JediMaster

I don't think it's even had a public rollout yet. First flight is still slated for the end of this year I believe.

...and knowing is half the battle!

I listen to whatever. Soundtracks (including classical scores), hard rock, oldies, alternative...anything! Good music is good music.

TWS is track while scan and RWS is range while scan. VSR is something about velocity, I never use it, nor LRS, so I don't recall. AIM-120 and AIM-9 both have a range scale on the right side of the HUD, with 2 nested brackets and a little tick that moves down the side. When inside the larger bracket you're in theoretical range to hit. Inside the smaller bracket you're in the ideal range aka "no escape zone." TEWS shows radars looking at you. Planes like A-10 and Su-25 have no radar, so they can't show there. Also, it's based on type of radar, not literal plane, so you will for example notice the Su-33SM shows as "30" and the Su-27 and MiG-29 I believe are both "29" since they share the same radar.

Il-2:46 is the newest WWII sim there is I believe. Its successor won't be out for awhile yet. There's also Battle of Britain 2, which is older than Il-2 but newer than CFS3. All of them are far more realistic than the Il-2 console demo version by default, but I think there are settings in the full game to make it less arcade like. I still remember 10 years ago we had WWII sims coming out every month. That all stopped just a few years later.

There was a song by The Cramps called Bikini Girls with Machine Guns. The video was hilarious.

I always laugh at the things TDS manages to dig up. The way these so-called "news" (and I use that term more loosely than anything could be) commentators outright contradict themselves depending on whether they're talking about someone on "their side" or the "other side" is amazing. The double standard is alive and well on the 24 hr "news" stations. They have no one else taking them to task for changing their stripes, unfortunately.

Or you could take a picture of an explosion and make the ringtone "SAM launch! SAM launch!"

Communism and fascism aren't the same kind of idealogies as eugenics or racism. An economic ideology is most certainly not a threat. The idea that the US was going to become communist in the 1950s was absurd because it couldn't unless the gov't allowed/forced it. Some small group of citizens cannot change the entire country's economic basis. An ideology that says group X is superior to group Y in some way, based on race, nation, religion, IS a threat. That's how these Muslim fundamentalist extremists justify everything they do. "We don't attack innocents" they say. Of course, when you define every American citizen, including children, as "not innocent" because of a complicated chain of reasoning then you're redefining your terms to suit your own ideals. THAT is when the ideology becomes a threat.

The 8400GS isn't great, but it should be sufficient for 46 as long as you don't run at too high of a res or crank up all the details. Anything less than 1GB of RAM is also inadvisable, I'm assuming you'll be running XP and not Vista of course. If you run Vista, you need 2GB. However, I don't know what a 2350 has for a CPU and that will also have a bearing on how well it does.

Can you honestly blame someone living in Germany for having that attitude after their recent history? As my German history professor in college said 15 years ago "my generation of Germans are the most boring people you can imagine thanks to the guilt we feel for what our parents allowed to happen."

Yes.

He has? That bums me out.

I think SimHQ has been the central location for the main modding group. See here: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?s=&am...st&p=308503

My guess is yes because those AF hooks are meant to stop the plane, not leave it in flight-ready status after use!

Definitely get the EECH mods that the community put together. The flyable Hind is a must-have!

What good is voting when no one running is ever worth voting for? Anything above the local level is usually nothing but corruption or slime whether on the state or federal level. The "American voter" does nothing but re-elect these frauds for term after term despite the utter lack of progress they bring and even in the face of scandals. Of course, since "con" is the opposite of "pro", it's obvious Congress is the opposite of progress. We could quite easily have computers randomly elect people from the ballots and things would probably go BETTER. So to me, the voting process in this country only proves one thing--the average American is an idiot. Therefore, do we want to force idiots into combat alongside those who WANT to be there?

On the fiction side, I love the old Clancy novels. Red Storm Rising has some great air combat sequences, along with naval and ground.

That's a lot of high profile collisions happening in a short period of time. Of course, unlike maintenance issues there's nothing possibly systemic about it. Just errors and bad luck.

Actually, the WOI expansion is very unusual in that he showed us shots long ago and has yet to release it.

It's not always the card itself so much as the drivers. Newer driver revisions on occasion will strip out older code necessary for games in the past. Now in some cases you can keep using the older drivers, but of course newer video cards have a limit to how old the drivers can be. Generally speaking you can't use a driver more than a month or so older than a chip's release. That doesn't mean anything per se, because it could be 6 months after its release that code that made game XYZ from 2001 work, so whatever card you're using it would stop working with the later drivers and work with the earlier ones. Really the only thing to do is search out one by one each of those older games and find out from the people still playing it (or that just stopped) what card/driver combos are still good and which aren't. F4:AF still works on my GTX260 using drivers that are now a few revs back, however at some point (I don't know where because I play F4AF in phases and it had been months since my last time) using FSAA broke some stuff in game, namely almost anything using 3D effects in the menu like recon, the arming screen, and the online database. So I either have to forego FSAA or skip those features.

I take this is other than more SF2 re-releases of previous SF1-engined ones?

OFF has a rendering engine frozen in time from CF3's release (2002 I think?) and is only DX7. FE has a far more modern engine (DX9) as does RoF. OFF does a lot with what it has available, but it can never be to the same level.

Of course, then you can have bandwidth issues, which means extra work on the network code and likely the necessity of a dedicated server on a backbone vs someone's home. Unless, of course, you go the pay route. Joint Ops actually only supported up to 64 players on an average server IIRC, and you needed to pay for access to the 150 player servers. That was fine by me, as I was content with the 64 player ones as I usually just played coop anyway.

Unlike some people, I liked Crysis and Crysis Warhead and look forward to Crysis 2. I might even buy it at full price on release.