I have installed teh Hells Angels superpatch, and my fuel runs out after some 2-3 minutes of flying, also the autopilot doesnt work, makes me crash, no tto mention my squad members crashes to death within a few secs..

Apparently this mod messes up the game pretty bad...

I think that happens when you don't have all the options set to realistic (or whatever synonym is used). Also, custom graphics should be checked. Also note that this mod uses the original scenery. If you want good looking scenery, you'll have to run it in glide and load a scenery pack like PL2. This site: http://forums.delphiforums.com/swwisa/ is involved with this particular patch and can be a great help. Whatever you do, don't mention the REDUX Project. I don't know the history but apparently it makes them very, very mad: some bad blood about something or another. :)

I've been using that mod for a long time - it works quite well but like all mods, certain (and often not well explained) steps need to be taken.

Hi, thanks for the reply! The game runs almost perfect now after these settings, authentic flight and custom plane graphics!

I installed promised lands terrain and it too works great!

I noticed that gog released this game earlier and i had to dig up my old red baron II disc and start play it again, i am surprised how much i enjoy it again!

With an rp point of view (no reload upon death), this game is next to impossible to stay alive throughout the war, a feat which i have never acomplished, nor did those daredevils who actually took part in the great war either i reckon..

Yeah this is one of the best SP games around. For me,in order to play the full war, what i am doing is flying in the same squadron all the way through. When my pilot dies, I create a replacement and through Hex Editting, I literally place him into the old campaign so I get all of the same squadmates with their kills. Have written the stories of every pilot so far as journals or letters to home.

Ok, i never learned hex editing, but if i had, i probably would have doen the same hehe

A follow up if anyone reads, i have some problem with stuttering while planes on screen gets more than 2-3, i wonder how i can eliminate it, i have watched videos of dogfigting at youtube with no stuttering and i think my system should be able to handle this? (gtx470)
No matter what settings i try, this is not changeable..

My setup is as follows:

rb2+3dsuperpatch+hasp+hasp_sp3+plpl2
glider dvoodo1.50beta2

Any hints or suggestions are very much appreciable, thanks!

The problem probably lies in the setspeed program that comes with the GOG version. GOG artificially slows the computer down to make the game playable with modern CPUs. With dgvoodoo and other graphics options turned to the max GOG's setspeed actually now works against you. Run the setpeed program in the Red Baron folder it to 100%. If you've renamed or moved the Red Baron folder that you downloaded you unfortunately have to re-download the Red Baron exe because setspeed will be broken, tell you that's running at 99% but actually it won't be and the game will be stuck running at 30% I think is the GOG default.

EDIT: Ah silly me you have the retail version + superpatch and not the GOG version. In that case I'm not sure what the problem is. It should be running fine unless the superpatch contains a setspeed like program? Maybe also try to play around with which glide emulator works better for you?

http://web.archive.org/web/20071010031931/http://home.golden.net/~ksharman/rb/Main.html

or to see all archived pages:

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20001015000000*/http://home.golden.net/~ksharman/rb/Main.html For my modded version of choice, Revenge of the Jastas, I always get a slight stutter when planes spawn in, and get enough on screen can visually notice a hit to my FPS. But it has never been to the extent of making the game unplayable. But I have never figured out how to get rid of it.

As is, RB3D usually uses 50% of my CPU in the menu stage despite having computer that is only two years old. Add all the AI's and graphic generation and I am sure it uses more.

I'm taking some stabs here - more brainstorming - as this is not an area I'm good at. Are you emulating Win 98? Some games are driven too fast by modern computers - it is possible to run a dual core (and I suppose a quad core) as a single core. Not having the GOG slowdown (there are others available free) program previously mentioned may cause this (I would think) depending on your computer. Also, the screen refresh rate might be set to 60 as default and that can generally be set to optimize on a graphics card (well, it can on mine, an ATI HD3600 series - I suspect strongly that gaming cards can do this too. As I said, I'm guessing but maybe one of these would help.

BTW, there is a later update to HASP/SP3 called RNAS-6. I couldn't get it to work but many have had no problems with it. It is more of a challenge as the planes are more realistically flown and machine guns are slowed down to realistic fire rates (due to firing through a propeller).

Have you open the Renderer tab on dgVoodoo & tried these settings ,,,helps fps big time!
No vertical sync
Enable hw accelerated
after you open dgVoodoo setup right click & then you'll see Show renderer specific settings

Salute!

Yes, this eliminated fps problem completely!! Thanks a bunch! :-)