Fox Mulder

I use the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro with Arma without any problems. Every button and axis works fine and i never installed any driver. I just attached it to the pc and windows xp installes it without any need for an external driver disk. The only thing i must regard is, that the joystick must be connected befor i start arma. When i attach it after arma has started it doesn't recognize the joystick.

OK i'm now quite happy how the things are at the moment. After installing D-Tools Arma still runs when not using sysinternals process explorer. I can play Arma and use d-tools for other things which is ok, but not perfect. I hate it that i can't run my beloved process explorer anymore when i want to play Arma. But i hope this will be possible again in the near future. PS: A friend has the same behaviour with d-tools and process explorer like me with Arma.

Hehe i can't believe it... it's running now. I've tried everything from reinstalling arma, uninstalling d-tools, registry cleaning and nothing helps. Than i read from Sibe that he experienced a correlation between sysinternal process explorer and securom. I use process explorer for a long time, because it's the best task manager replacement out there so i gave it a try. And he was right, after reboot normaly i run process explorer in the background and this time i didn't. Arma starts without any error message for the first time since 1.05. It seems that securom detects process explorer like some kind of debugger, which is not allowed for securom applications. Even after i closed process explorer it won't run anymore until i reboot my pc and NEVER run it since reboot. I hope this helps some of you out there. Now i try to install d-tools and see what happens if i just have them running, but use the original dvd, because i don't want to miss d-tools for other purposes.

Man this is really annoying. I can't start the game and always get the "can't load security module blah blah" message. I uninstalled d-tools, sptd, cleaned my registry from all the rest, uninstalled and reinstalled arma but everytime the same message. Arma isn't even trying to access the dvd, because the message appears with or without the dvd and there is no access to it. It seems that d-tools isn't the problem at all, because even after uninstalling, reg-cleaning and starting with the original dvd it doesn't work. I hope BIS fixes this thing fast so i can play it again.

Sounds like something i heard from ofp. They used this sneaking "fade" mechanism for games which think that they are cracked or have a stolen cd-key. I don't want to imply that somebody here uses an illegal arma version, but maybe the copyprotection wrongly activates this mechanism on legal versions.

Hmm as far as i remember you can see the authors email in the briefing of the mission at the end of the notes. And it is really one of my favorite maps at the moment, i like the respawn script he programmed.

It would ne nice, if graphic cards like the GF4 or others with dual monitor support can be used in ofp and i don't think of the solution to split them and have the crosshair between both. Maybe more something like the default 3D view on the first and some freely defineable 3d view on the second or the map always shown on it. Would be nice if this can be realized sometimes in flashpoint, but the newly working surround gaming for the parhelia shows that nothing is impossible for the future development of flashpoint. Maybe sometimes i can use all my 3 monitors i currently got attached to my pc. Fox

Same here what benu got. All works fine except squad XML and #init still not working. And i think i got more server FPS with the 1.88 version or am i dreaming ?

I tried a bit more and after i remove the mission classes in the cfg the server now shows all missions in the selection screen. But therefor it never rotates missions and the players had to select (vote) for them to begin. I tested a few missions like the standard warcry (nogova-coop) and they work fine with good performance (~50% cpu time for it and 50fps server status). I got most of Kegetys/GFX707/DKMM Addons installed on the server but until now don't try a map which uses these addons. The default maps and some custome made maps i tried works all fine for me.

I read shadows post... But the solution is to remove all mission classes in the server.cfg and i don't think that this is a good solution.

I tried the linux server on SuSE 7.3 just a few minutes ago and it works great with very good performance for me. I got only one problem, the server executes the missions defined in the server.cfg but when i log in as admin and make "#missions" i got an empty list!?!? I can't select any missions but i got ~90 on the server. Is this some kind of bug or did i something wrong ? I see that after the linux server installation all missions are now lowercase written, but i don't think this is the problem. BIS pls help me a bit. But i think this ded server will increase the number of ofp players in the world a lot and i also waited long for it, so i want to thank BIS for this nice piece of work. Ciao, Fox

I tried to start a ded server behind my linux router and only forwarded port 2302/2303 tcp/udp (don't know if both needed) to my internal machine and the server works fine and shows up in the gamespy list. Ciao, Fox

Hehe i use the version which was in the Suse 7.3 package and this is version 20010731. Now i dl the newest 20020509 and try this one. Hope in the new version it works all. Ciao, Fox

I also tried the 1.60 server version with Suse 7.3 Linux and Wine and it works mostly. The only problem i encountered was that when a player connects which got a squad url, wine produces a little url error msg and the player hangs at "connecting" and never gets "connected". I tried this for my own player and for others and always the same problem. When i remove my squad url it works without any problems. Now i will test the performance of wine compared to my last test with ofp and win98 in a vmbox in linux which was really slow. Ciao, Â Â Â Fox

I installed the 1.60 client update and it works good. But now i wanted to try the 1.60 dedicated server version and i dl the 1.60 server zip file but when i execute the 1.60 dedicated update nothing happens. I tried many dl links but with every file when i start it nothing happens, even not the sd2 check screen appears. And in my ofp directory is no server executable like in the old 1.4x versions. Am i doing something wrong ? I use Win-XP, but don't know if this is the problem. Ciao, Fox

wahhhhhh you are right... *g* the server version is no update it is the dedicated server executable which only runs when in ofp directory. tnx alot Cu, Fox

Is it possible do define a transparent color in a squad logo ? And what x*y size is possible for squad logos ? At the moment i use a 256x256 logo and it works, but is it possible to use larger logos and logos with unequal x and y values ? I never find a site with usefull information about squad logos, so i ask here. fox

M21 accuracy is great if know how to use it right In MP i use M21 mostly and best shoots i get was on ~560m (at 600m all players no more visible in ofp for me) not moving targets or ~400m moving targets. That's good enough for me either. Fox

Hmm i used the first version of the artillery which uses the radio commands and had only the problem that i always hear a annoying sound when i use the artillery, everything else works fine. And now i dl the artillery.final.zip version and the anoying sound is gone but i couldn't move the artillery anymore and i couldn't hang it on the truck anymore. Also the number of flares and he ammo is not shown in the upper left screen, there stands something strange and not how much ammo i got left for that type. If anyone know why this happens please tell me. Fox

I also would like to test it, but the link is down. Ok than i have to wait until the fixed version is out.

Same problem here. I play mostly leader in coop mp games with friends and no ai in our team and every second or third time a player dies the endless message repeating begins, no matter if it was soldier 2 or 3 or 4... I hope this will be fixed very fast because this is the most annoying bug i ever found. Fox

I read in some forums that the respawn marker for east and west is called respawn_east and respawn_west. but what is it for resistance soldiers ? i read that it should work with respawn_guerrila but it did not. than i spelled it in many ways like guerrilia/guerrillia/guerrilla/... and nothing works for me. so i spelled it all the times wrong or it is something else. does somebody got an example resistance respawn able map for me to learn how to do it ? fox i forgot: the resistance respawned all the times in my test map but NOT at the respawn marker, instead at the point i died. (Edited by Fox Mulder at 2:25 am on Nov. 20, 2001)

quakergamer how do you know that p3d is an "zipped" obj format ?? If this is true it is not easily possible to convert p3d to obj because there's no known "unzipper" for the ofp p3d format. Didn't anyone ask a-lone-wolf what he has done to manage it ? Fox

Theironheart i tried the p3d to oof converter and it didn't work with the ofp p3d files. I think the ofp p3d format is not the parallax p3d format so the converter can't read the files. So again we have to wait until a-lone-wolf releases the information how he could import/convert p3d files for use in max. :/ Fox

Hmmm when i read all the posts i think that nobody else than a-lone-wolf really knows how to import/export ofp models the right way in max. Maybe a-lone-wolf reads this thread and can light up this thread for us with an answer from himself. Fox