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Hello everyone, I am a very excited new used of OFF. I recently received my copy (Phase 3) and I pulled out my old copy of CFS3, installed it hassle free. Even played it just fine. Then I upgraded it to version 3.1 and tried to install OFF. I got to around about 75%, where it says it's installing clmosaic.zip or something like that and it says it can't install that file, do I want to Retry, Ignore or Abort? Well, if I click Retry, nothing ever happens, it just keeps failing to find it. If I click Abort, the installation cancels. If I click Ignore, the installation continues, whith the next dozen or so files requiring the exact same process. I just kept clicking Ignore, wondering what would happen. Eventually, I get the Installation Complete message. So I run the game with my CFS3 CD in the drive. And it all seems to work just fine - I get the sounds and full menu access. And when I tried to do Quick Flight or a Mission, I hear "Contact..." etc and then Windows has an error as the sim appears to change resolution. The game exits back to the menu screens, which again are fully controllable and fine. Now, that above scenario was in Vista. I tried it on XP and had the exact same installation problems and got almost identical performance when I ran the program after ignoring all the installation erros. When running the game however, XP actually told me that skins and files were missing. And when I try to start a flight on the XP machine, it tells me Setting Seasonal Textures, etc... none of which appear on the Vista machine. But eventually, a pop-up appears saying "The configuration override file is out of date. Please re-run CFS3. CFS3 will now exit, OR, one saying "Error updating Config Overrides settings - File does not exist - Reinstall OFF! C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Microsoft\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\ConfigOverrides.xml So what the heck do I do? I even bought another release of CFS3 and installed that on both machines and then installed OFF over it with exactly the same results. Any ideas here? I'd love some help and advice... I am assuming that the errors in installation are the root of all my problems, but cannot figure out what is causing them, given that they're happening on two different machines - could I have received a faulty OFF DVD? I'm desperate to get it working but am getting nowhere...

So I finally have the two computers with identical installs of CFS3 and identical installs of OFF Version 1.0. I can't download the updates yet as my Internet is pretty unreliable. I'm going to download them from work next week. Anyway, the installs are identical - no question about that - though one does have technical issues (it's on an older computer and I think they're graphics related). And when I try to fly a multiplayer game, I can start and even click on Join Game and there's my game. So I click, but it tells me that I have different aircraft on this server so I cannot join. It tells me the mismatched aircraft, which it lists alphabetically. I read a post on the forum that said "Just select a few aircraft rather than all of them." So I truied that and it's the same story. Even when I just select one aircraft, it still says it is mismatched. I have attached a screenshot of the message. What gives? How do I get around this? EDIT: Is it related that on both of my computers, I do not have a CFS3MP.exe file...? It seems strange.

Thank you so much! I did end up downloading the patch to 1.30 and 1.30c and now Multiplayer works like a charm! It's so much fun I almost can't believe it. I can't go online mp yet because my Internet is appalingly slow until the end of next week when the plan changes over. It took just over 4 hours to download the 90MB patch. I will download teamspeak, and I have a mic. Is joining the mp game a matter of directly typing in the host's IP address? And I'll need to download extra planes? Are there a standard set that I should download? And one last thing, I guess by EST, you mean United States EST rather than Australian EST, right? Because I'll need to stay up through the night to join in - which I'm absolutely willing to do - I just will need to figure out the time difference.

Hello all, I have purchased OFF and, pending some technical issues, should be up and flying soon. I purchased the game primarily for LAN games so I can prove to my Dad that I'm a better pilot than he is. But I've read a few comments here and there about multiplayer being one of the weaknesses of OFF. I also only ever see references to online games - which I'm definitely keen to get involved in (though I have no knowledge about direct ip connection for internet gaming). But my question is are LAN games an option? Or is that the same as direct ip?

Tried it. Humored you. Made myself cry. Failed again. Even flew the P47.

Thanks for your responses. I do have a CD version with V1.3 of CFS3 because when I first tried installing OFF, I was hoping that my old version of CFS3 was the weak link. So I went out and bought the XPLOSIV release, which is 1.3. So I have tried loading the CFS3 files from an installed version, and from the CD, I've tried copying the OFF files to the hard drive and creating an image of the disc before installing but no method seems to work. I seriously think that it is just now a matter of digging up the old email with my order number and sending an email to support because it must be a faulty OFF DVD with those specific files corrupted or missing or something. I have now tried it on four different computers - Vista, XP, 64 bit, 32 bit, super computers, out-of date-computers... but I'm getting the exact same issue on every one of them in every disc drive. So support, here I come...

Also, thought I'd go back and do it again to see if using the CFS3 CD instead of the installed copy as the base version would be any different (it wasn't). But at least it gave me the opportunity to be specific about the files that are causing problems during install. It is telling me: Error C:\OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\terrains\lcmosaic.zip An error occurred while trying to copy a file: No more data is on the tape. Click Retry to try again, Ignore to skip this file (not recommended), or Abort to cancel installation. I click ignore and the next files which have the same problems are: lcmosaic.zx linkedscenerylinepatterns.xml meshbuilderbudgets.xml Mildcompositescenerybudgets.xml Period.txt precompiledtexturebudgets.xml Refcompositescenerybudgets.xml scenery.zip scenery.zx SurroundCityMask1.dds SurroundCityMask1.xml terdata.zip terrdata.zx texturecachebudgets.xml texturingmask.dds trenchlandclassmask.dds trenchlandclassmask.xml TrenchMask1.dds TrenchMask1.xml vectordatalinings.xml vectordetailtexture.dds VillageMask1.dds VillageMask1.xml VillageMask2.dds VillageMask2.xml And these files were apparently supposed to appear in C:\OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\terrains2\ cfs3hyl.zip cfs3hyl.zx cfs3msh2.zip cfs3msh2.zx And after I click ignore on each of those files, which takes about seven minutes.... the installation continues just fine... but, as said, the game is unplayable.

Just thought I'd add that (to my confusion) even after installing OFF, CFS3 still runs perfectly. I can fly the original game just fine. That suggests to me that something really hasn't worked at all with the install... right? Or is it normal for the original game to still run?