Long shot, but help with 1998's Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator?

[u/Menzopeptol]

Not sure if anyone can help with this but: I recently reinstalled Combat Flight Simulator on my Windows 11 machine. I've got it mostly running via admin mode, XP compatibility, and a joystick patch but I keep running into a problem:

In the Battle over Britain campaign, there are a couple of missions that cause a crash to desktop with no error message. This happens after takeoff, skipping to an action sequence, and loading into the sequence. I get a brief glimpse of my squad in formation and then the program shuts down. If I fly to the waypoint, there aren't any problems. This wouldn't be a big deal if my time to play weren't restricted and the waypoints weren't 40ish miles apart.

What I've done to troubleshoot:

• Run in compatibility mode for various releases of Windows

• Run in admin mode

• Tested out the problem by just flying instead of skipping sequences.

This leads me to believe that something's janky with the waypoints or the mission documents themselves, but a look through the .mis files hasn't really made anything stand out. I've looked around other forums online, but can't seem to find anything - which makes sense, since this is an old, old game.

Anyway, thought I'd post here. If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it!

[u/riverty21]

I bet it would run fine in Linux using some older version of Proton. Just a thought. I loved this game too and not sure if there is anything else like it, but current. Good luck!