In the last few days we have had an occasional problem where a player was booted because of a missing gunsight file.
When the player used the Gunsight manager the problem was fixed, but I wondered why it had happened in the first place.
Checking the code the exe was looking for a "gunsight.spt" file.
Earlier exes looked for the "gsight.spt" file.
Just about all of the plane skins have a "gsight.spt" file, but no "gunsight.spt" file.
This was causing the crash.
It did not happen to me because I have my preferred "gunsight.spt" and "gsight.spt" files in the root folder and a back-up in the GameData folder.
The solution that I have completed is to rebuild the old map, new map and MPO exes so that they look for the "gunsight.spt" file.
Here is a link
February 7th exes Run the downloaded " EAWVersions070223.exe" in your UAW160 folder and it will add the three new exes to your "EAW Versions" folder.
I advise you to make a sub-folder in the "EAW Versions" folder named "Previous" and move all of the older exes into it.