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Funny we say that over and over, it's like flying with keyboard only for 20 years and someone gives you a joystick. Not just 1 or 2 people but 99% of people who try TracKIR say the exact same thing as you, yet everyone doubts it until they get one LOL. Now you will NOT fly any sim that does not support it.

Well OFF works for 1000s of people for months, or years.. with no problem. But CFS3 itself CAN break the ConfigOveride.xml easily. Especially if you installed a new graphics card, or have NOT configured your graphic settings yet. The error message passed from CFS3 is not helpful unfortunately. Please calm down, go to Workshop, Graphics Config. Set your sliders up (SEE FAQ near to the top ish.. for help). File, Exit. The file is made. Copying it MAY work once, but only if the ConfigOveride.xml just so happens to have the exact info required for the CURRENT graphics drivers. The fact the program worked fine for weeks shows the software is good so please don't blame OFF, ALL software ever made by anyone, even that made by the huge Microsoft company can break, fall over etc. Do that and all will be well. If you set your sliders too high, it may crash, lower scenery and terrain (SEE FAQ) OR if you used a dodgy cfs3.exe from elsewhere that can also break..

OK interesting fix, what did you do just clean your hard drive?

Uncleal can be prickly, but basically depending on exactly the problem you had, would tell us if you need to uninstall CFS3 too etc - or if in fact a simple button press might fix it instead? The FAQ has sections that detail a generic nuke removal in various places, have a search through there. If you send your order # and error message, and system details to support@ overflandersfields.com we'll try to help or you can ask here...

CFS3 thing unfortunately AI craft (or AI controlled) don't rotate the blurred prop. We have looked before, but as always if we ever find a way to improve / fix we will.

The prop doesn't change direction, just the "apparent" direction due to a similar thing to wheels moving backwards in movies. i.e. the prop rotates the same, but at certain Frames per second it may not make a full rotation and may say do 95%.. so every frame it appears to the eye to move the opposite direction as it's always a bit back from previous frame.

Yep agreed Olham that's why we haven't done it ;)

Yes we could make it like the small one in the Tripe cockpit, but that only works because it's not a "see thru" prop. I.e. it's an actual blade. So you'd see it spinning slowly like the one in the Tripe. May be better than seeing none though, but you also would often see BOTH the single blade going around, plus the real see through prop from the outside at the same time sometimes. If we just didn't bother with see through disc for the props, then we'd have fixed blades moving just like the little one in the Tripe. Not sure it would look good?

If you have Microsoft Essentials Anti Virus that's your problem re unpacking. See the FAQ there's a bit about it in there. http://www.overflandersfields.com/FAQ.htm#NOTES:___OFF_HitR_

OFF Manager hasn't crashed, and has no icon on the taskbar - it's not a bug or crashed. It is as designed. It sits as IDLE / inactive waiting for CFS3 to "return". However CFS3 may have crashed (texture overload whatever, especially with an lower spec laptop video card). Lower your terrain and scenery sliders, you are likely killing the machine via Workshop graphics configs, see the FAQ near the top sections. If you want to get OFF Manager back on screen simply open a window or other program from the taskbar and it should pop back. If it doesn't appear then maybe CFS3 hung. See Task manager, and see if CFS3 is still running. If so you may need to kill it.

Could be many reasons, sometimes someone else got the final hits on the kill (Wingman, ground fire etc, or perhaps the craft type you are saying it is, it wasn't etc).

Duplicate post ,see the other...

Hi, What OS? What language? Please send your order number, and system details and issue to support @overflandersfields.com

No you cannot change WW1 in OFF. You will see when you play, You are the victim in this, try to survive that's it! OFF is where possible history based, for example all the Aces die on the day they died. You can shoot an Ace down of course, but he will survive and live to fight until his actual authentic dying day. Also for example the weather in historic mode is based on actual data for the time.

It's already in there, try flying in worse months and you should get missions cancelled sometimes. Also you can get a weather report put on "Persistant Weather Stats" in Workshop.

Well if you understand the need for holding back info, er it would be a pretty bland blog ;). "Today we did some stuff.. it looks great, what it is we can't say.. " The other problems as we are a very small team compared to most and have many things to do so time making websites is time away from progressing P4. If that mod is non commercial too, then they don't have to keep anything back.

For the player FMs there IS terminal velocity in there already on the craft, they behave differently and sustain more or less damage in a dive at different speeds. Se5a for example CAN dive like the devil and pull up close to the ground (as described in pilot reports). AI diving is however controlled by CFS3 and does not always follow the rules. We are, as mentioned before, looking at the AI so IF we can improve that we will. As always no promises at this stage. Max dive speed can mean more than one thing in WW1 reports. It can mean it can go no faster, or could mean no one dared go any more i.e. recommended or "safe" dive. As over that speed is known to cause damage or difficult controls etc. Not many replicas would be pushed to the limit whilst being shot at?. Also this does not mean your wings fall off there and then depending on the amount of stress - for example it could mean you weakened the wings, but get back fine. The NEXT flight you found out in real life. This adds to the uncertainty.. one pilot says oh I flew my Se5a to 300 mph down and pulled up fine. No one mentioned what happened to the next poor guy to borrow it or how fast he went before the wings departed. Currently we don't carry damage onto the next flight as your mechs are wonderful at spotting it ;) If you have specific proven dive data on specific craft we can look at but in most where known it's there already.

Well actually the flying circus is not out entirely. Try J11 etc and take off with an Ace flight along side your flight - usually if we have made the ace skins they will be wearing them and we have made well over 4000 unique skins so far. But YOUR flight has the same squadron skin (i.e. they are not aces), and if you have HITR expansion you can have a unique skin too.

Might be interesting to hear some from time to time, but not sure it would add much if you had to make the sounds. Flares are in there already, select them as a load out on most 2 seaters and some single seaters (DH2 for example).

Sliders too high, too high AA, Aniso? Do a reset to defaults in cfsconfig Olham, File,exit, then run it again and reset to what you want.

LOL PD

As we are being very specific just to give it the full technical name unlceal, you mean the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator of course ;)

It's Wind/turbulence. If you prefer not to have it turn it off in Workshop settings.

Lower your terrain /scenery sliders as uncleal says. As per the sticky posts in this forum too. http://forum.combatace.com/topic/50795-off-hat-in-the-ring-cpu-and-gpu-loads-and-known-issues/

Phase 2 is UNSUPPORTED so any patches on our website are NOT compatible with P2 or P1 in any way what so ever.