Okay... looks like I spoke a little too soon.

I've reached a bit of an impasse. If I run the dgvoodoo emulator RB is stable and does not crash. However, my frame rate is horrendous. I tried flying a 1918 Jasta 10 mission and suffered with 8fps just sitting on the tarmac. It seems to be related to ground objects and planes and it's crippling the frame rate.

If I swap it out with Greybeard's tweaked glide settings, it runs beautifully! The frame rate is crisp and smooth, there's no slow down and life is good... but RB crashes as soon as you try to exit a mission. It doesn't matter what compataiblity mode I run it in, it doesn't matter if I abort or end the mission, the result is always the same - RB crashes to my desktop every time.

Any ideas guys?

With dgvoodoo wrapper, are you sure you set all the options as in my previous link? The latest dgvoodoo has the option to use 64MB emulated VRAM instead of 2/4 MB without video corruption, which makes it work faster, and also another option on the DirectX 9 tab (3rd, hidden, see previous post/link) which helps with sun in Red Baron. But the settings in the picture posted in the page (click on the image to see it bigger) must be followed - use 4MB option for RB, select 64MB VRAM, right click at the right of second tab, select option to show 3rd (hidden) DirectX tab and so on. I am not playing RB now, granted, but when i played, with those settings and an older video card (NVidia 7600 GS and iirc even a 5200 one before), it made a huge difference, and it had none of the problems of the OpenGlide wrappers.

Waaaaho! It does work! I guess something messed up last night and required a reboot. I didn't think about that until this morning and lo and behold with those settings, it's running smoothly at 1024x768. I don't have the heart to touch the settings now and try a high res, lest I make it angry again.

I have to admit, it's nice to have the old gal back on the hard drive. Cheers Gabi!

Hi Captain!
Glad it works

Thanks for the comment, the music on youtube you asked about is an excerpt (aprox. the second half) of part 1 of Symphony No. 1 by Sergei Prokofiev I like that symphony very much!
( I prefer to answer here as Youtube may parse comments and decide to cut the music due to who knows what copyright etc.)

Cheers!

Hi all,

I tried EVERYTHING also to run RB3D on my Win 7 64 bit Ultimate system to NO avail.

Maybe I'll re-read this thread and try to reinstall it, but for now on to OFF & ROF.

Cheers and I'll keep everyone posted.