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  1. Vista has Direct X 10 amd 9.0x installed, but 9.0x doesn't contain everything that 9.0c needs. You can however remedy this by intalling 9.0c and it will install what's missing. I'd already donne this for other games before I reinstalled DiF, so it may be a factor. Having DirectX10 and 9.0C installed at the same time does not seem to cause any probelms, programs seem to know which they need.

  2. Originally posted by Stalin's Organist:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Firefly:

    Some of the RAF medals can't even be won vy real life RAF pilots smile.gif . The Military Cross is for Army officers nly, WW1 pilots could get it, but not WW2 pilots.

    Uh...yes...I said so in the first post in this thread!! smile.gif </font>
  3. When trying to create an online game or custom gmae I'm getting a DIF error with the description:

    Cannot find column [playerid]

    I'm then prestented with the game creation srreen showing my pilots, but no available aircraft.

    I can play camapigns with no problem and create and delete pilots.

    My in-game name is Steerpike, if that's any use smile.gif .

  4. Originally posted by Dave H:

    Well, Kentucky Oaks day has dawned completely socked in, with about a half inch to an inch of rain already fallen and more on the way today. Tonight and tomorrow the forecast is for scattered thunderstorms. I guess today I'll miss my 51'st consecutive Oaks, and tomorrow I'll miss my 51'st consecutive Kentucky Derby.

    Don't they have Guinness tents at American racetracks? Even so if there's anything as much fun as standing in the rain and losing your money, I've yet to find it.
  5. Originally posted by JonS:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Firefly:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by JonS:

    It changed.

    The hvy mortars were handled by the A-Tk regt (go figure).

    Probably because they were classified as artillery and the AT regiments in Commonweatlh divisions were provided by the RA or RHA. </font>
  6. I'm not sure FK, I remeber when SSI followed up Steel Panthers with Steel Panthers 2 using the same scale and suddenly everything on the map was within range, even the scenarios from the '70s and '80s. If you remember that a current CM map is probably only the size of a few hexes of an SP map (they were 50 metres per hex), I think you are probably looking at much larger maps, rather than just a bit bigger. If you limit it to mainly infantry bush wars, it might work,but once you get into NATO/WarsawPact territory I think you'll have problems.

    Also I prefer my wargames to be based on wars that actually happened, simply basing a game on what might have happened according to the experts ignores the frequency with which such experts have been wrong in the past. How many experts accurately predicted the nature of WW2? This is also ignoring the fact that WW3 would have probably gone nuclear within minutes, due to NATO's 'first use' policy and we'd have been fighting WW4 with bow and arrows.

  7. Originally posted by Jim Boggs:

    I thought BFC got the rights to something, which would give them some kind of incentive, but as far as what that is, I am not at liberty to speculate, nor do I have a clue as to what I am saying.

    Everybody's been wondering who was going to do Neverwinter Nights 2.
  8. The have been a series of documentaries on British TV by Terry Jones (of Monty Python) fame, debunking some of the myths about medieval society, one of which was the view of medieval women being meek, defenceless creatures (which was basically invented by the Victorians), one example he quoted was a woman in her seventies, who successfully commanded the defence of her castle against a siege on behalf of the King in one of the civil wars/rebellions in England.

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