I'm installing the game on a gateway PIII 400 with a 1MB Voodoo and Microsoft Force Feedback stick and Sound Blaster 32.

Everything works fine, but when I try to set up the joystick, it tells me that it cant find any kind of device for a joystick.

Has the Microsoft Force Feedback stick ID 1 (advanced tab on the game controllers dialog)

If the Microsoft Force Feedback stick is connect via USB do you have the standard joystick port installed. (its still needed for older games)

Delete the joystick in the control panel, then go into DOS and configure the Joystick from there.

I think Shneider is right, though. My CD is GFX+ and nothing I'm trying is getting me anywhere. What a pisser!

Anyone know where I could purchase a copy of Super EF2000?

It replaces the RAf roundels with USAF ones. This may seem like a little thing. It's not. It drove me up and down the wall! It really pissed me off!! The Typhoon no longer looked "right." Indeed part of the visual appeal of the Typhoon in Tactcom was the contrast of the matt grey and the blue and red roundel. It just looked _dull_ with the USAF markings.

And the accents stayed the same!!!

I deleted my 3dfx version and stayed with the original. Much more acceptable.

Question about the Super version.
Does it include the Tactcom upgrades?
And will it run in pure Windows mode (thinking of the future and DOS's imminent death?)

What I used to do sometimes is get my mission started, get myself headed towards the first distant waypoint, then change EF2000 to a window, get on the internet, and pass some of the long flight time surfing the net. All the while, the game is still running, and whenever you want to check on your flight, just go to the window and take a look. Of course, once I got close to the front, I would then go back to full screen and start playing for real.

EF2000 is the only sim I have that is so memory and resource efficient that I can run other major programs in windows at the same time with no ill effects. The reason Super EF2000 is so damn efficient is because it was orginally designed as a game to run in DOS back in 1995, when P133's w/16MB RAM were hot stuff. Running EF2000 on my Celeron466 w/128MB RAM is a joy, and I still think the software-rendered virtual cockpit and terrain graphics are some of the most appealing ever done.

I can't find the digital joystick bit on the www.did-us.com site either and this is exactly my problem. Could you post link or fix plse?

I had the original EF2000 and really wanted to play it again so found TACTOM lying in a local shop and then got the GFX+ patch but have problems with the joystick and break ups in the sound (SB Live!).

Would buy Super EF2000 but can't find it locally (Dorset, UK).

Getting the joystick to work would be great and I'd put up with the sound unless someone has seen Super for sale in the UK?

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Originally posted by RichP:
To David F

I can't find the digital joystick bit on the www.did-us.com site either and this is exactly my problem. Could you post link or fix plse?

I had the original EF2000 and really wanted to play it again so found TACTOM lying in a local shop and then got the GFX+ patch but have problems with the joystick and break ups in the sound (SB Live!).

Would buy Super EF2000 but can't find it locally (Dorset, UK).

Getting the joystick to work would be great and I'd put up with the sound unless someone has seen Super for sale in the UK?

Cheers

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my email is hunter@gamewood.net.
And you are right about 2000. I love the game. It's migrated from my old rig to the new onealong with Falcon..

Look for a line beginning STICK

Change STICK's value to 14

The line underneath contains the calibration values for the stick.

The first 4 are the x and y axes, change them to 45. The next 2 are the z axis, change them to 3 and 19. The next two are the R axis, for the rudder. Play around with these values to get the best results.

The first time you run EF after this, start a mission on the ground, and center the stick with ALT-C. You may need to adjust the stick sensitivity settings a bit.

Don't run the config program after doing this! Set your sound and other settings up first.

This fix does work, or at least it does for MS digital sticks. Honest.

David F

Thanks for that I'll give it a go, any ideas about the crackly sound (I've tried the bits in the readme)?

Lloyd Cole - great offer, thanks. I'll have a bash with the above first then get back to you via email.

Here's hoping. I loved TFX and bought EF2000 but didn't have the kit to run it properly. Since then as I've upgraded I've got caught up in others a bit but am still searching for something really immersive but not as heavy as F4 (just don't have the time).

TAW is good but the avionics are almost too simple plus I'm British so want to fly 'our' plane.

Digital sticks work with the Win95 version anyway. The fix is not needed.

Prowler,

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Originally posted by David F:
Heretic,

Digital sticks work with the Win95 version anyway. The fix is not needed.

Prowler,

Install Evolution, then download and install the GFX+ patch, and select the Win95 version

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David F

I got my MS digital joystick working with GFX+ up to a point (thanks for help here) but no throttle plus the graphics (Voodoo2) and sound aren't quite right. So was going to take up Lloyd Cole's offer of the Win95 version from the US.

However, in your last post you intimate that the Win95 version is part of the GFX+ patch?

I patched TACTOM to get GFX+ (with 9.3Mb tactpat.zip from the us DID site) but this only gave me the DOS version, I can see no Win95 option - am I missing something?

Also if you have sound "break up/stutter"during the game?
press ALT+"-" to decrease the 3DFX wait or
press ALT+"+" to increase the 3DFX wait
Note that you must press and hold the ALT key and repeatedly press the "-" or "+" key for an effect(it does not auto repeat if held down)
If the screen is too dark pressing ALT+F8 increases the gamma, likewise-ALT+F7 decreases it

Put these lines in your Autoexec.bat to remove the "pink" texture probs with a Voodoo2 board:

set SST_GRXCLK=90
set SST_FT_CLK_DEL=0x4
set SST_TF0_CLK_DEL=0x6
set SST_TF1_CLK_DEL=0x6
set SST_VIN_CLKDEL=0x1
set SST_VOUT_CLKDEL=0x0
set SST_TMUMEM_SIZE=2
pause
set SST_GAMMA=1.00
set SST_GGAMMA=1.00
set SST_RGAMMA=1.00
set SST_BGAMMA=1.00

Thanks for that.

My problem is I only have the DOS TACTOM package and not Super with the W95 one.

I have sort of got GFX+ working with the lines you provide but its not perfect and I think I'll get the W95 version.

It was David F's comments about the GFX+ patch having the W95 version which confused me, mine doesn't as far as I can see.

Thanks again.

Any clue ?

Yes, it's me. I don't work for Rage though, I now work for Infogrames.