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turn your view distance to medium it will help greatly you should then be able to set water to high.

I know you said no squadmates but with a lineup like this its imposible not to mention them. :) =RvE= Rinke =RvE= Fusion =RvE= Jetfire =RvE= Flame =RvE= Foxter Top Gun Gentlemen

BTW good move removing the sticky about 1.1 dload option going back up next week. (3 weeks ago)

Basicly your cd burner/dvd burner wont run it so you will need to buy a new cd/dvd rom. :)

Ditto. Looks like crap. F4 never felt like i was flying like i get in lockon and IL2 series. The falcon 4 boys call it fly by wire, I call it crap. :) Least there is another jet sim out there though.

I have flown lockon online since it came out and never had a stutter issue. I've also hosted servers with no lag with the default values in lockon 1.02. But since its always been a problem for you I will let your expert network troubleshooting take over.

I've done my fair share of reserch on SF before i buy this product. It does work in a way that it "hijacks" ide channels. If then it is taking over your hardrive IDE everytime that call is sent for virtual ram you could get a stutter. This delay could also effect the overall performance thru the agp bus and latency cyle. Perhaps people with 2 gigs of ram and no pagefile arent getting the stutter but people with lower ram may have it when it swaps to virt ram. But, why it's not happening in single player I dont have an answere for unless multiplayer is hitting the system just that little bit harder. (And we all know it does.) Just a theory of mine but I'm no pc expert nor a starforce rep. But there has to be a reason for it.

ah sorry i did find 2 or 3 that were related but after that it wasnt as bad as it first looked lol. My bad. But dont rule it out either.

Guys have a look at what comes up in google. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=starforce+stutters Almost every game u see with SF on it u can find stutters. Worth a look at least. I find it odd at least. Im all for copy protection but when it interferes with the gameplay its got to go. And, I never got my question answered weather or not the Beta testers used a build with starforce on it.

This is why we need a dedicated server app.

You need another copy for it to be "legal" And doing so you would burn up 2 keys in 1 shot because of the hardware change being detected twice.

http://www.verisign.com There you go. LOL

Do any of you have a router so maybe you could check if SF is in fact "dialing home" while online? Check your log and trace the destinations durring your time of flying with Neo Trace or similar app.

how about they get the bugs fixed before we add anything new this time around?

Hmm was this game beta tested with starforce in the build? Makes you wonder. Not to start another starforce thread but damn. I was set on buying FC when verisign goes up. Even with starforce. But if its all laggy and we will have to wait for a 1.11 patch I may just wait till then. And if there is a 1.11 patch will it be free?

The 76 beta drivers give me sound pops on my audigy 2. Cant win im afraid the 66.9 and 71.84 are the only ones that work well with all games on my bfg.

Well, the .bat workaround didnt workaround for me. :( Back to 71.84 I go.

hmm does that work? Im still on 1.02 and it still blue screens on me. Has anyone tried this? And viper what vid card do you have most problems seem to be on 6800's. Duh just saw your sig. Can you try it with 1 card and see the results? This would be great if it does work because my temp is 10C lower on this driver than 71.84.

Some people actually have or had problems with starforce weather you have or not gives you no right to come in here and flame people with legit problems. Calling them crackers is rather dull of you also. Sheesh your post sounds 10X worse than any starforce thread I've read. Sorry but when your dvd burner doesnt work because of a game I consider that a problem and it happened to me with the 1.1 demo. I will end up buying FC anyways and take my chances again though because I like this sim and want future product. I just hope I'm not one of the guys who cant play online/cant activate/or takes 10 minutes to load/ or get my burner hijacked and have to reformat over it again. This time I have a fresh install of xp and 1.0 backed up and ready to go. I havent even bothered to put nero on yet or half my games because THIS is how serious it can be. Once you get burnt then maybe you will open your eyes.

Starforce in any form hijacks your IDE drivers. Doesnt matter if it is the cd check version or the dloaded version. There will be just as many problems with the cd check version if not more than with the dloaded version because starforce does not like certain dvd rom/cdrom drives. If you need proof goto SH3 forum technical support and read the 10 pages on the issues.

It is perfectly legal to backup your games. It is not legal to install that same game on 2 computers though. Also you would have to disable starforce one way or another and according to starforce that is also Illegal. So now to me its Illegal for starforce to say you cannot backup your original. So confusing how they get away with this really. Another reason why we need a dedicated server App from ED. But I doubt that will ever happen they just want you to buy it 2 times instead.

If you have an amd 2.0 ghz or pentium 3ghz or better you should be able to turn everything on high except view distance (medium) at 1280x1024 and be very playable. My 6800gt handles it no problem. Big improvement over my old 9800pro especially down low in the smoke where fps used to hit 8 (low) now they goto (16)low guess you could say it has doubled the low fps even at higher res. Also since you got the pci-X version hope you have ordered new board/processor/ram to go with that new card. If not you will be trully upset when you cant install it on your current hardware. :)

glad someone else noticed. :)

The NINE pages about problems on silent hunter 3 dont constitute a problem? I would check the support forum sticky if I were you. And I have had my problems with starforce as well. Disabling my dvd burner ect ect. When the problems hit home you will then be eating your words. Till then enjoy it while its good.

I couldnt agree more. Fisherman hit the nail on the head. Sometimes the truth hurts. Fanboi's just cant take it. I was one of those guys who loved lockon when it was released even though I had nforce chipset and was unable to play due to the NFORCE BUG i hung around hyperlobby and played the roll of technical support in helping people get up and running online. Finally after 1.01 i was able to fly and loved it up to the point I just got fed up with what it took to play online stable. Same goes for 1.02 I played it every night for quite sometime and then again got fed up with the lockups/warping and other bugs that plagued the sim. I hate freegin starforce with a passion but im still on the ropes weather or not to take the chance of wrecking my newly bought windows xp media center addition to play a sim thats on its 3rd chance now to get it right. Actually it is killing me to hold of flying lockon 1.1. $35 is a non issue its the starforce that is holding this sim back now. Enough said.