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Would like to add to this discussion that four FS.1 Sea Harriers engaged and shot down four F-15's in an exercise, much to the disgust of the Yanks. Was in Sharkey Ward's book "Sea Harriers over the Falklands" a good book :). The Harriers flew rings around the eagles and nailed them with Aim-9's. I don't know if the same thing could be repeated at LONG range... but our lads in the RAF fly looooow... so low you Yanks probably wouldn't dare follow lol. I would actually REALLY like to see how the F-22 does in a turning fight with a Harrier with it's vectored thrust, but off-boresight missiles kind of take the fun out of the whole game... not very sporting! I find it a bit funny that the big bad F-15 was owned by a little Harrier though.

Mastiff just looking at your avatar & sig makes me want a DCS:Falcon module so bad lol :joystick:. Must be my old Falcon addiction coming out again. Can't believe you managed to belly that Hog with all those bombs left... balls of unobtanium I think knowing my luck I would have been blown to atoms if I tried the same trick!:thumbup:

My optical drive? Forgive my ignorence but what effect will that have on my FPS?

I'm thrilled to see the A-10 flying already, and gutted that I can't afford it for the next month or so :(... but curious to know how you guys are finding it performance wise. Seriously looking like this sim could knock Falcon off its spot after so long! Now, I know this is still the beta... and thus the fps figures aren't final as there is a lot of optimisation to be done. However! I'm eager to get in on the pre-purchase with the beta and curious as to how my new rig will hold up... so here are the specs. - Case: Antec 300 Case with Alien Green case fans. - Power Supply: Corsair Extreme 600W - CPU: Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz Clarkdale overclocked to 4.20GHz - Motherboard: Gigabyte H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard - Cooler: Akasa Venom CPU Cooler - RAM: Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX460 768Mb GDDR5 - Sound: Realtek 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board) - Optical Drive: LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive - Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit I'm guessing I'll be running the 32bit client to start with, until Natural Point releases 64bit drivers for Track IR... I'm not flying without it! If any of you have a similar spec I would be grateful to see what performance your getting out of it! Regards, Lonewolf.

I doubt you'll be seeing any Russan aircraft in this, as its BoB not IL-2.

I got the track sorted guys thank you for the advice. Shame you can't fast forward and change playback aka F4 ACMI thing. Got to wait out the 30min odd transit from airfield to FEBA.

Cheers guys! Will look at that now.

Hey, just had an amazing MP flight on my squads dedi. Would like to keep a track file so I can go through it and take screens etc. In SP it gives you an option to view a replay/track of the mission you just flew, but I got no such option after I disconnected from the server. Can anyone help me? Had so many close calls and a extremely lucky kill would like to keep it!

Oh jeez sorry lol I just read it again, cheers! *D'OH!*

That is actaully the one I'm using, so Betty and my pilot speaks Russian accented English, but the ATC and maintenance etc talk in American accented English. It's a good meet in the middle kind of compromise, but I would much prefer it if I could have Russian accented ATC etc. No disrespect DTWD it's a great mod... but is there no possibility of Russian accented ATC?

Fair enough, I'm not particularly interested in them as like you said a majority of information needed is either in the manuals of videos online. I was merely saying some new customers might consider the product "unfinished" as they couldn't access all the material they paid for because of upgrading to the latest patch. The only thing I really dislike about DCS at the moment is having Americans in the control tower when I'm flying as Russian (using the speech mod). By the way, the US reads about QFE differently to the Russians. Normally for the Red's its something like 175.6 where as the US/NATO says aprox 28.9 etc. How do I compensate for this? As the dial shows only metric and doesn't take the change of units into account.

A bit of favoritism on the part of ED there? I'm sure it would have upset the Russian audience to see their tanks get pwned by their western counterparts lol. IIRC the Abrams have the "chobbam" (sp?) armour which is far superior to the Russian armour, so really it should be the other way round, with US tanks able to hold their own against the Russians. Nice find though, I've noticed the same thing at times.

AHEM HARRIER... cough....cough TORNADO cough sorry lol... Honestly guys, give the Brit's a chance for a chance :P.

I mean the Russian accented english, not American accented. I know I can get english ground control etc, but it sounds out of place when flying for Russia (with mod installed). I'm just slightly confused as to why they would remove the Russian accented speech for when you fly Russia (or not give us the option?). It was in place previously and caused no issues, so it baffles the mind as to what made them want to remove it. On another note, no training tracks? I patched up to 1.0.2 right away (as you would do) and I can't access training tracks because old tracks don't work. Were they any good? Personally speaking, I think it's an odd thing to do. This sim is complicated enough already, and for newcomers to the sim genre who want to learn (and might not be aware of the online community) would find it extremely off putting that no training material is available in game. Wouldn't have taken much work to redo a few tracks guys... any other publisher/developer would have gotten slammed for that i.e. Ubisoft etc.

Firstly, I know there is a mod to get english in 1.0.2... but I'm just wondering why ED decided to take away the option for us to have it? I know its a Russian bird, but I prefer to have english speech so I can understand it without having to look away from instruments to read the text at the top of the screen. So... why remove something that worked fine and many people liked? At least give us the option to select what language we would like? Not a rant, just curious thats all!

I think to be honest it would be nice to have a dedicated fighter, perhaps a MiG-29 or Su-27/33? The chaps in 159th fighter wing would die very happily if there was a DCS Su-33. Although I would be exstatic if there was a F-16 or F-18 module, I think we have to think along other lines. If we have a multirole aircraft, say the F-16 which can move mud then who will want to fly the A-10? Personally, I would love to see a Fulcrum... oh yeah :D.

Forgive me Wags, I mean no offense here... but isn't that slightly short sighted? This community thrives on the sims multiplayer aspect, if you release DCS: Warthog without MP compatibility with Black Shark then your splitting the community into two different camps, those who want to keep flying rotary and those moving to the A-10C. Are there any plans in the works at the moment exploring the combination of the DCS modules online? DCS is after all a modular system, and thus you would expect those modules it fit with one and other! DCS aside, how will FC2 factor into things? It's only recently that Black Shark got its online compatibility patch with FC2, are you going to take that away when the A-10C is released? Or will you offer a "map selection" of sorts, wherein Shark pilots could choose between the newer map to fly with the A-10C, or the old map (or current however you view it) so that they may fly with pilots in FC2? This may seem a trivial issue when you guys are hard at work polishing the new module, but I think this is an important issue for the larger community and I would appreciate it if any further info could be thrown our way regarding it. :pilotfly:

What's the deal with getting rid of the mods and missions sub-forums for lock on? We only have "General Discussion", no mods etc :cry: EDIT: Oh...erm... just noticed the whopping great big thing called "Sim topics" LOL. A bit of a mess though, we now don't know whats for Lock on/FC1/FC2/DCS?!!? What was wrong with the old format guys!

I love BoBII, the "time machine" lives up to it's name. Nothing else like it on the market, if any of you guys like IL-2 give this a go... slightly less forgiving but insanely immersive. Don't let the graphics put you off, this may be an old game but its right up there with the big boys. "Watch for the Hun in the Sun!"

Yeah, well... I am in the process of getting Windows 7. Looking to get an external HDD so I can backup some of my essential stuff.

I fly the Su-25/25T exclusively. I used frazers tweak guide to get a bit more fps, but frames are still stupidly low on the ground for no obvious reason. The first mission for "Revanche" where you relocate to Sukhumi, my FPS on the ground dropped between 8-12 with those aircraft on screen. The drop in performance is pretty heavy from FC1 where I could have the graphics higher for a lesser drop in fps.

Hey guys, I recently got FC2 and I'm struggling for good FPS. Where is was not uncommon for me to get 40+ fps I'm struggling to get 30 now, goes as low as 15-20 on the ramp... and thats just my aircraft not with 10-15 others like on squad nights. Here are my system specs: XP pro 32bit Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4ghz 4gb ram 8800gts 640mb (oc'd) Settings Textures : med Scenes : med Vis Range : med Heat blur : off water : normal (looks like High setting from FC1 though? Wth? Why take options away from us?) Shadows : Allplanar Cockpit : 512 Think thats all of it. Annoying that my FPS seems to go down and down with every new edition, for minor graphical updates. Using 2x multisampling on nhancer with 4x AF, without it jaggies look awful and the runway turns into a smudge after 10 feet!

I'm not expecting anything to pop up over night, on the contrary I would expect any effect to take quite some time... was just wondering if there was anyone work being done on the ships in game. Those models you linked are superb, would love to fly the kamov off them :).

After looking at some of the models in DCS, and the high level of detail in them... I can't help but hate the ships, they are quite low in detail by comparisson. Is there any chance that in future the ships will be updated to bring them back to high standards? For example update the model so its higher detail, also updating the collision zones so we can't land on places we're not supposed to. We have insane levels of detail on the ground units, detail I never see flying the shark or Su-25... yet the much larger vessels haven't recieved the same treatment and look quite ugly as a reuslt.

I agree considering the detail on the ground vehicles, the ships look pretty dated by comparisson, like the landing pad on the russian ships you sink into the model because its not modelled right.