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mmmmmm red pens. With enough red pens i can CORRECT THE WORLD!

An early .pdf manual release as a sort of free pr / advance marketing / teaser offering?....... ...now that’s interesting, and it would give us guys in the queue something constructive to actually do whilst we wait instead of jostling each other. [And keep us quiet for a couple of days]. I’ll bet ED are thinking, “oh god, if we give them the manual early, they will start all the……. “ Dear Mr & Mrs Eagle Dynamics It’s outrageous that [insert allegedly must-have feature here] hasn’t been included in FC2.0. I intend to promptly blow myself and my cat up. Yours Outraged Middle England ” …emails. Maybe if they released the manual with STFU clause?:book:

Meh. Carping about spending a few ££ on something that will most likely keep you entertained for years to come is pointless and counterproductive. Basically, and I don’t want to sound condescending here, it is a buyer’s market, so, if you don’t want to buy the product at the price offered, then don’t. ED will soon know whether their small price hike has had a detrimental effect on sales pretty quickly. IMO $30 is a tiny price to pay for this sim as I have come back to LOMAC again and again over the years since its release. There are no other games so old on my HD. Period. To me, that speaks volumes as I have spent £100’s over the years on games that have gone on eBay within a week, (and I am looking at Silent Hunter V speculatively right now). The consensus on these forums is overwhelmingly positive but money talks. We will see when FC2.0 is launched. Personally, I will not hesitate. As McDaniel pointed out, how many other sims are imminent? Count them. How many fingers are you holding up?:harhar:

Sorry, but I disagree. In an ideal world, the English translation would be perfect. And the Spanish, and the German, and the French, and the Italian, and.......... However, if you EVER want to see anything new released then you simply have to accept that ED must use their available resources as best they can and prioritise man hours accordingly. Releasing a stable product is their priority as that will start recouping their already over budget development costs, (see Wags post on the price increase). This is perfectly understandable as they have wages to pay. Crossing every "T" and dotting every "I" is simply not a priority and is something that a tiny patch could fix down the line. I suggest you play Silent Hunter 5 for a while to see what happens when developers have these decisions taken away from them and are forced to release games early. Buggy, poor documentation, incomplete AND with bad translations. As a native English speaker and a former teacher, part of me twitches, (and I long for a red pen), every time I see an incorrect grammatical or punctuation error, however, if I stopped and pointed out these errors to everyone I met I would pretty quickly end up with no one to speak with. In any case, it's the little differences in life that make it interesting. Now that's bad English.:smartass:

Eyefinity on the new Radeons. 2 x DVI & 1 x displayport outputs. Simple to setup I believe, although FC doesn't "officially" support it AFAIK, it's done at the driver level so it should be application agnostic, (if they get the drivers sorted unlike the 3+ years of SLI / Crossfire buffoonery). To address Hannibal's points. You can go ahead and spend £1,000 on the "fastest / bestest CPU" but you won't get an y higher FC frame rates as it will only utilise 2 cores and after that, it's all about pure Ghz. In my experience, speaking as a professional technologist its generally wiser to stay just behind the curve. that way, you benefit from proven / mature products at a reduced price. As an example I have been 'umming and ahhing' about upgrading my Q6600 rig for 6+ months and only this week have taken the plunge for a £200 i7 930. I know I con overlook the nuts off that to 4.4 - 4.4ghz and make FC2.0 sing. And it didn't cost much compared to a £1,000 white elephant. Once Gulftown has matured and down to about £300, I will upgrade. (but not for FC2.0)

Nah. BIOS flash somehow messed with the RAID boot loader. to fix; · curse the gods of Taiwan / Santa Clara · disconnect one of the RAID 1 drives · reinstall windows on the other single drive · get apps / games running (data was all still there) · connect other drive · wipe second drive · recreate the RAID array · play LOMAC · Curse the gods of "lockonfiles.com" for being down as all my mods have gone! · install saved mods . pray that lockonfiles is suffering only a temporary blip and haven't "done a fruigals" · play LOMAC [badly] · recreate Cougar profile key changes in LOMAC · play LOMAC YAY (never flashing bios on a RAID configured machine again)

No problem. I would happily pay £30 for real quality software that will give me months / years of pleasure. A simpler upgrade path to boot. I cant wait! ps. My inner "marketing dept sense" tells me that when a publisher fixes a price they are on the final run to release. [starts flexing credit card in a rolf harris way] :lol:

and the cpu is $999 on its own! overkill unless you are running a renderfarm. we may get some....for our renderfarm :music_whistling: seriously though, 2 quad xeons are cheaper and will outperform, but as the man said, DCS only uses two. the upcoming 970 will drop the "extreme" suffix and the insane price but still retail for a walley busting £500-£600. i would rather spend that on a nice 27" monitor. much better returns. see those SAM trails a lot quicker!

hmm. i just built an i7 rig and transplanted my precious RAID 1 array. Booted windows. Fine. Needed new m/board drivers. Fair enough. "soon be back in my SU-25T" i thought, with much better framerates............. Then i noticed that i had "bios version 1.0". Better update that first. It will only take a mo. ERROR LOADING WINDOWS. NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND!!! gaaaaaaaAAAAAA!!!

I am #008000 with envy! Sorry, couldn't resist a hex joke.:smilewink:

Too right. Look at MS axeing Aces Studio. The biggest and longest running franchise going (i think). CLassic short term thinking to hit interim budgetary targets. which were themselves created optimistically before the recession bit down hard.

Guys I am finally getting around to building a nice new, “DCS-A10 / FC2.0 ready”, rig based round an over clocked i7 930 to replace my 3 yr old Q6600 system which has served me well through 3 generations of graphics cards. As the icing on the cake I was thinking about the new Cougar MFD’s from Thrustmaster as they are relatively low cost, but in order to take up valuable desk real estate, (along with adding yet another thing to dust!), they need to “earn their stripes”. I would like to gauge the opinions of early adopters to these MFD’s and get their opinions as to their value in terms of; · Added immersion. Do the MFD’s make the sim more “authentic” in your opinion? Do they make you feel more like a pilot than a man / woman at a computer desk? · Pilot workload management. Do they help or hinder? · Ease of configuration. I have enough configuration work with Foxy, although the reviews I have seen indicate a simpler/less flexible game-centric setup. · Flexibility, (Falcon, LOMAC, FSX, BS compatibility). I know of upcoming DCS: A-10 planned support which is a major plus in my mind. · Durability. Will they last? What happens when, in the heat of a furball, you lunge forwards to switch your radar scan mode / range? Do the supports collapse? Does the unit skid across your desk and fall down the back into the dreaded spaghetti factory of cables behind the computer? From experience, once I got used to TrackIR, it became an essential core part of simmimg for me, (In the same way as my HOTAS Cougar and CH pedals). Once familiar, I wouldn’t even think of flying without them as they add so much. Are the MFD’s in the same league? I am not a pit builder per-se and probably won’t be rigging in 7” screens for a while, (but you never know). Thanks in advance for any and all advice given. Cheers C

Well, My SH5 will sit on the shelf in disgrace. No instructions, just a pamphlet and the .pdf was the same. For a game this complex we need an ED sized pdf at least, that someone can print / bind, etc. Not fussed abou the DRM as I will just install a no-cd crack once one came out. UBI can bugger off as I bought the game so I want to play it when I want, not them. I paid for it.

I was thinking about modding the G25 after reading this http://simhq.com/_technology2/technology_154a.html as with my size '11''s the G25 pedals are real ballbusters when using in LOMAC

Cheers <51> but I am nothing if not stubborn and I love the (relatively) hi-tech bits of the ‘T’ as rockets and guns aren’t my thing. The shkval is my downfall for a very odd reason. In DCS:BS I slave it to the HMS and with trackIR its easy. Since I got my HOTAS Cougar I am using the throttle microstick as a mouse, and have the mouse set to move the TDS/SHKVAL. Now, when I have the throttle @100% the axis are aligned, but if I throttle back during a manoeuvre, suddenly, my thumb pulling back on the micro stick doesn’t do what my brain thinks it should because the axis have rotated. The result is a diagonally wandering SHKVAL target designator. I could use the mouse but that seems a bit…………limp. I need to teach my thumb spatial awareness! :joystick:

Sorted mate? Emailed you yesterday. Don't forget the annoying "producer.gfg" file with the G25 in. Turn "forecfeedback" off. I forget who told me that. If it was you then please ignore my goldfish memory. what?

Cheers Boberro. The laser overheat in DCS:BS is much more forgiving. If I was a Frogfoot pilot I wuold strap an icepack to it!! I will perservere as I am starting to enjoy the AFM of the SU-25T. Going back to the basic A-10 / F-15 now feels sterile and "arcade".

I assigned my wingman to "engage naval" :music_whistling:l, so he dived in under massive fire and destroyed both ships with missiles! Show off. The bloody laser overheat timer really spoils the SU-25T IMO, as with these slow missiles you can be patiently lasing the target to guide your missile, then at the last moment... OVERHEAT SHUTDOWN!!!!!! Very annoying. Realistic? Probably. Annoying? Definately.

FIXED. Like the TrackIR problerm in 1.12b, you simply go into the 'controllers' or 'input', folder, (i cant remember), and delete any file which has your controllers name. Restart the sim and re-assign the controller. SORTED! ;) **EDIT** Its happenning again. It's looking more like a LOMAC thing as using Foxy's key tester, there are no errant commands being generated. I am tempted to shelve LOMAC as FC2.0 is so close anyway and promises to eliminate the win7 issues at a stroke. I will use the time to reaquiant myself with Kamovs favourite daughter :thumbup:

I went for a real refurb as my 2nd hand cougar was showing signs of old age; 6 x micriswitches, 3 x pots + brackets, 2 x trigger springs so i can mod the 2-stage, 2 speedbrake guides as mine is broken. The whole lot came to £20 delivered. Pretty cheap really. Now i want a new H4. they are only about £2 + £5 delivery so you might as well get quite a few parts as the delivery is fixed. Time to get my soldering iron out this weekend!

came today. 25 days! now i know

Well, 1 hour of Silent Hunter 5 was enough for me to mutter, "what a load of……", put the DVD on my “maybe in a year when enough patches and proper documentation come out”, shelf, and to move my sleeping bag back into this queue. UBI Romania must be getting shafted from the producers over release dates as SH5 is in even more of a mess than 3 or 4 ever were. The manual/pamphlet is a joke and the .pdf is just the pamphlet!! No wonder ED told UBI to, “Shov*@[EDIT]….kindly remove your towel from my deckchair good chap”. Anyway I digress. In the words of the learned B.Simpson; Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? ps. take your time ED, get it right, this is a friendly and orderly queue. Notice the lack of pitchforks and burning torches, (they are all on the UBI forums now).

Has anyone ever come across this weird bug where the zoom function will flip back to standard view when you let go of the switch, (i.e. I have Hat2 L-R for zoom/unzoom). It makes life in the A-10 difficult and impossible in the SU-25T with all the SHKVAL fiddling. Cougar Control panel doesn’t see any strange inputs when I let go the hat and I haven’t got any advanced flags in the hat in the macro, just; H2L /O unzoom_mfd (example to show lack of additional “/” switches there) And in the macro file…… unzoom_mfd - I will try mapping the zoom to smoothing other than ‘–‘ and’ =’ and make sure I clear any other controller inputs but I couldn’t see any.

Guys Now and again I like to relax and not blow stuff up, (occasionally). I have a new Cougar and simply can't be bothered to start a new profile in Foxy. Cougarworld profile links are all dead. Anybody got one i can borrow / edit? Otherwise its a day long slog. Cheers

Cheers guys. You weren’t kidding about the missiles slow speed. Whilst manually lasing the target I again ran into its guns. Override worked though. Back to the A-10 for me for now. Vikhr missile employment is very fiddly and suits KA-50 more, where you can hang behind a hill and fart about with the targeting. When travelling towards targets @ 400kph you don’t have much time to battle the wandering Shkval. I guess the AFM in DCS: A-10 will reveal whether realistic Maverick employment is as fiddly as SU-25T Shkval/Vikhr use in FC. Call me a wuss.:joystick: