Platinum Rogue

I've been flying the Desert Storm campaign for a few weeks now, dead is dead, as an RAF Tornado Pilot. I've made it as far as February 24th 1991 but when I end the mission, Sf2 crashes with a black screen and freezes my PC up. I've repeated from the last save but it's the same every time. I'm wondering, have I reached the end of the campaign and there's some victory splash screen that's not working? I'm not getting credited with the results of the mission or a campaign victory as I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL and close SF2 through task manager. The official end date of hostilities is listed as February 28th on wikipedia, but I don't recall if the airstrikes ceased a few days prior to the Iraqi surrender/withdrawal.

Also, if I have won the campaign, can I edit the Pilot's record to reflect this?

A little update, I applied the same mods to the SF2 A5-A as I did to the Thud, but the old useless HUD remains. I think there are extraneous HUD files in the cockpit folder for the series 2 bird that it reverts to using, in spite of the INI edits.

 

I wish I could do more on these bombsight stations,, it would be in the relm

of a second cockpit veiw,, if anyone is familar with Janes F-15 know what I'm talking about

 

Yes, fond memories of that sim. Accurate lofting of dumb bombs with CCRP, anyone? 

Got it working in SF2, using The Mirage Factory's A-7K HUD and radar textures. Thanks for the concise instructions.

You make me wish I still had a windowsXP partition. 

I just tested this, My wingie took off with lights flashing, then I skipped to the IP where they were turned off. This was in a thud over mescalero, 2230 HRS

I set load limit to 630... no effect. Then I tried the aircraft in a new ODS install, where the Pave Tack pod appears in the loadout screen, in place of the forward ECM pod station, and works as advertised. So I copied the ODS F111-F folder to my Europe install.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I don't have the Weapondata.ini extracted, but using the weapon editor to view the pod, I can see the data already matches what you've listed above, yet still it doesn't work. I found a workaround though, adding a new sensor to the F111-E ini file at least got me a guidance system for the LGB's, even though it lacks the model of a designator pod. I'm beginning to remember I had similar issues with this back in WOE days, and I managed to fix it then, it's just a case of remembering what i had to do to make it work.

This was really helpful, thanks yubba.

This is the same aircraft as the original picture, 55th TFS F-111E 68-074. Although the angle means you can't see the tailcode...

Also the standard  SF2:E weapons pack lacks the smaller drop-tanks and dummy MK82's. Terrain is Photo-Real UK.

F111-F 1996 - I can load LGB's on the wing pylons but there's no designator pod. I thought this plane had 1 built-in but it doesn't seem to work for me, and I can't load 1 in the loadout screen.

Does anyone use this, and what are your results? Do I still need it on Win7X64? The latest version is for XP, would it work?

Engage this, d***heads!!

Back in the day... Buccy doing what comes naturally

I had planned a lofting LGB attack on a heavily defended storage shed, but I think they saw me coming

Yes, ironically I found it shortly after posting 

Really liking the green/grey scheme, Spinners. Is it available for plebs? 

I'm back, kind of. I've only just got my first SF2 title (Europe), forced upon me by having to go to windows 7 a year ago. I was 'grounded' by work, marriage, children, and life's generally-bumpy road. Previously I had a fully merged 'WIngs Over xxxxx' NATO fighters 4 install and played it to death, even in the presence of more technical sims like Falcon and LOMAC occupying my HD at the time. Back then, the attraction was that I could fly pretty much what I wanted, where I wanted, and no matter what I was flying, the same joystick buttons did the same thing in any aircraft. Even if I only had 30 minutes to spare I could skip to the good bits and still enjoy it as much as a 90-minute wheels-up to engines-off kill-athon. And the same seems true now, along with prettier graphics  It's about the only thing in flightsim-ing which has stayed the same AND got better while I've been away, and I love it just for that.

I'd say you're spot-on, thanks for the help. 

Hi guys, this is my first post here in a looong time... I need a little help identifying the aircraft type in this picture for my Father-in-Law.

it was bought from a junk shop in Penzance, England.

TIA guys.

Thanks for the replies, I've been away from PC gaming for a few years and have fortgotten most of what I knew about .ini editing. I have downloaded the Su30 which fits the requirement well enough for now, at some point I'll edit a MiG-29 for AG.

Can anyone explain how I can make these aircraft available for air to ground missions? 

+1 for Termite Hill. Who remembers Lou Drendel's 'THUD!' I had that and several others by him, sadly they weren't made child-proof :(

I too have Vietnam Air War Debrief. Also worth a look by Dorr is 'Air War Hanoi'

During 15 years of flight simming, I've owned several sticks and HOTAS sets, and this looks like a good quality product from a manufacturer I trust for durability. I've broken the handles of 3 saitek joysticks, dislodged buttons in a cheap plastic Thrustmaster HOTAS and a MS sidewinder FF lost it's FF after 15 months. My gear takes a lot of punishment, as I'm not one of the world's smaller, gentler people

I had a Logitech wingman stick for 4 years without a single breakdown though, and only relegated it to the cupboard when I got an X36. Currently I'm using a force transducer modded Cougar and TM Elite rudders, which would benefit from new throttle and rudder pots, a mod that will cost over a hundred pounds for a long-in-the-tooth HOTAS that's starting to look shabby.

For the past 5 years I've had an X45 as a stand-by HOTAS but recently donated it to a friend who just got into simming. So I have a need for a spare HOTAS again and the X52 just doesn't float my boat - too bright and shiny, as well as programmer issues previously mentioned. I was looking at a CH set-up but as this new Logitech set will come in at around 200 pounds, I think I'll be adding it to the wishlist instead.

I agree with Sony, since installing the newest patch I had to reduce my settings to medium. The game still rocks though

That works like a charm, thanks ruggbutt