Chaingun

Remove the goggles there dag, there's too much dirt on them bud. is the sky to blue or purple? sky is not purple but on a few occasions, that bottom screen shot looks awesome. The top one I can't figure out what your doing. To be honest on the runway you shouldn't have the burners lit while landing. But, it looks great also. Skywise. Keep up the great work.

OH BOY, Here's to hoping. Looking forward to flying against or with some of you all.

Cretin, Your layout in that post is actually very well done. Would make a great checklist for what needs to be done to consider the options as I laid them out. Think I'm going to go with the 9600 Pro, as Tuff said the extra money doesn't constitute extra cost of the XT, and my trusty 1700 still runs FB pretty darn well. :D If you don't mind my asking, how did you get your callsign. Mine, use to be just Chain until Red Baron 3d, Chain was used so I had to think of something else, it was a stretch but ah, it worked. Besides fits my personality, If it don't have guns, why fly it. By the way, I've enjoyed chatting with ya tonight. I salute ya, :D

Sure, be a wise guy. I see how it is now......

Don't know if I would consider it quite as tough as Falcon 4, but it is definately a sim. (This is coming from a prop head so radar is a mystery to me.) Requires a working knowledge of Radar and it's concepts to use it at it Most Difficult settings. I would personally recommend it, even though I'm still learning. Just remember when all else fails, there's always the cannons.

Nice Machine, maybe one of these days mine will finally grow up..... :D But for now it don't do tooooo bad. I haven't figured out yet which would do me better, a new motherboard, cpu combo, or a new graphics card.... Got the money for it, just got to make up my mind. Something in a Nforce 2 w/ 2500+ or an ATI Radeon 9600 XT Tough Choice. Thoughts anyone, which would provide the biggest bang for the buck. Thanks.

My regular settings: Textures: High Scenes: Med Terr Prld: 50KM Civ Traffic:Yes Water:Low Haze:Basic Lights:None VisibleRange:Med Effects:Low HeatBlr:Off Shadows:ActivePlanar Color:32bit Resolution:1024x768 2003-12-08 19:09:23 - LockOn Frames: 15476 - Time: 725328ms - Avg: 21.336 - Min: 4 - Max: 75 Stock Med settings with the v3 overcast low fix 2003-12-25 21:48:44 - LockOn Frames: 1261 - Time: 83406ms - Avg: 15.118 - Min: 8 - Max: 57 Med settings with 32 bit color set 2003-12-25 21:51:25 - LockOn Frames: 1411 - Time: 90672ms - Avg: 15.561 - Min: 8 - Max: 57 Low settings stock 2003-12-25 21:53:33 - LockOn Frames: 1687 - Time: 93391ms - Avg: 18.063 - Min: 8 - Max: 65 Low settings with 32 bit color set 2003-12-25 21:58:00 - LockOn Frames: 1509 - Time: 97000ms - Avg: 15.556 - Min: 8 - Max: 57 All above set at 1024x768 resolution set to balanced (default settings on the Catalyst 3.10) Below 800x600 32 bit color unless noted. Low settings w/16 bit color w/2xAA 2003-12-25 22:19:38 - LockOn Frames: 2353 - Time: 98734ms - Avg: 23.831 - Min: 15 - Max: 62 Low w/ 32 bit and High Textures selected. w/ 2xAA 2003-12-25 22:22:05 - LockOn Frames: 2076 - Time: 99360ms - Avg: 20.893 - Min: 11 - Max: 61 So you can see there is not that much of a difference between 800x600 and 1024x768 on my 8500 anyway. The top scores are with the Medium Overcast that I had installed and the bottom ones are from the v3 fast Overcast installed. By the way if you have any ideas on speeding this thing up please feel free. After all, I guess that's why we're all here anyway. :D

What are your system specs. Just curious

For me, 1)there is no difference between 32 and 16 bit maybe 1 fps or so. 2)Graphics set mostly to medium with heat blur off, lights to none, water to low and shadows set to active planar. With 2x AA it drops off about 5 or 6 fps or so, not bad but when you only get like 20 or so those 5 or 6 count for a lot more than usual. ;) 3)Haven't tried with effects set to high due to card won't take it (8500LE) 4)Advanced Haze same as #3 In the test that I like to run which is the Mig-29's taking off in a thunderstorm, average about 22 fps through the clouds then drops to 14 or so above the cloudtops. (this is with the med clouds fix installed) It looks great, just wish I could pick it up a little bit more. Maybe the next version of the Catalyst drivers will make it a little bit better, or maybe they can squeeze a little bit more performance out of the code with the patch coming soon. With settings set to low, it's the same performance wise as with the settings on medium.

I got one, don't remember where I got it though........ let me know if ya need it to try out. Attached sfp1.rar

:D Concur on the OS possibilities, computers are some strange creatures and nobody knows which way the Tron God is going favor at any given moment. I can definitely understand how difficult it must be to code anything over a simple 10 line basic program and have it work on the multitudes of different hardware combinations that are floating around in this world. It seems two identically configured systems, hardware wise, could develop many different problems from simple setting configurations. (What works for one does not necessarily work for the others) what ever happened to the supposed standards that things are suppose to be able to adhere to............

Config.cfg edit Gives a slight improvement on my system, you might want to give it a try. Post your results.

:P Happy Holidays Hope Santa brings ya what ya need....

ROFL Happy Holidays.

I only have problems with the A10 in any form, disappearing planes, but all others work well. I am using XP, but the 9600Pro in my brother in laws machine works great. He's on 2000. My 8500 LE is getting a bit long in the tooth, but for now it does a descent job. The disappearing planes went away with the 3.7 cats, but went to the 3.10's they came back. Maybe something in the graphic settings trying to use a feature that my card does not like. What version of the Catalyst drivers are you using?

Go give this a try, it seems to work for quite a few Win98/ME users. Win98/ME workaround Good Luck :ph34r:

Enjoy FS, It is a great sim. AO1 Jones, we had one of those in VF-11 during my time in, back in the mid 80's. Salute Chain

Sorry, I've never seen the need to fly an aircraft without the ability to shoot something. If it doesn't have guns I don't fly it. Kinda humerous huh, but I get plenty of navigational training flying to a target. LOMAC is cool, but requires alot of gaming horsepower to run it. Had FS2004, but gave it to my brother in law. Salute and REFUSE TO LOSE Chain

Salute All, I'll give your jets a try for awhile. Looking forward to lighting the fires for a change, and something with a canopy to keep the wind out of my hair. Thanks for the welcome. It's a definite difference between SFP1 and RB3D, with a learning curve to boot. ;)