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off to bed now as i just finished downloading. sigh. will have to sneak off from family tomorrow to have a quick go.;) will leave PC on to seed for you guys. it might help your DL speeds a bit.

v a p o u r t r a i l s ! ! OMG! hurry up torrent!

Cheers Matt & ED. Happy xmas.

All the arguments about "boxed software" are becoming a bit anachronistic in these days of steam and cloud computing, etc. I know where they are coming from as I’ve been tempted to burn my copies of BS and A-10c onto disk but then i always stop myself and say, "i have RAID1, i have backups, i can re-download" . Optical media is dying in the same way as tapes did. In five years DVD's & Blue Ray will be on the way out as we will all have streaming set top boxes. In this light, holding out for a "boxed copy" puts you right up there with the flat earthers and those who refuse DRM. The world is changing and you can’t stop it. It’s your choice and potentially your loss. Join usssssssss……………

If i NEVER see another mince pie it will be too soon.:xmas: Ive just got to work after some last minute xmas food shopping at the supermarket. Man, its getting to a stage of "survival of the fattest" in there. It was like a scene out of Dawn of the Dead. By afternoon it will be a no mans land. The shops are shut for ONE DAY and the whole country goes into a "surviving a nuclear winter" shopping mode. Still hoping for Beta 4...... anything will do as my rig just plain refused to play B3 for more that 20 mins before crashing. The fact its taken this long makes me think that ED are determined to make B4 a big milestone release. I might re-install B3 if there is no release today, but i dont want to waste an hour faffing when a lot of other guys with my issue have reported that it didn't cure the crashes. Aanyway, i am having too much fun re-learning BS again. Every cloud....

Cheers for all the helpful advice guys. I've got a pretty decent Hog BS profile now that suits me, (http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1048663&postcount=42 - plug plug), i just need to polish my rough edges and precise slow speed manouverings are deffo a rough edge of mine ;) HiJack - HDG hold off and DM on? hmmm. I hadn't thought of that. TYGER - I will take you up on that, but i'm off up north to the wilds of newcastle for xmas so wont have broadband for a fortnight, sigh. Bucic - so thats what the 'big T is for' Ive been ignoring the wind as well. Its one of those tactile things missing from sims. You cant hear it or feel it so you have to go on ATC advice. A windsock at the FARP would be nice.

I can fly, I can fight. I can do a cold start and I can navigate, hit my objectives and sometimes even come back to base with a wingman but I have one have one very very embarrassing problem. I can’t land at a FARP for shit! I flail about around 4-7m off the deck wafting and spinning until I eventually drop the collective out of desperation and flop to the ground with all the grace and style of an elephant dump. I can almost hear the crew chiefs laughter when they see me coming over the horizon after a mission. “Here comes dumbo dump!” It takes the shine off my otherwise mostly successful debriefings. Are there any FARP landing tutorials about? Or a procedure I can follow? Here i go again...wheeeeeee, flutterflutterflutter, THUD, SPROINGGG :noexpression: (another landing gear out of my wages)

The only way to lay the 'falcon' ghost to rest is to do DCS:F-16 with a dynamic campaign. I want a WAR to take part in and some amount of smoke and mirrors is quite acceptable to achieve that, (as long as i cant see my own reflection). Then we can move on as a community. I would love carrier ops though......mmm superhornet...mmmm

Santa is getting near. I can hear the police helicopter in the distance. Probably an untaxed sleigh..... We need a webcam in the ED office to see how close Beta 4 is, or wether all the dev team are in post-mince pie comas like they are in our office. Not much work being done round these parts. :holiday:

more likely an amazon mistake causing a domino theory price matching frenzy. chaos theory for shops!

Adding another layer of layer of realism and immersion. Well done. Can't wait, (might buy some decent headphones now ;))

with you guys. stuck on the PMC addon because of that stupid helo mission with the side gunner who forgot his glasses. tried 4 times and i cant control the damn thing. might try keyboard, (grrrrrr) after a slightly pants start, the PMC reall picks up midway with an awesome tank hunting mission very reminiscent of the origonal OF.

RC for me as well. Bought TIR4 & 5 from them. They are just up the road from me. Amazon get enough of my bloody money so anytine small independants can match the big boys for price, they get my money as they can provide much better support, and email or talk to real people.

shhhhhhhhh (reverse psychology) :P

you couldnt plan for that kind of cock up. someone got fired i'll bet

It all depends on price. New ATI cards have more outputs than NVIDIA cards, but if you have two, thats a moot point. I'm not a fanboy of either camp, so for me it would be simply price / performance and how they play with my chosen games. DCS is CPU limited in my system since the 580 upgrade so i'm going to be looking at sandy bridge overclocked performance & prices next month to see where my next upgrade is coming from. if thats not impressive, then a sata6 ssd may be on the cards.

Too early. That means i may have to pack the PC. TIR, monitor, hog and pedals in the car to visit folks for holidays. Can you please delay B4 untill the 4th Jan or soon after. Thanks very much. :santa:

Well done you lucky guys who got a cheapie. Spare a thought for the poor amazon-monkey who is probably now licking kindle boxes as punishment for his cockup.

**EDIT** 1.1 uploaded (see above) No worries. I will upload v1.1 at the weekend which will have engine cutoff valve controls, and L/R fuel shutoff and engine governor controls. I am going to map them to the hog throttle base FUEL, and ENGINE OPER swiches. It also has working throttle controls using the hog flaps 3-way. I may change the AP to use the LASTE panel PATH/ALT-HDG/ALT switches as in the hog but that might be a step too far. 'hogging the shark' if you see what i mean. I am trying to avoid the temptation of adding U/M/D style layers as i did that in my FC2.0 profile and ended up with a telephone directory as a guide ;)

whay aye!

Well, i've just seen the reviews of the new Cayman ATI/AMD cards, and they look comparable to the 470/570. Glad i went for a 580 now as i was worried that i may have jumped too early and the 6970 may have beaten it. I sold my 285 for £130 so, in the end paid £260 for my 580. Result (luckily) ;)

If you want a sandbox playpen without any bads trying to shoot you down, just create a quick mission yourself. its a doddle. have a few fuel trucks bumbling about for target practice.

The nature of betas and bugs unfortunately means that you fix one and it causes another, (one if you are lucky). I wouldn't expect a 100% stable and bug free beta otherwise it wouldn't be a beta. Sounds like this one may be a big release though........fingers crossed it emerges soon ;)

Its mainly the in-built missions giving the "xxx is not responding" crash. Beta 1 & 2 never did that so its a new phenomenon. Once i got used to startup, flight, and weapons deployment procedures I moved onto operational missions to start to understand how to use the hog effectivelly on the battlefield. "camp yankee" for example crashes on my rig usually once the action heats up. At first I didn't mind because i thought, "Beta 4 will be along any day now". That was a fortnight ago. I stopped flying because i didnt want the crashes to define the experience. Crap beta tester i am ;)

Look at the date. ED are either working to release B4 in time for Xmas so they can go off for hols with a big warm fuzzy knowing there will be thousands of happy simmers dancing around the xmas trees, or they have somehow magically mashed all the bugs and can actually hit their 2010 release target. I feel the former is far more likely and in that scenario far more preferable, as you “don’t open the oven door till your Yorkshire puddings have risen properly” as my gran used to say. To be honest, the crash-a-day nature of B3, (on my rig), has given me pause to revisit Black Shark with the hog and I am getting back into it, re-learning the shark and TARGET script, etc. So, time well spent, (in terms of flight simming ;)) Looking forward to B4. My GTX 580 is waiting........(quietly, thank feck)