Couple of questions

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Hello, I've got a couple of tech questions for you folks, you all seem to be pretty knowledgeable in here.

First: I am having problems with BAS blackhawks and pavehawks. When I try to use either the game goes to the desktop, no error message. I've used the blackhawks before and never had this problem until recently. It is not a problem with the number of addons I have because the game loads fine. I have littlebirds, ch-47, tonal, and the soldiers (forget the name right now) and they all work fine. Possibly a problem with a conflicting addon? I tried using only a blackhawk in Nogova using regular OFP (no FDF or anything) and had the same results. I have the required addons for them also (JAM, SOAR, etc.).

Second: I added the "-nosplash" parameter to my shortcut to skip the splash screens and load the game faster. When I started the game it went to a black screen with white letters saying "The Countdown Begins". Anyone ever hear of that before? I should note that I am using a legitimate copy because one thing I thought it might be is that OFP activated FADE because of that nosplash thing skipping the splash screens. That seems pretty far out though. Anyways I took the parameter off and it doesn't do that anymore. Kind of lost on this one.

I am running OFP 1.96 beta. P3 1 Mhz, 512 MB SDRAM, Geforce 5200 256 MB PCI.

Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

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it went to a black screen with white letters saying "The Countdown Begins".  Anyone ever hear of that before?

I've only heard of it every time I start Opf

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Boy do I feel embarrassed heheh. Never displays that on my screen before though, just goes right to the Codemasters screen, wierd.

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Nothing to feel embarrassed for

With regard to your other problem, have you tried the -nomap command?

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Yep, same results.

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Have you downloaded any new addons between blackhawks and pavehawks working and them suddenly not working?

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Hmmmm, I've gotten alot of addons between them. Hard to remember which ones, but none that I could pinpoint as being the cause of it.

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Go to your addons folder, arrange icons by date and remove everything put in after those ones that have stopped working and see if that makes them work.

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Well, I removed everything except BAS files and their required files and they still won't work.

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Got them to work.  Well...kind of.  I put a regular soldier and an EMPTY blackhawk in the map editor and previewed and it loaded and the chopper worked fine.  Its only happening when I try to use the blackhawk with the pilot already in it. Possibly an incompatable pilot file from a newer BAS addon that maybe overwrote an old one causing this?