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i had a similar issue in the past with my GTX 260. i had also some fps hits on some (not all) cloudy days. i solved it by playing around with antialisaing settings. with some setting the clouds work better than with others. also, the newest GPU drivers are not necessarily the best. you might try some older drivers. my driver is about 2 years old. every newer one made the performance mabye little better in some aspects, but lot worse on cloudy days. maybe worth a try.

i read some time ago about corsicans getting shot in ww1 because of disobeying direct orders. they couln't obey because they simply didn't understand the orders.

@olham is it plattdeutsch what you mean? i don't know how far it goes in other countries, but in germany you often have people talking some dialects on tv or news etc. which has to be undertitled because the rest of germany wouldn't understand them. there are dialects which are rather popular, like bavarian, frankonian or schwäbisch, and there are some dialects which are always laughed at, which sound terrible to the ear, totally unsexy, and always target of jokes, like saxonian dialect and thüringen dialect. i don't know how it is in other countries, but i'm amazed how often there are undertitles when somebody is talking german.

glad it works for you . how do you know how much calories you eat? do you look at the packages and calculate or are you guessing?

get a TrackIR, the best investment you will ever make regarding flying sims

sorry, don't mean to sound rude, but all that you've listed now has been reworked from scratch and it's going to be completely different than in p3. have you seen any of the p4 pics yet or the first vid? also it was confirmed about dozen times from the devs already, all that and mainly the campaign system is reworked completely. better graphics, better FM, DM, campaign, and a ton of other things.

i think at least for the allies that the flightleader has streamers would be realistic. from literature i know that the germans always tried to get the "wimpelmann", the guy with the streamers first, because he was supposed to be the leader. also since the allied had no real individual painted AC, that was the only way to identify the leader. that was the reason why MvR painted his AC red in the first place. not because of some hollywoodish "i want to scare them" reasons but because his inexperienced jasta needed any help in the air they could get to find him. the germans for sure also had streamers, at least before the individual coloured AC thingy started. also i think the majority of german pilots had more or less the jasta colours without anything fancy besides some insignias on the fuselage or so. my suggestion would be to have in the briefing room prior going to the sortie a box to be ticked or unticked, if the flightleader should have streamers. then everybody can decide individually. e.G. for lone wolf patrols there is no need for streamers, so keep it unticked or with an ace leader with fancy coloured AC there is no need for streamers. some non-ace leaders or in the Alb DII era streamers would make sense, so better to tick the box.

if i may give you an advise how you can reach your goal and keep it permanently. there are different types of bodies. some lose weight faster, some slower. my body is of the kind that i just have to take a look at a picture of a cake and i gain weight. usually in the wintertime during offseason i'm working out a lot in the gym and do hard running. but there are times, like xmas time etc. where i simply get lazy or need a break, and then i'm getting out of shape rather quickly. before springtraining starts i usually do it like this, and it helps me everytime. first of all one shouldn't look at his weight but at his fat in the body percentage, but anyway. to lose weight it's a matter of deficit. you have to burn more than you gain. the best way to have a deficit is to have no or low carb food. in spring, the first step for me to really get in shape again is to have a no carb foodplan for two weeks. day one i eat nothing, for the stomach to get empty and to make it use the reserves of the body, then for two weeks every day just salads with protein. fish, steak without fat, chicken etc. you can eat it as much as you can and drink a lot. you don't need to eat less or something, but you have to avoid carb (bread, potatoes, rice, pasta, cereals etc.) at any costs. the first two or three days it might be a torture, but the body quickly gets used to it and suddenly you won't miss carb at all. after those two weeks (with working out you might have lost already about 10 kilos, without working out about 5 kilos. you'll think you can fly now) you switch to low carb. that means you don't avoid carb, but you keep it the smallest part of the food. a simple trick is just to switch the portion one usually has. usually one has a plate with lot of potatoes or something, and some fish or meat or whatever. you simply switch it that you rather have plenty of fish and meat etc., and let the potatos be the smallest part. if you eat soup with bread, let the bread be the smallest part. try to eat up to about five times a day rather small portions than twice a day big portions. reason is that your body then is never really hungry, and therefore, you'll eat less. also try to eat slower. most people (me included, i have two older brothers and i had to defend my food in childhood lol) eat too fast. your body needs about 15 minutes to give you the signal that you are full. until those 15 minutes people eat too much because they still think they are hungry. did it ever happened to you that you finished your meal just half, when suddenly the phone rang and you had to talk some minutes? for sure you found out after the phonecall that you are not hungry anymore. that's what i mean. cheers

maybe after copying the naturalpoint folder to the other HD, you should rename the first folder on c to naturalpointoriginal or something. maybe because you didn't rename it the system is confused which one to use.

it works indeed. everything a little bit more crisp and fluid. good tipp my friend. not too much visual difference because it hardly makes a difference if it's 50 fps or like now 60 fps. but the moments like when beeing at your drome or low over a raging battlefield, there have been some slight occasional hickups and fps to maybe low 30ies. now also there it is perfectly fluid. and that with maximum density etc. great

at least what the world considers being spaghetti bolognese is also something completely different than what the people from bologna consider being spaghetti bolognese.

must disagree, it is IMO sütterlin (but still might be wrong though). german sütterlin (there is also prussian sütterlin) is one form of the kurrentschrift and quicker and more complicated than normal kurrentschrift. but that what you see here, and what i have at home (or e.g.every autograph of MvR or his last will) is written in sütterlin. i can read the normal kurrentschrift quite well, at least after a while, but in sütterlin i'm completely lost. maybe different countries said sütterlin for similar, but nonetheless different fonts? so what the german calls sütterlin might not be the same what scandinavians call sütterlin? i don't know. but from what i have researched, also by translating one or two feldpostbriefe in the web letter by letter, was by sütterlin-sites, like this one http://www.suetterli.../Sutterlin0.htm, and it matched perfectly. p.s. the upper page is written in those letters you mentioned. the town etc. the lower page is in sütterlin. that's a phenomenon i've seen in my own letters too. probably for the postoffice it wasn't sure if everybody can read sütterlin, so they wrote it in kurrentschrift, but the letter itself in sütterlin.

the northern german captain blaubär food is completely different than southern german food (nürnberger bratwürste, schäufele mit klößen etc.), but it sounds very delicious. have fun my friend

unfortunately not since it's not written in normal letters but so called "sütterlin" which is a kind of a quick, stenographic style of writing, which vanished in the last decades. some older people still might know how to read it. there are also some sütterlin translators in the web where you can teach yourself how to read it. but that's no easy task of course. that would be the same like teach yourself to read greek letters. i have still a box with hundreds of original "Feldpostbriefen" from a german soldier in the trenches, but more or less have no clou because i can not read it. but there are also places in germany who can translate it for you. some homes for old people do it to keep the old peoples brains in shape.

if you want to have the chance to see many different enemy squadrons, and still want to have realistically long patrols (an hour or more) but still don't want to fight in every and each sortie, then instead of choosing long range patrols the key is to cover just one small part of the front near your airfield. somewhere where it takes maybe just 20 minutes or so to get there. and when you're there you patrol the apropriate leg back an forth not only twice, as the manager is arranging, but after finishing the second patrol leg you hit control+W once or twice to get the patrol-legs back. then you patrol them again and again. so instead of 2 times back and forth, you are patroling it maybe 5 times back and forth (more like it was in red baron 3d). realistically a squadron covers one certain part of the front for patrol. for example a jasta in flanders covers everything between Douai to St.Quentin. a jasta in northern flanders covers everything from the coast down to Lille. but if you do it like that, currently your sorties would last about half an hour or so. if you want to have realistically long sorties, then you have to fly far from your own airfield. then you are patroling places which are not your business and other downside is also that mostly during the flight to the area you actually want to patrol, you often run into enemies. so IMO the best and most realistic solution is to cover your front near your airfield, where you get rather quickly, and the patroling legs themself you repeat several times (as mentioned, after finishing hitting control + W to fly them again). the big advantage is that your sorties last as long as they should, but still being in your own area. it might happen that you run into many different enemy squadrons, but you will see them mostly only while patroling and when they enter your area you are watching, instead of encountering them in low altitude etc. while flying to the intended area. that results in many sorties without enemy contact, as it should be, but if you run into them, then mostly in your area at the apropriate altitude and many different enemy squadrons.

and it really makes that difference? hard to believe. must try that. thanks for the tip

Don't know, i tried the weight mod, at least in the earlier war. as soon as there is an obstacle behind the runway, bei it trees or a ridge or something, all AI AC don't have enough power to get high soon enough and crash one after another. so i skipped it again. i tried it with two seaters and halberstadts etc. maybe it works with later more powerful AC, but at least the early ones seem to have problems getting airborne properly. as long as i know during the start there is a kind of boost for AI AC to prevent that. maybe this boost should remain and then the weight mod would work.

you've been away for a while. hope all is well (again)

by zapping around i just found by chance the documentation running, where the dear member of the developement team Makai with his crew is searching for the japanese "secret fleet" of WW2 in the pacifics sea floor .

olham, the times where you had to wait for something to be repeated are mostly over . it was on N24. you can watch it directly here: http://www.n24.de/news/newsitem_6426962.html

fire in the sky sounds fine, although i have to think automatically of smoke on the water. OFF 2 - New Branch of Service - NBoS

you must watch "from russia with love" again. one of the best bond movies IMO. great orientexpress scenes

Over the Trenches - OTT War in the Air - WITA Three Crosses Choice - TCC Situational Awareness - SA Bold or old- BOO Fighting (Old Brown) Dogs - FD From Pigeons to Eagles - FPTE Sparrows and Eagles - SAE

it was the opposite if i remember correctly. once his prop was broken over the mud with all it's trenchholes and splintered wood etc.. he landed with his triplane on a very small spot, the only possible landing place nearby, where most other pilots wouldn't see it as a possible landing spot.then he ordered some mechanics to bring him a new prop. after they replaced the prop several men held the wings while he opened full throttle to keep it from rolling. on his sign they released the wings and he went up almost vertically with just several feet running space.

sometimes one has to be aware of some smaller or bigger gaming-dreams come true. about 10-15 years ago i was thinking, while playing old Amiga Wings, Red baron 1, later stock- Red Baron 3d etc. how cool it would be to really have rudderpedals, how cool it would be to turn your head by yourself, scanning the skies, looking for the enemy instead of pushing the enemy-button where your virtual head automatically turns to him, to have all those historically correct AC with great and fluid graphics, instead of slow, pixel AC-wannabes. to have all those battles and actions on the ground in real, and not only in my imagination when looking at the same pixels which were brown instead of green like the rest, pretending to be nomandsland. to not only have careers, but to have a tough career where you want to survive and where you are not automatically the bellybutton of the world and the best fighterpilot ever existed with 300 kills. where you feel like the small, unimportant part of a war-machine, among many other small unimportant parts, instead of beeing the rambo of the skies. when i look back, and think about it, suddenly i realized that many of those dreams actually came true. mostly because there is a small team of WW1 enthusiasts, historians, programmers, skinners, and a hollywoodcomposer who made all that happen. and with OFF 2 i'm sure that all that i mentioned what already came true in p3, will be taken to 5 levels higher in shape of OFF 2 cheers