Silent Warrior

Viggen, of course! It's Swedish!

:) Your recent arrival does shine through. I'll just take the time and answer some of those points before someone less agreeable gets here. 2: I don't know everything about everything, but if you got past the speed of sound while using afterburner, I wouldn't be too surprised if that happens. Try reproducing that while paying attention to a speedometer displaying mach besides the usual CAS. F-15 should have one such. 3: Are you sure that was flickering, and not just vibrations caused by driving over uneven taxiways? To be honest, this sounds more like a graphics-driver-issue than something game-side. But that's just me. 4: Yes please! One problem, though: Modelling even one aircraft with higher fidelity than the usual LO-fare is, according to ED, quite a lot of work. And they aren't all that many. Prepare to be redirected to DCS for that request. Ka-50 is up first, obviously, then we have yet to see what's on the horizon. 5: You really shouldn't count on that. At least without more specific ideas. 6: See DCS. I thought TrackIR was supported (at least to some degree) in LO(+FC)?

What Kuky said works. He didn't mention that you can do this through the little ATI-icon in the sys-tray as well. To set FSAA-level that way, you need to: Right-click your ATI-icon Hold your cursor over the appropriate video-card/display-head (normally '1: [Card name here]') Move your cursor to 3D Settings ... and there you have all the settable options. Monkey about as you please. Using the CCC is probably loads more user-friendly.

"#¤%€$$$€{$@€%¤()(#¤! BLARGH!! Kill! Destroy! I'm going to get medieval on someone! :mad: The CPU I was looking for is apparently DISCONTINUED! (Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised - out of six CPU-variants, five are easy enough to find, while the ONE variant I can use can be bought only from places like Israel and Romania. And Germany/Austria if you're feeling central-european.) :doh: I will have to invent a new language to properly vent my frustration - I've been searching ACTIVELY for maybe three hours straight! And this is what I get? Sheesh, I got this motherboard last summer! I guess there's nothing for it but to get a new motherboard if I want a funnier CPU. *BEEP* Oh well, the RAM is like a gig a penny, so there's no real rush. As long as the NEXT motherboard supports DDR2... The DDR3-development had better go for a half-year-long vacation right about now. Lest they make me sad.

There's also a possibility they THOROUGHLY buggered up something X-Plane is depending on - launching the updater makes funny colours (first try resulted in garbled squares in-between black fields, second try made most things yellow), launching the sim proper makes VPU recover kick in for some reason. (Perhaps the sim-glitch was related to something or other carrying over from the updater? Once all was loaded and I was in the 3D-world, everything seemed peachy.) Went back to 7.11 and everything is fine. And I mean EVERYTHING. The irregularity with X-Plane looked more like a texture-memory-page-dump or summat. I played some Myst Online once before trying the updater, and all I saw in X-Plane then were textures belonging to the MO-avatar. Quite cool in its own way, but... Thumbs down to 7.12.

Okiday, no more chance to vote. I'll contact a 'store near me' and see what I can arrange (RAM being first priority). Thanks to all advisors. :)

See, that's what I like about upgrading - things get much smoother. (Of course, playing Privateer 2 on a Pentium I 100 Mhz-machine is mysteriously enough loads nicer than playing the game on a 1 GHz-machine...) Well, since no-one seems to think I should get a new motherboard or sound-setup, I'll breathe an official *sigh of relief*. :D

Now things are rolling. :) About the CPU, I've checked a bit of this and a bit of that, and it seems I can go so far as X2 5000 with 512kb cache (NOT 1Mb), if I read ASUS's list correctly. An extra 400 MHz core-speed. (Note to self: Must speak IN GREAT DETAIL with the shop-muppets, seeing as there are three versions of the same processor...) RAM is racking up its share of advocates too. Innnnteresting.

(Well, seeing as I'm NOT changing graphics card, I'm sound as a pound, then.) ;) CPU's definitely better than RAM, then? Maybe I could even get BOTH - RAM-sticks are dastardly cheap these days... (Are they using kidnapped child-slaves chained to the assembly-lines, or what?) Food for thought, innit? Dual-channel doohickeys turn things upside-down.

Um, I posted this for a reason, you lot. :P And that reason isn't to *bump* it. So far, I have... one view and one vote for new CPU, and it's been lying here for 5-6 days already. I value your input and all, but I want some more thoughts on this... (The forum didn't die altogether while I was away, did it?)

I've started to believe I need to boost my RAM a bit. And also that I need better speakers. Might also be fun to have some more horse-power in the CPU... In short, I have a few expensive ambitions, not all that much money to spare, and awfully good reasons to be REALLY very careful about this. But, one thing at a time. RAM first. RAM I'm currently equipped with 1 Gb DDR2 (2x512 Mb) PC5300. Corsair, apparently. So, how does moving up to 2 Gb sound? Not a bad idea, is it? I don't do video-editing, no fancy audio-work (save for playing music and having high expectations of the results), and gaming is essentially limited to flight-sims and RPGs. I assume I should avoid mixing types and sizes and speeds and all those things, so this should by all accounts be the 'highest bang for the buck'-option. Meh... There are [aargh]loads of numbers and funky abbreviations in CPU-Z about my memory. Fancy a dump? Speakers I'm currently equipped with a Cambridge Soundworks DTT2500 Digital, a six-seven year old discontinued product that sounds worse than my $70 headphones, which in turns sounds nowhere near as good as my 25+-years-old stereo with 7-10-years-old speakers (speakers of the serious, three-feet-high, floor-bound variety). I'm mostly missing out on bass, but I have only one CD where it might be needed. For reasons I SUPPOSE I could relate on request I have a quite astonishing mesh of connections and cables just about everywhere right now. Basically, I'd prefer to connect FOUR sound-sources to the speaker-set, and I can presently "only" use three - which is quite enough, really. Honestly. I have my headphones attached to the fourth source, no worries. The pondering about this is still in some alpha-stage - do I get speakers designed for computer-use, or do I go for broke and hook up a glorious hi-fi rig that I can connect... well, EVERYTHING to? (PS2, computer, CD, yo mama...) Well, the analog speaker-connectors might be a problem - do hi-fi systems support them at all? How many can I expect to find on one amplifier? (Are they called RCA, btw?) Uh, chances are sort of rather slim I can afford the hi-fi option anyway. :) I'll forgive you if you don't give me a suggestion. CPU Current bad boy: Athlon 64 X2 4200+, core ticking away at around 2210 MHz. Socket AM2. Multiplier x11, 200 MHz bus-speed and ~1 GHz HT link (whatever the squeak that is). Any games I play seem to be CPU-intensive, so I get the impression I should go for core-MHz rather than snazzy n-cores - so Phenom can go hang for a bit. I'm actually a bit worried about my motherboard here - the BIOS is at stock revision - 0103 - and has so far worked perfectly (I hope... I sure haven't noticed anything to the contrary). The catch is that I can't update it. No way I've ever dared to try has said anything more constructive than 'Oi! I hate your BIOS!' ASUS Update just fails (if I'm lucky, WITHOUT a horrible screech of death), and other tools say something about invalid BIOS-file. I don't remember if it's the BIOS in place or the BIOS I want to update to. Put that in your pipe and smoke it... All hopefully-replacement BIOSes downloaded from the maker's official website, no beta. If I've understood the snazzy realm of MHz correctly, there's likely a limit to what CPUs are supported. I'd be better off asking ASUS about details. I think X2 4800+es were available at the time I assembled the system, so I'm reasonably confident that would work. So, Socket AM2, 64-bit, higher than X2 4200+.:pilotfly: So, what do I want? (Poll added for simplicity.)

Now that you've seen that, don't forget to NEVER EVER feed a moose apples. :) We actually had one such combination in our backyard a while back. About 1000 pounds of nervous intoxicated feral bovine... (In short, everyone stayed indoors then. It made the news too, I think - newsPAPER, that is.)

Hm... That's probably one of those things that you won't find lying about just anywhere. Have you tried asking Sukhoi directly? (Do they even have contact-details on their site?)

Regarding motion-blur capabilities, I feel I have to add that Final Fantasy 8 of nigh-antiquity sported some manner of motion-blur. On a PSX. The PC-port, on DirectX 5 or 6 - most reliable on a Voodoo2, among the graphics-cards I've used. Of course, that WAS rather full-screen (heh, FSMB), not at all selective - UI, non-moving characters, everything a blur. (For a sample, look for videos of summoning the GF Eden, or a Limit Break named Wishing Star (I think) or some of the final fights.) My opinion is that it's hard-coded. (And I have to say that I can live without it, no problem.)

Can't we just conclude that the F(/A?)-22 is a hella neat bird and leave it at that? It feels like we've been over this a dozen times already and then some... (As for the music, it started with JOHN Williams's Close Encounter of the Third Kind, followed by a snippet of same Williams's Jaws, and then I just had enough of the narrator and left that site.)

Well, leave the TDB-slewing keys mapped to the keyboard (remove the joystick-mapping). It sound like that should sort it out.

In any case, cool beans on the EOS mk. II.

*SMACK* Hydrogen is volatile, yes, but it doesn't go boom on contact with air. (You might want to see a chunk of potassium dropped in a bowl of water, though. :punk:) No way in *blip* that the Hindenburg would have gone into operation if that was the case. But when there's fire/sparks... I remember experimenting with the stuff in eighth grade or so... Filled a test-tube with water, turned it upside-down in a tray of water, placed an H-tube muzzle by the rim of the tube and put some amount of gas in it, covered it with a thumb, waited for my partner to light a match, and *POP*! Whee! :geek: (On an absolutely unrelated note, I once heard of some dimwit stealing some sodium, and put it in his pants. To make a long story short, he had to go home and change, and probably didn't do it again.) As for the actual topic of this discussion, however, I think Nothing. :)

All my pet rants, worked over in one go. ED must like me. :D (And there's that 'might be done' FC-patch to hope for after BS is finished. Lovely.) Any ETA on a demo? I'm having... limited success in piloting FSX's helos, and I'd rather not pay all that much for something I won't be able to make somewhat full use of in a credible amount of time...

Uh, isn't the 25T the Su-39? Either way, I know nothing of plane/pylon-modding, so I couldn't answer your first question if I wanted to. :) About the second, I sort of recognize that. Are you using the mouse-thingy on the Saitek X45-HOTAS or similar? I get that issue too, and my "work-around" is to simply use the keyboard-controls for the TD-box when it happens. Not a fix, mind you, but that approach at least works. I'm just so much use today.

Ugh... Can't everyone just stop dying all the time this year? Just for a few weeks... :(

I'll second that... (Not that the profiles I've tried have been bad or anything, I just ended up not really knowing what button to press at key moments.) And pay close attention to what you're doing. But, like I suggested, there are X45-profiles available for download. It was such a long time ago since I downloaded them, though, so I don't remember where I got them. Do start looking at lockonfiles.com, though. If you insist on not doing it yourself. :P

rattler: Sorry to be picky, but I feel I just have to. I assume you meant 'no harm, no foul', is that correct? :D ... *Looks around* Or maybe I'm the only one with this sense of humour. *Vanish*

On the off chance that the installation as a whole isn't aborted and removed, I suppose it's merely a matter of finding an ogg-decoder and turn the files back into .wavs... but it HAS been a fairly long time since I last met an installer that didn't clean up after itself. Bad manners, actually, leaving things around, but sometimes you won't really mind.

Heh, don't forget going from 600+ knots to about 170 in about 3 seconds... Nazzzzzzzzzztie little airbrakes. In the spirit of arcade "fun", I don't see it getting much overhaul - AC has never been about true-to-life flight-modelling, or true-to-life ANYTHING. To my knowledge, AC4 has been closest to the real thing. Which isn't to say all that much, really... It probably only let you pull 17g. Life's hard, innit?