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- Installation Notes for the Flight Unlimited Patch vF2.4S
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- This patch contains following bug fixes and enhancements:
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- 1. Updated Sound Blaster drivers that allow Flight Unlimited to
- recognize a wider range of Sound Blaster compatible sound cards.
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- 2. New code which eliminates graphical trails caused by mouse movement on
- the screen.
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- 3. FBO travel bug fixed. On some machines, if you didn't fly a plane while
- in a terrain area you couldn't travel back to your previous FBO.
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- 4. New code for joystick hat calibration which should fix the spinning
- cockpit and views caused by improper hat calibration with Thrustmaster
- & Logitech Wingman joysticks.
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- 5. New code for joystick calibration which should fix joystick non-detection
- and also joystick miscalibration.
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- 6. Throttle calibration bug. On several combinations of game card, machine
- and joystick, the joystick throttle calibration only gave you from 50% to
- max. This should be fixed.
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- 7. New code which traps and avoids the divide overflow error caused by old
- mouse drivers. We also recommend using a MS Mouse driver version 8.20a or higher.
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- 8. There are two fixes to the video code. The first caused Flight to not
- recognize certain video cards as being VESA 2.0 compliant. The second
- kept the palette from being initialized correctly on certain video cards.
- Please note that the univbe driver supplied with Flight Unlimited will
- *not* work with the Matrox Millennium video card. If you chose to install
- univbe then you will need to either re-install and answer no when asked
- if you would like to install univbe, or start Flight by typing "flight
- +nounivbe" (minus the quotes, of course), then press enter.
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- 9. Starting Flight by typing "flight +nothrottle" (minus the quotes) at
- the command line or putting "nothrottle" on a blank line in you
- flite.cfg file kills the joystick throttle. If you don't want joystick
- throttle or if you're using 2 joysticks, one as main control, one as
- rudder, you won't get throttle changes.
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- 10. People having headset detection problems particularly of the virtual i/o
- eyeglasses should NOT run from windows 95. Also, if the system has
- problems detecting the virtual i/o you should add +vio at the command
- line or add "vio" to your flite.cfg. This prevents flight from trying to
- autodetect any other kind of headset which appears to cause problems on
- some machines.
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- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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- 1. Make sure patch diskette is in the A: drive of your computer
- 2. At a dos prompt, switch to the flight directory on your hard drive.
- The dos command for this would be: cd\flight <press enter>
- 3. Copy the file fupat24.exe into the flight directory. The dos command for
- this would be: copy a:\fupat24.exe <press enter>
- 4. Type "fupat24.exe" (minus the quotes) <press enter>
- 5. Type "patch" (minus the quotes) <press enter>
- 6. Type "go" (minus the quotes) <press enter>
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- The patch is now installed and you can start Flight as you normally would.
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- OPERATION NOTES
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- It is a good idea after installing the patch to recalibrate the joystick.
- An easy way to do this is to press alt-j from the FBO. This will take you
- into the joystick calibration routine. If you still have problems
- calibrating your joystick please hold it in place for 1 second after you push
- it's button in each of the positions you are asked to move it to during the
- calibration procedure.
- If you have a Wingman Extreme select Thrustmaster in the joystick calibration
- box. You will be asked to move your joystick hat to all 4 corners. Please
- move the hat slowly and make sure to move it all the way to the corners.
- CH joysticks use a different method of sending hat data and will calibrate
- automatically.
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- You should make sure that the throttle is not pushed all the way away from
- you when you start Flight. That can result in the throttle not being
- detected at all. Pull it all the way towards you, or center it before
- running Flight.
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