Revthought

Well I've got the game working well enough that I'm deep into a campaign. I'm cheating a bit, I don't let myself die ;-) That and I've got claims set on "easy." New problem though, I've got about 6 claims pending and every time a mission ends I get an OFF manager error telling me its had an "error checking claims." I don't want to have to turn this feature all the way off, because I love how it makes me record an engagement in writing, a record I can check later. Anyone else ever seen this particular issue?

Will do. This pilot had 11 kills and 3 claims though. :(

Greetings Guys, Just ordered OFF Phase 3 and I've run into a bit of a problem--most likely because I want instant gratification. I want to play the game! Here's my issue. When you go to purchase the game, you're told that the game itself is delivered electronically for a certain price, and DVD shipping costs are added for a certain price. I buy a lot of games online, and this usually means that you're purchasing a license that allows you to download the game, and you're being sent a physical copy for an extra fee; however, in this case it seems that I cannot actually download the game. Am I correct in this assertion? If so I'm very sad. I held off on purchasing the game until my copy of CFS3 arrived via mail (which I purchased specifically for the purposes of getting OFF phase 3) thinking I would be able to download the mod AFTER the game was installed on my PC. I would have placed my order long ago if I knew it was otherwise. Well I'm hoping I'm wrong, and maybe someone here can help me out. :D If I'm not though, those in charge should really consider changing what is displayed on the order screen and remove the reference to electronic delivery. Cheers, -R

So I have OFF version 1.0 installed--unfortunately patching it gives me an error about an ace skin and I end up having to reinstall the game. I started a campaign as a British pilot, and even got myself a couple kills (the claim system is intense btw... cheers guys!). The first two missions played fine, but I now seem to have a reoccurring problem... I'm given a mission, make it to the field and take off... About a minute after take off when I start to circle the airfield to get altitude I'm being kicked back to the mission briefing screen. I'm curious if this is a known issue or if I'm just doing something wrong? -R

The problem here in lies that I am getting this "error checking claims," which is preventing me from getting credit for the kills at all.

Setting the aspect ration has helped a bit. Played pretty far into a campaign (I'm cheating btw, I don't let myself die, ;-)). Now I've got a new error! Yippie. "Error checking claims." Boo. :D This is an excellent game when it works well.

Well I have XP 32bit on another HD and I'm having serious problems getting the game to run correctly there as well. Except there, I don't get the crash message I get tossed back to the mission briefing screen. And I have other issues on XP as well... like the game will hang on the "World War I is initializing" screen if I've got any of the patches installed past 1.30, after I hear (but cannot see) a tell tell error ding.

I am a PhD student in Political Science at a University of California campus. I suppose I should edit what I said earlier, if you're like me--and you might not be pursuing an MA--and the school pays you to get your degree, you won't have any less free time. If, however, you continue to work a real job in addition to school, you're free time might evaporate... just a little. :yes:

Nothing is overclocked on my machine. How would one check their PCI frequency? Cheers, -R

Well I spoke too soon I guess. I had a scramble mission today, in the rain, and the game invariably crashes on take off, as soon as a bank to the right... kablam. CTD (or rather crash to OFF manager). Setting the graphics to "safe mode" actually made the problem worse. I'd crash as soon as I started my engines. Perhaps this is a video card issue. -R

Okay, try this... it helped with me considerably. I rolled back to version 1.0. I'm not even going to *TRY* and patch again until the big patch, which will patch you all the way up to current in one go is released. Next, I disabled my second display when playing the game, and am running at 1680x1050 resolution instead of the native 1920x1080. This reduced my crashing to zero tonight flying 4 missions. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it stays "fixed" for me. Cheers, -R

As a graduate student, I assure you... you won't lose that much free time. ;-)

This might be old to you, but I've got 64 bit Vista and the OFF manager launches just fine. I just get random crashes about 30 minutes into game, but its CFS3 that's crashing. I'm still trying to get this game to work properly in both XP and Vista. I'm really disappointed that its not working properly, especially because I've been able to play enough to at least get a taste of what the sim has to offer, yet I'm constantly being denied. :P

Actually it happens to me more often than just landing, but it happens most in these three scenarios: Take Off, Landing, Hostile Aircraft get within 1000 or so yards.

I've got the same problem on Vista 64. I'm running with: AMD Athlon x2 5600+ 4 and 8 gigs of RAM (I've swapped my RAM out a couple times and still get the issue under any configuration) Nvidia 9800gtx+ I've tried lowering my settings to 2 all the way across, which I shouldn't have to do tbh, and it didn't help at all. I also tried running both the OFF manager and CFS3.1 in XP compat mode, and that didn't help. Someone mentioned a heat issue, but I doubt that this is the problem. Speed fan seems to be indicating elevated temperatures, but still in the normal issue... and the machine has a portable air conditioner blowing directly on it constantly.

I'm having a similar problem, tbh, which occurs mostly when I'm running OFF in Vista. I find it highly unlikely that this is a heat issue because I've got an air conditioner pointed directly at my case. That and speed fan shows my case temps a little high, but still in the normal range. And this would be the only game EVER to give me heat issues, and with some of the games I run on this PC I find this highly dubious.

I'm still getting this problem when running the game in XP and Vista. In Vista I actually get an error message, and I won't make it 5 seconds into any mission after it occurs until I restart my machine. In XP I'll just randomly crash to the OFF manager. Sometimes the game in XP will hang on a loading screen, and I will not be able to force quit the application... I just have to restart the whole damn computer manually. And all of my settings are on 2 from the CFS3 menu, which is sad since I'm running an Nvidia 9800gtx+ in this machine. Any thoughts, Cheers, -R

Hey guys, I am super excited, I got my OFF BH&H dvd today! After installing the game, I played around for a little bit before downloading the patches available in plain view 1.30, 1.30c and 1.31l. After installing them sequentially, I booted up the game and tried to make a new pilot. Unfortunately, I was greeted by a great cascade of errors--ultimately telling me I need to reinstall OFF--I'm off to do that now (pun intended). I was just wondering what I needed to do patch my game to the current client. Are there other patches not listed I need to download first before attempting to patch with the most current patches? Cheers, -R

The work around worked! So as long as I start the war at a later date the game will run. I am still having issues with Windows Vista 64 though. The game works fine until I'm part way through second mission I run. I then get a crash to the briefing screen. This happens in XP also, I just don't get the error message in XP. In XP I can sometimes start over, and be fine. In Vista I will continue to crash, no matter what I do, until I restart my machine. It has been suggested that its my settings, but I've got an NVIDIA 9800gtx+ in my machine, and am running everything at 2 currently. Any thoughts, lads?

I am running both programs as an admin, I'm not, however running it in XP emulation. I could *try* to uninstall and reinstall everything... again... but it eats up 45 minutes of my life. This just in, I just got my trackir today... and its not working proper.y.... all on its own. :P

You've hit the nail on the head of what I've been doing. I've been trying to make an early 1915 pilot, this is true. However, when you try to make a pilot from early 1915 you get this BIG warning in red about the aircraft not being available yet, so I just fast forward the date until the squadron is flying the Bristol Scout. I can do this in OH&H version 1 and 1.3 with no issues. I can also do it with the mini patch (1.30c installed,) though I still have to run 1.3 since I'm getting another unrelated error with that patch. I haven't tried your suggest work around yet. I will tomorrow. I've had to install and uninstall BH&h like 5 times already today... AND its 240 am here. So I will try again tomorrow. I'm also having random MCFS3 crashes running Vista 64 bit, so I'll have to switch the game install back over to 32bit XP... which is a shame since bH&H ran so much better utilizing all the ram in my machine. Anyway, I'll let you all know tomorrow what happens. Thanks for the help everyone.

It doesn't lock up the screen, it just prevents me from enlisting any pilots and/or starting a campaign. Basically, I get the error then everything I'd worked on as far as pilot creation vanishes. -R

So I put the game on my Vista HD. Patch 1.3 worked fine, but when I patched to 1.30c and 1.31l I got the same error. I didn't write down the error completely, but it is an aircraft skin for the Morane Parasol which seems to be causing the problem. Cheers, -R

I have OFF currently set up on my XP hard drive. I'm going to install the game on my Vista 64bit drive and see how it goes. Cheers, -R

I appreciate the help! I am not spamming though, if you read the whole post its a different issue I'm asking about (though I mentioned the previous issue in the thread, tis' true.) Basically I'm being kicked back to the mission briefing screen about a minute after taking off during a campaign (the first 2 missions played fine, this issue showed up on the 3rd mission). -R