Parky

First time I ever saw a bobbing head was in the back seat of a '63 Chevy....

http://www.drawastickman.com/ Cheers, Parky

How the hell did I miss one of Simon's posts??? I'm sooooo ashamed......:suicide2:

Gulllwing, Glad to hear your setup is working properly for you now. As far as avoiding the smoking crater phenomenon, I'm still working on that one. The only solution that's worked for me so far is leaving the aircraft in the hangar..... Cheers Mate, Parky

Hi Gullwing, I ran into some similar issues not too long ago. It took a while, but I finally got it sorted after carefully reading through the info here: http://overflandersf....com/FAQ.htm#A8 Hope it's of some use to you. Btw....Welcome to the OFF forums! Cheers, Parky

Free? I like free......because I can always afford it.

Probably better off with Metal Drift......10 bucks on Steam (If you like piloting a hovercraft with laser cannons and s**t....lol). You'll see my server up there every once in awhile......

Simon, I won't be flying to the UK anytime soon. I'm not so sure I like the idea of you doing a "Bag check" on me.......... Cheers Mate, Parky

Indeed.......now we wait until he gets his badge that says "Access All Areas Of Any Passenger"

Outstanding!! Couldn't have happened to a nicer chap.......just remember to behave yourself around those X-ray machines. Cheers, Parky

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14428377 I particularly like her Teddy Bear's bomber jacket.... Cheers, Parky

Hmmmm, Safe to assume that nobody except my friend Olham thought the teddy bear was all that cute then?? As Slartibartfast has so succinctly pointed out, Myrtle and her bear could have wound up eating a sidewinder. The seriousness of the incident didn't escape me at all actually, and it was one of the reasons I felt the article was worth sharing. I do love your clip though, Olham. I've always been a big sucker for teddy bears in general. Long live Winnie The Pooh.....and Rupert!!! Cheers, Parky

Olham, I'm still trying to figure out how Javito's pilot has been alive for 150 hours. I'm lucky if I can get a pilot to survive 17. I've only managed to do that once so far......and that was while being extremely cautious about which battles I willingly took on. Cheers, Parky

Doc..........erm.....ummm....I mean Al.... It's a rotten Sunday......I'm still off for two weeks. My bride of 30 years has to go back to work. Kinda' sux.......she's become a bit of a soulmate. Dunno wtf I'll do without her for the next couple of weeks. Cheers, Parky

I particularly like how the author of that article is candid enough to indicate that "There is quite a variety of ideas on this subject....". Without having done so, he'd be less than honest. I've read until my eyes were ready to fall out, about all the positive results you'll realize by manipulating the paging file area on your storage devices. I've also read about 1559 methods you could use to achieve a state of paging file nirvana. I've also experimented with it to a fair degree. My conclusions?? Simple....and I hate to sound like a broken record, but from my experience, the real tangible and positive results you'll see are negligible. Certainly not worth the time required to go through the diagnostics routines it takes to actually "optimize" the "paging" process. If I was running a Pentium II with 128 meg of RAM, and had rusty IDE cables connected to a hard drive that's platters spun at 33 1/3rd RPM, I might consider devoting further time to it.. On my current hardware and Windows 7-64Bit configuration, it's just not worth any consideration. I think most people with modern hardware and operating systems, should find that by letting Winblows manage those aspects of their hardware/software interactions, they'll have far more time for just gaming. It's a fascinating topic I suppose, but one that can also raise debates that seemingly could go on for an eternity. Why??? Simple.....because there is no real "set method" of optimizing page file operations on any given machine without the need for some very time consuming experimentation and fine-tweaking. Not from what I've read anyway, and certainly not from my own experience. As far as I'm concerned, it just ain't worth the time or effort.....lol. Not that I don't enjoy the more "technical" aspect of the thread, it's just that I don't feel a need to impress anyone here in particular......except may you, Doc. Cheers, Parky

I'm sure that'll provide Winder, Pol and the rest of the crew with the kind of positive reinforcement they need to make sure Phase IV is released with absolutely no flaws at all. Welcome to the Forum Cheers, Parky

Always my pleasure to increase someone else's workload....... Allow me to offer my humble assistance. The guy I'm about to quote seems to have some insight.... Thanks to Matt Woodward of Ars Technica for that bit of info. It makes a reasonable amount of sense to me... Cheers, Parky

Paulo, Here's a perfect example of that hypothesis from yet another website where the author is supposed to be some kind of expert when it comes to this sort of thing. Should the file be left on Drive C:? The slowest aspect of getting at a file on a hard disk is in head movement (‘seeking’). If you have only one physical drive then the file is best left where the heads are most likely to be, so where most activity is going on — on drive C:. If you have a second physical drive, it is in principle better to put the file there, because it is then less likely that the heads will have moved away from it. If, though, you have a modern large size of RAM, actual traffic on the file is likely to be low, even if programs are rolled out to it, inactive, so the point becomes an academic one. If you do put the file elsewhere, you should leave a small amount on C: — an initial size of 2MB with a Maximum of 50 is suitable — so it can be used in emergency. Without this, the system is inclined to ignore the settings and either have no page file at all (and complain) or make a very large one indeed on C: My question is, does this "theory" hold water, and if so, is it proprietary to Windows XP only or is it also applicable (if it's applicable at all...lol) to later operating systems? In this instance, the author seems to think assigning a small but "dynamic" pagingfile on the C drive is the way to go....interesting to say the least. Cheers, Parky

I have to admire your more clinical and less empirical approach to compiling data and end results. If the end result is a 14% improvement, then I wouldn't even bother "trying to figure out why the last 1-1/2% improvement occurred". I'd also take each and every one of those relevant, but differing opinions as to why that happened with a grain of salt. If the results speak for themselves, just enjoy the benefits. The hard work has been done...you've earned the reward. As far as defragging a RAID-10 array is concerned, I've never really considered it. When I analyze the array using the built in Windows 7 utility (yeah...I know it sux), it tells me there's no need to defrag, and that fragmentation is below 2%. If I ever experience any performance degradation at all, I may just take a crack at it with UltraDefrag. I doubt there's an option to perform the operation any differently than you would with a regular drive (although I haven't checked yet), as Windows itself sees the array as a single volume. One thing I'd like your opinion on, Doc. Some people recommend leaving a small but static pagingfile area on your system drive even if you are going to assign your main pagingfile to secondary drive. Any thoughts on this?? It's always confused the hell out of me... Cheers, Parky

Ok, Just to get back to the more technical aspect of this thread, I have four 1T drives in a RAID-10 ( I just like that kind of redundancy....it saves me a lot of fekkin' headaches) *that comment was just for UncleAl*. The pagefile for that array resides on a 36 Gig Raptor........the pagefile and nothing else. Old habits are hard to break....lol. I also have an 80 Gig SSD where OFF and a couple of other "texture load intensive" programs reside. I could probably move that pagefile on the Raptor back to the "C" drive, let Winblows 7 manage it, and not see any discernible deterioration in overall system perfomance. There was a time, with older operating systems and hardware, that having a designated pagefile partition on a separate drive may have made sense. Just my humble opinion that it doesn't amount to a hill of beans worth of performance difference on an otherwise properly configured system....not if we're talking about today's hardware and Operating Systems. I'll leave mine on the separate drive anyway...not in an attempt to increase system performance...but mostly just because I can. Cheers, Parky

Hi BD, At the risk of sounding sentimental, I'll still miss him. Every once in a while he'd make a comment that I'd just tear him to pieces over. It was always PC/Hardware/Software related usually, but I recently snarled at him about one of his more "political" posts. I kind of regret having done that. Regardless, I think we all understood that his knowledge of PC's in general was somewhat limited. I also think most of us understood that he could voice political/religious and just basic "views" that would piss the Pope off. With all that in mind, he also was a fountain of knowledge when it came to some of the more subtle aspects of the OFF GUI and it's various functions. That in itself, was worth something. His "Sticky and Cheats" contribution was always part of his signature.......you might have noticed that. It meant a lot to him......and I know that for sure. It was a magnificent contribution to this community. I'll miss taking him to task for going outside his areas of expertise. I'll also miss his brazen humor. It's just a damned shame he couldn't rein it in enough to seem "almost" congenial. Hell......he was WAY outside of that. He knew it......and I also know he didn't give a shyt. Something I also admired him for.... Nonetheless, I understand exactly what you're saying. It's just so terribly unfortunate that UncleAl had such a rare talent for getting people to say what was really on their minds. Now, THAT's interesting....to say the least, huh? Cheers Mate, Parky

Shiloh, Before you start downloading anymore games from Steam, you'd be wise to take a look at this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7710-tdlc-0426 Also, just my two cents, but if you're not experiencing any performance issues, just let Windows manage your swap/paging file space for now. As Paulo indicated, the performance differences you'll see by messing with your paging file (particularly if we're dealing with newer hardware) are usually not really evident, and it's probably not even worth the bother. Cheers, Parky

Go ahead and install whatever games you want on the new drive. If there's any performance difference at all, it should be a positive one due to the games being installed on a nice, new and uncluttered drive. Cheers, Parky

You covered one base I didn't though......he may have to allocate the disk before he formats it. Thanks, Paulo

Hi Shiloh, Try this: 1) Right-click on My Computer, Select "Manage" 2) On the left hand side, look for "Storage" which should expand to "Disk Management" 3) Select Disk Management Your new drive should show up on the right hand side. There are two areas there you can right-click on which will give you different options. One of them should give you the option to format the drive and/or assign a drive letter. Try formatting it from there and you should be good to go. Cheers, Parky