sitting_duck

i should be able to get free for a bit...what time is good for you?

alot of of the "dynamix" files are outside of the obddirectory. they are in documents and settings etc etc etc..... its always highly recommend you delete those folders before you do a reinstall...

hmmm,,,ok...did the label show up screwy like the strutters? I had thout i had put all the planes into my mission,,,maybe i missed that one. yep..missed it,,and your right,,no plane,,no label..not tac,,,nudding and if you try and fly it (joiners)..game crashes

Back in off2...voss's last mission was played alot, and pilots flying se5's got to see voss's name when close to his plane. This was true for either the host, or ppl joining the game. But for some reason, multiplayer missions made in off3 with pilots names assigned to either side, do not show up for anyone else but the host. Have tried everything i can think of to make pilots names on planes show up for ppl joining the mission, but have had no luck Realise its a small issue,,but if there is a easy fix, it would be nice to have this feature put back in.

If you 2 could watch next time your about to get into mp, and hit the game list link...then hit refresh,,,at the bottom it will say connectin to gamematch server,,or something close to that.... interested to know if it comes back with can not connect (which im pretty sure it will)... And if the oppurtunity arises to have several ppl put up games,,,(ppl that you have connected to in the past is required),,,and see how many of them you see in your game list. Im not sure if this is something because of settings at your end (my guess)..or settings on the ppl hostings end,,,,, but if we can find out why you see games,,,see no reason why we cant make it possible for everyone to see games that are up, (again,,,think its necessary to have connected to that person at least once before)

that location it lists does exist in 1915, (bertincourt) but it does not exist in the 1917 file........ this is an area where my lack of campaing playing shows up...when you select your jasta and date of service,,,it picks the location for you...or you pick it? I know you have already reinstalled,,,with no improvement,,but did you get all the folders as uncleal indicated? wish more ppl would chip in on this one,,cause im just guessing,,, If i where you, i would post that last message in the general forum, and try and get more campaign players to respond....

yes!!... Vista and im almost positive win7 users have to run almost everything for off (including trackir) in administrative modes, and xp compatiblity mode... gotta remeber,,this was built on cfs3,,,and xp was not around when that came out... not promising this is going to solve your problems, but im surprised you have not run into problems before... http://forum.combatace.com/topic/48844-windows-7/page__st__80 posts 87 and 89,,,,,, looks like compatibiltiy mode is optional, but every vista user i have run across sets it that way....

Hi, Im way over here in Boston Mass, but if no one closer makes you the offer, pm me with your address,,and ill get it out to you

hmm,,,not too much to that one...(the log file)....going to assume that it just did a ctd? there is nothing in the log file to indicate it ran into a problem. Funny how the first one had so much info on it,,and this one doesnt. and as far as getting the mission file, if the log file had shown some errors, like the first one did, it would have been nice to compared what the log file was calling for, and what the mission file was calling for. with no errors showing on the log file, there is no need to look at the mission file...BUT,,,,,you can rerun your previous campain mission in single player mode. Im not saying this would tell us much, unless you crashed again. even then , cant say for sure how much it would help to pinpoint the problem. the hitr upgrade, and the memory upgrade,,,did they occur at the same time,,(just curious...) and hate to ask an obvious questions, but do you have both offmanger.exe and cfs3.exe set to run as administrator, and it xp compatibilty mode?

lol...hey,,dont be spreading rumors.....the only thing i have is pds new mission...which i played last nite and hadda ball. TB, if you plan on joining,,,all the teamspeak info and other links are here http://forum.combatace.com/topic/38466-sitting-ducks-multiplayer-tutorial-please-read/

great,,im in edt too.. (boston)... have a delivery route sat,,and some other things to catch up on,,,but will post when i might be able to get on when i get back. doubt it will be anytime before 3ish thouh am suppose to catch up with axe this evening around 730,,,,if your free,,,join in

Im not certain about the sequence of events...ie,,does the game create the log file, which in turne runs the mission and then generates the mission xml file...or does the game generate the mission.xml..which in turn generates the log file...... at any rate,,you can rerun a mission that you have just flown by going thru the mutliplayer option, and selecting the campaign mission from the list..(lttle more complicated than that,,,)... If you get another mission crash,,and post up that mission.xml file,,id be glad to play it and see if i get the same problem,,,,or,,you could just rerun the mission yourself,,and see if the problem gets duplicated..

lol...ok,,,i was wondering wtf he was when i was online all by myself.....

lol...sorry,,,all i was trying to do was get more info,,,ie,,if other high end games play fine,,its probably software,,,if you where haveing other problems,,then it might indicate hardware...... but,,,as i said in my first reply,,there are some diffinite problems with the mission file, according to that log file....if you have not already run another campaign, could you post up the new log? and also, it might be a big help if you could find the off_camp_mission.xml (or something very close to that) in your missions\historical folder...(i think thats the folder,,,,). As with the log file..the mission.xml gets rewritten everytime you run a campaign...so if you have done this,,,it wont be helpful,,,unless the next campaign crashes too. My thinking here is if the xml file is calling for the correct plane, but the mission generator is in turn calling for a different plane,,,then its probably a good indication of where the problem is coming from. cant say ive got the solution,,,but gotta narrow it down to the problem first. so if you dont mind me guessing (bout all i can do),,,when you oc's the cpu,,did you change your ram's timing,,,and any chance you went a tad too far? (this is from other posts,,,not from experience).... should you at some point decide to go the reinstall route,,there are some posts out there that claim you can restore you pilot data,,(big issue for campainers)...

do you play other high end games on that computer without problems?

pm me your address, and ill be glad to get it out to you

tb, in addition to what you have, there is the madmat installer, which you can get here...http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=33784 The sunday campaign group flies with additional files that you will need to fly with them. If you give a date/time that you want to try out some flying online, post whats good for you, and someone will be glad to get you sorted... at this time, teamspeak is pretty much a diffinate needme...its so much easier to be able to walk someone thru things when you can talk to them. most the info you need is here..http://forum.combatace.com/topic/38466-sitting-ducks-multiplayer-tutorial-please-read/

lol..im with you grumpy,,,,i need a row of clocks like you see in the airport....... but,,,its 5 hours...and they are behind us,,,so i think 6am grenich is around 1 am here????? (edt)

ok,,good,,, just so i can tuck this away for the next person,,,what worked,,,running cfs3config,,or the file i sent you....

ut oh,,,this is never a good sign,,, axe,,u down for the count?

lol..great,,,,,now..did it work?????

usually, all you have to do is rerun cfs3config.exe (for BHAH). either go to the workshop, and lower panel on the right, click on the graphics config link. if for some reason you cant get that far, its in obdsoftware\cfsww1 over flanders fields\cfs3config.exe Here is a link for the settings in cfs3config that the off team recommends http://www.overflandersfields.com/Tips.htm if that doesnt work,,,you can get my configoverides.xml file here http://bhah.homeip.net:192/inbox/ConfigOverrides.xml it has to go in the path that the error message tells you. if you go this route, you should then run cfs3config,,cause you will have my settings (and i have an ati card), and im sure you want to have your settings.

im busy as all hell here,,,but if you give me a time,,,will try and get an hour free for ts tonight

well,,here is something to chew on... game keeps the last ip you connected to in your uisel.xml under the <multiplayer> section... in addition, there is an mpsettings.txt file in your campaigndata\default folder that has everything in the multiplayer section from the uisel, but on mine, it did not update the ip of the last person i joined. and i also noticed at the end,,there was no </muliplayer> ,,which seems like there should be.. and,,in the appdata\microsft\cfsww1 folder,,there is a recent.dat file... it has some of those special charaters in it,,but it also has alot of ips in it,,(at least on mine).... but i still am leaning on the need for a certain port to be open,,,,,,,

you mean any guesses........ When you uninstalled,,,did you get ALL the folders? including the ones in that appdata path thats all i can think of now....im sure u did the run as administrator thing,,, anymore info on exactly what the messages was bout the fatal error might prove helpful