JeffMc

I would do the same, but I have never seen a boxed copy in any store here in the States.

Interesting idea. But sadly, it didn't work. I might be on the way to a break-through though as I was able to get it to work when I put the realism settings to "Game" mode. But game mode is so boring :noexpression:

Yes, the Georgian Oil War and all single/multi missions load up nicely. DirectX 9.0C, brought up-to-date through Windows I believe. Missions that load properly only take about a minute. I tried loading the campaign and left it there for a full hour and nothing happened, it still gets stuck on the first loading screen (it does not drop to the desktop at all). The cache size doesn't seem like that big of a bottleneck to me. Even in very CPU demanding games like FSX I get around 40FPS with settings nearly maxed out. Some things I've tried so far: de-fragging the hard drive, cleaning my registry, and reinstalling DCS. No luck. :(

AMD Athlon X2 5600 2.9Ghz nVidia Geforce 9400GT 512Mb 4Gb 800Mhz RAM Windows XP SP3 I am using the most recent drivers from nVidia (182.50). I don't think my specs could be a problem, everything else in the game works perfectly except that campaign.

When I try to load the first mission in the "Deployment" campaign, the game just freezes at the loading screen with the black shark in front of the blue strip. The music keeps playing and I can move the mouse, though, and task manager does not list it as "not responding" and I can easily close it from there. It successfully loaded once, which was when I tried it the first time I loaded the game. Any help would be greatly appreciated.