Silent Warrior

I wouldn't label this as a bug as such, rather more of a convenience issue really, but this seems to be the best place for it all the same. Right, the menu system. I feel it's REALLY quite slow to transit between the different submenus. It's better on this rig (and game) than Flanker 2 on a P2 450 MHz, I'll grant you that, but I can't see the least reason why this couldn't be a near instantaneous transition (like Freelancer, Falcon 4, Grim Fandango, Wing Commander: Prophecy, Freespace 1/2 . . .). Couple that with the extensive loading-times, it's... something of a turn-off. Certainly kept me away from Flanker 2. Well, with Flaming Cliffs, the worst part is actually the loading-time and getting into a campaign, while the slow menu-switching is a mere inconvenience.

Looks ok to me. Just one quetion or two... About the guard-post failing to report in, doesn't the military intelligence have at least some theory? No witnesses? No ground-team scouting out the place before sending in the airforce?

I chose that 'Apart from minor issues ...' (only ONE p in apart :p ), but I feel I have to add that the issue I had in mind could be anything. Like textures going AWOL after Loman-ing in some skins for 1.02, MiG-29A_campaign.cmp apparently freezing up when starting the third mission, mig-29_last_chance.cmp putting you in the middle of the parking lot, and me without half a clue as to how to get the damn thing rolling... (R-ing TFM right now.) And then, of course, there's that matter with the self-shading gone missing too, but that should be ATI's fault. Damn the large corporations, etc. All in all, minor issues indeed.

MWAHAHAHAA! I have no finals! ... Well... Then again, I'm going to a school about 3-4 hours' drive away... Not that I have a drivers' license or the time/will to spend on driving between the two places all the time or anything. Oh well, all hell on one and all, eh? Still, NO FINALS! :icon_madu

If I'm any judge, this sounds like some zBuffer-issue. Or the runway/terrain aren't quite in the same reality in the LOD you have at that distance. Either way, having good graphics card-drivers seems like the best available remedy.

Hm, yes... Damn ATI... First they knock out whatever made the Freespace 2 Open-team's shinemapping go, and now, apparently, LOMAC's self-shading... *Sigh* You nVidia-boys/gals are still having self-shading, right?

Just to make sure, I DID mean the time elapsed from Are you sure you want to exit to Windows? >Yes< to the return to desktop. Quit mission to debrief is quite speedy. Well, in comparison to ending the game, that is. Almost quicker than Falcon 4, even. Anyway, putting the Scenery-setting to low has given me a miraculous FPS-boost, so now I'm just wishing for lighter AI-processing.

Nope, that didn't work. Anyone? Even suggestions to reinstall are accepted. ... *Tumbleweed bounces past*

In-mission performance aside (I manage with 20-40 no problem, and I'm proficient in making LO run slower), it takes me 1-3 minutes to shut down Lock-On. Um, I don't always have the time for that... I think it took a full 5 minutes once (scratch that - clocked a full 8 minutes and then some). That's... a LOT of time to unload some software. Any sign of that being looked over? (No, I wasn't running a thorough virus-scan at Highest priority in the background.)

I recently got this urge to go nuts with some eye-candy in LOMAC (not that my system can even try to run that at over 20 FPS, but that's another story), which means: Full shadows, self-shading goodness. Or so I thought... No self-shading. It's worked before! :confused: A recent breakthrough in my FPS-hunt: Scenery to Low gives me the mother of all FPS-boosts. Really. System (I expect this is all the relevant info, otherwise, just say so): Intel P4 2 GHz 512 Mb RDRAM Radeon 9700 Pro 128 Mb Catalyst 5.3 LOMAC 1.02 DirectX 9.0c Mods active through Loman 2.1 (updated 2/4): Realistic Moon Mod A-10 Zimsters Snow Dark camo for SU-25 F-15 Japan MiG-29C #8 9th FW BELBEK AB 2048x2048 MikeF-15I OTIS ANG F15 skin SU27 Black Knights Su-33 Yellow Squadron (oh, hush, I just had to) A-10A: When HOGs Fly Campaign EU FLASHPOINT v1.00 PART ONE EU FLASHPOINT v1.00 PART TWO Mig-29S Two Day War pilot_high_g_breathing_and_bitching_betty_for us_(it exceeds maximum table-cell width here) pilot_high_g_breathing_and_nagging_nadia_for_ru(exceeding width again) zzzspace v8.0 soundpack for LOCK ON 1.02 Cloud MOD v1.0 Sun&Ambient Light Color Adjustement High Res HUD Fonts (US/UK) Missile textures A-10 HighRes Desert Skin Chinese airforce skin EJ Mi-24 Hind GDR earth tone camo - plain skin F14 SkinPack HighRes v.2.0 Part 1 In my Bazar\effects\shad-folder, I have one .dat-file and a slightly different backup. I'm trying the backup now. The only difference appears to be a plus-sign...