Hey mate, CFS3? Well if I can get the MP working, I'll fly, but I just cant get it too work online..... I run usually Firepower, hence, it says something like not same version etc......... Cheers, Gunny (Any help would be great)

Well,

let me  start  with    the  aircraft mismatch  from  those  different  games...  I  dont know  if  the  CFS3 swap utility  is  still  available,   havent  seen  it,  but  really  havent  looked  hard  either,   but  it  resolves  that  mismatch  issue  fast  and easy.
I  have  every AVHistory  a/c  in  my  swap folder,  and  find  them   fun to  use,   but   for  stock  games,  and  alot of  the  missions  I  fly,  had  them , listed as  user a/c's ,  so I  edited  those missions  to use  stock ,  to give more  to my fun ,  as well as  other  who flew  with me.
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as  to the  sound,  it  doesnt  really  improve  FPS,  it  "smooth's" out   some  stuttering.  I  still see  alot  there  that  dont have  a clue, ...  and  it's  almost  comical  as  much  as  annoying,  that  those  that  do that ,  are  also  "usually"  the  rudest ,  when  you  mention  it.
They are  the ones   that  are  so impatient,  when  I  do  my  "soapbox" in the  pre-launch,  about  getting  HERE ,  to  get the  facts  and  help  for  the issues  they  share  with those of us,  who have  smooth running  games,  and systems.

I uploaded , an HTML zip file  on one part  of these  things, I mention here,  and  will complete  the  others  soon  for  the  same  reason, lets have  fun with it all.
I  also  fly  IL2 merged,  and  find  theres  alot  of  Big heads, there ,  that  think  CFS3  is  the pits,   I totally  disagree ,  with that.
I find  they  both  have  pluses,  and   hope  to get  more  help  out to those  that want  CFS3  to fly  right,  to have it that way.

In  your  ingame  sound  settings,   roll ,  all the  sliders  back  to  30 or  less.  Effects  are  the  biggest  hit...  mines  @  20.   then  if  it isnt  loud  enough,   turn up the pc's  volume,  to  get the  sound  again.
the end result  will  be  less stutter  from  them  who  dont  care  to  find  this out,  and  smoother  play  for those  that  do employ  it.
another  point  is  your  connection  settings  in Multiplayer options.....  be certain  your location  as well as  type  is  set  right...  this  enhances  the games performance also. (  you can cheat  it a bit,  if  your  system  runs  good ,  by  upping  the  type, but  that  doesnt  always  help )

Looks like the No-CD does it........ hmmmm oh well, no CFS3 for me online, sucks! Cheers, Gunny

My CFS3 did a similar garbled bunch like those ,  and  I dont have  the lastest  or greatest,

I know how much you love the add ons  you have,  but  guess what ...      mind  you ,  if you have  the hard drive space,  or a dvd burner,  "copy the installed  game folder" in the  C:prog/MSgames/"CFS3" to  another location.
then  go to add and remove,  and uninstall  it.
then  go remove any and all remnants,   and  I mean  all remnants,   to  and  including  the    CFS3 related , in C:Windows/Prefetch ,   and  do a  registry search  ,  and  eliminate  those entries as well.
Reboot,   and  re-install the  stock  game,   use  the 3.1 updater,  and  then  the  no-cd ,    reconfig,  to  basic's.
fly it once  or  twice,  then  "copy" the  saved  game files ,  back into it.
I went  thru  the  corrupted  graphice  before,   a  few  times  more  than I want to admit,   but   run a  stock  game,  fresh  clean install.....***before copying  the  saved  files  back,  to ensure  its  clear.***
I  do my game  this way ,  and  the  dvd I have  the folder  archived  on  has  everything , I had  installed,  inplace...   scenery / a/c's / ships / missions....  the  works,   and   a  simple  FRESH  N TEST ,  saves my  arse .
went  thru  that same thing  when I did  my  OFF install,  it  gave me a time  of it,   ..  what  I  just explained ,  worked, straight  up.

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Why not just revert to using the CD then? i.e. replace the cracked .exe with the correct one from the CD , or, do a re-install of CFS3 ???

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The corruption occurred with a re-install of CFS3. I configured the set-up to get 1024x768 and 2x aa. I unticked dual pass render and ticked high resolution Z buffer as recommended. I don't know what else you mean by "setup properly", but would like to know.
I then added the patches and re-configured after that

It's always done this graphic break-up. One night I messed around with all the config settings and the settings on the Nvidia 6800 GT, and sooner or later, in whatever setup I was flying, the graphics would suddenly go corrupted.

Last night, I bombed the sub-pens at Nazaire. Everything was fine until I turned left off target and suddenly the sky turned into two large white squares with a line between. I jumped to an outside view, finished the turn, and when I got back in the cockpit the corruption had gone.

I did one more mission afterwards, where just after the bomb run, the little blue line on the circular TAC screen that shows your route, suddenly extended itself to the top left hand corner of the screen and jiggled about. I switched of the TAC, and kept checking it, but the fault wouldn't go until I was back over the channel.

The effects are just random, but excessively annoying.

Monitor is a Prolite E380S, running at 60hz, 1024x768, highest colour setting (32 is it?)
The card is 6800 GT PCI, by the way, not 6600
I set AA at 2 in CFS3 Config, whereas in the Nvidia settings it's set at "application controlled".

Tonight, over France in a snow storm, I took the flight down into the clouds to avoid the Luftwaffe. Suddenly I got black flashing graphic patches. I snapped to different views to avoid it, and just as I dropped out of the clouds into the snowstorm, the flashing stopped. I also briefly had the extended blue line from the TAC screen. I switched off the TAC for30 seconds, and when I switched it back on, everything was fine.

I got the sub-pens, by the way