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I strongly recommend the RAF Museum at Hendon but your wife may not be as enthused so try & take in a theatre show. Btw, I feel for you if the exchange rate stays like this - London prices & nearly $2 to the £1, ouch!

there's a B-52D model already in the game. You should be able to fly it if you want just by adding a cockpit.

that model probably doesn't have the doors animated though.

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autom...p;showfile=1522 http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autom...p;showfile=1520

Which game do you have (SF, WOV, WOE)?

It's been this way for over a year with ATi cards - works fine on nVidia.

Well of course not all FE mods are available here so it's not possible to have ALL mods announced there, only those hosted on CA. This should be happening now but it's not retrospective i.e files released before we created a separate FE File Announcement section will still have the announcement in their original place.

That's unlike them although I do know that there was a backlog after Xmas (peak sales plus staff on holiday). You can also 'phone or they have a forum - www.saitekforum.com - once you register & login a lot more of the forum becomes visible.

Press Release: Saitek ready for Microsoft Vista Bristol, 30 January 2007 – Saitek (www.saitek.com) today announced Windows Vista driver support for its entire current PC gaming product range. Microsoft Vista is a major reworking of Windows which not only changes the look of the operating system, but also how it handles networking, media and security. Available in six different versions designed for everyone from home users to large organisations, the Vista operating system increases the security of PC data and improves media handling to help users better organise and enjoy their digital photos, video and music. Saitek has been working for some time to ensure full compliance of its product range with the personal user version of Vista on the day it launches. All products in Saitek’s current PC Gaming range will now ship with Vista drivers and existing customers are also able to download Vista drivers for their Saitek games controller from www.saitek.com. Read more here

Press Release: Saitek ready for Microsoft Vista Bristol, 30 January 2007 – Saitek (www.saitek.com) today announced Windows Vista driver support for its entire current PC gaming product range. Microsoft Vista is a major reworking of Windows which not only changes the look of the operating system, but also how it handles networking, media and security. Available in six different versions designed for everyone from home users to large organisations, the Vista operating system increases the security of PC data and improves media handling to help users better organise and enjoy their digital photos, video and music. Saitek has been working for some time to ensure full compliance of its product range with the personal user version of Vista on the day it launches. All products in Saitek’s current PC Gaming range will now ship with Vista drivers and existing customers are also able to download Vista drivers for their Saitek games controller from www.saitek.com. Saitek Smart Technology (SST) programming software has also been rewritten to run on PCs with the Vista operating system and we are currently beta testing for imminent release (watch the website for regular updates). Customers who have created their own custom profiles for games in Windows 2000, XP or XP64 will be able to easily convert these to run on Vista and the new SST software by downloading conversion software from www.saitek.com. Commenting on the Vista launch, Richard Neville, Saitek Category Manager for PC Gaming, said: “With the release of Windows Vista we have taken the opportunity to completely rewrite our powerful Saitek Smart Technology programming software from the ground up. This enables us to better account for new changes in operating system and PC technology, as well as including new programming features requested by our existing customers. We will be bringing these new features into the programming software via regular updates over the next few months; Windows XP and XP 64 owners will continue to be supported with these releases too.” For more information on Saitek’s PC Gaming range, please visit www.saitek.com. About Saitek: Saitek designs and manufactures consumer electronics products which work together to improve the user’s multimedia, gaming and communications experiences. Constant innovation, superior technology and a high degree of functionality make Saitek products the choice of computer users around the world. The Saitek product range today includes mice, keyboards, headsets, PC gaming controllers, as well as other PC peripherals. The latest addition is a new family of innovative and practical audio products designed to improve users’ digital entertainment experiences. CombatAce note: the drivers are at ftp://ftp.saitek.com/pub/software/vista/ but the SST software for Vista isn't out yet.

should show up on radar

Got it in 1. These games have a two thread engine if you like. 1 handles the gfx & 1 handles the rest.

http://cplengineeringllc.com/SFP1/Skunworks1.html

& hopefully TK gets to keep more of the proceeds this way.

Robert Burns, the poet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/events/burns/

Erik, seems like the Swedes may be having problems still with dns http://www.simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?...;gonew=1#UNREAD

Burns Night here in Scotland haggis & whisky

nice guy, signed my copy of "When Thunder Rolled"

There is nothing wrong with having a different opinion or arguing that point of view as long as it is done intelligently, civilly & maturely. Indeed discussion is a good thing. Acting like a spoilt kid is not & we may just send offenders to stand in the corner ...

that's always going to be subjective - those that have them seem to think that they are quite an improvement on the standard X52. Saitek have a new driver release due next week & it may also coincide with some more options in their programming software.

well your choices for a combo will probably be TM Afterburner II - cheap if you can find 1, does the job OK but ultimately the most limited in programming Saitek of some sort - X45/X52/X52 Pro - more programmable than the AB II but not as much as the CH/Cougar CH products - very reliable, extremely programmable, TM Cougar - feels good (metal), extremely programmable, may not be the most reliable Having handled all 4 I would say that you can probably narrow it down to the Saitek & CH choices. Imo CH probably have the better stick but Saitek have the better throttle As you're in the US there may not be a massive difference in price between an X52 Pro & a CH setup but an X52 would probably come in well under that.

http://wesleytech.com/plextor-exits-cd-dvd-markets/ Came as a surprise to me but as ODDs become commodities how they could justify the size of the premium over NEC/Samsung etc. drives I don't know. edit: apparently won't affect America http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5826

The X52 pretty much runs up to the red line in terms of power draw available from USB which is why it's not recommended to run from a non self-powered hub - usually the USB ports on the backplane are the best. If your PSU output is starting to decline (as they all do with age) it could possibly not be supplying enough power. Alternatively you could try to roll back to when it was working before or you could try an uninstall/re-install. if you've read www.saitekforum.com then you should be familiar with "First unplug your controllers, click Start>Run and type ny -7 (drivers newer than 4.3.3.1727 ) (case sensitive) and click OK. Now go to Control Panel and run the Add/Remove Programs icon. Remove all Saitek entries in the list of programs and then go to the C:\Program Files directory and delete the Saitek folder. Restart your computer and the files will all be uninstalled. Now browse to your C:\Windows\Inf folder (if you can't see an Inf folder then click Tools>Folder Options at the top of the window, then click View at the top of the window that comes up. In there click the dot next to the Show Hidden Files and Folders option and then click OK - you should now be able to find an Inf folder in the Windows directory) and look for the OEM0.inf file. Find the highest numbered OEMXX.inf file and double click on it - a Wordpad screen will open up with information in it. You're looking for any lines that refer to Saitek (usually at the top of the window). If you don't see any such info close that window and open the next OEMXX.inf file - so if you started on, say, OEM30.inf then you'd now open OEM29.inf. If you find any that refer to us then close the window and delete that OEMXX.inf file along with its accompanying OEMXX.pnf file. Go through all of them until you have deleted any files that mention us. Now do a search for files in Windows using the following search string: sai*.* Once it's finished finding any files delete them - files only though, don't delete any folders. Now restart the PC and then install the X52" Btw Vista drivers are due out next week & i wouldn't be at all surprised if there's an XP update to match.

have you installed the game in a non-default directory? If so can you guide the installer to where it is?