spikenet

urgh.. I've given up on BS2. Non stop effects.dll crashing, wasted about 1 day reinstalling and trying everything. Gone back to BS1 and works fine, quite frustrating as with this Sim I spend more time getting it to work at decent FPS then I play it! Good luck bad crc, your rig looks awesome, hope you get it running as you wish! edit: BS2 32bit works fine, clearly only an issue with the 64bit version.

ok thanks, no i didnt read that far into the readme :) can the hotkeys be remapped? Still getting the crash. Something about effects.dll, I will persist and go checkout the softTH forum. Definately worth it.

ok, really like the setup with fullscreen on both monitors. Couple of issues, its crashing ALOT. Also. when it doesnt crash, when I try to exit the game the menu is right on the bezel and I cant click the buttons.. any idea's? Apart from that, its great, running much higher GFX settings at 30+ frames.

PeterP thanks for the info. I got it setup, surprisingly quite easy really. I had issues with using lowerscreen with helios tho so I have changed to full camera view on both monitors. The issue I had is the HMS wouldnt work properly, I guess something needs editing for it to work in that configuration, running full screen with helios on lower screen. I'm liking the full camera on both screens for now and just need to figure out how to adjust for the bezels cheers

ok I'm going to try out softTH for BS2 my setup is a simple 2 monitors stacked using the BS2 helios profile / lua in my sig. 1980x1200 (main camera) 1980x1080 (Helios, shkval, abris, pvi800, uv26, ekran) My question is, how do I do this in fullscreen keeping the camera on the top screen and the exports on the bottom? I have not actually tried softth yet, but have read the docs and would like to have it straight in my head before I try it. thanks

yeah I agree, there is more then one way to "fly this bird" and I think the original request is valid. I for one would like to see a change like this +1 ;)

Has a real ka50 ever been flown that aggressively? :) ..just askin..

I see your point, you have a very different style of flying to me :) You clearly use the "CENTRAL POSITION TRIMMER MODE" unchecked method. Do you have a similar demo with the control output on the screen? JUst out of curiosity.

my understanding of the trim is if you try to fly outside the trim parameters, the autopilot will try its best (up to 20%?) to put you back to your existing trim. So you end up fighting the autopilot. therefore, if you want to freeflight, you either use FD or you hold down the trim to move around then release it when your done. Please correct me if this understanding is flawed! I prefer "CENTRAL POSITION TRIMMER MODE" the other method is even more annoying as you get .5 second to centre or it adds more control onto the trim..

I think its a valid request. Due to the nature of the way the trimmer is in the sim you a forced to fly alot with the trimmer pressed. Sometimes it is inadvertently released and causes you to HAVE to centre the controls to regain control. Makes sense if controls are not recentred that pressing the trimmer again allows to to "resume" from last trimmer release.

very interesting. 10-20% is a fair increase, might have to look into this. thanks.

I have been looking at updating my setup.. (CPU,mobo,ram) the only reason is my poor performance is BS2. All my other games run ultra detail no probs.. given your experiences I'm thinking its a waste of time until ED do some work on the engine to get some good optimsation happening rather then throwing hardware to solve it. Shame really, it could be such an awesome experience. I'm just sick of having to play it on LOW (looking like a 90's era game) with still less then 30fps at best. It would be nice to have a standard track that can be used as a benchmark. That way you can truely compare your performance to others in the actual game. There seems to be huge variations in what FPS people can run this game at, some asking how to get more GFX detail vs more FPS.. its very strange.

FWIW Dont know why you cant allow at least 2 logins with the same key. I occasionally liked to LAN with my son just for a laugh and a bit of fun but now cant do this. He isnt really interested enough to justify another purchase and I think you kill some future customers by being so harsh, especially when we have obviously spent the money on supporting the product/s.

could you explain the problem with peddles and trim? I've always used pedals and have never noticed anything specific with them apart from the normal trim function.. maybe this is part of reason sometimes it goes into a wild spin.

As already mentioned, learn about the trim. The theory of it is simple, in pracitce its very hard to use, expecially in BS2! If you want to fly it like a normal 'helo" turn on Flight director mode. Otherwise, turn off the heading channel on the autopilot and it wont try to keep you on course ;) have fun

And I thought it was just me having this problem! :) I use X52pro POV hat and experience "crazy Ivan 'shkval issues quite often, however, mroeso in BS2 then BS1. Always thought it was just my setup and the way the sticks send keystrokes.. maybe it goes deeper then that. Will be watching to see if this is resolved.

has anyone ever edited the sounds for use with a buttkicker? I guess you could edit certain sounds to have more bass and thump.

I'm envious of the touchscreen :) I've got some changes in mind for version 1.1, nothing major just tweek the interface a bit and fix up to comms a bit more.

Download my profile, the screen lua is included.

is this specific to side by side setup? Mine is setup one above the other and had no problems, was dead easy.

ha yeah, I think the maintenance staff need to check the brake pads as they do bugger all when mashing the brake pedal! :)

I've been trying in vain to get some sort of response from ATC. Playing the instant mission where you do a take-off landing loop the tower just wont respond no matter what I do. Any Idea's? Also, I have to say the new Comms menu really sucks. This is supposed to be a sim so why does it "filter" out radio calls it feels I cant make to the tower? In reality you can make any call on the radio. The BS1 system was much easier and it worked! I used to use macros to make inbound calls etc, but you cant do that now with the silly new menu design. /rant :)

Awesome work guys. I've got my profile working as I always wanted.. flares, PVI and Ekran! thanks

so the PVI and flares numbers are working properly on export now? Might have to modify my helios profiles :)

doesnt this game benefit from a high-end CPU/RAM setup rather then graphics card? I've got 2 3gig Q6600 PC's, one running a 8800GT the other a ATI6970 and they both do pretty much the same framerate. My next purchase will definately be a 2600K and lots of RAM.