MegOhm_SD Posted February 27, 2020 Posted February 27, 2020 Well that brings back some memories... Funny how they tout the graphics...and peripherals. Sure makes me appreciate what we have today! Cooler Master HAF XB EVO , ASUS P8Z77-V, i7-3770K @ 4.6GHz, Noctua AC, 32GB Corsair Vengeance Pro, EVGA 1080TI 11GB, 2 Samsung 840 Pro 540GB SSDs Raid 0, 1TB HDD, EVGA SuperNOVA 1300W PS, G930 Wireless SS Headset, TrackIR5/Wireless Proclip, TM Warthog, Saitek Pro Combat Pedals, 75" Samsung 4K QLED, HP Reverb G2, Win 10
rinkerbuck Posted February 27, 2020 Posted February 27, 2020 Oh man I would have been glued to the TV if I had seen this as a kid
Svsmokey Posted February 27, 2020 Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Aces Over the Pacific gave me sweaty palms in a "target rich" environment . Especially in a P39 , P40 , or F4F . And yeah , that MSFS instrument panel triggers memories . Strike Commander , Fleet Defender , yeah , all of that . And just as now , a lot of tuning . Remember writing multiple autoexec.bat files to get to get each program to run ? Edited February 28, 2020 by Svsmokey 9700k @ stock , Aorus Pro Z390 wifi , 32gb 3200 mhz CL16 , 1tb EVO 970 , MSI RX 6800XT Gaming X TRIO , Seasonic Prime 850w Gold , Coolermaster H500m , Noctua NH-D15S , CH Pro throttle and T50CM2/WarBrD base on Foxxmounts , CH pedals , Reverb G2v2
Kang Posted February 27, 2020 Posted February 27, 2020 Those were some days... One thing it makes me remember, though, is: in the mid-90s everyone who considered himself a 'serious PC gamer' had a flight simulator. You needed a shooter (well... Doom or Duke Nukem 3D, I guess), a racing game and a flight simulator. While PC gaming in itself was a much smaller market of course, funnily simulators weren't as much of a 'small niche' then. Guess flightsim just stayed how it was and everything else grew quickly.
Steel Jaw Posted February 27, 2020 Posted February 27, 2020 I was there. Frightening in hindsight. "You see, IronHand is my thing" My specs: W10 Pro, I5/11600K o/c to 4800 @1.32v, 64 GB 3200 XML RAM, Red Dragon 7800XT/16GB, monitor: GIGABYTE M32QC 32" (31.5" Viewable) QHD 2560 x 1440 (2K) 165Hz.
Mars Exulte Posted February 28, 2020 Posted February 28, 2020 Man. Nerds were even nerdier in the 90s. Де вороги, знайдуться козаки їх перемогти. 5800x3d * 3090 * 64gb * Reverb G2
Eldur Posted March 1, 2020 Posted March 1, 2020 Remember writing multiple autoexec.bat files to get to get each program to run ? I remember having a config set that could literally run everything except for Aces over Europe (621k needed). Aces over the Pacific needed less (IIRC 614k) and I just had 618k free. But there was an easy solution, just rem the MSCDEX driver and reboot. I think my free mem went up to 627kb by doing that. But getting there took me quite some tweaking and fiddling. The magic was shifting the right things into the UMB with DEVICEHIGH (config.sys) and LOADHIGH (or just LH; autoexec.bat), literally playing tetris with the drivers and having a slim mouse driver. There were some very big differences, ranging from just a tad over 1k to 8k. I knew I had one stored on a boot disk that I always took to every installation, but I can't tell where it originated from. And sometimes there were some strange happenings like having over 20k left in the UMB, shifting one 8k driver over there that then used up 12k instead and strangely the 8k that would be left wouldn't be enough anymore, kicking out something else so you might have even ended up with less conventional mem than before... some things literally were impossible to understand by logics. But once setup well enough, those rigs worked perfectly. Never had things like stutter issues or rubberbanding back in the day. Those started to come up in the early 2000s for me, especially in a pretty well known WWII sim, when someone on a dogfight server respawned his plane or some AI units with late activation spawned in, for that matter. Troubleshooting today is much more tedious and exhausting, especially since like 98% of the results on a google are threads filled with "has been answered already, plz use the search", "try reinstall your whole rig", or just no answers at all.
Kang Posted March 1, 2020 Posted March 1, 2020 I remember having a config set that could literally run everything except for Aces over Europe (621k needed). Aces over the Pacific needed less (IIRC 614k) and I just had 618k free. But there was an easy solution, just rem the MSCDEX driver and reboot. I think my free mem went up to 627kb by doing that. But getting there took me quite some tweaking and fiddling. The magic was shifting the right things into the UMB with DEVICEHIGH (config.sys) and LOADHIGH (or just LH; autoexec.bat), literally playing tetris with the drivers and having a slim mouse driver. There were some very big differences, ranging from just a tad over 1k to 8k. I knew I had one stored on a boot disk that I always took to every installation, but I can't tell where it originated from. And sometimes there were some strange happenings like having over 20k left in the UMB, shifting one 8k driver over there that then used up 12k instead and strangely the 8k that would be left wouldn't be enough anymore, kicking out something else so you might have even ended up with less conventional mem than before... some things literally were impossible to understand by logics. But once setup well enough, those rigs worked perfectly. Never had things like stutter issues or rubberbanding back in the day. Those started to come up in the early 2000s for me, especially in a pretty well known WWII sim, when someone on a dogfight server respawned his plane or some AI units with late activation spawned in, for that matter. Troubleshooting today is much more tedious and exhausting, especially since like 98% of the results on a google are threads filled with "has been answered already, plz use the search", "try reinstall your whole rig", or just no answers at all. Ah, the days. The younger ones among us may think us all crazy, but back in the day you ended up actually figuring out the difference between 'memory', 'high and low memory', 'extended memory' and 'extra memory'... It's true nerds were much nerdier in the day. Being a bit of a nerd is quite mainstream nowadays, after all. Also concerning the lovely message board results for problems nowadays: I think you forgot my personal favourite: after an hour you come across somebody who describes the exact same problem you have, then the only reply that thread ever got was the OP saying: 'never mind, I figured it out myself'. So frustrating.
TomOnSteam Posted March 2, 2020 Posted March 2, 2020 Check out the 1982 (or maybe it was 1984) computer chronicles. They show footage from a military simulator, and it looks roughly about as good as an OpenGL game from the mid - late 90s. Except it took 40,000 processors to run at a smooth frame rate HAHA! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cockpit Spectator Mode
kontiuka Posted March 2, 2020 Posted March 2, 2020 I like when the female host called one of the guests a dirt bag.
Hunter_5E Posted March 5, 2020 Posted March 5, 2020 I remember watching a documentary back when flight sims hadn't long arrived on PC's. It showed a guy who'd built a complete fighter nose section/cockpit in his garage for his sim and it looked great. He also had a flight suit on, complete with helmet, mask and gloves but as he climbed into the cockpit, the camera panned over and you could see he had a 14" CRT monitor (possibly smaller) perched above the main panel. LOL! As he started flying, you could also see his sim was stuttery as hell. But he looked great and obviously felt great, so it must have been worth it. :D I'm so glad we have much better tech today. Just imagine what the future holds...
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