GhostDog

Congrats ED. Many thanks and much respect for all your dedicated work.

He has an article in this very issue in fact, but he's long since been relegated to a single page, at the very most.

check the sig

104. RELEASING the brake chute too early while landing (damn that P key) 105. Getting target fixated while engaging a ground target with guns ("PULL UP PULL...")

Nothing that gets you out of a lethal situation in one piece as quickly as possible is overkill, and there's nothing like CAS for getting your nards out of a vice in a hurry.

I have a code for a free 1 year subscription to Golf Digest that came with my Tiger Woods 11 game. First person to PM me can have it.

No answers? Guess I'll keep my money. . .

To my disdainful European and aggrieved American compatriots: less than the price in YOUR market does not equal "cheap" in another market.

You're assuming two things: I bought my computer solely for the purpose of playing flight sims I think the price of the game is unfair You're wrong on both counts. That said, I understand the thread creator's point. I have to make choices about where my family's discretionary income is going to go. There are lots of options to choose from, and at $60, my other options are reduced, and I need to decide if it's worth it, for me and my family. Other folks have already decided, and that's fine for them. Not everyone's circumstances, values and perceptions are the same.

Guess things are really good in Canada if you can't imagine anyone not having $60 to spend on entertainment.

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It's a matter of discretionary income. No matter what the perceived value of the game is, there is a limit to how much any given individual can spend on it. Evidently you have more to spend. Congratulations. However, that doesn't make the cost of the game any less for others. If the price point is higher than the average consumer can afford, neither you nor anyone else will have any games from ED to play in the future, because there won't be enough sales volume. $100 x 100 is a helluva lot less than $60 x 10000. Be careful of turning your nose up at simmers who are on a budget. They subsidize your hobby. Unless you and the 100 other people for whom money is no obstacle plan on paying all of the development, support and distribution costs on your own.

c'mon ED, really?

From the FAQ:

If you're looking for maximum horsepower for minimum cost, I would advise you to consider an AMD system. Your Intel buddies will have the edge in terms of pure performance, but you'll have the edge in terms of the cost/performance curve. Here's what a typical budget build might look like: BIOSTAR A770E3 AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition Callisto 3.2GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 80W Dual-Core SAPPHIRE 100283L Radeon HD 5770 G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M600 RS-600-AMBA-D3 600W Those components will set you back about $450. Add another $150 for a case, HDD and optical drive if you don't already have them. That should get you off the ground in decent style. If you have some money to spare after that, upgrade the CPU to a Phenom II X4.

A-10C Beta sub-forum Can we create an A-10C Beta sub-forum lest the A-10C main forum become overwhelmed with beta threads? Would make things simpler for newbies. :pilotfly:

My billing address is an APO address. The sage pay site has no options for APO addresses in the US state dropdown box. How do I submit my order?

In GBP? I don't even wanna think about it. Amazon UK has them for 300 pounds and up. I imagine that's about the price you're going to find anywhere. Unless you're looking to build an insane rig, you really don't need two 5870s. As for a mobo, for the specs you mentioned in your other post, you should look at the ASUS P6X58D.

@swtx: not that it has anything to do with anything, but you do know your avatar says absolutely nothing in Arabic right? The language is read and written from right to left, not left to right. So the disconnected letters on your patch there, if read as a word, would say "rfaklan". Maybe that means "retard" in some other language. . .:music_whistling:

I've never seen an example of eyefinity setup using independent displays. The basic idea of eyefinity is to give the user a massive combined display. I have an HD5850 with dual monitors (I would have three but the wife spiffed the third one in the name of fairness :(), and I'm not aware of any such option. Windows 7 has native support for duplicating the desktop across multiple monitors, but that wouldn't allow you to control the cockpit view in each monitor independently. I don't know of any hardware or software solution that would allow you to do that. I think your most likely solution will be either two lower-midrange cards in SLI or CrossFire (and frankly, I don't think there's much of a cost or performance advantage in that configuration) combined with a software solution like BSVP (if and when it's updated for DCS:WH) or SoftTH, or one upper midrange card combined with a cheapo card and the same software configuration. If you're going to with the crossfire solution, I'd say step up to the 5450 or 5570. It's only going to cost you a few dollars more, (they may even be the same price, depending on where you buy) and you'll get better performance from them than from a pair of 4650s. 5850x2 in CrossFire simply isn't worth it IMO. The gains you would get in exchange for the substantial cost and power consumption would be minimal. The main advantage of a CrossFire or SLI setup is extra texture memory and 3d effects rendering when you're playing at ultra-high resolutions, and DCS won't make good use of it. It's a CPU bound game. Even 3d intensive games run without a hiccup at high resolutions on a single 5850, so two is a bit of overkill for most setups. Last thought: I switched from an Nvidia 9800 gtx to the HD5850 and the performance gains were substantial. I think on the whole the HD series is outperforming the latest Nvidia cards. But that may not make much of a practical difference on a midrange setup. The performance will be comparable at medium settings. Those are my thoughts for what it's worth. Hope it helps. P.S. Definitely go with a 700+ watt PSU. Leave yourself some overhead for future upgrades.

Eyefinity just gives you one huge monitor. The 4th monitor would just be part of the same display group if you put it on the same card. So perhaps your original idea is better for what you have in mind. But I'm not sure you can display multiple cockpit views on separate displays even with multiple video cards. You CAN output MFD and TV screen views to different displays however, as in this example. Still, I would personally be inclined to buy a higher end card for my primary GPU, and use something cheap for the instrument displays, instead of running two low end cards in CrossFire. I think you'll get better overall value that way. Just my two cents.

I would suggest one HD5850 (in all likelihood you'll have other games to play besides DCS:WH, and you'll get much more longevity out of your setup) and a 750 watt PSU. You'll only need a dongle with the HD5850 for quad monitor support.

It works, as long as it's an ASW helo.

If I don't have the money, I don't buy it. Simple.:smoke:

:no: Not at all, it was a professional discount. I'm strictly legit with my software purchases. Keeps life simple.