grandkodiak

ah found the screenshot folder.

didnt see the update... got the 9-11 driver set, no change.

looks like ill be doin without then :( thanks for the info though!

i have twin radeon x1900 crossfire cards... (problem exists w and without crossfire actually running) version 8.14.0010.0647 drivers. dxdiag doesnt show anything out of the ordinary, vs dx10 diage vs 6.00.6000.16386. vista ultimate 6.0 64bit, twin core 2 6700 overclocked at 3.2ghz (changing back to default speeds doesnt solve problem), 4094 sys ram, blacksharks installed on the 2 set 250gb sata's in raid 0. no errors found anywhere, all divers acounted for and working etc. i tried a screen shot but blackshark apparently blocks it, all i get is a shot of my desktop background and icons, not the bs program running. the screen has title bar on top, then all white to the bottom, with the center button and encircling buttons surrounding with icons in center, but no labels or picture in background like in multi window.

hmm the mission is in the a10 campaign, think its the 5th? start at night, fly north east more or less to destroy a convoy of trucks protected at the rear by a sam. also some aa guns in a field between 2 lakes thats wide open, and 2? sams in the woods west of the main run protecting a flanking run. the trucks i can lock onto w no problems, and i can clearly see the aa in the field and rear sam truck, but cant lock on to either. no building/terrain/trees are blocking them, i can even dive on them and get within a mile before taking direct fire, but still cant lock despite overly bright image on thermals. dtv mav doesnt lock either, except on the trucks. if i get it dead center before locking, it simply jumps about 50 years in any direction and locks the ground instead instead of the obvious heat source. i could imagine it having trouble with the sams to the east as they are in the woods, and once the trees load they do a decent job of providing cover... but the aa is dead center in a field and the moving sam last in the convoy is clear as day on the road, and you can lock ANY of the trucks, and they are on the same path/terrain/speed! just for kicks ill put on god mode and drop flares to see if i can get a dtv mav lock...?

ps found http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=47622 when this post was moved to this subforum. is there any way around rolling back the drivers? i play plenty of other games that too and i dont want to roll back old drivers just for this game alone.

hmm that helped for the multiplayer screen but still nothing but white background in single player. any other suggestions? (ps yes to ati obviously :) )

that was it! didnt see that option :) thanks!

the main screen with the circle of selection buttons for some reason doesnt display the background image of the heli nor descriptions for the buttons, just the buttons themselves. the graphics otherwise in game engine and/or map all seem to work fine. ive reinstalled and patched but it never shows...?

using the editor, i place my k to take off from runway, but how do i set it so that when i fly the mission, that the heli isnt already runnuing? id like to start my missions completely off and do full manual start up...but i cant figure out how to make this happen! i start on the ground/runway, but everythings already on and running ready to take off.

its near trees but its clear as day on thermal, and under flare on dtv cam, but its unlockable from pretty much every angle, i have to dance with it until its out of ammo then gun it, or attempt to loft a bomb at it after sending in the good ol wingman as a decoy falcon 4 style.

doesnt matter if i am within range of the freakin cannons... just for kicks, ive even suicide rammed into it from the air trying to kill it. its impossible to lock it, im gunna call it an official bug. really freakin annoying.

Ive been playing the night mission in one of the A10 campaigns and Ive found that you can not lock onto a 2s6 tunguska with ir or optical under any circumstances, range, or even under flares. is this a bug? or is this programmed to make the mission storey a certain way. its incredibly annoying.

awesome, thanks all!

Is there a way to rearm in lomac fc during a campaign mission without dying/ejecting? Often during a lengthy battle i'll find myself out of ammo, and i can make it back to base and land, but to get back in the fight the only way i know how is to eject and hit the respawn button. kinda lame landing and ejecting, i like to do things somewhat real lol it just bothers me losing a plane for stupid reasons and i cant find anything in the controls to rearm. thanks!

yea ive seen his page before... some good info in there but i was very dissapointed that alot of the nuance stuff he goes over he jsut says " then i did this then this" but doesnt tell you HOW he did physically in the sim, and then sometimes is like "i used this guage or marker to do this" but doesnt show where the thing is or how to read it heh

i love the indepth detail that falcon gets with the f16, but the learning curve for everything else is huge... its like not the systems and fighting itself, its using the map and shit that there is almost no info on! makes it a real challenge to do. i googled alot of videos on it so far ha... and ill have to agree flankertraining is one of the best websites someone can find to get into lomac fast. ive been playin since the day it came out... but the training videos in flaming cliffs helped me ALOT, and then double that for flankertraining.... if something like that existed for falcon... wow i could have alot of fun real fast! the few google videos out there for falcon are good but they cover reallllly simply stuff like instrument landings and avoiding aaa fire.

ha this is making me want to get into falcon 4 less and less lol... lomac campaigns were fun... these sound like headaches.

how so? really the only thing i dont like about it is the old terrain graphics, but what can you expect from such an old sim :) mission editor could be alittle easier to use, LOMAC has just spoiled me to much i guess haha. that and i keep forgetting that i can loiter around like an a10, i have a bad habbit of running out of fuel taking out sams to have a trouble free run on bombing targets!

ha got it, wasnt on the wpn page completly forgot about it deerrrrrrr.

It's been a long while since I've played F4AF but I'm getting back into it... problem is that the Mavericks are NOT cooperating with me! No matter how many times I press U, the screen never comes up on the MFD for the display! The weapons selected, proper mode, unit is powered on, master arm is good, press U, no picture. It still set how it defaults in the setup controls screen, so I must be doing something wrong. I can even slew the TD box on the hud and lock a target, fire and kill it, but I never get picture so unless im in REAL visual range, I can't aim the damn thing! :'( I miss the simple world of LOMAC learning videos and walk through training missions.

what the hells a blighter ahaha

Seems a small detail but I can't wait for the modeling of the richochet tracer effect applied to the gau8

i never said it was weather radar i was just sayin that for the sake of example... found the technique an interesting concept. anywho, nevermind.

interesting side fact i was just reading that the 1 f117 thats ever been lost to enemy fire was picked up becasue it was flying through dense cloud cover, the water was obviously building up on the skin like a dynamic coating which reflected when a smart radar operater (who was guessing the likely incomming path for the plane from previous attacks) picked up the disturbance of the water like a rain signature (on say a doppler weather scan moving at rediculous speeds for a raining cluster) on a lower then normally used freq band. bad circumstances, smart radar op. i gotta read more this stealth stuff is really quite interesting, wonder if any new sim out there will tackle the f22/b2/f117 in the future? i kinda miss janes USAF!