Playing Combat Flight Sim 2 on a newer rig

Of course I should have checked this out before replying from memory.
When will I ever learn?

Anyway, what kills the opening video is the ESCape key, not the Enter
key. And once in the settings, you have a lot more options to choose
from than 640 by 480, all of which are good. The main point remains,
though, that after a first installation of CFS2, it initially does want
to run in 640 by 480, and that can cause problems. Like a black screen
while the audio plays, for example.

If, as you seem to say, your choppiness doesn't occur until well into
the game, I'm guessing that might be a problem with your video codecs,
but that's just a guess. Have you tried locking your framerate to
something reasonable like, say, 35? Sorry to have provided bad info in
first reply. Microsoft didn't release any patches for this game.

-Seadog

Seadog wrote:
> I'm recalling this from memory, oh exalted cucumber.
>
> The problem is CFS2 wants to run in the screen resolution of 640 by 480,
> and gives you great trouble if you don't already have your desktop set
> to that resolution. But XP doesn't give you that option in the settings
> selections. The lowest you can see to choose from is 1024 by 768. If I
> recall, the way to stop the cartoon opening video is simply to hit
> enter, and it will give you the starting menu screen. Go into the
> settings for the game and select 640 by 480, and you should be good to
> go. It will reset your desktop setting to 640 by 480 also, by the way.
>
> -Seadog
>
> Lord_Pickle wrote:
>
>> Ok.
>>
>> Can you play combat flight sim 2 on a modern computer? I have a new
>> comp with a Radeon X1800XL video card and when I try to run CFS2 when
>> I enter a mission the screen flickers and the video becomes choppy. I
>> can't play this game with the screen like that so is there a way to
>> fix this like with a patch ?
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