CFS3 Firepower Not playing ball...

[4_Series_Scania]

I have recently been given a copy of Firepower for CFS3 by a friend who's "Lost interest" (!)

On installing, & updating to version 1.08, some things work, e.g. I have B17 Missions & Lancaster Missions to carry out, Nukes also have appaered in my choice of weapons  8-)

Alas, none of the 4 engines heavies seem to appear in my aircraft list.

All are in my Aircraft folder ??

Anybody discovered this problem before?

Had a browse & Shockwaves forums, but, nothing helpful there.

Any advice appreciated - I wanna fly a Lanc!

[4_Series_Scania]

Update.

After a good long trawl through the Firepower / Shockwave Forums, it seems my using the dreaded no-CD patch could be the issue.

Fair enough, I've un-installed (again!), re-installed a clean, updated CFS3 install (fully manually deleted the old CFS3 folder & cleaned the registry)

And, guess what?

Yup! - I still get no heavies on my Aircraft list!

:'(

Looks like my CFS3 revival is going to be very short lived.

What really annoys me is if I download a Freeware B17 4 engine plane that I've found, it works fine!  >:(

[4_Series_Scania]

Update #2.

Now, it seems to work, what I did to fix it, I don't know. :-?

Nothing different from this attempted install to the past 15 or so over the past few hours!!!  >:(

If nothing else, a lesson in if at first , you don't succeed, try try try again!  :-[


Stunning add on for CFS3, only wish I'd got this years ago when it first came out.

[4_Series_Scania]

The above was short lived, it stopped working again! - Well, CFS3 ran fine, but no heavies again!  :-/

I finally tried right clicking the .exe file to see if it would run it in compatibility mode for windows 98,sure enough - the game ran fine with all new aircraft in!!!  

Strangely enough, after that, even when i didn't run it in compatibility mode, it all worked fine.  :-?

Flying the jets and B17s + 24s on full simulation is great fun with a force feedback stick!  8-)

Glad I've sorted it out, I hope these posts save others the hours of head scratching I've done over this one!  :-[