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I finally made it to your neck o' the woods, from Las Vegas. Getting bounced around in a 172 on AP for three stinkin' hours.... Does Clark Kent still work here? I thought that they tore this puppy down? Wishful thinking, weather-wise, at KSMO (I know, I know, I'm gonna burn in hell) Look! An industrial complex!

Streak, you guys stay safe. Having gone through Sandy and its aftermath, I was lucky in that the biggest issue that I faced was loss of power and heating for most of the week. I had to stay at my place of employment for three days and nights. It took my state's DOT at least 6 days before traffic signals were put back in operation. Some, like my friend Doc, were not so lucky. His home was destroyed (flood waters peaked at his first floor ceiling), and it took almost two and half years of fighting with insurance companies before it was rebuilt.

This guy is a former Microsoft developer. If you are a Windows 10 user, you should watch this.

First off, there's a couple of misconceptions here. The series is CPU-bound if one sets the horizon draw distance too far. Pull that back to "normal" and check again. Also, being a 32-bit game, SF2 is limited to a 4 GB block of memory. To be truthful, I have never seen it exceed 2.5 GB. Also, you will not see any gain in FPS with more than 8 GB of system RAM, even under Windows 10. Search on Youtube, and you'll find videos that will bear this out. I run 16 GB in my system because I encode video and audio, and the apps that I use for both are 64-bit, so they are not subject to the 32-bit, 4 GB memory space limitation. In performing experiments with various overclocks (CPU speeds), I've come to the conclusion, that to avoid massive slowdowns in frame rate, one needs in the neighborhood of 4 gHz of processor speed when running the more intensive scenarios (heavy SAM & triple AAA activity over Hanoi, etc), and a bare minimum of 1 GB of dedicated video RAM on either an Nvidia or AMD graphics card. 2 GB is better, and 4 GB of VRAM is probably the maximum that the game will utilize in its current state of development. Another issue, that was brought up, was Anti-aliasing, Anisotropic filtering, and other settings. I can get away with maxing all these out on a GTX 1070, and I suspect that those with (6 GB) GTX 1060s will be able to this, as well. However, there are settings in the Nvidia control panel that will adversely effect your framerates, without providing any real benefits, or worse yet, no benefits at all. We should perform a test on all these, and then compare results. As Gunrunner mentioned, we're also looking at code that was already old several years old when the series was released in 2003, and upgraded in 2008 to use DX10 (SF2).

Would you believe sustained flight at 42,000 ft asl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgp5qel1VUk

Just look at what 970s are still selling for. I am sure that you recall them being about $325-$360 two years ago. Back in the day, I picked up a GeForce 3 for about half its original selling price, only 10-12 months after that series was released. Out of curiosity, what sort of lifespan are you getting out of UPS batteries?

FSXWX is a great freeware weather engine. It's far more capable and accurate than the default WX engine in SFX. On the tarmac at KBLM (Monmouth Executive airport). Picked a helluva day to go aviating... Heading NE, somewhere over NWS Colts Neck.

GTX 1070 here, no issues in SF2 using the latest drivers.

Hmmmmm.....how about the Kresta II, the container ships, the tanker......

At least three of them have been in the downloads section for several years, now.

In my experience, both in the office and as a freelance tech-support specialist, I find Microsoft Security Essentials to be as useful as a coat rack in a nudist colony. I would rather see you go with an AV suite along the lines of ESET NOD32, whose effectiveness I can personally vouch for (just ask Kevin, AKA Wrench).

The view is centered on the zero-point of the flight model. I recall Armour Dave's Su-17 suffering from a similar issue, until the flight model was revised.

HDDs have become so inexpensive, that PC enthusiasts don't really care about large game installs anymore. I mean, one can purchase a decent 1 TB HDD for under $70 US, and 2 TB drives for not much more than that. Many are moving to (or, are planning to move to) SSDs as their dedicated OS drives, and relocating all of their apps to larger 1 - 4 TB HDDs. Even some gaming notebooks have been going this route for the last couple of years.

Static thrust is just one variable. Engine altitude tables, engine efficiency tables, drag tables, and whatever your loadout is at the at time, all play a role in how an aircraft model accelerates.

Passing over the old USCG air station at Floyd Bennett field, Brooklyn, en route to NY harbor.

Dude, that sucks. You'll be in my thoughts and prayers,

Outbound traffic in Ambrose channel, just east of Sandy Hook, NJ

Has anybody given any thought to creating a VM on their Windows 7/8/10 box, and then try installing Windows 98 onto that VM, to run older games?

Is that King Kong that I see off to my left?

I have treated my system to a few more upgrades over the course of the last week. First, I added a CyberPower 1500 watt UPS to protect my investment from the numerous brownouts and power surges that we experience here during bad weather. Then, I decided that it was time to upgrade my graphics card and the OS drive: Of course, just for grins, I bench marked both against their predecessors. In the case of the mechanical HDD, I used the non-OS saves drive, a 1 TB, 7200 RPM WD "blue" drive, that was identical to the one that held the OS. As you can see, it performed exceptionally well for a mechanical drive (benchmark performed with CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2, all settings at software defaults) : Now let's compare that score to the Crucial MX300 525 MB SSD. Again, the test was performed with default settings in CrystalDiskMark: What benchmarks cannot do, is show one how fast and smooth the system becomes once you've made the switch to an SSD. My system now goes from initial OS load to a usable desktop in just under 9 seconds. Next, let's compare graphics cards, using FutureMark's Firestrike benchmark. First up, the tried and true GTX 750ti that served me well for the last two years: And hers's the GTX 1070's score:

It is download only through Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/app/420440

For $9.99 US, it is an absolute bargain.

Well, I purchased the Asus MX279 at Best Buy. They were able to price-match Amazon. I've had it for about a week now, and I am satisfied with its image and build quality.It also has two HDMI inputs, so it allows me to run both my laptop and deskstop simultaneously (trying to view spreadsheets on a 14" laptop display is a sure-fire recipe for eye strain).

According to TK, none of the Thirdwire titles support SLI. As a side note, I was recently watching a video review on the latest (1000 series) Nvidia cards, and the reviewer opined that this may be the last generation of cards that supports SLI.