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Last night, My gameplay started to do some strange things. First, I was successfully shooting down enemy planes but not getting any claim forms appearing afterwards - the game kept going back to QC set-up for another round. Then, my pilot got shot down in 2 separate fights and was killed in both instances, but the game kept going back to the QC page allowing me to make selections again for another flight. Checking the pilot's dossiers later on for any of the pilots showed no flights at all for anyone, no record of anything happening. Exiting the game and starting over fresh produced the same results. I uninstalled everything including CFS3 and re-installed fresh, including CFS updates and OFF 1.28a. CFS ran fine. After starting OFF back up, then I could not get any pilots registered. I kept getting a message about a "....path not found". Another fresh uninstall and reinstall of OFF again. This time, it wanted the OFF Disc back in the drive as well as the CFS disc. I got a few pilots registered and tried again. Same problem as last night- after a successful combat, back to the QC setup page again, no claim forms appearing or even mentioned and . And, tonite, in addition to that, all the labels except my own flight are in red. Everything else in red, whether friend or foe. The HUD showed us we were totally in enemy territory - red everywhere, however, checking the map showed we were well into our own territory. Going down slowly to buzz one of these red airfields showed it was actually ours, decked out with parked SE5's. I also flew straight toward several balloons on our side of the lines to check nationality, but could not, they all seemed to magically explode about a 100 yards away and I never fired a shot. Being 2;20 AM in the morning, I am too tired to deal with it any longer tonite. What have I done to displease the gods? Guess I'll be doing a third uninstall/reinstall of OFF tomorrow after I rest tonite.

Now, you all have me thinking - (dangerous!) I recall seeing wings coming off after one of the earlier patches (can't recall which one) that did not come off during the original install. Now, after 1.28/1.28a, I don't think I have see that happen at all. Back to testing.....

I like to use metres for my German pilots - it just sounds neat.

Owww ! Those things all made my head hurt real bad.........!

Thanks uncleal, That was it. Just backed off 2 of the sliders and the Campaign FPS rate picked up - much better now. I guess Campaign takes just a little bit more juice than QC.

A quick question to some of you who have played this sim for awhile now. Is there a significant difference in the amount of graphics used in Campaign as compared to QC? I noticed that my QC flights are generally smooth, FPS-wise, (except for an extremely heavy dogfight) and the Campaign Missions seem to struggle a little bit , FPS-wise, even during calm flight. Is there just more data being pumped in during Campaign?

Naw, never did get the Control Panel issue resolved, but I have learned to adjust what I can thru the Workshop settings to be acceptable. (Still, it be nice to look at it...) It is just the Pfalz not displaying the bracing wires, and not the other aircraft, so as long as my wings don't snap off in a dive, that's ok. Anyway, I should be concentrating on keeping my behind from being shot down instead....... :crutch00:

Tonite, I noticed that the Pfalz D.IIIa I was flying, was missing all of its wing bracing wires. The landing gear and elevator cables were present. I altered the "Aircraft Detail" slider back and forth, just in case, without change. All other aircraft I tested had all the rigging. Anyone else seen this, or is it just me and my old eyes?

Tonite I attempted to file several claims per the usual way. As usual, in the end, some of them get confirmed and others don't - no problem there. However, with my last pilot, I filed claims on three different occasions and received a message I have never seen before, stating something to the effect that my claims were erroneous and will be rejected outright. I went back to the claim forms in all three cases to double check my info, and seeing nothing different from the past , attempted to submit them again, still with the same results. Anyone else seen this and have any idea what it means?

Great patch! Downed twelve 2-seaters tonite on about 5 different flights. I was able to disable the gunners on 8 of them by shooting from their blind spots - after that, it wasn't difficult to get the pilot. My previous record for getting 2-seaters was about 4 total out of about 50-60 combats with them, and most of those combats resulted in me getting the worst of it. I also got some spinners tonite, too. Much better effect, down and out quickly as opposed to the long slow gliders. One flamer and a lot of smokers. The variety is very pleasing. The only negative thing was my fault. I flew over my first major ground battle (after disobeying orders and leaving the flight leader) because I could see it taking place in the distance and wanted to see it close up. Yep, you guessed it - shot down by ground fire! I was so fascinated by all that was going on that I temporarily forgot my purpose for being there - too late! Great effects though! A thousand thanks to the OFF developers - keep up the excellent work!

Well heck. The other day while flying the SE, I had just downed an Albatros and my squadron mate ahead of me did two complete victory rolls in front of me. First of all, it wasn't his anyway, and secondly, the jerk almost collided with me after the second one.....

Ok, just wanted to get some other input of this aspect of the sim. Makes good sense. I'll just have to practice on this a lot more - if I don't get too many pilots plastered all over the landscape in the process!

I have been primarily flying dogfight scenarios so far, and pretty well have an understanding of that area. Question - what type of ground targets should I be seeing any visible damage from (and how severe) when selecting any kind of "Ground Attack" mission? For example, tonite I elected to attack airfields. I shot almost every target at very close ranges, had about a final 25% hit ratio. Parked aircraft and moving trucks showed no response from being hit and only one British troop appeared to fall down. I have also done a railyard mission once before and recall that it also did not show any effect. Are any of these targets supposed to react, and if so, under what game settings, or am I just not actually close enough, or just doing it all wrong?

Gee, I finally found my way here - I thought I had been banned on the other site....