Try This

[Barrongm]

Could someone with a fresh install and the rc9 patch please try this and post results. So I know if it is an issue with my computer or not.

Roam, any race any ship, land on any planet. Landing is imortant, must be on ground. Then go to tac ops and launch shuttle from there. When if it works lanch another, try all 4. When I do this after first or second one my tac ops computer starts freaking out. Droping back to bridge view, and doing all kinds of crazy stuff. Seems to only happen when launching shuttles from tac ops while on the ground. I have to restart game to get it working again.

[Barrongm]

Hee, after trying this with just about every ship(with the same results) Im may have to try them all extensivley before making a final choice. The pictures in the apenndix are good, but they dont do some ships justice. There are many very nice looking craft.

[Saint19]

I was just about to post this as well. Sometimes I'll send a shuttle or fighter out. Then go back to tacops only to have it keep switching back to the bridge view. I'll switch back to tacops and it just keeps happening.

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm using the RC9 beta patch as well. I'm not sure if it did that with the previous official patch as I never got that far with that patch before switching to RC9....what with me being a newbie and all. Thanx in advance.

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[Barrongm]

I did not have the problem till around rc8

but now I cant find the older patches

, even the origanal 1.001 is gone. I hope others notice it it soon, its driving me crazy, I have posted about it in the proper threads.

[Cmdr Nova]

Number 1: How could you have had the problem with RC8? 1.0.02 RC8 was never released. It was just for internal testers only.

Number 2: The older RC patches are removed, because the newer ones include the older ones. They are all uploaded to the same filename, so even if you use the same link as last time, you'll still get RC9. 1.0.01 was removed just recently. I think, because all the RC5+ patches use a new savegame format, and SC doesn't want to deal with folks complaining about that, even though the instructions are clearly placed in the VCF, and the patch says something like "Remember to read the version control before running this version!" when the patch is complete.

Number 3: I've had this problem, as well. If you launch a shuttle from Tacops, planetside, you'll get back into your bridge, with a weird graphical glitch in the middle of your screen. Press F1, and it's gone. I've been working around this, and it isn't that bad.

[ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

[Barrongm]

Gotacha Cmdr Nova...and yes you are corect, I never did find rc8. I said it because I went from rc7(with out the tac ops prob) to rc9(with the tac ops prob). Im guessing what ever is causing it came from rc8 or rc9, due to the fact

1)as you said r9 contained all previous

patches including rc8.

2)I was using rc7 with no problem, and

after rc9, I had the problem.

Thank you very much, both of you, for trying this, and posting the results. I have posted about it in tech support thread...and have got no reply. As you said..it can be worked around..

(ie)dont launch shuttles while sitting on the ground...fire up engines and climb to hover at 1000, then launch. So I guess thats what I will do. Maybe its not a bug. Maybe Your not suposed to launch shuttles from the command craft while on the surface of a planet. It would not be so bad if it just kicked you back to bridge view, but here it will not let me back in to tac ops once it starts happening, with out restarting the game.

[Cmdr Nova]

If you make your shuttles come back, you should be able to get into tacops. That's what I did.

[Barrongm]

for now, ill just make sure I launch no shuttles while on the ground...however I have yet to try launching shuttles then landing and then going to tac ops...I have no idea what the results will be.