Gothkrieger

Played this back in the day. Your AI team mate activity is what really wore on me after a while and one of the main reasons I stopped playing it. It took too long to hop from tank to tank, trying to get them into proper defilade positions to defend against attack. If I remember right, Steel Beasts handled that better. It was in the programming. Better ballistics would be an improvement. I was under the impression the original programming did not allow for the time it took the round to travel to target.

Yup, sell them to pilots, otherwise a very bad idea considering how people drive when all 4 wheels are on the ground.

"Prime" Done!

Thinking of going with the CombatACE - Prime Membership this weekend, a 6 months membership. At this point, not so much to make massive downloads but to keep alive a source of information about the sim that I am starting to learn. The question is will this still be here in 6 months? I know that is a hard question to answer but what would be the point in buying a membership for a site that will be here for a much shorter length of time. I guess it is a roll the dice decision perhaps.

Humm, I am using TrackIR, are the views "realistic" to the actual views out of the cockpit of an F4?

Well I am new here so I guess the occasional person will still discover the sim and flys it. For me it is getting back into an F4 but I guess its time to scratch that itch. I am on the learning curve and I am sure that will keep me busy for some time to come. Coming from the IL2 world I agree that co-op flying would be great as it is a totally different experience to fly that way as opposed to solo.

Success!! Thanks all.

First off, thanks to all here who have taken time to answer my posts and help. I know my way around IL2 1946/HSFX and all the events that happened in that environment so I know the amount of info that has to be learned at times. For me this is a new can of worms. I checked the C:\Program Files (x86)\ThirdWire\Strike Fighters 2 location and as I assumed on my computer it does not exist. I always elect to put new programs in their own directory with Win 7 to avoid any Win 7 security settings that sometimes causes its own issue. Yup, the pathway is as you stated above: C:\Users\Admin\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Vietnam All this poking around is due to a 6DOF question at the top that led to having to modify a viewlist.ini that resides in ObjectData008 cat file. Now the modification would allow a minimal amout of addition functionallity to TrackIR. If I can't modify this aspect it is no big deal, I can live with it the way it is now. It is just strange that my setup seems to be missing files that others have. The sim, to the best of my knowledge seems to run fine but I have not flown it much so far, so I will have to see. Still if I don't have this file I might run into a situation where I may need it in the future. Is there a "generic" ObjectData008 cat file that somebody can email me, so I can place it in my directory and see if it makes the game unstable or not. If the game runs fine after its inclusion I can try and modify that. Otherwise I guess I am out of luck as my download and install did not include a 008 cat file.

And mine as it now stands. It seems that there is much more in yours. Perhaps due to the fact that you have more than SF2V installed. Notice in my list no 007 or 008.

Just ran another search, ObjectData0 and they all came up except ObjectData008. I must be missing a step someplace, is there an action that I have not done in the sim that results in the creation of ObjectData008?

Thanks, that is a great link. Any data on the "ObjectData008.cat" as mentioned by Fubar512? Is this one of the files that will have to be created from scratch?

Went to their site and downloaded the extractor and tested it out on a .cat file. Successfully extracted file ObjectData009. Extracted a good number of files and directories from that file. Now I see some of the text and graphic files could be edited. Once a person edits data in some of the extracted files how do they get returned to the .cat file format to be placed back into the sim. I did not notice how the procedure is reversed to save the changes. Also does not explain why I don't have a ObjectData008.cat as mentioned by Fubar512. The sim seems to run fine, is this a NEW .cat file, built by user?

In the Visual Targeting Commands list, which commands are possible in real life and what are just a game aids? Commands like Next Visual Friendly Target and Closest Visual Enemy Target are aids, yes? I am talking F4 aircraft reality now. I would think that Radar locked aircraft would have IFF and you would determine it that way if you could not confirm it visually and at those speed I am sure visually identifying aircraft would be difficult to say the least.

If a cat file is listed as a Security Catalog in Windows Explorer, then yes I don't have it!! I have ObjectData001 to ObjectData011 but ObjectData008 is the only one that is missing from the list. As best as I can see my sim works fine. My directory structure as installed on my computer for this sim is: C:/Thirdwire/Strike Fighters 2/Objects. Am I looking in the wrong place. I have other sim related files in: c:/Users/Admin/Saved Games/ThirdWire If it matters at all, I bought the sim, online and downloaded it. If I am looking in the right place and these are the right file types, another vital piece of info would be, what program is required to open and edit them as default Windows installed programs can not open this type of file. Thanks

I was unable to find viewlist.ini in file search and the only mention of cockpit.ini is a mention in several Objects/Aircraft/specific aircraft. The line is for example: CockpitDataFile=F-4J_cockpit.ini which is a reference to the .ini file but not the location. So I need some navigation instructions to find the file locations, search is not successful. Unless I have found it and I don't recognize it. thanks