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Hey all, new poster.  I'm looking to get back into flight sims after a few decades away, and I've really got the itch for a full WW1 career like I used to do in (heavily modded) Red Baron 3d once upon a time.  WOFF looks perfect for that except for all the dire warnings about AMD video cards.

I've got a fairly good system that runs modern games no problem, but the card is a 9070XT.  Is this just a hard no go for WOFF, or have they solved the problems?  A lot of the info I'm finding is years old, so I've got my fingers crossed that it might have been resolved in the last 2 or 3 years.  

Game looks great, I'd really like to jump in, but unfortunately I've moved on from nvidia.  

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Hello, the problem isn't so much the generation of AMD video card but rather the generation of AMD video DLL (driver) that is loaded (i.e., whether or not it's friendly with the WoFF series).

As far as I am aware from my own tests and readings, the latest AMD DLL generation that works in a fully compatible, stable way with WoFF is generation ver. 19.x.x, although the gold standard are the DLL versions in the 17.x.x range (those are of about 2017 to 2018 vintage approximately).

The other thing to keep in mind is that the generation of AMD DLL that can be loaded is to some extent tied to the generation of one's operating system, also to the generation of AMD vid card that's installed. For example, the dual FirePro D700 cards in my (trash can) Mac Pro work wonderfully with WoFF, as do the dual RX580 cards in my dual-cpu X79 "franken" build - paired with the generation 17.x.x AMD DLLs.

For newer generations of AMD video card(s) and WoFF, best is to post a question on the WoFF threads over on the SimHQ forums (since those threads are more actively visited than CombatAce, for WoFF topics).

The simplest solution for stable WoFFing on modern rigs/components is to go with "team green" (i.e., nVidia).

Cheers,

🙂

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