MigBuster

MiG-21 units claimed 2 x B-52Ds - not confirmed by the USAF who said both were taken down by SAMs Quite a few claims and pilot accounts by the NV pilots are attributed to SAMs/AAA - understandable in the heat of battle - get hit by something - was it flak or a MiG you had no idea was sneaking up your tail! edit: a 3rd B-52 claimed as damaged 21 Nov 71

Sounds like a core game file is screwed - you can only install the patch over a fresh unmodded install of the game - and then if you must install weapons packs either wait till they are updated or manually install it to a folder on your desktop - then just drag the weapons folder only into your game.

True - but only once - and we got slaughtered - got paired up with a flippin hen party with aim targets stuck to their backs - against a load of blokes who had brought their own camouflage! The person below me has tried to out turn a Mig-17 in an F-105 :)

The <campaign>_data.ini file is not there by default - it has to be extracted and moved there manually. If you have just patched over a modded install then it would have deleted the file with loads others.

So false - more or a motorhead lol The person below me was an actual fighter pilot

Sounds like you have installed a weapons pack - plenty of past threads about that on here already

Yes but it wasnt a NOS - fine for a single person with technical knowledge sometimes - and some may have sentimental attachment - but for the average user it was worse than hopeless in everyway - tcp/ip wasnt even installed by default. The day I use that again is the day I stick a knife through my neck. Things are so much better these days with the NT line - although there will always be those who have problems with whatever OS - that will never change particularly running on PCs where the hardware always varies so much.

whats the date of the actual file? 240406? The weapons folder should be here \objects\weapons In that folder and (only in that folder) should be weapondata.ini and weapondata.dat - have you got other weaponsdata files in any other folders?

Did you manually choose a squadron before flying?

Yes if they are updated by their creators other wise you can try them out but if they have old ini files with them then you will have to apply those changes to the new inis - or make relevant changes.

What version of the weapons editor are you using for that? - should have a date with it If you use the Sep 2008 patch dont install the weps pack directly into the game - install the pack to a folder on your desktop then manually drag the weapons folder over to the game and save it with the latest editor.

Windows 7 - cant believe that could only be a year away - One thing for certain is that someone somewhere will get a Blue Stop screen or the equivalent. Seen no end on Windows XP - doesn't matter what version you have - has often been HD related - in one instance it required a reinstall of wireless drivers (on a newly built XP machine!), once it was caused by Hyperthreading being turned on - and thats the beauty of it could be one of many things. Try different virtual memory settings(if you can in Vista), check everythings plugged together as well as it can be - try disabling things - like network cards for example and then playing a game to see if it still happens - your best hope (not short of deciphering the stop code ) is to try and narrow it down. I would be screaming at the thing by now myself too - reminds me of how stable Windows 95 was out of the box

I dunno - these defence budget cuts!

Do you set up separate profiles for your video card? you may need to increase the AA/AF settings - If you have the in game settings up to full - then you can still tweak the card up.

Nice one

Just extract the files (about 30 of em) from objectdata.cat in WOI - put them in a new folder - and move the cockpit files to a cockpit subfolder - if yr not sure look at the file arrangement in other add on planes

Well if you cant get it to work an alternative is press R after a call is made then F4 and that will spin your head round to look in the direction.

Yep - just dont install it directly into the game if you are on sept 2008- install it on the desktop then move over what you want from it avoiding old ini files.

Is it the sort of thing only a Thud lover would notice?

Looks like its been removed by TK - was a handy IFF feature but I cant see a way to get it back in game

2 things you must do in WOVCAMPL2_DATA.ini - in the "linebackerII" folder Change this then save //----- Player Unit [AirUnit016] AircraftType=F-4E_Late <----change to F-4ES (must be exact name given by its folder) Squadron=555TFS ForceID=1 Nation=USAF DefaultTexture=USAFtng1 <----change to the F-4ES skin you want to use Then open LinebackerII.ini - also in the LinebackerII folder and scroll down: [uSAFUnit007] UnitName=555th TFS Triple Nickel ForceID=1 UnitID=16 StartDate=1972 DescFile=wovL2Start.txt StartText=wovL2Start1.txt AircraftType=F-4E_Late <-----change to F-4ES Save and thats it Do you see "UnitID=16" in the second bit above? That unit ID must be the same as the [AIRUNITxxx] in wovcampl2_data.ini - in this case [AirUnit016]

Be careful - None of the weapons packs are updated yet for September 2008 it looks like - my only advice is to install the weps pack to a new separate folder on your desktop - then manually copy over what you need to the game - taking care NOT to copy over old ini files that come with the pack.

happy birthday to ya

From what ive seen the AIs main fault is down low where they dont seem to have much confidence - other than that its all good - have seen hit and run slashing tactics too from MiG-23/21s - and you cant catch them - previously it would have continued in a straight line doing about 200kts :) Not sure about RL but in Falcon 4 AF consider yourself dead if you let something get within about 10 miles of you with an R-77 - all you can do is pray the missile was made on a Friday afternoon!

What like? rarely go past 82 myself