For the past few days we started to have problems with Internet Explorer users being unable to log in or browse the site.
Our Website does run with Chrome 2, Safari 4 and Firefox 3/3.5 and was tested on Windows and Apple Mac OS, unfortunately it does not work as it should with Explorer.
Our Webmaster narrowed the cause to a FlashPlayer incompatibility, but he is not completely sure if that is the reason, he hasn't yet found a fix.
If you need to use ONLY IE7 or IE8 - you need to make a change in Tools/Internet Options/Security/Restricted Sites - by adding our URL www.lockonfiles.com - and you should be able to navigate the site.
or 1-open LOF homepage after logging in, then after getting a blank blue page click the compatibility view.
To many of us, flying FSX is very much like peeling potatoes, not much fun to it - as you can't do much more than take off and fly here and there, then land.
FSX is an acquired taste, so it is a bit hard to convey the sense of wonder that the new FSX Nimitz gives - nor the pleasure of flying the T-45C, you have to experience it, FSX is that, the pleasure of flying and (crash) landing.
for the download links and a quick review, click on the banner or the Read More link and for our forum thread click here .
Posted by ThomasDWeiss on Wednesday, June 17 @ 14:00:00 PDT (2536 reads)
&modeA new map for Lock On made by Hawg has been released - and it is simply awesome, click on the image for the download page, the Nevada Terrain Map is 131.3 MB in size and comes in a single CDDS version Modman 7 package, they are easy to install and uninstall.
Continuing my travels around Australia - my next stop is YPEC AEROPELICAN AIRPORT, one of a series of add ons made by ORBX, part of its AU series.
this time, I flew a Captain Sim C-130E Hercules, not the easiest plane to land in such a small airport, to find out if I made it out of there in one piece - click on the banner or the Read More link.
Posted by ThomasDWeiss on Friday, May 29 @ 13:35:00 PDT (1351 reads)
About four years ago, I contacted a Mr. Fernandes about creating a web site to host files. At first I did not even have a name for it - nor any idea how to do it , he suggested something called PhP-Nuke , and soon I found a template for it in a site called Nukecops.
I printed it then cut and pasted their design to suit our needs, scanned it and sent it back to him and after a couple of web site prototypes we had our Website code done , which we still use today.
Now four years later, our team has grown to include Black_Hawk, Brit_Radar_Dude, Colt40Five, EricJ56, Hitman, Ironhand, Nesher, Ruggbutt, 159th_Viper, Zorrin and me and after receiving over Fourteen Million page hits we reached a milestone - a membership of Fifty Thousand.
A website like ours is its Community , our thanks to you and to all those that collaborate, in making this site what it is.
And my personal thanks to Mr. Fernandes for designing this web site and for saving it from a couple of disasters.
the LockOnFiles team
Posted by ThomasDWeiss on Monday, May 25 @ 09:40:53 PDT (431 reads)
Before I delve in much further, let me set the tone and tell you why I opted to be a lab rat for Microsoft.
I’m a Mac man. I am very much a ‘if it’s shiny and made by Apple I’ll buy it’ kind of man to the tune of a pair of iPods, an iPhone, a MacBook Pro and a brace of iMacs. I use these for work and only use Windoze because I have to for sims on a shared desktop PC. Yet still I had been heralding a burning desire to dual boot my MacBook Pro… Problem was a lack of hard disk space. ThomasDW suggested to just change the hard drive. How hard can it be? Not hard at all.
So after a couple of hours of frustration trying to find a shop that sells T6 Torx drivers I finally have the new disk in, only a wee 320gb but more than ample to install a few sims and still have access to all my work stuff.
So rather than pay for Vista or XP I was persuaded by the recession to try Windows 7. Turns out Microsoft had released RC1 (Release Candidate 1) earlier this month.
I can honestly say I have never installed Windows onto anything. I have however done a couple of OS X re-installs / upgrades and always found them to be smooth.
To be fair, Windows installation was a piece of cake. Apart from accidentally installing it twice…
So after installing Win7 I tried to install DCS Black Shark. I put the CD in and let it do the auto run (I am using a Russian DVD that came from qpig.ru). Installation was again easy enough bar the lack of any real instructions because there are no characters just ?????.
Within 30-minutes DCS was installed to my newly partitioned Windows 7 C:GamesBlackShark folder.
However, no launch icons like there should be. I tried just running launcher.exe from the directory but this popped up with “cannot find file Blackshark.lua”. At this point, I just knew it wasn’t going to be easy… So I tried DCS.exe. 'Error cannot find a dx9….dll'... That’s right, BS never asked me to install DirectX.
So duly downloaded DirectX and installed. Same problem, cannot find Blackshark.lua. Perhaps it’s because the Games directory is write protected… Let’s uncheck Read Only.
Nada, still not happening.
So I tried again to install , but this time I remembered to run setup.exe off of the DVD as an Administrator. In less than 10 minutes it was asking me to install DirectX and job done.
DCS is now running like an absolute dream under Windows 7. I am running a 2.2 Intel dual core MBP with a WD 320gb Scorpio, Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT 128mb graphics card with 4gb of RAM at 1440x900 on the 15” LCD screen and so far on the Instant Action it runs smooth, real smooth with textures and scenes set to high.
No Starforce issues, no nothing. Just a quick (once you remember the administrator lark!) easy install. What’s more, on the desktop PC which is only a dual core 2.0 Intel with an ATI HD3870 512mb and 2gb of RAM the MacBook Pro leaves it firmly wobbling in Vortex Ring State. But yes, the jaggies need to be sorted!
Just try it… What’s the worst that can happen ???
Posted by Zorrin on Monday, May 18 @ 14:07:41 PDT (341 reads)
One of the iconic fighters of World War II, flown by the 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force aka the Flying Tigers. The Curtiss P-40B's claim to fame was probably due to the fact that at the time, it was the best that could be fielded or produced by America.
Released for FSX as part of the Wings of POWER series by A2A, it is advertised as being both accurate and realistic, something that most products claim to be but few manage to deliver.
So we gave it a thorough evaluation to see if it lives up to the claims of its publisher.
to read our review - click on the poster or the Read More link.
Posted by LockOnFiles_Team on Monday, May 11 @ 10:00:00 PDT (1559 reads)
