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Managed to get Hyperlobby installed and (Murph) no issues launching a MDS here.

Not sure if joinable on my IP as not able to test that at the time , but able to create and launch mission.
No greying out of button, so that remains a mystery.

Thanks, Sneaky. I think it means there is something wrong or incompatible with the particular mods I have in my JSGME or in my mods folder.
What particular additional mods are you using besides HSFX?

None- just HSFX 4.01, and set up was as last night-

HSFX
Zuti
Wind prop and turb

I'll have to try and disable all my other mods besides those and see what happens.

Just a thought - do you have firewall permission for both HL .exes

Hyper lobby pro - hlpro.exe

Asynchronous ping - aping.exe

plus the Mod version of il2fb.exe

worth checking you have correct version of V basic for HL too
hyperfighter.sk/modules - Visual Basic 5.0 SP3 runtime

Well that did'nt help at all. In fact now my TrackIr does'nt work.

Latest update- I got it working! (TrackIr required a PC reboot to sort it out.???)
Anyways, HL prefers a desktop screen resolution of 800x600 to display all of it's buttons onscreen. With my desktop set at 1680x1050 (native), some of the stuff just was'nt visible, such as the button that should appear onscreen next to my name as mission host! I had to hunt around to figure which empty space on the screen had to be clicked to bring up the "start mission" option after I had saved the mission settings.
Why has HL never upgraded their window resolution? Who runs their desktop at 800x600 anymore? (Yes, it's meant to be a rhetorical question.)

:FI:Murph wrote: Why has HL never upgraded their window resolution? Who runs their desktop at 800x600 anymore? (Yes, it's meant to be a rhetorical question.)

They expect you to do that!

Open the hlpro.ini file in to text editor, find there line contain Scale=1 .Its resize multiplier. Posible values:

For 800x600 resolution is optimal value 1
For 1024x768 resolution is optimal value 1.25
For 1280x1024 resolution is optimal value 1.5

Perhaps try 1.75 even?
Otherwise good news

Murph,
You may find that the "optimal values" are only a good starting point.
I've noted that fine adjustment is possible by increasing the values by .05 per try to get the best size for my screen. However, re-installation changes all that, and the previous optimal value may be different the next time.
Weird!

Kind of moot, as I don't use HL much anymore, but thought I'd mention it.

Thanks, Dan. I also almost never use it anymore, but we were trying to see if it helped Wolfhound's and Ardmore's connection issues to use it rather than a direct IP. So it's good to remember how to use it. Thanks for the help guys.

I got a solution over at the 262squadron site- For Vista or Win7 users;
Go into your HL folder and look for the program's "skins.ini" open it with notepad and change all entries using three "dots" i.e., "..." (without the parenthesis), to ".." (two dots).
This restores the appearance of the HL GUI so that the buttons are once again visible.