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Honestly Patrick - that does not work. I say in the post above that I tried "d:\setup.exe -lgntforce" and it didn't work. You must have a Win10 32-bit machine. A 64-bit computer simply cannot run a 16-bit installer, unless I'm missing an extra step, like this... 1. Install Oracle Virtual box 2. Get an old 32-bit Windows ISO off a download site - I used Win XP SP3 3. In the VM settings, set-up a shared drive from the VM to your Win11 64-bit 4. Install the Game in the VM 5. Zip up the Flight3 folder in the VM and pass it through your shared drive to your Win11 64-bit This works! I just got it working 30mins ago 😁. Now to start applying your detailed fixes so I can get it tip-top...

Woh! Is DCS really a 200Gb download for the basic system ??? What do they have... DTED Level 1 of the entire Eurasian continent !? I have the disk space (on SSD) but it's the download size which is scary - I currently have a 30Gb/month plan so that will take me seven months to download, even assuming I can download in nice 28Gb chunks. I finally managed to find a Flight Sim on GOG (Good Old Games) - they have IL Sturmovik 1946 which was originally a 2005-ish release. It's currently on GOG's Black Friday sale for GBP 2.19.

Patrik / DearGown, Great work on getting this classic Looking Glass title operational but like DearGown I am having a fundamental problem with the installer. I'm pretty good with tech problems in general but I'm a bit out of date with 32-bit vs 64-bit systems - my last laptop ran Win 7 but finally died and I'm now on a Win 11 64-bit system. I'm not exactly sure when 64-bit OS came in - are you running a version of Win 10 with a 32-bit OS? I've tried d:\setup.exe -lgntforce (on the mounted old-games ISO) but it just crashes out immediately. Running this from within Task Manager at least brings up the InstallShield window but again crashes out before I can click Next. As far as I know this is expected behaviour as a 64-bit OS will never run a 16-bit installer - or am I missing something? What I want is a zipped-up Game folder - not the install ISO's. I noticed DearGown was able to copy over files but this seems a bit hit and miss. Could either of you post a listing of files and directories in your main game directory. I've had a few goes already... ISO 1 has the main FLT3 directory with the Flight3.exe so I copied this directory whole. I also copied the help directory and put it under FLT3 ISO 2 has some SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE named CAB files and related HDR files - not sure where to put these so I just dropped them in the FLT3 directory ISO3 just has the SEATTLE/MAPS directory which clearly slots under FLT3/REGIONS/SEATTLE Doing this has got me to start the game (in Win XP SP2 mode on Flight3.exe) but as soon as I try Quick Flight I get a hang (and then crash) on AI Startup Thanks in advance for any help Simon PS - I have the original game disks if that helps and no, I don't have any other (older) computers I can install this on so I can copy across a clean install.

Cheers Pat, that looks great. I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on. Also, just remembered Orbiter which I also used to 'play' a lot of (I say 'play' cos it's not really a game). It's so satisfying to plot your own escape orbit from Earth and connect with Saturn. Kind Regards, Simon

Hi Guys, I've been a purely amateur AVsimmer in the past (1995-2005). I used a SpaceOrb 360 6DOF controller and was very happy playing Digital Image Design's F22 Air Dominance Fighter, Looking Glass's Flight Unlimited 3 and Razorworks' Apache vs Havoc and Comanche vs Hokum. Unfortunately the SpaceOrb 360 was a serial device so it hasn't been supported since about Windows XP time. Fast forward to 2024 and I stumbled across some guy on the internet who also loved the SpaceOrb, couldn't bear to part with it when he threw out old computer stuff (just like me!), and eventually got a team together to make some hardware converting the serial input to a USB output with some embedded Python code to perform the conversion. It works! Search for Orbotron or Thingotron or Jay Crowe if you're interested. My question to you knowledgeable people is... can you recommend any Fixed-wing and/or Rotary-wing military flight simulators which will work on modern 64-bit computers. There have to be better games made in the last five years than the three mil-sims I mention above. What I'm looking for is something with particularly realistic avionics in terms of weapons targeting, but which is still a game. I'm from a Mil-Science background so my expectations in this regard are above the average gamer. I'm less interested in non mil-sims - I have a soft spot for Looking Glass so I'm going to try to get Flight Unlimited 3 working on my new Win 11 system (I've seen the post on your forums btw) Thanks in advance, Simon