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i belive the tr_smoke entries in your effects.xml are the black smoke trails, and the air_fire_gastank entries are you flaming engines. You cant edit the dds effects files they call, and to be honest,,i think you would go nuts trying to figure out, first,,,which entry is the one you want to edit,,and second, what changes to make to get the desired results. if it bothers you that much,,,stop shooting down planes.....

sorry von paulus, i didnt notice that the link for the mission i used didnt take. Its just a take off from one of the bases in dover england. lotta trees there, and a nice large town if you want to see the effects of alot of houses low. something near albert would do just as well

maybe he "tossed" the bomb?

Ok..think you missed the point.... I am not recommending settings...within reason what works for someone with systemA will not work with someone with systemB. What i am recommending is a proceedure for each individual pilot to determine what settings are best for them, and that proceedure is to make one change at a time, write down the change they made, play the game, and write down the result of the change. admittedly, I think if enought ati users try this, they will find with the exception of the dual pass render, the default settings in cfs3config overides and texture info will yeild the best gameplay/fps. I dont have nvidai, so cant comment on what settings might be best for them, but the proceedure would still apply. as far as the other settings, i used ccc for aa (16x edge detect), and have res set to medium in workshop this is the mission i used to check my game/fps after making each change on the ground, 60fps ( i used to be lucky if i got 20 here) skimming very low over alot of trees

sorry,,not here, but then i have that mapped to a joystick button... maybe you didnt hit both at the same time,,,even thou you thout you where. I always get that split second pause when i take a screen shot...

Dej,,,love the "banner"

Anyone up for anything tonight, i should be online around 7ish edt. Have a mission i flew that was fun, and still have a dogfight mission i want to run again./

Better you than me....

great,,,rear gunners....

HIR is avalable on dvd isnt it? (minor shipping cost involved im sure)

well..keep in mind i dont generally use the word "only" and "$1000.00" in the same sentence too often,,,, but,,the projectors i was looking at are around 999.00 now.. compare that to lets say 600 bucks for a medium size lcd tv,,,or what you have to spend to get 3 monitors for a 3head setup, and imho it gets pretty close to being cost efficicnt. I just dont know how good the game would look....

anyone done the home theater pojection route? I noticed they are up to 1920 x 1080 resolution now gotta belive this game on a 109 inch screen (and possible curved a little for some periphial vision) would be great.

wow,,now aint that strange!!!

Never seen this kind of damage before, and its pretty cool. Was caused by a collision. I lost the Lower canvas on a section of my right wing, and one aileron.

no right airlon, and 6 feet of my lower wing missing, and i still got a named ace. just couldnt land it.

That also sounds good to me. I know this may be a different subject, but, if at all possible, when in advanced search, it would be nice if the catagory selections actually worked... I can never get the catagory option to work. If i search for Fokker dr1 in over flanders fields skins downloads, i get results from all forums,,and all posts...

I have ati, so not sure if this is going to apply to you. Hopefully someone is sending me a Brand new nvidia (it wont fit in his case lol), so i can test this out on another card. the process involves alot of starting and stopping the game, alot so recommend you navigate to your cfsww1 directory and find your cfs3.exe, and make a shortcut to it on the desktop, then you wont have to start from the off manager every time. this is what i did on my computer. reset your cfs3config to default, then make only one change, set your resolution to whatever it is you want. if possible,,reset your nvidaia control panel to default (assuming you know what settings you prefer in the nvidia control panel) run the game, with lables off..tack off,,hud off, and look at your frame rates, write them down. got back to cfs3config, and make one change,,uncheck dual pass render,,the play the game again, and look at the framrate to check if it got better or worse. then keep up this process,,starting with your sliders first, I did mine one slider,,,on click at a time, but if your not patient, you could accelerate the process... do your plane slider, then your effects slider, then your clouds slider, just make sure you play the game after each setting change, and write down the results. when you do your scnery and terraind sliders, i would use the one click at a time. I found these are the ones that have the biggiest impact on fps. If you see a change in settings that makes your fps drop too much, go back and change it back. after sliders are done, make your overide settings on setting at a time, and again play the game, and write down the effect of fps then your texture info... when i did this on my computer, i found the ONLY recommended setting that improved my fps was the unchecking dual pass render box. All the other recommended tweaks dropped my fps, and gave me no noticable improvement in the game. after i was finished with cfs3config, i went back to my video card control panel, and set all my settings to high, and my fps still stayed at where it was. should you do this, would be interested in what results you got,, if the process only happens to apply to me, will stop bothering ppl with this ....lol