Sky High

Just an observation for nVidia users. Up to now I was able to reduce, but never completely eliminate, microstutters in my game. I recently installed nVidia 196.21 drivers and the microstuttering seems to have gone. I have 9800gt card.

My 2 cents worth, as I play both games, FE modded to max and OFF. Terrain, campaign, immersion factor better in OFF. Flight models, AI better in FE. Conclusion: if one likes campaigns, and a feeling of involvement in one's airforce, OFF would be better. For intense dogfighting, FE is better. One should have both, as both sims are fully deserving of our support. I think RoF should be given a chance too, it's new and the developers seem to be listening-let's not forget we are a rare bunch of anoraks, and should be thankful we have so much choice for what is very much a minority taste.

I was using 182.08 drivers, and having replaced them, I realize they were poor, on my system at least. Of course every system is unique and anything can happen!

Stuck for words. My jaw has dropped and my mouth is wide open and I am staring...just stupified. Thanks so much, Jan.

Heck, wise words indeed...

There is hope for this game after all when this man is around, and it needs (and deserves) a little boost. It is much under-estimated among the flight-sim community and Peter lends it a lot of gravitas with his masterful FM's and AI, which, after all, should be the most important components of any sim, ahead of graphics, immersion and all the other stuff, not to make little of these either. Welcome back, sir.

Got a new 'Speedlink Black Widow' forcefeedback joystick recently. Works perfectly on other games such as IL-2 and European Air War, but in OFF when I fire the guns even briefly, the force feedback comes on and stays on for ages, even if the guns are stopped and I'm in level flight. Is there any way of adjusting the settings within the game for forcefeedback? Thanks in advance.

Hello all, have been doing more experimentation with force feedback on my Black Widow. Anyway, what I have discovered, which might help anyone using this joystick is the following: I had been using old(2003) drivers as I found the newer Black Widow drivers caused a huge drop in framerates with my BoBII. However when I reinstalled the newer drivers, they worked great with OFF. I was faced with a dilemma and organized a work-around involving the JSGME utility, the system32 file and the remaming of a driver dll which allows me to change drivers at the touch of a button between these two brilliant games. I am now beginning to really enjoy OFF.

Uncleal, I owe you one BIG thank you. Did a reinstall, and now forcefeedback seems to be working much better. But, best of all, my fps has more than doubled, everything looks really smooth. Now, I think I'll start getting interested in this game.

Sorry, Uncleal, I didn't mean to come across like that. I want this game to work, and have tried all those tips you indicate, but maybe it's the fresh install that's required, and that's a bit of time and work and I was tired yesterday. Today's a new day, and I never give up easily. Thanks for all your help and encouragement.

I suppose you're right, that would be worth a try. Game hasn't really run as well as before since I got HITR, so I must reinstall it one of these days.

Uncleal, thanks for the reply. Just have to live with it. The 'Black Widow' is not a Chinese rip-off, it's made by a reputable German company. I have EAW, First Eagles, Wings Over Europe, IL-2, BoBII and WoP on my hard-drive (I know, I know, too spread out) and the forcefeedback works well on the rest, so it's not a bad product. I would be inclined to blame the Microsoft background of OFF for this. They just want to exclude everything else, but I suppose OFF is stuck with it, which is a big limitation. To be honest I would play First Eagles 90% of the time viz 10% for OFF, and I guess the new joystick will greatly accentuate that. It is a pity OFF is so limited in terms of hardware and gameplay, because in terms of historicity and atmosphere it is second to none, a wonderful labour of love.

I am an idiot-I didn't see the over-rides in the mission-builder. Thought you all meant the config overrides.

Hello all. I've lost my winter effects as well. What settings in the game or in my video card do I need to change. Thank you.

Could anyone help with this? After getting back to EAW after many years and with everything going fine, I now can't create new missions with JIM-when I save the mission, it tells me: 'Run Time Error 75-Path File Access Error'and closes when I click ok. I've tried reinstalling 1.28c and JIM to no avail.

Jel, I have to thank you again for helping me. You have probably seen my reply to your post in Sim-HQ, anyway I confirm I have the garbled screens, but I can run the game which is great.

Panic over! Sorry, folks, but I had made my conf.ini read-only and this caused the problem.

Hello IL28, have you seen Laton's new Effects?

Brilliant-just what the game needed. Il-28 was actually looking for something like this in a previous post. Thanks Laton.

In-game with me also.

Bucky, afraid he might be right. Some extraneous noises I think in the Spandau, Vickers and Windloop sounds.

p10ppy, Thanks for your assistance.I cannot locate an ALIAS.LST. Perhaps you could indicate where it is, or could it be that it is missing in my game and that that is causing the problem? If so , how do I get one!? Sky High.

Is it possible to edit the size of the target box and change its colour? If so, how is this done?

Tailspin, Thanks very much for your help.

Unfortunately, the missing(sometimes) decals problem remains unresolved.