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IMO seeing pretty puffs or clouds,smoke,debri ect is not worth the buzz kill of getting staggers or pauses at the most crucial and most exciting part of the sim. Right when you are strafing or bombing at target, BAM.... Pauses,stutters, all for the sake of some eye candy. Nah let the modders take care of it and load the extra textures if you want them. I remember Lomac was bought to its knees by all the fluff,flares and smoke. You can always add all that crap later but getting rid of it or waiting a year or 2 for the next super computer to run it is not the way to go. Concentrate on getting the core game optimized before strangling it.

Kinda related to bombs but I have dropped some of the big boys often hitting within 50 yards of exposed infantry and they are uneffected. Tough men or weak weapon one or the 2. Now some objects,trucks ect may start smoking and eventually blow up but if you are anywhere near a 1000 pounder you are going to be bits and pieces not just get your sun glasses knocked off!

I just fooled with the rudder pedal settings. When I press the pedal it shows up and x or y. Thats where I am getting confused. How to remove the axis? I tinkered with the axis tune killing the saturation but that did not work. Help............ The entire airport thinks I am drunk the way I taxi.

Thanks Eddie I will take a look at that in the morning. I was getting pretty good at using the < > to control the brakes. Speaking of brakes...... Where is a indicator in the cockpit that shows the speed brake position? Its easy enough to look over your shoulder but I know theres got to be visual cue in the pit.

Mine will go down but not up. Since this is rarely used its like in my bottom 2% of things I am concerned about. I am currently fighting with my Saitek rudders trying to get the toe brakes working. They are detected as roll and elevator"x&y" so when I try to stop the plane flips! Now that I am concerned about.

Exactly. The always higher and higher system specs,phone book sized manuals and needing a PHD to operate the aircraft is what killed flight sims. Instead of making more realistic and complex sims "enjoyable" many just tried to see how tedious,nerve racking and frustrating they could make them.

After spending a small fortune on their earlier sticks back when Falcon was king and having the pots fail quickly,unable to hold calibration and overall poor quality, I hope TM has gotten alot better. Awaiting actual hands on reports and how they hold up to some good ol yanking and banking.