EricJ

I got a new book coming out on May 10, it's a fantasy story that has some romance in it, story is called "A Dragon's Tale":

https://books2read.com/u/4ND8Y9

Currently it's only available for pre-order from Draft2Digital and it's channels,, but will be on Amazon on May 10 because they won't let me do pre-orders.

I was planning on it as I need to do a Block III version of the Growler, and the newer pods would need to be done. When that happens isn't set in stone, but it is planned.

Just now, JamesWilson said:

Yeah i heard RW is gorgeous, can't wait to play it!

They should have asked, all rights have to be respected

Agreed

2 minutes ago, JamesWilson said:

Roger that.

It's shame these things happened, looks like a stunning mod

It does, even though I don't really get much into the Vietnam War. And yeah it's a no-brainer that they should have at least asked, rather than jacking a mod and making somebody pay for free work. Anyway as said I hope the YAP-RW team makes a better mod and such.

YAP was famous for IIRC shafting the modders who worked on the project, stole from people and so on. It doesn't have a good reputation, and hopefully YAP-RW fixes that issue. I know they contacted me about some things for one of their projects, and they give full credit, unlike the original YAP team.

@allenjb42 might know, and here's the Facebook group if you're on there:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/196048232552494

What I do is make an Air Defense Suppression mission, disable the enemy SAM/AAA and setup a carrier flight. That's how I fly my carrier missions. Besides doing that allows you to fly around the terrain unhampered and no threats. You have to make the aircraft able to perform that mission though (SEAD in the _Data.ini), so there's that. And you can fly as much as possible, but realize once you trap, that's it. You have to start the mission over to land again. There is no key to reset you on the catapult (like DCS I believe if I remember correctly).

No worries, it may be something but yeah, I don't know...

1 minute ago, AGOSTINO said:

The operating system is installed on an SSD (C)

Okay

Just now, AGOSTINO said:

What should I check, how do I do it??

I don't know, but you should check the Start Menu for Windows Firewall or Windows Defender as I have Win11 so it'll be different for Win10 where it is.

Just now, AGOSTINO said:

When everything was working well, I didn't have antivirus, as I don't have it now.
Only difference is that I had the O.S. on HDD instead of SSD.

Ohh.... that could be the issue. There's a topic somewhere (maybe somebody from the community can help), but are you not installing it on the OS hard drive? That could be an issue. I tried finding the article in the Knowledge Base, but after searching couldn't find it.

Personally I'm not sure what the issue is, and frankly since nobody else chimed in, it's a unique issue that nobody knows how to solve. It's not the Options.ini or Version.ini as that's automatically generated (you can try deleting them, and see if that fixes the issue, as it should produce it). Might be the NVIDIAdriver or that Windows Defender is blocking the program. Have you checked that? The Firewall stuff?

I think YAP had some too back in the day, but I'm really not sure actually.

Well it could be the lack of antivirus, but that's speculation. Sorry things didn't' work out for you...

That doesn't exist in the game at all. You can mess with The Range/Red Range and practice weapon delivery, but most of all you have to develop a map to simulate that (I think the Nellis map does it, but if I remember correctly it's A2G) ability in order for it to work, and making a "campaign" might work, but you never know with SF2.

1 minute ago, AGOSTINO said:

How so?? A little help.... I'm going crazy.

Before, everything worked fine on my HDD.  

It's as if there's something preventing or blocking SF2 from booting 

Well you open the NVIDIA control panel by right-clicking on the desktop, and select the NVIDIA control panel, and in the middlish of the screen you'll see the General Settings Tab, and a Program Settings Tab. Click on the Program Settings tab and you'll see a list of programs that it supports. More than likely SF2 isn't supported, so you click on "Add" and select the SF2 Game executable (whichever one you need to use) and then go to 2. Select the preferred graphic processpr for this program." Select the drop down Menu the NVIDIA card. Then you can use the card as it defaults on the integrated driver (Don't use this). Apply at the bottom right and then try it again. As far as Windows Defender you got me, as I use AVG for my antivirus, and don't touch that at all.

It could very well be your antivirus, or lack of it. I mean Win10 doesn't stop you from playing it (I run it on Win11). So either check your Windows Defender settings, and or open the NVIDIA panel and find the game file, and then have NVIDIA use the card, not the integrated graphics to play the game.

I honestly don't know what the issue is, you should just install it and it works. That's all I did with SF2 Complete. Maybe your file is corrupted but I don't know what to say man.

Normal installation, you don't have to do anything special to get it to work.

You have to edit each plane, weapons don't appear unless you add the entries in the plane's data.ini

2 minutes ago, daddyairplanes said:

posted from phone while doing laundry

you know,  i understand some of the things ducking autocorrect does. but after the latest update my phone loves to swap numbers around,  and the forced corrections seem to be getting more arbitrary. but the numbers bit really baffles me

Ahh gotcha

Yeah SF2 changed a lot of things up for the game and how the files are handled. You can still use the weapon editor for SF2, as for some things I do need it, but overall I just drop and play, and so on.

8 hours ago, daddyairplanes said:

By the way, today is the 84th anniversary of the Intruders first flight ( 19 April 1960) 

You spelled 64th wrong...

I think you should let it install in Program (x86) as I did and no issues. That may be the issue that's causing the problem. So uninstall and reinstall and let it default and see if that fixes it.

How doesn't it work? It's not starting? Or?