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  1. Posted

    Hellshade, damned straight about the unfriendly skies. I've resorted to watching a bunch of your videos in order to increase my survival chances. They really do illustrate the value of situational awareness at all times. The AI in this sim are absolutley brilliant, extremely unforgiving...to the point of being almost too realistic. And yes Olham, I'm all patched up and enjoying the heck out of this sim, even though I'm getting my ass handed to me a little more often than I'd like.

     

    Cheers Gents!

     

    Parky

  3. Posted

    Cheers guys,

     

    Health problems are under control now. Forty years of smoking will catch up with you eventually though. You'd have to be a complete idiot to think otherwise. Regardless, I got lucky and everything seems to be back in order now. For any of you here that still smoke, try to end the addiction. It's just not worth the impact it'll have on your overall health. Enough preaching for now I figure. 

    Tony, wasn't it you I mailed OFF phase 2 to some years ago?? Pretty sure it was. Somewhere in northern Ontario if I remember correctly. Nevertheless, hope your health issues are also under control, and continue to remain so.

     

    Lou, and Olham. You are without a doubt, two of the finest contributors this forum has ever seen. I've always looked forward to reading your posts.

     

    Mr. Atrill, and Beanie. Thanks for your kind words. Oddly enough Beanie, I have a cat that's named after you... :-)

  4. Posted

    I'm still here. Ran into some health issues a couple of years ago, but still come back just to lurk every once in awhile. Awesome job the team did on the last iteration of this title. Most impressive!!

    To those of you who do remember me, CHEERS! (Especially you, UncleAl) ;-)

     

    Parky

  7. Posted

    HELL EXPLAINED-BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT

     

    The following is an actual question given on a University of Arizona chemistry mid term, and an actual answer turned in by a student.

     

    The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :

     

    Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

     

    Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

     

    One student, however, wrote the following:

    First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely.. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

     

    Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

     

    This gives two possibilities:

     

    1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

    2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

     

    So which is it?

     

    If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct..... ....leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God!!'

  8. Posted

    Hi Mighty,

     

    If your's is the same system I'm thinking of, it does allow for the addition of a PCI-e graphics card. You'd have to pay careful attention to power requirements though. I believe your system has a 280 Watt PSU. That doesn't leave a whole lot of overhead for graphics adapter upgrades without having to upgrade the PSU as well.

     

    And yes, your Intel Graphics are integrated into the processor, so it shares L3 cache memory along with sytem memory. There may be a setting somewhere in your BIOS that allows you to predetermine just how much system memory can be made available for graphics processing.....not really sure without researching it.

     

    Regardless, if at some point down the road (or even now for that matter) the system is struggling with 3D apps, upgrading to some kind of mid-range card should certainly be a viable option. I'm sure some of the guys in here would be able to recommend something suited to your needs.

     

    Cheers,

     

    Parky

  9. Posted · Edited by Parky

    I think that gives me a gig of onboard graphics memory, yes?

     

     

     

    It would appear so....however, the HD Graphics 2000 (which I'm pretty sure is what you have) has no dedicated memory but shares the fast Level 3 Cache with the CPU cores and also part of the main memory.

     

     

     

     

    Any opinions on how far up or down the graphics league this device is?

     

     

     

    Beer league.....as opposed to the NHL (if you're a hockey fan of any sort)

     

     

    Cheers,

     

    Parky

  12. Posted

    Hmmm.....it occurs to me that all that information (particularly an uncompressed video file) being written to the HDD would put a fairly significant load on the CPU. Not that it would really matter with today's central processing units....

     

     

     

    Lou,

     

    Thanks for sharing this tip. I currently have BHaH installed by itself on an SSD. My "C" drive is comprised of four 1T drives in RAID 1-0, which is where FRAPS currently resides. I do have a 36 Gig Raptor with just my paging file on it. I wonder if it'd be worth throwing FRAPS on that drive to see if there'd be any difference?

     

     

    Cheers,

     

     

     

    Parky

  13. Posted · Edited by Parky

    Doctor Quest, I can't run the BhaH install as an admin because I can't get it installed. It locks up and says there is a file that it is trying to extract that is encrypted. I have to assume it's a CFS3 file.

     

     

    Warren

     

     

     

    First of all, Bitlocker would only be present on your system if you had Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise. I doubt this is the case. You're probably running a different version.

     

     

     

    When you say you can't run the BHaH install as an Admin because you can't get it installed, this is a bit confusing. What has been suggested is that you make sure you are either LOGGED IN as administrator prior to the install, or right-click the installation executable and choose "Run As Administrator" from the dropdown menu.

     

    It would probably also be prudent to disable ANY and ALL Anti-virus/Malware utilities you may have running when you attempt the install, just in case one of them is causing the issue, regardless of your previous success.

     

     

     

    HTH

     

     

     

    Parky

  16. Posted

    Here are our two kids....um....cats I mean.

     

     

     

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    Spooky is the grey one. Rescued him from a shelter when he was about 2 months old. He seems to think he's a dog. He's always bringing slippers downstairs and presenting them to us as some sort of gift. The other one is Sasha. Bought her from a breeder. She's Balinese, which is basically a Siamese variant with longer fur, a bushier tail and a much softer voice than the traditional Siamese. Although her voice is softer, she uses it at every opportunity. She'll literally carry on a conversation with me that goes on as long as I respond to her, and just like a typical female, she always has to have the last meow.

     

     

    Both fabulous, intelligent and good natured souls, and both spoiled rotten. Wouldn't trade either of 'em for all the tea in China.

     

     

     

    Cheers,

     

     

     

    Parky

  18. Posted · Edited by Parky

    I'm morrrrre interrrrrested in finding the girrrrl who does the voice-overrrrrs with those rrrrreally irrrrrrritating, rrrrrrollling RRRRRRR's. If I do find herrrrrrr......I'm going to shoot herrrrrrr in the fekkin' thrrrrrrroat with a firrrrre arrrrrow.

  21. Posted

    Well, after reading the very positive feedback from some of our most well respected forum members, I went out and picked this title up. I must say I'm entirely impressed. After having played for only a few hours, I did learn one extremely valuable lesson and thought I'd share it for the benefit of anyone else who's entirely new to the game. If you're looking to increase your archery skills, the woolly mammoth is certainly not your best choice for target practice....

     

    shok.gif

     

     

     

  23. Posted

    Parky, that would be a great pleasure for me!

    You are always very helpful with computer advice here, so yeah, a skin it will be.

     

    Name the aircraft type and squadron, and your ideas for emblems, stripes or whatever;

    desired colour etc. and I will do my best!

     

    That is awfully kind of you, old chap, but there's no need for you to go out of your way. Was just having a bit of fun with you mostly, but I'm very appreciative of the offer.

     

    Once again, the generosity and kindness of the people on this forum never ceases to amaze....good.gif

     

    Cheers,

     

    Parky

     

     

     

  24. Posted

     

    I asked if someone would send me a Phase 2 DVD copy. Of course there were

    hardly any Germans then - but TYPHOON from Canada (I'll never forget that, man!)

    was really generous: he sent it and payed the delivery (I made him a skin in return).

     

     

    :drinks:

     

    And Typhoon wouldn't have been able to do that if I hadn't mailed him a DVD before that.......soooo.....you owe me a skin, ya' bastard. grin.gif

     

    Cheers Mate,

     

    Parky

     

     

     

     

     

     

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