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Originally Posted by Skybird

If you play single player only, then it definetly is not worth it, I have returned to SB4.2 one-click-installer, and concerning the summary of details concerning functionality, and stabililty, and reliability of the included features it is far superior to AF. It is not flawless, nore compelte, nor perfect, but far better than AF, nothing more and nothing less. Certain graphical details may look a bit better in AF, but it is not enough to compensate for the many setbacks. I personally stopped seriously testing AF with 1.03. 1.05 was so dissapointing that I abandoned it very soon. I play tanks most of the time now, but when flying Flacon, it is SP4.2 withouit further mods and addons (no FF or BMS or whatever). I do not remember when I had my last CTD. Tankers work. Comms work, weapons work, AI most of the time does well, wingmen are there and do as I order them. All this is broken with AF at least in 1.05.

If you play online a lot, then you still have to accept broken details, but the stability of online games is said to be far better with AF. I do not know, online is not my interest.

Waiting for AF being patched: rumours are that 1.07 will be the last patch they will offer, and I am sure it still will not be completely adress all the many issues, nor will it be modded. It is even possible that 1.06 now is the last patch. Having surfed Frugal's and simHQ I got the impression that 1.06 again is far from being a product beyond doubt, many peopole complain about growing instability and ctd's, and still broken functions, and not just a few. I found the general feedback after one day so discouraging that I'm even not interested too seriously try it again, although I have installed it this morning. and then I found myself flying another SP4.2 mission, before going to SBP

So, for single players I definetly recommend the SP4.2-OCI, very easy installation (one-click), and you're done. No further stuff, no FF, no BMS, no nothing. To me this purist's setup is the best, most reliable and most complex Falcon I ever had. FF has given me troubles last time I tried it (frames and ctd's).

I've done the SP's + BMS and even dabbled with FreeFalcon, yet F4AF is by far a better product. I have not had the issues you describe here and I have many hours on F4AF. BMS 2.0 still has some things in it that AF should have, but I assume they will get there in due time. BMS also has slightly better graphics I think. Overall, the wingman controls in F4AF are way better and functional when they do not work right in SP4.2. Too many bugs in SP4.2 alone that don't exist in F4AF.

As a single player game, I prefer F4AF over the SP4.2 any day of the week and I have 100's of hours between the two.

Did I mention that dual core CPU's will work in F4AF too and one CPU runs the ground war and the other runs the flight sim?

Give me a time and I can write book on what is better in F4AF.

By the way, you can still mod F4AF and adjust things if you know how. You have to manually add some files that existed on SP4.2 and edit them by hand. They will then work like they used to, but on F4AF instead.

-S