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I have an E6600 @ 3.4GHz. With my 8800GT clocked pretty good, I was only getting 30fps on the ground and maybe 60 in the air. Large cities and stuff, easily in the singles. I had all the mods to help FPS, using med vis and stuff. It was ok it was workable. Well I just install the 4870 1GB. I was in no way expecting LOMAC to see a difference. Boy was I wrong!!! I went to the 169th, 60FPS on the ground, over 120 around Mt. Cougar. I immediantly got out to run more tests. So currently with everything high, everything including vis, I get 25fps of Sim-pol (however the heck you spell it). Something else I noticed, there is no jitter when you take a screenshot. You cant even tell that I am taking a screen. No screen hack for me. And this is even with Folding @ home running on my GPU! WTF? nV driver problem? Maybe difference from 512MB to 1024MB vRAM? What are your guys' experience? Cause right now, LO freaking smokes. Wasnt there a mission or something that someone used to bench with?

Нужен вариант "ХЗ"- летишь себе с фулреалом, а потом фриз и твои обломки красиво падают на землю.

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Ура, голос разума был услышан. Если был резковат, то извините. Однако я тут выделил именно то, что меня немного вывело из равновесия. С учетом того, что 7.62 калаш работает патроном 7.62х39..... Просто встало в ряд с рассказками служивших в афгане, что, дескать, 7.71 винтовка "Ли-Энфильд", более известная как "Бур", пробивает с километра два стоящих рядом БТР-70. Когда она мне в руки попала - проверил. Щаз! С 400 метров в борт корпуса сгоревшего БТР 80 пять выстрелов - ни одного пробития. Еще раз сорри.

Woop!! Very nice :thumbup:. Have you crash... i mean... has a system malfunction forced you to do an emergency landing in the water?

Getting there..............:)

There are quite a few settings in graphics.cfg that can make your framerate crawl even on fastest (and overclocked) systems so having the same system and few values in there changed still makes a difference.

Buildings, hangars, water towers, sun shaders, every detail you see from every angle :) :) and then some more..

BUUUUUUUMPING this because I want to see if anyone knows why this upgrade caused such a performance increase!!

Hi BlackSharkAce I see you got it right all, glad to see it's working. :thumbup: Vista users can't use stretching at all and only way is dual view for now, as horizontal an vertical spanning is been removed by Micro$. What DCS did is they just divided output resolution of display on two and three parts so we can do stretching but what we need is two or three independent outputs with their own resolutions, that means two or three direct x renders. For question one you can easy calculate aspect, take a screenshot at native resolution , open it with photoshop gimp or similar, get ruler, measure in pixels IT-23 ekran an divide width/height. I'm lazy to do that.:joystick: Q2. No significant performance hit at all because only main screen needs heavy render and it's probably supported well with your graphic card, abris and skhval use low res output so no prob for 8800 or similar and higher.Those not covered areas by monitor are not possible to cut, they are rendered and part of your main output resolution. As I see they are black at yours, here I have loading background. Q3. You got it right view angles. Q.4 Seems you are mising this texture, it's in BlackShark\themes\main\images\loading-window.png Ka-50\BlackShark\data\scripts\options.lua is not config. file and it's been rewritten every time you change settings in game. As those resolutions are not configurable by game it self , they will be changed by defaults if you touch settings. Great example you made how to play with resolutions keep it up please and if you find anything interesting please post. :thumbup:

M8, 4870 is a monster!

Hey guys, Hey Maddog, Thanks for your post you got me focused on that options.lua file and I achieved what I was looking for. For information this my setup is achieved without any Nvidia DualScreen or MyDesktop or "Whateverelsekindoftool". Only thing is my main screen in windows is the 24''. BTW I'm using windowed mode in BS here.. My monitor setup is like this: 17'' (1280*1024) on the left side, 24'' (1920*1200) in the middle. The tricky thing is that the bottom of my left screen is a little lower than the bottom of my main screen. This difference of height is virtually of 336 pixels. That means if I would represent my left screen and my main screen on one screen shot it would look like this. Black zone being the surface actually covered by the monitors. White zone being the outer rectangular perimeter covered by the monitors. In white you got some indications about the monitors (it's 17'' not 17' by the way but we don't really care do we ?). In red some indications about the pixel size of the "outer perimeter" of my monitors. Alright now let's say I wanna get my shkval on the left monitor and use the main screen for the cockpit. Let's move to the luas now. Here we go "\...\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\BlackShark\data\scripts\options.lua". First you need to backup this file, then down to the end I entered these numbers. ["height"] = 1752, ["resolution"] = "1752x4480", [size=1] ["civTraffic"] = 1,[/size] ["width"] = 4480, }, -- end of ["graphics"] } -- end of optionsNow you are all going like :helpsmilie:. Some explanations to this. As I stated earlier I'm using 24'' as my main screen. This means the video output of BS will always center on the middle of the main screen. Reread last line and be sure to have clearly assimilated this. Width: So if I want the video output of BS to cover my left screen it needs to be 1280 pixels larger to the left. BUT because the video output is centered on the main screen and not on my left screen I need to add TWICE this width to the video output. That makes in my case: 1920 + 2*1280 = 4480 pixels. Now the harder part, the height: My left screen being "336 pixels" under my main screen I need to add 2*336 to the height of the video output. That gives us: 1200 + 2*336 = 1872 pixels. Here you should go :helpsmilie: again. Because I put 1752 in my file and not 1872. This is because I have the windows start bar on my left screen. I use it in a 2 row mode so it takes exactly 60 pixels in height at the bottom of my screen. And as I don't wont my start bar to be covered by the shkval. Therefore I "substracted" (sorry not my mother tongue ^^) 120 to the value found above. Makes 1872 - 120 = 1752. Last thing invent a name for your new monitor config and put it to its place in the options.lua file. Mine looks like that. ["graphics"] = { ["multiMonitorSetup"] = "2MonitorTest",Now Save the changes. AND don't forget to put the file into "read only". Dunno why but as Maddog said I did and it works like that. Feel free to try your luck on your own costs. Let's move to "\...\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\Config\MonitorSetup\". There you want (yes you do) to create a new .lua file. Named "2MonitorTest" as I used this name for my "multiMonitorSetup" earlier. Open it and now comes the best part. Fill the Description with whatever you want, I used same name as file for example. Looks like this: Description = '2MonitorTest' Viewports = { Center = { x = 1280; y = 276; width = 1920; height = 1200; viewDx = 0; viewDy = 0; aspect = 16/10; } } Shkval = { x = 0; y = 788; width = 1280; height = 964; }Now you must know that the coordinates are in pixels and are taken from the left upper corner of the BS video output. Closer look on the "Center" viewport: x positions doesn't need too much explanations as it simply places the Cockpit on the 24'' screen that is 1280 pixels to the right of our BS video output. x = 1280 y position is a bit trickier. Our output is 1752 pixels in height. this is exactly (336 - 60 = 276) 276 pixels more on the top and on the bottom of the main 24'' screen (2*276 + 1200 = 1752). Just that you know these 60 pixels are those of my start bar which I talked about earlier. y = 276 Adjust width, height, and aspect to match those of your main screen. Now to the Shkval: x position is 0 as I want it to stick to the edge of my 17''. x = 0 y position is the tricky part here. I know my screen is 1024 high, I know the bottom of my screen is 60 pixels lower than the bottom of my BS video output (yeah I know this 60 pixels start bar sucks, but as I begun with it I'll finish with it). Now the surface left for my Shkval is: 1024 -60 = 964 pixels. So it's simple. The BS video output is 1752 of height, if I take out the 964 pixels of my Shkval I have: 1752 - 964 = 788 pixels that will not be shown on my 17''. So I need to take the Shkval down 788 pixels. y = 788 Width of my monitor is 1280 Height is 1024 - 60 = 964 (I know I suck xD but the best of all is coming :music_whistling:). Alright now you got it all. Try it out tell me if it helps. And one more thing I have to say.. While I was writing this long post I thought to myself that I don't really need this start bar to be shown 24/7 so I put my Shkval into full screen on my left monitor. Here are the new values for both files. options.lua: ["multiMonitorSetup"] = "2MonitorTest", (...) ["height"] = 1872, ["resolution"] = "1872x4480", [size=1]["civTraffic"] = 1,[/size] ["width"] = 4480, }, -- end of ["graphics"] } -- end of options2MonitorTest.lua: Description = '2MonitorTest' Viewports = { Center = { x = 1280; y = 336; width = 1920; height = 1200; viewDx = 0; viewDy = 0; aspect = 16/10; } } Shkval = { x = 0; y = 848; width = 1280; height = 1024; }Okay, hope it helped, Here a screen shot of the beast at work. Wish a lot of joy tuning your setup. And let me know if it helped, PM me if you need help. Here another screen of the entire BS video output with some pixel values to help you understand what is what and what is where. Bybye for now. P.S: Please some feedback from Vista users, as they encountered some problems with the Nvidia DualScreen workaround I wanna know if this way works better. Question: Does anyone know the aspect of the Shkval ? I think it's something like 10/7 or so, but if you know original aspect please share this knowledge with me. Question2: Do you experience serious performance hits ? Maybe the unused areas could be cut out of the BS video output but I don't know how to achieve this yet.. Question3: What are these values, what do they do viewDx = 0; viewDy = 0; ? Question4: Do you know where I can find the picture that shows up for the loading screen ? It looks too weird now.. I need to make a new one. Answer3: These two values seem to define the default view angle.

GUIDE I have never tried making a PDF file, so im going to stick to what i know, but here is a simple guide to buying the russian download version of black shark. 1.Go to this site http://online.1c.ru/games/game/3311585/ , click the little symbol that looks like a dollar $ 2.Now you should see a screen with 2 blank fields, one for username and one for password, if you have already registered then proceed to the webmoney part of this guide , if not then click the top most BLUE BOLD link of the five BLUE links. 3.Now you should see the register screen, use google translate to change the page to english, then fill the fields in this order NAME: Dwayne NAME: Dibbly USERNAME: DwayneDibbly PASSWORD: ****** (six letters) PASSWORD: ****** (put the same one) EMAIL: dwaynedibbly@dibbly.com COUNTRY: i struggled to find mine, which is UK, or ENGLAND, it is on here as BRITAIN, and not in alphebetical order either. Make sure you tick the box that accepts terms and conditions, then fill in the letters from the image and then click the button registration. 4.Now there is a screen saying you dont have enough rubles in your account, leave this open whilst we now make a new webmoney account. WEBMONEY 1.First lets go to the site http://www.wmtransfer.com/ then click the button SIGN UP NOW. 2.This part is in english and doesnt need much explaining, just fill it all in,and press next/finish, they will send a code to the email address you gave them, copy this code and paste it onto the next screen on the web money page, press proceed. 3.Then you will recieve a text message on your mobile/cell phone, put this code from the message onto the next screen on web money page, press proceed. 4.Now we are on a screen where we must download the web money program, click to download the english version of keeper classic, if the link wont work then use this one http://download.webmoney.ru/wme2.exe, follow the install instructions. 5.Once its installed then click where it says to click on the download webpage mentioned in step 4, the program should now start, asking for the reg code, if it isnt there just copy and paste it from the email from earlier, press next, then put your password in both of the fields, press next, follow instructions. 6.The next screen of the program shows your WMID code, very important, WRITE it down, or copy and paste it into a notepad on the desktop, press next, now just make up a code, put the same one into both fields, 6 numbers or something like that. 7.Now check your emails again, there should be a new mail with the subject "webmoney activate notification", open this, and near the bottom is a code, copy and paste this into the web money program window, press next, press finish. 8.Now the web money program is installed and working(i hope), and we are on the HOME page, look for the blue link ADD FUNDS and click it, then look for the blue UKASH link, and click it, click authorise on the next page, then on the next page put in the number displayed, press next and you will get an error, click the blue writing HERE, enter the next numbers, and carry on, fill out all the blanks on the next screen, the part asking for legal ID, i used my birth certificate, i dont think they check it so just use anything, once its all filled in you, press save, and you should now have a formal passport, if you missed something go back and check till you have it right, then once you do close that window off. 9.Ok, almost there, we now need to create the purses, access the keeper program again, near the top look for the tab PURSES, click it, then click create, press next, then click WME (for euros), and call it something in the field(eg UKASH EURO), press next, tick the box, press next, then the purse is created, now make another one this time select WBR, then we are done making purses. 10.On the keeper program still, click MY WEB MONEY, and find the UKASH link like before, keep going and putting in the security numbers, you will reach a screen saying funding webmonay purchases using ukash vouchers. in the left field type in the amount of money on your ukash voucher, and change the currency to the one you bought on your voucher, then press the >> arrows next to the left field. it will calculate and show the amount exchanged, press proceed, put in your voucher number(on the receipt from the shop) and the amount, press finish, your account should now have the euros in the euro purse. 11.Go to your purses, right click on the rubles purse, mouse over exchange and click the option WM* to WM*, a new window opens, in the top change it to I WANT TO BUY WMR, in the next one change to I WANT TO PAY IN WME, in the next field type in the amount of euros to exchange, i exchanged 15 making sure i had some left to pay the exchange fees with, press proceed, put the number in, press next and that is the rubles exchanged. BACK TO THE GAME SITE http://online.1c.ru/games/game/3311585/ 1.Click the $ symbol again, on the next screen put your username and password in if required, press the long button beginning with what looks like an A. 2.click the blue link on the next screen, then press the second blue link from the bottom (webmoney), in the field on the next page type in the amount (300), put in your name, email, and phone number in the next fields, press the button that looks like it starts with A. 3.Tick the box and press the button that becomes available(right), click the big button on the middle on the next screen, click the left button on the next screen, make sure WEB MONEY KEEPER CLASSIC is selected on the next screen, click the bottom button, enter the number. and im afraid thats about as far as i can take you as i dont have the funds in my webmoney to carry on, but once its succesful, just use this link http://online.1c.ru/games/game/3311585/ to go to the game page again, and now there should be 2 downloads in green there where the $ symbol is/was, click each of them and save em to your hard drive. HAPPY FLYING. use this as a rough guide, it should work, any questions just ask. Many thanks to VITESSE, and the DEVS repent

Gosh.....I bet ED will never again give us any notice about somthing until it has been released....