Griffin

Yeah the Svir missile is pretty damn deadly. Nailed me flying perpendicular at full speed from around 4 km. I might have to check that though. It's effectiveness is propably quite exaggerated or Russians have rendered SHORAD useless. :D

Was there anything done/checked about this bug(?) in the patch? I have not encountered this as described by the OP in the brief time I've flown BS2 in 1.1.1.1 patch. However yesterday I had a situation that I posted in the Rookie Thread. Picture below. Is this perhaps related even though the false range value is in fact increased instead of decreasing? HUD range is correct considering the missiles reached their targets. Also I'd like to know where both systems get the range information from. Both from laser, or?

Yes that's the first thing always and I reset everytime I did something.

A couple of questions that arised while flying the BS2 since a long time. The first picture shows a big difference between Shkval and HUD range. The laser is quite fresh there and I'm definately in range. I don't remember seeing this before. The situation in the second pic kept bugging me for the whole RTB leg. After killing all targets I switched to NAV mode, all weapons off, laser off, datalink cleared etc but I still get target queing symbology on the HUD. I remember having this in BS1 also and no switch flicking cleared it. I didn't try to turn off any systems though but cycled through different NAV and TGT modes and used my Shkval too but the symbology was stuck.

Sorry it was 3.5 seconds.

Wow that officer did really great job! I can't make out what exactly happened. Did it bounce off the front wall or did it get stuck on the sleeve? You always hear stories about these. We only threw practise grenades with just a detonator and dust filling. Finnish grenades have 2.5 sec fuses. Would hate that happening with those...

Thank you ED! The patch works great! I don't know how much it improved FPS since I did several tweaks simultaneously in the system and the sim and topped my RAM to 8 GB. From unplayable and looking terrible it's now running smooth and looking great!

Wow that's very impressive! You have 2 gigs more of RAM and propably a better GPU than me but that is still so much better! On the insurgent hideout quick start mission I get barely max 20 FPS most of the settings at medium/low. This is crushing compared to BS1 where I had settings at medium/high and it looked good and ran great! Quite a surprise there. :(

Thanks :) I will do that. Propably RAM first as it's the only component that will become useless with the new mobo so I'll get most out of it if I buy it early. Next month I might buy the GPU or save two months and buy it with PSU at the same time. One component a month. I'm aware of that and that's why I won't stress myself with it yet. I'll consentrate on this rig for 6 months and start thinking Sandy Bridge after that. :)

I was planning to upgrade this rig as far as it goes and then later dump it for a completely new one if I have the money. However alot of the technology is transferable so I'll make this a longer term full system overhaul as Pilotasso suggested. So this will be a two part project: 1. Max out Q9550 rig as planned. 2. Tech transfer to Sandy Bridge system. I will span out the purchases over one year for starters and buy perhaps one component every month, if budget permits, during next six months. After six months the current rig should be maxed out and I will start a 6 month saving and planning period for tech transfer. I believe everything except motherboard, RAM and CPU are transferable to the future system so I will save and buy those in one chunk in one year from now. I'll outline the first part plan with component examples: CPU: Intel Q9550 @ 3.2 GHz ---> 3.5-4.0 GHz with a high performance cooler, for ex. Noctua NH-D14 GPU: Sapphire Toxic HD 4850 512 MB ---> For ex. GTX560Ti Twin Frozr II OC 1 GB MoBo: Asus P5K (LGA775) RAM: 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz ---> 8 GB DDR2 1066 MHz PSU: ModeCom 500W ---> For ex. Corsair CX600W V2 HD: Add an SSD to the system for ex. Crucial M4 128 GB (DVD drive will propably get replaced too) So now I have to find out two things. Where should I start (ie. which component is in the biggest need of upgrade/what would benefit simming the most)? Is 600 W PSU enough for the future Sandy Bridge system running single GPU? Thanks guys! You are alot of help. :)

Getting the A. http://www.jimms.fi/tuote/N560GTX-TI-TF-II%2FOC Thanks for info :) Still no conserns about my current dodgy PSU?

Ok thanks guys! I think that right now I'll go with something like GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II OC. Do you think it would require a higher output PSU from a better manufacturer? I will get the RAM as soon as possible after this one. I believe this would help the most at the moment, unless you disprove me. :)

Are you sure two of these would make BS2 playable again? :huh: http://www.data-systems.fi/product_info/503/72005

Heh glad I asked! Was thinking RAM would be the last in the line GPU being to bottleneck. Shouldn't I upgrade it too as I've read about huge performance improvements from people getting a GPU with lots of memory? Why? Because I was cheap! :doh: Didn't really think I would stick with this rig for long but a girlfiend really screwed up my plans with simming (read 'with money' :D). Ok so this first upgrade won't be as expensive as a new GPU + PSU so I'll get it ASAP. Someone told me a while ago that I won't see any difference going 1066 MHz RAM instead of the current 800 MHz, is this true? Also is there any noticeable difference between high end RAM's compared to say Kingston standard memory? Remember that I plan to OC quite a bit. :)

After trying out BS2 it became evident that my old rig can't handle the Shark anymore. Since I wouldn't want to spend alot of time and money saving and building a new rig, I'm thinking about maxing out this current one. I would assume that a Q9550 still has potential for simming, especially if overclocked close to 4 GHz, right? Current system specs: CPU: Intel Q9550 @ 3.2 GHz GPU: Sapphire Toxic HD 4850 512 MB MoBo: Asus P5K (LGA775) RAM: 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz PSU: ModeCom 500W OS: Windows 7 64 bit Now I assume that the GPU is currently the bottleneck. It's memory is quite miserable and it's not too great anyway. I figured that it would be the first one in upgrade list. I also figured that if I buy a new generation GPU it would also require a quality PSU (especially since the old one is of some dodgy brand) of around 600W. Would Corsair CX600W be fine? Next one would be overclocking my CPU. That would require a good cooler and after that maxing out my motherboards RAM to 8 GB. Planned budget for GPU + PSU: 300 € I'm not going into details yet but would want some confirmation and maybe good advice(?).

The ironic thing is that I have to drop the graphics all the way to Falcon 4 level to get playable FPS. BS1 runs very nicely and looks beautiful at the same time.

Is it the new AI, weather engine etc. that tax performance so much? Visually it looks worse and runs much worse. Is there really so much more simulation in the background that makes it unplayable on a rig that could run BS1 easily on quite good graphics? :huh:

It's clear that BS2 is more demanding but did you guys get worse performance with the same settings as with BS1? I thought that it would be no problem to make BS2 look the same as BS1 but I've already lowered the settings way below BS1 level and it's still pretty much unplayable. That is beyond me. :huh:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia---Air/Sukhoi-T-50/2011864/L/

:D

Easiest way to find out is to download the Black Shark flight manual HERE. "The Ka-50 uses the R-800 VHF radio to communicate with other helicopters and ground crew. The R-800 operates at frequencies between 100 and 149 MHz as well as 220 to 400MHz." "The R-828 VHF radio is used for communication with a Forward Air Controller (FAC) and other ground force units. The system provides constant radio communication within line- of-sight and it does not require frequency searching and adjustment. The frequency range is 20 - 60 MHz."

Yes they are simulated in FC2. I don't know if there is any hitbox info.

What's your point posting information everyone already knows?

[VV]32001208[/VV]

AlphaOneSix didn't find anything wrong with it. The problem seemed to be elswehere but I guess it's as good as it gets within the limitations of the physics engine. http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1275805&postcount=31