JediMaster

If it wasn't for the horribly dated FX, the original would still stand today unaltered.

For more I think Lowengrin's DCG is the place to go for dynamic ones with a ton of options. I don't recall the link, but do a Google search for it for Il-2.

Forget Physx, it's not that important. The 5850 is a LOT faster than the 275, if you can find one. There are always driver issues of one type or another that come and go, it's not enough to worry about.

Hardware Wars was the BEST. "A tale of love, war, and household appliances." "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss 3 bucks goodbye."

Well, to much consternation I've been unable to find my F-19 manual, and I can't figure out why. I've found many others, including USNF and the USMF addon, Falcon 3 and OFT, Tornado, F-14FD, even LHX. All of my oldest ones however seem AWOL. I'm sure I'll find it someday by accident...

The next DCS module is the A-10, so it hardly makes sense for them to have an updated 3D model for it in LOMAC 2.0. Perhaps the other 2 planes are also planned at some point down the road. The Su-25T I don't think is, so this is a defacto DCS: Su-25T as well as Su-25 now.

Funny, I thought this was about the Mirage F1 at first, since there were certainly more of them built! It took me a minute to remember this old Mitsubishi design.

Didn't get a chance last night, but I'll check on it tonight.

It doesn't look like it, at least not at first. Later on their plans might change.

Not too farfetched a scenario, although you must admit 6 bombs should still give someone pause. However, Stalin was never totally sane either, he did some pretty outrageous things that no truly sane person would go for, so that's not out of character.

L4D2's release is at 0000 11/17 EST, or 2100 11/16 PST, or 0500 11/17 GMT. That means since I work tomorrow, I won't be trying it out till tomorrow night...sigh...

I've only played the 1st campaign so far, but it's definitely been amped up. In addition to the fact that you have a lot more weapons and items to use, the game really cares how many players are in the game. I played with 3 other people and in that one campaign we killed over 2400 zombies!! That's compared to L4D where you'd get just over 1000 on average. The Special Infected were also far more common, think I got 18 smokers MYSELF, not counting the other 3 guys. We even failed one of the levels, #3 I think, our first try...on NORMAL difficulty, and we were all experienced L4D players to varying degrees. All in all, considering I spent $45 on this (and only $25 for L4D on a weekend sale) I think I'll get my $$ worth! I had over 110 hours in L4D, I'll easily pass that here.

*ahem* I still have my F-19 manual, so I can check it tonight, but I seem to recall a lot of that stuff was in there. For a sim that was even more "lite" than TK's WO/SF series, its manual took itself very seriously. Heh, amazing how many different targets that little 20mm cannon could destroy with like 10 rounds, wasn't it?

It's good to have your b-day off...when you can get it!

I had to laugh when on the Daily Show last night they mentioned that the international community has been upset for years over Hu letting the dogs out. "Hu let the dogs out! Hu! Hu! Hu!"

So, do all the kids that flunk out of school end up working for the utility companies over there??

*ponders changing name to CoolNess, but leaves that for a member named "Elliott"*

I take it you have a CH stick then?

I have about a 50% survival rate doing that. Half the time I fly away to fight another day, the other half I either bent/broke the prop or wound up colliding.

Unlike many languages, the reason English works so well as an "international" language is that you can mangle it pretty badly, both in grammar and pronunciation/spelling, and still be understood. Where some languages are vulnerable to the slightest change in intonation altering a word's meaning, English is very resilient to mishandling.

Well, I didn't see this coming.

The last shuttle launch is too far away to know when it will happen.

The bar has been set for Vietnam mods!

Go to nvidia's site and click on the link for beta and archived drivers, right under where you put in your card and OS in the drop-down lists. Grab one of the 18x series drivers. I'm running the 182.5s right now, but the 186s are fine too. Apparently the web is full of complaints about the nvidia 191s. FSAA failing, BSODs in many games, really ugly.

I've got no idea, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere. Another 12 hours or so before I can try it...