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Yes. However, keep in mind, that not whole game uses navigational (a.k.a. true) wind direction. Towers announce wind using meteorological direction, so that you can easier turn into the wind without any calculations. Avionics of Ka-50 also use meteorological direction of wind.

It is not a bug. Mission editor does not use meteorological wind direction (to which most people are used to), but uses navigational one.

How dare you??? This is heresy, you infidel! :D Seriously, don't look decade ahead. Practice shows that after decade not (only) the protection becomes a problem, but protected software too due to incompatibility with other software (OS) or hardware, so if developers go out without transferring software to someone else for further development and maintenance, software mostly dies or begins to be painful to be run even with protection removed.

Also there are people who says the same just in opposite: RoF protection is awful, look at DCS - it is good. Always there will be someone unhappy.

Один вопрос, о птицах. Будет ли вероятность столкновений зависит от времени года? В конце концов, зимой гораздо меньше птиц, чем летом.

What hassle? :) Of course, airplanes won't be improved anymore, but game engine very likely can be - after all, DCS has modular system and is supposed to be easily upgradable. Translation: In fact, FC2 is Black Shark with disabled flyable helicopter and enabled flyable planes from LockOn. However, they still don't have complete conception (as they say) of compatibility. FC2 and BS will be compatible, but about A10 is too early to speak. The problem lies in slightly different worlds: BS is optimized for low altitude flying and FC2 will be optimized for higher altitude and greater viewing distance. Textures will be different too. It may become very difficult to maintain this differences when more DCS modules come out.

I think LockOn: Flaming Cliffs 2.0 = DCS: LockOn :) It is DCS engine with aircrafts from LockOn, but without fidelity of DCS (no AFM for righters, no clickable cockpits and etc.). Wise decision, because it will be easier for devs to maintain just DCS engine and drop LockOn code completely. Devs win, we in too, because every improvement DCS gets, will be given to FC 2.0 too. :) Back to your question. When FC 2.0 comes out, BS will get update too. So if your mission works after that BS update, it will work on FC 2.0 too.

Voda and vodka differ only in suffix "k", which is diminutive suffix in Russian. So, if voda means water, then vodka can mean little/lesser water. Or it can mean distilled liquor. Tricky ? :doh: :D

Dump of file DCS.exe PE signature found File Type: EXECUTABLE IMAGE FILE HEADER VALUES 14C machine (x86) B number of sections 4A818626 time date stamp Tue Aug 11 17:54:30 2009 0 file pointer to symbol table 0 number of symbols E0 size of optional header 12F characteristics Relocations stripped Executable Line numbers stripped Symbols stripped [color=Red] Application can handle large (>2GB) addresses[/color] 32 bit word machineLARGEADDRESSAWARE bit is set, so DCS has 4GB limit in 64bit OS.

More RAM does not do much. It does not matter if you have 4GB or 16GB, all 32 bit application will use max 2GB on 64bit Windows by default. Only 32bit applications with LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag set in their binary image is allowed to use more RAM (up to 4GB). If you see 32 bit process using more than 2GB of RAM, then it has that flag set.

Not exactly. With PAE on, you can use more than 4GB (64GB - 36 bit addressing) in 32 bit Windows if the restrictions are not enforced. XP is limited to 4GB minus hardware address space on purpose. Windows Server 2003 isn't, but you need to use compatible drivers or you will have problems. With correct drivers you can happily use 3GB for single application in that OS - hardware won't eat precious address space. In anyway, most problems go away in 64bit environment (as consumer level OS is available), running LARGEADDRESSAWARE 32 bit application in 64 bit Windows will give it max 4GB. I would not mind if DCS got 4GB on my system (then OS will still have another 2GB), and only that bit needs to be set for this improvement, unless DCS does something fancy with memory management.

Only 32 bit OS needs to be tweaked, 64 bit OS needs no modifications. However, application tweak is required in both cases. It is pretty simple: application executable file is needed to have LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag set. It is even possible to set it without relinking whole executable (of course, only if executable isn't protected by DRM). There is no side effects per se. Problems would arise only if application was programmed with too "smart" memory allocation or with assumption that it never can get more than 2GB.

Model is partial representation of reality. It means that when modelling you pay attention to most essential things and give low priorities to unimportant details. If you have enough resources, you can extend the model by small features and details, however once again the first are implemented the most important details and so on. Now, what do you think is important for flight sim? You can say this and that, but please try at first to group the features and assign priority number to them. You will see how quickly grass, butterflies, birds, nice water, "living" environment go to the bottom of the list and features like flight and damage models come up. By the way. Lets take ArmA as example. It looks nice when viewed from infantry perspective, but take a jet and you will notice how small ArmA's world is and how bad eyes of pilot are modeled. :) The same is true for any FPS engine, because they are created not for flight. I don't care if I can not see any grass, but I certainly care if I can only see a few km ahead on clear day. :)

Hit trim and hold it, move joystick, release trim, center the joystick. In this order. If you use old trim method (without checkmark in options) you have to recenter quickly or your trimming will be way off. If you use new trim (with checkmark in options) you can recenter quickly or slowly, however you must do it precisely, because after you release trim you will loose control until stick is centered (you must get joystick into predefined travel zone for joystick to be considered centered).

No, Lithuanian is Baltic language (together with Latvian) and Russian is Slavic. However both groups belong Balto-slavic branch of Indo-European languages, so Lithuanian has more similarities with Russian than with German or English.

In Lithuanian, Latin "C" sounds "ts" (IPA), the same as "Ц" (Russian). For example: "Lemon" in Lithuanian is "Citrina", which is pronounced as "ts ɪ t r ɪ n ɐ" (IPA). :)

If n is sufficiently large, n*2 becomes worse than n due to overhead of resource management.

Because what is considered high setting in one game, can't be taken as high in other. :) Visib. range = high isn't "high", it is more like "insane". :)

Does not matter much. They are mirrors. Choose first if you have better pings to European servers, or the second, if you have better connection to USA.

Proper rendering of water surface at altitudes other than sea level would be great too. :)

Mi-24, because it is "Devil's chariot" :devil:

DX10 is not important here. WDDM is important here. Advantages and disadvantages of this driver architecture affects both: DX10 and DX9. One of advantages is internal task scheduler, which makes use of multi core systems. That is why pretty big difference in FPS exists for XP and Vista/Win7 then game is run on multiple cores.

NUMPAD ENTER isn't normal zoom, it is just saved (default) zoom. You can save new zoom level with RCTRL+NUMPAD0. Mine is set to widest.

Yes, if they are aviation pedals (not pedals for car). Yes, but feet are heavy and not as sensitive as hands, so you need to practice if you want to feel the center. Exactly the same like with stick. Sadly, there are still no FFB pedals to buy. Generally they are the same. There can be difference in trimming system, presence of force sensors and etc., but you should not care about this, unless you are building dedicated super realistic cockpit. Look for Saitek or CH. They cost about $100. There are more expensive alternatives too. Gameport is phased out now. Vista does not have gameport support at all and future Windows versions won't have it either. All new modern controllers are USB now.

I think he speaks about default game mission, that one with huge battle :) I don't remember its name in English version, but probably something like "Battle" (at least semantically) :) FPS are low in it, because of huge amount of units.