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Hi, I thought i would post the final results of our discussion on WS vs normal aspect. http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=13204&page=2 Above is the link to the thread. Basically, when running in widescreen say 1920*1200, most knew to change the aspect ratio to 1.6 in the graphics config file. This just changes the image so it is not streched. It doesn't however increase the Feild of view (FOV), so you just get a cropped top and bottom image. To change the FOV open the config\view\view.lua -- Camera view angle limits {view angle min, view angle max}. CameraViewAngleLimits = {} CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iSu_27] = {20.0, 145.0} CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iSu_33] = {20.0, 145.0} CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iSu_25] = {20.0, 145.0} CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iSu_39] = {20.0, 145.0} CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iMiG_29] = {20.0, 145.0} CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iMiG_29K] = {20.0, 145.0} CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iA_10] = {20.0, 145.0} CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iF_15] = {20.0, 145.0} Here you can see the view angle max has been changed to 145 for all aircraft, any more and the graphics engine starts to struggle. And as caretaker pointed out, at 145 we get the same vertical picture, but a wider view horizontally, compared to a 4:3. A big thanks to Caretaker and Slatr for helping in working this issue out. Below is a shot of the A-10 in WS cheers EDIT: People are complaining that the view changes dont help, but it changes the MAX fov. Thus the default view will be still too close. Simply zoom out with the keyboard, or lean forward and then re-centre if you have a trackIR. This will fix the problem, but needs to be done every flight.

There will be 60 single missions and many multiplayer missions. BSO will have an offline campaign and an online massively multiplayer community campaign. T-Bone

Come, on, like piracy is the issue with such games, with a fairly limited audience. And even for big shooters, that make up like 80% of the gross income in the pc game business, a copy protection isn't that vital, as the target audience (boys, aged 8-15) won't bother to crack it, and will just buy it (if they make enough commercials for it). What I do hate about SF is, that I had to reinstall the firmware of my DVD burner (and it shattered a disc before, but I don't have proof that SF caused it, I did have to live for 5 weeks without it) to get it to read and burn readable dvds again. So I guess it's not hard to imagine that people who bought the game feel getting screwed, because they have to face inconveniences, while others, who have pirated the game don't have that many troubles. If there was something that could remove SF, while retaining the game software, I would use it, legit or not, because I'm really annoyed with random disc spin ups, while I'm making a movie or something. So I'm forced to empty my cd/dvd drives, just to not be annoyed by random spin-ups, because some copy protection, for a game that I urrently wasn't playing, wants to collect some info for later versions. And offcourse there's the terrible hickups when launching FC, even my mouse stops responding, and it's very annoying when listening to mp3s, as they too will hang. In that past I've had some legal discs swith SF on them, and most of them are gathering dust on the shelf because updates don't work and the games themself have strange bugs. While other versions of the same software, without SF, work perfectly (even the patches). Oh well, this is pointless, because someone will come in saying this all is ot true, and that we have spyware on our pcs.

No locks can't be "opened" that's for shure. Any security system should be design in proportion with the "treasure" it defends, the price the treasure holder want's to pay and the amount of efforts it could be put into "breaking in". Lets say you want to protect a home. With the "No locks can't be opened" in mind, a system like a NORAD's bunker would be ok? It can be broke hipoteticaly but is highly unprobable. This system will be though very unbalanced... offcourse no thief will try to break in just to steal the TV set. This thing with the SF drivers is something just like that. Because they cannot stand too much in the face of crackers they are making the protection system bigger and bigger. No matter how much they tried till now nothing worked. Every copy protection system felt in the end. So what we have now? A poor PC game (30-50$ medium cost, funny how this "big bad dog" is protecting a 15$ game like Lomac) is now protected by a copy protection system that resembles more and more the NORAD one. This is the interesting part. No matter that inside is just a TV set (the game in our comparision) they still try to break it and till now they still manage to do it although of this NORAD style system. Silent Hunter was broke (one friend worked at this game and was kinda surprised of that), TOCA 2 was broke also. Don't get me wrong... I'd hate to see maddox games or ED here going out of business because of big piracy but unfortunely they can't do much about it. But in my opinion the piracy will never die like thieving in real world will not. Star force is a perfect solution for protecting small niche games, is good for ED is good for Maddox games. In the moment that SF will protect a big game the hell will break lose. It will be break in the end and that will mean doom for it. Another copy protection system will have to rise. Now if that story about the resemblens of SF and Sony's root kit is close to real and someone builds some malware on the back of SF drivers... the hell will break lose sooner... as one previous poster said Sony is trying to make things good now after his mistake... and is SONY. IMHO the best way for small developing teams like ED and MG is to continously add content to their game. That will please their fancore base and they will do the rest by spreading the word. Again, just not to be missunderstood, I don't have any problems that I could relate to SF drivers till now. If ED's happy and I have no problems... why bother. regards.

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бывает... (спишут на потери от ПВО как это часто бывало в реале:() глюк-с - заметил что на боевом боты гор не видят а смотрят и пуляют на цель сквозь горы.