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From Wikipedia: Armament Guns: GSh-23L 23mm gun pod (GP-9). This gun could be carried in one or two PUK-23-250 pods fixed under the external pylons of wings. Bombs: two FAB-500 or four FAB-250 under pylons, two incendiary ZB-500, or two nuclear tactical RN-28. Rockets: various types of rockets (up to 240 mm). Missiles: two anti-ship or air-to-surface Kh-23. Each missile weighed 285 kg, was radiocontrolled and had 10 kilometres of range. The Kh-23 requires a guidance pod on one of the pylons. R-60 or R-60M air-to-air missiles could be carried under the external pylons. Other: external tanks.

What that tells me, is that your graphics adapter is downclocked from the Nvidia reference design. http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8600M.html

CPU-Z has a graphics tab that provides information about the graphics adapter. Make sure that it reports the following: Core Clock (MHz) 600 Shader Clock (MHz) 1200 Memory Clock (MHz) 700 Memory Size 512MB Memory Interface 128-bit

Yak-38 "Forger" model undergoing carrier qualification tests: Yak_Carqual.wmv Short video on the Forger and the Kiev:

Marcelo & Krizis could well decide to release their works for SF1, though SF2 is currently multi-threaded, and the next expansion pack and subsequent patches will expand on this (it will, according to TK, finally utilize all cores of a quad or hexa-core CPU). The Kiev itself weighs in at over 119,000 ploys, and sports 4096x4096 textures (as does the Yak38). So, they're both best run on a 64-bit operating system (better RAM utilization), and a quad-core processor. Even after reducing the textures to .DDS format, they both still place a significant load on the CPU and graphics system.

PCI latency issues. I once experienced this same issue a few years ago, when I was running SF:P1 on a system based on an N-Force chipset. Adjusting the PCI-latency of my video card down from 256 to 64 helped, as did ensuring that my TB Santa Cruz sound card was set at 32. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct04/articles/pcnotes.htm

Strafing run against a floating buzz-saw: The tracer effects are from Stary's WW1 effects pack.

Previous history indicates that this dearth of newbs is normal with TW sims.....the floodgates will reopen as soon as TK releases a new title (or addon).

An aircraft that can be rather easily purchased (used) on the civilian market? No big deal. It's good business.

Oli was an extremely talanted modeler and a good friend, to boot. I recall asking him to map ground object model for me, when he had some free time. Despite his busy schedule, he sent the completed source and .lod files back to me, a scant few hours later! Here's to you, my friend

Since there's no "FE2 Screenshot Thread" (yet), I'd thought that I'd post this here:

My condolences, Ed. to your brother for his selflessness and bravery.

Krizis's Yak-38, onboard MarcFighter's Kiev:

Gee, I don't an issue with that...oh wait.....I know why.....

The engagement radar (sometimes referred to as the "height finder") is the radar that is used provide direct guidance to the missile. In TW-game parlance, it's the "SAM" radar. The acquisition radar's function in real-life, by definition is (as the name implies) to acquire targets based on the bearing info provided by the search radar, and to hand those targets off to the engagement radar. Though there is no object role so defined in the series, ground objects (namely ships) may be equipped with dedicated search, track, and height finder units. MarcFighter's Kiev is an example of this. Erik Gen's Nike site is equipped with all three of the aforementioned radar types.

Those are executable files, not "game engines". To answer your original question (with another question), did you notice the correlation between name length and the file size?

Just as the deep sea fisherman was about to cut the hook from the shark’s wide open mouth and let him go, out jumped a human foot. “Everything was intact from the knee down,” said Bahamian investment banker Humphrey Simmons, “it was mangled, but there was still flesh on the bone.” That ended a day of fishing for Mr Simmons and his two companions who spent most of the morning trying to get away from sharks. It is not clear if the person was dead or alive when eaten by the 12' shark. The shark was caught 38 miles south of New Providence Island last Sunday morning. From the Bahamas Tribune-- Monday, September 06, 2010 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW By EILEEN CARRON By the time the unusually heavy Tiger shark was landed at the Defence Force’s Coral Harbour base and his distended body cut open, the body of a man, minus his head, was found. The leg that the shark had regurgitated was the man’s left leg. Inside was his severed right leg, two severed arms and a torso in two sections. Obviously, as Mr Simmons’ 10-year-old daughter observed, this shark had its prey all to himself. There was no sign that another shark had fought over the body. It is believed that the man had drowned before the shark swallowed him. Fishing from 30' Pursuit Mr Simmons, of Cable Beach, a banker with Xanthos Investment, and his two deep sea fishing companions — Keith Ferguson and Stanley Bernard — left Marshall Road, South Beach before 6am Saturday in Mr Simmons 30-foot Pursuit, “Azulardo.” “We went 35 miles south of Nassau and started fishing about 7:45am,” said Mr Simmons. “After about 45 minutes we pulled up a fish, and a shark took it. “We left the area and went two miles further south and let out the lines again. Keith pulled up his line and before reaching the surface the shark had broken the line.” The weather was calm with winds about 4mph blowing from the southwest. “I always watch that before I go out,” Mr Simmons laughed. Trying to get rid of the sharks, Mr Simmons moved again, this time about two to three miles further south. By then they were about 38 miles from Nassau. “While pulling up my line,” he said, “I noticed that it was extra heavy. I called “Boy” (Stanley Bernard) and asked him to go get the shot gun.” The tiger shark caught on Sunday south of Nassau: Investment Banker Thinks Like the Shark By then the men were fishing in water about 1,000 feet deep. They had decided against landing the shark because there was too much tension on the line. “I then thought about what might have been going through that shark’s mind,” said Mr Simmons. “Usually when you catch a shark on the line, and are pulling him up, when he sees sunlight, he heads back down, and either cuts the line or breaks it. “While pulling him up there was also a grouper on the line, and he was trying to get the grouper, but I had both on my line. He came up with his mouth wide open, but he couldn’t get the grouper because it was also on my line.” As the shark neared the surface, Mr Bernard shot him several times in the head. “We tied the rope around his tail fin, and pulled him towards the boat. Foot in Mouth We were going to cut the hook out of his mouth and let him go when he regurgitated a human foot — intact from the knee down. It was now about 10am.” The men then tried to get BASRA and the Defence Force, but could raise neither — “it was probably because they were out of range for our VHF radio,” Mr Simmons commented. They decided to take the left leg and the shark to Nassau. “There was so much stink coming from the shark’s belly and the belly was so huge that we thought that there might be more bodies inside,” said Mr Simmons. At about 10.30am the men headed for Nassau, dragging the heavy shark behind. About a half hour later they saw a Defence Force boat and flagged it down. The Defence Force’s Enduring Friendship vessel EF-28 pulled up alongside them, heard their story and took the shark on board. It was then about 11.30am when they followed the Defence Force boat to Nassau, arriving at about 12.30pm at the Coral Harbour base. Three Men Missing The shark’s body was offloaded, cut open and inside was the remains of a headless man. Mr Simmons said he was a “black man, of heavy build and heavy structure. He had neither clothes nor any identifying marks.” Police are now awaiting DNA results to tell them if the remains belong to one of three men who are still missing at sea. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force said still reported missing are 62-year-old Frank Brown, Sr, and 47-year-old Delton Newton, who disappeared after their boat experienced engine trouble in waters off Clifton Pier last week. A man who disappeared from a boat in Acklins last week has also not yet been found. However, Mr Simmons said that Mr Frank Brown Jr stopped at his home, looked at the photographs of the body parts and confirmed that they were not those of his father. Source: http://www.boattest.com/resources/view_news.aspx?newsid=4275

As I've mentioned before, it's been a few years since I've had an ATI card in any of my PCs, but yes, I believe that it is, possibly under an "advanced" option.

Just 20 years? "School's Out" was released at the time I was graduating from grammer school, June of 1972. Hell, now that was over 38 years ago...

He also starred in one my favorite pics, "Taras Bulba", with Yul Brenner. He will be missed....

http://www.guru3d.com/article/ati-tray-tools-/

I have not messed with an ATI card in a few years, but off the top of my head, try enabling these settings in the CCP: 1)Geometry Instancing 2)Alternate Pixel Center I used to enable them to allow my x800 series card to play nice with TW's DX9 shaders. Also, are you setting FSAA in the options.ini file? If so, try a value of "4". You could also try enabling the ATI tray tools, and force FSAA & AAF settings in there.