By the way, i'm thinking about getting a Geforce 2. RIght now i have a Riva TNT, with two Voodoo 2's running at SLI(turned off SLI to play F4). The game never did like running on Direct3D, so i'm wondering if most of that is fixed now. The way things go, i'll prolly keep the Voodoo 2's. So any ideas on that would be appreciated.

The easiest thing to do is just to backup your campaign files and your pilot files to a disk. Now,

1) Unistall F4 including its directory. You have to do that manually

2) Defrag

3) Install fresh and patch to 1.08 then just apply RP 3.0. You really don't need anything else that I am aware of.

4) Now download F4 Patch v2.1 from Joel Bierling and apply any other patch that you want. It's a brillant thing. I post later with a link unless somebody else does before me.