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I purchased a geforce Golden Sample 5900 with 256 Ram. Now, FS 2004 shows me a black screen instead of a cockpit. In VC I can fly just normaly and also the outside views are OK. Just the cockpit is gone and that's a bit of a pain in the ass. Any solutions? I've already reinstalled and tried out many different graphics settings.

The problem is, that with the 53.03 drivers FS2004 runs great. Yet all other 3D applications are screwed. It isn't exactly a frame loss, it's a frame drop. For example, I'm getting a pretty good 25 to 30 FPS, but still I get the impression of a fast slide show. The game runs, than suddenly a drop. It's just like running a NTSC movie under Pal conditions (25 vs 29 frames per second). There's a jump every second.

What I don't understand is, that there are so many differences between the versions. The published fix list of the patch encompasses bugs, which aren't language based. So, what's the problem?

So they're alienating me, since I have the German version. I just hope, that it doesn't become another neverending patch story.

Well, thanks a lot. The newest gainward drivers were the culprits. With the standard geforfce drivers the cockpits there again.

LOMAC runs OK whilst flying, but once in the menus it freezes more often than not. Sometimes I get a freezing screen with rapidly repeating sound samples, when I try to end a flight. Sometimes nothing happens until I'm back in the menus. And when I try to navigate the menus, the mouse pointer is suddenly stuck. I'm running an Athlon XP 3000+, 1024 Ram, Radeon 9600 Pro, Aureon 5.1 Fun - everything equipped with the latest drivers. Did anyone else encounter those peculiar freezing actions?

Of course, when the Maverick is loaded. Wouldn't have noticed the difference otherwise. <_< Only the crosshair is visible.

Well, I did do this before posting my problems here. But guess what happened. I had no more menu crashes, but the TV screen in the A10 was black.

Every time I try the F15, frames go down the crapper. It only happens with this machine and only after a while. I just want to know, if anybody else had this stuttering with the F15.

Could be a heat problem, but it only occurs in LOMAC. Everything else, including IL2FB and FS 2004 runs OK without any freezers. So I tend to think, that it has something to do with that particular game.

Snake, I would love to give it a try. Can you post a download link and do you have some knowledge, if it is playable with the german version of LOMAC?

Printing it out is part of the fun. When you're in for one of those coffee shop sessions and you have already read the daylies, you need some interesting reading.

Thanks, Cretin. Found it myself and downloading already. That's what I always think, my Laserwriter is patient and I don't have to wait for shipping.

Can you post a link? I would be perfectly content with downloading, and 15 Dollars are within the green signs.

I honestly don't see any reason to run Win98 unless you want to use some games, that came out before 2000. For every other purpose XP is an improvement and much easier to handle. Be sure to use the Antispyware tools like XP Antispy though.

Since I mainly fly in VC, I would like to know, where I can find the best looking VCs and how to install them? Now, there are a great many good looking Jets around, but everyone of them only features a cockpit and a void in VC mode. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Personally I think, that VCs give me the best flying experience. It has the visual depth, the standard cockpit has not.

I wouldn't recommend to try it with a 5200 card. This one was part of my computer, when I bought it and it has close to none 3d capabilities. And as we all know, LOMAC isn't exactly modest concerning system requirements.

Yeah, had that same problem. The thing, that worked for me was going into my account, not changing anything, but submitting my old settings again. Click the link in the mail you should get afterwards and then without leaving make streight for the forum. Now you should be able to post. Easy way, isn't it? As I said in another link. Their forums seems as self explaining as the game interfaces, they use to make.

You're right about the communications. If you bugger them every two seconds, they gave you new directions, which eventually lead you to the runway. It's a pain in the ass, but it works.

And that's what I honestly don't understand. It's not only LOMAC, it's each and every game being published with unrealistic minimum requirements. I don't get those publishers. It may help them to make a quick dollar, but in the long run, all they get are pissed off customers, who will never buy another of their products for a very long time. Same goes for the release dates. As I said above. I don't have any major problems with LOMAC and it's certainly fun, but it's also unfinished and buggy. Just to make the Christmas dollar, they force the developers to shoot it out at a certain date. The results are once again angry customers, who - in some cases - can't even run the game.

The one thing I definetely won't install, if it stays as advertized is Longhorn. Rumor has it, that this system will take spying to a new level.

LOMAC seems to have different bugs on different machines. I'm using an Athlon XP 3000+, 1024 RAM, Radeon 9600 Pro with Catalyst 3.9. My settings for LOMAC are 1024x768 32bit. Most everything is turned to high, but heat blur seems to be a FPS killer on my system. And as I said, the F15 turns out to be a slide show. Oh yes, and after the F15 slide show, I better restart my computer, because changing to the A10, the TV monitor stays blacked out. That bug only shows itself after trying to fly the F15. And a third bug I encountered and have no explanation to is, that the system freezes in the menus after a mission. Whilst flying everything is OK, but chenging to the debriefing screen results more often than not in a complete freeze.

No, heat blur is disabled. And it's only the F15. Seems to be pretty similiar to some guys claiming, that their A10 missions are crashing.

I was actually warned before ever installing it.