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Migbuster thanks i had read that had happened to you. Very weird. I started from scratch and set the CH HOTAS differently and the game reads it much better. It works now with both USB and wireless keyboard. Still odd I think. Mark

thanks guys. actually i had the march install, did the SF2merge, and shortly thereafter, got a notice of "update available". it was the 4/12 update but i think it was a patch, not a whole new installer. do you suggest i just redownload the entire 4/12 installers? this merge is still vanilla so it's no big deal. mark

Hi, all, and thanks for the responses on setting up merged SF2. I am glad to get back into this game after a couple years. I'm the guy that still has the original walmart "bootleg" CD. I am having a significant problem with stability in the game responding to joystick commands. I have a lot of experience with the CH combatstick, throttle, pedals and it is set up and generating proper commands and working fine in other sims. alt + right arrow key for example, will send the commands "alt right arrow" and it's all accurate by testing. what happens in the game is that at times it responds only to the 3 axis and doesn't respond to mapped keys. other times it redesignates the device order such that joystick is USB 1 one time, and USB 3 the next time I try to play. Sometimes it won't even respond to keys sent from my keyboard as if the keyboard stopped working (it hasn't)! Without changing anything i can exit the game, restart it, and it may work fine the next time. Then nada. I. The game appears to be making all sorts of random changes in game control responses. I have forgotten a lot about opening cat files for mods etc and don't even know if that needs to be done. i have checked and rechecked the default.ini in the saved games subfolder. i did not load the march hotfix; however, because my SF2 merge was just updated to 4/2012. Any help is appreciated. It's an awesome game but no fun w/o HOTAS control, or, at times, not even direct keyboard control. Thanks, Mark Davis

I know this has been asked and answered a thousand times: I just bought SF2 NA and am going to install SF2 and SF2V, possibly SF2 I and then SF2 NA on a new computer. I'd like to do a merged install with all the mods in a folder of my choice (rather than the C:\users folder) and have executables for each game. How? Like I said this has been addressed "a thousand" times but some answers conflict. Can someone kindly point me to the accepted simplest way to do this; the one that's "gospel"? I don't plan any modding, i just want to play so separate installs aren't necessary. I'll add some extra eye candy and terrain but that's it. Thanks anyone who might respond. I have played this on and off ever since the "bootleg" SFP1 came out at Walmart or Target or wherever it was that i bought it. Amazing how it's evolved over the years. mark davis

Jel- this is great. i'm gonna give it another go. where can i go for the current install guide that's most widely used? thanks! Mark

To Jel and all you other amazing EAW people. i still have my original EAW CD and was playing it until the 7217 error when I just couldn't keep everything properly set up. Haven't reloaded in a few years but this is exciting with a new exe 128c, if i am reading all this right. i have win xp and an nvidia gx260 card. where do i stand with 7217 and similar. can i play it now w/o all the probs? if so, can you point me to the latest install guide? thanks, Mark Davis

Zmatt-those are great pix! Could you post your settings in addition to those you mentioned earlier, like in the *.ini that comes with the dll, if you tweaked that? Thanks! Mark Davis

Thanks guys-I got it sorted out. There was one bad line, actually one word, that didn't fit because the BoB file had it named differently than the install from which I imported the mission. My lack of experience...... It's working! Mark Davis

Pureblue- thanks for the response. i will check that out when i get home later. any other possibilities besides this one in case i have properly changed the terrains in the mission and the planes are available within the objects/aircraft folder? Mark Davis

Hello all! I have just set up the BoB mod from a few years ago. it's plays great but i have a problem somewhere in the way i set it up: No single missions imported or created with KMD or Mssnr2006 show up under the "load mission" option under single player. when i go to load a mission the menus on the right in that screen are greyed out and all read "not available". i am guessing there is a file i need to modify to get this install to "see" the available missions; probably an *.ini file. i have other mods and they all "see" the single missions in the missions folder and allow an option to load them. Thanks in advance to anyone who can show me the way...(And a happy father's day to all we fathers out there) Mark Davis

tell me, guys...is there no hope for some modernization of the a/g mfd's, tv, flir, ccip, etc? i find this a serious limit in this game, especially because so many of the mods are updated (in every sense) models of planes that were original to the game. i am a hack computer user....is there someone out there who can program or invent this? thanks mdavis