sgran

I've recently had to reinstall CFS 3 and then off, have patched it up to date, and reconfigured everything to the way it was. Now I'm not much on the technical side of things, but now every time I go on a mission, the simulation always seems to be on the right hand side of the screen, and seems to be compresses. How can I get it back to wide screen settings?

i think i'll be able to access the control panel in flight (If its a good day for my computer), but this leaves just one thing. How to stretch the game screen.

hey, thianks guys. Herr prop wasche i'll try that next time. hope it works. being such an ancient computer, it usually crashes when I try to press start while playing OFF.

I wasn't flying the Fokker. He was my victim. . Anyway, I've tried just about every resolution I can. Nothing works. Even the frame rates are dropping again. Then again, I'm flying St Mihiel in an SE5a and that is really busy, so that probably has something to do with it. 3 More missions and I get the Viper variant.

Yes. It works. This is exactly what my screen looks like at the moment when playing OFF. It's a screen shot of before the reinstallation, but i've edited it to give you an idea of what I'm up against.

Well I have a very similar low spec machine, and I (Used to before I had to reinstall) Run OFF Phase 3 at 5 For aircraft and effects, 4 for clouds and 2 for scenery and terrain and get very good frame rates and still decent scenery, so you should do fine.

Sorry, that was a typo, its actually a 7600 GS. My desktop is on 1152 by 864, and i just set OFF to 1280 by 1024, and did a flight. The bad frame rates are greatly diminished, but the compressed screen is still there. Once i can find a way to get rid of it, then ill be fine. by the way, how do you put in a picture? i just uploaded one on the combataceforum, but it wont let me put it in the post.

Another thing to note, is that I have recently downloaded a new driver for my tired old graphics card. Its a NVIDIA 7800GT if that makes a difference at all.

Well, I suffer from an awful old 13 inch acer screen that is nearly as old as the aircraft that i fly with it. I tried setting the solution back to 4:3, and it makes absolutely no difference. 1 inch of the left hand side of the screen is as good as useless, and the rest of the screen is ridiculously compressed. Also, the frame rates are awful, despite being under the same settings as before, which actually had some good results. Im sure that getting rid of that problem will also get rid of my bad frame rates.

It is in widescreen, but it doesnt seem to help. The resolution is on 1024 / 768. isa this a good resolution? any suggestions on what i could use?

a good idea is to stay above the airfield. The airfields AA guns will give you a helping hand.

Flying with RFC 1 in January 1918, I went on a balloon busting mission. when it told me to attack and locate the target, I attacked the Balloon, firing my Le Prieur rockets, directly hitting the gasbag, and it explodes with a brilliant flash of smoke and fire. I run home, and land to a successful mission, but it won't let me claim for the balloon. I hear that in a balloon busting mission, when you blow up the balloon successfully, you can claim for it like you would an aircraft. Is this a glitch, or can't you claim for balloons after all? By the way, the Superpatch rules! Well done developers. Can't wait for the new aircraft!

Yeah, I made sure I got the right one, but sometimes friendly flak seems to get balloons. Oh well. The end result was the same. I'll just have to make sure to get there before the flak next time.

Only problem is that it gets boring fast doing that. Good to have diversity (yet still noops) but that just makes things more exciting.

I chose Nieuport 17 and Sopwith Pup for scouts, i like my small rotaries, and for two seaters itd have to be Strutter and Be2c.

I am a new user, and am so far really enjoying OFF. Ive been flying a variety of campaigns, and have noticed that with all of the crash landings and all the times ive been shot down, not once have I been injured. I'm either always killed or fine and dandy despite flying nose first into the ground from 8000ft. Not that I don't like a second chance, but i'm sure i should have been hospitalized plenty of times. I've just started an Eindekker campaign in July 1916 and i've came up with a problem. For some reason, everytime i start a new flight, this comes up. how do I get rid of it? http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sgran/OFF/problem.bmp

oh, i have everything on the DiD standards. And i couldn't agree more, uncleal. The developers have done a tactless job really. I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. it just strikes me as odd that I've never got injured

its ok. i solved the problem. still, in two months of flying around 20 missions, i havent been hospitalized once

You can add me. I come from Birmingham in the midlands

I am flying a german campaign whith the Fokker DVII and i am on a sweep over an airbase, and my squadron gets attacked by Two SPADS and a two seater, i shoot the wings off the first one and after a while i set the Two seater alight. No sign of the other SPAD so i fly back to base. When i go into debriefing, i'm credited for all three planes, i just flew another mission over the trenches, as soon as i cross into enemy territories, we are attacked by Two SPADS, i shoot one down, and i presume the other is shot down by my wingman, when i debrief, i am credited fro both SPADS, how can i set this right, and stop myself from getting extra kills?

i've heard from a friend that there is a new expansion coming out for first eales with the Fokker Dr1 and the Albatros, is this true?