Rhinox

This I understand. What I *do not* understand is: why is it not enough just to insert the old LockOn CD during LOFC installation (to check if I have the old LockOn version)? Why do I have to *install* LockOn first?

IMHO that is not true. Cedega from TransGaming was nothing else than early Wine-fork. Yes, they implemented dx-api (partially, and very limited), but inside of wine, which still uses opengl. And they were not able to keep with Wine development, that's the true reason why they gave it up. AFAIK, there is no true direct d3d-api for linux (for X-server). If you know about one, let me know... Up to now, it *is* only emulation. If someone wants to make native d3d-api for linux, I suspect there might be serious license-incompatibility problem between X (Xfree, Xorg, etc) and Microsoft proprietary licensed d3d-api. It is the same deja'vu as with graphics drivers: it was impossible to develop (by community) a good gfx-driver just with reverse-engineering, without opening gfx-specifications. And how's the situation now? You have community-drivers which are somehow limited in feature/models supported, and you have binnary "bloatware" developed by NVidia/ATI as kernel-module. Do you really expect Microsoft to develop linux-kernel-module for D3D? ;-)

You probably did not check wine for quite long time... http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/microsoft/directx-90c-march-2008-redistributable-on-linux-with-wine.html Anyway, it does not matter if it is wine, phoronix, or whatever. DirectX is not native to linux, and that is always a problem if you want to run d3d-based games, where every bit of performance counts...

Sounds to me like your mobo can not hold configuration settings in cmos-memory. Try exchanging battery (think it is CR2032 type)...

Pretty nice activity, good luck with it, Gecko6 (and the whole group). A question comes to my mind: How can we (rest of community) help you?

WHY going sandy-bridge way (32nm, TDP 130W), when there are ivy-bridge cpus (22nm, TDP 77W)? IMHO s1155/3770k is much better option. Yeah I know 3820 is stock-clocked to 3.6GHz and 3770K "only" to 3.5GHz, but both are opened for overclocking. The only reason I see to go socket2011-way is if you need 6-core cpu. But if you do not, then WHY?

You might wait a few years... :-(

Honestly, I do not think it is worth putting SSD into raid0, because... it has been done already! Nowadays every SSD had multi-channel controller, which makes "internal raid0". Moreover SSD's are so fast that even one can put your controller up to limits. Consider for example 840/pro: sequential read/write >500MB/s, that is nearly maximum your sata3-6gbit/s can handle (divide by 8 to get bytes/s, substract 10-15% protocol+system overhead). If anything, then ram-disk makes more sense: buy 16GB RAM (that will cost you less than 2nd SSD), at boot-up copy the whole DCS-folder from SSD to ramdisk, and run it from there. *That* will sure eliminate any stuttering caused by disk i/o...

If you want to buy new GFX and you are (un)lucky to live within EU, hurry up gents! Maybe your last chance to buy a high-end one... http://news.softpedia.com/news/High-End-Graphics-Cards-Could-Die-Out-Because-of-The-EU-299338.shtml http://www.nordichardware.com/news/71-graphics/46718-eu-cripples-future-graphics-cards-exclusive-.html Edit: Admin pls move to "chit-chat", realised too late it might be more appropriate...

Next time when this happens, please open TaskManager, switch to Processes-tab, activate "Memory-WorkingSet", "Memory-PrivateWorkingSet", "Memory-PagedPool" and "Memory-NonPagedPool" columns (View -> Select columns) and include screenshot. Based on info you supplied up to now, it is not possible to decide what used your memory. Might be DCS, but also a lot of other processes running in background...

Really "big" progress in frequency. Especially compared to P4 (Prescott?) which was stock-clocked up to 3.8GHz... in 2004! :)

But can I decide if I want to update *now* or later? Or is it simply completely automatic? I do not want DCS starts pulling updates right when I'm online-playing... BTW, no update for me, still 5970. How are we supposed to play? With mixed versions?

You mean FRAPS probably? I use it too and I think it is much better solution. No missile evasion using PrintScr, no messages in chat. Yet I still could make so many screenshot as I wish. Replaying track offline is another solution...

Looking forward to your display on VFAT 2012! BTW I've seen RedArrows display just 3 days ago, undoubtedly culminating point of the whole event. BTW Ells, I've heard rumours in 2013 RedArrows will be flying in 10 (!) ship formation. You know something about it?

OK, I understand your point. Unfortunatelly unlike LO/LOFC2, DCS is very "GPU-hungry". I'm affraid with GT630M you will be dissapointed with performance, even if you set everything to low/min/off...

As I wrote, I'm coding myself and international company I work for (~medium size, about 10.000 employees) sells expensive software (and hardware) for customers around the world. You can never completely avoid bugs, and it happened, happens and will happen to us too. But *if* there were a critical bug in our SW (because of which SW is unusable) and instead of fixing it we publicly announce a new/updated product instead, our management would be bombed with threats of legal actions. That's the way it is. If you have dissatisfied customers, you have to show them you *do* take care of their complaints very seriously, make them believe in this moment there is nothing more important for you than their satisfaction and assure them you are well aware of the problem and working on in on 24/7 basis, with all resources available. Be it true or not. Otherwise you'd be out of business pretty soon... BTW, sometimes it happens exactly as you wrote. And sometimes even worse (i.e. "you fix this bug till the end of week or you can start looking for new job")...

GT630M is *NOT* gaming mobile graphics! Look for something with GTX, i.e. Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 (i7-3610QM, 4GB, GTX660). That is as close as possible to gaming laptop for ~800€.

The question is what you have in mind with "some time"? Today I kept trying for half an hour. After that I gave up and my frustration was so strong I could build a skyskraper on it! Being myself a part-time coder, I understand it is sometimes not easy to fix bug. What I do not understand though is why ED is working on ANYTHING ELSE (concerning FC/DCS)? FC3 has been announced, and community began to celebrate. I say: to hell with FC3! *First* fix this mega-bug, *then* release anything new. Why do we have to wait till something else (DCS/LO-whatever) is released, hoping it finally fixes long-known (and sometimes trully critical) bugs? What I'm missing are pure patches, which do not bring anything new, only fix problems. But ED does not release patches (ok, one exception is that server-hacking patch), they release mostly only "upgrades". That system has two big drawbacks: 1. it takes longer to make "upgrade" than to make "patch", 2. upgrades frequently bring new bugs (because of new features)...

Damn, where's mine? Probably still sailing across Atlantic... :-(

If it is so, then I expect ED releases new patch/fix for DCS-World too to address those known and persisting MP master-server connection problems. Otherwise there will be practically no multiplayer in FC3...

Just one question: Will LO:FC3 need "master server" connection (i.o.w. internet access all the time) as all DCS-products up to now?

The same problem for me. Crash every time I try login to mp. I have spent hours yestearday searching this forum and trying everything, but to no avail. Very frustrating to see a product I payed for simply does not work...

Some +/- 10 years ago I was playing a heli-sim (I think it was "Gunship 2000" but I'm not sure at all) with literally thousands of trees, with heli/tree collision simulated. You could hide hovering above meadow in the middle of forest surrounded by trees, but you could not fly "through" trees. If you tried you'd hear nice cracking sound, just before you went down. If this was possible ~10 years ago, why not now, wenn we have PC's with 1e6 times more cpu/gpu-power and 1e3 times more ram? Moreover, from close distance those trees had better shape than what we have in DCS:BS now. Hell, I'm gonna look for old cd's, maybe I'll find it...

What brings you to this conclusion? I'm just curious, because a week ago I contacted Intel support asking about "SSD & RAID" and got different answer...

Get the one with the best graphic card. You can later upgrade cpu (yes, even in laptops), add ram, switch hd for faster/bigger/ssd, but you will have to live with gfx for the whole life-time of your laptop. So out of those you picked up I would take Lenovo Y580. GTX-660/670M is by far the best what you can get in this price segment. Forget all those GT-***, that is low-end crap...