Burning Beard

Okey guys, anybody have any tips on connecting using Windows 7 64? As it is now, I cant even get into a game I am hosting offline. The game gives me the join screen and then drops back to the opening screen when I click the join button (both online and offline). Beard

Winston are you handling the individual paints for the game? I have one just about painted up now. Beard

On a side note, I changed over to Windows 7 64 Pro a few weeks back and really like it. OFF, MAW, and CFS3 run very smoothly on it and I have had an increase in performance on IL2, though I rarely play that. It does nicely utilize that extra RAM that XP wouldn't that seems to help in loading programs faster. You will have to get used to a few differences but that should be an easy adapt. Also, one thing to notice with the 64 bit is you will have two program files folders. One is Program Files for 64 bit system and the other is Program Files (x86) for the 32 bit stuff. Beard

Okey Dokey, Thanks Winston

Vasco, I tried the above and only get "error" Beard

My vote is no.... the reason being I like to see the mixture control when I adjust it and it is covered by those big old gloves when the pilot is rendered. Beard

Hey are you the Dragonfly from the old RB LE squad? Beard

If you still have CFS 3 or MAW installed you can look for a copy of the configoverrides.xml in there (application data, etc). Copy and paste it into your OFF folder ( in the application data). I did this a while back and it worked. If not, someone can email a copy of it to you and you can use that to get back up and operating. Beard

This is a great little mod, I really like it. It has a couple of unadvertised advantages, in that you can see the trajectory of the bullet easily and you can also see bullets flying past you from behind. Beard

Check down in Multi Player and you'll find Winston. Beard

Got it loaded and up last night, it seems to be working fine. Thank You, Beard

Yep thats where the file is, I just checked and nothing changed from XP to windows 7 64. Beard

I've never tried to fire the Lewis when it is in the reload position, wonder if you can? Beard

If'n I remember correctly from my initial install of OFF1 the way the guns worked on the SE5 (before I reset it to fire all) was the trigger fired the Vickers and another button on the joystick fired the Lewis. I have been tempted at times to go back to this, to use the guns independently and conserve ammunition. Beard

Last weekend I upgraded my computer to Windows 7 64, and for some reason (which I cannot explain) I no longer need my CFS3 CD in a drive to run BH&H, MAW, or CFS3. Go figure.... Beard

Me too. Beard

I don't think I ever heard the score on any of the PT tests I took. In my unit they were just happy if you passed, lol. Beard

The easiest way is to use the Jones Soft mod enabler that Creghorn references in his instructions. All you need to do is install the program in the OFF folder and make a Mods File folder. Then you put the files in that folder. To use the mod enabler you open it before you open OFF and just click the mod over to the active box. If'n you don't like it you can click it back to inactive. It automatically makes backups of the files it replaces. Beard

Well, I finally got it sorted out. What happened I was installing it over one of the other effects patch (maybe no tracer or something) but not the stock one. I copied the stock effects file from MAW and installed it and checked it and was back to stock tracers. Then I saved it and installed the new file as per instructions, now it works as advertised. Thank you very much. Beard

That is what I did. Beard

Me 3 Beard

Well, I've got it all loaded up and I am getting tracers, but no trailer smoke....wonder if I did something wrong? Beard

I just assumed (I know) it was in, maybe I'm not yankin' and bankin' as much as usual. Beard

That looks great, with it maybe I will be able to aim the guns on an N28 Beard

I flew it last night using an N28 and the DM seemed to help in that I didn't manage to rip the wings off in High G maneuvers, but they will rip off when the Archie gets ya. So maybe there is an unforeseen advantage. Beard