ndicki

I'd like to add (inauthentic) Sidewinder loadouts to a stand-alone Hunter I'm working on, but I can't find the trick - could somebody please help?

I realize this has probably been treated in the knowledge base, but I can't find a post which outlines the procedure in clear, Haynes Manual, newbie terms! Thanks!

I was going to suggest that, but expected you would have needed to reboot anyway, after updating DX. Glad you got it working!

 

I hope you have a good-sized hard disk for all those downloads and parallel installs

You mean on top of my half-dozen installs of CFS3, each at some 5-6 GB each! But I confess to being a "developer" as well as a user...

Lots of good things to discover and fiddle with here, too!

Funny thing is, SF still goes into sulk mode now and again - rebooting gets it back to normal.

Thanks for the tip. I shut down some things that resembled the programs above and it installed fine. Interesting though.

 

Storm

Goods to hear it - so I'm not off track at all!

strange

Well, there must be a series of problems then. Pity, I thought we'd got it cracked.

Hmm, I dont have that program at all, so I'm still at square one.

 

Glad yours works though.

 

Storm

Anything similar? It's a registry/cleaning/maintenance tool which runs permanently in the background. Whatever it is, you probably won't find it in the taskmanager under "Applications" but on page 2 under "Processes". Worth checking it all out, bit by bit... Have you got an HP printer installed?

Found the problem. Iolo System Mechanic. It has a monitor program which runs in the background, called

SMSystemAnalyzer.exe. If you go into Task Manager/Processes, you'll find it - it's enough just to click on End Process, and it'll stop. No damage should be done to anything, despite the Windows "It's not going to like this" comment - but don't blame me if...!

Anyway, mine now runs perfectly, so that's one problem solved.

Should this be moved to the knowledge base? It seems to be something we didn't know!

My bad.....

Thanks, everybody - off to look for Madagascar!

Apologies for asking Newbie questions which have already been covered - I did (briefly) look through the knowledge base, but obviously not thoroughly enough...

Which will teach me to be more tolerant (I am, really!) of Newbies on the SOH CFS3 forum which is my other home!

I have the same problem on my laptop. Posted the problem here, but no replies. Let's see if someone can pinpoint this.

 

Storm

 

UPDATE I just D/L'd it from Checksix and had the same result. I'm wondering if I'm missing an XP update or something as this hasnt happened before on any of my other computers.

I d/l-ed it from here and Check Six - both seem to react the same way, so unless the master file has a problem, it is not a case of corruption. It's possibly a conflict with something on my rig, but I can't imagine what - and a lot of people seem to have the same trouble.

AFAIK, my copy of Windows (XP Home SP2, genuine, OEM) is up-to-date except for the GDI detection tool, which I didn't like the look of!

I've e-mailed Skypat - the program creator - to ask if he has any idea.

One thing comes to mind - who here is running WinAce?

Well, I can't get SFP1E_10.exe to run. First, it hangs on "Registering fonts" during install, then when I actually try to run it, I select the cat file, click and I get an error message "Error accessing external object property filename." Which is explicit.

Any ideas? I've tried downloading from another source, in case it was corrupt, but reinstalling changes nothing.

Cheers, Russ - sounds simple enough...

Is there any terrain add-on for SFG that looks like Southern Africa, does anybody know? I've picked up a few bits, but not seen that sort of thing.

"And how is it installed?" asks the total newbie very timidly!

You will find treasures beyond belief. Welcome aboard!!!

Cheers, mate!

Got it! You're never going to believe this... It simply needed to reboot. Surprise! First time I've seen that with a game program. Anyway, it's running! :yes:

So off to the downloads section, see what else I can find...

It'll be somewhere in those .ini files, IMHO, but which one? I'm not familiar with the game enough to start tearing it apart and have any hope of success!

One time, way back when, I had the same problem. I think it worked after I deleted the GMX video file from the SF folder.

Off to try...

No. It just goes straight to the empty black screen - not responding.

Well, it's worth a try... Here's hoping!

Later:

No joy. I reinstalled completely, in the order you suggested, and all I get is the GMX Media splash screen, then nothing but black. No HD activity, and the Tesk Manager says it is not responding.

Any more ideas???

First off, hi everybody! I'm new round here, but quite well known as a skinner for CFS3 on SOH.

Anyway, I've got SFG, installed it, installed August 2007 DX, upgraded with SFG_sp051506b.exe and SFG_p083006.exe, and am getting nowhere. Either it won't find the CD and says "Can't find original CD" or some such - it is genuine, bought through Amazon UK - or it gets past the GMX logo, and then... just black nothing. Anybody know where to start troubleshooting?

P4 2.8C, 768MB Ram, 7600GS, Windows XP Home SP2. Everything else runs fine!

Cheers, Nigel