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One of Growler's squad mates made a mission randomizer called LMR (Lock On Mission Randomizer). Once you figure out the idiosyncracies of making a mission for it, it's an indispensible tool. I have started several people on using it and have released a mission pack for it. I love it, I even spoke w/Chizh about ED buying it from Shadow to include in Black Shark. It's that great of a tool. You can play the same mission over and over again and never have the same air and ground units show up in the same spot at the same time. It's brilliant. Growler, I agree with you about SF. Developers are gonna use some sort of CP for sure and ED are still using SF. They see how bad piracy is first hand in Russia so I imagine they're gonna continue to use something intrusive like that cuz it does work. The good news is that SF is starting to take a hit because of the bad press, and another game developer dropped them the other day (sorry, I don't recall the name).

It's your choice to not purchase. I've had SF on my rig (the d/l version) since Flaming Cliffs was released. So have 9 other people in my squadron. No issues. From what I'm seeing the d/l version has far less problems than the one that does the CD checks. I have 2 Windows installs, one has a RAID 0 partition with XP Pro, my games and all services turned off (which gained me 120mb of free RAM). The other is my standard install with all my programs such as Photoshop, Vegas, etc. I decided to do a test with SF, cuz people were swearing up and down that SF killed or hampered optical drives. I ran Nero Drivespeed on my drives and benched them. I then installed LOMAC/FC (with Starforce) and benched them again. There was no difference whatsoever in drive performance. Mind you, I was using Nero which the naysayers claim will not work with SF installed. Additionally, I'm running 2 virtual drives with Daemon tools on my gaming install and both the WoV and BF2 ISO's work. I made the ISO's with Alcohol 120 and my legal copies of those games. SF is supposed to hose your system if you have Daemon Tools or Alcohol installed. Most of my squad has these installed and haven't seen one whit of performance problems. The above wasn't posted to change your mind about SF, it's clear how you feel about both by posts in other forums. I found that in our squad's case this is how things are. Cali from the 169th is a real life buddy of mine and he states his squad reports the same non problems with the d/l version of SF that is used on Flaming Cliffs. Being a member of a dev team that is doing a factory sponsored game using Crytek's CryEngine 2 (Crysis engine) I can respect that ED doesn't want their stuff stolen. When we released a mod for FarCry we had several things stolen from people doing other mods. A quick letter from our attorney fixed that, but it shows that people don't respect intellectual property. There are no working cracked copies of Flaming Cliffs available on the net. SF stopped that. If you look at F4/AF there was a copy available several days before LP released it. There's alot of theft going on and it's a shame that LP is getting hosed for the monies involved with that. I hung out w/several of the great guys at LP at E3 this year, and it kills me that good peeps like that are being ripped off. It's their descision on what type of CP to use though, as it's their product. One only need take a look at Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and it's Securom 7 protection to see that some of the alternatives are worse than the SF protection that was originally intended for it. People can't install the game with brand new optical drives. In fact, there are the same complaints with SR7 that there were with SF. All I can tell you is that 5 of the 9 people in my squad have had issues with SR7................

It's evolving. Black Shark is gonna be sick and when they release their F16 sim with realistic avionics it's gonna be just what the community always wanted.

If you can fire up the game w/out the CD then you're patched correctly. Safedisc was removed for that patch, thanks to Wags.

I don't know if they've updated the Live drivers or not.

The new drivers work great. Go to creative.com and do the auto update.

You can get the tail up at 30mph in the P40. I recommend this, as it stops the bouncing.

We're waiting for the dedicated server w/the patch.

Very nice website!! Now I gotta learn to speak the language....:)

My wingman made another movie, it's called No Fear. It's the best LOMAC movie out there IMHO. It's a huge d/l but worth it.

I will Thomas. And you can just install the codecs. Frankly I don't need another media player so I use the codecs only.

Love the movie and very impressed w/the flying. <S!>

Looks like the Legion is getting hit hard, it worked great this A.M.

I was out partying so I deserve to be second. Post #2

I like the old design.

True, but the government in Africa does little to help it's own people. They could prevent that. The car bombing can't be. Not only that but I don't see how the two are related.

Just when we thought the 6.1's were the best sound pack out there..................

Marine is correct.

The attention to detail is amazing. While I don't get excited about the new plane I'm still gonna buy the addon.

Instead of clicking the "Fly" button hit Ctrl+R, that will record the mission.

You need a CDDS converter, or the .dds plugin for Photoshop. Email me at teambsr@cox.net and I'll send you the plugin. Then you use LOMAN to make a zip file that LOMAN can install.

Check the readme for the 1.0.2 patch, I think it says something in there about FF causing problems w/the game and that it only works intermittantly.

Nice sigs.

There have been issues w/the latest detonator drivers as these are geared more towards the newer series cards. I'd recommend getting an earlier set of drivers and trying those. Also, if you are using a GF4 Mx card turn down all settings to low. I don't recall which ones won't render w/an Mx card so you'll have to experiment. I have an ATI card and the 2 newest sets of drivers are awesome for FarCry, but suck for LOMAC. I'm using the older drivers.......

What kind of video card do you have and what drivers are you using for it?