vowthyn

Than I was misinformed by Microsoft itself, as I am software reseller from Poland, and asked about such things many times through Microsoft's infoline always receiving the same answer that downgrade is only allowed for Business and Ultimate. That refers not only to XP downgrade but also to language switching (you are not allowed to do it, unless you have the proper version, that is Ultimate or Business). The only change that licence allows to make regardless of OS version is switching from x32 to x64 and vice versa.

This is true only for Business and Ultimate versions. I suppose, that majority of preinstalled systems, which are bought with brand new computers are Home Premium and Basic versions, and licence for this one does not allow such downgrade. I perfectly agree that this is most unlikely to happen, as OS developers are never forced to optimise new OS for old hardware (because new is always available), even more - they are supposed to force users for buying new hardware. I think, that reverse situation could lead to market stagnation (why would one buy a new hardware, if old one was suitable for new sofware?), and I'm sure MS will not allow such situation to happen.

What about the RAM usage? I suppose, that DCS could heavily benefit from possibility of adressing more than 3,7GB Ram - that's the limitation for 32bit OS and one of the main reasons why one should want Vista x64.

Dissapearing entries in graphics.cfg I have some issue with this skin pack. Whenever I install it (either with modman or manually - it doesn't matter) the game overrites the entry in graphics.cfg file and the path to the files dissapears. Once I managed to load this textures (btw - they're awesome :-) by marking the file "graphics.cfg" "read only" after I put those paths into it, the game started normally and the skins were available, but after I left the game the attribute "read only" had dissapeard and next time I started the game without changing anything in middletime, skins were gone. Does anyone knows what am I doing wrong with this skins?