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or at least next time try the fuel tanks, they make better substitues :P

This deserves to be on the front page of CA ... if that's not worth announcing news .....

. On windows (7, 64) startup i got (for the first time since i setup this Win 7 system in 2009) a chkdsk initiation on two different partitions ("E:" & "I:") on two different physical drives. "I:" was freshly recovered from accidental deletion so it makes sense. But "E:" (where my thirdwire mods and 'workshop' are) is on a physical drive that i never had any issues with either the drive or the partitions nor it ever had been subjected to any possibly messy activity. It looks though that , reading the report i attach, chkdsk deleted files from the so far flawless "E:". (And it appears they are all Thirdwire related files??) Most of the files i tried to find in "E:" from the chkdsk log are not in the drive. Using GetDataBack and other data recovery software didn't find them either .... 1. Do you know maybe a way to find out if files (and which ones exactly) were actually deleted from "E:" ? (unfortunately, i have no back up of this partition ...) 2. If they are deleted, do you know maybe a way to retrieve them ? ... Note. Finding the log was another of the many Windows 7 pains. Locating wininit or chkdsk in Windows Event Viewer resulted in a log file containing about only 1/10 if not less of the actual chkdsk session activity .... Amongst various data recovery software tried was Recuva which ... revealed (as deleted if i understand correctly) the bootex.log file (the one that normally should be laying on the root of the partition offering direct access to what chkdsk has just done to the partition ...) and that file contained THE WHOLE list of files deleted .... plus some more information about the session. Download Chkdsk Report (txt) .

yeah the clouds here are my fixation too :D and its just DX9 ... (dont like the heavy banding though) talking eyecandy, check this rendering potential : http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB3w/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8589&p=53630#p53630

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as described here : http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB3w/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8511

Backed up my "Saved Games\Thirdwire" (although that's not where i put my mods). Uninstalled & installed as provided by TK. Tested, worked ok. Restored my previous (with custom options.ini) "Saved Games\Thirdwire" folder and looks ok so far with my mods working. Question : If i am using as mods folder the forementioned "E:\Games\Thirdwire\Mods\Europe" ("\Vietnam","\Israel",) Do i need all the other folders inside the "Saved Games\Thirdwire\StrikeFighters2 Europe\" or just only the Options.ini file?

and if i restore the options.ini mod folder lines to point to the default location and / or put FALSE to the mods enabled line, nothing changes

I have never used separate (copies of originals) executables for mods . (Is this advised for some reason ?) k? ...

there are no .exe files in my mod folders (or in User\Saved Games\ folder) .... (never were)

hmmm i have to check that. Self installed mods? ... i can't remember making any change since the last time it was working normally ... maybe installed the may update and didnt check right away if everything still worked ok?

the thing is, that i haven't created separate exes for my mods :( I have only created custom mod folders and modified the original options.inis to point there ....

ermmm can you elaborate maybe bit more ? - i have only updated exes. - "old exe" = ? - "modded exe" = ? - which exactly i am copying? and what i do with the copy ? what i am doing with the original ? - "both folders" = ? which one is the other folder ? - "newly created exe" = how is this created ?

i haven't installed in there anything. Also, the proper thirdwire folders (all of them) are in "Saved Games" as well (all the merge folders). (my mod folders are in a custom location "E:\GAMES\Thirdwire\Mods\" and installation folder in "E:\GAMES\Strike Fighters 2\")

i am seeing in C:\Users\User\Documents\ a "Thirdwire" folder with "StrikeFighters2 Europe" and StrikeFighters2 Exp2" folders in it. Is that normal ?

tried the administrator privilege, no change

Thanks everyone for the input. - I updated to august 2011. No change - The exes are : StrikeFighters2.exe StrikeFighters2 Vietnam.exe StrikeFighters2 Israel.exe StrikeFighters2 Europe.exe StrikeFighters2 Exp2.exe They are all now dated as 8.17.2011 (actually i am bit confused by the existence of separate exe (and folders) for the Exp2. Why is that?)

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