15.10.2008, 17:48
I see, the modded 4.09 patch doesn't include the skins pack - and so doesn't include the fb_3do20.SFS which i assume activates them within the game. It was so long ago that i downloaded the original 4.09 i had forgotten about the extra skins! which i am downloading now... cheers for the reminder! will certainly be quicker than adding skins to the SKINMOD folder 1 at a time 
I guess that disabling some planes won't crash the game, while some do is due to different ways of adding new content to the game. most of the new planes had (before the unified mod) an installer .exe while the blitz pack (which included the F1 and others) was a manual install and required you to add the lines to the text files yourself.
let me know if you have any more problems, I've had to reinstall the game so many times now that i'm getting pretty good at playing around with the mods. Now that the unified installer is here, I'm almost sad i don't have to install everything manually now - was quite a challenge to install all the mods i use in one go without it crashing
hock:
I guess that disabling some planes won't crash the game, while some do is due to different ways of adding new content to the game. most of the new planes had (before the unified mod) an installer .exe while the blitz pack (which included the F1 and others) was a manual install and required you to add the lines to the text files yourself.
let me know if you have any more problems, I've had to reinstall the game so many times now that i'm getting pretty good at playing around with the mods. Now that the unified installer is here, I'm almost sad i don't have to install everything manually now - was quite a challenge to install all the mods i use in one go without it crashing
hock: