Just a reminder that there are 156 pages (yes, one hundred and fifty-six pages) of CFS2 aircraft downloads here at SimV.   

AND, many, many of those pages contain quality WWI downloads by a variety of designers. 

where can this be found

http://www.combatsim.com/memb123/htm/2001/08/combataces/#resources

any one know?

sad to say but these planes don't work either. well the wwI ones that is.

same issue as before Hagar
i belive im running it at 1024x768 its the same setup i have for my other CFS2 with my Korean war planes.

its a computer issue. it has to be cuz my little sony vaio would run all of the planes out there. so i'm at a loss. without getting microsoft involved i think i'm out of luck on this computer.

The link is not dead. I just downloaded it.

alright you ready for this one.

i flew the aerocrates missions last night.

two for the planes that i couldn't fly becuz of the CTD in freeflight worked in the mission. the game ran like normal. so whats the issue with the viewer in the freeflight selection screen. i can see them as AIs in game but not in freeflight. i'm going to add one to my other copy of CFS2 and see if it works in that. maybe i'm getting a bad install. very very strange.

its the third party aircraft not the aerocrates.
the roland cII and the RE8.

oh same results in my other copy. so the install are possibly the same.

how does the player aircraft get viewed prior to flying them. is it a dll that does it.

i wonder if it happens in mission builder. i havent tried that yet.

well i can use them in the campaigns and missions atleast. aslong as i dont have to view them before i fly. so thats a positive. i'll check mission builder. i expect the same results but who knows.

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I think you're jumping to the wrong conclusions. I downloaded the 3rd party aircraft from the Aerocrate site to check them out. These aircraft are intended as AI Only. If you select them as Player aircraft in the missions you would probably have the same CTD as in Free Flight.

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I have no knowledge of the inner workings of CFS2. It's not the preview window that's causing your problem but something to do with the aircraft. If you've tried aliasing the panel & sound to aircraft that work OK there's only the MDL & textures left. I strongly suspect the MDL file as even the most basic onboard graphics card should be able to cope with 8-bit textures.

PS. I tried the Bristol Scout C from the Aerocrate package in Free Flight. It's a nice model & flies fine but soon after taking off I experienced the first CTD I've had in CFS2 for a very long time. Very odd indeed.

I just checked those 3rd party aircraft. All are different in some way.
The Bristol Scout is a Gmax model with  512 x 512 main textures in DXT1 Extended BMP format.
The Roland CII is an FSDS1 model with 1024 x 1024  8-bit standard BMP main textures.
The RE8 is the Alphasim CFS2 version. AF99 model with 256 x 256 8-bit textures in RAW format (basically an FS98 model).
The Roland & RE8 would have been animated with Aircraft Animator.

I'm on WinXP SP3  as I suspect you are. DirectX 9.0c is the correct version for this OS.

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I don't like mysteries but I'm just about out of ideas on this one.

Polar_Lion wrote on May 17^th, 2011 at 1:03am:

From what I can make out this applies to all the aircraft that don't work on your CFS2. For example; Alphasim freeware (Combat Aces) & PJ Walker WWI models.

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You could take your pick from almost every file (except defaults) posted in the FS2000 sections. You would need to re-alias panel and/or sound for them to work in CFS2. These are all early models created with either AF99 or FSDS1 before FSDS2 was released. I can't figure out why they would cause problems.

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The compatibility of the graphics card depends on the drivers. Not sure if you can update the drivers on your integrated card.

PS. You could try this. It's a very basic unanimated AF99 model. http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=BlackRoger.zip&categoryId=&file...