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Stumbled across RadeonPro (not sure how I missed it before), which made it pretty easy to apply a custom overclock for DCS World. Went from 2.9ghz to 3.4ghz and bumped by GPU clock up to 900mhz from 800mhz, and I now get between 20-30 fps in the campaign missions (pretty stable), with some occasional dips, but very playable overall! Haven't seen anything threatening in terms of temps so far. Can't wait for EDGE to see what that does...

Hmmm... Well, I guess I should have played around with DCS World a little more before I pulled the trigger on FC3. Oh well. Hopefully there will be some performance optimization at some point (sooner would be better, at least with EDGE, I hope...). In the mean time I reinstalled FC2, and, once I force some MSAA and AF through CCC, it looks pretty good. That will do for now.

Nah, my laptop is fine. No spyware or clutter. 500GB HD is less than half full. I read threads like this one and get the feeling that it's not just me or my laptop: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=101491 Those are the kind of FPS issues I see. Solid 30fps then I look in a certain direction or someone blows up (or something happens that I don't even see or know about) and things drop to 15. That kind of stuff. I just thought I'd ask here. I know Dave was using an Alienware laptop at one point. I was interested in how it was holding up...

Are you guys seeing lower FPS than what you used to see? I made up my mind to buy FC3 based on the performance I was seeing in the SU-25T in DCS World last summer, but now with FC3 my FPS in the A-10A is kinda sucky. I've been having to dial the graphics down, with mixed/minimal results. When I bought this laptop a couple of years ago, I got lots of feedback from folks with A-10C that it would handle it no problem. I don't know if I got some bum advice or if performance has really just gotten that much worse.

Took a few months hiatus from flight sims, but I'm back! And my first ever LOMAC/FC A to A kill!

I finally decided to grab FC3. I was going to a few months back as soon as it was "released", but that got pushed back and my money went elsewhere. But after seeing the "The Valley" video AAR's at SHQ by Bunyap (BTW, is that the WoX "06 Weps Pack" Bunyap?) and seeing that the price might jump at initial release, I decided to grab it. Just got it installed last night but haven't played yet. Are there any good servers for casual multiplayer? PS - Holy cow. Second post since October. My how things have changed...

So... a Chinese pilot landed a Soviet plane on a Soviet ship that had Chinese sailors on it?

CHAMPS!!!

I honestly don't know if I'd be interested in SF3, even if he made it...

Mechwarrior Online. Enters open Beta next Tuesday!

Hum baby!

I actually feel the opposite. I don't like the robots that look like people in fancy suits of armor. I like my robots to look like big, slow, awkward, walking tanks. The Timberwolf is my all time favorite.

Never been much of a sci-fi guy, but I've always loved giant, laser-wielding robots. Some shots from a match this morning.

This is a 3rd party addon. So the question about whether or not it fits should go to the developer, not ED.

Obviously it would be a little more work for you, wrench, but I do like the idea of a sticky thread in the general discussion forum (or wherever) where the first and only post has the download link for each piece. The post could be edited each time a new piece is uploaded. That would make it very quick and easy to ensure one has everything released to date...

Downloaded and played the first "mission". Pretty good for a phone game!

That's a bummer.

If it's a stock weapon, you'll need to extract weapondata.ini from the appropriate .cat file. Then you'll need to use that to create a 2BR.ini and a 2BR_Data.ini files, increase load limit, diameter limit, and length limit so that it allows the weapons you want (you may have to look up those weapons in weapondata.ini to see what you have to change the values to). Then you can drop your modified 2BR (both files listed above in a folder named "2BR") in you weapons folder in you mod folder and you're good to go. Have a look through the knowledgebase section, as it should provide some stuff that can help you figure out how to do this. Also download a 3rd party weapon from here (or an aircraft with some weapons) so you can see how to structure the modified weapon. These will help: http://combatace.com/topic/62302-what-is-the-mod-folder/ http://combatace.com/topic/44027-extracting-files-from-sf2-series-cat-files-by-migbuster/ http://combatace.com/topic/39282-sf2-weapon-layout/

You were on the right track here. You have to edit the 2BR that you're trying to use. Increase the length, diameter, and/or weight limits as neccessary to allow the weapons you want.

That would certainly be interesting...