Gosh, i gave up on this sim and tossed the CD long ago, now wish I didn't,, Its great that is getting renewed attention. or is is sad that companies arent putting out updated versions of these great flight sims.. that we have to shake the bones of these old ones to keep them alive

Just wanted to tell how I got LB2 running on my latest computer with DGvoodoo 1.50b

Installed and patched with 2209e.
Removed page-file (got 2 GB RAM here too).
Used all the same settings as in DGvoodoo 1.4 (except a few of those are missing in 1.5).
Set DGvoodoo to DX7-mode (in DX9 LB2.exe crash on exit).
No need for compatibility-mode or HEAP_PERCENT=0.

Now running LB2 at 1280x1024@32, 16xSAA and 16xAF.

Screenshot (470KB)

Specs are:
C2D E6700
2GB DDR2-667MHz
3x250GB and Adaptec 2420SA (RAID5)
Asus P5B w/onboard AC97 audio (terrible soundcard btw)
XFX GF7950 GX2 (91.47 WHQL)
WinXP Pro SP2

Hi Shadow,

speaking on shadows...

notice that your KIOWA's shadow is the Apache's?
look where the tail planes and pods are.

No, the Kiowa's shadow is outside the picture.

No more jumpy clouds with DGvoodoo 1.50b

Here are my settings. Can you put this into the first post, AV8R?

Guys, not sure if this has been mentioned before but I believe I found a few more back door items.

[Backdoors]
FullOnFlightModel=1
IN_DEBUGGER=1
NoTerrainCache=1
env=c

Full flight model seems to allow for a better flight model. Debugger puts you in debug mode and runs the game from a window. No terrainCache right now crashes the system but my guess is that it loads the terrain discretely without a buffer. Probably would have to tweak a few more items to get it to work. The env=c automatically brings you back to the debriefing area of the last mission you flew before exiting the game. It brings you there right after you double click the lb2 icon. I guess this would come in handy if you were continuing a campaign.

To turn off the ones you dont want put a ";" in front or set them equal to zero.

[Backdoors]
;FullOnFlightModel=1
;IN_DEBUGGER=1
;NoTerrainCache=1
;env=c
HEAP_PERCENT=0

Nice catch Shadow and thanks for sharing! It was a minor glitch but quite annoying

And of course kudos to DEGE (creator of dgVoodoo) for all his work with the wrapper. Now if we just could crack that long lasting FFAR issue...

/KC

Wow...nice not to have jittering clouds anymore. Kudos to DEGE indeed and thanks to Shadow=ASP= for mentioning it.

"Here are my settings. Can you put this into the first post, AV8R?"

- done.


Why dont you post your no-swap-no-MSCompatToolKit-with-2GigRAM-setup instructions here Shadow?

Guys,

Very new to the board and I hope to be able to play my beloved Longbow Gold once again. I'm having trouble running the prog under Winxp pro. I have an nvida 9600, amd 3.0 gig athlon, 1 gig of ram. I downloaded the beta dg voodoo pro and moved the required fils to the LongBow folder. I still get the LBwin.exe and needs to close error. I also have a dual monitor setup as well. What am I doing wrong?

My bad I have an geforce fx 5500 graphics card.