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Now you're moving in the right direction GwynO. This sim/game just keeps delivering the goods. I have never seen the same thing twice. Never, never know what to expect or if I shall return. You will enjoy. Oh and do not judge OFF by what you may see if you try CFS3.

That's a delux skin Firecage. A beaut! Firey, flamey and cool markings. Red Dog, great set of pics from you sir. Very nice unOFFicial stuff for us to play with.

AEG GIV, oh my my. I got a Jones for that bird for some reason.

Disturbing kills. Not a kill but a death. Lost a DiD Pilot while he was observing. Took a flak shell direct. Plane flaked apart trailing pieces parts rearward so I had a good look as the kite dissolved around me. Seems like slow motion but it must have been fast. A different perspective on a common occurence.

Good eye Duce. I think it is a bit of a preview of more than the DH5. It all looks loverly to me. Thanks for posting the pics Pol. Very good stuff!

I think what you are seeing happen is because there are no waypoits to motivate the A/I pilot. Give it a go in a QC dogfight. He might fly her proper then.

Right on Jim, I understand that, hehe.

Say Vince, How goes the work toward making the new software compatable with TIR3 Pro/Vector going? I look forward to trying it out. Best wishes with that.

It has finally happened that my OFF install has gone bad. After countless flights and hours. I finished a DiD campaign flight and pressed escape to end. The screen went black and never came back. Alt/tab/Delete and I could not close any applications. I restarted the pc and tried to start OFF and got the following messag OFFMAN: Fatal errorsetting up system paths. OFF will nowexit..... OFFMAN: A fatal nonrecoverableerror has occured starting up OFF-it is recommended to un-install and re-install OFF. Question. Do I have to un-install/re-install? Sounds like it. Can I copy my DiD Pilot Dossier and then put it in my new install?

Yep, that would work but it wouldn't be DiD so not this time. I am enjoying DiD. Facing virtual death or capture is much of the emotional/caring investment we put into our characters. And then there is the matter of honor. I don't concern myself with impressing anyone as I am aware of my faults and I try to be humble. By now everyone here has my number... haha. Uncleal, I was thinking about OFF/CFS3 QC and Vista compatability. I had stated that I had no trouble with OFF/CFS3 QC running Vista and maybe that's because with my first OFF install I had a complete install of CFS3 also. Now with my new install I really would not expect CFS3 QC to work. So very little of CFS3 was taken from the disk. Just a thought.

Well it looks like you will be able to transfer your pilots Files when you have the new pc ready. I am happy for your coming upgrade.

Thanks in large part to your advice and encouragement I am back in business and salvaged my DiD pilot in the process. I un-installed both OFF and CFS3. In the process I deleted some nonrelated programs and files as a matter of house keeping. I re-installed by the OFF DVD instruction. My first install was a complete CFS3 with P2 and then P3 over that. I recently got the newer 1.31 vers. of CFS3 when the OFF DVD called for the CFS3 #1 disk it hardly wrote any files from it. Finished the DVD install process and the Super and Mini patched. Test flights along each step. Everything checked out. Made some adjustments in Graphics card and reset my Did Overrides and Workshp settings. Created a German pilot and then closed the OFF prog. I opened the OFF files, went to Pilots and deleted the Pilot 2 dossier and log files and then dragged and dropped the Pilot 2 files I had saved to MY Docs from my DiD campaign. Everything was there and working. I resumed my campaign. Only to be shot down and taken prisoner for the duration. It was a bombing mission and during final approach we were jumped by E/A. The engine of my DFW took a few hits and conked out. I brought her down under controll with no chance to cross back over the front. Here is the report so Uncleal can see and believe.

No offense intended to anyone but, God Bless you Lou. For not only finding but also sharing the link. I'll be reading those. I have a copy of "Falcon's of France" I have not read it yet.

If I must re-install OFF. I wonder if I need to re-install CFS3 also. I am thinking of doing both re-installs. I have the CFS3 3.1 disk now and my original OFF install was over P2. I would follow the instructions with the OFF disc and not install CFS3 first but only insert the disks when prompted by the OFF install. No need to have files that aren't used. I may end up with a cleaner install that might give a slight improvement in performance. So far I have sent my DiD Pilot folders to my Documents to copy over to the new install. I will lose a lot of skins but most are available for D/L.

I will try Uncleal but later today.

I don't think you need to worry for some time about Phase 4. The add-on is for P3 otherwise known as Between Heaven and Hell. I have no idea when we might see P4 and for most of us it might seems silly to think it would be soon. The devs are far from money grubbers. I doubt they would release P4 hot on th heels of any add-on. If P4 was imminent they would have any add-on material in P4. I'm talking out my ass but I would think we will see another add-on or two after this one before we see P4. Soon might be 2 years, some think soon is two weeks. Don't worry you will get your money's worth many times over if you love the feeling of being a pilot in WWI. And welcome to OFF and the OFF forum.

Thanks for the encouragement Siggi. I was wondering if we were doing well in sending our info and such. One of us has been promoted now and I wonder how we handle the transfer process. It would be great to maintain the current pilot log and add the fighter unit record to it. If this possible I am unsure of how to do it.

If you have a little trouble reading them you can place the mouse curser over the instrument and get e clear reading.

I still have my Amiga too. The callout sounds strictly Hollywood or game stuff. I'm not aware of a RL callout. Could be wrong of course.

Uncleal, much respect to you and I was not trying to say you are wrong. The situation with Vista and CFS3 QC may be user and machine dependent also. Like I said I may have moron's luck as I am not PC savvy.

appraiserfl, where you live buddy? I wanna come help you play with your toys, hehe

When you run out of ammo throw your engine at 'em! The bastids. Welcome to the OFF forum Vidken.

Uncleal, having read your post above I had to see what it was that I am missing since my OS is Vista. I read post 49 and found that my experience was contrary to your statement of CFS3 QC being non-operational or that it messed up the install for Vista users. I am able to operate in CFS3 QC and rather enjoy the Gotha. Maybe I have moron's luck and maybe others with Vista have trouble but it's not my experience.

Long story short, don't look to the movies to get your History. They may inform, be entertaining or serve the purpose of propaganda. Books are always a better source for accuracy but even then to be truely informed on any subject one needs to study a number of sources and viewpoints. If it weren't for some of the inferior movies some historical subjects might otherwise be unfamiliar to many of us. IMHO the Blue Max, a work of fiction, is more accurate than so many "based on a true story" movies.

Winder I printed your post so I can look it over while I'm away from the computer today. Thanks for letting us know what you guys have been working on and what to expect. I look forward to all of it. The best keepgetting better