Do I have to be a programmer just to play this stupid game?

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Originally Posted by chadinko

I would love it if this stupid thing just WORKED. I bought the damn game, installed it, and it's choppy and slow and impossible to navigate and the bloody joystick doesn't work. My system exceeds the requirements:

AMD FX6200
16GB DDR3-1600
GEForce 9500GT, 1GB VRAM
Logitech Extreme3D Joystick

All I see in the forums is "you have to go into this file and that file and change this to that and edit this config file in order to get it to work." I don't WANT to have to have a Ph.D in computer programming in order to play a game I SPENT MONEY ON. I want to play the damned game.

Is that too much to ask? What I might want is my money back. Just like when I foolishly bought that useless game Lock On: Modern Air Combat, I feel like I've been defrauded of my money.

Hi and welcome

First off all, you have to understand that Cliffs of Dover is a SIMULATOR, like Lock on. It is in the nature of Simulators that they are complex pieces of software.
What`s more is that Cliffs of Dover has been published before it`s code was fully optimized, so in some ways, you are correct when you say it is a "crapy" game (because it is not optimized). Cliffs of Dover beeing published too early is a long story I won`t explain here.

So this sums all up to: No you don`t need to have a PhD in programming, but you need to be willing to change a file into that or replace something sometimes.
But: don`t worry about that, help here is great and we won`t let you alone.

Something you also have to know that Cliffs of Dover due to it`s unoptimized state is very hardware-demanding. 1GB of VRAM is the absolute minimum ( I know the game box says 512MB, but as I said: long story why it was published too eraly...).

What might help is installing the Team Fusion-Patch:
http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...ead.php?t=3777

and do this:
http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...ead.php?t=1806

Good luck and let us know if it works!