daicphan: Hello all,
After over 10 year hiatus, I finally get back to my favorite sim of all time, the RB3D. I bought the game at GOC last week and downloaded all the needed patches such as First Aid Kit and 1078 patch. I have Windows XP and for the life of me, I cannot get the game to run in its glory. That means the game runs with very substandard graphics. I load and reload the 1078.exe but still get the original version. I also have great difficulty install the First Aid Kit because it keeps telling me to "install RB3D then run the Wizard from RB3D folder" after I unzip everything. PLEASE HELP ME TO GET THIS GAME RUNNING and I thank you for all your help! BTW, the Glide option is greyed out so I wonder if this could be the problem? DCP
The GOG version already includes the 1078 patch included.
With the First Aid Kit, you should be able to get a Glide Wrapper, but it has been many years since I have needed to use it. So, when you are speaking of "very substandard graphics," you mean while playing Glide mode, not Direct Draw or Windowed mode?
When you start your mission at an airfield (Campaign Mode), if the ground is made of squares with crisp edges, you are in Direct Draw Mode.
Just in case its been too long: You can select which graphics mode by selecting Preferences, then selecting Graphic Setting, the Graphic Options. Pick your graphics mode under Graphics and Resolution right under that. There are also sliders for adjusting graphic details (move them all the way to the right), and check boxes for other details (Shadows=On, Props=On -there can be a FPS hit, Combat Detail=Detailed, Max Detail=On, Pixel Size=Small, Terrain Textures=Smooth, Aircraft Textures=Custom, and Clouds=On).
The game ships with the stock terrain that originally came with the game. However there are numerous mods now that improve all graphics of terrain and planes.
For terrain, there are three.
OTE or On The Edge. Hard to find but is out there.Summer and winter is very good, Fall for me is horrible, but some like it.
PL1 or Promised Land 1 by Kessler. The best one out there, especially the one modded by Gump. the version entitled PL1va by Kessler includes sounds (most I like, a few I really hate) and graphics for buildings. PL1va is set up that you have to use all of its vol files or game will crash. Gump's version is terrain only, set it up so each vol file is a separate entity so game will not crash if you change one vol file out for a completely different vol file for that season. Gump's also change one tile that had a large yellow field in it, which created a noticeable checkerboard look to the terrain for Spring and Summer. Biggest problems with PL1 is that it is graphics intensive (heavy hit on FPS) and has a non-stock palette that causes the game on Win7 to crash after finishing the mission, with keeps one from advancing in a SP Campaign.
PL2 or Promised Land 2. This is the one I use (since I am on Win7, if not I would be swapping between PL1-Gumps and PL2). Very nice Graphics, but colors are a bit intense. Example, the Spring/Summer terrain is very green, which I see in the hills where I live for about three to five weeks in April-May, but not all Spring nor Summer long. Nice thing about PL2 is that it uses the stock color palette, so it has no conflict with Win7.
I have a number of RB3D files here, including Promised Land 2 in a zip and a rar file (PL2PLv1)
[url=]http://cid-e196374a237958b4.office.live.com/browse.aspx/RBFILES[/url]
I also have four versions of Glide wrappers uploaded, as different wrappers perform better for different computers and different graphics cards.
[url=]http://cid-e196374a237958b4.office.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/GlideWrappers[/url]
Some links to check out for thing Red Baron 3D
[url=]http://www.wings-of-valor.net/[/url] -Some downloads and a forum, mostly Multi-Player
[url=]http://www.flybert.net/[/url] --a very cluttered site, but full of enhancements for RB3D both MP and SP. This is where you can down load all the Multi-player paints so you can see those that still fly online in their squad colors.
[url=]http://www.swwisa.net/[/url] -numerous enhancements including improved plane models. A SP focused site.
About Multi-Player and the GOG version. GOG modified the exe's so one does not get asked to put in the CD. Problem is most servers online run a security program and notice the fact and kick those using the GOG version. The fix is replace Baronmmp.exe with a stock 1078 version that does not include the CD fix. To play click the upper right cross six times in the Insert CD Prompt Window. I have a 1078 patched stock Baronmmp.exe uploaded in the same folder as the terrain from my personal game that came from my RB3D CD.
Hope this all helps.
