I'm shaking my head at your criticism of the markings until something occurs to me. Is it possible you're flying with the default graphic settings?

If you have your graphics settings optimized then I'll certainly respect your opinion, but it sounds like we're talking about two entirely different sims.

Go to Settings and then to Advanced Settings Set hardware to your preference.

Then go to the Image Quality tab and set object texture size to 512, and put a check in the box for High Detail Virtual Cockpit

I would wager that you haven't done this yet. I certainly respect your dislike for CFS2, but I don't think you have the eye candy turned on yet.

It's a no-brainer to say it doesn't have EAW's gameplay, but it's really good. Graphically speaking, it's beyond compare to anything else I've seen.

So it doesn't have EAW's gameplay. Big deal. Fire up the mission builder, drop in some European scenery and turn it into EAW. You guys are certainly smart and talented enough to do it.

Your all's idea of what a sim should be vs your average CFS Joe ain't even close. So you see the stuff they drop in, and the crap that ****** sales as addons for CFS and think CFS2=garbage.

I wish to &^$& that my EAW pawdnas would get more into it, as no one knows what a flight sim should be more than you all.

EAW won't die of lonliness if you guys start tinkering with a sim that begs to be modified vs beating the living hell out of EAW to get what you want. EAW will still be here. It's too good.

Some of you guys are sitting in front of the EAW General Store whittling your sticks while CFS2 rockets by and muttering "Damn kids!". Hahaha, ok, it was a little funny

Please reply back if this fixes your graphics, or if it still stinks.

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Some of you guys are sitting in front of the EAW General Store whittling your sticks while CFS2 rockets by and muttering "Damn kids!".

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CFS sucks
CFS2 sucks

There I said it,
Sure as hell someone needed to.

I like EAW, I'm here for EAW. If you like CFS go to the CFS board and wax and wane poeticly on and on.

Airbudha, you have strayed from the path of rightousnous. Maybe it's because they are paying you, maybe it's because that Satan guy got to you I don't know. Statements like "beating the hell out of EAW to make it better" are ludicrous. New things are being created everyday at an incredible rate. Modifications ounce thought complex or even impossible are becoming more and more common. Your statement to "make CFS2 into EAW" WHY?? I already have EAW. To paraphrase you I am going to sit on this here bench with EAW and let your super sim pass me by, I know mediocrity when I see it.

"CFS2 begs to be tinkered with" aye? As far as improving sims at home goes you can only do so much with what your given originally. Its the frame, the backbone, of the sim that matters most. If you've got good gameplay that is what counts and lasts. EAW is inherently better than CFS2 in this way, no question. CFS2 is very close to being "Jane's WWII Fighters over the Pacific" more than anything.

If you think "just wait and it will get better" so what, if you want excellent user made planes/ground vehicles/ weapons/ Naval vessels/ ect go take a look at SDOE. Great addons, lousy game did it get better as a game? SDOE's fans say it's a "modelers sim" and it truly does invite modders to tinker with just about every aspect available and they make truly great things, better than can be done for any other sim, but all for a game that is poor when it comes right down to the fundamentals. EAW is the last of the "Oldschool" gameplay flightsims.

CFS is CFS2 in the Pacific with better eye candy, somewhat beefier modeling and AI than they did with number 1. Its reviews matter not to me since almost all MicroSoft games get good reviews (hmmm I wonder) CFS got good reviews when it was new and out sold all the other WWII flightsims combined. We all know what a steaming pile of poo that is.

If you want to launch off carriers fine. watch as one plane at a time magicly appears on deck and launches (PAW did this better) and enjoy.

I didn't see anything really new or amazing.

IL2 may amaze me.

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Originally posted by Mshock44:
EAW is great but it does look like CFS2 is the likely succesor

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No, not nearly

It is the likly succesor to the top selling WWII flight sim..

CFS

CFS has hundreds of websites devoted to it and it's modders many more than EAW has now I'm sure. They will move into the sequal. I doubt that you will see wholesale evacuation from here anytime soon. Airbudha had really left this flock several months ago. His site has slowly become a CFSII one with the many archived EAW skins in the background.

S! Airbudha
You made some good EAW skins

***ADDITION***
Since I corrected a type-o just after posting this message I want to go back and say that I did not add the last statment afterwards. The entire message is unaltered from the first submition.

I just deleted my temper tantrum. I was an idiot for posting anything positive about an MS product in here.

But... I have over 9 EAW pages on site and one CFS page.

Roger

Your site is clearly a CFSII one with some EAW archives. It's been said (although not so clearly) here before. It was not meant as an insult it was a statment, a statment you obviously consider one. The rightous statment was as tongue-in-cheek as it clearly appears without clouded perception.

Also the whole internet aninimity arguement is a moot one as a regular poster anywhere. You don't see Barryw sticking around someplace he's unwanted.

So, I'm just an Asshole now, but I am one that does not take back what he has to say.

I'm sure most got the chance to read it.

I have nothing but flight sims on my HD and they all seem to get along very well. For you to say that CFS2 was like WWII Fighters was hardly a slam.

I realize a few of you have an EAW Jihad to attend. It's no different on CFS message boards. Some of the CFS people have declared war on CFS2 as if MS were going to send out it's storm troopers and rip CFS from their clutched arms with their wives and babies screaming.

I reckon I would stand in line to see a good CFS burning myself. I don't like it. I never liked it. I bought it because it was first to market in a time when there were no WWII flight sims that didn't look like Air Warrior, but it's a helluva lot of fun to sit and build model planes except wifey don't yell at me for sniffin glue.

I do however like CFS2, and regret not stopping at the graphics settings advice I was trying to give Hynkel.

It wasn't dumber'n hell to post something nice about another sim in here. It's dumb to do it anywhere. People can't stand it when you say something nice about X-sim on the Y-sim message board.

It's the damndest thing. It always amazes me.

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Originally posted by Airbuddha:
No Albert. If I had left that post up there it would have been an antiME post. I still feel the same about what I deleted, but I would have felt like crap later by mirroring you.

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I disagree that it was mirroring me as it contained vulgarities and questioned my character. I did niether about you in my post. I complimented your old EAW work. It did reflect badly on you I agree there.

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Originally posted by Airbuddha:
For you to say that CFS2 was like WWII Fighters was hardly a slam.

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Did I say that that was a bad thing? After playing for several days that was my impression. I have SDOE, WWIIF and EAW all installed at the moment.

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Originally posted by Airbuddha:
I do however like CFS2, and regret not stopping at the graphics settings advice I was trying to give Hynkel.

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I would not have replied to you, and more directly quoted you, if you had not made some remarks that I interpreted as being unkind to EAW, it's players ("sitting at country store being rocketed by by CFS2") and the hard work being done these days on EAW("beating the living hell out of EAW"). Especially all here on the EAW forum.

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Originally posted by Airbuddha:
It wasn't dumber'n hell to post something nice about another sim in here

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I disagree I have seen several pro other sim posts go by without incedent. I think I made an SDOE one long before the torpedoe troll affair. I have replied to others on WWIIF when the new modding work started. It's the comparison posts that get negative responses.

I honestly meant no malice toward anyone personnaly. It was a simple comparison of opinions. I have never tried to cause problems or go out of my way to argue. I think people here know that.

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Lobo

Good Judgement Comes From Experience.....And Experience Comes From BAD Judgement!

There Is No Use In Complaining,Half The People Don't Care,And The Other Half Think You Deserve IT!

Ignorance Is Bliss.....And I'm A Happy Man!

Hope thats cleared it up! hehe Hey listen you two guys we are ALL WW2 Fliers and thats a good start at least!

Lex Morton AKA BazookaJock

PS AirBuddha did you check out this screenshot I posted a few hrs ago?

EAW - It's Out Of This World !!

Hope its got a pressurised cockpit! hehe

PPS EAW SUCKS!

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"I'm just going to probe the bush's at the fork..." - "Unknown Soldier"

I truly truly wish I had read it before you edited it, because I would never have lost my cool. I'm not slamming you for editing it out. I just wish you'd have done it before I read it.

The crux of my beef with you was what you said and then deleted about my website. With that taken out, I have no disagreement with you. Not even the part telling me to get off your EAW message board and go laud CFS2 somewhere else.

I couldn't even fault you for getting bent over the general store joke. It's reasonable to think a few wouldn't be amused.

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I disagree that it was mirroring me as it contained vulgarities and questioned my character. I did niether about you in my post.

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I am one that does not take back what he has to say.

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You most certainly did question my character and the content of my site.

You did take back what you said, but regretfully for me, not before I read it.

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Airbudha, you have strayed from the path of rightousnous. Maybe it's because they are paying you

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This wouldn't have offended me if I had read it after you edited it. I would've taken it for what it appears to be. A joke.

So, that said, I apologize for the very unkind things I said. You say that you don't take back what you have to say, but I thankfully can't make that claim.

If I'm a jerk, I know it. I don't rest well until I fess up to it, and I definitely went into JERK mode when I read your un-edited post.

but EAW will probably stay in my computer for years

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Airbudha had really left this flock several months ago. His site has slowly become a CFSII one with the many archived EAW skins in the background.

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Yep, you're right. You left it in. That's the one that twisted my crank pal.

Airbuddha