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reinstall fixed, thanks for the reply though

I'm afraid I bought the paradox version, something which I regret now for a few reasons. However I forgot to mention that the game does load into the menu, it's on loading a mission that it fails. It always crashes at 93%, loading the world. If I disable the compatibility it crashes at around 36%. I am going to try a reinstall.

Hello, I have an almost identical setup: P6T X58 Intel I7 920 3GB RAM ATI 5850 with Cat 9.10 Windows 7 This runs ArmA and Black Shark lovely, however for the life of me cannot get CMSF working. Tried all compatibility combinations, resetting GPU settings and twiddling with the settings. Any help would be appreciated.

Well i think Steve's reply is as professional and gracious as you are going to get matt. So be nice

yeah it's an absolute pain, as I too have to consider downgrading drivers and lose performance in ArmA2/DCS Black Shark but lose the stripes in CMSF. Sucks.

"Top class airforce pilots don't automagically get a civil pilots licence." Not automatically, however they can undergo a conversion course to get a CPL and depending on their branch may have enough hours to start off with an unfrozen ATPL. "Top class army shots don't automagically get a firearms licence." True, although a firearms license is very different from another job that requires the use of firearms, such as an armed police officer. The experience does count there. "Top class medics don't automagically get a civil medical qualification." I didn't say they should, however because they don't have civil recognition does that mean that they are not allowed to do their job within the military too? That was the point. An example - you work in a company and that company has training to allow you to work with a certain machine, and you are happily working away. Then one day your company's qualification means nothing and your experience of working with that machine also means nothing - you don't have a job anymore. Fun. I like 'automagically' by the way.

Civilian laws, standards and values applied to warzones is always an interesting subject. In the medical world a fairly similar concept of 'clinical governance' has come about. The UK forces have been training their own medical personell for years and expected them to perform clinical intervententions in order to preserve life. Over the last few years there has been a strong move towards professionalism within the pre-hospital healthcare setting within the UK and there is legislation behind it. So now, a top class medic who has been trained by the army has no remit whatsoever to perform any interventions anywhere due to the fact that there is no system of clinical governance, where his/her abilities are audited and regulated by an external mediator. So in short, an army medic needs civilian recognition / regulation in order to perform any lifesaving interventions on his colleagues at home or abroad. Now personally, when considering slapping on a torniquet or establishing an airway 40 seconds after an IED has detonated in a faraway place I feel the last thing medics should be considering is whether they are allowed to. It does get more bizarre however, because clinical governance is in essence about ensuring that medical staff provide the best care using evidence based practice. It is now applied to a warzone where this is not entirely realistic. For example, i'm sure you've all seen coalition forces treating civilian casualties. You've perhaps seen Army doctors treating children who have suffered trauma or perhaps just minor illness. According to the concept of clinical governance they should be treated by a paediatrician, or at least have a paediatrician consult at hand. The Army's response would be "Well actually 100% of our employees are adults, thus we have no paediatricians ...". This leaves a giant hole where litigation and sactimonious beaurocrats can get involved. Most of this has been resolved now as it was a larger issue 5 years ago when it was starting to be implemented, however it highlights nicely the absurdity of it all. I feel it is part of the larger movement towards an unneccessarily litigious and over-accomodating society. People are starting to phase out the idea of 'accidental' and 'forgive and forget' and replace them with 'liable' and 'compensation'. I abhore it.

After realising how much easier running games in windowed mode is, I now want to try and tame the CMSF beast and stick it into a window. Shortcut commands don't seem to have effect and there is no option in the video settings. Is this possible or has this thread turned into a feature request?

I hate commenting on these discussions because someone always takes it to heart and starts banging nationalistic drums. However here is my opinion. After a long history of managing an empire with a few hundred thousand soldiers (not including indigenous regiments) the British have tried it all. Over the years the armed forces have dealt with protests by shooting everyone in sight, using smash and grab tactics trying to remove leadership from the group, by taking a few round the corner and giving them a kicking, by standing back containing violence but not intervening and by reasoning and diplomatic means. We have dealt with drug problems by sending in SAS teams to unamed latin American countries to train and assist indigenous security forces. We have dealt with insurgency operations all over the world. In Malaya we set up concentration camps which housed sectarian population elements, removing support for rebels. In Northern Ireland we sent in elite SAS teams to execute top leaders, the obvious hardline approach to such a problem. The result was massive inflammation of violence. We have legitimised our opposition by giving them political power and precedence in order to detract from violent means. There is a lot of experience behind the doctrine of the British forces. The key learning points are - the less force you use, the better. The more approachable, sensitive to local issues and less intimidating a force is, the better it's chances are at quelling insurgency. I think a lot of that doctrine has been lost with a desire for escalation, I am a cynic thus I think that large corporations with hefty profit margins are the main force behind this. It's incredibly easy to justify escalation, it just takes a few casualties ... it's not so easy to justify minimum force doctrine with a blood hungry public.

I downgraded to 7.1 to fix it. Sad but true.