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I'm currently reading "By Any Means Necessary" by William E. Burrows. http://www.amazon.com/Any-Means-Necessary-Americas-Secret/dp/0374117470/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1439740058&sr=1-2&keywords=by+any+means+necessary The book is about the surveillance operations carried out by the United States during the Cold War. I'm wondering if there are any campaigns or missions that anybody knows of that details this period in the Strike Fighters 2 series. I'd also be interested in any mod that allows you to fly any aircraft during the 1950-1980 period with any airforce. Any help vastly appreciated.

I apologize to the vets here, because I'm sure this is a ridiculous question, but it has me baffled. I have the MIGs, the SUs, TUs etc. in their proper place but I can't seem to actually FLY them. Even if I select Soviet Air Force. Is there a trick to this that I'm misssing. If this should be asked elsewhere here, please direct me. Thank you.

Gotcha, Thanks Wrench.

I found the U2, and have the SR-71 file from here, but I still need the LODs for the Blackbird from the Skunkworks site. Thanks.

I saw those on the A_Team Skunkworks site but it seems you are unable to download from there, if it's the same place I'm thinking of. Do you have a link or would you be able to send them to me? Thanks for the response Ice Man

and yes, I've perused all of the help files, run compatibility modes (every conceivable) and done pretty much everything I can think of. Is there possibly anything I've neglected to try? I know it "can" run under Win7......maybe my system is just messed up: Windows 7 Home Premium x64 bit AMD 64x Dual Core Processor 4200 2xCPUs 2.2 GHXz 4096 MB RAM Nvidia GeForce 210 (yeah, I know :(

D*mn, I spoke too soon. Tried a campaign.....first mission I CTD 5 seconds into the flight (air start). I have my graphics settings on 3 across the board, so once again I'm at a loss. I have OFF Manager and CFS3 set to compatibility mode XP3 w/SP3. Also followed the instructions for re-install precisely. Running on "safest settings" too. So I'm, once again, without a clue. Everything else runs beautifully...... Why does this game hate me? First Eagles 2 is pretty nice........but it's not OFF :( Will try some variations, maybe another free flight or something, after work this evening.

Well......success? I did a complete re-install. I also updated my graphics card, big time. I managed to get into a free flight and go sight seeing for about 5 minutes without a problem........ unfortunately, that's all I had time to do. But I'll be checking it out again tonight hopefully. I went from a GeForce 210 to a Radeon HD7700. Wow. MS Flight Sim with the graphics all the way.......stunning. I've got the OFF graphics set kind of middling, didn't want to take any chances......but I might mess with them eventually. I'd like to express my sincerest thanks to all who responded to my initial inquiry. I've never received the help that I got on this board. Thanks for that and Happy Thanksgiving Day to all the USA'nians.

Hey corsaire31, Thanks for the reply. Same situation, except I'm installing from a CFS3 install. No luck here though. I wondered about the graphics card but I have run OFF before with the same card so I don't know what's going on. I'm frustrated. Seems everytime Windows does an update, "something" gets screwed up but I can't say that is or isn't the case. I've run diagnostics on my system a number of times, no issues supposesdly. I literally can't think of anything else to try :(

Thanks Adger, but that's the exact page I used as a guide. Have tried the administrator option as well as ALL the compatibility modes......no luck there. Even set the install file to winxp sp/3 compat. mode......same result.

It goes south on me pretty fast. CFS3 will run, for a little while. I can actually get into the cockpit, fly a mission.......but it invariably crashes. I've applied the 3.1 patch but not the 3.1a, as I think that was just a noCD crack (?).....not sure about that. I've tried it both ways. What's maddening is that I know I've run this (OFF) but there was some trick to it, which I, brilliantly, didn't seem to make a note of. I'm trying, but each install (and failure) brings me closer to tossing the PC out the window ;)

Thanks Olham. Here's hoping..... I thought I'd read just about everything regarding this issue, but there's alot and I'm sure I haven't read everything. I know I've had OFF running at one point, but I don't think on this computer (?)

I must say I'm very encouraged by the responses..... What happens, in CFS3 as well as OFF, is that when I choose any type of flight (campaign, quick combat, etc) the flight loads, I see the cockpit of the aircraft for about 4 seconds and then the game crashes (XXX has stopped operating, Windows is searching for a solution.......I'm still waiting for that solution lol) but yeah, just when I try to get into the cockpit it crashes.....like something is up with the ingame graphics. Thanks in advance flyers.