently (I think after installing Uplink 1.31c) I get the message "This application has failed to start because glut32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." I tried re-installing the FBI mod but it didn't seem to work.

[frenchfrog]

possible explanation: the new version of Uplink (1.31x) don't use glut32.dll for the graphics and thus was perhaps deleted from the directory?

[Azati Prime]

Yeah, I noticed it was using something like glu32.dll. I tried just renaming a copy of it but it didn't work.

[JamesL]

Versions 1.31a onwards do not use glut32.dll. glu32.dll is a different library and has always and continues to be used by Uplink. I do not know about the FBI mod and what it changes. I will look into it, but cannot promise that Uplink can be fixed to handle it. It is possible that the FBI mod could be modified to work with the new versions of Uplink.

[frenchfrog]

Azati Prime: reinstall Uplink in another directory and copy glut32.dll to your current Uplink installation directory?

[JamesL]

At version 1.31a, Uplink was ported from using glut to using SDL. This was done for a number of reasons. Anyway... dev mods will still use glut, since they are created from 1.31 source code, not the SDL source, so you will need glut32.dll in the directory.

If you installed 1.31x as a patch to 1.31, for instance, glut32.dll is not deleted, but relegated to a backup directory under the Uplink one, so you can copy it back from there.

[Hacker101]

Yeah, none of the Mods work... I upgraded to 1.31c, then I tried Simply Uplink and some others; they all said that glut32.dll was not found.

I went on the internet to find glut32.dll, downloaded it and put it in the main Uplink folder.

Simply Uplink and the other mods work, but the graphics are really bad. Do you know why the graphics might be that bad?

Also, will a future update fix this problem, or is there another way to fix it?

Thanks.