Rusty_M

Looking forward to it. I find it much easier to learn when I can read when I'm away from my PC. I can't read the manual on my iPhone.

I wouldn't mind being part of a basic squad, but I'd have a lot to learn first. I certainly wouldn't want to be taking things seriously, though, as I switch what I play, and might sometimes not play this sim for a long time, then switch to playing it all the time for a few weeks/months.

I don't know much about torrents. I've only used them for BS, now A10, FC2 and GoldenEye Source! Anyway. I'm now seeding, having downloaded and installed the game. Why is it that I'm still downloading at 0.1 kb/s and have supposedly downloaded 0.1 GB more than the total file size. Why would this be? Is this usual?

Ah. Yes, I think I see now. Sorry. i'm not sleeping well these days, so I'm easily confused!

THat's about the only reason I'd be interested in Kinect at the moment. If they could implement that into a good driving game, that would be fantastic.

I have TrackIR with Trackclip Pro. I don't see how that would help me see forwards in a game with only 2DoF

Maybe I should've checked that, or maybe Virgin Media were throttling me. Oh well. I set the torrent to download at about 20:00 and it finished at around 08:00! I'll seed whenever I'm on and not needing the bandwidth. Should hopefully even be able to seed whenever I'm playing, as I don't think a torrent program should tax my CPU too much.

I occasionally use external view. Mainly in IL-2 when about to take off, so I can tell how many other aircraft are lined up in front of me!

what happened in 2006 to cause that?

I just broke my trackclip last night :( It's held in place with masking tape now!

Woooooooo! DCS Partaaaaaaay!:holiday: :beer::yay::juggle::worthy::punk::clap_2::puke:

I'll be seeding as soon as I can, although my connection isn't anything to boast about. I've dl'd 79 Mb & uploaded 61. Could be a day or two before I'm seeding. Might leave it overnight though.

Wehey! I'm now downloading the torrent, but it's slow for me just now. I'm not in a rush. I only played about 2 hours of the beta, so I still have a lot to learn. I look forward to the release of the printed manual. With Black Shark, getting that was a real epiphany in getting to know the aircraft. Getting under 1 kb/s download for now! At least everyone now will hopefully:

I'm sure it is modeled in Black Shark. In fact I think it's modeled in FC2, although 6DoF isn't so you can't really tell. I'm sure I remember something about FC2 mentioning that the HUD is focussed to infinity. When I first saw it happening, it confused me, but it struck me as something that was designed to work that way, and I'd just have to get used to it. I think zooming/changing the FOV makes best sense if you find it hard to read. I know some find that unrealistic as you can't change your FOV in real life, but your real life vision isn't subjected to the limitations of a monitor/tv.

I used www.aria.co.uk www.scan.co.uk www.overclockers.co.uk & www.ebuyer.com as well as Silicon Group in Edinburgh. www.dabs.com sometimes had ok prices, but not at the times when I was buying. Amazon can also be decent. To be honest, I'd never installed a single component before building my PC in January, never mind built one before. (okay, I helped my dad a little when installing a soundcard and CD ROM in an old 486 when I was about 13)

What do you have apart from the GPU? Case? PSU? Windows? Monitor? Also, I looked at those bundles when I was building my PC last month, and found them to be much more expensive than building the PC my self. What makes you want to go for a bundle?

I have a 21" 1080p LCD/LED backlit monitor and a 40" 1080p TV. I prefer the monitor, but it's over 2 years newer. Also, I worry about how trackIR would work with the TV, and I have some overscan issues when it's connected to my PC (although not my laptop). I still need to figure out how to game on the TV without losing the edges of the image.

I was going to build a 500GBP PC...I used Google, saved more than I expected, and my sig happened! The moral: seeing what a little extra money can get you can get out of control.

I'm an awful sim pilot. I'm also awful at ArmA, but I'd be up for that!

Have you downloaded the correct drivers in order to play DCS A10? You need the newer Beta drivers that are available from naturalpoint's website if you want tracIR to work in a 64 bit programme.

Just went out for a meal and had some Deuchars, and an interesting dark beer called "Engine Oil".

But making promising simulators is not the same as promising what their simulators will do! :D

my monitor shuts down/goes black for seconds at a time randomly. I blame it on the bag I got my DVI cable in. When it first went near the socket on the monitor there was a visible and audible static spark. If it had gone through a human you'd have really felt it!

I have good taste. Other people have bad taste. That is all!