This is an XP issue with RB - it's nothing to do with using the OpenGLide wrapper or using the superpatch. Close RB, go to your RB folder and delete rbprefs.dat. Then open RB and set all your favourite preferences *but don't fly, and don't close RB*. Press Alt-Tab to get back to the desktop without …

If I were about to buy a new joystick setup for flight-sims, I'd wait a month (or less?) and get the new ThrustMaster Top Gun Afterburner Force Feedback stick. Contains a throttle, force feedback (very nice for prop sims, you can "feel" the plane begin to stall), a twist grip for rudder OR a rocker …

It's definitely an RB bug; it happens when running in Glide with any Voodoo with more than 2MB texture memory, if you are using 3rd party textures larger than those that came with the original game. Generally speaking it is a combination of large 3rd party terrain/plane textures with the 3rd party …

Just wanted to add my heartfelt thanks, too - for the first time in two years I can contemplate upgrading my graphics card! The 5500 is finally going into retirement after Christmas. I shall definitely be contributing. Rob

Worth stressing that this only happens with 3rd party graphic mods that use larger textures than the ones that RB comes with by default; so if the developer of Glidos wants to reproduce the problem he'll need to install some 3rd party patches on his copy of RB. A quick way to reproduce the problem: …