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Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: TheTach9Man on May 16, 2002, 03:51:51 PM

went to.  I was wondering where everyone flew off to.  I've read the pilots list and saw some old names: otto, Monk and a few others..... I hope some of them remember me as I do about them!!!  I've been missin' flyin' since I logged off of AW's when it was at EA..  I'd like to try this new place out and see how I like it.

I've downloaded the game but I keep getting an error message about sound.dll  not export.   I can't figure out what's wrong with it.  I'm runnin' a PII 333 with 196 meg ram.  My system only has an onboard 3D system so I know I'm pushin' the bottom of the requirements but it should work.

Anyone have any ideas?

Hope to hear from some old flyin' buddies!

Still a mouse pilot for 9+years.....and still Tach 9

:D

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: K West on May 16, 2002, 03:53:43 PM

What version of DX do you have.  Should be DX version 8.1.

 But before downloading and installing DX8.1 (if you're on DX 6 or something) you're best off asking about this in the Tech Help forumn. G'luck

Westy

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: Skuzzy on May 16, 2002, 04:00:17 PM

You need to have DX8 installed.  AH requires that.

System wise, you are pushing it.  You have 2 weeks to give it whirl online, so you can decide for yourself if your system can handle it.

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: Curval on May 16, 2002, 04:43:44 PM

Welcome..

You're gonna like this alot more than AW, honestly.

Hurry up and fix your DX, or whatever, and see why.:D

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: TheTach9Man on May 16, 2002, 06:04:10 PM

Well I updated my DX from 7.0 to the newest for win98 and I tried to get in....my system sux!  What can I do to set everything to the lowest settings so it doesn't overload my system?

I can't even move my mouse hardly.......it takes about 20 seconds to react (cursor).

Let me know......Thanks
Tach 9

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: Staga on May 16, 2002, 06:16:03 PM

What is that onboard 3D-system? That is propably reason to your problems.
If your mobo doesn't have AGP-slot for graphics accelerator you still could use one made for PCI-slot. There are GeForce2 MX and Voodoo 3, 4 and 5 cards for PCI-slots thought they might be hard to find these days and price is little higher.

edit: Here's (http://www.visiontek.com/5332.shtml) one vid-card for mobos with only pci-slots thought I really would take another route with new mobo and cheap AMD Duron CPU.

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: AKSWulfe on May 16, 2002, 06:20:39 PM

Honestly, that system ain't gonna cut it...

even if you ran it at 640x480x16bit turning ground clutter off (ctrl-c) reducing the terrain visibility to minimal (shift-f3) and optimizing your system as much as possible, you'll still probably only get 9 fps out of that system.

It's a good time to get a whole new setup, cheaper to build yourself a new system.
-SW

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: midnight Target on May 16, 2002, 06:44:02 PM

Welcome Tach

SW is probably correct. I run a 550 with 8 meg vid card and I cant play above 640x480 16bit.

in AW

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: Staga on May 16, 2002, 06:50:21 PM

Just checked from http://www.pricewatch.com :
AMD Duron 800MHz + mobo 80-100$, twenty bucks more and you would go beyond 1GHz.
Geforce2 MX400 32MB 43$, GF2Ti 74$.

You could use other hardware from your old computer (some mobos are still using SDR-RAM like you propably have).

Edit: You might also need ATX-case and power supply, +40$

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: easymo on May 16, 2002, 07:43:20 PM

You can play the 8 player game until your upgrade. There is a lot less eyecandy to deal with.

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: gatt on May 17, 2002, 01:00:55 AM

Midnights your bottleneck is the video card. I've run AcesHigh at 1024x768x16 with my PIII-500 and GeForce2-GTS for a long time without fps problems. But you probably know it very well.

Title: OK....finally found where AW's pilots.....
Post by: Makofan on May 17, 2002, 10:12:52 AM

I have a Celeron 233 with 64MB RAM and onboard sound, and get 18-20 fps in dogfights, which is good enough for me.  What has saved me though is my 32 MB Savage 4 vid card - without that I would get 3-6 fps.  So, a $99 vid card should keep you respectable.  The sound seems like a Direct X upgrade thing