Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs
Posted on 2023-06-05, 15:20
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-12-28, 15:39
For Longbow 1/FPK/Gold I recommend DOS version running with DOSBox, works great (no 3dfx though). For Longbow 2 I use PCem v17 with Windows 98, you don't need any fixes it works fine, I was able to finish entire campaign without a single crash. Regarding Jane's F-15, I still see mid-mission crashes …
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-12-27, 20:13
I removed those long entries. It recreated them with the lenght of the previous (mydxwn) one. Its content is a bit different, but I will test it either way. Completed 3rd campaign mission without any problems.
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-12-27, 18:47
Played few missions today, it appeared everything is fine, but had one crash during mission (3rd Iraq campaign mission, as I was nearing the target and activated A/G radar), and after replaying it the game crashed after I landed and tried to exit the mission. So it seems the crashes still happen …
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-12-26, 22:32
OK, I think I have fixed it, I removed one registry entry that seemed suspicious. In [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers] "D:\\JANES\\F15\\F15.EXE"="$~ DWM8And16BitMitigation IgnoreFreeLibrary " After that the game didn't crashed when exiting mission …
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-12-26, 21:55
@Njinsa Could you post your registry entry regarding F-15 compatibility flags it can be found here (use regedit) Computer\HKEY_USERS\---some numbers-----\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Compatibility Assistant\Store f15-1.png f15-2.png I have a suspicion I borked my …
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-12-26, 19:57
I think it's the issue with the game itself, as even if I run it without any wrappers (removed the dll files from game folder), the game crashes when exiting the missions. Edit: Also something weird I noticed after a crash the Jane's F-15 process is still running in the background (as seen in task …
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-12-26, 19:08
Some more (maybe useful) info: OS: Windows 10 22H2 / 19045.2364 GPU: NVidia GTX970 / display driver 522.25 I'm using nGlide 2.10 as 3dfx wrapper but the crash also happens with software rendere so I gues it's not a graphical issue?
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-12-26, 19:03
Didn't crash on my setup. Did you use DXWND for starting F15.EXE ? DXWMD should be avoided in this session of tests as it can make a mess. I used Dxwnd before, but after having the issues I uninstalled the game, reinstalled it so I had fresh intall, patched it with 1.17 patch and used the 3 dll …
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-12-26, 18:10
Thank you for your efforts. I saw that GHO tried to assess the weird nature of game layout but it proved not to be worth of an extra effort. Although DXWND development continues with more or less probable solution for DDRAW, I found a solution which works perfectly with Janes F-15. It's right here …
Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs
Posted on 2022-07-22, 13:28
Pretty cool Easter Egg from F-14 Fleet Defender. https://youtu.be/6i06m3W7mWk
Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs
Posted on 2022-04-22, 14:34
Digital Integration's last proper flight sim. I've read somewhere that dynamic campaign was planned for it, but sadly it never came to be. F/A-18E Super Hornet + The Albanian Campaign
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-02-27, 10:05
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-02-27, 09:58
It's those small video clips played at the bottom (those are that UV2 files) that break the text rendering. If you remove them from the folder (or change their names so the game doesn't find them) they wont be loaded and the text will not be broken. Which bottom? What I noticed is that the UV2 …
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-02-17, 15:56
Can anyone explain why renaming .UV2 movies to .UV_ fixes the text in F-15? Technically deleting has also given the same result but what's the issue being cause in loading from HDD? The game will not try to load them from the CD when it doesn't find them on HDD, it will not load them at all. And …
Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs
Posted on 2022-02-17, 15:52
Tiny Combat Arena is soon coming to Early Access on Steam. Looks really promising. https://youtu.be/T8XEpWYd8r4
Re: Jane's Longbow Anthology/Jane's F-15/Jane's F/A-18; DI Hind/Apache/iF-16 compatibility pack
Posted on 2022-01-15, 11:08
Can anyone explain why renaming .UV2 movies to .UV_ fixes the text in F-15? Technically deleting has also given the same result but what's the issue being cause in loading from HDD? It's not an issue of loading them from HDD/CD. The game will not try to load them from the CD when it doesn't find …
Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs
Posted on 2021-12-02, 19:14
Wait, wait, no no you misunderstand me - Ace Combat and gamepad stuff are NOT what I want :D To put things into perspective I was QUITE good at Jane's IAF for example, and could do most of the campaign missions just fine. Low altitude flight and tank busting was just natural to me. Same for AH-64D …
Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs
Posted on 2021-12-01, 15:25
I want to get back into flight sims, military in particular. Last games I played were Jane's Longbow and Jane's F-15 (which I was not very good at - it was beyond my skill level..) What is a good game to get into these days? And what is a cheap joystick that will get me by? Well, nowadays there's …
Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs
Posted on 2021-11-29, 08:53
I recently found out that there was a port of USNF for PSX! It was a shock for me and many of my viewers this remained so long under our radar. The fact it was released only in Japan may be the main contributing factor. US Navy Fighters PS1 Version There's also remake of the first 10 missions from …
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