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I also ordered it from NP and was very pleased with the turnaround time. I even used the cheaper shipping method and within a couple of weeks it was in my mailbox. I am really glad NP provided a hardcopy version of FC. What I really appreciate is that Naturalpoint listens and responds to their customers. Naturalpoint heard us when we said we wanted a hardcopy version and worked with ED to provided it. Then customers outside the US requested a cheaper shipping method and once again NP reponded within days with other methods.

I upgraded to the Cat 5.6 drivers and I decided to test them out on IL2FB. Everything seems fine EXCEPT that about every 5 minutes my motherboard speaker beeps once. Driving me nuts. Luckily I thought to create a restore point just before installing Cat 5.6, so I rolled back and sure enough with my older drivers everything seems to work fine. here are my specs: AMD Athalon64 3500+ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe ATI X850 XT PE PCI-E video card 1GB RAM WinXP Home SP2 I even tried turning off all the monitoring systems of my motherboard and it still did it. Help!

800 x 600 resolution. 200 : 1 contrast ratio. Are you OK with that ? Assuming what they said in their article is not some marketing BS this sounds OK to me:

Got link? ;) I tried searching on LOMACFILES.com and got: No Downloads available for this Category

Well that is a relief. Thought I was going crazy.. Thanks :)

I seem to get this strange problem where any terrain in a distance will get these 'lines' (for lack of a better term) that will shift around as my perspective moves: I have tested this on two completely different systems and have seen the same thing on both: System1: AMD Athalon 3000+ XP, Asus A7N8X, ATI 9800 Pro AGP, Windows XP Home service pack 2. System2: AMD Athalon64 3500+ XP, Asus A8N SLI Deluxe, ATI 850XT Platinum Edition PCI-E, Windows XP Home service pack 2. Both systems were set up as follows with no AA or AF in the device driver (although I do still see it if both are enabled to any degree). Currently using Cat5.3 drivers but have seen it in all previous drivers. The only thing that seems to lower the effect is if I turn off advanced haze in the game config: I first saw this with LOMAC version 1.02 but I still see it in the demo of FC 1.1. Cant say for the retail version of FC as I am waiting for the CD to come in the mail ;). I dont have a viable nVidia card to see if it happens on those. Anyone know what is causing this?

For those who selected the cheaper option (for those of us outside of the US) will we still recieve an email from Naturalpoint telling us that our order has shipped, even if there is no tracking number? I am just concerned that everything is processed (ie I didnt screw up my VISA card) and it is good to go.

But what about in the future? Is there a way to update our accounts with ED?

I performed a high speed, high alt, dive with an Su-25 (in LOMAC 1.02) just to see if I could get the wings ripped off, and I had the engines quit. Is that a compressor stall?

Ahh yes that is what I meant. Wasnt thinking about the targets heading and speed. Thanks very much for all the help fellas! :D

When you say the first number is the bearing to the target, is that the compass heading I should take to intercept the target? For example "Bearing 180 for 160" means I should head due South for 160km's?

Yep that's right, I am once again sitting down to see if I can learn a bit more about LOMAC. Probably a good idea since I ordered the new expansion pack from Naturalpoint. So I am flying my sexy Su-27 and my AWACS calls out: 011, Overlord, Bandits Bearing 166 for 157, Angels High, Hot. Then a little while later: 011, Overlord, Pop Up Group Bearing 140 for 262. So I know '011' is me since that is the number painted on the side of my aircraft, and I assume 'Overlord' is the callsign of the AWACS, and "Bandits Bearing..." is them telling me they found some enemy but how do I interpret "..Bearing 166 for 157". I assume "Angels High" means the 'Bandits' are at a high alt but how high is that? And what is 'Hot'? And what is a "Pop Up Group"? Sorry for the n00b questions but if you can believe it I have actually had this sim for a quite a while now hehe ;) I just work at it a little bit at a time.

I am currently using Cat 5.3 as they have provided the most stability for all the games/sims I have.

May 12th seems good to me! Didnt even know exactly what day it was going to be in the first place so cant say it is late now can ya. ;)

See this thread : http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=8177 and you will see with my system I am getting about the same. And I am most definitely not using all features to the max.

God knows I would love to, but then I would run into the dreaded 'missing clouds' bug: (see on the left side of river there are clouds with shadows, but on right side just shadows and no clouds) Only thing that fixes it is to fly at 1024x768. I first saw this back when I was using a 9800 Pro (which is what I was using when I took the screen shot). Apparently this is caused on only ATI cards. I guess I should test it again using the new system but I read somewhere it still does it even on my new board. Would prefer to get rid of AA & AF and simply pump the resolution up.... Ill test it tonight to see if this bug still exists and get back to you. I know I still get the other vid bug where terrain at a distance will get these strange vertical bars....but that bug seems to be intermittant and takes time to start up. EDIT: tested the clouds with my new system @ 1280x1024 and I was able to easily duplicate it. Too bad because it looks awesome even with AA and AF disabled, but got pretty much the same framerate.

Thanks Thomas! Going to give this a shot when my CD ships from Naturalpoint (which is soon I think).

I have an the following system: ATI Radeaon X850 XT PCI Express 256MB GDDR3 Platinum edition Asus AN8 SLI Deluxe AMD Athalon64 3500+ 1 GB Corsair TwinX RAM Running with 4x AA and 4x AF and the following ingame setting: You will notice that I have not maxed everything out, and I didnt use cockpit mirrors or reflections. The reason for this is that typically I am moving too fast and much too busy to notice full shadows, heat blare, or cockpit reflections. When I start the Su-27 quickstart I am getting 70fps right at the paused position sitting in the cockpit. I decided to fly low over the nearest city and I get about 25fps:

I thought of that but how could all 6 of them stand it? And this is the norm for me for every server I have ever joined in the last year and a half or so (however long LOMAC has been out), across three different computers, and two ISP's (DSL to cable). I just get the feeling that I have not configured something in LOMAC right. All I do from a base install is patch up to 1.02 and set multiplayer to 128k/128k, and nothing else. I tried experimenting some more last night but it appears all the servers have upgraded to 1.1 and I cant justify getting the 1.1 upgrade until I have worked out this problem :(.

Problem here is that I would hate to go out and get the add-on only to discover that the multiplayer is still not going to work :(

Thanks for the responses fellas! I have Cablemodem broadband 3.0 Mbps (downstream) / 384 Kbps (upstream). Usually I have flawless gameplay in IL2/Forgotten Battles, but I have never had a good game online in LOMAC. Usually all the other aircraft are warping so badly that they rocket into space or over the horizon at lightspeed and then spring back. Makes hitting them with anything impossible. Offline in single player my framerate is great averaging about 60fps or so I guess, as I have the following hardware: Asus A8N SLI Deluxe nForce4 motherboard AMD64 3500+ XP processor 1 GB Corsair Twinx CAS2 RAM ATI X850 XT PCI-E platinum Soundblaster Audigy2 Live! Last night after a great game of FB I thought I would take a look at LOMAC on Hyperlobby and saw alot of guys there. I jumped on a server with 6 people and again saw all the warping but I started thinking it had to be on my end because there is no way the 6 other guys on the server would want to stay on the server with that amount of warping going on.

Can anyone tell me if the multiplayer (connection, stability, warping) has improved at all with 1.1 over 1.02? It could be that I have just not been doing it right in the first place, as I have always seen people in Hyperlobby doing online LOMAC, but every server I join I see the other players warping all over the place. This makes me think it is not going to work out, as it would make near impossible to track and shoot anything. I am more used to the smoothness of IL2/FB online. Are the people who fly this sim regularily online enjoy smooth gameplay like those who fly IL2/FB? I have set my network client to 128k/128k (as is suggestion in the sticky on the LOMAC forum) and I typically join servers with a ping no higher than 150 but I see the warping all the time.

Cool thanks for the tip! 8)

Given a choice I would get the PCI-E with the SLI option so that later on you have the ability to upgrade by taking advantage of the SLI feature of those cards. But as it stands currently, there is very little performance difference between AGP and PCI-E, but AGP does NOT support SLI.