Rhinox

I do not use TeamViewer, but I doubt it must be running all the time. For example, VNC-server can be controlled the same way as any other windows service (manual/automatic/disabled). If you set it up as "manual" (which is Windows' cryptic label for "on demand"), it is started only when needed...

Of course it DOES require extra memory. As soon as you try to connect to server, there must be "Remote Desktop Services" (and a few dependencies) running on target system. It is set as "manual" in default windows configuration which means it is not started during boot-up, but whenever needed...

To be exact, VNC is system for desktop sharing. It does not support multiple concurent users, having their own independent desktops. For true multi-user remote access there is telnet/ssh (or X-window/X11). And VNC is not "linux based", but rather an application ported to linux. Anyway, having graphics interface on server is very very bad idea. Windows or X-window, they are both crappy sources of instability, security leaks and other problems...

Again someone is hacking LO-servers... been on =RF=, someone came and started shooting us all down. Invisible. No kills in player-list, simply we all "crashed" or "killed by Building". Blue/Red, all. Some of us locked him, he's been flying in 30.000m (!) 3000km/h (!). Then he crashed into ground deliberately, reflected undamaged like ball, flying further. PVO been firing on him dozens of missiles, without damage. And he had unlimited ammo/fuel. WTF??? IS THIS GAME GOING TO BE PLAYABLE FINALLY? ED, WHAT DID WE PAY FOR? THIS CRAP???

Whenever I replay track-files, my "pilot" moves head (and thus changing view pointing & zoom) way too fast, compared to the movement I did previously while in the game using TrackIR. Is there any way to fix it? I wanted to use part of track with pilot 1st person view for movie, but those lightning-fast panning/zooming movements look very unrealistic...

This has been already discussed: I do not think 1U is suitable for LOFC2. As written above, you can not turn graphics off (as with DCS), so you need dedicated graphic-card with at least basic support for 3d. You can use one even in 1U-case (single-slot version with riser-card), but it is very difficult to guarantee sufficient cooling. I recommend at least 2U...

I used to have the same hope as you... a few years ago. But ED has definitely healed me from being too much optimistic...

AFAIK, x52/pro can display useful info on throttle-display...

It is not enough to look at power output. You have to check power distribution too! In common PC you need 12V, 5V and 3.3V. But atx power supply has certain limits concerning power-shifting, i.e. you might have 700W supply, but if it gives max 150W in 3V+5V and you need more, it is not sufficient for you even total power you need is less than 700W... One more thing: power supplies with higher output have generally better cooling (bigger heat-sinks, better fans, etc) because they are designed with higher level of maximum dissipated power in mind. If you need 400W from 800W-rated PSU, its fan is barely rotating and audible, while 500W-rated PSU (of the same series/efficiency/design/etc) is nearly on its max not only concerning power-output but cooling too. And while producing about the same amount of heat, it needs higher fan speed due to smaller heat sink surface... PSU is the thing where user should never try cutting costs of his pc down. Unfortunatelly, exactly this is happening quite frequently...

Maybe some of bugs mentioned here?

You wrote "...When I run Scandisk/chkdisk/whatever they're calling it now, I see a whole ton of stuff that's on 'orphaned nodes' or something...". This seems to me like hard-drive dying (check smart-status). If some important files are lost/damaged/truncated, there is no other way out of this mess but complete reinstalling...

IMHO there is no such a thing as "gaming laptop". Some come close to it (i.e. Dell Alienware) but their price-tags begin somewhere at $2000...

IMHO one can hardly find better example of wasting money. Two more cores do not bring anything (at least not in DCS/LO), and with decent air-cooler you could overclock 920 to run on the same (or higher) frequency as 980. So what's the point of such an "upgrade"? BTW I'm not sure what prices are where you live, but here (EU) i7-980 (non-X) costs ~500€. If you insist on upgrade, then i7-3820 (~280€) and mobo (~200€) seem to me better choice, although still with little sense...

I have seen a few 6970's on eBay. Or you can get 6950 hoping you unlock it to 6970. I have done this and succeeded 3 times out of 3 attempts but I have heard with last series this does not work. BTW, there is about 15% performance difference in 6950 vs 6970, and that is about the same value as 6870 vs 6970...

He says he is running 3x LCD, so he will need one more GFX, or Soft/Hard TH2G (or AMD/ATI-gfx)...

Try Official ASUS P8P67 Series Overclocking Guide.

No financial limits given? Well, the answer is simple: the newest, the fastest, the biggest (and at the same time the most expensive) you can afford! Right now, the best you can get is SandyBridge-E/Socket2011/X79chipset/8xDDR3 and HD7970. But you'd better have ~2000$/€ ready before going this way (not including lcd/joy/ssd/etc). Should not be problem if you are not paying your bills... :-) If you are interested for good price/performance option, I'd say socket1555 is very good choice: solid mobo (asus, giby, intel), i5/i7 (unlocked), at least 8GB memory, decent gpu (hd6950/6970 or gtx560/570).

From performance point of view they are about the same. So it is more up to your personal preferences. I had both of them for testing, and finally picked HD6950 (despite of being nvidia-fan for long time). Reason was quite simple: HD6950 was easy to unlock to full HD6970. But I've heard with new cards it is not possible... BTW there is still known fraps-bug with nvidia cards, which I was able to repeat even with 560Ti: whenever I started fraps video-recording, there was huge fps penalty (i.e. from 100fps to 15). It is known on fraps-forum, but problem seems to be somewhere in nvidia-drivers... But if you choose 560Ti, do not forget there are two kinds of them: one with 384 stream-processors, and other (newer and more powerfull) with 448. There is also difference in memory bus (256 vs 320 bit), etc...

Not much of use for LO/DCS, except maybe for one huge ramdisk. But there are apps which could easily use even a few TB of RAM...

On SSD...

What a coincidence: exactly the one who claims he has working solution to this problem gets banned before he could disclose it to the community. Whom is this gonna help? Only the one who does not want fix for this problem to be known...

I'd rather recommend starting with blacklist. If you block TOR (it is enough to block only exit nodes, and you can get list of them on tor's web) and known open proxies (some DNSBLs have quite good lists), I'd say you repel 90% of attacks. Of course it is not bullet-proof, especially when you consider number of free wifi hotspots...

Yes, if it works. But I'm telling you right now: whitelisting based on IP will not work for long. Actually, it is very easy to circumvent such a protection. But I'm not going into details...

I think it makes hell of difference, if it works of course. You say it did for you, so maybe you could enlighten us...