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Trying to get a fixed product that I paid for and have supported since before you were playing the lockon series? Sounds like the "Beta Testers" are getting upset for me posing the question, "Who tested the FM's" My Interest is first and foremost dogfighting and flight modeling of aircrafts, and currently FC2 is a pitiful dogfighting platform, which has been made evident numerous times including in this video and the lack of inertia. Why is it when someone talks about Falcon all of you get upset? Am i missing something? Are you all so blinded by the gospel of Lockon that you cannot see past it? You do realize people are entitled to their own views right? After all those views and opinions are formed with a certain set of experiences, and I must be coming from some where to say the things I do.. Do you believe in ostracizing a person merely for his own opinions? Instead of asking Why hasn't the Lockon series improved that much in the past 7 years you continue to sing the same song over and over. Why are you happy with mediocrity? I certainly am not, and I don't apologize for thinking the way I do. There should always be a voice of decent, at least that way things get fixed. Look what agreeing has gotten all of you in the past 7 years in the lockon series. Im sorry but it feels like there is no added depth in the game, which most of us were looking for. Think about what I said, keep your ego's in check and then come to a fair and balanced conclusion not for me but for yourselves, because in the grander scheme of things I don't matter. Don't try to be politically correct at the cost of compromise, you only delude yourselves. If you are satisfied GOOD FOR YOU, your expectations are different from mine. I am not, thats the bottom line and if you feel the same, Voice it, it's your right. Don't be a bunch of yes men. Think for yourselves... It only cheapens debate when you ask juvenile questions like "Then what are you doing here?" Are you trying to score political points at my expense? OK if you think you are, ask for what purpose? I'll give you an answer... It is to satisfy your own ego. Read and heed what I have written because there is wisdom in those words. Don't try to be a smart ass, just try to be smart and humble :) Peace

Wouldn't have mattered as Falcon4AF is still my main sim, got bored of FC2 anyway after 1 week as expected.

You make it sound like they are doing it for free? Im sorry Frazer i don't agree with your viewpoint on this. Peace

Actually Viper, I had discovered this one mistake exactly 2 minutes in to the sim the day it was released, and if a FM is messed up it needs to be fixed and questions should be answered... We paid for a game with certain level of expectations and a few have not been met. Thats all it is. Why are you opposed to people asking questions? Peace

Excellent work Vecko, this truly shows how porked the F-15 in FC2 is. A question comes to mind though... Who tested the Flight models before approving them? Just curious... Ive always felt the Gravity modeling in the entire lockon series is off... Eg. As if there is no gravity constant applied whatsoever.. Peace

Loved the second video! Awesome work man, would like to see more vids in the future from you. Very talented movie maker ;-) Btw what music did you use in your second vid? Peace

Wow... this guy has some nerve asking me that... specially after all the stuff you posted. I'd tell every person on this board but you. You don't deserve an ounce of help from me and you aint getting any. Figure it out yourself. If anyone wants to know the program I used to convert sound files, PM me and i will hook you up.

I was thinking of doing that, however the other small sounds that aren't played that often don't seem to have such a big impact, however i will look in to it. Furthermore when someone was referring to the radio chatter stutters, its the not the radio related sounds that were causing the micro stutters but the entire effects folder, and by way of those being smaller in size the stuttering overall starts to disappear. Peace

Amen! EDIT: Let me make it very clear to Everyone, I have clearly said in my first post also, that this mod SAVES FPS! by reducing stutters, not INCREASE FPS, hence i'd suggest the people wanting an FPS increase from this mod should LEARN TO READ! and understand what has been written instead of typing nonsense for the heck of it and insinuating various things. Peace

Yes those were backup old .ogg files redundant and left over from fc1.1 with very low sound quality and so i removed them and replaced them with the new .wav to .ogg files with the stock sound quality. You will notice less stuttering with this modification example. fire some rounds with an f15c in to the water and see your fps drop. This is because you are firing a M61 Vulcan, which fires at 6000rpm per minute. That's 100 Shells per second, and so your pc has to play your Explodewater sound every time a shell is fired and hits the water or ground! Do the math IF you have a smaller file size with better compression less cpu usage = less stuttering. MOA explained this perfectly in his post above. PS. I don't know if we have the M61A1 vulcan or the M61A2 Vulcan in lockon however the difference is marginal. The A1 fires at 6000prm and the A2 at 6600 RPM. As per real technical specification all advanced fighter aircraft after 1988 were retrofitted with the M61A2 so the F-15 in FC2 should have the A2. Either way this is not to diverge from the post, but just a clarification on how many rounds are spit out and what effect the sounds have on the system overall. Peace

Awesome this was the response i was waiting to hear after 4 pages of useless nonsense! Atleast it helped someone which im very happy to hear, thats all that matters. Great! happy simming

Please tell me if you are able to notice sound quality difference in game. Just curious to see what you will say ;-)

Like really dude.... Don't you think i already know that another sound card would help??? Do you think everyone out there has an extra sound card in their pc's? This was specifically made with that in mind. Im just trying to understand what is the point of your post? Since both you and I know you are stating the obvious and Im failing to see the objectivity in your posting. Furthermore my sound card works great for every game out there. It is an HD sound card. Thanks really... but i dont need tech support no offense, i work in the IT field Peace

First off, lets get something right... In a real aircraft when dropping these CBU's, the pilot has to set a burst altitude and an impact spacing along with an Arming delay. FC2 doesn't have any of these variables... instead it goes by some silly script. Real Rockeye works differently. Minimum drop altitude is 500 Ft, 400Ft with 4G pull. It has a 247 MK-118 bomblets capable of penetrating 7.5" thick armour. So when a Rockeye in FC2 Takes out 1 or 2 tanks Please DON'T JUSTIFY IT without knowing how they work. And last but not least, if you have to resort to dropping mk82/84 iron bombs on a convoy then there is seriously something wrong the cluster weapons in FC2. Peace

SoundMax HD audio 5.1 onboard Sound card.

Im on a dual core, and when multiple sounds play on my end like explosions etc etc all at once, it causes significant stuttering, this is true for many people ive spoken with who have multicore systems. So no it wont help the single core guys only. Further more it makes perfect logical sense, imagine your machine having to play a 200-500kb sound file multiple times per second, now imagine playing the same kind of sounds at 10-30kb at the same time per second. See the difference? Peace

Correct

go to an environment that runs multiple sounds at once, and compare

no limit on server Did you copy and paste the exact same link without spaces Before and After the link?

Yeah works for me

Check my Original post I've added a link for the DCS version :-) Peace!

Just copy that link in my first post and paste it in your browser and hit enter. peace

You know that mutliple sound files playing at the same time cause lots of stutters right? This reduces stuttering and stabilizes FPS, by reducing the file size significantly while maintaining the same sound quality.

Ricardo are you making a HD pit for KA-50 and F-15? Btw i love your work on the other Pits, simply amazing!

Hi this is a mod where I have converted all the FC2 sounds in the effects folder from .wav format to .ogg It reduces the file size by alot and saves alot of FPS, specially for explosion sounds etc. Example: file ExplodeAir0.wav was 209kb now its been compressed and called ExplodeAir0.ogg and is just 27kb. Sound quality for the all these sounds is exactly the same but almost quarter the file size, saving in FPS! INSTALLATION : Rename your Effects folder which is in your Sounds folder and only after doing that install this pack! If you do not do this step it will continue to use the .wav files in your original effects folder and this mod wont have any effect! Ive compressed the effects folder from around 25mb to 7mb without sound quality loss. I have uploaded this mod to Lockonfiles too, but it's just in the queue waiting to be approved and so it should be available there soon. I have also done a version for Blackshark, and if you guys are interested I can upload that too! Anyway I hope this benefits those people with stutters and FPS drops, it has significantly increased and stabilized performance for me. Here is the link to download below for now! Flaming Cliffs 2: data.reservoirselite.com/FC2-Orig Sounds-Fps Saver.rar http://lockonfiles.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=1745#dl DCS:Ka-50 data.reservoirselite.com/DCS-Orig Sounds-Fps Saver.rar edit: added link for DCS version & FC2 on http://www.lockonfiles.com Peace!