yah.. it does solve the graphical issues..

...but that DxTweaker thing produces other problems too (or at least for some of us...)

like that "sliding Aircraft carrier" that makes perfect trapping, really hard (or sometimes just plain impossible)

and the "sliding" across the ground when taxing..

well as expected, a program that's incomplete itself might not be the surefire solution anyway..

So this sim really needs some updates..
but since that's not possible right now, i'm just wishing for a brand new hornet sim instead~

Pauldy, I am with you -- I'd rather have the banding issues then have to jack with DXTWEAKER and live with even more limitations/consequences.

I also agree that there just has to be something brewing out there if we are seeing 2 possibly three new HOTAS products with dual throttles coming out now.

LP continues working on something, though nobody knows what.
DCS has a good product out and more on the way, including for the A10.
FO is FO, we'll see... won't discount them, certainly.
And there is 7G and Jet Thunder, both of which having gone a little quiet over the last couple months, but still something is happening there, it seems.
And now this Cascade Game Foundry? Maybe something there?
Could FSX ever be converted to a military sim? Some are working on that....

Sadly though, there are a number of truly 'naval' carrier-aviation related shades built into our Janes F/A-18, and I really hate to lose them. Is there any other sim that has the amount of carrier flight references in game? Add carriers to LOMAC or F4 or whatever sim you like, and even if you can get the cats and wires to work (which I doubt) are you going to get meatball and the LSO calls and all the little 'sweet & sweet, outbound' calls....? I wish those things could somehow live on, or get incorporated into something new and better going forward. Maybe....

Ripcord

Actually, TSH has been making some significant progress lately into understanding more about the JF-18 assembly code and implementing hooks into it. We may be able to make some more significant changes in the future.

Looking forward to working rudders and more accurate weapons effects...or anything at all that would generate some added excitement in addition to the recent TSH upgrades.

GREAT News joe looking forward to more info or a release

That's good news. In any case i hope your team could somehow solve the Air to Air mode slowdown and the sky banding because that's the root of the problems some of us face..

Running F-18 without DXtweaker is still way better.