JediMaster

Yes, ATI's drivers have less trouble with it than nvidia. I believe turning off FSAA with nvidia solves all issues. With my ATI card I can have it on.

Hamachi is the program.

Queen's Gambit was just what an addon should be...a new island, a couple of new campaigns, and that's about it. A large portion of the Arma community never got it and it didn't hurt them. I also think you've got a mistaken view of the time line, since I think Resistance came out less than 2 yrs after OFP did but offered major enhancements to the engine. Arma 2 came out almost 3 yrs after Arma, but Op Arrowhead is coming out less than a year after Arma 2. I think it basically is going to be Arma 2 to the current patch level with new units, terrain, and campaigns/missions. That's why it will integrate with Arma 2 or simply stand by itself. Of course, Arma came out 5 years after OFP, so by comparison Arma 2 was a quick release. As for PC requirements, what it needs isn't all that much by today's standards. I know it runs fine on a friend's 3 Ghz C2D w/9800GTX+ on a 1920x1200 monitor using FSAA, and that's an over 2 yr-old configuration that wasn't even that pricey when it was new. Again, OFP ran miserably on most people's PCs when it was released, and it wasn't until the release of Resistance that the mainstream hardware had caught up to the engine.

It will release in the US around the same time. It should integrate with Arma2 or work without it. It will have the US Army again like Arma had, as opposed to the USMC that Arma2 had. It also I think is more desert-based.

Yes, it always pains me to see really good old games going for next to nothing while newer games that aren't as good IMO are going for still close to full price. I don't play MP in FPS games, unless it has coop, so I've been waiting for the price on the COD games to drop to play the SP part (as the full price is too much for the short SP side) and still COD4 is overpriced! Stupid MP demand is keeping the price high!

Ditto here, and I've got TIR4. While it works beautifully in the 3d cockpit, you can't do too much with that in F4. In the 2d cockpit, it blows. I have the views mapped to the hat on my G940 and that works fine for me along with having padlock to a button, in other words the same setup I've had for playing F4 on my HOTAS since Dec 1998. Every other flight sim I have has a good 3D cockpit and TIR works great: CFS3, Il-2, LOMAC, DCS, all of TK's sims. I've been meaning to try it in EECH, but I so rarely play that one anymore even with all the new mods.

If you lost a $20 bill, would you be upset? If yes, think about the things Helmut mentioned and look at the screenshots. It's still the same game as FE Gold, just improved in those areas. If no, just buy it already because there are far worse things to blow $20 on that will give you a lot less enjoyment, like buying tickets to see a bad movie.

To be or not to be, that is the question now facing my people, Captain Kirk. @Falcon: Once the avalanche begins, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

I don't recall LOMAC being on Steam, but I could have missed it. LOMAC didn't have Starforce, the original Flaming Cliffs addon did. If you only need LOMAC installed, and not FC, to install FC2 (I can't say as I had both installed when I installed FC2) than you don't need to worry.

Yes, scripted linked missions. A dynamic campaign was talked about for LOMAC since before its release in 2002 or 3 or whenever it was. However, Il-2 does have dynamic campaigns, they're just...not that dynamic and I find them tedious. If LOMAC had an engine like that, I wouldn't be happy with it either. That said, there are some great 3rd party campaigns you can DL out there for LOMAC.

Several of them are inside the engine and/or intake. Unless those are just helmeted heads carried in the rear...

What if you wake up speaking Klingon??!

F-107 FTW!

Next up...astronaut marathons in space suits!

The only winners in these incidents are the guys who make and sell the flags. You could open a flammable US flag store in the Middle East and retire from all the sales you'd get. No excuse for that in the west.

Alcoholism?

Imbecile extraordinaire

Frank! Frank, Frank, bo-bank, banana-fana, fo-fank, fee fi mo mank. Frank!

Too bad you never had CFS3 because there was a Med Air War mod for it that was quite good.

88 was probably used because if the texture got flipped it would still look the same.

In "real life" runways are oriented based on geography and/or prevailing wind patterns, so they can be facing any direction. For instance, I believe our runway is 20/200 and the Skid Strip at CCAFS is 130/210. Games of course will just have the programmers make things easier on themselves by making them N/S or E/W. I think the reason for saying "36" is just that it's easier to make out on a radio than saying "00" or "double 0."

The US has been involved in no other 8 year war unless you mean the Cold War, and that did indeed have fewer direct casualties. For other countries, exact figures will be harder to come by. I don't recall how many died in the Iran-Iraq war, or the USSR's Afghan enterprise. As mentioned, going back more than 100 yrs leads you to times of poor medicine and tech to save lives, so what would today be a wounded soldier that never returns to the battlefield would be a KIA back then. Another unknown barometer is relative losses--how many were lost compared to the enemy? If you lost half as much as the enemy that's far different than if you lose only 10% of theirs. That again requires good numbers from all sides, and those are just hard to get other than estimates. However, the conflicts we're involved in now differ greatly from many other recent conflicts other than really the USSR in Afghanistan in the 80s and perhaps the US in Vietnam. Pretty much everything else has been fast and/or high-intensity vs standard state-controlled forces with front lines far more clearly defined. Low-intensity ones historically last far longer because of the low attrition which lets each side sustain the fight. I guess what I'm getting at is drawing any general conclusions will be hard to justify, only specific ones compared to Vietnam and 80s Afghanistan.

It's also the tire design. I bet if I'd run over that bolt in my 4Runner it wouldn't have even dented the tire because I don't have a wide, flat tread. It would most likely have been kicked out instead. Sports car tires seem to enjoy finding pointy things to puncture them.

Only in theory. In practice at least one bird will be down for maintenance/overhaul. That's enough for one continuous orbit or 2 that don't have to run 24/7.

Well, you know the 120C has smaller fins, so it has to be 10x better. They must be basing it on some "120C has far better ECCM vs 120B against Russian ECM and chaff" document somewhere and they pulled this performance out of thin air (since of course real numbers would be classified). Personally, I don't like that there are like 5 different 120C models in service concurrent with the B because I can't remember them all! They should've just given them all new letters!