This is very strange. I thought I had turned OFF "No external view". I even tried deleting Documents\SH4, restarting the game, re-doing the realism settings again and ensuring "No external view" was off, restarting a campaign, saving the game, quitting the game, restarting the game, loading my saved game, and ... free camera was
still disabled.
So, i poked around inside Documents\SH4. It turns out that all instances of
GamePlaySettings.cfg somehow had
Code:
NoExternalView=true
instead of
Code:
NoExternalView=false
I changed all instances of
GamePlaySettings.cfg so that "NoExternalView" was set to
false, restarted the game and ... voila, free camera now works.
Now, if the guy who keeps saying "Passing thermal layer" while we are sitting in port, depth 0, speed 0, waiting to start the 1st patrol would be quiet I would be happy
...