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Just so you are aware, ED did nothing except give StarForce 64bit drivers so it will work under Win64. The game has not be recompiled for 64bit so you will not gain any advantages that way.

No, I bought the baseline card, the Extreme Music or whatever it's called. The memory is useless right now. In the future it may become something, then I will move this card to my HTPC and buy the new Xfi for my main computer. I have no doubt the audio quality of the Audigy 2 is comparable to the Xfi and is way ahead of my original Audigy, but the positional engine in the Audigy 2 is the same as the Audigy, and that the Xfi is much better at.

use headphones with the X-fi, the 3d positioning is way ahead of what he Audigy could do. As for my Audigy 1 vs the 2 the only difference is speaker support and better DACs. It still used the same sound engine and I was running the latest beta drivers. I got all the HD effects available to the cards. As for the Asus problem, I do have the Windows bios installer unable to reconize the board, but I am still able to update the bios from dos, so it isn't a complete loss. Everything else is working as it should.

The shadow map is a texture applied to the model during the rendering process. This shadow texture is a very low rez, say 640x480 when it's applied to the model ( no idea what internal rendering rez are being used or the exact process ) thus you have the pixels of the edge of the shadow much larger than what you are playing the game at. They could use a denser shadow map, but then it would hit the performance quite hard. Also this shadow texture is applied during the rendering process, not at the end, so to AA it would be difficult and would be an internal setting.

Running with an A8N-sli Deluxe and a Xfi card myself and have zero issues. What's supposed to be the problem? Also I have found there is a huge difference from my Audigy 1 to the Xfi. Directional 3d sound is way better.

I guess ED could record the tracks as .avi and we lose the ability to interact with it.

nope, deadzones are areas that have no response, a curve limits the response.

Well, the level of detail that is expected by the flight-sim community is light-years ahead of what was modelled in Fleet Defender. If ED released a sim that was contemporary to that sim it would be roasted by the community. The level of detail needed to build a sim today is so much more complex from the classics it's not fair to compare them.

well, I have no inside knowladge of the LOMAC system, but as each flare is added to the scene you are adding a light source. Probably it's overloading the rendering pipeline with the lighting calculations would be my guess. Myself I've just added a second 6800GT to my system, but so far LOMAC doesn't seem to take advantage of the sli setup. Turning on the onscreen rendering option shows no movement in the scale with either AFR or SFR. Further experimenting is needed to see if it's a beta driver thing (running with 82.04's as they improve performance in COD2)

I read somewhere that LOMAC runs better with SFR than AFR.

thanks a bunch

I want to do a fresh install for 1.11, but I have a custom keyboard profile within the game. It is very complex and would rather not have to redo it once I install. Where is the keyboard config file that has the profile in it saved to? TIA

Don't get me wrong, if you can get a 7800gtx at a good price, then buy it, esp if you can't find a second 6800u a low price. But, since the 7800gtx is new tech, it will stay very constant in it's price, while the older gen cards like the 6800u will continue to spiral down in price. I've never said that an 6800sli will ever beat a 7800gtx. But really that is moot because you are talking about getting 90fps vs 75fps at high rez with AA and AF. Both setups are killer. My sole point is that if you already have a 6800u card, which is no slouch, that shopping around and finding a second 6800u will give a drastic increase in performance (most Sli benchmarks show a 60% or so increase in fps) for a very good price. Vs dropping a lot more money an faster single card solution that will give even greater gains, but at the same time somewhat pointless at this time. Now if you were building a new rig or upgrading an older gen card, absolutely get the 7800, esp if you are planning on doing the same sli upgrade in the future when the 8800's come out and drive the 7800 price. It's great if you can ride the front of the technological curve, it just costs a lot of money. For our pro gaming friend here, that cost maybe not an issue, but for most people budget is a major limiting factor. Personally I'd wait till after Christmas and then buy the second card. Prices will have dropped a lot by then and the single 6800u is still fast enough right now for any game.

lol, you are getting more and more delusional. Going from a single 6800u to sli doesn't give you a drastic increase? Damn. You are too funny. The fact that you are getting absolutely bend out of shape is comedy. Guess every benchmark out there is lying when it shows a good 60+% increase when you go Sli. You be a professional gamer? Good, then it would make sense that you are willing to spend top dollar and throw out a good card when the next latest and greatest comes along. But for this guys question, going to a Sli rig will give him a very nice, dare I say drastic, performance increase for a lot less money than buying the fastest card out there. That is my point. You keep going off saying that you need to always have the latest and greatest if he wants to be a mythical pro gamer like yourself. Maybe so, but as you are so quick to tell me, you have to so uber leet to obtain that status that it just isn't possible. So please, keep putting me in my place with your leet pro gamer status and know everything attitude. It's priceless :D

most benchmarks, LOMAC included on Firingsquad showed that the 7800 had around 10-15fps advantage, at most over a Sli rig. and that's in the 90 vs 75 range, not something like 30 vs 15, so those extra fps are nice, but not absolutely necessary. By the time that the extra performance delta of the 7800 has over the sli setup, the 7800 will be lagging as well and their will be next gen cards on the market. If you absolutely need the greatest thing running top fps at all times, money be damned, then the 7800gtx is the way to go. If you already own a 6800u and a Sli ready MB, then the most cost effective way to get drastic improvement in you fps then a second 6800u makes the most sense. Unless, of course, you are professional gamer like the point you were making. BTW, I've been with the LOMAC community since the beginning, and the flanker before that, not you, so don't be telling me to STFU noob, k? I started being smart when you went off on your whole pro gamer rant. You're the one that comes storming in as some leet hardware guru telling people the most expensive way of upgrading is the only way because if they are serious about gaming, then money doesn't matter. It does.

wow, you're leet. Glad that extra frame is worth $500 to you. In the real world if you have a SLI mb and a 6800u already, a second 6800u is the most sensible way to get a drastic improvement in the performance of your system for the most reasonable amount of money.

the reason orange/red light is used because it doesn't effect your night vision when it's on.

beside the caret on the range scale? Closure rate. +/- for closing or moving away.

it's still cheaper if you have a 6800u already in your rig to spend $250 on another 6800u than to drop $500+ (btw I'm speaking Cdn$ here) on a new card. Every benchmark shows that the 7800gtx gets say 90fps while the sli 6800u only gets 80. Yes the 7800 is faster, but the sli setup isn't a slouch either. It would make sense to upgrade to the 7xxx series cards if you are 2 generations behind, but if you have a 6xxx series card that is sli capable and the mb to support it, it is cheaper to get a second card now and get good performance. Not top 1 percentile, but still able to run any game at 1600x1200 w/ AA and AF and get good stable fps (30+). If you absolutely need to get 60fps + in all situations, then the 7800 is there for you, but as I have said many, many times to you, stop playing the fps counter and try playing the games.

like I said, all my heatblur problems were with ATI drivers. Once I moved to Nvidia they went away. Anyone else that made the video card jump confirm this? Would be nice to narrow it down some.

not to be an ass, but why aren't I experiencing these 'memory leaks'? I'm afraid your post proves nothing, it's just your opinion. When I switch views I get zero lag or fps drop, unless I load an AI plane that needs to cache the terrain around it, once it's loaded it jumps right back up. I hope if there are issues that they are identified and fixed, but much of it goes beyond the game itself. I know when I had a 9800pro I turned off heat blur because it would bring the fps to a crawl that only alt-tabing would fix. Now that I have Nvidia I have no such problems. That issue is rooted in drivers for the video card which ED has zero control over. Thomas, how long have you had this problem? Is it the new Cat drivers maybe causing the issues?

if you jump to an AI aircraft that is some distance from you the sim has to fetch all the terrain data for that plane and will slow down fps as it loads. How high is your prefetch set and how much system ram do you have?

FYI that's just a single web review that claims that. FiringSquad also has reviewed an 7800Sli rig w/ LOMAC and can see a definite increase in performance through the different cards. The review with the cpu limited benchmark never says how they ran LOMAC to get their score. If they populated the evironment with enough AI vehicles it would limit the performance of the game, but it would in any game. Add enough vehicles to F4 and you will cpu limit the benchmark.

except you already bought a single 6800U already. Instead of dropping $500+ to upgrade to a single card, the release of the faster single card has dropped the price of the 6800U to a more managable price. So instead of spending $500 you spend $250 and near the same performance.