FubarGrn

I,personally would like a few things cleared up.... First: From what I gather,from firsthand Experience,OFP:RES. is NOT backwards-compatible with ANY pervious version of OFP. Does this mean that ALL maps,ADDONS,MODS,ISLANDS created for v1.46 are moot?? What about he people that have made KILLER OFP maps.. (i.e: KaRRiLLion's RTS series) are they going to have to go back,and RE-DO them jsut so that they will be able for use in RES.? Second: I have heard rumors that once you install OFP:RES. you will NOT be able to reinstall it... (I know,I know... sounds stupid...but I had to ask if it holds water) Third: ok... RES. is NO going to have VON.... this is perhaps the most important factor in a MP game.... (not Co-Op b/c it doesn't matter if there is a side-channel) WHY do you think that games like CS...and DoD are STILL kicking ass in the online FPS MP gaming community? their STUNNING graphics?? their AWESOME levels?? HA!!!! nope... it is the VON,guys.... we are getting our asses handed to us on a plate,by games with LESS depth,and crappy engines... Fourth: bugs... I have read Reviews from gamers who have RES. and they say that their are STILL huge amounts of bugs... and LAG too... remeber a little game called World War 2 online?? it came out and had to be patched a half-dozen times before it was even PLAYABLE... hell... it is STILL in dire need of a few hundred fixes... is this the same fate that OFP will suffer? a dozen required patches? I would GLADLY wait 6 months for a new game (i.e: RES.) to be COMPLETED,and FULLY tested... than to have to get 20 patches to make it playable... and one last thing....... IF BIS was to host 3 servers... 1 1.46... 1 1.60.... and 1 RES. I got a 20 dollar bill says the 1.46 would KICK the other two's ass....ANY day.... ANY time.... If 1.60MP Test Had not come out... EVERYONE in here... would be kicking back... enjoying 1.46... and implementing addon packs that add new vehicles... new islands.... new everything.... and NOT having to complain about RES.... just my .02........

there is a AFB near Pensacola Florida that has about 20 AC-130 Gunships... I used to live there,and I went to the PX and the Commissary every week... (which is right near the Flight line)... been so long ago,I have forgotten the exact name of the base.... dammit...

yup.. I don't beleive that a c-130 could lift a M1 in the real world... maybe the m2a2.... anyways,my question is this... you know how the UH-60MG has the 50 cal in the door? could the same be done with the C-130? on the left side,I mean.... see,we have SAR helos that we put the 20mm cannon on the MG in the door (acting like a Gatling).... so If,say 4 or 5 50 cal stations were put in the side of the c130... POOF.... instant Spectre... users of the plane could add whatever armament they wanted....

Ok... when I fire up V1,46 and click on Multiplayer,OFP freezes.I cannot hit Alt+tab,Alt+f4,or even Ctrl+alt+Del to get out... I have to hold in the power button. I CAN play V1.60 Mulitplayer,V1.46 Single-player,and V1.46 Mission Editor. Specs: Amd Athalon 1.2Ghz 384MB SDRAM 128MB Gf4 Ti4600 WinXP Pro Det.Drivers 29.42 I have OFP settings to: 800x600x32 Hardware T&L Disabled Everything else enabled any thoughts guys?

uhhh... Stupid Question..... Why is everyone whining about the Weapons Loadouts? Jsut use the AA version... it carries sidewinders.... and in the correct locations.As far as the AGM version... they DO look a bit wierd on the wingtips,but Hey wasn't it enough that they put the Falcon in the game? I am sure someone can modify the existing plane's loadouts.The modelers and SKinners should concentrate on making more sh!t,not making the existing sh!t to the public's standards... except if it was a major flaw.

uhhhh where/when can we get this??

ok,here is my problem.... I play on the MPTest darn near every day,and yesterday I tired to start OFP in V1.46 mode,so I could play a little SP,and do some mission editing. BUT when I double-click the Icon for v1.46 OFP,the Operation Flashpoint:Cold War Crisis LOGO appears,and then my PC jsut restarts!!!!!! I can play ANY game for ANY length of time,and I can play V1.60 until I am blue in the face,but the moment I try to activate V1.46 the PC restarts itself!!! ok... I KNOW it is not a problem with my PC,as I can play V1.60 all day/night........ but here are my Specs anyway: 1.2GHZ AMD Athalon 512MB SDRAM 128MB GF4 Ti 4600 Windows XP Pro Latest Det.Drivers I think that having the MPTest in the OFP folder has somehow corrupted my V1.46 OFP!!!!!!! that is the only possible solution that I have come up with so far!!!!!! you guys know anything??

where?

I dunno... I was able to run V1.60 without any problems... I can't figure it out.... I USED to run V1.46 with my GF4... and I had the old det. drivers installed.. it was like V1.46 just quit liking my setup..... hmmmm whatever it was... it is over for me.... I just hope that this can be a solution for others.

ok... I got is figured out... I HOPE..... V1.46 apperas to be INCOMPATIBLE with Detenator driver X 28.32...... I got the newest version 29.42 and V1.46 works fine now... Once again If you ahve A GF4 Card,and WINXP Pro get det.driver 29.42!!!!!!!!!

ok... check THIS crap out!!!!!! I completely deleted Codemasters folder...... reinstalled.... I tried to run OFP V1.2 ..... crash..... I deleted ALL ADDONS,MPMISSIONS..........everything..........

I did that and the box wasn't checked...... and I ran the compatibility wizard,and it still does it.... this is what the blue screen says: ***STOP: 0x0000008E (0x0000005,0x70687361,0xba4d437c,0x00000000) Beginning Dunp of Physical Memory Physical Memory Dump complete. Contact your System Operator or Tech support group for further assistance. dunno what it means.... and that is what is says....... any thought on addons being responsible?

OK..... I went to AVONLADY and I saw something interesting....... it says to "Disable WindowsME compatibility" WTF is this??? and HOW do I do it?? I USED to be running my OFP with ME ,and I upgraded to XP..... if this compatibility option was ON when I was still running ME,and now I am running XP Pro.... would this cause my problem????

ya.. I get a blue screen and it doesn't specify what the error was......... hmmmmmmmm

I unchecked auto-reboot,and it didn't specify what was the problem.It jsut gave me a general description of what to do about a crash. If some drivers were messed up... I couldn't play V1.60... I have the LATEST Det.drivers,adn they are the only thing I have updated since I started playing v1.60 does v1.46 have any known drivers issues? I mean If I am using a Det.Driver that is TOO new.will that cause the game to crash.... hmmmm... I don't want to have to completly wipe out my codemasters folder,and do a clean install..... any other thoughts?

The Fraghaus server is running V1.59,and I have been trying to play all day.A few various things that I noticed while playing. The more people that are on the server dramatically increases the chance of the server crashing.people Desyncing badly,while their pings remain stable.People losing connection,and becoming unremovable "Ghosts".I also noticed that the download rates for people with Win98,and WinME have dramatically been reduced,while people running anyhting above ME,their downloads are super-fast. Just a few Observations.......

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">On the contrary, we helped you during the revolutionary war. Sweden helped you out to kick out the British by contributing with troops. You would still be a British colony if it wasn't for instance for the French troops that saved your bacon. <span id='postcolor'> uhhhh wasn't it the American forces that pushed General Cornwalis back to the sea?Decisive victories won the revolutionary war,and as I recall my american history the french didn't arrive until LATE in the war... It was Gen.George Washington's vicotries against the northern armies of the crown that turned the tide of the war... that and the help form our allies. And True... Sweden HASN'T needed us... yet... and If they did... we would come...

I do not know what you guys are talking about.All I hear is "America's army sucks because they would use a video game to recruit people".... where in the heck are you getting this?I think that you guys have watched "The Last Starfighter" TOO many times... the american military does NOT recruit people based on a video game...that is just plain stupid. Yeah America may be guilty of propganda... but no one is holding a gun to your head to get you to join.heck... a few years ago,the US Department of defense was offering people money to get OUT of the military!I know this becasue my father was in the military for 25 years before he retired.I spent a great portion of my life on military bases around the world,and it was fantastic.my father fought in vietnam,and he was stationed at a 1st Air Cav. base in Korea,patrolling the DMZ.My father saw stuff that would make stephen king books look like mother goose stories... never once did he complain... becasue that was his JOB...he CHOSE to join the military,he CHOSE to fight for freedom... he CHOSE these things... becasue we live in a FREE country... and the NEXt time you want to bash the US Military,jsut remeber ONE thing.. you wouldn't be sitting at that little PC of yours spouting off your OPINIONS if the US MIITARY had not fought and DIED for YOUR freedom to do so. we are here looking at a GAME.... nothing more... you want conspiricy? go watch the darn X-Files...

my ping times have tripled,sometime Quadrupled since fraghaus went to v1.55/1.58... I used to get pings from 30-70ms everyday... all day... and when they upgraded to the v1.55/1.58 test... my pings rose considerably... I mean they start around 300ms,and skyrocket to over 1700ms! I thought it was jsut my connection,so I neotraced,and dos pinged the fraghaus 1.58 server,and they are the same as always... 30-70ms... and no bad routers in the way.... I went to a dos prompt,and typed this: ping -t 209.240.0.151 and the pings i recieved pings around 50ms... my system specs: 1.2Ghz AMD Athalon processor 512MB SyncDram 16mb TNT2 nvidia card (GF4 is in the mail,so don't laugh ) Windows ME detonator drivers v23.11 (I think...whatever the latest one is) cable connection,speed tested daily at 1.5mb/sec to 2.2mb/sec I like about 500 miles from the server,and I used to get great pings (30-70ms(,and the DAY they went to v1.55/1.58 my pings rose... to test this theory,I went over to another server (Hit_Sqd dedicated @ 63.148.99.75 running v1.46) and recieved pings 40-50ms... I was there for about 10 minutes,and left,adn then I returned to the v1.55/1.58 server,and poof....300-1700ms!! still thinkning that my MPTest was corrupted somehow,I uninstalled FOP,all my MP maps,all my Addons,and reinstalled OFP... then I reconnected to the fraghaus v1.58 server (running sockets) and the pings were still the same...no change.... waht is going on here? Anyone else getting WEIRD ping times? is this due to the MP test(s)? how can I fix this? I am missing out on my daily dose of OFP,and I am getting low patience =) well,any help would be GREATLY appreciated

lol hax... you tard lol...well does this stuff apply to me...even though I am running Windows ME? I dunno what Winsock is,or waht it does,but all I know is that I ran a tracert on the fraghaus server,and it stated that I was getting 55ms ping times,but when I actually connect,I get pings above 2000ms? hmmmmm weird huh?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">fubared<span id='postcolor'> lol Harb... you are referring to me,and my high (2000+) ping,right? =) I am trying to find out what is causing this to happen... I'll be back on Fraghaus soon =)

ok... I d-loaded the program and this is what it says: os [ OSV ] Winsock [ WV ] Dun [ DUN ] I don't know what it means,but I appreciate your help... I am a tad PC Illiterate,as I don't know what a Winsock is

exact opposite for me... I am usually getting pings from 50-60... and when fraghaus went to v1.58 server (using sockets) I am now getting pings from 500-2000!... I uninstalled OFP,re-installed,and patched to v1.46,then added the MP test and V1.58... I am running a AMD ATHALON 1.2GHZ,512MB SDRAM,and a HIGH speed cable connection. I play on the fraghaus server excusively (IP # 209.240.0.151) and they are running 1.58 now... before,I was getting pings from 50-60ms,and the moment I log on to fraghaus,my pings start at around 300,and rise up to over 1500... they never come back down,only go up... I then quit OFP,and connected to another server running standard 1.46, I get pings from 30ms to 50ms... but when I get on to the 1.58 server... I get extremly high pings.... what is going on here? it is NOT my pc,I think that this 1.55/1.58 test... please examine this problem... I am missing out on good gaming... please help!

Hmmm well I don't mean to be a killjoy...but is this going to be a AC-130 I mean if it is just a C-130,will it have the ability to transport ground units?... because if it is just a plain c-130... and it can't hold any Jeeps/hmmwv's/APC's then what good is it?A uge,Cumbersome airframe lumbering about the map isn't everyone's Idea of a fun time... well maybe some,but you get the picture well,anyway we have armed cessna's.. (Cannon,Air-to-Air missiles..ect) if we DO arm the c-130..can we position weapons on the side? Or will they all face forward like the cessna? I am not a designer,like you,man and I really don't understand the process,or the time that it must take you... but I have a few Ideas... 1.Make portholes on either side (usually the left) and put M-2 machineguns.. these can be loaded with 20-30MM/FFAR's,and can be manned by multiple players... 2. make the wing on the weapon side clear of drop tanks,stores,ect... so that the weapons stations have a clear field of fire. jsut a though,man... I have several CSAR Uh-60's that have 30MM cannons in the doors.. (weapon"Machinegun30"),and it still swivels,and fires just fine... I appreciate you going through the trouble to make these awesome vehicles,and I admire your dedication to your task. If you need someone to publicly beta-test anything,or you need some fresh,objective input E-mail me @ greendlgr@myactv.net =) and keep up the good work,man! =)

all of you DO know that on all the OFP planes there are THREE flap settings..don't you? when you enter a plane hit FLAPS DOWN 2 times for easier takeoff... use the middle setting for low-speed bombing/Dogfighting...use full up for higher speed.... I.E: entrance and egress from target area.. adn I have noticed that even with the flaps set in full down on the HAWK addon plane...the damn thing will not take off under 200MPH... weird huh?