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Help! I can't get my cfs2 to find my swordfish weps

Don,
It certainly worked for me. I should have thought of that myself in the first place. I never thought to clear out the whole thing. I had a few auto install planes that gave me a little problem (Ohka, Me-262) they installed in the aircraft folder without their own subfolder. Confused the heck outta me.
Well, now that I have that little problem solved, I've got this little problem with the ailerons not wanting to work all the time. Not a joystick problem because it happens using the keypad too. I'm thinking game card getting too hot. Ever hear of this?

Thanks.
John
 
Auto Installers, Dummy Folders & Ailerons

For captfish & anyone else who doesn't know how to do this.

I don't trust the auto installers, I put everything in manually ... but how do you get the plane out of that danged .exe? :confused:

Easy; First rename your main CFS2 folder (stick a 1 or an "a" at the end )
Then make a new "Combat Flight Simulator 2" folder in the Microsoft Games folder.
Then run the auto installer. This will put the new plane into the new CFS2 folder.

Your new plane & all needed files will be in this new "dummy folder" all nicely organized into the proper folders. Now install them into the corresponding folders in CFS2

Once the dummy folder is empty, delete it & remove the 1 or a from the original CFS2 folder.

You are now done .... have a beer or 12 View attachment 7174

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Yo captfish;

Win98SE??? What can I say? :icon_eek: ... View attachment 7175

Only kidding Bro ... there's nuthin' wrong with it ... works fine.


Re: ailerons
I ran CFS2 on a DELL P3 866 Desktop up until about a year ago. Only had a 32MB GPU (no space for a vid card) It ran OK but the image quality sliders were all at the lowest setting or else it was: "slideshow city". But I really don't think the card is the problem in your case.

A while back one of the guys here had a similar problem. (don't remember who) If I recall correctly (after a week or two of poking around with no luck at all) He found there was some simple joystick setting in CFS2 that was incorrect & once discovered solved the problem, quick, fast & in a hurry.

Sorry but I just can't seem remember the specifics. Perhaps he'll read this tread & enlighten us? Maybe this info will help steer you in the right direction.

Best of luck Bro .... keep us posted on your progress.

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Thanks Dirtman.
Yeah, Win98. I'm still disgruntled at Microshaft for hosing everyone who had the WCS. I'd be curious to see if anyone experienced this and what everyone else uses. CFS2 runs great on win98 I have a pentium 3 dell, the 64mb card is good enough for cfs2. We have CFS3 I got in 2001 or so and never got to play it until a couple months ago. We don't like it. CFS2 definitely rules. You seem to be able to do so much more with it.

Yes, I've learned how to get around the autodebacle.exe problem. I throw everything into the temp file and sort it from there.
That was probably the reason I had this problem. something put into the wrong file caused that. Well, another lesson learned!

This aileron thing is wierd. I was about to get a mini fan and put it on the game card. I recall thrustmaster had this card that "Overcame Heat Drift"
caused by the card getting hot. I can't remember that thing exactly. It was years ago when I first started playing CFS2. This thing has been on the shelf for years. Now my son is old enough and interested, it put the spark back in me to not only play, but add on planes, missions, etc. So it's something new I'm learning.
OK, I'm rambling. thanks for the info. I'll "tweak" around with it and see if I can get it fixed. It's hard enough to take on 3 Zekes in a wildcat alone, but with no ailerons, it's suicide!

Thanks again,
John:icon_lol:
 
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