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was sent these in a pps, so i saved them, uploaded them and linked to them for your viewing pleasure, enjoy. edit: it has become apparent that some of these images are not actually from the above mentioned airshow nor are they necessarily from 2007, sorry for the confusion, i took the info at face value, that will teach me. also hitman is correct, i could have put them all in one thread in different posts, oh well. some awesome pictures none the less.

:D very good :thumbup:

shredder, most impressive, very well done. from an idea to a realized end product, you must be very happy. Q: the lower line says LRPM, LRPM, i take it this is L & R engine speed in %. so should that be LRPM,RRPM ? minor typo's aside, i have to agree with mountainguy, all this additional external stuff is wonderful :) lcd's, VP instruments, TB touchscreens + tews, love it all :thumbup: i don't know how you guys figure it all out, i have enough trouble making them work, let alone creating these awesome addons. full respect:smartass:

Mnemonic, that photo texture patch will be amazing if the above example is anything to go by. Zorlac, hang in there mate, take a break and come back inspired :) i think you have earnt a little rest :D the work you have both done so far is absolutely fantastic. touchbuddy and virtual panel have enhanced lockon beyond belief for me. and i thank you both for your efforts. have just set my pit backup and look forward to creating a new TB profile incorperating the vp gauges. i bet those photo-texture U.S. style gauges look good :D ??? .

haven't seen this myself but just a thought, are you running your game in the same resolution as the desktop? if not try setting them the same. seems strange its only happening with the new monitor, hence my suggestion.

i like your way of thinking, the 680i chipset, 6600 and oc it, 2gig ddr2 and room for 2gig more later, a high-end vid, and a quad core when required, something like that. depends on the chip scene at the time. hehe, good stuff, i like your attitude. one of the fastest horses on the track and you still want to whip it:) agreed, good card but has seen its day. had some time to kill so i looked at the links, thanks 3sqn_fudd, and checked out some sli sights, man was i out of touch, less now but :) psu 850-1000w units to run the sli setups, dam thats getting power hungry. checkout this 1KW-SR unit from pcp&c, it looks powerful :) with 4x plugs for videocards etc, all fed from a common rail, which is apparently the way to go, the hype seems to make sense. http://www.pcpower.com/products/viewproduct.php?show=T1KWSR 1KW Continuous (1.1KW peak) @ 50°C Fits Std. ATX Cases (20" min. depth) +12VDC @ 72A/80A pk (Huge Single Rail) High Efficiency (83%); .98 Active PFC Rock-Solid, Super-Clean DC Output Amazingly Quiet Cooling System 24-pin, Dual 8-pin, 4-pin M/B Connectors Quad PCI-E and 15 Drive Connectors NVIDIA SLI Certified (Dual 8800 GTX) ATI CrossFire Certified (Highest Level) Individual 14-point Certified Test Report 5-Year Warranty; Unbeatable Supportbuilding a current sli rig for me is shear fantasy, but its nice to imagine. in its day i enjoyed my original voodoo2 2x12MB SLI setup, it let me run in 1024x768, up from 800x600 for the single card:megalol: a vast improvement from the original 4meg voodoo1, it ran 640x480, and you could overclock it like 3Mhz up to like 57 :) so anyway i liked sli, even when it meant something else. maybe one day i might be lucky again and get a cheaper second card. even then the next gen single card is usually just as good or better. enough ancient history, its good to be understanding current trends a little more, as that was the original point of the thread i guess. cheers, and a good day to all:thumbup:

3sqn_fudd: just so happens the hx620 was the one i was just checking out, looks good. no i do not intend to go sli, possibly in the future but i doubt it. thanks again for all the input, exciting stuff.

3sqn-fudd, carry over from the old system will be nothing, i have an antec 1080amg case already. dvdrw and thats about it i guess. the old system will remain essentially intact and be inherited by my son. as for when, soon, two weeks, in 2007 :) (think release dates j/k) realistically i would say june/july which is really only a 1 & 1/2 months or so away. pilotasso, the 680i is the one i think i will look at getting unless things change dramatically between now and then. i like asus boards, so i think thats the p5n32-e sli http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=397&l4=0&model=1459&modelmenu=2 yes that looks nice :) and it say quad core ready. shadow, groove, appreciate the input, you guys are running system roughly equal to the a64 x2 6000 setups, yet you can update the cpu to a quad core cpu later, good thinking. kuky, a man can get old waiting, but i have a little time to spare, i have more than once priced up everything just to see it come and go, then the next big thing hits and then it too is soon replaced by something new :) i would predict a mid to high end core2duo cpu will be the choice. with room to go quad in the future. it will be 2 gig ddr2 possibly 4 i see some games are getting dualcore patches, would be great to have something like this for lomac, as i am sure a core just sitting around would be happy to help run lomac, just imagine how nice it would run then. i wonder if its even possible for some software to convince the game that all the cores are just one big cpu?

pilotasso, sounds like a good way to go, i have to study up on my chipsets and see which ones support quad cores etc, i spent an hour or 3 last night getting up to speed as best i could :) big dollars extra for the top end gear as you would expect:) VMFA-Blaze, glad to hear you like it, and i guess you are right about lockon not using the other cores, 2 is enough for offloading the non-game tasks etc. and pci-e i am looking forward to also, what videocard are you running? i think my current agp6800ultra is a bottleneck for the th2go, single screen gaming runs sweet, but the huge res of the th2go means i have to loose image quality, i look forward to seeing the increase in performance and quality from perhaps a 8800gtx. thanks for the input guys, do go on :)

this is basically just me thinking out loud about the current state of affairs concerning my desire to upgrade again, and again, and again :doh: after recently upgrading from an a64 s754 3400, to an a64 x2 4800, i was i guess disappointed with the lack of major difference, especially in lockon. as i had the 3400 oc @ 2.4ghz, a single core of the x2 4800 runs @ 2.4ghz. so i guess it makes some sense that not much if any benefit was seen, apart from the ability to direct other non game related stuff to the other core, and leave the game a core for itself. i picked up a s939 motherboard and couldn't pass up the oportunity to max out my AGP parts with the biggest cpu i could find for that socket. so thats how i came to get the x2 4800, but still have agp :) so currently my pc is: a64 x2 4800 @ 2.4ghz a8v s939 dual channel 2gig corsair ddr1 bfg 6800ultra agp and i was thinking of something like: option a64 x2: a64 x2 6000 @ 3ghz asus m2n32sli socket am2 corsair performance 2/4gig 8800 gtx 768mb option core 2 duo/quad: duo 6600 / 6700 / 6800 / quad asus p5n32 sli s775 and the rest the same corsair performance 2/4gig 8800 gtx 768mb thats the ideas i have floating around in my head at present, i have been totally ignoring the hardware since i upgraded last time and am only just getting back up to speed. so we already have quad chips on the market, barcelona, penryn etc all just around the corner, whats a guy to do, wait a while longer, wait forever, jump in head first. it is just so annoying that what you buy today is old news tomorrow. at best i'm usually a year behind technology even when i do upgrade :) as they say the best time to buy is 2moro, and the best time to sell it is yesterday :D so stepping away from agp is a given, and the need to buy a few gig of ddr2 cannot be avoided. its the and intel/amd choice i need to make, looking at current performance levels the a64 x2 6000 looks to be on par with the core 2 duo 6600, and price wise they are very similar. i guess the intel option has some head room for cpu upgrade in the future, but as we all know, usually by the time you think about doing that, the socket has already changed twice :), although i do seem to have a knack for getting them just as the supply dries up, and before the prices skyrocket again after bottoming out before hand. my personal feeling is that i will indeed be returning to the dark side for the next cpu upgrade, probably a c2d 6600 or at very best a c2d x6800. i think atleast until the next generation comes out from amd, i will have to swallow my pride and return to intel, something unheard of around these parts since the days of the pIII. :) loyalty and brand faith aside, when it all comes down to it, performance is what matters and only a fool would care to disagree, especially for our beloved game, that is somewhat demanding. would like to hear your thoughts on the subject and any suggestions are welcome.:thumbup:

it also looks like they are sitting back to back, i am sure that would cause issues with the trackir's. agreed it is learning to look "the wrong way", but it's gotta be better than looking with the number pad :megalol:

must have missed something, did walmis' pc crash or something? the original model is lost? and needs to be converted back from lom to 3ds ? i love that model, if so count me in to help.

my thoughts exactly, whats up with that :D come on guys. it would take only one dude to get a TIR, at first they would all laugh and poke fun at his funny hat.

hey Snomhf, great to hear from you, and i see you are still giving away your auctions before you win them :) my friend has the same stick and the pots have gone in it, this is going to be my source for the pcb's i use to mod the force fx when i finally get around to doing it. i saw someone mentioned that ED doesn't support ffb, but i seem to recall you had other ideas? will get it done eventually, now how about a ffb heli pit, oh yeah :) hows the LOTAS handles going?

love your work :thumbup:

arhh, toilet humour :) DPS: the tower was "flap lid", is that a person or program or what. those cross winds look pretty hard to land in and the stationary aircraft getting airtime was pretty amazing, good one.

you can keep your picasso, renoirs etc. this is art :D well done to all involved, a great community effort. has anyone managed to put gauges under a tb skin, Zorlac mentioned transparency. i was thinking you could have something like ruggs f15 profile with the gauges scattered around the place as per real cockpit across the th2go. great to see there was a work around for the lua, and good to see the tacview working with the combined tbvp lua. very much looking forward to the us style gauges. this is good stuff, as DickDastardly says, you really should take the time to give these programs a try, well done Mnemonic and Zorlac.

Mnemonic, tried the new version just then across the lan and it all works perfectly.:thumbup: full screen with gauges @ 180 size, looks and works great. and thanks to lockonfiles for hosting vp. in a future release to simplify setup, may i suggest adding an option to resize all gauges together, rather than only one at a time. perhaps a tick box to toggle between resize "individual or linked" gauges. very very good stuff. will be great to see a blend of VP & TB. DickDastardly: any luck with the tews?

Mnemonic, you da man :) Russian translation: vodkas all round :D

Polecat: yes, mnemonic intends to provide a set of US style gauges in the future. and i totally agree with your comments about increasing the immersion. th2go, trackir, TB, VP, and a good hotas, all together makes for one hell of a good time :thumbup: Mnemonic: fantastic to see the bug has been located, you beauty. on checking this thread recently i was thinking it may have been a language issue, and what do you know, turns out it was. should have said something and then i would have looked clever :D will be trying this out on the weekend, looking forward to finally seeing it in action without the disconnect. ps: as per polecat's request, some of us are anxiously awaiting the US style gauges, any news on the progress in that department? once again well done and thanks for your continuing effort, an excellent addition to our sim, ggg.

sorry mate i voted for, just kidding:), you got my vote, best of luck. anything for a valuable community member, well almost:megalol:

i hope i am not off centre here but: politics aside: i say well done to a community member who also makes it easy for people, potential squad mates, to aquire a title that is difficult to obtain locally. some people are still scared of buying online etc, a local option is good in my eyes, no waiting weeks or large downloads, only a couple la days. seems like we a bitching on a thread where a guy is promoting sales.:music_whistling: maybe a reply from a past happy customer instead, i bet the guy who scored the trackir was cheering :thumbup:

first smile of the day, thankyou :thumbup:

seems reasonable to me, USA imports of gold box set cost much the same. will you be doing the same with English CD/dvd version of blackshark ? i would take the cd version over a download anyday :)

the pics 3 and 4 in this link show the corrected mesh hitting the flat screen in a rectangle shape pushed up from the base and the sides on an angle, making the top bigger than the base, this making the image look in perspective on the radius of the curved screen. i know the pj has vertical keystone correction which can make the top bigger than the bottom, i wonder if the curve of the mesh would be achievable with the mirror... this is getting interesting :)