Falconer

Thanks for your points of view guys! I will release a stand alone version soon. Doomguy Edit: bummer! Wrong account

I see that the patch that *supposedly* fixes the catastrophic partition-wiping bug has still not been posted on the official sites represention OFP. Hence the newest version (1.91) downloaded by the average customers *still* contains the problem. I have no other words for this but YOU SUCK.

Well, a notice on their websites (i.e. the page I get to see when I type www.flashpoint1985.com or www.codemasters.com) is the very least I expect. Right now, the average customer, who does not read these forums, is unaware of the damage the currently official version of OFP can cause.

I'll make my own mind up about BIS' customer service. Their failure to handle this very serious defect in their software is enough reason for me to completely lose any faith I had in them. One cannot help but wonder what damage future BIS products may cause. Operation Flashpoint 2: Clean Sweep (featuring low-level format at random intervals, the fastest in the industry!), anyone?

Funny, this "emergency patch" is nowhere to be found on BIS' or Codemaster's websites. I guess that shows how much they care about their customers.

It is completely unacceptable that this problem exists within OFP, and BIS has made no effort to warn its customers. I have just experienced the loss of over 60 GB of data due to this bug in OFP. Why does this happen in the first place? Why has BIS/Codemasters not warned its customers through mail or on its website? Surely they are not expecting their customers to read forums? Why has this bug not been fixed in an emergency patch? Why is "DirectPlay" the DEFAULT when creating a server, while it is KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME that it possibly causes the loss of data? Answer me those questions, and apologize, else you can forget any future purchases from my part.

East can ride bicycles too.

Simple: play with friends.

Dear people, I recently installed XP Pro and using the latest SBLive! drivers has condemned me to suffering from the exact same problems as you. Severe sound distortion, especially when driving vehicles, is the most noticeable effect. The only `solution' there seemed to be was the complete elimination of hardware accelerated sound. Now for the good news. After pondering and tinkering for several days I stumbled upon a registry key named "Turbo". Not a very unusual name you might think, but on second thought, maybe it is odd indeed if it occurs in the context of your soundcard's driver settings. Anyway, changing its value to "0" instead of the default "1" seems to alleviate the distortion I experience by many factors. But, alas, it is not gone completely. The distortion rears its ugly head again when higher pitched sounds play. In practice this means you can now drive a tank at full speed and refrain from covering your ears, but not a jeep. Maybe you are more lucky than me. Paste the following into a text file and name it noturbo.reg or somesuch, just get the .reg extension in there: </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CreativeTech\Emu10kx\DriverSettings\Wave\Pin#00000002] "Turbo"=dword:00000000 <span id='postcolor'> When you have saved the file, double-click it to update the registry. No reboot is necessairy before running OFP. Please do report back with your findings. I would be especially interested to know at what kinds of sounds you experience distortion. For me it seem to be the high pitched sounds, which leads me to believe the sound driver is over-amplifying certain tones. Maybe someone has further ideas as to where settings might be hidden? I would also be thankful to any Windows 98 user that could look for similar registry entries in his register, and tell us about any interesting settings he or she might find. Yours, Falconer PS. The above hack has completely solved comparable distortion problems I suffered in IL2 Sturmovik.

They fixed a similar bug in patch 1.45 according to this line from the readme: </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">- Fixed: Airplane: Autodetection of joystick / keyboard thrust was wrong. After using joystick thrust it was impossible to switch back to keyboard thrust.<span id='postcolor'> However, the rudder still can no longer be controlled by the keyboard after you have touched the joystick. Very annoying if you don't have a joystick with a z-axis to control the rudder, and just assigned the appropriate keys (left/right) to joystick buttons.

Too bad this still isn't fixed in 1.46 ...

They fixed a similar bug in patch 1.45 according to this line from the readme: </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">- Fixed: Airplane: Autodetection of joystick / keyboard thrust was wrong. After using joystick thrust it was impossible to switch back to keyboard thrust.<span id='postcolor'> However, the rudder still can no longer be controlled by the keyboard after you have touched the joystick. Very annoying if you don't have a joystick with a z-axis to control the rudder, and just assigned the appropriate keys (left/right) to joystick buttons.

Of course they (BIS, Codemasters) are in it for the money, they are a company. What a lot of people here forget is that they depend on BIS making money to get support and future products. You can whine and show your lack of understanding of the real world all you like, but there is only one way to express your opinion in a capitalist market: don't spend your money on products you don't like. Maruk noted that they (BIS) are not obligated in any way to release their developement tools to the public for free. He couldn't be more right. Why on earth would they release something for free that could likely hamper the sales of one of their future products. It would require an incredible lack of vision to do such a thing. BIS made the right choice. Keep up the good work guys!

I suppose you could drop all packets to the port used for voice communication. I'm not sure what ports you would need to try, but I guess tcp & udp 2234.

Move this to the off topic forum please. We're only interested in OFP here, not Ghost Recon or whatever.

I'm sure many here have been annoyed at their AI team members not looking in the right direction after movement. For example, your team is in line formation, facing north. Suddenly you discover a group of enemies in the woods to the east, and you would like your team's formation to turn east and face the enemy. Now, the only way to get this done is to move east for about 50 meters. Only then will the AI team members have adjusted the formation's facing. This is very impractical and typically gets you killed. It would be so much of a relief if there was a command that would allow you to set the facing of the formation to your current facing. Ie. if you're looking south and you issue the command, the formation turns to face south as well. Setting the facing of the individual soldiers is clearly not the answer. In the above example, telling your AI team members to `watch direction' - `east' would have them looking east, but the line formation would still be facing north. Fracticites is the result.

Although it is not the solution to the problem with formations, thanks for that tip ReZiN8R! Using the menus to change the direction your AI fellows look is a pain, your method will make it much easier.

What the #### does this have to do with Operation Flashpoint? There's an off-topic forum for stuff like this.

DFTT Don't Feed The Troll.

Let's not feed the troll any more, shall we?

Go play with your toy rifle please, and get the #### out of here.

The strategy guide sits in your Flashpoint directory and is called OFP_PRIMA_XXX.PDF where XXX is the appropriate abbreviation for your language. For english you have see ENG, etc.

Yes it works, tested and verified it myself. It doesn't matter where you put the strategy guide, the game does not use it. Oh and it's definitily worth buying it, the missions are highly enjoyable. Besides, there's no relation between software size and quality really. You have large programs which suck and really small ones worth millions. And vice-versa.

Those of you who have bought the downloadable Red Hammer add-on like me probably also wondered how you were going to re-install the thing in the case you would somehow lose your Operation Flashpoint installation. The answer is very simple, since we're not actually dealing with a patch, but rather an add-on. The only thing that has changed to your Operation Flashpoint directory is the addition of two files. In the Campains directory, the redhammer.pbo file, and in the Addons directory the voicerh.pbo file. So, you'de better back those files up! Codemasters won't replace them without you paying them another 7 bucks. Just thought I'de let you know. (Edited by Falconer at 4:41 pm on Dec. 13, 2001)

Try and actually land on the helipad. If you keep forcing your chopper down, the LST will sink! And here's how you get that darn LST sailing. Shoot FFARs at it! I got it to speeds of 100 hehe. @Unleet: I suppose you mean it has the most pleasant flying experience. Or have you actually flown both of them in real life? (Edited by Falconer at 4:40 pm on Dec. 13, 2001)