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Thank you all for great info. Answered my question.

Well I was wondering who would catch that. Didn't bother to edit since I think I got my point across but I guess you take the cake. What I'm having trouble with SA is without primary threat indicator, how do I tell which threat I should deal with first? Do you guys memorize the radar strength of every fighter and SAM units? Right now, the default missions I'm playing, most of enemy units are hidden. I can cheat and make them visible to research beforehand what I'm gonna be faced with. Then I have no problem winning the battle. But I don't want to play this way. I like to be surprised and be able to deal with it. On one of the F15 campaign missions, I saw 4 hostile contacts. 2 Mig25's and 2 Mig23's. All at same bearing but Mig25's showed up closer on RWR. But frankly, I don't know which radar strength is stronger so I have no idea which ones are closer to me and will be firing first. I turn my radar on and I only see 2. I couldn't find the other 2 on my radar so I thought there were behind the ones I see and I engaged the two. But actually, the Mig23's were closer but higher altitude and they shot me down. The whole time, some friendly F16 was marked as primary threat until Mig23's locked and fired. So yea, I flew again and completed the mission but now I know where they are and it's not a good feeling winning that way. Maybe I should memorize the radar strength of every radar?

I did read the other post about ECM tactics but didn't address the specific question I was looking for. Does the missile inbound via HOJ looses its lock when I turn the ECM off? Is that why ECM flashing works? I don't fly online so I wont be using this against anybody. Just wondering how ECM is modeled in LOMAC.

Anyone willing to educate me on proper jammer usage? I did read Falcon guide on jammer usage which basically said use jammer before enemy aquires you and turn it off when its inside the burn through range. Does this work same way in LockOn? I'm familiar with how to launch in HOJ. Just want to learn about how to evade HOJ. Assume I'm in F15. I'm supposed to turn on the jammer before enemy has a lock? Now he launches a missile in HOJ mode. Am I supposed to turn the jammer off at this point or keep it on? And is the tactic different when your up against F15 using AIM-120 in HOJ versus AIM-7 in HOJ? Howabout russian using HOJ? A detailed info on how exactly HOJ works with different types of opponents and missiles (active vs semi-active) would be great. Or a link where I can get the info.

Now I remember IRONHAND's tutorial on RWR. In it, I think he toggled a filter on the RWR. I can't remember exactly (I'm downloading it again right now) but I believe it turned off the radars in search mode. I'm sure this will eliminate friendlies from the RWR and thus only showing enemy radars (that have locked me up) as primary. I guess this could be a workaround but have another question regarding this "filter". Would this filter indicate enemy aircraft that's locked on to me using HOJ? My guess is no since HOJ is passive? Just wanted to confirm.

Again... I guess I kinda titled the thread to be a bit misleading but simply identifying friend or foe is not what I'm having trouble with. I don't have much problem telling who's friend and who's threat. But RWR identifying friendlies as primary threat is making that feature obsolete. I got bunch of SAMs to my 12 o'clock, couple of migs to 1 o'clock, and few more Su-27's to my 10 o'clock. I want the RWR to tell me which is actually getting ready to shoot me down. Not my wingmen. I thought that was purpose of primary threat indicator.

Page 182 right? I've read it before and read it again. Doesn't explain the question I asked. Have you read it yourself? Thanks for the answer Goon but I don't have problem identifying target as friend or foe. But determining which enemy target is primary is different story. Often, I find the answer to that once a missile is inbound.

I asked this in bug section but haven't got a single reply so I'm asking again here because I know you guys know the answer. In F15 or A10, my wingmen and nearby friendlies always shows up as primary threat in diamond. Wingmen shows up as primary threat when I give him the order to attack... so when he turns on his radar. This defeats the whole purpose because now I have to sort through those small icons and guess which enemy unit is true primary threat. Is this the way it is in real RWR? It can't tell friend or foe? Or is this a bug in LOMAC?

I believe error code 3 is corrupted download. Try downloading with no download manager or accelerator. I know it'll be slower but their server has some issues. If all else fails, no one here will blame you if you resort to illegal sources to download the file as long as you have your registration key.

I wish the bugs are addressed as well but frankly, they're not severe enough for me to stop playing it. I think ED is doing the right thing by packaging patches into expansion. Because sitting there creating patches doesn't generate any income for them. Heck, that's how Microprose went. They spent a year patching Falcon before Habro closed the door. I don't know how many copies of LOMAC and FC were sold but I wouldn't be surprised if they're making just enough to survive. If they were greedy, they wouldn't be in simulation market in the first place. It's the passion and survival. So patience my friend.

And this wasn't a big secret. They announced this fact in the BlackShark update conveniently stickied few spaces up. And as mentioned, if the military is bringing them more revenues, why not take the opportunity? Face it. ED is not gonna be around for much longer if all they did was sell FC and BS and keep producing patches. And I hate to see another great sim developers go down in flames.

Cow tipping mod anyone?

Flight simulator market is already small enough that I doubt ED is making huge profit like EA or Blizzard. Look at what happened to Papyrus, Microprose, Jane's and any company that once pushed for realistic simulation. They need to be conscious about profit and I don't blame them. I want ED to stay in business and I will continue to purchase any expansion they put out. Supporting user mod community with developer's kit is a luxury for those big game publishers. Somebody has to create the tool and somebody has to pay for his time. But on the other hand, ED has all these people willing to work for free at their disposal! Maybe there is a way to make use of these talented resource. Perhaps some of them are willing to provide content for future expansion? If users contribute ground unit models and ED just packages them as expansion, heck, I'd buy it. Non flyable aircraft expansion? Sure, I'm willing to pay maybe 15 bucks. User contributed structures and ground texture expansion? I'll pay $25. Flyable aircrafts are different story however. 3D models are easy part compared to avionics and weapons physics. I'm not willing to buy simple Tomcat skin on F15 avionics.

Hey, what did he do to deserve it? :P

So it works fine without profile but twitchy with profile? That's strange problem because the profile is only for button mapping and shouldn't effect axis. Try this. Within LOMAC, unassign keyboard assignment for flight controls such as pitch and roll. I'm wondering if some button mapping such as ctrl+arrow keys are interfering with flight controls.

I do these (modeling and animation) for work so I don't get you people who models for fun! Nice model Troff. Modeling for games is tricky because you have limited number of polygons to work with. Knowing what you can achieve with textures and where to add more polygons is key to creating quality model.

Yea, I'd say the glass is better suited for racing than flight. It still does work really well for flight sim but it's just an eye candy. But in racing, it gives you depth perception which actually helps you race better. It does work with ATi and it does work with LCD monitors but you have to use eD's driver which doesn't work as well as nVidia driver. To get the best effect and compatibility with these shutter glasses, you'll need WinXP, CRT monitor capable of 120Hz refresh rate, and nVidia 7 series card. That's why I said you almost have to custom build your system around the glass nowdays. Altho I like the effect and really hope nVidia updates their drivers, I'm not about to revert back to XP and give up my 8800GTX for the glass.

Yea, that's one thing to remember when you set it up. The way the glasses work, it cuts the refresh rate of your monitor in half. So if you're monitor is at 60Hz, you'll be viewing 30Hz per eye. And that will hurt your eyes. Make sure your monitor is capable of 120Hz or at least 100Hz. At 120Hz, you shouldn't feel any eyestrain. It'll be like staring at normal monitor at 60Hz. Like I've said, if you get it to work, it's amazing. But nowdays, you almost have to custom build your system for it to work properly due to poor driver support.

Well beware that the latest beta drivers use different formats and you need to create brand new profile if you're gonna update. As for that bug, I'd try unplugging saitek and flying with keyboard to make sure if it's your saitek that's causing it first. If it works fine with keyboard, then try plugging in X52 but don't run the SST. Just use it as regular joystick. If it works fine again, then it's probably some mapping in SST causing it. So start disabling button maps few at a time. Elimination process.

I have X52 Pro so it might be different but any keystroke you assign using the band in SST is repeated. You need to make them macro for it to be press once and release. For zoom, I use the mouse wheel on the throttle. This works really well because unlike slider or rotary, the wheel clicks and doesn't flicker. To use the mouse wheel as zoom, don't assign any profile to it and choose mouse as controller in LOMAC. Not X52. Then assign mouse wheel axis to zoom. Also in axis setting in LOMAC, make sure no axis assignment is duplicated with other controllers.

May I ask how old you are? Not trying to be negative but if you're thinking of joining RuAF because you think the requirement for USAF is too strict, I doubt you'll have a chance at RuAF either.

I tried the SeaTool and there's no 64bit version. But I got all kinds of diag tools but nothing shows disk error. And like I said, none of the monitoring tools show anything tasking CPU or RAM. Just the disk usage goes up and loud noise. I did search and there seems to be quite a lot of people complaining this about Vista. But everyone seems to be speculating the problem and nothing official. You guys with vista never had this issue?

You can do stereo at 1600x1200. Those are shutter glasses, not HMD.

I have the glasses and when it works, it's amazing. Many people think it'll make them sick and dizzy but it doesn't. If you have no problem watching 3D iMax movies, you're not gonna have problem using shutter glasses. Plus, you can adjust the effects. In the beginning, you use very slight 3D but as you get used to it, I used to use almost full 3D effect. Effect in LOMAC is awesome too but you'll have problem targeting anything in A10's Avenger because the placement of HUD is not represented correctly in 3D world. But in A2A mode, glasses with TrackIR gives you "being there" feeling. Now the keyword in the first sentence I said is... "When it works". Nvidia sorta dropped the stereo driver support. To make it work, you're gonna have to use a year old driver for both normal graphic and stereo since they have to match. You're also outta luck if you have GeForce 8 series and if you have Vista. Nvidia says they will be coming out with new stereo driver but hard to believe since it's been a year since the last driver was released. But I'm still hopeful as the 3D effect simply is amazing.

I think those with Vista knows what I'm talking about. At first, I thought it was defragmenter so I turned off auto defrag. But still, disk access (based on nTune) goes up to 50% all of sudden. But processor and RAM doesn't change... just the disk access. So I thought it's indexing. But in task manager, no search process is taking up any resources. This constant disk accessing is negatively impacting performance. Sometimes, the computer feels like it crashed but all it's doing was accessing the disk. What the heck is it accessing?