Want to install LOFC with Win7? Read this thread!

So, you just got or built a new computer with the brand new and slick Windows 7, but can't seem to get Lock:On Flaming Cliffs to work correctly. As with Windows Vista, there are a few short hurdles that must be overcome with regards to the Starforce protection and sound issues.

Fix #1: Starforce (Make sure you run EVERYTHING as an administrator!)

1. Install Lockon 1.0

2. Install Flaming Cliffs

3. Install Patch 1.12b for "LockOn 1.1: Flaming Cliffs" simulator

4. Start Lockon and reboot when instructed. After rebooting, ignore the message that the Starforce driver is disabled.

5. Install the Starforce Update

6. Reboot

Fix #2: LockOn Sound

After you install Windows 7, your sound will work, but it is using a Microsoft driver during the install. Download the Realtek Driver for Vista/Windows7 from the Realtek site by clicking on their "HD Audio Codecs" to download.

REALTEK DOWNLOAD

Download both the Windows 7 driver at the top and the 3D Sound Back files.
1st-Install the Windows 7 Realtek HD Audio drivers for your systems sound card and reboot the computer.
2nd-unpack the 3D Sound Back zip file.
3rd-Open the 3D Sound Back folder you unpacked and right click the SETUP.EXE file and click both "Run as Administrator" and "Run this program in Compatibility Mode for WINDOWS VISTA (SP2) "
4th-Click the setup.exe and install the 3D SoundBack program.
5th-Go to your Windows 7 Program Files folder, and find the Realtek\ 3D Sound Back folder and open it. Right click the "3DSoundBack.exe" file and click both "Run as Administrator" and "Run this program in Compatibility Mode for WINDOWS VISTA (SP2) " once more.
6th-click Apply and then Double Click the 3DSoundback.exe file to open the program. Now your 3D SoundBack program from realtek opens up, Click ADD GAME on the right-side and add the path to your "Lock On" Folder (in my case it was C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\Lock On), the entry will be added in the window, but you need to highlight it and then click ENABLE and click OK to close the window.

7th-Now, as before with Vista, to avoid the loud afterburner in-game sounds, you must edit your Plane.cfg file (located in the LockON\Sounds folder) as before with Vista and Windows 7 now and make it look like this:

EngineAfterburnerSound = false;
EngineFrontSound = true;
EngineBackSound = true;
EngineAroundSound = true;
WindSound = false;
DistortionSound = false;
CockpitSystemsSound = true;
CockpitAfterburnerSound = true;

Then do a FILE, SAVE to save this Plane.cfg file as edited and close it.

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Hopefully these steps work for you like they have for me! Lockon runs great on Windows 7, and I think Microsoft has finally figured out how to build a good OS!


Edited by Rhino - 29 January 2010 at 16:33

Thank you! Confirmed working! With Windows 7 I now have an extra 20fps boost! 

Creative has a fix on their website, It's all that is needed as far as creative cards go!

Ah thank you for the tip. :)

I will use the creative drivers then and see, how that works out.

For a couple of reasons really.

Compared to WinXP, the operating system of choice when Lockon came out, Windows 7 uses a lot of horsepower to drive things like aero, indexer, sidebar, etc. etc. Unless you set your windows preferences to best performance, which disables all the bells and whistles your not going to get your best frames in any games. You can do this by right clicking on "Computer" in the start menu> Properties> Advanced System Settings > Advanced Tab > Settings and selecting "Adjust for best performance."

Also remember when Lockon was released it was optimized to take advantage of the technology of the time. Believe it or not, a more advanced operating system and hardware can actually hurt the game. An example of this is the game not being able to take advantage of multi-core processors stably.

Really though as long as you are getting >30 FPS consistently, your fine. If movies and television is smooth to your eye and those happen at either 24 FPS or 29.92 FPS, anything better than 30 is more than enough in game.