[edit] never mind, you posted while I was posting

<t> I've got what may be a silly question, but I haven't played as Japan much and I am using this spreadsheet for the first time.<br/>
<br/>
I see a few entries where it says to, say, expand a size 97 shipyard to 100. But when I click on expand, the only option is to double it to 194.<br/>
<br ...

<r> <br/>
Good catchon the windows. Turns out the system stopped installing updates months ago and I got no error messages, so now I am fixing that. The black screen problem has been occurring for years, but only recently became more frequent and starting screwing up the display even after exiting ...

<r> Good point, they probably are redundant. However, I have tried it with and without the "affinity" set, and it does not make a difference for this particular error.<br/>
<br/>
The "affinity" trick was described a few years ago on this forum.<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: BillBrown<br ...

I dropped that particular "-" in the process of adding and removing the dd_sw switch a few times to see whether it had any effect. It does not appear to matter if the switch is on, off, or (in the most recent case) inadvertently mistyped.

Here is my "dxdiag" file...

<t> Apologies if this has been addressed - I could not find it in a forum search.<br/>
<br/>
I have two problems...<br/>
1) If I run the game in windowed mode, occasionally it locks up instantly and completely when I open the operations report. Since that means I lost everything since the last ...

<t> Been much better for me with mikmyk's recommendations. It just didn't work in that first game... for some reason I had to back up to an earlier autosave and then make the changes, and things were better. I still get goofy behavior occasionally but it's much more manageable, and if I restore from ...

<t> I keep noticing friendly subs vanish from the simulation and never reappear. Most recently this happened in the Canary's cage scenario. I gave the 4 Spanish subs orders initially, no problem. But after the scenario started running, they each disappeared after I gave them updated orders.<br ...

<t> I got better results when I backed up 20 seconds from the autosave and tried again. Still a lot of odd behavior like one aircraft in a group flying toward the enemy without engaging while the other turns away (both have full weapons and plenty of fuel), but I was at least able to get a roughly ...

No luck. Did all of the above, F16s still fly around aimlessly and don't engage the MiGs.

<t> Here's another save. Group 4352, with radars on, is going to continue flying right at these approaching MiG-29s and never fire a round. They will both get shot down without even attempting to engage. I realize it can get depressing if you're stationed up near the Arctic Circle in winter and ...

<t> Ah, here's the one I was looking for. This is right as the engagement is starting. The incident is occurring SE of Tromso. I've used AWACs to bring in groups 4261, 4262, and 4266 in alongside to slightly behind the MiGs, F16s' radars off to avoid detection. The F16s started at low altitude. When ...

Here is a save from the beginning of the scenario before the incident occurred, showing the settings. Note that all the F16s involved were part of the "AAW Consolidation" mission

<t> Target is definitely hostile. Friendly aircraft armed with AIM-9L and approaching from 90 degree to rear 3/4 angle. Tried to load a save file but now I can't see or edit any of the doctrines for some reason. I went into the menu to "change side doctrine," and when I went to EMCON the game ...

<t> Just bought the game a couple weeks ago. I'm trying to play the first Northern Fury Scenario. My F16s keep flying right up to the MiGs without firing and of course then get waxed. They're within range, opportunity set to yes, no ambiguity in target location due to AWACs, I try setting attack ...

You had an IJN VADM in command of Pensacola? How'd you do that? [:D]

Same thing happened to me but with r's. Restarting the game cleared up the problem.

<r>
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: doc smith<br/>
<br/>
Thanks to you and herwin for commenting.<br/>
<br/>
I had clear weather on one of the eastern Marshalls islands, island airbase of 4, and an American TF spotted by flying boats at the island and reported as transports and escorts. No ...

<r>
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: aphrochine<br/>
<br/>
[&:] I really dont like playing the game in '41 and early '42. It's all Japan marching across the pacific, or allies trying to evac/sir robin until Japan starts to over extend itself. Really boring in terms of combat if you ask me. Perhaps ...