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Nice! Thanks!

Let me know if you need some help. I am working up some Spit vs. Spit missions just to see how they play out. Makes for some interesting A/C recognition problems.

Understood. I was not sure of its status as it is available at CA. Yes. The B-17 would be a very nice to have. What about a publicly available Spit pit? (I'm still not clear on the status of this.....)

B-17: What about this.... http://forum.combatace.com/files/file/1390-wulf-hound/ with this..... http://forum.combatace.com/files/file/6440-idf-b-17g-1948/ I agree on the Beaufighter though....... I know where there is one, but.......

Sweet! I was wondering if someone was going to do the War of Independence. (I started on it but you guys are way ahead.)

If this is an SF2 sim they are located in your My Documents\Thirdwire folder. And the folders are created during the first execution of the sim.

It isn't the Israeli developed .50 cal silencers????????????????

Yes, you will be fine. I have been doing a lot of performance research with SF2 given my system is rather old at this point. P4 2.6 GHZ 2 Gig ram XP Geforce 6200 512M First off, I had some serious performance issues with the latest, greatest video drivers. I get much better performance using older 81 level drivers. The fact is that given the same settings with SF1 and SF2 sims I actually get better results with SF2. You need to keep in mind that there are a couple of settings in the OPTIONS.INI that can only be modified there; they are not available in the OPTIONS game screen. CloudDetail will kill a machine like mine if it's not set right. (I use 0). AntiAliasing is also set in the OPTIONS.INI.

Just re-upped, my friend. Sorry for the delay.

Um. Where can I find this pit? Sorry, you guys lost me.

I just pointed to the P-51D cockpit file for the moment. We'll need a proper Spit cockpit when someone can get around to it.

You may be thinking the Naval Combat Pack... http://www.strategyfirst.com/en/games/NavalCombatPack/ There is Global Conflict Blue which might interest you.... http://www.gcblue.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Download_Latest_Beta_Release

According to TK you need to browse to the folder containing SF2:Israel. The installer is looking for the Strike Fighters 2 Israel.exe.

Me, too! GRRRR! Thanks!

To answer the last question first..... The more recent updates to the game have made it very XP friendly. I still run it on a Win98/Voodoo3 system myself but that's mainly because I can. As for where to get it. Try here... http://yhst-12000246778232.stores.yahoo.net/aircombatgames.html

Not sure if you're taking SF2I. If you are, you may need to delete the "user specific" folder that SF2I builds for you. In Vista it is something like: C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Israel\ (Your drive and <username> may be different.) Try that. A reinstall will NOT reinitialize this folder. You need to manually bag it.

Me... I have an older rig that going to have to do for a while..... Plenty of mods out there left to try. You do what you have to.

In this topic... http://forum.combatace.com/topic/29345-annotated-single-mission/ I have found that the WEATHER parameter can also be set to RANDOM which has the same effect as setting the CREATE SINGLE MISSION weather option to RANDOM.

Good idea. Thanks.

I am building some missions just for grins and am struggling with how to define a waypoint to work with the ALT-N command. No matter what I do I always end up ALT-Ning to the APPROACH waypoint. I am not using a mission editor just mucking about with a text editor. I have tried set OBJECTIVE=TRUE on a couple of waypoints but not sure if that's the trick. Any ideas?? PS. Yes, I tried the knowledge base.........

Thanks for the feedback. I think there is still some hope :) http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?page=1&Nav=|c:318|&Sort=0&Recs=10 I just didn't know if anyone had a good suggestion without doing a lot of research. I still intend to poke around myself. I'm inclined to go with the 7300GT but I'm still looking.

I need a good suggestion for a replacement for my 6800GT. I don't need a high end card just something that would match the specs of the 6800GT for a reasonable price. Needs to be AGP. I have a Intel P4 level motherboard. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I decided to post here since the problem seems more pronounced in Thirdwire sims but I am seeing it in other heavy graphics apps. The card is a XFX Geforce 6800GT with 256MB memory. I have uninstall and resinstalled several versions of video drivers and well as reinstalling directx. The only thing I have not resorted to is a complete reinstall of Win XP. My case and GPU temps all seem to stay well within boundries. The problem is very unpredictable which leads me to think it is hardware related. This is probably the best screenshot I've captured so far. This is WOE. I see it in most other TW sims. The artifacts come and go and seem to affect the terrain and aircraft more that the sky and clouds. It does seem to be related to more advanced graphics applications since I can run older sims without seeing any such artifacts. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I do realize I could get as good or better a card these days for not a lot of money. Thanks.

Generally, what I've seen is: 1. Improved cockpits. 2. Improved graphics. 3. Merged install capability with other TW V2 titles. If you do not have version 1 of the sim then version 2 is probably worth it. That being said, V2 of WOV leaves you without a stock A-6 to fly (granted, one can be added on fairly easily) As a V1 owner and an XP user with a older machine I don't really feel I got much for the upgrade to V2. I can't really enjoy the graphics improvements with my rig, for instance. The improved cockpits are nice. Another consideration is add-ons. Some support the V2 sims, other don't.

Yes, more information would be good but I expect they are out of my price range. That being said, I ALREADY have a good CH HOTAS setup and as long as they seem to last I won't be in the market for new equipment for a LONG time. :) The upside is that if they can use some of this money for further R&D I only see their products getting better.