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Light_Blade · Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 171

I recently had my old HD crash and had to reinstall everything onto my second HD and in the process of doing so decided to install SP2. The only problem i have had with it is OMF wont work. It starts up does the patching (which i skip because my favorite pilot is Lucas so i need to get him back first) and then it goes to start the game and shows the OMF mouse and then it all crashes. Any idea whats wrong or what i need to get it working.

Spockmeat · Joined: 22 Oct 2000 Posts: 8163 Location: USA

there should be a setting in there somewheres about allowing an application to run not in protected mode or some such... I don't know exactly, I refuse to use SP2 myself. Also make sure you have directx 9 at least and the latest graphics drivers Smile

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Light_Blade · Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 171

Yeah i got Dx9 and the latest drivers...I did all that before i even started installing games. Im not stupid enough to forget those 2 Wink

As far as the protected mode goes... im lost as to what u mean

Spockmeat · Joined: 22 Oct 2000 Posts: 8163 Location: USA

read here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2mempr.mspx

Smile

you basically have to disable some security setting for the application to make it work.
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Light_Blade · Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 171

Nope didnt fix it.

Light_Blade · Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 171

So nobody else has a solution to the problem?

mrsiezen · Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: Netherlands

Sorry, the only soltion I got I remove SP2...That's what I did
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Zelig · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 4178

I don't really get why people seem to have so much trouble with SP2, after you disable the security center and the firewall, it really isn't all that much different than before.

mrsiezen · Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: Netherlands

Gonna try an install in a couple of weeks again. But then with no internet connection open... Maybe that'll help.
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Lurker · Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 4696 Location: The underworld

I have SP2, and i can play OMF just fine
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TheUnknownFactor · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject: Re: OMF on SP2

well quite a few games (opengl) have poor performance in linux, sadly.
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