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I wonder if the pedals and the collective /throttle actually work? It's hard to tell from the picture and it doesnt mention them in the description...

Thanks for the quick update. I had tried to update yesterday after downloading the demo but found nothing . Today its there. Going to go check it out.

I notice you turned up your AA and AF. There is a little documented problem on some Nvidia cards where turning AA and AF too low will actually cause a performance loss. I've seen it myself on my 8800 GTX cards. For me it would happen if I put them at 2x. When I bumped them to 4x or higher my perfomance went back up. Maybee you were having a bit of this also.

You should be able to run it at provided your motherboard supports it. Some new x58 boards only support 1333. The best way to go about it is to goto the manufacturers website and lookup your memory and get the timings they used to get to 1600.

Crazy Brits...that ISNT pudding it looks like strawberry shortcake all ground up with a can of whipcream on it....

Glad to hear.....I should've mentioned that too I always have to use task manager to set affinity because prifinity wont auto set it. The script I got from the forums works 1 time ( until a mission ends then I start a new one ) Anything that takes you out of the 3d world and back to the menu requires you to reapply the affinity :/ The speedstep in your BIOS slows down the CPU when it's not being used. A must for notebooks to conserve battery power but for desktops....nah

It would be great to have missions though where the fighters have to sweep the area and defend while the ka-50's do what they do....more of a co-op thing though.

I never understood this either. In most DC systems the generators power the inverter which in turn charges the batteries and powers DC components. If the engine loads up and the generator can't produce enough power your batteries should have enough reserve to overcome this. I just can see how the batteries would draw down that fast if the low RPM condition only lasts for a few seconds, after all when you start your engines on battery power and that takes way longer than a few seconds to crank the engines. As long as the battery switches are on would they still not be in the circut? The only thing I can think of is that somehow the batteries are not wired in paralell with the DC system... In my mind this would be similar to towing a heavy load in your car and having the stereo and lights cutting out after only a few seconds...

You should definately be getting better framerates than that. As for the water put that back to it's default setting, you can hardly tell the difference anyways and it will impact your performance even if you can't see water on the screen. The big one alot of people miss is the Full Screen checkbox in the graphics settings, you will get bad FPS if it's in window mode. Since your on Vista now I would also suggest searching the forum for the CPU affinity trick, this should get you about 10-15 more FPS. It works only on Vista and many people are having very good increases using this In Vista unless the game specifically has a setting built in to disable Vsync, you cannot turn it off. The setting in the Nvidia control panel will only affect OpenGL aplications. So this won't help you with FPS. For your Nvidia profile are you using global settings or did you make a new profile for DCS? Something else to check is the CPU throttling in your BIOS under power management. Try turning off those options and see what happens. I suspect your CPU is not switching to full speed. It's usually a setting called TM1 and TM2(Thermal management) Also check to see if your board auto configured your CPU properly .

I would take that baby in and get it poweder coated black, would look sweet.

My initial impression of this is great. At least this works under Vista x64 with the latest Nvidia drivers and no problems, even with -highres I couldn't even get OF to start at all....

I get surround sound without using Alchemy in BS Vista x64....seems like they are using OpenAL or something instead of DirectSound. I've asked before what ED used for this game but recieved no answer... Alchemy WILL change the way it sounds though.

Don't worry about the MOMO being added. I would just leave it in there and then go into your controls setup for your axis or buttons in the game and clear anything that it has assigned the MOMO for defaults. If the game detects a new controller it sets defaults for it. This should get set one time.... unless you remove add new controllers etc. The way it appears to me is that the game will add any controller into the config that is plugged in, there is no way to tell it which controllers to use or not to use. Once you edit your config and clear the assignments you don't want your momo to use it will use this whenever you play.

They should just liscense gamespy code. Many people use it, it's proven and been around for quite a while. Many many games use this. Things I like are the sizeable columns, searchable criteria, favorites etc. All missing from the Blackshark multiplayer server browser :/ I know they think that only 10% of us play online, but please consider that maybe more people would play if it were easier to work with on the interface and not all of the people who play online nescesarily play on the internet, lots of squads play on LAN. At this point there is less than 1 page of servers so it's not too much of a hassle . This could change drastically when the retail box version come out though.

I use the thumb button as trimmer. The pinky as a shiftstate so that pinky + thumb button is a trim reset. I reset a lot as the turn on target likes to flake out at the worst possible times.

I thought I read somewhere that they don't even make shkval or vikhr systems anymore? Use them sparingly they they won't build more :P I wonder what will be employed on the Ka-50's that they have left? Can ED simulate lack of replacement parts, ammo shortages and duct tape holding the chopper together as the campaign goes on hehe.

This is what my friends and I call a "stealth upgrade" lol...been there , done that.

I'm really bummed about this. I wanted to replace my 2 8800 GTXs...but I already get the same framerates as you guys with the spanking new I7's and 295's . Seems hardly worth it. For me I get 45-50 FPS with the affinity trick at 1920x1200 all setting maxed except water. Made a profile in the Nvidia control panel to override enable AA and AF (using 8xQ and 4x AF with supersampling) since its not supported in the game and turned up the texture filtering to High Quality(no filtering) Seeing how this game is so heavily CPU dependant I figured you would see the claimed 30% increase for the I7. Guess not on DCS :/ I'm sure you guys get way better performace in other games but mostly what I care about is sims for the moment. I just can't fathom how hardware 3 years newer doesn't offer any improvement in this game at all...CPU or GPU doesn't seem to make a bit of difference. I wish they would work with NVIDIA and ATI this thing optomized or generate good profiles. I would just like to hit the target rate of 60 FPS consistiently in the cockpit, but I'm not dumping another couple grand on hardware for a couple of FPS increase.

Get it centered, use turn on target if nescesary. Try using your collective to raise/lower your nose in relation to the target instead of fighting the cyclic like a fighter jock. Works best if you have some forward motion. Someone told me this this a long long time ago.

They already answered this in the problems and bugs forum, theres already 2 threads on this in there :P

In my experience the groundcrew doesnt actually "fix" it, you must wait the 3 minutes for a new chopper. You can tell you got a new chopper because there is a quick pause and bam your in a new heli with all the switches set to defaults(cold and dark) If you do a rearm or refuel it won't be fixed. Also I'm pretty sure you have to be close enough to get the new chopper...If you try communications with the ground crew and get no reply then maybee it won't give you a new heli? Just guessing on this one...

Back on topic: You overloaded the engines, not enough torque to properly drive the generator so it drops out for a split second and the Shkval resets itself...

Hasn't this already been beat to death in another thread?

If you can't get rid of it it's probably because it is painted on the aircraft dynamically like the numbers. Meaning it's not actually in the skin file, it's on there because you have selected Russia as the aircrafts country. Try making it from Turkey or something.

I usually have to push the cyclic pretty far forward and trim it there when using route mode otherwise it seems to want to fly to the waypoint really slow....like 25-50 ish.