RedTiger

My guess is they just wanna update the model for DCS. Carl and the Admiral need one badly.

*ALL* you did was flip the switch to manual? You didn't fiddle with the actual timing settings? :huh: Are you pulling my leg? :D

What sized bombs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F-16_June_2008.jpg Two mavericks, two small LGBs, 2 AMRAAMS. Four vehicles plinked or plenty of people blown up...and two slammers for the odd helicopter. You could swap out those for 2 large bombs if you wanted to and be at a similar weight. I'm assuming that the F-35 has MERs internally.

I dig your "specs" there. :lol: Sorry, I just had to comment.

Nevermind...GG put it more concise than I could. :) Emergencies and failures not related to combat are the realm of real pilots who get paid to fly. Unless the simulation is specifically supposed to simulate such a failure, you probably wouldn't even see this type of thing in a military combat simulation.

Goofy intentionally silly questions deserve goofy intentionally silly answers!

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner! :clap: Strong mission building capability is the key. If you want realism, well, there's a reason why this is what real militaries tend to prefer.

I agree. We should also have to soak the moisture off leaves with a spounge by rapidly tapping the triangle button so we don't die of thirst and quick time events like "push X not to divulge classified information and only say only your name, rank, and serial number while being tortured".

Yet for all its realistic features, F3 it still had an arcade style "Top 10 Pilots". I think the best way I can summarize it is that I think 90s sims understood that they were games. Realism was very far off and they knew this, so they didn't try to be more than they could be. I dare say this is why they had more mainstream appeal. Sims are now much more akin to an esoteric war game like ASL. Falcon 4.0 could probably be credited with this, although the later Jane's titles were no slouches either. Even LOMAC is beyond those 90s sims despite being a survey sim because it is very obviously NOT trying to appeal to casual players as a game, no matter how much people claim otherwise. Sim players have some very skewed points of view. The difference is that you have to devote some time learning esoteric things to simply enjoy them. You have to understand anywhere from a handful to a great many real-life concepts to be able to successfully play them. You begin to delve into the realm of things pilots study for years and do as a profession. The more you have to know, the more you want things to be more realistic (and the more vocal people complain about the unrealistic stuff) ;). We're at the point now where people actually complain that the air conditioning switches don't work. Having to actually de-ice rotor blades isn't even enough. I think when you're at that point, the "game" mentality is pretty much screwed.

The loader of a Leopard 2 must be in a world of pain after sitting on that seat for several hours.

I'm VERY curious too and I think it was rather gracious of them to put aside some capacity to work on a DCS module to provide an update to Flaming Cliffs. I'm hoping for some fixes for the missile problems we all know and love and maybe some newer FM or upgraded realism for the avionics. 6DOF would be nice, but I don't think it would work so well with the way the LOMAC cockpits are, which is largely 2D. Guess we'll have to wait and see. I'm excited.

Ouch! Luckily for me, everything was fixed once put my old video card back in. Everything ran fine. I would be really upset if it was the motherboard. :(

Most do if you click on the picture: http://www.mars.slupsk.pl/fort/sukhoi/big/su27-kazakhstan-2005.jpg

Well, no actually you can tell pretty easily if its the software (if you mean drivers and such). If your post screen is scrambled then the software probably isn't the problem since it wouldn't even have loaded yet. Swapping out the PSU isn't an option and I'm not in the mood to reinstall the OS. I'm pretty much stuck with the card, be it a working GPU or a $230 brick since it can't be returned, only RMA for a new one. Based on what I've researched, past experiences, and some recent experimenting with absolutely no problems and total stability with the old GPU and PSU, I'm making an educated guess that it was a faulty card. This wasn't your run-of-the-mill stability problem, this appears to be the case of the card bricking itself in the middle of playing a game. It's a video card now only in terms of producing a video signal that can be interpreted as garbage by the monitor. Moot point too since I've already dropped it off at the UPS store. :D

Psh...yeah, like, a month after I originally did. :rolleyes: :P :D

I really hope it was the card. Nothing else jumps out at me as being the cause. If it isn't, I wonder how many I'm going to RMA until I get the idea that it doesn't work with my system. :D

No, I was referring to my actual CPU. Its and E6850 that runs at 3.0 ghz. I built my system with a Zalman cooler in case I ever wanted to experiment with overclocking. I was able to overclock to 3.2 with complete stability with the 8800 GTS. I planned to go try for a bit higher after the GPU upgrade. I left it that way when installing the new video card, which was probably not the most careful way to do it. Once I get the replacement, I'm going to run it with the CPU at stock and really pay attention to the temperatures and fan settings. To be more clear, it wasn't overheating when I last checked but I'm not certain of what it was doing when I was playing. For all I know the GPU fan could have failed. I didn't get the opportunity to check this. I'm going to be much more careful and observant with the next one. I'm interested to see what happens. EDIT: before someone asks; YES I did have the PCI-e setting locked down at 100 in the bios. I know that increasing the FSB for an overclock will effect other components, but I didn't think it affected the video card if you locked down the PCI-e setting.

I just got a new GPU in the mail yesterday, a EVGA gtx 275. Installed it, played some LOMAC, ran the Crysis benchmarks, so far so good. So I sit down to actually play some Crysis just to see the improvement in-game. After about 30 minutes, the screen flickers with some static and then freezes. The graphics are a little corrupt with some strange lines that look like static diagonally across the screen. The music is still going but the PC is unresposive. "Oh well", I think, "gotta reboot". I switch the computer back on and I'm greeted with a post screen that looks like its written in an alien language. The whole thing is scrambled. The Win XP loading logo is corrupt. Windows won't load! I make sure the card is re-seated, power's plugged in...still get the scrambled post screen. I swap it out for the old card (8800 GTS) and surprise! everything loads fine. I begin to hunt around the web to see what caused it. The culprit sounds like failed VRAM. The only thing is that what can cause the VRAM to fail doesn't match my situation. The PSU's good (Corsair 650tx, never had any problems) and the card wasn't overheating. I'm forced to believe that the card was bad. I was overclocking a tiny bit, like 200 mhz over stock, but I can't understand why that would cause VRAM to fail. Instability, maybe, but a fried video card? What I noticed in my research is that a crapload of cards seemed to be RMAed all the time. The internet isn't a good judge of the general population, but I'm noticing that people talk about returning video cards the way they talk about getting another beer from the fridge. No big whoop, happens all the time. Is that normal!?

How come the pro-Raptor guys don't see it this way? No sarcasm intended. I agree, to a point.

Anyone want to take a stab at the paint schemes on them when they're in service? Do you think the Russians will abandoned camouflage for the more practical "Air Superiority Grey"? I've never understood the purpose of the blue camo, other than looking totally friggin cool, that is. ;) Does it REALLY make it harder to see in the sky?

Agreed! I could just see someone from ED and MAKS handing out a business card: "We could make a LOVELY simulation of your shiny new Su-35s over there! And it could even run on a regular desktop computer! Pilots could practice without an expensive dedicated simulator! Just some desktops and a LAN! What a BARGAIN!" Unfortunately, I doubt they'd ever give the ok for the "home version". :cry:

If they were going to add an A-A missile to the Ka-50 in a mod, why the hell did they pick the Aim-9X? The R-73 would have been much more believable.

See what I mean? Who do you believe? I'll take my own word for it when I try it in a few months. ;) I'm a musician, but oddly enough, I'm not an audiophile when it comes to PC gaming. I have 2 speakers and a subwoofer and that's it. I usually don't run EAX or anything fancy, so on-board sound "sounds" fine to me. I don't exactly get a crappy frame rate either. I'm sure I would notice a difference if I put in a sound card, but its always last on my list of things to upgrade. Goofy...I know...since they aren't exactly expensive. The ONLY reason I care is frame rate. The argument in favor of a soundcard has logic on its side, but I still hear otherwise.

I had a system with less RAM, a single core Pentium IV that was just a bit faster (1.7 ghz), a geforce3 with 64mb ram on Windows XP home and I was able to run it. I'm not familiar with that video card. That might be the weakest link. It does have a lot of RAM though. You need to throw enough CPU power at LOMAC to choke a horse to get it to run super smooth. Even with lots of horse(choking)power you might be disapointed at your framerate when you make a low pass over Krasnodar. However people are officially spoiled IMO because we have the capability for this now in 2009. They forget that LOMAC was released in 2003. Check out this story, the screenshots, and the system requirements posted at the end: http://www.simhq.com/_air/air_095e.html You can run it on what you have, just not very well. I would suggest you give it a try it in the mean time while you build/buy your new PC. http://www.lockonfiles.com has a boatload of old mods that will increase the sims performance on older systems. Furthermore you can tweak a ton of stuff with Modman. You'll be stuck with low quality, no eye candy, and small missions but enough to still have fun. :)

Intel over AMD, Nvidia over ATI, no surprises there. I'm not making any call on which is better, but those numbers are to be expected. That survey supports what you could already guess; the average is...well...average. Not to high, not too low. SLI...not widespread...check. Geforce 8800 the "workhorse" GPU...check. Over half still using Win XP 32....check. Also note: very, very few people are doing any extreme overclocking. The only surprise there is the audio...Realtek? LOL, looks like I'm not alone. I didn't want to screw with a sound card on my first build and it seems some others don't either. OR they're just content with having their PC built without one rather than spending the extra cash. I'm still trying to pin down if a sound card without its own processing unit would increase FPS. I can't find a good answer. My next build will have one though. ;) Good find Boulund! :)