• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Can't killl cfs 3

Killer Svend

SOH-CM-2024
Wondering whats wrong. I whant to make a clean installation of cfs3 to allow eto and maw extensions , but no matter if I go to contols and say remove program or I go in to the program and doubble click uninstall someting is obviously remaining somewhere because after making a new installation previously downloaded aircrafts are still there and campaign progresses and medals are still there. Whats wrong? I whant a "Virgin" install. An other thing, my pilot is missing he used to walk aroud and left plain after mission accomplised and one could se him hit the ground after bailing out. Shall I by a new set of cd's or what?
Killer Svend
 
CFS3 writes files to two places other than the root install. Campaign info, screen shots, etc go in a cfs3 folder under My Documents. Various xml files controlling the UI and configuration settings and QC choices etc, are written to username/Docs and Settings/App Data/microsoft/etc folder.

You need to delete all this stuff to get a clean reinstallation.

This may be your problem?
cheers,
D
 
can't kill cfs3

Hi Gents
I managed to completely remove The old cfs3 updated it to 3.1 and installed ETO 1.0 things are allmost ok except a campaign I opened, in the middle of the battle it crash to desktop telling me that cfs3 has stopped operation, when flying missions everything is ok, why? Will installation of updates 1.2 or 1.4 perhaps solve the the problem?
Killer Svend:salute:
 
Hi, crashing in ETO is not usually related to a "buggy" install. Updating is probably not the issue. The issue is the need to be careful when starting a campaign that you are in the right era for the campaign. If not, there will be mismatches as there is a separate Global Layer and set of spawns (and missions, uires etc etc) for each era. Care needs to be taken to close out of ETO and start up in the correct era before starting a different campaign (eg. going from 1943 to 1944). If you have fiddled around a bit and possibly not always been in the right era, the files will get corrupted and only a reinstall (or using the backup facility provided) will fix it. Often its quicker, rather than trying to fix something in ETO, to simply go back, start again, and reinstall from the beginning! Then read the somewhat complicated readmes and try to work out what you need to do to avoid corrupting the files. Luck!! D
 
Back
Top