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I'm hoping they release a Track No IR ala something like the Microsoft Kinect that can do face tracking one day so we need no clips, etc. That's just a pipe dream of mine though. I'd settle for a wireless pro clip as an upgrade.

Do you have Office XP by any chance? You may have (and need to disable) the Microsoft Debug Manager running the in the background. If not XP could be something similar. If you provide the process list from the task manager people can probably help you better to identify what might be running that is causing the issue. Could possibly be something from a Visual Studio Suite or something similar if you have such a thing installed. OR running a command prompt as administrator and run "bcdedit /debug OFF" to disable the windows debugger and reboot. The great and might $tarforce is trying to protect itself.

Read 5 or so posts back. Data Execution Prevention...

The application should still be fixed. It running better without DEP enabled is indicative of a problem. Disabling it is an OK temporary solution, but not a good permanent answer.

Why are you having to turn off DEP? DEP only prevents areas of memory not marked as executable from being executed. It's a security feature meant to prevent stuff like buffer overflow attacks. That wreaks of a bug in serious need of fixing if true. And while not hard to turn off people should not have to expose their system to more risk to play and I bet most wouldn't. Even know where to find the setting...

I could cause/fix the issue at will by opening and closing teamspeak once I figured out the pattern. I dont see what running them inadmin mode is going to get me. I am using windows 8 though so maybe its the 3 way combo... Cant say.

Not sure where to put this, but was hoping for somewhere with high visibility to hopefully save someone elses sanity. What little I had is now completely gone. I deleted my configs and reconfigured everything twice, reinstalled drivers, repaired DCS, and in general went flippin' nuts. I would think it was working and then it would go hay wire. Back and forth and round and round. Looks like The X52 (Pro definitely, possible non-Pro, but don't know) and TeamSpeak are conflicting. For me this was manifesting as literally dozens of button presses by holding a button for a couple seconds. http://forum.teamspeak.com/showthread.php/89956-Saitek-x52-Pro-Profiler-Conflict Anyway, I was able to fix this by going to: Settings, Options, Hot Keys, and changing the drop down over the Apply button to Keyboard and Mouse only. Ironically it still works just fine with the stick profiling pressing the hot key to talk...

There are also a lot more virtualization technologies (and versions of them) than there were X number of years ago. Heck, just VMWare has Fusion, Workstation, Player, Server, ESX, yadda yadda yadda. Now add Parallels, HyperV, KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, etc. It could be that it's just like playing whack-a-mole trying to keep up with all the different implementations.

I read it differently, but without word from them or ED to clarify it's impossible to say for sure. My take is that if they are making an effort to detect virtualization, and preventing the game from running when they do, it is intentional and they're just not doing a very comprehensive/complete job of detecting virtualization. I'd guess their opinion is, what's to stop someone from installing a registered game in a VM and then distributing the VM. Afterall, if it's not the case, why stop if you do detect virtualization. StarForce/ProActive isn't doing you a favor by telling you that your VM is or isn't sufficient to run the game. It's not their job or their purpose. All guesses and interpretation on my part...

This probably explains some of the confusion over what exactly the DRM is. ProActive is product name (I did not know that) made by StarForce, the company. http://proactive.star-force.com/2.0/activate.php http://www.star-force.com/

You're right that that is where you enter the key. that's the exe to go with the dll. Now search starforce protect dll and see that they are one and the same. You're comical in your denial. http://www.onlinesecurity-on.com/info.phtml?c=83

Yes it does. What do you think protect.dll is. Starforce. Look in DCS World. This is included. And I fully realize the graphics capabilties provided by a KVM vm might be insufficient for running DCS World, or at the least require some additional tuning, while other virtualization products might work more readily. Still changes nothing. It just means I won't be able to verify that it can be run.

Rhinox, and your point is? It still demonstrates that your statement about world not using starforce is false. It may not be prompting you for a key if you dont have any modules installed but it is still running on startup. Anyway, I tried running world in a KVM vm and all it did is repeatedly crash to desktop. I didn't get any dialog about starforce, just instant crash.

What? DCS World does too use Starforce. Go ahead and try to run it in wine. I'll wait. After you install and try to run it and it explodes on protect.dll (that'd be starforce), come back and tell me again.

Not lately, unless some people I know want to fly: I tend to crash to desktop half the time before I even get the plane taxiing. Things lag badly even when I do get started. A lot of time missions are left running for hours after they're over and all/most of the targets/objectives are done. And even after all that I can managed to get gunned down on the taxi way by some jerk thinking he's funny, because there is no real dedicated server with banning/kicking capability. At least when I play by myself I can be reasonably assured of completing the mission.

amazon too, though more expensive. I think this is the size he specified, or close to it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KV38ES 1/2 inch x 1/8" = about 12mm x 3mm, but please do check my math and what he specified in the video before paying.

Fair enough statement. I just looked up my board specs again and it has pci-e 3.0 16x slots and 2.0 1x slots. It's not the newest thing on the block for sure (z77 mpower), so maybe 3.0 x1 slots (and cards) are becoming more common now? Anyway, just something to be aware of.

How would USB 3 hold up? Anyone know? I don't, but I'd be curious. Also be wary of pci-e 1x sata iii expansion cards. They can not hold up to sata iii 6gbps speeds (but they will get you more than sata ii), though I believe there are one or two x4 cards on the market now that should be able to live up to a sata iii ssd's full performance.

What is this? Like back in the mid-west where they thought if we went on a train going more than 30 mph you'd automatically die? If I was in a plane on fire, just hit by a missile, and somehow miraculously survived, I'd think it shit that I have to wait to slow down or take my chances with exploding in a fireball. I'd want to eject and take my chances with the wind, helmet, seat, etc. I don't think anyone promised that you'd be ready to run a marathon after getting to the ground post ejection. Broken bones, scrapes, bruises, dislocations, even death are all probably a potential reality. Still better than EXPLODING. http://www.ejectionsite.com/ejectfaq.htm 780*1.6 mph=1248mph and he survived. Where did you come up with 900mph? And you have at least 1 SR-71 pilot ejecting at Mach 3 at 80,000 feet, though as the site/blurb below point out the force at that altitude is significantly less. So, without doing any research whatsoever you're asking for a silly and unrealistic feature of automatic death for ejecting at high speed. Why? "Although this seems to be an easy question, looks can be deceiving. 'How fast' is an imprecise question as it can be answered in several ways, for example: speed over ground, Knots Indicated Air Speed (KIAS), Knots Equivalent Air Speed (KEAS) and so forth. For example, some SR-71 pilots are rumored to have ejected at speeds of Mach 3 at 80,000 feet. This is a ground speed of around 2000 miles per hour, yet due to the thinner atmosphere at that altitude, the speed is closer to 400 KEAS. That is more like a 460 miles per hour. An F-15E pilot survived an ejection at a very small ground speed as he was traveling almost straight down in a spin, yet he was traveling at 780 MPH. This is over 1.6 times faster in equivalent air speed. Another difficulty with answering this question is determining the exact speed. Since most ejections occur in situations that are changing rapidly, it is difficult to get an exact speed of the ejection. Most ejection speeds are calculated values based on the recollections of the crewman, and what little evidence survives the aircraft's destruction. This can lead to very imprecise numbers. In the first known case of a man surviving a supersonic ejection, George Smith(IIRC will be verified) ejected from an F-100 Super Sabre in a dive. It was known that he ejected supersonically due to eyewitnesses who heard and saw the ejection from nearby based on the sounds of the sonic booms and the visual clues of the crash."

There are mods you can google for. People have even posted them here, using battery packs for charging cell phones on the go. They strike me as rather large for the purpose though...

Yep. I can find use for a 120GB SSD, but if you have the money when buying, go bigger than you think you'll need. :)

You can always add the disk to your PC, move the contents (not the folder itself) of the DCS World folder to somewhere temporary (say a folder on your desktop, somewhere easy to keep track of it), mount the disk under the DCS World folder instead of/in addition to giving it a drive letter, and then move the contents of the folder back. (more or less like this: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11253-mount-drives-partitions-folder.html) No messing with changing registry entries or mucking with short cuts. I feel your pain though. I went up to a 240GB SSD from a 120GB. I only had ~32 GB free. 26GB was going to be SERIOUSLY pushing it. I doubt I could have the installer on the drive and install it at the same time even... Hopefully by the time I need a 500 the prices are way way down. FWIW the Samsung EVO SSD's have been on sale a lot lately. My 120 and the other I have in my other system were the previous (non-pro) samsung 840 ssd's and they have treated me well so far. I don't think they're the fastest, but they seemed reliable. Considering I've only had the EVO like 2 days I can't speak much for it, save that the price was reasonable on sale.

I think he means to share you need to upload it to Youtube. Considering how big fraps files can be that can take awhile. My suggestion: run it through handbrake to make it way way way smaller and hasten your youtube upload.

Glad you got it working. No need to have to explain about why you don't want to have to login. I come from the Linux world (both work and home, save to run DCS and Arma) and at work I'm always cursing about why nothing supports GSSAPI (I'm 100% certain Windows has an equivelant, but I don't know what it's called) Anyway, I get it, and I don't want to log in at home either.

It prompted you to link it to your Windows Live account during the upgrade. You can jump through hoops to skip it (say you don't have an account and when it brings you to create a new one click cancel...) but sounds like you did not. At any rate, your login id is now likely your email address associated with your Windows Live account, probably not what you think it is. You can revert to your local account easily enough under User Accounts, but I'd bet $10 bucks you're entering the wrong username (again it should be the email associated with your windows live account unless you opt to go through reverting it to a local account) for login in netplwiz,exe,..