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[Hagar]

Dick. I tracked down the effects package you mentioned. One look was enough for me. Some of those files look strangely familiar. As I mentioned before, I no longer trust 3rd party FX tweaks & steer well clear of them. It's just not worth the hassle. IMHO

[DickSmid]

Copy Hagar, thanks!

[A_and_P]

Figured out the problem. You were correct to many aircraft. I opened the aircraft folder and counted a total of 92 aircraft folders. 3 folders contain a total of 18 aircraft. gives me a total of 100 aircraft. I  used Martin Writes Hangar. Creating sub Hangars, German, Japan, USAAC, NAVY, USMC, Bombers, stored the aircraft files into the hangars and this cured the problems.

But I like the Idea of doing multiple instals of CFS_2 Stock, CFS_2 Europe. CFS_2 Modified

There should be a way to re program CFS_2 to overcome the 100 plane limit?

Since you can use as many aircraft in CFS_1 and FS_2000 it should be possible to exceed 100 in CFS_2.

[Hagar]

That "100" plane limit explains most of these problems. I suspect it's a limitation of the MB, not the sim itself. Some people have told me they don't have this problem as they didn't install the MB. If you don't use

[A_and_P]

HAGAR AND DICKSMID

THANKS FOR THE HELP

AFTER GETTING THE AIRPLANE FOLDER REDUCED THIS HELPED A LOT.

HOW EVER AFTER RUNNING CFS_2 I WAS HAVING SOME ERROR PROBLEMS.

I REMEBERED (IT TOOK ME SOME TIME TO FIND THE FILE IN THE GRAY MATTER, AGE THING/LOL)

I HAD REPLACED THE SHIP DP FILES. FORTUNATLEY I HAD SAVED THE ORIGINAL DP FILES.

I DID A COMPARRISON ON THE SHIP DP FILES AND THERE WAS A HUGE DIFFRENCE. SO I DELEATED THE MODIFIED DP FILES AND REPLACED THEM WITH THE STOCK DP FILES. NATURALLY I DELEATED THE CDP FILES AS WELL.

THIS HELPED. I WAS ABLE TO REDUCE THE ERROR PROBLEM DOWN TO ONE.

SO I DECIDED IT HAD TO BE IN THE THIRD PARTY SCENERY FROM WHAT I YOU POSTED.  

I WENT TO CHECKING AND YES I FOUND 2 ELEVEVATED MESH FILES. I DELEATED THEM BOTH. tHIS ALSO HELPED THE FRAME RATES SINCE IT ELIMINATEWD SOME MACROS IN THE ELEVATYED MESH. I THINK THIS IS WHAT IT DID. I PICKED UP ABOUT 2 TO 5 FRAMES PER SECOND.

SHUT DOWN THE CFS_2 AND THEN BOOTED UP CFS_2.

THE SCENERY LIBRARY REWROTE THE SCENERY LIBRARY FILE (I DELEATED IT AS SUGGESTED).

THIS RESOLVED THE ERROR MESSAGE PROBLEMS.

WINDOWS XP_PRO

I HAVE (NOT INSTALLED WINDOWS XP)

I COULD DO A DUALL BOOT

IN WINDOWS XP_PRO YOU CAN HAVE MULTIPLE LOG INS. I HAVE ONE

I HAVE THREE 80 GIG HARD DRIVES C: HAS THE OPERATING SYSTEM ON IT. THE OTHER 2 HARD DRIVES G: FOR C:DRIVE BACK UP H: FULL SYSTEM RESTORE (ALL FILES AND FOLDERS)

I WANT TO HAVE MULTIPLE CFS_2 GAMES ON THE C:DRIVE,

CFS_2 (STOCK GAME FOR TESTING SCENERY MISSIONS ETC  

CFS_2 EUROPE

CFS_2 PACIFIC

IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT YOU CREATE PARTITIONS ON THE C:DRIVE.

I WOULD PREFER NOT TO SINCE I ALREADY HAVE G AND H DRIVES. PATITIONS WOULD GIVE ME J AND K DRIVES (TALK ABOUT GETTING LOST AND OVER WORKING THE GRAY MATTER. I HAVE A HARD ENOUGH TIME KEEPING ALL THE DRIVES AND FILES STRAIT AS IT IS).

I STARTED TO INSTALL A SECOND COPY OF CFS_2 ON THE c:DRIVE

FIRST SCREEN IS UNINSTALL OR REINSTALL THE PROGRAM.

I STOPPED SINCE I DO NOT WANT TO OVER WRITE THE EXISTING CFS_2

IF I SELECT REINSTALL WILL I GET A SECOND WINDOW SO I CAN RENAME CFS_2 AND THE LOCATION?

EXISTING LOCATION.

C:/PROGRAMS/MICROSOFT GAMES/

CFS_1     CFS_2  CFS_3    FS_98     FS_2000

I WANT TO ADD THIS

C:/PROGRAMS/MICROSOFT GAMES/

CFS_2 PACIFIC CFS_2 EUROPE  CFS_2 TEST (STOCK)

THIS WILL GIVE ME 3 VERSIONS OF CFS_2

IF I CREATE A NEW USER ACCOUNT OR CREATE A PARTITION AND DO A DUAL BOOT THIS PUTS THE COMPUTER TO A STOCK CONFIGURATION ON THIS ACCOUNT OR SECOND BOOT.  I WOULD HAVE TO INSTALL DRIVERS, PROGRAMS ETC. THIS IS LIKE HAVING A DIFFRENT COMPUTER.

WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST I DO TO HAVE MULTIPLE GAMES OF CFS_2

THEN I WILL DO THE SAME FOR

CFS_1 EUROPE     CFS_1 PACIFIC    CFS_1 TEST


CFS_3 EUROPE     CFS_3 PACIFIC    CFS_3 TEST


FS_2000 MOD        FS_2000 TEST


MICROSOFT TRAIN SIMULATOR STOCK

MICROSOFT TRAIN SIMULATOR  TEST

THIS COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.

WINDOWS XP
C: CFS_1

WINDOWS XP_PRO
G: CFS_2

WINDOWS XP
H:FS_2000 FS2004

WINDOWS XP
I: MISC

IM TO OLD AND SHORT ON GRAY MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU RUN OUT OF ALPHBET FOR HARD DRIVES LOL???

I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE STARTED A NEW FORUM?


THANKS AGAIN FOR THE HELP.

[Hagar]

I STARTED TO INSTALL A SECOND COPY OF CFS_2 ON THE cRIVE

FIRST SCREEN IS UNINSTALL OR REINSTALL THE PROGRAM.

I STOPPED SINCE I DO NOT WANT TO OVER WRITE THE EXISTING CFS_2

IF I SELECT REINSTALL WILL I GET A SECOND WINDOW SO I CAN RENAME CFS_2 AND THE LOCATION?

EXISTING LOCATION.

C:/PROGRAMS/MICROSOFT GAMES/

CFS_1     CFS_2  CFS_3    FS_98     FS_2000

I WANT TO ADD THIS

C:/PROGRAMS/MICROSOFT GAMES/

CFS_2 PACIFIC CFS_2 EUROPE  CFS_2 TEST (STOCK)

THIS WILL GIVE ME 3 VERSIONS OF CFS_2

A_and_P. You do not need to partition your drive, To do a duplicate install, simply rename the existing Combat Flight Simulator 2 root folder to any other name. I suggest CFS_2 PACIFIC. Then insert the CD & install in the usual way. You can repeat this as many times as you wish, to any location. The latest install (named Combat Flight Simulator 2) will be your master version to use with the MB or playing online. This will be the version run from the Start menu & desktop shortcut. To run the duplicate versions, create shortcuts for CFS2.exe in their root folders, rename them appropriately & paste them to your desktop.