Need help!

I have:
- Intel Core2duo E8400 3.0ghz
- 4gig DDR2 800mhz
- Radeon 4850 with 8.7 catalyst drivers
- VISTA 64Bit ultimate
- Track ir 4 pro
- Saitek X52pro


I get Bsod sometimes in flight, sometimes in menu ect..

I try re-install and run as system admin and so on.. NO help

After bsod and reboot Vista says that problem is caused by ati drivers. so i back to 8.6 cat but bsod again after 1 mission.

All other games run fine: ARMA, Bioshock , Crysis ....

-esa

@ EsaHietala: I had the same problem with Vista x64: BSOD or it just kicked me back to desktop. Switched back to Vista x32 and all the problems with Lock On were gone. Like you, i also played ArmA, Crysis, Colin McRae DiRT without any problems in x64.

I too have those lines. My specs are in my sig. I'm running the Catalyst 8.9 drivers. I didn't have these lines before with my Nvidia 8800GT. Must be an ATI thing.

I have those same lines on Nvidia 880GTS on XP

I get those odd lines on mine too, though I'm also having problems installing the 1.12b patch (it keeps trying to put the patch into a different folder, missing some letters from the "e:\Lock On" so it ends up like "e:\Lock O", but there doesn't seem to eb a pattern to it, as I've tried installing LOMAC to lots of different folders over the last few weeks and it seems to miss some letters randomly...)

When I do install it into the strange folder, the game starts, DRM is fine, and I get to the menu screen and Flaming Cliffs looks like it's installed as I have the two SU-25s available. However, when I try to start a quick game from one of the planes icons, it sometimes freezes on the loading page, usually about 1/4 of the way through the loading bar. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And it does this when I try any of the planes (again, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't).

I'm on a QX9650, DFI UT X48-T3RS, GTX260 (192 core), Auzentech XFi Prelude, Windows Vista Ultimate 64, and all the drivers (sound, mobo, graphics, even firmware for the hard drives etc whenever possible) have been updated. If I can free up some space for a partition I might set up an XP Pro dual boot, and see if things are any different. I've reinstalled *so* many times it's silly.

Sadface =(

e: 18/02/09

I finally installed XP last night, and it seems to have solved at least the freezing on loading problem. I then had the graphical issues with clouds having no transparency on the textures, which was fixed by setting texture settings to "High Quality" in the nvidia control panel. However, I still have the white lines on the edges of the aircraft, like the posts above show. I'll have a look tonight to see what the earliest drivers are that support my GTX 260, and see if there are any that will make a difference.

e ii: Those white flickering lines along the edges appear to be caused by the "Full Shadows" setting. Shadows on "Full Planar" or lower sorts this. Although there's a little less "depth" to the models, I think it's a fair trade off for not having those horrible lines. I don't know if earlier drivers could help for some people; the earliest I can use is 177-178 because any earlier drivers won't support the GTX2xx series of cards.

Everything now seems to work, but I get an exception error on exiting. Nothing too bad, as it doesn't affect gameplay.

Anyone got any ideas about Runtime errors in 1.12b? I have vista 64 Home Premium SP2 Beta. I was getting them same error before on Vista SP1. Done the install as recommended in previous posts on this thread, to get past StarFarce, but I get this for my trouble: -

Runtime Error!

Program: C:\Eacgle Dynamics\Lock On - Flaming Cliffs\LockOn.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

Just wondered if anyone has a fix before I attempt to contact them?

Cheers

Andy

Yeah, me too, what Dr. Strop said.

I got this working now. I found the answer on DCS forum.

– If LockOn: Flaming Cliffs returns an error after the StarForce check then disable User Account Control in the Windows Vista.

> Start
> Control Panel
> User Accounts
> Turn User Account Control on or off
> clear the checkbox “Turn User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer”
> reboot
> Run the lockon.bat once (it is in the root of the installation)

Forgot to mention. I didn't have the flaming cliffs disk in to run it either.

This is just the known shadow bug. Just turn down shadows from "full" in game settings down one level (to all planar e.g.) and those lines will disappear. The case is that full shadows do not work with modern drivers and old drivers don't work with modern cards:)

Is there any bulletproof method of getting FC to install onto Windows 7? I've got the Gold edition and even with the 1.12b patch and the Starforce patch that used to work on Vista then it just gets stuck in the Starforce activation/reboot loop. I hear some people have got it to work and i'm just curious how exactly. I know the FC 2 patch is on the horizon but i'm slightly loathed to pay for an upgrade of a game I only play occasionally anyway.

And to be honest now FC is pretty much a budget title I don't see why they can't just patch to get rid of or tone down the DRM on it anyway.