Creaghorn

hi james, great job you have, and it seems it's really fun. cool stuff . and that obviously shows that your skinning job is finished, a sign that WOOF is also not too far away of beeing ready. just two more weeks . please pop in more often

real blipping is something which is looked at in OFF2 cheers creaghorn

yes, sure. thank you very much. makes installing a lot easier. would you like also to modify the german news mod as well to be usabla by JSGME? that would be great.

where do you think, batman has the idea from, when falling or jumping from a roof...?

created especially for immersion and depth like you describe, there ist this great tool. i can only recommend it to everybody who is flying serious campaigns. http://combatace.com/files/file/12391-office-the-off-incomplete-campaign-editor/ cheers

at least northern france and belgium is usually rather dull. the further south you go, the more mediterranean it gets, and southern france of course is a completely different ballgame. there is some comedy movie from couple years ago where a southern french postman gets transfered to northern france, and before he gets there he hears a lot of horrorstories about the weather and the people there. always cold and dull, the people described a bit like hillbillies with strange dialects and traditions etc. was very fun to watch.

this new beta driver works a lot smoother for me than the previous. in both the graphics are looking very crisp without any shimmering etc.. with the previous one it was smooth, but with occasional hickups, espeically at places with many objects on the ground. with this new one the occasional hickups are gone completely. even when freshly entering the theatre on the airfield there are no hickups anymore. slightly shimmering when on the ground, but from no shimmering at all to a little bit there is no big difference. for me this new driver works better. AA is set to 32 with 8 sparsegrid supersampling. all smooth and crisp . thank you hellshade.

i thought about tweaking around with this settings, too, but what IMO get's lost is the perfectly caught look of middle europe. the settings as they are, especially in dull weather and with the fog etc. is pretty close to how it looks in real. not any random looking countryside which pretends to be over flanders fields because the game tells it to you. when you look at it without knowing where it is, you could easily say, ok, that looks like somewhere in middleeurope. with the setting tweaked it may look a bit more colourful, but IMO i get's more mediterranean or caribean touch. especially the skies.

my old PSU had also 750w. usually if it's not enough it should go off instead of exploding. and even if it explodes there have to be some sort of securitystuff to prevent the current to break other parts. one bang, a little bit luck, that's it. but my PSU made about 4 bangs. anyway. of course sonner or later every PSU breaks, even those with good names, but they shouldn't pull all other parts into the grave also...

couple weeks ago i bought a new GTX 580 (thank you all for your recommendations). after building it in and tweaking around, on one night suddenly the PSU made several bangs with smoke and sparks etc. i made couple years ago the typical rookie-mistake by buying a cheap noname 750w PSU. this cheap PSU obviously did not have any sort of security things to prevent damage to other components. so i bought a new (and good) PSU. after this i found out that the motherboard was gone. ok. new motherboard built in. then i found out that also the memory was gone. so i got new memory sticks. after having all components again, which took several nervewrecking weeks (while waiting not knowing which other components are broken, if all data is lost etc.), i was finally able to bring my system back to life. fortunately the harddisks didn't suffer and the previous OS works as before. all well now again. and the moral of it is to never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never try to save money by buying a cheap, chinese crap PSU. sooner or later you will regret it as i did.

did you set both the front and rearguns to less accurate?

@olham i appreciate your help and suggestion. but i want to upgrade it significantly and keep it for the next couple years that way. if i upgrade it just a "little bit", then i will be in one or two years at the same stage as now. same way as i did with the gtx 260 while there have been gtx 295 etc. on the market. it's ok, it's cool, but after a year or two you see the limits very well. also, since my gpu is my bottleneck, i would like to upgrade it. it's of course not only for OFF, it's also for a ton of other things too, not necessarily just for games etc. how about that one? http://www.kmcomputer.de/item/0/0/0/115538/index.html maybe better to wait couple more months? maybe the prices will drop anyway.

set the main guns and rear guns to "less accurate". that's giving the best results because the bullets are spraying a bit more. at normal or accurate the bullets will come more laserbeamlike and therefore damage you more quickly.

that shall be the last major upgrade for the next couple decades, so i will rather grab the chance as long as i have one . after that, if i ever mention to my wive something regarding an upgrade, she will run me out of the house with a pumpgun

it's about time for an upgrade and replace the old gtx 260, which is currently the bottleneck of my system. i have a QuadCore Intel Core i7 930, 2933 MHz (22 x 133) Asus P6X58D Premium (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 3 PCI-E x16, 6 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394) 6135 MB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM) 750w power supply big tower HAF 932 Advanced there are several gtx 580 versions out there, but the prices vary a lot. from about 400 to about 750€. different manufacturers, different specs of which i don't have too much knowledge. so question for the experts (e.g. parky and von paulus). which gtx 580 to take, and therefore having enough muscles for the next couple years? probably best with 3072mb, and maybe already overclocked, since i'm no clockingdude and rather would like to avoid clocking around. which one is the best at the moment (i don't mean 590 or double 580 etc.) performancewise and moneywise? from saving some time for the upgrade and some subventionale birthday present i would say the budged would go to about 750€. i would appreciate any good suggestions. cheers creaghorn

that's the point of the tracermod, to eliminate also the feedback. in ww1 there was no feedback when small bullets were piercing canvas or wood. they produced just smallish holes until something important got hit. that's what this mod emulates. also regarding quick kills. you can have quick kills as long as you hit meat or metal. all other spots need many hits to make something happen. for instance albert ball returned form his sorties many times with 30+ bulletholes. some pilots even had dozen of bulletholes and never realized it until checking the AC after landing. there is a reason why the highest scoring ace had 80 victories and not 800. in ww2 of course that was a completely different ballgame.

if it's made from the same material as my wallet, then it doesn't matter. mine is made from onion-leather. always have to cry when i look inside...

look at the good old roland. isn't she a beauty? also the terrain is simply awesome. the sense for height is very much present. the feel of beeing very high is looking very realistic. one can even almost suffer from acrophobia simply by watching the picture

that has nothing to do with censorship to report a prohibited nazi-song. it's not like somebody has an open opinion and somebody is trying to ban him or something. it's not dictatorship either to report such crap. if that is for you dictatorship, then you don't have a clou what really dictatorship is. you can't simply throw reporting racist nazi songs into the same pot like communist china or whatever. maybe he won't watch and listen to it, but maybe other, influencable people will. it is right to grab things like that at the roots and put it away. and it's also right to not look to the other direction if things like that appear. happened often enough in the past. why he had posted it here? because he considers many people here as friends. and friends talk about stuff like that. maybe the pub would be more apropriate. but gathering support for his ideals? what ideals do you mean?

would be a good idea of those who watch the movie regularly to also leave some comments on youtube, and maybe also to post a link to the forum and the main site of OFF. if i search around on youtube and find this vid by chance, i would be more interested if i see many good comments and infos where to get it etc. if you know what i mean.

actually all your questions are more or less answered in the first p4 vid. you can watch it here: http://overflandersfields.com/info.htm p3 already has one of the best AI around. really breathtaking dogfights, with mates really helping you out when in trouble. they can't look through clouds and also don't snipe around from miles but really try hard to get close on your six. and they are damn scary good doing this. you don't have the feeling that you are the center of the world while all others are just here for your pleasure. no spawning and such things but all AI are underway to do their own missions and tasks. wether you are there or not. they don't spawn just to be there because you are there, but you can fly in any direction you want and coincidentally you will run into friends and enemies, doing their jobs, or you won't see anybody. just as in real life. p4 is going to take the even great AI to another level, probably never seen before in any sim so far. p3 already has a great campaign. OFF itself is all about single player campaign in the first place. p4 is also raising this to another level. actually the good single player campaign is the heart and the soul of OFF. about visuals. you have the feeling of beeing there. you will feel very small and unimportant while you are flying over nomandsland and the villages etc. that's no lifeless teletubbie land but actually france and belgium you will see. and it really looks like france and belgium. if you've ever been to middle europe, you will recognize the landscape immediately. please forget the CFS3 engine. it's only necessary for some core data. that's like having win7 and while booting, there is some dos window visible for two seconds. nonetheless it's win7 and not the old dos, if you understand what i'm trying to say. please watch the vid completely. as i said, it answers already many of your questions. cheers creaghorn

i doubt that the problem is related to the soundmods, because there is not the slightest connection to any FM,DM, mission files etc. but i would suggest to not activate the soundmod via JSGME utility but how it's explained in the readme file, because it was not intended to be used with the JSGME utility, so no guarantees if it would work with it or not.

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.