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now you know why my good computer is at work.......

siggi and homeboy,,,havnt heard a peep from them in quite a while....

cb, not sure if this has any bearing at all..but noticed that the detail on you plane is also off a bit. tried to duplicate your shot was wondering if one setting somewhere was effecting both...

thing that pops out to me is your video....256 is not going to cut it...... and you have 2 pcie16 slots, so the mother board supports two video cards hooked toghether, but imho, with a 2.8gig procesor, you would be wasting money going this route, One good video card is going to make your processor work hard enough Hopefully you will get more suggestions, so you can weigh everyones opionion, personaly, i would go into cfs3config,,and disable scenery for mp. And, not even sure if that will allow you to run at anything higher than 5-2-2-2-1 Did you do all the tweaks that are suggested for all the other cfs3config settings? (overides, textures) Naturally, if a new video card is in the budget,,,,I would consider going that route... but like i said,,,hopefully ppl with more knowledge will offer more suggestions.

maybe should remove this thread,,,,and replace with madmats installer? could be confusing to new pilots

lol...well...why dont we make an effort to get around 20 ppl on at once,,,and see if we all get a plane,,,, whats the name of that game,,,,,u know,,when the music stops,,,everyone dives for a chair???

ras...see u at the bottom of the post here,,,so i will put it back up and leave it up for a while,,but i gotta move the compter to make some room for work later

ras,,,,just in case you have the time this afternoon,,im gonna put a mp game,,,98.110.234.111 I dont have the time to play, so will just land you will need the matmat installer, (ie correct gotha and zepplin) If you do try, let us know how you made out

well...lets hope we get an answer... But, thinking about it more, you know how when you get a new player in dogfight, just to show them how to connect and such, and u usually start flying in formation, or flying a river or road low..., and it seems like you can do that for hours, and not see anything strange...... Is it the quick sudden movement of the planes, the guns firing that brings on the strange flying?

have you tried fertilyzer? a good 40-10-10 might help....

wallymart,,,,18.00,,,cyberacoustics...has a mute button, and volume control,,,and is pretty lite...

Eric had some suggestions as too how to improve mp. The one that we have the most control over is his recommndation that fps in mp is capped. We should try and determine to what extent that impacts game play, and if we observe a noticable change, consider asking madmat to add the editing of that file to his installer. Naturally one of the other considerations for good mp game play is everyones connection, but personally, would hate to see it get to the point where we are weeding out pilots cause they do not have access to a super fast connection speed.

If i didnt know better,,,id say someone copied an old thread from soh and pasted it in here....

Joker, if you get a chance,,,,post your computer specs...there has to be a reason why your fps is dropping that low,,, i didnt think anyone played on a computer as slow as i had at home, and i dont ever get as low as you where getting..

Eric, Wish i knew more about servers and such, but i dont. Not sure what you have in mind, let alone what is possible, but going to assume that you plan to just host a multiplayer game, and pilots can join and leave as they wish. The other scenario would be you setting up something along the same lines as the old cfs3 servers, and pilots would host their own games, but now they show up on that server list window, and pilots can join in that way. Assuming we are talking about the first way, (you hosting),,I would suggest you poll the pilots, to see what the general consenses is for "realism" settings, as they effect the game play more than anything. This is where you select such things as unlimited ammo,,fuel,,,allow or disallow targetting aids, external views... Will try and put up a screen shot later of the window, so you have a better idea of what i am talkinng about. Also have to make sure that the time advance is disabed,,,other wise someone somewhere is going to be getting on when its always 3am in the morning,,,,and its pitch dark. And, as long as your bending arms,,,,bend someone's really good and get an answer to this question.......In mp dogfight, and team dogfight, planes spin as the fly, not unusual to have the plane in front of you flying backwards...its also not unusual to have a plane in front of you, with your finger getting ready to squeeze the trigger only to have the same plane tear you up to shreds,,,,ie,,from your perspective they where in front of you, and from thier perspective, you where in front of them,,,and unfortunaly, they were right... switch to a mp mission, and 99% of this goes away. THere has to be a difference from the "engine" that dogfigts use, and missions use. Have to admit i am using terms here that i have no clue what they really mean.... Will try and get a short fraps up to show you what i mean. Hope this provides some help..

damn uk...what took u so long,,,,,we've been trying to hook up with you for a long time now!!! And what do you know,,,just like the brits,,,trying to get all of Europe to gang up on the Americans.... We're gonna kick your butts......

now u know why we call him ax....

lol... rooster,,,i do that ALL the time...i mean,,,damn,,i beats just sitting inna chair and listening to everyone talk.,.. But good points ax... We are not a "strict" group by any means,,,and its still more important to us to get a new player up and running than it is to start a session,,just need everyone to understand with everyones cooperation in some areas...things will go smoother,,,

lol..so what was your first clue joker,,,,when you were shooting it up and not getting hits,,,or was it when you hit the water?