Simviation Forum - 100 Aircraft Limit...any work-arounds?

Sep 6^th, 2004 at 3:28pm

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Okay, I have finally finished downloading every possible free-ware CFS2 aircraft that I could find. But now I have to store most of them in a "hanger" file. I WANT TO HAVE ACCESS TO THEM ALL. Any help out there?

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Reply #1 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 3:55pm

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The best way I've found is a duplicate install of CFS2. Rename the root directory folder to any other name. Then insert the CD & install in the usual way. You can have several installs if you wish. CFS2 Pacific, CFS2 Europe, CFS2 Korea etc. etc. They will all run independently.

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Reply #2 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 4:00pm

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I was afraid that was answer I would get. I was hoping for something like a hex-editor routine, but c'est la sim. Thanks for the input.

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Reply #3 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 4:45pm

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CFS2 is the only M$ sim I know of that has an aircraft limit. I suspect this is caused by the integral MB. This is only a theory but if you can find some way of installing it without the MB it might fix the problem.

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Reply #4 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 5:06pm

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Didn't somebody create a utility to swap the Aircraft in and out of the Aircraft folder, sort of like a Virtual Hanger?

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Reply #5 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 5:50pm

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There are various Hangar Manager utilities. MW's AcMan is one of the best. This would still involve moving aircraft in & out of the Aircraft folder. You can do this easily enough manually.

I really don't see the need for all those aircraft anyway. I doubt you will ever use half of them. Wink

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Reply #6 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 6:13pm

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I really don't see the need for all those aircraft anyway. I doubt you will ever use half of them. Wink

I only have about 10 or 15 add-on aircraft in the aircraft folder. I don't see the point installing to the max, like you said, you probably won't use all of them Grin

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Reply #7 - Sep 7^th, 2004 at 8:13am

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As Hagar says, I've got multiple installs of CFS2 Jets Props & Sillys! Grin

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Reply #8 - Sep 9^th, 2004 at 1:44am

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Taggar1967 it is relative easy to install more than 800 -planes in CFS2.. Just read my post on the secound page called How to improve your experiece on CFS2. There I gave a easy explanation an how to use more than 800 airplanes thruogh multiples of Hanagrs. Their is a program on MW that allow you to change Hangars with ease. Just read that post and maybe that will help you. If you have any question please come back I will try to help you. Enjoy
Tip then you can make different Hangars for different Theaters of war. If that is not fun a do not know what fun is through this Hobby.

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Reply #9 - Sep 11^th, 2004 at 6:46pm

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Another way to do it is a thing called Easy Multi-Install (On page 1 of CFS2 Utilities, I believe). It fixes it so you don't need the whole 800mb install for every theater. It uses an MS-DOS program (actually there are six, each for a different theater) to swap the files for each theater. (You'll have to d/l it and see for your self. Its hard to describe) The only problem is that the instructions are written in poor english so it may be hard to understand. (Took me a week to figure it out, lol)

Will

PS: I wish there was a way to just hex-edit something to fix the a/c limit too.

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Reply #10 - Sep 11^th, 2004 at 8:23pm