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Modifying a dp file

Before all happy new year!

I am slowly daring to use DPed to play around some dp's for some planes, like changing gun sounds or allegiance but when I do that if the plane has some payloads (bombs, rockets) they don't appear on their racks anymore (bombs drop from the inside of the plane and rockets fire through the propeller). I don't change anything else in the dp so I don't understand why it messes things up. Am I doing something wrong while editing the dp?

Sorry if it's a dumb or already answered topic.
 
Ludo said:
Before all happy new year!

I am slowly daring to use DPed to play around some dp's for some planes, like changing gun sounds or allegiance but when I do that if the plane has some payloads (bombs, rockets) they don't appear on their racks anymore (bombs drop from the inside of the plane and rockets fire through the propeller). I don't change anything else in the dp so I don't understand why it messes things up. Am I doing something wrong while editing the dp?

Sorry if it's a dumb or already answered topic.
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Sounds to me like you and DPed aren’t understanding each other much. The changes your making doesn’t require a sophisticated software package just notepad and it’s faster. You just need a little basic knowledge on reading the dp files. You really only need Dpend if your tackling bigger projects but from what I’m seeing it’s better for you to start from the beginning and making simple edits with notepad. One step at a time easy does it.
 
wolfi said:
I had the same problem around two years ago, I have a display 3440x1440 but cfs2 can't use the full size without trouble, I suggest making a backup of your "cfs2.CFG" file than hand-edit the cfs2.cfg, after doing that, never ever open the quality settings in cfs2 because cfs2 falls back to "16bit"



open the cfs2.CFG with editor, than serch for Display

my settings are


CFS2.CFG

[DISPLAY]
Device=NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Mode=1920x1200x32
Dither=0
AntiAlias=1


For FSDS2 User: If you have a new big display (>1920x1080) , you will find out that you always get a DirectX error if you use the full screen.
When working with FSDS2, I set the "Windows" display settings to 2560x1440 and everything works fine.

wolfi
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Once you edit the cog it’s best to make a copy. You can set it to read only to keep changes from happening but if you do that your gonna be starting out in the same airplane and runway you last used before editing the cuff file. You can switch aircraft and runways but when you do it works great but when you exit free flight it goes back to the old airplane and runway not what u last used.
 
Thanks for the replies and for this guide, I will take a look at it :loyal:

I must admit it's kind of intimidating, all those numbers doing differents things and being worried about messing everything up, but yeah, trying things here and there from time to time, to see how it goes. But maybe I should better let this to the pros who know their stuff :playful:
 
I´ve been running CFS2 in Windowed Mode ever since I bought the new widescreen monitor, and it works nicely.

However, today I ran into a new problem:
I was playing around with the TR B-25, and found that the bombsight doesn´t work anymore. That is, when I select it I only get a black background, with the switches and autopilot controls showing normally.
I found that this happens only in Windowed Mode, when using Full Screen I get the view of the scenery through the bombsight.
The plane uses the Mosquito Bombsight, which was included in the download package.

Question: Does anyone know of a method to make this bombsight work in Windowed Mode? Any help would be appreciated.
 
Allen submitted a new resource:

CFS2_Win10_Win11_Install_Tutorial.zip - CFS2_Win10_Win11_Install_Tutorial.zip

This guide should help you make a install of CFS2 on Windows 10/11 (Win 7 and 8 as well). Applying patches/fixes. Making Mission Builder desktop icon and a list of known bugs and oddities that CFS2 has with Win 7, 8 and 10 plus latest info for Win 11. Comes as .htm or .pdf.

Credits:
Aussie for info about the DxWrapper setup.

Allen
8/14/24

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What a relief. I've been try to avoid going to Win 11 for fear that SOH would be history for me. Great to have a guide for a new install. Thanks A.
 
Thanks very much Allen for this latest tutorial. Does it supersede your previous Win 10 tutorial?
Cheers,
Kevin
 
Notes about dgVoodoo2:
General: Right click on any tab of the dgVoodoo2 Control Panel (dgVoodooCpl.exe) than select Show all "section of the configuration". This will add 3 more a tabs. One of note is GeneralExt and the FPS limit. Set to 45 will fix the audio bug with Ships and Vehicles sounds.

In Windowed Mode:
While flying the once the cursor hides it self as you are not moving the mouse it will say hidden until you are able to move the cursor onto a gauge you can interact with. Hitting Alt than clicking on the game screen works. Escape key than NOT ending flight works. Moving the mouse out of the CFS2 screen area works.

Full screen Mode.
Can't use Alt to see the Flight Aircraft .etc options. Need to Alt Enter to windowed mode to do so.
 
Go for it. I lost all my reference archives last year with the new website switcheroo. The GEDM page was a great help with various issues.
 
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