Operation Desert Storm: 30th Anniversary Edition

[+EricJ]

39 minutes ago, Erik said:

Could this be due to a corrupt installation of the Thirdwire games, or a missing game since they need all of them? Would it be possible for the installer to verify the existence of all the correct paths and excutables before it installs and maybe report back if something is missing or out of place? Thinking out loud not trying to disrupt your support thread.

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That would save a lot of problems IMHO to make sure that you can't install it until you have the right games to use the mod.

[+Menrva]

3 hours ago, Erik said:

Could this be due to a corrupt installation of the Thirdwire games, or a missing game since they need all of them? Would it be possible for the installer to verify the existence of all the correct paths and excutables before it installs and maybe report back if something is missing or out of place? Thinking out loud not trying to disrupt your support thread.

I think it's pretty complex to implement, at least for me, since Inno Setup makes use of Pascal language (not exactly what I'm into). What the installer does automatically is find where the SF2 game directory is (but it does not verify if all three games are in it). To run a check on all required .CAT archives is problematic to say the least; we have so many versions of SF2 (including the Complete Edition which only installs one registry key, not all separate ones of all included games), some do clean installations from the latest July 2013 installers, others install outdated versions and then apply the latest patches afterwards. To verify checksums of those CAT archives is simply not possible given these circumstances, I think they would differ in the case of manually patched games.

Anyway, this issue is only related to elo82 as far as I can see. Most issues that were reported are about CTDs, and those are due to DX10 and Nvidia drivers. I state pretty clearly which SF2 games are required (inside the installer, in the download page and even on the custom DVD cover I created). Thankfully most users are not dummies and can read. In the future I may look into it, maybe add some more checks for the presence of the SF2 executables of the required games (though that alone does not suffice), but now I'm too demotivated to work on it once more all by myself. That being said, thank you for your detailed suggestion, Erik!

Edited January 25, 2022 by Menrva

[mono27]

Over a year passed since this mod was released and I still enjoy it like the first day thanks to the wide variety of planes to fly there. 

Thanks to all involved in the project! 

 

The only thing I added to my install was French and Italian speech for those nations, just to have more immersion when flying for those countries.

I took them from here in combatace:

 

[+Menrva]

4 hours ago, mono27 said:

The only thing I added to my install was French and Italian speech for those nations, just to have more immersion when flying for those countries.

You might want to check my Speech Enhancement mod, in there I include other languages (including Italian, but no French) with correct or mostly correct dubbing. The mod you linked adds mostly random phrases in such languages, as such it is only for immersion and far from being correct for native speakers (I'm Italian BTW). As such, I won't include such random dubbing in ODS for quality consistency.

Thank you for the positive comment! They are a rarity these days, so we're glad to hear others are enjoying our hard work! Take care. 

Edited February 1, 2022 by Menrva

[mono27]

Thanks for telling me about your Speech Enhancement mod, Menrva!   I didn't see it before so I am going to give it a try.

[f22_su33]

I got the game from SteamUnlocked, And is was interestid in doing some mods (Destert storm) mainly

I got the mod download and installt it but the game wont laod for some reason its stuck on the "'identify data''

if some somebody would help me that will be great 

 

Sorry for the bad english 

[+yakarov79]

 

40 minutes ago, f22_su33 said:

I got the game from SteamUnlocked,

you have an illegal copy then.

[+EricJ]

42 minutes ago, f22_su33 said:

I got the game from SteamUnlocked, And is was interestid in doing some mods (Destert storm) mainly

I got the mod download and installt it but the game wont laod for some reason its stuck on the "'identify data''

if some somebody would help me that will be great 

 

Sorry for the bad english 

Yeah dude you have to go here:

http://www.thirdwire.com

And do the right thing and buy it

[f22_su33]

17 hours ago, EricJ said:

Yeah dude you have to go here:

http://www.thirdwire.com

And do the right thing and buy it

Thnaks man !!

[petrouvis]

Greetings, this modpack i have to say its great it really elevates the strike fighter 2 experience.Although even though it worked firstly i started having issues like missing textures and CTD's and now it has reached a point where it loads to cockpit and immediately crashes i tried lowering the graphics i even reinstalled but nothing changed.I know that the mod requires a kind of strong pc and i kind of have it.I have a desktop with an AMD Ryzen 7 3800 ,GTX1050Ti ,16Gb ram and an 1TB SSD any help appreciated.

[+EricJ]

You could try making sure that it uses the video card. That's one issue I had but it may need to be setup with the mod using the graphics card. It should do it automatically but may be the reason why if you've changed settings and the like.

[petrouvis]

5 minutes ago, EricJ said:

You could try making sure that it uses the video card. That's one issue I had but it may need to be setup with the mod using the graphics card. It should do it automatically but may be the reason why if you've changed settings and the like.

Thanks for replying and I only have my GPU because my processor doesn't have integrated graphics.Also I would like to note that when I first played I could run it on unlimited graphics with no issues at the beginning least .

[elmcityhobbies]

Have been playing SF2 Europe, and North Atlantic for ages. Saw someone post some screen shots from SF2 on FB, and didn't realize there was still such a community about it and it still being supported.

So I come here and find this Gulf War mod, and I was like YES, give me some of that. So I set out to reinstall a fresh copy. No where to be found. Got logged into Thirdwire to find that I could re-download (as I had purchased them years ago), SF2, SF2 Israel, North Atlantic and the SF2 update.

Had no idea I had ever bought the Israel mod, don't remember playing it, so I have that to go through as well....but this Desert Storm mod (can I really call it a mod? Practically a whole brand new game), and I am hooked again! Campaigns using Jaguars, Tornados, Buccs, OV-10Bronco?!?!?!? And of course since I am Canadian, CF-18.

All I can say AWESOME! And thank you to Menrva (and anyone else involved in this) for the pain staking details you have put into this!!!

[elmcityhobbies]

OK, maybe dumb question, but is there a Night Vision mode? I thought there was, but can't seem to find it in the controls. Maybe I was dreaming.

[+EricJ]

You're dreaming, SF2 never had true night vision capability.

[+Menrva]

3 hours ago, elmcityhobbies said:

this Desert Storm mod (can I really call it a mod? Practically a whole brand new game), and I am hooked again! Campaigns using Jaguars, Tornados, Buccs, OV-10Bronco?!?!?!? And of course since I am Canadian, CF-18.

All I can say AWESOME! And thank you to Menrva (and anyone else involved in this) for the pain staking details you have put into this!!!

Thanks to you for the very kind words! Indeed, all of us in the team have worked much on it, with quality and historical accuracy as our main aim.

2 hours ago, elmcityhobbies said:

OK, maybe dumb question, but is there a Night Vision mode? I thought there was, but can't seem to find it in the controls. Maybe I was dreaming.

Sadly SF2 does not even support true IR images for DTVs in cockpit.

Someone in ThirdWire's Discord server is playing around with ReShade (a suite of third-party effects, a post-processing injector) in order to enable a NVG-like green filter in-game by key press. It's not an ideal solution, but I may consider it for a future update.

[+EricJ]

Just recently played the A-6E TRAM and had some issues with the pylons for the AGM-45 Shrike. Are there sub pylons modeled? If so then they aren't showing

[+Menrva]

10 hours ago, EricJ said:

Just recently played the A-6E TRAM and had some issues with the pylons for the AGM-45 Shrike. Are there sub pylons modeled? If so then they aren't showing

We'll look into it, thanks for reporting.

[maut]

Does anyone think that the (sun light) glare effect is too much? From some angles there is too much glare, is there any value to reduce?

[Commander_Rod]

Hello, great mod!, love it so far, a question please, does anybody has a huge slowdown in the game when selecting laser guided weapons like paveways and mavericks??, and if so, how to solve it?, it's not game breaking, but a little annoying.

 

Thanks in advance!, and thanks for this great work.

 

I'm running everything in low in the graphic settings and so fast is smooth, only problem is when selecting these weapons, when fired, the slowdown goes away for the mavericks, but not for the paveways, external view also doesnt have the slowdown.

 

Any help is appreciated.

[+yakarov79]

Could be that this is due to additional 'video' inside the cockpit.

Is this in every Maverick-capable aircraft or some particular one?

Try to look into desired aircraft avionics.ini  and check values 

RadarTextureSize=512
TVDisplayTextureSize=512

try to set them to 256 and observe if this changed anything. 

[Commander_Rod]

Hi!, it happens in the A-10 and the F-15 Strike Eagle, at least happened on both i testes, i will try your idea, thank you.

[Commander_Rod]

Hello, i have a weird issue, i dont know if any of you guys know about it, seen it, or know how to fix it.

 

In campaing, i start the game, and launch a mission, plane texture is OK. 

 

Secon mission, the external texture of the plane model is black, like if it is lost, and it looks horrible. 

 

Some of you have encountered this and know how to fix it or the cause?

 

Thank you.

[+Erik]

Sounds hardware related, try testing at lower in-game resolution settings. Since there's no diagnostic data to review it's impossible to know if this is a processor memory issue, video memory issue, page file issue, or a combination.

[+Menrva]

On 22/4/2022 at 4:45 PM, Commander_Rod said:

Hello, great mod!, love it so far, a question please, does anybody has a huge slowdown in the game when selecting laser guided weapons like paveways and mavericks??, and if so, how to solve it?, it's not game breaking, but a little annoying.

Unfortunately, after further testing, it turns out this is due to the effects folder, rather big out of necessity. It puzzles me a bit as it should be totally unrelated, but it seems it is not. The game is bounded to 32bit, as such it is more limited in handling so many extra effects. There's no easy fix on the horizon.

Edited May 30, 2022 by Menrva