STOCK WoV EFFECTS

[ignacioc91]

Hi community, I hope you can help me!!!

 

 

I need the stock Wings over Vietnam effect called " ClusterBombEffects " . I mean, the ClusterBombEffects that comes with the unpatched versions of Wings over Vietnam. The reason is that my computer cannot handle the ClusterBombEffects that come with the Oct 2008 patch neither on WoV nor WoE, and the stock one works perfectly. I don't know where is it, I tried looking in the Effects folder, .CAT files, but no luck. :( If someone could tell me where to find it or could send it to me via PM I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your time.

 

 

Regards

Ignacioc91

[F117NightHawk]

Maybe you could find it in the pre-patched versions .cat file?

[+Fubar512]

All effects in a default install are located in the flightdata.cat. When you installed the 2008 patch, all the .cat files were overwritten with newer versions.

 

Hence, you cannot go back to using the "old" ones, unless you're willing to go through a rather long and tedious process. And that involves uninstalling the entire sim, installing and patching it to the previous ('06) patch level, extracting all the necessary effects tga and particlesystem files, placing them into the appropriate folders, and patching the game back up to the '08 level.

 

This assumes, of course, that you're knowledgeable enough to understand exactly what's involved, and what you're doing. And even then, you may run into some issues, as the newer graphics.dll demands some editing of the aforementioned particlesystem.ini...so you may wind up going back to square one.

 

Best solution? Either tone down the graphics, or upgrade your system, or don't install the '08 patch.

[ignacioc91]

Maybe you could find it in the pre-patched versions .cat file?

 

I looked in the pre-patched version, but I cannot find it :(

[ignacioc91]

All effects in a default install are located in the flightdata.cat. When you installed the 2008 patch, all the .cat files were overwritten with newer versions.

 

Hence, you cannot go back to using the "old" ones, unless you're willing to go through a rather long and tedious process. And that involves uninstalling the entire sim, installing and patching it to the previous ('06) patch level, extracting all the necessary effects tga and particlesystem files, placing them into the appropriate folders, and patching the game back up to the '08 level.

 

This assumes, of course, that you're knowledgeable enough to understand exactly what's involved, and what you're doing. And even then, you may run into some issues, as the newer graphics.dll demands some editing of the aforementioned particlesystem.ini...so you may wind up going back to square one.

 

Best solution? Either tone down the graphics, or upgrade your system, or don't install the '08 patch.

 

Thanks for your reply!! I think I better upgrade my system. Thanks for your help!!!