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CFS2 opening movie refuses to go away

TARPSBird

TARPSBird

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It's been over 20 years since I've had to ask this question, but after installing CFS2 in Windows 10 last week here I am.
How the heck do you suppress the opening movie that plays before the CFS2 splash screen appears? I've tried changing the values for ShowMovie and ShowLogo in the cfs2.cfg file, that didn't work. I tried removing opening.mpg from the CFS2 main folder, that didn't work. The sim is playing the movie from somewhere but I can't figure out where. And I no longer have a previous install of CFS2 that I can check to see what I did to stop the movie. Any response is appreciated, and thanks again to the members here who helped me get CFS2 up and running.
 
That's strange,

ShowLogo=0 will turn off the opening.mpg

If you remove the opening.mpg cfs2 will rewrite the .cfg to read ShowLogo=0 even if it was set to ShowLogo=1 before starting the program.

How many installs do you have of cfs2? Maybe the desktop icon is pointing to a different install location.

Cheers
Aussie
 
There are 2 ways to do this:
1) open the CFS2.cfg; look at the top:
[LANGUAGE]
DLL=english.fll
[MAIN]
ShowLogo=1
ShowMovie=1
change to:
[LANGUAGE]
DLL=english.fll
[MAIN]
ShowLogo=0
ShowMovie=0
2) or simply delete the movie from the main CFS2 folder - saves 20MB
Your choice.

If it is still playing it has to be as Aussie says and you have a separate install or partial install somewhere that is linked (alliased)
 
Aussie and CK, thanks for the suggestions. I found where the opening.mpg was playing from: the disk 1/2 install files I downloaded as .iso files and still had on my desktop. Only problem is, in my install the movie seems to be linked to the sim booting up. If I delete the movie and the sim doesn't find it elsewhere, the first screen after the splash screen opens with no text (Free Flight, Quick Combat, etc.) and if I click an empty box it crashes. The ShowMovie/ShowLogo entries in the .cfg file don't prevent this - if no movie, sim crashes. I'm out of ideas so I'll just mouse-click through the damn movie and be happy that my CFS2 is working. :rolleyes:
 
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