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I still fly 9 variations of RB3D under XP using dgvoodoo 1.5 and reload that allows TIR mouse emulation. Shoot, I fly Flying Corp Gold as well, and under De-fend Reloaded, RB and Wings of Glory. The older sims are like watching a really good classic bw movie. plug_nickel

Have you tried the D.VIIF? If the fm is close, we should be able to "hang the prop" or at least, approximate it. I'm still in QC exploring the fm's. In the *F, I've gotten close to 45+ angle very briefly without stalling and the plane just seemed to "float". The degree of control is excruciating for those few moments so that after a while, I have to quit; my wrist and mid-arm hurt. I think if I screw around with my Courgar's response curves, it might be a little easier. I haven't been close in the other D.VII fm's. I hope it's doable, because that one maneuver is simply awesome.

I didn't see the make of your mobo, only that you went out for a search at a compact system. I would first and foremost, go to the mfg site that makes your mobo and go through the forum(s) to see what has worked and what hasn't. That could save you a lot of potential headaches. Just a thought.

Nvidia here. The only time I had an ATI card was when I tried a 9700. RB3D is really a good, relaxing game. The RB3D seats are a lot softer compared to the "silver platters" I sit on in BHaH...lol!

Hey BirdDogICt, Don't blow off RB3D; think of it as a classic b/w film that's withstood the onslaught of technicolor. TIR will work with reload; you'll have pitch and yaw and that'll breathe new life into RB3D and all of the great mods that were spawned. Dgvoodoo even helps with the graphics.

hahaha...Welcome to the club. I've "flown" one campaign mission and lost a wingman a that. We barely made it back to aerodrome. I'm back in QC "relearning" because I don't have wep, a choice of guns, speed brakes, good acceleration, sidewinders, amrams, jadams, dopplar, afterburners, data cartridges, awacs, fly-by-wire(digital) or all the technologies that can help a pilot be better. Despite being "pretty good" in RB, Flying Corps and RB3D, this sim REALLY pushes it and makes you want to be better at flying by the seat of your pants. I feel like I've accomplished something when I can see the bullets hitting. Much more intense than painting, locking up and fox-2.

Glad you're on board BirdDogICT. Now, BirdDogICT and Tamper, see if this makes sense and if you can relate it back to your own experiences with this ram problem. When vram is really rendering high texture loads, and it doesn't have the capacity, it has to pull from system ram to fill and this takes time. If system ram is having "timing issues" then as the textures are swapped back and forth, crashes, lockups can occur. Phantomjoker may be running sli, but his vram is 256mb and that's boarder line for CFS3 to run smoothly unless you've got the sliders turned way down. More ram, going from 2gb to 4gb should have alleviated this somewhat, but it hasn't. Tightening the timings should also be more than possible since his MC can handle it and he's got the voltage headroom. This would also allow faster ram/vram swap. Could his problem be that his payload is just set to low?

Sorry to here about the mobo. I was hoping that all you would have to do was to re-set and re-flash. Your T1 version was the last update to the 680i SLI boards. It was the answer to some of the memory, and quad core problems the earlier boards had encountered.

16:9 or 16:10 is very natural IF the software is written for it and BHaH fully supports it. I agree with unclean; for desktop use, 30" is just about perfect. I run a Sony GDM-FW900 which is a 24" flat panel monitor. Being glass, she weighs 109lbs. 1920 x 1200 x 32 @ 75hz and is very natural, very good, especially with TIR4. I can go up to 2048, but that's out of the recommended sweet spot for best viewing. You can try a little test and get a better understanding why wide screen is "wide screen". Sit at your desk and put any scene up on your monitor using your browser. Now in the address bar, put a single character in the middle of the address bar. Center yourself so that your eyes and the character are inline. Try to relax and look only at the character. Without taking your focus off the character, take "note" as to what's in your sight at 12 o'clock in the background, at 3, 9 and 6 as well. After doing it several times, I think you'll find that your peripheral vision a 3 and 9 is better than at 12 and 6, with 6 being the worse. That's what wide screen does with well written software, it brings your 3 and 6 into play without having to look, and heightens your awareness at 12. If you "play" at it long enough, you can actually map out the "ark" from 3 to 12 to 6. It's really cool. While working on the center, you don't lose what's in the "background" at 3 and 6 and your 12 recognition is much better. 16:9, 16:10 is really close to natural vision, imho, where 4:3 is closer to a mild case of tunnel vision. Panorama photos aren't natural, so they do look funny.

Danke. Das arbeitete wie ein Charme.

We're not to far apart; I'm running a single 8800 GTX. If you want to really pickup your GTS and don't mind pushing it some, check out the Thermalright HR-03 and see if it's sized for the GTS. If you're running a sound card, you'll need to check clearances. I use the onboard chip and Realtek's latest driver really makes a huge difference in sound quality and dimensional location. It's not as good as a dedicated card, but it's close enough for me. That, along with a good fluid bearing fan with rubber or silicone dampeners to eliminate any vibration, you can safely oc the card to some pretty impressive numbers. If you are running an AR, then I must call you sir due to your age and being the original revision...haha. My A1 is s/n 3 which coded means version #2, (A1), serial number 1, and the difference in the caps made it one of the reference boards, which I was later able to confirm. The boards are talking about some pretty neat stuff coming down the pike. The one I'm really waiting for is the pricing breakthrough on SSD's.

First OFF...haha, please let my apologize for the misspelling, Grumpybear. You can go after me and take me out with a mighty swipe, but please leave my Nup 17 alone. She's done no harm and it's not her fault I keep getting my butt handed to me in QC. Not resetting to defaults can cause some really screwy things; I wasn't the first and you won't be the last. The low bat can happen any time. Let me know the model. How long have you had it? Some where there just has to be another soul who's still running an A1, be it a reference board or not. On the other hand, my "15 minutes" of cutting edge looks to be developing into a 3 year affair come this December. Our boards give us the distinction of being the few, the proud, the humbly chosen by the mobo gods. Oh, and did I mention we have earned the right to call all those other EVGA boards "whippersnappers", especially when they ask why are you still driving that Edsel....

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!! A list? Are you sure it's not the intro to a book?

Homeboy. Thanks! I see several setting where mine may be to aggressive and a couple I haven't even selected. I'm going to do some more experimenting to see how it affects my "game" play. Did you ever get your CH problem solved? I used to have a Fighter Stick and Pro Throttle, but they were analog, so no help here. Have your run problem by Bob "Stickworks" Church Uber Meister Guru over at the CH Hanger?

Hey GRUMYBEAR, Glad to see someone else running a 680i. What design? On the A1 and AR's, there were reports that when the cmos bat was low but not indicated in any warnings, an update bios flash would produce said warning afterwards and the board would be unstable. Since you've changed the bat, I'd reflash to your previous bios since you were'nt having any problems. If nothing goes bump and she's running fine, try and go back up to P33. Question, due you reset to defaults first, flash and then go back in to reset your values? That can cause problems if the bios is not reset to defaults before flashing. I you do, I'd say your cmos bat was right on the edge and flashing pushed it over leading to instability afterwards.

I googled Simcontrol and my jaw just hit the floor. How did you work the Cougar into that rig? The setup I saw had pedals, stick, throttle, and mixture/flaps/gear, or(?). The craftsmanship looked really good. Put me in you will to....PLEASE. I still have my TIR4 plugged into the pc; it doesn't seem to be "touchy" like the Cougar

I would have responded directly to your post earlier, but I want to check the math first. With my 051K now being what it is, by my best estimation, I should be able to retire in 9yrs, 8 months, 16 days, 13hrs, 52seconds, 140 micro seconds and 2 nano seconds AFTER I've died. Go to go, wife's calling.

Oh man, you just let the cat out of the bag with your electronics background. My dad is Air Force retired, CMSgt, and then after 16 more years, retired Civil Service. My Dad's last living brother is retired Navy. My Dad had two more brothers, both of whom passed away many years ago. One was a Marine and spent 6 months in a North Korean prison camp. The other was a B-29 pilot. My Dad also went to many different electronic schools. He worked on several "projects" including the Rascal missile program. while Civil Service, he was on the F-15's avionics and later, the F-16 avionics programs. some of his electrons rubbed off on me, but I have no formal electronics background. Yep, we're enthusiasts for shore. The closet I ever became to being a "tech" was when I was trying for a wr on a 750TB slot-a on a K7V-T board with TI-4600 vc. I still miss that hardware, even today. You've got the mobo I've started to research for my next upgrade. I can use my beloved X6800 and it supports the 2 pci-e architecture. When price points are right, I'll bite then and she'll fly. I don't want to give up my X6800; she runs at 169 TD at 3.6 and 165+/- at 3.45. The silicon gods were kind to me on the proc. For the time being, my wife sighing relief, I've got 4gb x 2 G.Skill here now. It's been tested to 4-4-4-12 at 1.850. My goal is to run it at 4-4-9-10 at 1.975 or lower. I need to keep the stress off of the MC. I just wish phantomjoker were up. I find it totally out of the ball park that the problem follows with even 4 sticks. I think he boxed stock the bios and still has problems. P08 on the board shouldn't make any difference in the regard. But hey, sometimes electrons, hardware, silicon and code just don't get along.

Hey Ras, My wife's retired from teaching. I used to help her a lot with grading papers, school activities, etc, so she's pretty great with my computer/gaming-sim interests. As I had posted much earlier, this is really the first forum I've participated in since mid 2000 when AMD had an obscure permission-to-join site for those trying to set wr oc's. I usually try to take a look at what's going on early in the a.m. before I crank up work and after I get home if I'm not burned-out. I will fly QC and try different things and continue to explore differnt plane fm's. I'll fly a campaign mission early on Saturday morning or until my better half starts to stir. Everone here is really great and I've followed many of them on other sites and through different games (sorry, P3, to me, is a sim that has great game play) since RB. That you're here can only be a good thing. 40 words a minute is wep speed for my hunt and peck. And my philosophy on forum(s) is still "A noob isn't someone who asks a question, no matter how basic, but someone who doesn't know how to answer that question in a friendly, wingman like manner."

EVGA.com When I was doing the "research" comparing AMD x 2 and Core2 Duo, the 680i had been out for just a little while. A freind of mine in Kansas had several of the new 680i's and I got sn#3. I didn't have the TIM problems others were finding out and later discussing. I belive it was Corsair that diagnosed the MC problem, linking it back to 2.1+ 2.25 that would crap out controller, memory, slots or all! Except for PS/2 mouse problem, ram voltage was the main issue. The MC problems when starting to deteriorate, led to vdroop anomolies and subsequent questions about caps and vcontrol circuit. Later, I compared the caps on my board with a couple of others at a local shop waiting on rma's on found that my caps were different. After that, I was able to confirm that I had a Nvidia reference board. The 750i's addressed some of the MC issues along with caps and the 780i uses newer MC design and silicon. I don't know about the caps. Our boards are remarkedly similar. Your MC is totally updated and you've got 200 chip for for much faster pci-e protocals. I also have to really tweak my board to sustain 1333. I did it once when burning everything in but I keep her now 266 x 4. When I get my 4gb x 2 and reinstall XP64, I'm going to take her back up to 3.45. That's about as high as I can go with volltage bump and multiplier only without messing around with fsb.

"Resistance is futile; You will be assimilated, Ras."

Been doing some reading on the topic and I think we're going down a dead end like I did on my VRD tests. The problem is going to boil down to bandwidth and busrt speeds between SATA vs ATA (EIDE, Ultra or whatever)*. Current hds with S or S-I have "sustained" mb/s of about 150 mb/s where as the ATA (*)is rated at 133 mb/s. The burst speeds are very close between the two. The newer breed of S-II hds have effectively doubled that. We'll still have to kill services even if the only program running is OFF P3 in trying to maintain performance. The older drive will introduce more heat if that's an issuse. Performance increases are going to be tied to amount of ram which brings in type of OS, absolute minimum number of services to have OS/board functional, no apps open and where the swap file is located on the hd.

Depending upon the timings being "loose" or "tighter", you may have to nudge the voltage in order to stablize tighter settings. On the 780i, that won't be an issue since the memory controller is more robust. On my 680i, I have to stay away from 2.2 because the memory controller's design is weak and higher voltages will deteriorate it. So I find the fastest memory that's been tested for my board and try to keep it at 1.855-1.975. I'm not even comfortable running at the rated 2.1 with the history the board has had. But hey, I got serial #3 and she's been rock solid. The only ctd or bsod's I've had are my or software's fault. P08 is current 780i bios for EVGA; P33 for my 680i.

You may also want to check out blackviper.com. He even has 7 Beta up.

Regarding your Cougar setup...PLEASE put me in your will!!!!!!!!!! I haven't had to map TIR recenter; I haven't had to use it. Instead of the CT, I uas a CH Throttle Quad, but I keep the CT plugged in so I don't have to go through resigning the drivers the the CT. Using the CHTQ, I have buttons for Master Select: Manual or Automatic fuel/air Mix, Battery, Mags x 2, Prop Swing and Mixture Kill. One lever is for throttle with back=Idle, at detent and through travel being 2-0, up/down control. 3rd lever over is for mixture with back=Idle, at detent being 2/3 and then past that 75 steps for finer control up/down. I have the knbs removed on levers 2 and 4 so I know what I doing without having to look. Go see OFF & TrackIR on pg13 of Genereal discussion. Aussie Pilot uploaded his settings showing how he eliminated head movement while targeting. I use my progressive modified for yaw, but I'm using Aussie's 2nd profile for pitch with a little faster movement up through dead-zone. I just take my glasses OFF...haha