Hi all.
Few days back gone crazy and installing all possible old dos/win sims, like EF2000, Strike Eagle 3, etc.
In other words, I'm back !
So, guesses, huh, yesterday tried Jane's F15 and %@%!#&, first, of course no go.
But, eventually came to the point running it perfect with 3dFX Glide wrapper on Xp and Win7.
Now, it wouldn't be interesting if I did it like was described here... nooo, just couldn't get that lucky.
Was trying to run it on dual system machine, XPsp3 and Win7sp1.
I have to remind you, that below fixes worked for me, my machine, my configuration, so, no guaranties that it will must work for everybody else, different setup, but still you'll get one more thing to try before letting it all go
You'll need:
nGlide 0.99
Video driver (can be current, better older?, but win-xp version, not win7/vista ver! important)
Let's roll:
but first, JOY1_HATUP sticky problem:
My..., I've found this solution in SimHQ Archives !!!
And is applicable for JFA18 too.
(fix works on xp and win7)
NO NEED to delete setting in keys file!!!
You just MUST have ONE POV HAT AVAILABLE TO WINDOWS DIRECTX HAT, it means no programmed stuff on that hat.
Or, it can be SHIFTED, but IT MUST be SEEN BY WINDOWS DIRECTX in clean, default state, as a 4-way HAT1.
Sorry for screaming, but this knowledge was right here under our noses all the time.
and is far more better solution then deleting the setting from keys file
.
GRAPHICS:
On win7 ...menu glitch, of course, on Xp "dgvoodoo 1.44" wrapper was nogo, too. (haven't tried 1.50 ver, tho.)
XP:
For XP, the fix was easy, installed "nGlide 0.99", and bam!, out of the box, with 1.17 patch, working flawless in glide.
Set your screen resolution in nGlide configurator, first option. Got hires.
Result: gfx is a go on xp. tried refueling, ... piece of cake
WIN7:
But, solution for Win7sp1 was not so easy.
No go for CTL ALT DEL trick, menu still frozen. Killing explorer task didn't work too, same problem, now in black,
screen.
Download the XP version of video driver for your video card, you can try current one, your choice, for my ati 12.1 did the trick,
but it must be for Win XP, ... why?
Well, we'll put it on win7 :), that's why.
Some will say "that was stupid" , but I assure you it's not.
Save your THEME before, maybe you'll loose aero/ theme, taskbar will change color, so you'll have backup to revert to later.
I assure you, nothing bad will happen, windows will work more/less normal, and you can get back to normal win7 video driver anytime.
Now, installing different version os driver is a bit tricky but, far more simple then evading sa-10, for instance
Run setup, driver will unpack, remember where, NOW CANCEL AFTER setup has unpacked and ran real driver setup,
the rest is done manually.
Note the location of the ".inf" file, you have to see file extension for this, make sure you can.
(folder options > view > uncheck, hide known file ext.)
Go to DEVICE MANAGER > DISPLAY ADAPTER > (right click video card) > UPDATE DRIVER ...
Choose ADVANCED > DON'T SEARCH FOR DRIVER (manually) > ... > HAVE DISK > browse to the unpacked .inf file,
select it and install.
Windows will complain, bla, bla, YES, REBOOT.
Ok, that's it. If resolution changed, fix that so you can work normally.
Now, install nGlide 0.99 if not yet present on system.
> then GoTo try F15.
That should do it.
Important!, Do NOT select compatibility mode, eventually only if you must.
You'll degrade nGlide performance.
For me it works clean, w/out compatibility mode, and is working fine.
I don't take any of credits for this, other then explaining what to do, because it was already done, I was just lucky enough to successfully repeat procedure.
Cheers all, and good luck.
