Fix for the "100 Plane Limit"

[james007]

Sorry Hagar I do not agree with you this time as well. One of the things that I like about CFS2 is that there are many ways of trying different methods to get to the same result.

Some thing tells me that you did not even tried it to see if it works.

Well I have for a long time and it does work. Iam not saying your method does not works as well. But there are other methods. Its up to you and whats the best method you rather use.

Multiple installs may take a lot of hard drive space. It up to and your needs. If you do not have the Hard drive space you might use the Ac Man utility instead.

Hagar your a swell of a guy. Your have helped a lot of people including my self. Thank you

James007

[Hagar]

Sorry Hagar I do not agree with you this time as well. One of the things that I like about CFS2 is that there are many ways of trying different methods to get to the same result.

Some thing tells me that you did not even tried it to see if it works.

Well I have for a long and it does work. Iam not saying your method does not works as well. But there are other methods. Its up to you and whats the best method you rather use.

Don't get me wrong James. I'm all for trying new things. I've not tried Cfo_Weather in CFS2 but I'm told it's very good like all Bill Potvin's utilities. I don't know what difference that would make to the aircraft limit. I would have thought that Bill would have mentioned it in his instructions if it fixed that problem. http://www.cfsops.com/Modules/cfo_weather/Cfo_Weather_75.htm
Ignoring error messages does not make the error go away. I do know how many people have been mailing me since soon after CFS2 was released about problems caused by having too many aircraft installed. A lot of people far more knowledgeable than me have done their best to find a way round this problem. There are several ingenious methods but every one involves having less aircraft installed. This makes the whole thing less complicated & is what I would recommend. Having too many addons installed to CFS2 is bound to cause problems sooner or later.

[Bogus598]

For me (300 planes) it works like this: Error message appears before free flight, I click it away, nothing happens. THEN click on "fly" again, and NO error message! It took me two reinstalls before I found this out. Never had trouble with weapons, no matter what aircraft. I still think that it may have something to do with the OS. It's M$ after all..

[Hagar]

If it works for you then by all means use it. I'm simply pointing out the methods I recommend & which the majority of people have found the best. This is the reason I've had very few problems with CFS2 since it was first released. I don't see how the OS could affect this in any way. I'm sure the limit is caused by the Mission Builder, not the sim itself. Even if the aircraft are not affected in Free Flight & QC the Mission Builder will be unsusable once those error messages appear.

I can't imagine why anyone would want anywhere near 300 aircraft installed to CFS2 or any other M$ sim. You can't possibly use them all so removing the ones you don't need makes sense to me. Use MW's AcMan to organise them into different theatres if you wish but get rid of them. Even if those error messages mean nothing, as you seem to think, the fact they appear at all is an unnecessary annoyance. The more addons you have installed the more difficult it is to troubleshoot if anything does go wrong. I rest my case.

[blackbird686]

I agree Hagar, And not only is trouble shooting a problem with all those planes but if you are getting that annoying little message before you fly, going into campaigns or the mission builder will often lead to a crash to desktop. Hence forget flying in anything but free flight or quick combat. Sort of defeats the whole purpose of the sim.
Having less than 100 planes in the A/C folder resolves the issue all together.

"click** All Together Now"

cheers~
the Blackbird

[james007]

Blackbird686 I agree with and disagree with at the same time. I my self do not like to have more that 100 planes in one Hangar at the same time.

What I use is the ACman utility that allows you to use up to 18 different Hangars. This utility enables you to  use more than one thousand planes in the program.

I have more than 200 planes one of the my other installs and have not had any ill effect to the program with exception that my MB did not work.

I was able to fix that with Cfo weather utility. Do I recommend it, no!
Can it be done, Yes!

Some times the best discoveries are done by trail and errors.

Some times you think you know a lot and in reality you know way to little.

Some times you to know very little and find you later you knew more than what you thought.

Thanks to all

You are all great

P.S. Having to many planes in one Hangar will effect your MB and that will effect whats to me the most feature of this game.

James007

[Woodlouse2002]

Some times you think you know a lot and in reality you know way to little.

I find that quite a lot.