Kamikaze

I finally got around to re-installing LOMAC/FC after upgrading my system to Windows7 64 bit. The install went fine, but the activation was an "issue". StarForce would not run and I could not find solutions most anywhere. SF would only let me generate that long TXT file and tell me contact their support group. I finally found the solution at SimHQ buried in a thread (as desparation was setting in). StarForce drivers need to be updated from their site! http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=83&id=1036 Hope this helps someone and saves them time . . . . NOTE : you will need your product S/N and code (hopefully ya saved yer registry key from last install).

Thanks for the welcome! I suppose its possible that either my Creative Audigy2 or 8800GTX are causing the problem . . but it is definitely tied to Flaming Cliffs. The game ran fine prior to installing that addon. So I'm a bit baffled. And yes . . . the drivers are up to date for both devices <grin>. I cant test (easily) using the MB's onboard soundcard to verify. But then, why would it have run fine with plain LOCKON but then chock with Flaming Cliffs? Curious. Something definitely changes. The advantage to the tool I have referenced is you do not have to change the affinity through the Task Manager manually each time you start the game. After setting it once, the utility remembers it and automatically does it for ya. Much easier. And being freeware . . . its free legally. BONUS! In either case . . this may help somebody. FYI

I recently built a new system and am slowly putting back my favorite games. Today I decided to battle with LockOn/Flaming Cliffs. Lockon would install and run fine. But after I added Flaming Cliffs there were these horrible pauses that started from the loading screen and continued until the sound finally craps out. You can hear "clicks" occuring right before every pause. Very strange. Adding the new patches did not help, nor did moving the game from my RAID drive to a non-RAID drive. The problem (after spending several hours on this) is the game not liking to run on Dual Processors. My system is using a newer CORE2 processor . . . and apparently Lock On does not really like it. When I manually changed the affinity to one CPU (I choose processor 1 rather than 0) it runs fine. All that stuttering goes away. So for part II of this post . . . I found this utility that is FREEWARE and runs with INTEL processors. http://www.geocities.com/edgemeal_software/SetAffinity/index.htm It will run in the task bar and automatically apply the affinity settings of your choice to the program. Very easy to use. All it does is affinity changes . . so its simpler than other solutions like nHancer. FYI