Can someone explain #'s 3 and 4 above? What shortcut? Where is the "DX page"? I can't find either. I installed the prog and rebooted, but still don't understand.

- If you don't have a JF-18 shortcut on your desktop, create one. Ensure that is starts JF-18 normally.
- Install Radlinker. Ensure that you can access it's options by opening your advanced display properties and making sure the Radlinker tab exists.
- Go back to your desktop and right click in the JF-18 shortcut. Select "create Radlink".
- There should now be a new shortcut on your desktop; this is the Radlink.
- Delete the original shortcut so you don't confuse yourself.
- Right click on the Radlink and select "Properties".
- Set graphics options as above (the "DirectX page" is one of the tab in the properties window).

Joe, have you had a chance to check out the following from http://forums.frugalsworld.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=80223 in order to determine whether or not it can be added to your first post in this thread?

Thanks to the above recipe, everything was working great for me with Radlinker 0908 and my ATI 9700 Pro. Then, I upgraded to SP2 and an ATI X800 card. Now Radlinker 0908 doesn't run and I'm back to flat, non-sparkling water.
(Newer versions of Radlinker will run, but they don't solve the gridline problem like 0908 did).

Yeah, I tested Radlinker 0908 with ATI Catalyst 4.12, and it doen't work for me either.

Regardless, I have incorporated Radlinker information into the first post.

Joe,

This thread could always use a bump...

FYI I posted a question to one of the ATI Catalyst programmers on the hexus.net forums about addressing issues with Jane's F/A-18 (not that this hasn't probably been done before). Anyway, nothing shockingly new to report but I thought I'd share the response I received.

My Q is here .

Andrzej's response is here and here . He has good things to say about the F/A-18 community nonetheless.

bump

I might of found a way around the problem with the FPS getting low when you slect wepons and they display on the HUD. I enabled 8xS Antialiasing and 16x Anisotropic filtering. That solved the problem for me. Game runs very smooth now. Its kind of funny I figured it wouldn't run very good with these settings but I was wrong.

8xS antialiasing tells me you have an nVidia card - which card, and which drivers? The slowdwon in much worse on ATI hardware.

Antialiasing usually causes the A-A slowdown. Are you saying that enabling antialiasing made your slowdown go away, or that specifically enabling 8xS antialising made your slowdown go away?

I have a Nvidia 6800 GT with the 67.03 drivers. Im running the sim on windows XP. I started with 2x aa and that had problems. I then said what the heck, lets crank everything up. That seemed to solve my problems for now. So Im saying that enabling 8xS aa and 16x af made the slow down go away for me.