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Win7 and Motor Boats

gosd

gosd

Charter Member
Recently afther installing Win 7,I tried runnig some of the MB missions; I cant get them to start the moment I hit the fly button the ship sinks nose first.
Can this be corrected or is there a incompability with Win7 ?
 
It's not just Win 7 either, it's Vista too. Since I shifted from XP, I get exactly the same effect. I raised this ages ago and no-one could come up with a solution. Now if I remember right one or two Vista folk said they had no problem, but that didn't help me. I can't understand why it's only the MTB's/S-Boots that are affected as they are only modified aircraft models. The drivable U-boat works (ish) and I think all the drivable vehicles are unaffected.

I'm quite gutted as I'd started working on a ETO mission pack (I'd done two missions in XP) but have had to abandon all MTB projects.
 
I think I have found the solution by replacing the propeller portion of the aircraft.cfg with the following lines using note pad.

[propeller]
propeller_type=0
propeller_diameter=6.666667
propeller_blades=3
propeller_moi=7.777778
beta_max=34.000000
beta_min=15.000000
min_gov_rpm=1400.000000
prop_tc=0.100000
gear_reduction_ratio=1.000000
fixed_pitch_beta=20.000000
low_speed_theory_limit=8.000000
prop_sync_available=0
prop_deice_available=0
prop_feathering_available=0
prop_auto_feathering_available=0
min_rpm_for_feather=0.000000
beta_feather=0.000000
power_absorbed_cf=0.000000
defeathering_accumulators_available=0
prop_reverse_available=0
minimum_on_ground_beta=0.000000
minimum_reverse_beta=0.000000
rotation= -1,1 //Engine 1,2,3,... Rotation direction. 1 = CW, -1 = CCW
:jump:
 
Gosd. That was the answer! I replaced the [propeller] section of the GC_Brit_VosperMTB CFG file with yours. NO more nosedives!

I will try it with the other MTBs that are affected.

" Well Done!" :salute:
 
Gosd. I corrected the S_38 CFG file with the new [propeller] section and the boat doesnot nosedive.

All of Beau's MTB Missions in MAW run smoothly. Thanks to you, I am sure Beau and others will appreciate your work in correcting this mystery.

:jump::jump::jump:
 
Nice one Mate Beau will be over the moon with this news. its great when someone comes along and solves a problem like that as the MTB has become a large part of the theatres now.

Dave
 
Great looking forward to these:jump:
-I have added the abandon_ship effects by ndicki to most of the ships I had in my folder,it ads to the experience of blowing them out of the wather!!
-Wondering on the necessesity of using numlock for the mb missions,what does it do exactly?
 
Wonderful This is GREAT!!!
Bravo to Gosd and Beau on this..
:salute: :salute: :salute:
Thanks Guys, I am really looking forward to this..:jump:
 
gosd said:
-I have added the abandon_ship effects by ndicki to most of the ships I had in my folder,it ads to the experience of blowing them out of the wather!!
Click to expand...

I'm not aware of this Gosd, what does it do? I can't remember off the top of my head about the num lock either.
 
The scroll lock is used to allow a smooth visual pan with the hat switch on your joystick instead of the fixed 8 point rotation.
 
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