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No F-14....so not all western Jets then.... Yes you see its the case of the MiG-29A having a technological advantage with the HMS - like the F-16C had the superior Radar and Missiles for BVR and a decent RWR a few years later. The reason they mention the FA-18 is because of its low speed ability - but it wouldn't have mattered as much against a HMS. The simulations also probably didn't take into account the fact that flares were still very effective in this time period. The point I made about the F-16 winning the combat was that there are many factors that define combat situations - even in BVR its not just a 1v1 affair - and you can not make blanket statements based on such. Take for example the 1991 case where the F-15C gets inside the MiG-29As turning circle. Now even if the MiG-29A out turned the F-15C initially, the F-15s wingman is observing the fight from above and will step in.

Really - which other Western planes did it fight in these mock combats? Didnt the MiG-29s have a Helmet Mounted sighting system that you have forgot to mention? Unfortunately in actual combat where all factors come into play the F-16 has won every time........

Depends on the frequencies being jammed, and type of jamming I would say. Jamming pods used by F-105F/Gs certainly used to interfere with their own systems!

Can you go to where you installed the game to - probably C:\Program Files (x86)\ |Thirdwire \Wings Over Europe and check the game is there. Run it by double clicking on woe.exe in that folder If its there just create a shortcut to the woe.exe to run it from your desktop. then come back

Does falcon 4 AF install and work okay without the patch? At what point do you see the error exactly? What is the full error message?

Yeah license built by Augusta Westland - we did a bit of an F-4M/K job on them. The USMC is still a specialisation to support the troops though - it has the USAF to protect Land assets and the US Navy to protect Carrier fleets. The Army operates the Apaches not the RAF The Royal Navy has its own Air Force - the Fleet Air Arm - who will be back in business when the F-35C finally shows up. The RAF is UK air Defence and due to scaling down is the only force that operates fixed wing Jets - I still see this as a specialist role and not something the other forces should concentrate on. Even if you merge the moneys going to be spent on providing jobs for the UK defence industry anyway so its not a solution to that. A merger might improve communication and stop the petty arguments that go on - but I doubt it - we would make it a mess one way or the other!

The F-22 looks to have the more capable airframe, regarding agility, speed, stealth, acceleration and looks - flying that gives you the image. Downs side being - the entire fleet is grounded last I heard, and it still cant employ the AIM-9X: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6559166&c=AME&s=BUD The F-35 has a more advanced Radar and advanced systems like EODAS that look to give it capabilities the F-22 can only dream of at present. Superb range (might actually be better)and can carry a larger internal bomb payload. Its agility and performance is superb - I have seen comparisons from pilots that compare the F-35 to areas of clean F-16 Block 50 and FA-18 performance.

Just political rubbish - suspect the Army and Navy saw their chance with all the cost cutting going on and made some extra cost cutting proposals. Integration would probably be a disaster, short sighted, deluded, retarded etc etc Interesting how the Libya conflict is now a sales pitch for the Indians!

No idea without any information - could be that Windows is screwed - it should work fine with SP3 Where did you purchase Falcon 4 AF from? Do you have the correct 1.013 patch? - there is a full one and a version that just updates from 1.012 to 1.013

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Using stock flares a the moment so countermeasure.ini sounds good to me. Check your effects ini's - the shader line had to be added after a certain patch: [AfterburnerMaterialF6] EffectShaderName=twColor1.fx <-----Added this line DepthBufferCheck=TRUE DepthBufferWrite=FALSE IgnoreRenderOrder=FALSE AlphaTestEnabled=FALSE LightEnabled=FALSE UseLightLevel=FALSE ........

A banner that appears on the screen every 10 seconds saying "We cant afford this" ?

As said above - the MiG-29 will still be an enemy jet - take it for a spin and you will see you are flying for the red side now However if you are trying to use it in WOV - the game only runs to 1973 by default - so the first thing you need to do is extend the dates in options.ini Make sure you are patched to the 2008 version so the avionics etc actually work in the MiG. then you just need to add in 1980s weapons, SAMs, AAA etc

Are they all in Unicode? Do they have the .fx lines in them. Is there any difference in bit depth etc for the image files you are using?

Every patch has added things - with the first Generation Games we always got lots of things for free but with SF2 he has had to change the business model and stop giving so much away - and thats fair enough. The changes above I expect you would only see in a new game or expansion pack. Any improvements in free patches will only be in the scope of the game the patch is for - and minor at best.

Ha - Well I was surprised to see people mentioning SF3, considering SF1 was about 2002 and SF2 was 2009, but I suppose one driver for SF2 was the changes in Vista and Win 7, so Windows 8 might be case for more change. I suppose the smartphone/tablet thing is one way to go - but surely that market is already saturated with arcade games and other things you can do on tiny PCs. I use a lot of Apps on my iPhone every day but no games - one reason being the battery runs down so quickly - we need a major battery breakthrough! SF would have to be a limited arcade game - that would need "Marketing" to sell - and it certainly would not provide any sense of immersion for the current series buyers who would still have PCs or their descendants. If he went this route consoles should be a target - but then he is up against Ace Combat 27 etc and they might release that on smartphones soon (if it isnt already)

Looking at lot better than when we last saw it - well done

Video of the weekends collision on the BBC site with report - luckily both pilots were okay: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14110542

They call themselves Team Viper - after an old Rolls Royce jet engine

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If you are talking about the official 3rd Wire patches - then they will only upgrade the stock game components by replacing entire files etc. Any other exes you create should be left alone (or might even be deleted) But you know how to create a new one anyway yes? Bare in mind that Campaigns are made for a particular patch level - if you go past that level by upgrading things might stop working without upgrading them manually.

Without much info to go on it sounds like your install may be porked - but it could be lots of things and I wont be doing any remote Windows troubleshooting today. 1. Suggest you uninstall all the games. 2. Install again in this order I think (You might want to check that at 3rd wires site) SF2,SF2V, SF2E, SF2I, SF2ep1, SF2ep2 When you install merged everything must go into the same folder so set the path as C:\Program Files (x86)\Thirdwire\SF2\ or similar for each install. Test it works and look in C:\Program Files (x86)\Thirdwire\SF2\ to make sure you have a .exe file for each game - i.e 6 exe files called: StrikeFighters2 Europe.exe StrikeFighters2 exp1.exe StrikeFighters2 exp2.exe ....... etc 3. Install cumulative patch May 2011 for all SF2 games 4. Install patch June 2011 then patch July 2011

Right so you dont have Expansion pack 1 or Expansion Pack 2 at all? 1. You either have the wrong Patch - you may need the June 2010 patch specifically for installs without Exp Pack 1. 2. err June 2010? - any reason you are still on those old patches?

Ha if Wiki is anything to go by Well as TK mentioned an 80s series including MiG-29s maybe things may go that way! Hmm I had 1 kill in around 300 shots with them! Looking at the Firestreak performance - something global may have been tweaked - difficult to tell because missile performance has changed so much in various versions. Nice review Pfunk

What settings are your effects on - you may need to tone down something.