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Just purchased a bargain bin special for Freespace and Silent Threat boxed together since I had lots of fun playing it before.

Unfortunately, there seems to be some strange thing with the afterburners as I can here them firing after pressing the TAB key, but I don't get a single boost out of them.

Can anyone help me here (since Volition doesn't want anything to do with Tech Support apparently).

Taken from karajormas's FS2 FAQ at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/ ... fterburner:

The afterburner/energy transfer system has stopped working. I hear the sound but don't go any faster. What can I do?
This had many people perplexed for a while but turned out to be due to a bug in the FS code. All the cases I've seen of it so far have occurred on Windows XP or Windows 2000. The problem can be solved for XP users by running FS2 in compatibility mode. Open up your FreeSpace folder and look for FS.exe. Make a short cut for this file and position it wherever you like (Desktop or Startmenu). Right click on icon and choose properties. Click on the Compatibility tab and choose which ever mode you like (I've heard that Windows 95 works best but you might find otherwise). Use the icon to run FS from now on.
Since Windows 2000 lacks compatibility mode I'm not certain how to solve the problem there.

Ireng wrote:Taken from karajormas's FS2 FAQ at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/ ... fterburner:

The afterburner/energy transfer system has stopped working. I hear the sound but don't go any faster. What can I do?
This had many people perplexed for a while but turned out to be due to a bug in the FS code. All the cases I've seen of it so far have occurred on Windows XP or Windows 2000. The problem can be solved for XP users by running FS2 in compatibility mode. Open up your FreeSpace folder and look for FS.exe. Make a short cut for this file and position it wherever you like (Desktop or Startmenu). Right click on icon and choose properties. Click on the Compatibility tab and choose which ever mode you like (I've heard that Windows 95 works best but you might find otherwise). Use the icon to run FS from now on.
Since Windows 2000 lacks compatibility mode I'm not certain how to solve the problem there.

Thanks muchly.

The games a little easier when acceleration is possible.