I admit, I lurk on a regular basis. EAW's community is the standard of what can be done. I am a fan, but not a player. I am happy to enjoy the aroma from the best bakers.

Come on in and buy a bun, or a bag of popcorn. The aroma is only a tease.

I haven't been by in a long while. Big changes in my life that took up a lot of time. But most of all my new computer won't run EAW. Graphics card issue. I already did a thread on Dropped By.

Yes EAW and its supporting community is still the standard to judge by.

Jeepers,

we touched on 99 viewing tonight !!...

not bad for a 10 year old sim!!


cheers,



Pobs

91 lurking at nearly twenty to midnight! It's got to be some sort of record for EAW in recent years. Just a shame, more don't come out of the clouds and show themselves, or are they too embarrassed to post here, because they left here for greener pastures, or the dark side? Don't be that way guys, either way, we'd just like to say howdy again.

Well ,I had to give up on EAW with XP. I tried the procedures that others had listed, but alas poor EAW, I knew it well.

So I just recently built a new rig, SLi GeForce 8800 GTS 512's and the works Even a Core 2 Extreme x9650 Quadcore @3 Ghz, and 4 gigs of ram. So just for $#!^$ and giggles I put the EAW disk in the computer, and the loadup screen appears, I click the button to install, fully expecting an incompatable with Vista message, when low and behold, the flippin' thing installs without a hitch. No special process required. And my copy of Vista is a 64 bit version.

So I added the patch, and some artfiles to test the game out and it works just fine. The only thing is that occasionally , I still get the alt+n ctd even though the game is patched, but the cool thing is, I have extra squads at 3 in the ini file, and it's as smooth as glass, even with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 on my 28 inch widescreen. And it doesn't distort the picture at that resolution. But the 256 graphics are beginning to show their outdateness. At least I can have fun with this little gem after how many yearsnow, something like 10 years. Goes to show what a good well thought out sim can do for longevity. Even if it did need a patch, and fan additions, which helped to enhance it.

I think BoB II will turn out the same way, as will SH4. Just good games at heart, but fantastic when the community jumps in to improve and enhance it.

Congrats, Conrad.
I am sure there are lurkers aplenty waiting for you to fly online! (after doing a few tuneups to your skills, of course).

Gibbs---A check of the number of hits shows what everyone is looking at.

Gee you guys will complain about anything

Too many lurkers, not enough lurkers, just the right number of lurkers....

And now you want us to say something?

I refuse.

Right, Headwax. Let's just call them our "audience"

Hi Headwax,

It wasn't really a 'Complaint' but sort of more like an 'Observation'

Cheers mate