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new system.....e8500 @ 3.16, 8gig ram,,,,ati4870 just messing around have settings at 1600 by 1200 and sliders at 5-5-5-5-4 (thats up from 5-2-2-1-1 on the old one) but would like to know what ppl think i should do in the catalyst control center,,,and bout all i know to ask right now..is that if i let the application set the antialisiang,,,what should i set it to in the config file,,,,,think its on 2 now..(or should i set it in the control center...) is there a place for fsaa settings? want the maximum amount of quality, before the tradeoff in performance degrades the game play thanks......

it could be that if your processor was the "weak link" then upgrading the video card would not have improved anything.... But, you would have to put your old card back in, and see how it did on that new flat screen, before you could say the 4870 did not improve anything,,,, Before i had to reload my os, i was getting 50-60 fps onna 21 crt,,,(1600x1200), gotta 24 in lcd (1920 or something like that x1080), and my fps dropped.... lol..and no meatlocker,,,just a bakery,,,..and stock cooler,,,,,,i would zip back into the ccc center to check temp after playing,,,and never say much above 47.... cant see it dropping from 80 to 47 that fast,,(could be wrong)..... But ambient temp is important,,,if its hot as hell inside your case,,,your card is gonna run hotter.. and,,,exactly what is this??? "installing a cat flap on mightysrc's PC" I have no idea what a cat flap is...

Fps is just plain overated.... If, at 15 fps you dont like the way the game looks, then yes,,something might need to be tweaked,,,or upgraded... My game plays GREAT,,but for whatever reason, my fps rarely gets above 27,,30.... And i did waste alot of time trying to get the 40-50 fps ppl where saying they got,,, Finally realised i should just stop hitting that stupid z key, and just enjoy how good the game was playing.. I have the asus 4870, and have never seen my card go over 47c,,,nor have i ever seen the fan over 17%... but i do have a huge case,,,with 2 enormouse intake fans,,and 2 exhaust fans...

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if there is a walmar near you,,,they have a cyber acoustics combo headpones/mic for 18 bucks.... and,,if you could post the link for the page about the z key i would like to see it.

cool! whats the prize???

that sounds like just a directx test.....not really anything to do with game.... if you can get on teamspeak...post a time here....and i will try and get on with u

go to here,,and follow the instructions for teamspeak.....http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=38466 its 6 here now....3 your time,,and i am on teamspeak,,so if you get on,,,we can communicate...maybe in chat,,,but if you get a mic thats better

Multiplayer has undoubtedly been an uphill batlle, but with talented and constuctive ppl like stumpjumper around, there is little doubt that it eventually it will get point where it belongs.... great job stump....

start>programs>accesories>windows explorer (and i would make a shortcut for it on the desktop,,,,) when explorer opens up,,click on the plus sign next to my computer... then click on the plus sigh to the left of your c drive then click on the plus sign next to documents and settings...then the plus sign for administrator (or your user name), then application data...then microsoft... now dbk click on the folder under microsoft called combat filight simulator 3, and the contents of that folder will be displayed on the right hand pane... if you find that file,,,you might be able to RIGHT click on it,,,and select comprese to xxxxxxxx.rar and email... and, i dont think it would help to patch....whatever problems would just be carried over.. and noticed there is a file in mine called defaultoverides.xml....tell me if you have that file....if so,,,you may be able to make a copy of it,,,and rename it configoverides.xml,,,,and it might just work...

Glad to have you back... hope you find the time for some new missions!!!

just reread your post.... have you ever run the 3.1 update for cfs3, or you never get to the point where you can...

lol...well...right now i rate that other game a -1..onna scale from 1 to 10 was going to send you my configoverides file, but i dont think that would help,,,but here is where it is suppose to be.... c:\documents and settings\xxxxxxx\applicationdata\microsoft\combat flight simulator 3 if you DO have it here,,,,attach it to an email,,,and send to donald@tollhousebakery.com would like to look at it... if there is something there that looks like it,,but has a bkp extension,,,,let me know.. 3 hours off between you and me...so you let me know some times that might be good for you,,,and ill do my best to make them...

carrick,,, at some point in time,,i gotta unistall and reinstall my cfs3 and bhah cause somethign obviously went astray... if you want to get teamspeak,,and a mic,,,maybe we can do it at the same time,,,..im boston (edt) you installing from cd....and if so,,,is a cd patched to 3.1 already? or do you have the dvd,,,,(im begining to wish i had the dvd)

Same thing happened to me,,,not sure if its for the same reason,,, but things went wrong for me with cfs3,,,,,and i cant remember if all this happened the first time i installed everything (had to reload os due to worm,,,and lost all).. First think it does is tell me the cfs3 installer not for xp64...but clicking ok lets it go ahead and install anyways.. When i did my 3.1 upgrade,,,it asked if i wanted to backup my old config,,,or something like that,,and pretty sure i said no....and somewhere during the upgrade it gives me a message about finding an old file...so it couldnt update .....didnt write it down (stupid...),,so not really sure... Anyways,,,when installing bhah,, got the same messages as you, so went looking for that file...pretty sure you mean the cfs3configdatabase.txt... I didnt have that file in cfs3,,but i did have a cfs3configdatebasetxt.bkp (backup file),,,so i renamed it to .txt,,,and bhah installed fine.. only problem i am having is that fps in both cfs3 and bhah seem to be capped at around 20....and thats even at the start up (ie,,game hasnt even started yet)...i used to be gettin 60fps when i just started the game... but,,,assuming this is the same as you,,,i would look for that file that got renamed a .bkp file,,,and rename it to the original..(ie,,just take out the .bkp) hope this helps

In case it hasnt been posted yet,,,adjust your view with the mouse,,and pageup,page down etc keys, then hit f10 (save view),,,,,then track ir seems to work fine...least for me...

find your obd software /cfswwi directory, and locate your cfs3config.exe. suggetst you make a shortcut for it on the desktop, so you can get to it easily. open cfs3config,,and click on file,,,,change display options,....this is where you enter resoulution for the game,,,,, that file is in both cfs3, and bhah,,,,each one effects the corresponding game.... Did you get any strange messages during your cfs3 install?

Ok,,,now how about reinstalling off3 with bhah already installed? Only reason i ask is I had cfs3 and bhah installed and didnt need cd,,,had to uninstall/reinstall cfs3, and when i was finished,,,bhah needed cd,,,and,,i wasnt gettting the insert cd message,,i was getting some funky error message... just something to think about before you put cfs3 back on..

no..but if you post your location, someone close by will send you the discs

quick update,,, worm came back on computer, so decided to reinstall os... got to part where you put the floppy in for raid drivers and floppy is nfg... mfg site for drivers i need has been down for almost 2 days now,,,,, so,,,will get back on when i can,,,

Aside from the facts it comes on june 21 ( i hate it when the days start getting shorter..),,,,hope everyone has a nice relaxing farthers day!

would guess there is no reason to install off until you have cfs3 installed and running. System specs on the surface dont seem to be the problem, as ive run cfs3 on much slower computers.. not saying its definatly not the computer, but doesnt seem like it. Can only suggest some things,,,have no idea if they will work... if you are doing full install, try the small install... before you run cfs3, navigate to the cfs3config file in your cfs3 folder and either do the tweaks for the cfs3config suggested here, or, in overides, there is a safemode,,(have never tried this, so dont have a clue what it does) and i would turn sliders in cfs3config down all the way at first...as well as screen resolution...see if you can get it running, then bring it up slowly http://www.com-central.net/index.php?name=...topic&t=118 If none of this helps,,,get teamspeak, and will try and get on with you some nite to help...

You could very will be correct. Now i remeber getting my dad an addon video card so he could have the 3dfx, and you had the video out from the first card go into a video in on the addon, (this is all outside the case),,,,,and your video out came off the addon card, but didnt know that was considered "sli"...