So what do I do now ? I thought I had copied all the cdf's from the installation disk.

What I suspect (but cannot be sure of because I cannot see your EAW directory) is that the original 7217 error you reported was because you were not running the 1.28C eaw.exe.
I base this on three facts:
1. From 1.28a onwards the eaw.exes have not given the 7217 error when installed correctly.
2. The new exe you tried did not give 72171 or 72172. The 7217 was re-numbered in the source code of the 1.28C release exe so I could see where the problem was occurring. Otherwise this exe is identical to the 1.28C exe, and it should have generated a 72171/2 error if the 1.28C exe generated a 7217.
3. The only other person who reported a 7217 error with 1.28C (by PM) had not installed 1.28C correctly, and was running an old 1.2 exe. That is why there are no responses to my other thread.

What to do- OK Plan B

1. Install but do not run EAW from your CD.
2. Find the installation directory copy it and paste it somewhere else.
3. Upgrade the new directory with the 1.28C installer.
4. Put the 7217 test exe in the upgraded directory and run it.


If it works uninstall the EAW you installed from CD.

Jel

Mr Jelly, if you were here I would shake your hand and buy you lunch.

It works.

Minor things.

-- If I do a mission and go to the armaments/load screen; when I come back to the hangar it is psychodelic. I can still read the options so that is a small thing.

-- my advanced controls has some minor glitches. It accepts most key resets, but will not allow some others. When it asks if something else is using a joystick command and asks if I want to swap; it often will not accept a Y for yes. It will then accept a N for no and returns me to the list screen.

I am going to do some manual changes - 1920 x 1200 screen resolution. What else do you recommend I change? If I remember correctly that used to be in the EAW.ini, but I can't find that in my EAW folder now. The reame said it would make one, but I can't find it.

Again A BIG THANK YOU TO MR JELLY. He has made it possible for me to fly an old favorite of mine EAW.

Ok, that was ... interesting.

Win7 made an eaw.ini, but not in the EAW folder. It put it in C:\user\name\AppData\Local\virtualstorage\programs#################. The ###### are because that was as far as the window would let me read. I tried to open that folder. OK, but Win 7 closes an expanded folder as soon as you expand another. So I couldn't drag and drop it. I tried send to, but it said I had to have administer approval. S%^$, I am the administrator. I tried burning it to CD. That worked, but I'm still learning Win7 and ran into the problem of each expanded or accessed folder closes the othe rfolder. I finally found a way to open it and use the "share with" tab at the top bar. That allowed me to send it to the EAW folder. There has to be something I'm doing wrong with Win7 and these automatic closing folders when you open or expand another one.

Anyway, I changed the resolution to 1920 x 1200. That is nice. Now I have to figure out the ATI control. Different than the nVidea ones I am used to. Anybody using ATI want to talk me through how to adjust anti-aliasing, etc.

Still have the problem where the Y will not swap joystick functions. N works. The Y works in all other places in the game such as ending flight.

Everything else seems a GO. Joystick and twist stick function works (it is a Saitek Cyborg3D Gold USB). I'm using a Hanns-G 28" monitor. At 1920 x 1200 it is very nice. The alt-g in 128.c+ shows frame rate of 55 and doesn't drop to less than 51 even in furballs.

Great to hear, and thanks for hanging in there until we got it going.
I am reasonably certain that my other forms of internet security allow me to have my Win 7 user account control set to off. This makes things which were simple in XP (like editing files) possible in Win7. When it was set to the default level EAW would CTD as soon as it tried to rewrite the eaw.ini file.
What I do recommend is installing OAW128 so that you can get the 1.28C test versions of DAW, SAW etc which are set up to use the great new folder system in 1.28C. I have my entire EAW installation in the one folder, and can choose BoB, SPAW, SAW, DAW, RAW or Malta with a single mouseclick. The downloads are already set up- you just run the self extracting file in your EAW directory. I'll post the links if you want them.

Jel

You bet I want them. Are there any particular add-ons or mods that I should try running with 1.28c+ ?

I just set my ATI to 8x anti-alias. No frame rate drop and better aircraft jaggies.

Try the multi-skin squadrons at my page at Tally-Ho. Click on the link below. If you are using OAW128 unzip them into a Skinfolder inside the OAW128 folder. Then select the squadrons you want. You can do the same with terrain and skys. The 'Talley-Ho" link will give you a vast amount of skins, sounds, campaigns and much more.

Here is a new OAW128V13 installer:

http://www.users.on.net/pam_biddell/OAW128V13Install.exe

This is the text from the "Info.txt" included



After that people will be able to download and install the 1.28C test versions of SAW, DAW, Malta, etc already set up for 1.28C/OAW128 from the links in the other thread.

Jel

Hi,
if I recall, in the past there were a couple other OS's that placed your
eaw.ini in a strange location, AND placed one in your root folder.
Check your root folder to make sure you don't have a duplicate. If you have a dupe,
delete the one in the strange location. If you do not have one in your root,
copy or move the one you do have to your root folder. Make sure that is the only
one you have.

If your joystick has a "profile" making program, make your joystick buttons
correspond to EAW keyboard commands. If you do NOT have a profiler, set your
joystick buttons "in-game." (Configure/Control/Advanced) These settings will be
written to your eaw.ini file.
AO

You should make a backup copy of your eaw.ini first what ever you end up doing. Then you can use the edit ini button in OAW128 to manually change the button settings on the your stick. Or just check the current settings.