Herr Prop-Wasche

Actually, it shows up fairly well, even against clouds. Each "puff" starts out relatively bright (some even with a brief yellow flash), then gradually fades to a dusty gray-white color.

Nope. Just open the Fe2B_sqd.xdp file in a text editor. About 4 or 5 lines from the top look for "Category="tactical_bomber" and switch to "fighter_bomber," and you will be good to go. BTW, I taught BH this little trick, but whose counting?

Heh, heh, that's a little hint of something I've been working on regarding Allied flak. Here's another screen tease:

Bloody flak!

I believe you can hover or click your mouse over the aerodrome crosses on the in-game map and they will display a pop-up name of the aerodrome. This will assist some in locating kills for claims.

Glad you are sorted. Now, back to the skies!

Catfish, You can find your mine.xca file in your C:\Documents and Settings\***\Application Data\Microsoft\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields directory. Note that this is a separate directory from your game installation folder. One of those CFS3 quirks, I guess.

I'd also go with checking your power supply and upping your RAM. What is the wattage of your PS? Try upping your RAM another MB or two. After that, you can increase your virtual memory settings.

I look forward to more pics of your flying adventures and epic battles, Ras! One tip: try remapping your photo snapping command to one button instead of two. I use the "p" key myself.

Sorry to hear about your loss, Stumpjumper. Sounds like she was a real beauty. Taps.

Here are some of mine, Olham. Damage model, of course!

Okay, if the game will not run at the maximum resolution your monitor supports, try backing off on the resolution. Try 1024 X 960 or 1024 X 780.

Don't give up yet! "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the going gets tough . . . the tough get going.Who's with me? Let's Go! Come on! AAAAEEEEEGGGHHHH!!" Just by chance, did you click on the X on the right side of the graphics config box instead of clicking on File/Exit on the left? Your changes don't "take" if you click on the X. Also, try lowering the refresh rate on your monitor. Perhaps your monitor won't run at your usual refresh rate when you are at maximum resolution.

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I plan to be there. Here is the schedule of events: notice the showing of The Blue Max at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25 9 a.m.-5 p.m. -- Outdoor flying on museum's back field 10 a.m. -- WWI educational program for grades 6-12 in Carney Auditorium (registration required) 5-9 p.m. -- Museum galleries and gift shop open (pilots and re-enactors will be in the Early Years Gallery from 5-7 p.m.) 5-9 p.m. -- Morphis MovieRide open (cost is $3 for those over age 3) 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. -- To Fly! movie shown in IMAX Theatre (cost is $5 for those over age 7) 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. -- Flyers movie shown in IMAX Theatre (cost is $5 for those over age 7) 7 p.m. -- Blue Max movie shown in Carney Auditorium Saturday, Sept. 26 9 a.m.-5 p.m. -- Outdoor flying on museum's back field 10 a.m.-2 p.m. -- Special break-out sessions during the flying event allow visitors to get up close to aircraft, speak topilots and learn about flying (may qualify toward partial fulfillment for aviation merit badges and achievement awards) 10 a.m.-4 p.m. -- Aviation Demonstration Tent open on museum's back field Sunday, Sept. 27 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. -- Outdoor flying on museum's back field

I'm curious to see how it works, as well.

You can make your flight of Rolands or Fee's, etc. act more like fighters than bombers via a fairly minor tweak of the OBDSoftware\CFSWWI Over Flanders Fields\aircraft\XXX_Sqd folder's xdp file. To wit, the Fee: Open the aircraft\Fe2b_Sqd folder and open the Fe2b_sqd.xdp file with a text editor. Near the top of the file, under the section titled <UnitData>, look for the following line: "Category='tactical_bomber' " Change "tactical_bomber" to "fighter_bomber" and save the new xdp file. Now your flight will act more like fighters than bombers or observers. I'm not sure if this change will also make "A" flight into fighters or not. I'm also not sure how to specify how to make other squadrons into fighters save editing all of the aircraft folders for each airplane variant so that they also read Category= "fighter-bomber" I suppose you could try editing some, but not all of the folders, but then you might wind up with some planes acting like observers and the others acting like fighters--all in the same flight! Anyone daring enough to try? :heat:

Very late, so won't be able to say much, but yes, I've been "around," as they say. RB1 was my first flight sim, but I got that only after RB2 was released. Picked up RB2 after it got the Super patch and had a great deal of fun with it, although RB1 still had that certain something that RB2 lacked. My first sim of any kind was Silent Service II on floppy disks! Talk about crude graphics! But what do you expect in the year 1987?

Hey, doesn't my name suggest whose side I usually fly for? Which reminds me, a while back Olham asked where I came up with my screen name, or what did it mean. Well, way back in Red Baron 2 days, I discovered, by chance, the Red Baron forum at Delphi.com. Everyone seemed to have such cool nick names, and all the good ones were taken! Nevertheless, I needed a name to identify me on the forum. So, I started to think about aeronautical terms and came up with the propwash effect, so named for the air turbulence created by the thrust of the propeller flowing over the control surfaces of the aircraft. So, on that forum I went by the name Propwash. After originally signing in at the old OFF forum as Ira Taffy" Jones, I decided to revert to my old screen name when I registered here at Combatace. Since my family has a good deal of Germanic blood, I decided to make my name "sound" a little more German. Hence, Herr Prop-Wasche, with Prop being short for Propeller. ...and now you know the rest of the story.

Your screen is not compressed, it's shifted over to the right. Does you monitor have a set of controls for adjusting the on-screen display? You should be able to find a control to control the horizontal size and position. Start BHaH and shift the screen to the left and stretch it, if needed. If you have an nVidia card, start BHaH, press the Start key on you keyboard and select "All Programs." You should see an entry for "nVidia Corporation." Highlight this with you mouse and a menu to nVidia control panel should open up. Click on this to open the control panel while BhaH is running. Under the section marked Display, look for the setting to adjust desktop size and position. This should allow you to adjust the screen to your liking while still within the game.

Okay, here is some Computer 101. Click Start. Look for and click on My Computer. You will see a window open up. The window is divided into several sections. Look for the section that says "Hard Disk Drives." Under this you will see at least one drive, probably something like "System (C:)." There may be others, it depends on your system. Generally speaking, C: is the main hard drive where most of your programs are located. Double click on the line that says System (C:). You will now see a list of folders (also called files). Look for the folder that says "OBDSoftware." Open up the folder and then click on the folder that says "CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields." This will open up a new window that has lots of folders and files. Look for the file that says "CFS3.exe." Now, RIGHT-click on that file by using your RIGHT mouse button. You will see a menu open up. Look for the "Run as" command. Click on that and you should see the option to run as administrator. Hope that helps. If not, find a teenager or someone you know who is knowledgeable about computers. Good luck and I hope you are able to get everything working smoothly.

Lou, Ricketycrate didn't say it was an Oil pressure gauge, he said it was an Oil Level gauge. Don't know if that makes any difference, but thought I would point that out. Have to say that I am thouroughly enjoying this thread, even though I haven't hazarded a guess, yet (although I did spend several hours looking for that darned wildcard photo of the automatic camera). Very interesting information and in an entertaining format.

Only if you catch him, first!

Might not be the answer for your problems, but the first thing I would do is stress test your memory. BHaH definitely stresses your memory and I have had a memory module that was working fine suddenly cause problems when I played a memory intensive game.

OMG! For such a relatively small town, we Daytonians could almost fill up a Jasta! Welcome to the forum HouseHobbit. In addition to myself, Axegrinder and Dave (one of the moderators) are also from Dayton, with Madmatt just down the road in Cincinnati. Do any of you have any plans to attend the WWI Fly-in at WPAFB later this month?