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Gunja - good to hear you solved your problems......

... the "ass-U-Me" was me on the UBI forums when LO came out. (even tho the saying has been around for centuries i'd guess) Look.. I do fear FO will turn into another F16/Falcon4 smoke hole that the history of falcon devs have done. But it doesn't appear this way, as you suggest. In Fact they have been very upfront on what they are doing and what the customer can expect initially. Trainer first. Flight Acadamy type training... then a fighter (16/15/a10 ...don't remember right now). ED's comminications ablities on this side of the language barrier has been spotty at best. When they do respond it's selective and everyone goes...." Ohhhhh ... ahhhhh....... thank you!.. what about...." It's the same old diatribe. FO to date haven't done smoke screen or mirrors like UBI/ED did back in 03 with LockON. (did you all forget?) The thing the FO is shooting for is realism. ED doesn't and that appears to be their business model, tho we may hear otherwise. The proof is in the product. ED can mass produce tons add ons, but if everything brings your PC to a crawl, infects your machine with it's protection measures, and opperability of the aircraft are either flat out wrong (i can only speak for the 15) or oversimplified to the point, the word "sim" is a very general label, then it's still broken. The KA-50 maybe the shiznitz and all that snoop dog stuff.. but everything else is the limiting factor. I am still considering it's purchase, just for curiosity sake with their interface with the 'copter. The only reason why I play LO is the interface when I'm "flying" the 15. All other Flight sims suck in comparison. In this aspect ED hit it right on the nose and did a great job. I am not trying to start a fight, but discuss what ED is doing here and why I think they are wrong leaving it's current class of customers out in the cold. If you counter and even wish to discuss (to learn), you are met with the famous russian stoicism and hardline approach (has happened to me quite a few times on this forum). If I'm wrong here with my viewpoint.. then so be it.. I try to learn something new each day.

the problem is.. I think ED is missing the boat. Fighter OPS will be out by then, and the way it's shaping up will leave ED behind. (except for in the CIS) ED has to solidify it's customer base now.. instead of later. They could get so much more people...if they fixed everything that is currently in the product, (not even talking about AFM yet). SO instead of fixing what needs to be fixed, they have opted for the "new book cover" approach. I guess they think were that stupid. If you rolled out the KA-50 addon.. great, but fix existing problems in prior releases that your merging this product into should be number one. This way customers are willing to stay in the LO world. I myself will not fall in the "maybe KA50 addon will fix - xxxx" trap. It's us lying to ourselves and since ED stands to make money on that attitude, they say nothing to correct it. like I said.. bad business model.

If you look in the back up folder you can recognise folders and files from the Lock On installation folder (the up one level one :P ) so, is quite obvious that they are the old (1.1) versions of those files and folders. You have select all the folders and files from "Backup_1.1" then hit "copy" (Ctrl+C also tends to work :) ), then up one level (backspace) to get up to Lock On base folder and then hit "paste" (Ctrl+V). The operating system will ask for confirmation to overwritte the files, that is you sign that you didn't get it wrong and you click "OK". When copying was done you are back to 1.1 version. Note that in version 1.12(a) the joystick has an ID number now and when you revert to 1.1 the file is no longer read (I think) and you will have the 1.1 joystick settings. When you go back patching to 1.12a your stick with ID number will be used again. Sorry if my explanations sounds too "4 n00bs" but at least is more clear.

Yep, the TrackIR 4 is next in my to-buy list.