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Hey guys! I'm reviving my old YouTube LP of Strike Fighters 2 and I'm attempting to use the Mirage III as my fighter of choice, however, here are the issues I'm running into: I only own SF2, SF2: E and the Europe Expansion pack (this gives me access to the Mirage III LODS) and then the Campaign Customizer for Mercenary mode in all theatres. So I had to download a flyable Mirage III mod. This mod requires SF2:E for the Lods, which I have, but it also wants SF2: Israel for the Shahak cockpits. I'm a cheap jerk, having recently lost my job of 7 years, and so I figured I'd alias out the cockpit with one from the two games I already own, since I can't currently buy any DLC or SF2: Israel. So I substituted in the A-4 cockpit to the Mod's ini file and, very luckily, it works just fine. However, obviously, the A-4's pit is no where near close to what the actual Mirage III's pit would look like, because, as far as I can tell, The Mirage III had a RWR. So then I figured I'd try the lightning's cockpit, and it also worked, but I'm not so sure I like it, as the Lightning's pit always felt cramped and not very nice for dogfighting, as it was more of an interceptor. So anyways, I figure I'd ask you guys, the professionals, and the people very much more familiar with the series than I am, which cockpit you think would work best. Any of the add-on cockpits I've found for Mirages here in the download sections require SF2: Israel to work, and that's fine and understandable. I know in order to get the best fit I should just buy the DLC or the Israel game, but my budget doesn't allow that at the moment (yes, the DLC is only 3 dollars I know, just trust me, I can't. Thank you) so I'm sadly just going to have to substitute a pit in. I'm also not trying to arouse any sympathy for my situation, nor do I intend to sound like I'm begging for people to purchase or gift or donate, or any of that junk. I'm fine, just looking for general opinions on something close from the assets I already own, so I'm not stealing any work or content from ThirdWire Thanks in advance everyone.

I downloaded that one, actually, but I can't find the name of it's cockpit.ini file to add to the freeware IIIO's ini. If that makes sense...my descriptive powers are...nil? lol.

That's really weird. I have Strike Fighters 2 and Strike Fighters 2 Europe, and I was never able to fly the Mirage. I've had it as an enemy and fought against them, but I could never fly them. Maybe I'm missing an expansion pack or something...? Edit: Ok, I went back to Thirdwire's store and got my download code again just to double check what exactly I have purchased and installed. I have Strike Fighters 2, I have Strike Fighters 2 Europe, and I have Strike Fighters 2 Expansion Pack 2, and then the campaign customizer. Perhaps the Mirage is made available in Expansion Pack 1, which would make sense to me, as I don't own that one. Otherwise I'm very, very confused, because my Strike Fighters 2 merged installs contain the Mirage IIIC Ini file, but no other folders.

Thanks, I went ahead and downloaded that. Are SF1 cockpits compatible with Strike Fighters 2?

Hey guys, So I just recently picked up Strike Fighters 2 again, and I am having a horrendous time with the game very suddenly. It used to run so super smooth on my machine on Unlimited Settings with NO FPS hiccups, then today, when I went to play it, I noticed that the smoke emitted from the jet exhaust is causing my frames to dip into nothing. It runs great like it used to, until there's exhaust smoke in the viewpoint, and then it all goes to hell. I did install a MiG-15 mod before I tried playing today...is that maybe what is causing the issue? I removed the mod, but the problem with the jet exhaust remains. I've tried lower settings, and everything, and I can't understand what could be wrong, as I used to play it on Unlimited with no problems before. It's frustrating to have to turn everything down suddenly. Any help would be appreciated!

Fubar, you're the man! Check my post just above yours, I think you hit the nail on the head. It happens whenever I exceed 800 (whichever unit of measurement the Russians use) on the airspeed dial. I said knots in my above post, but I guess it's not measuring that.

I was not hit by any ground fire, as there were no AA emplacements or SAMs in the area. I was not damaged by another plane, as this was happening before my flight even engaged the enemy F-4's. I tested it again on a bomber intercept against IL-28's and I notice this happens whenever my speed exceeds 800 knots IAS. So, I'm beginning to think it's part of the plane's modeling to simulate the real MiG-15, although I still haven't been able to confirm that MiG-15's in real life had this issue. It's almost as if the plane wants to stall, it begins to act random, and whichever wing it wants will begin to dip downward and the whole plane begins to shake. I'm thinking this is a feature of the FM and not an error. ALSO some great news! All of my settings are back to unlimited on Strike Fighters 2 with absolutely no loss in FPS. My frames are now sticking around the 40-60 mark! The culprit? When I updated my Nvidia drivers, I elected to do a clean install, as I had begun to think my previous drivers had somehow gotten corrupted. The clean install of my drivers absolutely solved all the problems I was having, right up until I got into Strike Fighters 2. I was baffled. Well, it turns out, in my Nvidia Control Panel Settings, Vsync was forced on for Strike Fighters 2 (apparently a default setting for Nvidia Cards) I do not know why having Vsync enabled in the control panel was the cause of all my problems, but turning it off has solved everything. Admittedly there is a very tiny amount of screen tearing if I pan my view really quickly in the cockpit, but that does not bother me in the least. What bothered me was the absolute garbage for frames I was getting in one of my most cherished games, lol. Apparently an older game like Strike Fighters 2 does not like Vertical Synchronization enabled. Which is strange, because I don't have that problem with any of my other games. So for anyone who may be having the same mind-boggling, infuriating issue where you have a machine more than capable of running Strike Fighters 2, but it's suddenly running like crap, check your graphic card's settings and see if it's forcing something.

I'm beginning to just accept this fact. These newest drivers had resolved some other issues that were plaguing me in my other newer games, so I'm hesitant to rollback. More testing shows me that I can leave everything on high and unlimited except for the effects option, which I can turn down to medium. In all honesty, I guess that's not too much of a sacrifice. I'm going to add in Stary's Cumulative Effects Pack again at medium, and see if it'll perform at 60 FPS like vanilla has been on the medium setting. My next question, is a bit random. Playing with the MiG-15 BIS mod I recently installed I was able to take out 2 F-4 phantoms before I was shot down by the sidewinder I didn't see, but during this time with no damage whatsoever I noticed that as I'm flying, it seems as though the plane would randomly start turning, as though my joystick was out of calibration. However, my stick in calibrated, and I can clearly see the virtual flight yoke in the cockpit view, and it was not moving, however the plane starts to randomly go into a left hand roll every once in awhile. Is this a borked file somewhere in the plane, or is this something that a real MiG-15 would do? I can't remember my speeds. so perhaps I was going beyond the plane's limitations and thusly it was affected? This is the MiG-15 bis "Fagot B" by Paulopanz found here: http://combatace.com/files/file/14610-mig-15bis-fagot-b/ Thanks again you guys for your help and suggestions. It's a great community here that I'm grateful to be a part of.

It would make sense that it could be my drivers, as the game ran completely fine before I installed the latest driver from NVIDIA. So now that I have the newest drivers, I'm almost certain it's related, as my other graphically intense games like Il-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover and Skyrim run on high settings with no FPS loss. Since Strike Fighters 2 is older, I wonder if the new driver doesnt support it.

UPDATE: Ok, so I removed my effects folder, and the FPS loss was still there, however it was a little less pronounced. So with default effects and none of Stary's outstanding effects =[ I had to turn the setting down to medium. This doesn't make sense to me. I have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 560. Why are default effects having to be set so low all of a sudden? At medium on the effects the game becomes playable again, but still this is frustrating because it used to play on Unlimited with Stary's Awesome Cumulative Effects Pack and ran well above 60FPS. I have videos recorded with FRAPS to prove this as well, and if anyone's ever used FRAPs you'll know what a horrible resource hog that is, and yet those videos were recorded on Unlimited with no stuttering at 1080p. I'm baffled to say the least. The rundown of my changes: Removed Stary's Cumulative Effects Pack (Was able to keep Stary's SARCASM Mod tho! ) Object detail to medium, Object Textures to medium Cockpit Textures to High ground objects, water, and vanilla effects to medium. Horizon Distance to Normal Terrain Detail still Unlimited (Thank God because I also have Desert V3 and Stary's GermanyCE terrain mods) Terrain Texture to High I've got my frames back... but I'm miffed to say the least. My rig's setup shouldn't require me to do this...especially when everything listed above used to be unlimited.

Negative, I downloaded the MiG-15 BIS "Fagot" B, and it contained some objects, some decals, and a sound, but no effects. I recently removed my flight and effects folder (I did have Stary's SARCASM and Cumulative Effects Pack installed) and I did get some improvement in frame rate. I'm running the July 2013 update to Strike Fighters 2 and Strike Fighters 2 Europe, so perhaps these mods are broken due to this new patch?

Hey guys! First off, I'd like to say I'm a new member to the forum and a completely new player to the Strike Fighters 2 series all together. Next, let me apologize in advance for shamelessly advertising for myself, as I don't know if it's against the rules of the forum. If it is, please know I didn't mean to break the rules, but I'd figure this would apply to the kinda stuff Combat Ace is all about. Basically I love to play flight and combat flight simulators, along with other PC games. I have a problem. But at least I capture said problem with FRAPS, and I'd love to invite you guys to my youtube channel, where currently, as I type this, I am uploading the first in hopefully many videos of Let's Play Strike Fighters 2, Mercenary Mode. 126 minutes left, so if you click now, it may not be up yet, depending on your time of reading. Anyways, I hope you guys will enjoy watching, and I want to thank you all for allowing me to join this community, which has clearly spent a lot of time to make these games even better. http://www.youtube.c...iew=1&flow=grid And erm, I may be rambling but as a final note, since this first video of strike fighters 2 is the only time I've ever attempted to record this series, the audio levels are off, and so it may be hard to hear my commentary. That should be cleared up in the second video. Thanks! --Lee

Caesar, I'm so sorry for the late reply! I really appreciate your help, but somehow or another my Strike Fighters 2 fixed itself, and it's working like a dream now. I really don't understand this game sometimes...lol. It's just finicky about what it does and how it does it, I guess. But at anyrate, I've been working on new videos for the Let's Play, and I already have Chapter 7 up, along with another random mission with no commentary, just music. I dunno how it happened or why it seemed to work, but now I've got a Mercenary campaign running using the MiG-19 Farmer and no issues to report so far, knock on wood. Thanks again for your help.

Yeah, after I installed the MiG 19 correctly, I did a reboot of my machine, and chose a red thunder campaign with a new pilot, and used the campaign customizer to set up on the side of the warsaw pact forces, in mercenary mode. Once I click accept, the game just freezes still. So no dice on a reboot after install, and I have a new pilot on a new campaign. I haven't edited anything, and what is strange is that the MiG 19 mod works just fine in single mission tests I've done. I appreciate your help though, Saisran, I was really hoping you were right and a clean everything would work, but I'm beginning to wonder if I need to add something to the aircraft's ini or maybe the campaign's ini itself to be able to use the custom plane.

Very professional and informative! I learned a lot from this, and I really appreciate the upload. Thank you

Thanks Saisran. I'm having a new problem when I try to start a new merc campaign on the side of the warsaw pact forces using the campaign customizer. It allows me to set everything just as I like but when I attempt to start the campaign by clicking accept, the game hangs up and wont go forward. However, the MIG plays and flies fine in single mission mode. Is there something I need to change in order to use the MIG in campaign mode? Thanks in advance guys! --Lee

Triple Post because I rock!!! I figured out my own issue guys, I'm sorry. To make matter worse, I didn't follow the instructions like I thought I did....and I have the edit button available on my last post, but apparently "I do not have permission to edit this topic" Maybe an admin finally locked me for all my posts...hope not, but issue is solved. Apparently after several beers and lack of sleep, one should not get the brilliant idea to mod their game. I went back through and instead of placing the included pilot folders into the objects>pilots folder filepath, I placed mine literally into the Strike Fighter 2 Pilots folder. So for anyone else who may ever have that trouble, there ya go. Drugs are bad, stay in school kids.

What time is it? Oh yeah, double post time! My last reply has been up to long to edit and attach this as an addendum.... Anyways, here's my issue: I have installed a MiG-19 Mod as I may be doing a mercenary mode as the OpFor...Crazy, huh? Okay, should be fairly standard. The file I chose had everything included in it and fairly straight forward instructions: drop everything into the proper mod folders as they are presented. Super simple. Not the case. Now I have a pilot with his legs sticking out of the bottom of the jet. While humorous, it's proven quite frustrating to fix. File is paulopanz's MiG-19 with field mod, and included in it was the FakePilot folder. Anyone have any help they can offer me? I followed directions exactly and I keep getting this:

@Centurion: Makes perfect sense, and you can't really argue with that point. Bombs are a hell of a lot cheaper than a whole new plane. I was watching skill a bit, but I was more concerned about condition too, as I figured a guy falling asleep in the cockpit might be easy cannon fodder, but skills would make a lot of sense too. Thanks for the advice again. @Saisran: LOL, why not right? I mean, if you got it, use it. Mercs are merciless. :D

Thanks Centurion! I'll keep that in mind too. I didn't really expect to see that many MiGs, and I was also being a cheapskate...The more guys I bring up with me the more I pay. However that's kind of a mute point, because the fuel and droptanks are free...hmm. Noted. The roster is gonna get a lot of flight hours now, unless I have to buy bombs, lol.

Guys, thanks for the continued interest in my Let's Plays! Makes my day!!! @Crusader: Sorry and R.I.P. to all the head phone users. lol I'm still figuring out the audio levels in game and in FRAPs and for my own speaking voice as well. Thanks for watching! @Saisran: I can't be sure, I've got a really off the wall work week (the pitfalls of working retail and driving a cab) but I should have them up soon! @EricJ: Sure do! Thanks for the interest in my videos! http://www.youtube.com/user/Leephoto44/videos?view=1&flow=grid That's the link to my Playlists, I also have some other uploads, but the Strike Fighters 2 playlist seems most active and obviously more relevant, lol