Zola25

^ I make that three questions . However, I am interested in the answers also.

Sadly there's no way to put the update functionality back on a par with Windows 7/8/8.1, but these steps will give you much more control and is how I've been managing updates since the Win 10 preview builds. 1. Fire up the local group policy editor. Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update. Open Configure Automatic Updates, set the policy to enabled. In the options box set "Configure automatic updating" to "2 - Notify for download and notify for install", then click "ok". This then means you will receive notifications, but it won't install updates without you pressing the update button. Note it may take a reboot or two for the policy to take effect. You'll know it's working if you go to the Windows update page of the settings app and at the top it says "Some settings are managed by your organisation", the message is due to group policy mainly being used to manage computers on domains. 2. Go into control panel (not settings) > system > advanced system settings >advanced > hardware > device installation settings. Set "Do you want to automatically download manufacturers apps etc" to "No". This will allow you to update, but windows update should then not replace any existing drivers. 3. For even finer control, google for "Windows 10 hide updates". See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930 . This will allow you to install an MS hotfix that allows you to selectively disable any current updates including drivers before pressing the update button if you've completed step 1 above. Hope this helps.

TK has responded to my thread on the TW forums again, he's made an (almost) certain statement that there will be no further PC updates: Zola25, Thanks, but the game is over 7 years old, so there should be no reasonable expectation for a patch at this point. We'd love to be able to do more updates, but we simply do not have the resources to do them at the moment. If you need a clear "yes" or "no" answer instead of "maybe", then it has to be "no". That way, any update we do would be a bonus, and no one is disappointed if we never do another update. Thanks! Although this is disappointing it's hardly surprising, and at least we know where the series stands. ​Hopefully nVidia's next driver will help, which then leaves the lack of AI using countermeasures pods as the worst outstanding bug IMO.

Before taking any action I'd recommend disabling driver updates via Windows update - I've also had it swap out my NVidia driver for whichever one it fancies! Open system properties, select the hardware tab, then Device installation settings. If using Win 10 build 10586/1511 change the yes to a no. I'd then use Display driver uninstaller, and install the NVidia driver you wish to use with "perform clean install" checked.

Definitely worth trying a driver update. Intel iGPUs perform notoriously strangely in this game at times.

I've now tested 359.06 and for me (on Windows 10) these drives reduce the problem, but doesn't entirely eliminate it. As for TW/TK, I wish he'd come clean about whether he's abandoned the PC games or not. His responses seem to be very cryptic.

Thanks Stingray, I've been away on business for a couple of days so had not seen the response. I'll give the new drivers a go and report back.

Thanks Fubar, it's good to capture the drivers for those who only play SF2 as this at least gives them a workaround in the short term. As the discussion on the TW forum centred around Windows 10, I've created a new thread here http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9754 and have clearly described that the issue happens on Windows 7 on which the SF2 series is supported. I hope TK will weigh in further on the matter......

This is quite worrying for the future of the series. I suspect I am in the same position as many others in that I need to run newer NVidia drivers for other games. I'll post a thread on the TW forums, not that I expect a response or even an acknowledgement.

It runs very much the same as on Windows 7 x64 I've found, i.e. almost perfectly but with a very occasional crash to desktop on mission exit. I'm now running SF2 in Windows 10 which has also been fine so far.

You can literally copy and paste the stock SF2 folders to wherever you like, you'll need to make new shortcuts but this will work. Assuming you use a mods folder, you can also move that to the d: drive. All you then need to do is find your options file, which defaults to %UserProfile%\Saved Games\Thirdwire\Strike Fighters 2\options.ini, then in this file under [Mods] change the directory location to point to your new mods folder.

You can also use the Thirdwire Auto installer which will download and install all the games, XPs and DLC that you have purchased.

Voted. All SF2 titles and XP's merged, but the only DLC I have is the campaign customiser.