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The good thing about them is they have a limited # of shots, and you can outlast them. I think they can fire maybe 4 times? Anyway, I just do the old 3-9 line beam, pop flares, then break into it when it gets close and I seem to prevail 90% of the time. The other 10% is when there are 2 fired too close together and I get hit by #2. :( The Jedi Master

I'm trying to picture this. You have 2 monitors, but you have 2 cloned screens on just one monitor, and each takes 1/4 of the screen? The Jedi Master

Yeah, I've got it installed...unfortunately it only has TWO missions, both SP, that came with the patch. So we'll have to wait for mission makers to set some up to play it online! The Jedi Master

Say HELLOOOOOOOOO to torque! I'm going to have to map aileron trim to a knob on my HOTAS... The Jedi Master

Word is the gains in certain games are ONLY with Catalyst AI turned on. That means you have to have the CCC version of the drivers, not the smaller simpler control panel version. FYI. The Jedi Master

Well, the difference is a drive stays useful for a long time. A video card doesn't need over 256MB RAM now. By the time it DOES need 512MB (which is what that card really has, as it's split between the 2 chips), the card will have been surpassed by the next generation. I'd rather spend $400 now and then $400 18 months later or so on the next-gen card than $900 now and try to make the card last 3 years! ;) The Jedi Master

The Flaming Cliffs 1.1 addon really improves FPS in the game. For just plain 1.02, the FPS didn't really change that much. That said, there are certain options that are known to be FPS killers and by turning them down your rate will really improve without sacrificing too much quality. I use "medium" myself, with all planar shadows and no heat blur or mirrors. With my XP 3000+ CPU I had fine performance in 1.02, and it's even better now in 1.1. The Jedi Master

There was a test done on HardOCP of a 256MB card vs a 512MB one. They could fine only ONE game where they saw any difference, and they had to crank it up to 1600x1200 w/heavy FSAA/AF on and even THEN we're talking 15% or so faster only. Considering the price was $200 higher for the 512 card, I think it's currently a waste of money to go over 256! The Jedi Master

Heh, in the 18 months I had LOMAC 1.02 I got as far as the 4th mission for the A-10 campaign and NEVER touched the other ones. Anyway, with the changing of so many things in the game with 1.1, it doesn't surprise that you might find a mission that no longer works right. Maybe you can "cheat" and take the offending SAM site out of the campaign mission? Declassify it, go into the editor, and just hit "delete"! I've never done it before, but I know people do it all the time. The Jedi Master

I can't recall hearing that problem myself. Do you have other games that work fine? You might try turning off auto reboot on crashing in Windows to see what it is. Also, since you have XP SP2, you might try turning off Data Execution Prevention for LOMAC. I don't have SP2 installed, so I'm not sure where you go to do that. The Jedi Master

Remember the A64 4000 is just the FX-53 renamed. The FX-55 will likely be renamed the 4200 or something when the FX-57 comes out, too. There's no real difference between FX and 64s--the FX is just the fastest 64 available. For price reasons, I'm going to go with a 3700, but it will be the Venice-core 939-pin. I think there are like 3 other 3700 models. I figure with the OC abilities of these chips, I should be able to clock it up to 4000 speeds with little effort, but the cache size is fixed. So everyone remember, go for the 1MB L2 cache! ;) The Jedi Master

Basement?? Hmph! In Florida, we don't have "basements"...that would be an underground swimming pool! :) We don't have attics, either! Too hot and the roofs are too low anyway. All we have is the rooms inside and we LIKE it! I'm sure in the past 7 years projectors have indeed improved. I would've considered one for my main room except I have a ceiling fan I can't do without and nowhere else to mount one. So, 65" rear projection for me! As for the PC, I share an office with the wife's home office, so that's totally out of the question. ;) The Jedi Master

TX! Can't wait to try this out without having to crash into the ground or eat flak to get a hit! The Jedi Master

The reason I asked is I knew someone who bought a Sharp projector in the late 90's. Bulbs for it cost $350. When he first got it they were burning out every other MONTH. After the 2nd one died, he took it in for servicing at least 3 times before the morons figured out it had a bad power unit that kept blowing the bulb. They did refund him SOME of the money he spent on bulbs, plus gave him a spare for free, but it still cost him a good $700 or so in wasted bulbs! Obviously it was defective from the start, though, and you've had yours for some time now so you're probably safe. The Jedi Master

Why'd they have to take out coop????!? The Jedi Master

I'm interested to try the demo! The Jedi Master

You know, I don't think you can use the US carrier. I think only the Kusnetsov works, but I'm not 100% certain. I also don't think you can refuel from an S-3... The Jedi Master

How much are replacement bulbs for the Benq? The Jedi Master

Well, for "old ones" I'll nominate the Longbow series. The first game had, with its addon, 2 campaigns that were linear but branching and very well done. LB2 had a great dynamic campaign and added Blackhawks and Kiowas. I also played both Iran and Iraq campaigns in Jane's F-15 to their finish, and I believe that may be the last flight sim I played every campaign included to the end. Never got very far in one in F4, SFP1, WoV, LOMAC, and many others. Completed a few in EECH/AH, but never did them all. Granted there were a lot of them. :) The Jedi Master

I installed over the top without reinstalling and it worked fine, BUT! If you've extracted .ini files from the .cat files, the patch won't touch them, only the .cat files. So you'll need to REextract those .ini files and alter them again. Don't just try and get away with the older .inis as I noticed there are differences. The F-104Gdata.ini, for example, has more lines than it did before.

I should be getting my copy this afternoon, but I don't remember hearing anyone else having that problem. The Jedi Master

Level bombing is definitely something I've never had any luck with in SFP1/WoV!

Ah, good, I was waiting for one! Another short SP game, eh? It seems chronic in FPS games nowadays... So the consensus seems to be that this game is good for MP coop players, but no so much for others. I have a group that I play with regularly and some of them have got FtF and some haven't--I'm a fence-sitter and I STILL don't know if I should get this or not!! I guess I'll put it on my "eventually" list! The Jedi Master

The website now says Armed Assault, so I'm guessing that is indeed the new name. Some screenshots make it evident that it's a heavily reengineered OFP1 engine, but those new solider heads have to go. Looks like they have some kind of hypoencephalitis going on... The Jedi Master

I have an SWF22 and I have no such pot-altering option. I wind up using a ton of AP in SFP1/WoV because of trim. The Jedi Master