Mike Dora

Thanks Stephen, Looking forward to the new flatdeck version. Changing subject, have you ever considered doing the Armstrong-Whitworth FK8? An excellent, robust machine long absent from our sim. Cheers Mike

Beautiful (very) update Stephen, many thanks! I have just one question though, where does this leave the alternate “flat-topped fuselage” S.16? In this context, according to my references only a total of 34 S.16’s were built altogether (in no less than 5 variations). I wonder how many of these were of the “flat-topped” variant? Cheers Mike

Hello All, I just got myself a new desktop, the old one was becoming flaky and unstable, and of course one of the first things I reinstalled (from CD) was WOFF UE. My problem is that TrackIR is not working with it. My WOFF UE version is 4.17, my TrackIR version is 5.4.2, and I am running Win10. TrackIR does work with all other progs. However with WOFF UE, I get the left-hand green light on the camera (the one that indicates that it's detected the headset), but not the right-hand green light (the one that indicates that TrackIR is working with the selected program). What am I doing wrong please? Thinks - should I have separately re-installed CFS3 before WOFF UE? Thanks Mike

Thanks also from me, I only served for 1/4 of the Service’s history but my goodness it went by so fast! BTW the only real manifestation of the new system for the chaps at the Front in 1918 was that they went from the Army system of being paid a month in advance, to the new Air Force system of being paid a month in arrears. in other words they effectively lost a month’s pay. In the middle of fighting the greatest German offensive of the war. God bless Whitehall..

Ignore my message everyone. After much faffing around, uninstalling, reinstalling, patching, copying old pukka copies etc of both WOFF UE and TrackIR 5, suddenly it worked properly. No idea what was wrong in the first place but that doesn’t matter now. It works. Cheers Mike

Hello All, My old desktop was becoming increasingly flaky and unreliable, so I eventually bit the bullet and got a new system. It's a Dell Alienware running under Windows 10, with an NVidia GTX 1070 graphics card. Of course, once it was set up with the basics, the first sim I copied across from the old machine was FE2. Trouble is, it won't run successfully. Something is happening in there though. When I select FE2, the screen goes blank, but the FE2 main screen theme does play. When I go into Task Manager, FE2 is showing. So my guess is that it is a graphics conflict. The "graphics" part of the Options.ini file reads: [GraphicsOptions] DisplayDeviceID=0 DisplayWidth=2560 DisplayHeight=1440 DisplayDepth=32 AspectRatio=1.777778 AntiAliasing=4 UseAdvancedShaders=1 ForceDX9=FALSE ForceVSyncOff=FALSE LensFlare=0 DetailLevel=2 ObjectDetail=2 ObjectTexture=2 CockpitTexture=2 CockpitMirrors=1 CockpitReflection=1 EffectsDetail=2 TerrainDetail=2 TerrainTexture=2 HorizonDistance=2 GroundObjectDensity=2 WaterDetail=2 CloudsDetail=2 Shadow=2 So, help please. Any suggestions anyone (BTW I've already tried running it with width & depth edited to lower values, no joy). Do I have to fiddle with some obscure settings to get FE2 to run with the Nvidia 1070? (BTW I get exactly the same problem with SF2). Thanks Mike

Ignore my last chaps. I had forgotten to install DirectX on the new machine. Dolt. Done that now, and already happily flying SE5a's, Bristol Fighters etc! Cheers Mike