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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?

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?

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