Max 188's Classic EAW Guide: CLICK
HERE.
VonOben's
EAW Tutorial: CLICK
HERE.
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The EAW message boards (forums) at SIMHQ and FRUGAL are
THE places to go for the latest in EAW. To post messages you'll need to
register (it's free). The 'search' archives facility will give you acces to
many of the questions asked previously and many of the answers from community
members. A great source of information:
 
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The FAQ's listed below were from members of the EAW community
and submitted through the EAW message boards at the SIMHQ and FRUGAL forums.
If you find a FAQ that causes a problem, please E-mail me from the
'Contact' link at the ' Home' page and I'll try to put you in contact with the
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Rudder control problems
(Answer submitted by DeanH)
QUESTION - The rudder control does not respond
and the aircraft yaws to port (left) or starboard (right).
ANSWER - If you look in your EAW directory
you should find a file called EAW.ini. Open it with notepad and in there,
there's a section called [controls]. Under that heading is a line that reads '
Windows joystick=##'. It will be set to a value of either zero or one.
Whichever it is, change it to the other and see how you go from there.
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CH Products - control problems
(Answer submitted by Spidy)
QUESTION - How to set up CH throttle, stick and
rudder pedals?.
ANSWER - Save
yourself a lot of trouble by going to Spidy's web site at:
http://home.fuse.net/mmz/index.htm
Download the EAW map from there. You will see that it's working
perfectly with FS/PT/PP setup. Here is what you need to do. First delete
eaw.ini from your EAW folder Then open up the map from control manager and
download / activate it. Then go to Control Panels - controllers and make sure
that CH Control Manger Device 1 is the only device showing. If you do it right,
it should be the only one. If you are running XP, it will say use CH control
manager device 1 for older games or something like that. Make sure there are no
other controller devices other than that. Now start EAW and play the game.
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Dual graphics cards - Radeon graphics
card
(Answer submitted by
'ArgonV')
QUESTION - How to configure PC for dual graphics
cards or fitting a Radeon graphics card.
ANSWER - Download ArgonV's results (text
file).
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 Radeon video chips and
EAW
(Submitted by Kay 'Huntress'
Hammil)
QUESTION - Problems with Radeon video chips and
EAW.
ANSWER - See
below:
Those who run Radeon cards will have some issues when running
EAW. These problems are universal across all operating systems. There will be a
map and briefing room corruption that is not able to be fixed at this point.
Neither Atari nor ATI are looking into fixing it, and the community of users
has not been able to develop a solution for these problems yet.
The
other big issue Radeon users face is the lack of horizon fog so there is a view
of tiles at the horizon. This problem has been successfully solved, thanks to
Smirnoff (SimHQ Member #15273). Because of the wealth of information in this
thread, I will not quote from it, but instead give you the URL to it:
I
Have Fog on a Radeon!
If this thread disappears for some
unforeseen reason, I have saved it, as well as the thread at Frugal's, so that
the knowledge will not be lost to the community. For now, legally, people
should view the thread at the forums involved.
Many thanks to those who
contributed to this thread, particularly (alphabetically) CatsEyes (SimHQ
Member #6082), Crashin' Jack (SimHQ Member #17120), Smirnoff, Urban Furball
(SimHQ Member #14185), and VonBeerhofen (SimHQ Member #12745).
The
Glide wrapper file discussed is available here:
Glide
Wrapper, as is its documentation. I have these files, as well, should
someone need them and not be able to download them from the developer's site
any longer. Again, legally, it is better to get them from him while he offers
them.
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Graphics (video) issues with EAW and WIN
2000
(Submitted by Kay 'Huntress'
Hammil)
QUESTION - Problems with Graphics (video) for EAW
and WIN 2000.
ANSWER - See
below:
nVidia GeForce and better chips:
While the
explanation and instructions Max188 and 105_Ogdens give for the registry edit
to correct the map and briefing room corruption are correct for Win XP (
XP
regedit ), the instructions differ somewhat for Win 2K. The necessary
procedure in Win 2K is provided in a SimHQ post by Max188 (SimHQ Member #3411)
(post URL:
SimHQ):
Quote:
under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Devicemap\video
look
for the \Device\Video0 key and check its data value.
write down the
value \REGISTRY\Machine\System\Controlset001\Services\nv\Device0
now go
to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Controlset001\Services\nv\Device0
create
the DWORD NoAdjustedPitch with a Hex value of 1
End Quote
This
has been confirmed to work by Tiefflieger (SimHQ Member #19663) (post URL:
SimHQ
2 ) and ColJLanders (SimHQ Member #18171)(post URL:
SimHQ
3 ).
Radeon chip:
Those who run Radeon cards will have
other issues. This is true across all operating systems. There will be a map
and briefing room corruption that is not able to be fixed at this point.
Neither Atari nor ATI are looking into fixing it, and the community of users
has not been able to develop a solution for that problem yet.
The other
big issue Radeon users face is the lack of horizon fog so there is a view of
tiles at the horizon. This problem has been successfully solved, thanks to
Smirnoff (SimHQ Member #15273). Because of the wealth of information in this
thread, I will not quote from it, but instead give you the URL to it:
SimHQ
4
Many thanks to those who contributed to this thread,
particularly (alphabetically) CatsEyes (SimHQ Member #6082), Crashin' Jack
(SimHQ Member #17120), Smirnoff, Urban Furball (SimHQ Member #14185), and
VonBeerhofen (SimHQ Member #12745).
The Glide wrapper file discussed is
available here:
Glide
Wrapper, as is its documentation.
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