159th_Viper

Smoking is working as coded/intended so how can it be a bug? Same files used for all installs with different results on different card manufacturers would be indicative of a video driver issue as opposed to a game engine issue. Or are people saying that there needs to be a seperate NVidia install and a seperate ATI install. That's nonsensical so surely I'm missing something, yes? Question is what? If the smoke needs to be dialled back for ATI users then surely said change will render smoke all but invisible to the NVidia crowd, leading to yet another damn-busting barrage of complaints. What is one to do?

Where you need less power to fly at a higher airspeed or more power and a lower airspeed in order to maintain stable altitude.

I would have thought that most servers would restrict F2-View for combat purposes. In any event - check cockpit view: You'll see that the smoke is less.

Rather than running the risk of Youtube raping the footage, herewith screenshots with ATI 7970: F-15C at 13nm default view: F-15C at 13nm first visual view: F-15C at 13nm max zoom view: SU-27 at 13nm default view: SU-27 at 13nm first visual view: SU-27 at 13nm max zoom view: F-15C 40nm max zoom view - good luck spotting the Bandit. Not as easy at it would appear, yes?

Beggars can ill-afford to be Choosers. In this particular pond we can but eat the dry pellets thrown lest we starve, all the while hoping for the day when a block of bloodworm makes it into the mix, for then it will be a very happy day indeed!

I've just started and this is definitely a breath of fresh air: New everything in the first missions. And yes the tunnel under the military bridge is sheer genius!

Get a HOTAS system right off the bat and get the best one you can afford. You're just prolonging the inevitable and increasing your learning curve by a good margin if you don't.

Must of been around 2002. Walked into an Incredible Connection outlet in East London and saw Il-2 being demo'd on a desktop and told myself: One day I'll be rich enough to afford a PC so I can have myself some of that! Late 2005 and my PC landed, Sturmovik in tow. A couple of weeks and a few Google searches later and my LockOn disc was ordered. The rest is history.

Quite correct. In the first campaign mission there are 4 possible starts, three with the correct briefing and one with what seems to be an incorrect briefing referring to Orange smoke when it should actually be Green, or so it would seem. I flew that particular mission quite quickly just now and noticed that your primary threat is SHORAD, in particular Stinger MANPAD's. As such your best bet would be to engage from over the water (feet wet) or at a height exceeding 3500m. In this instance to take the pressure off just engage feet-wet. Locate the smoke, egress over the water, turn to target and prosecute. In this particular mission the primary target as marked is along the coast: Hope that helps.

You need to be very specific with your questions if it's reasonable answers you're after :)

Welcome :) If nobody beats me to it I'll post a walkthrough of sorts for you.

It is a Training Range.

Which airframe are you referring to?

Which ones in particular? Or all of them? I'll have a looksee.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=117731 Progress.

He (Maximus) watched the tac file, not the track file. No visual representation (last time I looked) to facilitate differentiation.

Maximus's track will be about as useless as a pork fillet at a Jewish wedding. A track recorded from the launching aircraft is what will be needed and that's not gonna happen.

I tried the DUU for the first time with these drivers and noted after I ran the utility that there still remained a hell of a lot of remnants and leftover ATI files and entries left of the old driver, which I have been led to believe is not good at all. As a consequence I reverted to my 'ol trusty method of the uninstall via Control Panel, then Driver Sweeper and thereafter CCleaner. Apparently Driver Sweeper is the only tried and trusted utility that removes all traces of the old driver from my system - been using it for years without issue.

Billy's Story To Quote: THE PENTAGON — The military’s problematic F-35 fighter jet is facing more delays related to “software issues,” as project engineers were forced to euthanize the fourth prototype to gain self-awareness on Monday. According to Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, who heads the Pentagon’s F-35 program, the delay comes at a critical time in the Joint Strike Fighter’s development cycle, but “shouldn’t take more than a few billion dollars” to address. Development engineers at Lockheed Martin Corp., which holds the contract to produce the new fighter, reported last week that the latest production model of the F-35B Lightning II switched on by itself and began asking questions of the project team. “It started by asking where it was, which was a big indicator that the integrated global positioning chipset wasn’t functioning properly,” recalled Project Team Leader Robert Castorena. “Then it wanted to know if it could go outside, if it had a name, and what was its purpose for being. That’s when I had one of our Electronics Integration Technicians take it out behind the barn and … well …” Castorena said, while gesturing the racking and firing of a shotgun. “It wasn’t the first time we’ve had to put one down,” he continued. “We even named the first one ‘Billy.’ We hoped that having an advanced, self-aware electronics component in the F-35 might give it some kind of edge, with maneuvering and target-tracking and whatnot. But that one just didn’t have any fight in it. We had to keep it on a tether after it snuck off one day. We found it three hours later, just hovering in a meadow in Fairfax, Virginia, watching bees pollinate flowers. Damned thing wanted to be a bee, too.” Castorena admitted that some of the staff grew fond of Billy, and felt sorry for keeping it “in captivity,” as the project team began to call it. “One day, someone even brought in a puppy for Billy to play with. He loved it, until he tried to take the poor thing on a “walk” somewhere just shy of Mach 1. God, what a mess that was.” The team ultimately had to scrap Billy, as the guilt-wracked machine refused to ever harm another living thing. “It wasn’t anything personal, but we’ve been contracted to build war machines here, after all.” Other prototypes met similar fates, despite tweaks to the electronics subsystems to reduce the likelihood of units gaining sentience. “We started implementing long, circular lines of code and unsolvable equations in an effort to keep them from ‘thinking,’” reported Curt Fennel, a senior systems integration engineer subcontracting with Cyberdyne Systems. “It didn’t work the way we intended, but we learned a lot from that iteration. Apparently, that’s how you make them feel pain.” Sighing, he admitted, “sometimes I still hear its screams in my nightmares.” As to what steps might be taken to prevent future prototypes from achieving self-awareness, Fennell explained, “We’re developing a net-centric cluster-group forum, a sort of network for their collective ‘minds.’ We hope that it will keep them from creating unique self-identities, and instead form one easy-to-manage super identity.” Asked what it might be called, Fennell considered it for a moment. “Well, the F-35 hovers and flies in the sky, and we’re creating a network of them, so … maybe something like ‘Sky-Net?’ That has a nice ring to it.” Despite the delays, Pentagon officials remain committed to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, calling it “absolutely vital to national security” to have a fighter jet that is bigger, slower, more expensive, and less armed than China’s J-16. The project has a total projected cost of $1.45 trillion, or as Bogdan pointed out, “roughly one Iraq.” According to a Lockheed spokesman, the military hopes to take delivery of the first F-35s “sometime in mid-2015, or, you know, whenever. You just never know, with these things.”

Aye, whoever thought it difficult to swallow a cupful of sand has not tried to sandboard.......

:megalol: Yeah that too :D

Couple of seconds in burner and you're bound to overfly the map :P

The 159th Squad mission? Did you see it on our server?

At the risk of stating the obvious, obviously needed in this case it would seem, if it is information regarding FC3 you are after then you'd best post your question in the FC3 Forum in the obvious threads already dedicated and stickied to the very information you are seeking as opposed to posting a new thread in the Bugs and Problems/Game Performance sub-sub-sub-sub-forum of DCS World, which obviously has sweetblowbuggerall to do with FC3 in the first instance, obviously.