jeffyd123

fun aint it...

online is dramatically better... when you want to coordinate an attack or communicate enemy locations, or maybe you need help with your CDU, its waaaaaaaaaay better when a human answers instead of a "thing". Plus everyone will make fun of you when you make a mistake. So get your antisocial butts teamspeak 3 and head over to one of the virtuial wings and say hi! You'll find a lot of cool people with a similar fascination to yours with our kick ass hobby. You'll get to see how a REAL flight is supposed to communcate and perform under combat too... its Waaaaaaaaay better.

goood 'nuff for me

will this guarantee me a date with that hottie down the road?????

friggin etheral... Ive been having a lot problems with a trigger-infested mission Ive been working on and your advice really helped (I didnt have the "trigger is false" in my actions. You rock man!:worthy::worthy::worthy::worthy::worthy::worthy::worthy::worthy::worthy::worthy:

you're gonna be missing out on a lot of immersion with a stick like that. Using modifiers isnt fun. Take a look at the CH stuff. they are good quality and very reasonable.

the sim would be better if there was a pizza cooker somewhere in the pit though. LOL Good find! it amazes me too... its really bizarre to think that this is nothing but the output of a computer.

that blue-eyed redhead in college.... and every time I fly DCS A-10.... just too many great things to list.

oh dear....

ya lucifer as far as i know the training is broken... i tried it and it started doing weird things and locked up or wouldnt respond.... never tried it again. best thing is to troll the foruims to learn new things and read stuff off the net about the game.... theres some very good training videos out there.

Blow air in the vent where the hot air comes out, that canned air stuff works good. dont let dust bunnies build up in there... gaming on a laptop needs max airflow or it'll burn up. go get team speak 3 client and install it, then go to this link http://firstfighterwing.com/joomla/ then click on the top of the TeamSpeak list (it says 1st VFW) on the right side of the web page. it will start teamspeak and hook you up.... hopefully. Ill look for ya in there... just hang out and talk with people.... say your visiting from an invite from dethjeff (me). Its a good way to learn by flying with people.... either way have fun learning! Jeff

very cool mission speed. quite an achievement. I hear you guys about the ME issues... they are irritating and extremely time consuming to figure out and work around.

wow, im surprised to hear that steam sucks so much. Jeez, I bought the game, DL'd it on torrent in 3 hours or so, patched all the betas and post release without any trouble, all using torrents that finsihed in less than an hour. Steam was the schnizzle when it came out but I hear a lot of grumblings about it now.

Phew! .... I feel like I just gave birth! well so it was the stick... interesting. I wonder if its just junk or it draws too much power? Glad to hear its working for you Lucifer! frustrating but you got an awesome stick out of the dealio! Have fun buuuuuuuuuuddddy. Im at the first fighter wing if you want to fly sometime (great guys over there). http://firstfighterwing.com/joomla/... jump on their teamspeak. thanks to the others and cichlidfan for their help as well. been quite the little tech support ordeal eh? Remember to clean that laptop out once a month lucifer..... Im outta here! Jeff

Hmmmmmmmm.... Either he's flying in blissful ignorance that we're all here waiting to hear how its doing....... . Or His laptop BSOD'd and he's sitting inside of his idling car in the closed garage holding a little A-10 plastic model. Poor Lucifer, he's an excitable kid that just wanted to fly.....

using the uninstallers in "Programs and Features" in your control panel should be fine.

put the new BIOS in.... if that doesnt work, call Dell tech support and get one of the parts monkeys like me out there... Tell them the laptop is totally dead and will not start at all (they wont send out parts for your stick not working)... they will send out a new mobo and you wont have to spend 7 hours on the phone with them (which really sucks) If they ask you to mail the PC in for repair tell them you need it for work and cant mail it in. DO NOT TELL THEM A DELL TECH SAID TO DO THIS STUFF!!!!!!! but Im thinking all is going to work well for ya and youre gonna be in the clouds 5 mins after that stick arrives.

the ONLY reason I would do a BIOS would be to solve a specific problem panzer. if the list of the BIOS fixes doesnt include USB voltages, Im not interested. Lets wait until that new stick is in and see since theres nothing going on anyway. Hell, knowing your luck lucifer, the warthog will be DOA. LOL (Im praying not buddy) Im very hesitant to install another mobo because they are all reconditioned/ repaired from broken PCs. they usually work fine but I do find myself going back and replacing motherboards on about 15 - 60 % of them if not right after installing them.... it comes and goes in waves throughout the year. I checked your model and it is a good one... just be sure the vents on the bottom are getting air (not on the couch or in bed) ... a high performance lappy will burn up pretty quickly if the vents get suffocated. Be sure to clean those exit vents once a month.

ya i replace mother boards several times a month from BIOS updates gone bad but its generally safe. the only thing I can think is its possible that the USB voltage could be defective on the laptop and the BIOS may help but its a total guess by me.... I seriously doubt it would help. they usually dont and I never do them anymore. The other guy from MS isnt up to speed with the problem. the game runs fine with no stick plugged in so Im pretty sure its not the video driver. It is producing a generic BSOD which I think is due to the chipset voltages falling to low ( from the USB drawing to much amps) to run the PC anymore.... thats my "theory" at this point. please be sure to uninstall the saitek drivers and the profile software BEFORE installing your new stick. Hey by the way, what model laptop is this... I forgot. Were all pulling for ya Lucifer.

if there is no BSOD running arma with the stick and software, then I would have to say its something with A-10 and your stick.... some software issue, most likely your driver is bad and needs reinstalled. NOTE - it would be best to try this on your laptop. not some other PC. heck at this point, if your family is buying you a warthog, Id say "f00k that x62 dad, its broke"! LOL Your;e gonna like that warthog bro.

no through the USB is fine.... hmmm. I would think the pc would blu screen with that test. would you mind trying the test again with arma but this time run the saitek software and try using the stick in a helo or plane if possible. that should tell us if the driver or software is f00ked.

OK... new warthog is good. I thought you had one before, sorry. Panzertard has a good point... it could be a driver issue, But Im thinking the BSOD would show that. My reasoning here is the stick is shorting out and causing the OS to crash. I want you to try any game with the stick plugged in and just sitting there... not using it. it doesnt matter what game it is. be sure the stick's software is turned off! that will help us determine if the driver is causing the problem.

ok got it... the minidump is the same deal as all the others. I would say that stick is bad if the plane flew for an hour without it. the last test would be to run another game and 1. HAVE THE STICK PLUGGED IN to the new hub. 2. DO NOT touch the stick or push any of its buttons. 3. do not load the profiling software... in fact turn it off. It seems to me if you bought the stick on the 18th that it has a short in it. any USB device that shorts will instantly BSOD your rig... its also insanely bad for it.... the hub will help protect the pc though. Hey I have another question for you... What was wrong with the warthog you bought?

hey lucifer... OK thats good news. Sounds like you're having my kind of luck with your stick purchases!. Thats good that surrounded! worked. Id like you to try surrounded again with only your TIR plugged into the belkin hub (if you still have it) to make sure that the TIR is OK (ya never know). hey its something to do until the new hub arrives. you could patch the game too so you can watch the shadows go by in your pit while flying on AP . Im pretty sure your stick is either bad or simply drawing too much power. the new hub should tell. You're very welcome for the help and thanks for thanking me... I appreciate it! The community of this sim are very good guys and are usually very helpful with one another ... god knows we need it when things go crappy. Ill check in tomorrow buuuuudddy. Jeff

so true ethereal... I owned a gaming PC business when the playstation 3 came out... my sales dropped 50%. I really hate how the "thumb tards" utterly ruined gaming.... the games are grossly moronic... "Hey! look to the left...There's a bad guy!".... Gaming for 6 year olds... wonderful. I have played all the new games and threw all of them out after a couple of hours... a real bummer. Thank GOD for you guys... keep up the good fight and the great work and thank you for all of it. Jeff