Anyway, I ust reinstalled Total Air War and I have a few questions.

First, I downloaded and ran the "TAW Direct3D" patch from CombatSim. It seems to be running fine but I don't know if this is the most current version or not.

Second, I sometimes get a glitch whereby my desktop seems to be a bit scattered after I exit the game. For example, my shortcuts are moved around and the window colors are altered. Has anyone else seen this?

I'm running it on a P3 500, 128 MB, TNT2 Ultra. I'm using DirectX 7 and Detonator 3.68 drivers.

BTW, I forgot how impressive this sim looks. The sky and terrain effects really make you feel like you're "up there," at 20,000+ feet, twisting around in the clouds with other aircraft above and beneath you- very intense.

Just wish it had "snap" views instead of that "panning" cockit view. I find panning is too slow when in battle.

Thanks.

Pressing padlock threat a second time gives you an external player-target view that really helps you see the geometry (as Andy Bush says, this is not a cheat, it's a way to visualize the fight the way fighter pilots do with their hands or with airplanes on sticks).

Try deleting the msvcrt.dll from the TAW data directiry- the one in your windows\system WILL be more recent. This ought to fix things.

Hope this helps, Wulf.

PS: I am all for a TAW revival

PPS: F2 padlocks yor current shoot-list no.1 target, and F3 padlocks any immediate threat, e.g. a missile fired against you. Both can be an external view or even a reversed view. I love using the shift-F2 view to watch the enemy aircraft try to spoof my missiles. They do all the right things as well, it's most impressive....

PPPS: There was only one patch released for TAW, but there were 4 versions, one for PCI, one for AGP and 3DFX/D3D versions respectively. Sounds like a modern system would have the AGP-D3D version for latest NVidia based cards.

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Make sure the enemy is willing to die for his country. Then you both have the same aim in mind!

[This message has been edited by Wulfrick (edited 07-18-2000).]

I just re-installed TAW after a long hiatus; been flying F4 and JF18, but miss the incredible terrain, T&L and general feel of flight with TAW. (love those Egyptian artifacts and monuments along the Nile and those 11,000 ft wind-eroded dunes )

I use a Diamond Monster V2 card. Does anyone know what the EnglishGlide patch fixes? Overall, I'm not having a lot of problems. Sometimes, though it takes a couple of reboots to get the thing going and occasionally the Sim will go completely black near the beginning of a mission and I have to hard boot. Has anyone else experienced this and does the Glide patch fix this problem?

Thanks,

Shogun

BTW, I once landed on a road along the Nile, taxied over to this little oasis complete with palm trees and hotel, popped open the canopy, and got my self a cool drink and sat under the shade of a palm tree... No kidding except the part about the drink, of course.

If someone can tell me how to take a screenshot in TAW, I'll forward the image..

A lot higher than 800X600 and preferrably with some really awesome (as in platform plus pilot and team-tactics MiG-29+31 or S-37/LFI or Rafale/JAS) enemies and _DRONES_ to help out a very limited F-22 'platinum bullet' force of say 100-175 planes (of which maybe 20 are in-theatre) with visual range supermaneuver.

I just tried to reload mine and got as far as the initial demo movie before lockup. Tried to skip past that and...lockup.

Hope this helps.
Steve

The actual patches do not fix anything significant, rather they add a few graphical nicities and correct a few minor glitches.

Cheers, Wulf.