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Nice shot and very poetic, Dej, and really nice skins, Guys! I've noticed that most of the shots are in story weather or low light.. everything looks better then, but would like to see more shots in clear weather..comments?

OK, now I know where you got your name from.

If you have room for it, Also, it wouldn't be the wide angle view you get with the triple head set up or the wide angle 2d glasses I mentioned.

Opps, sorry, guess I just forgot, but they've done some improvements, it looks like.. will try it out this weekend.

OK, see if this works... the attached, tracersmoke4.dds is lighter then the earlier ones. Please let me know if it is any better, but be sure to try it in cloudy/overcast as well as clear weather. tracersmoke4.zip

Good work, Winston, looking forward to trying the Effects.xml file changes this weekend, I didn't even know there were entries there for the tracers and I can't believe we didn't think of that.. Excellent, and thanks for the effort!

Thatks for your feedback, everyone. It sounds really interesting. Another option would be those wide screen, 3d lenses you wear, but I've heard the resolution is not that great with them. And yet another option would be to get a TV projector and screen, but I don't have room for something like that in our small office where the computer is, where as, the three screens, like three 19" ones, would not be hard to set up and not that expensive. Good to hear that it doesn't cut into fps as well.

If Winder is around he can probably answer you.. I believe the data base has to know that the folder is there in order to point to it. I also know that adding non OFF planes, etc., may cause problems, so proceed at your own risk. Hope you get it working though, would love to see that plane in the game.

Just an update, have been plying campaign for the last hour.. and loving it, of course. Flying a Bebe N11 for Lafayette Escadrille and was sent about 50 miles to hit a balloon with 5 other wing men. Flying over those mountains West of Switzerland is really beautiful and being an over cast, rainy day, every thing was dark down below. I used the warp to get to the second way point but was stopped by enemy planes in the area.. two way down below, so I opted to continue toward the front for my mission, as I was leading it. I began to hear the sounds of distant shells going off and after a few minutes, suddenly, the whole landscape was covered with small white boxes! I was able to alt-Tab and get into the Navida settings and changed the AA from 16x Enhanced back to 8x Enhanced. Clicked on the game icon in the tray and the terrain did a refresh and all seemed fine, but a few minues later we ran into about 6 EIII's with the advantage above us and during the scuffle, I lost control and plowed into the ground.. What an experience though! So, not to go on about this, but I guess 16x Enhanced is too much for my system and I'm going to stick with the 8x Enhanced.. I can hardly tell the difference any way, the edges look just as smooth to me. Re the question about setting the aircraft texture max dimension to 0.. I've been doing it for a long time, not sure, just force of habbit, I guess, you could set it to the default OFF 1024 and I doubt it would make any difference. HB: I noticed in your Nvidia setting you have Vertical Sync "Force on" do you think that helps? I played with that on and set the OFF Full Screen Swap to VSync, but I again, wasn't sure if it made a difference. Another thing I noticed is that you have your Navida Anisotropic setting to 8x, I have mine at 4x and have no idea how much of a load this might put on things.. it has to do with ground textures, I think. Anyway, really glad you got yours working, have fun!

Hi, Royce: Well, the OFF Workshop config set up tabs are outlined above. If you have two cards running SLI I believe it's a bit different and there have been several discussions about it so you might want to do a search here. The Nvidia card set up I have is: The Main Image Setting window is set to use the advanced 3d Settings tabs: You then go to the advanced settings tabs. I set mine up for Global as the program tabs didn't seem to be working, but I haven't played around with it much. Anyway, this is my Global settings: The AA is "On" Mode is "Enhance App Settings" if you are going to set it to 16x or 16xQ Or you can set it to "Application Controlled" if you are going to only use 8x Both should get you the special CSAA mode that is supposed to be faster. BE sure that in the OFF config set up you set the Resolution to your screen res at 32 bit color and be sure to choose 8x AA. Also be sure, after making any changes in the config file, that you exit via the File menu "Exit", NOT by hitting the upper right exit "X" button.

Over Anxious and Over Stressed It was getting dark, it was bitterly cold and all we wanted to do was get back to the base where we knew Cdt. Brocard would be sure to have a warm fire waiting for us. No time to think about comfort, we literally ran into 3 EIII's on patrol. This was my moment.. we'd been dancing around each other for what seemed like hours, the adrenalin was up, I finally had the advantage. He was going into a dive, I jerked the stick to follow, I wasn't going to loose him now.. I had to stay on him.. We both screamed toward the dark river below us.. My fatal mistake, the Babe didn't like to be handled roughly and I had gone too far... a horrible sound of tearing fabric and wood splintering and then.. I looked back in horror to see my lower wing pin wheeling after me.. The German pilot could only stare in wonderment at his luck..

Wow.. I look a lot more sinister there.. hehe. I had picked out a young photo of myself, because most of the pilots back then were really young. I did do one of my self at an older age though.. the grinning, young and innocent rabu, seen in the earlier photos is now replaced by tired pilot, hardned by the air war. Having some how survived, he now commands Escadrille Lafayette wielding a stern hand in trying to train the new recruits he must watch them die each day.. the Great War goes on:

I double checked mine and: Composite Terrain Texture Pool is Default, Composite Terrain Text Usage is Render Target Composite Aircraft Text Pool is Default Composite Aircraft Text Usage is Render Target Vertex Buffer Pool is Default Index buffer Pool is Default Fullscreen Swap Effect is Discard I had played around with these before, trying different combos and never could really see any difference that I was aware of. I set these from the Off Workshop I believe I am correct, If you run the CFS3config.exe in the CFS3 main folder you will not be affecting OFF, just CFS3 You have to run the CFS3config.exe in the OFF main game forlder, or use the Workshop button to run it. BUT, double checking this morning, when I now try to run it in the OFF main folder I get an exception error pop up window, .. it didn't used to do this in past patches, or maybe it was back in V2? This is odd, trying to run the one in the CFS3 main folder also gives me this same message. Does anyone know what this means? Went back into OFF and it works fine from there and game runs fine still. I's still experimenting with the Nvidia settings this morning, trying different settings to see how it affects things and will let you all know if any thing develops. Also, just noticed a typo, my Video card is a 8800GTS, not 8899GTS, sorry.

Wow, lots of art work there I've never seen, thanks!

I pretty much follow the OFF recommendations for the Workshops settings: Sliders 3 & 3 for Terrain, 5 for Aircraft and Effects, 4 for clouds. Overrides settings: Disable Intro Movie High Resolution Z Buffer (deselect Dual Pass Render) Terrain Detail Texture Disable Validate Device Disable in cloud effect Texture Info: Composite Terrain Texture Usage ....... Render Target Composite Terrain Texture Pool ........ Default Composite Aircraft Texture Usage ....... Render Target Composite Aircraft Texture Pool ........ Default Vertex Buffer Pool ....... D3DPool_Default Index Buffer Pool ........ D3DPool_Default Full Screen Swap Effect .. D3DSwapEffect_Discard Texture Limits: aircraftmodels Scale-0 Texture Max-0 Nvidia 1.5.30.38 Control Panel Globabl settings: Anisotropic Filtering 8x Antialiasing Gamma correction - On Antialiasing Mode Enhance application setting Antialiasing Setting 16x Antialiasing Transparency Multisampling Conformant Texture Clamp Use Hardware Error Reporting Off Extention Limits Off Force Mipmaps None Max Pre-rendered Frames 6 Multi-display/Mutilple Display Performance Mode Texture Filtering-Anisotropic Sample Opitmizaion Off Texture Filtering-NEG LOD bias Allow Texture Filtering Quality Quality Triple buffering Off Texture Filtering Trilinear Optimization Off Texture Filtering Ansiotropic mip filter opt... OFF Threaded Optimization Auto Vertical Sync Force On My system is home built (with Parky's help): Coolar Master Centurion Mid Tower ATX case MOB: Gigabype GA-EP45-DS3R FSB 1600GB North Bridge P45 Express CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHZ LGA775 Memory: Patriot Extreme 2GB DDR2 SDRAM PS: Antec Trio TP3-650 Watt ATX12v Video: EVGA Navida GeForce 8899GTS 320MB Sound: SB PCI Audigy 2 ZS HD: C: SATA WD Caviar SE16 250GB 16MB Cache 3GBS HD: D: SATA " 350GB " " Windows XP Prof. Nothing is over clocked Hope this all helps.

I saw this several years ago and still enjoy playing it occasionally.. excellent movie from Bringham Young University. Der Ostwind (click here) The website (click here)

The most amazing brass, scratch built WWI plane 1/16" scale models I have seen are by Ken Foran (click here) Here's his Camel

My only suggestion would be to buy a seperate audio card.. they aren't that expensive. A SB Audigy card is very good. It will keep the audio from sapping your processor.

Indeed, it does make a difference and frame rate doesn't seem to be affected. I set OFF to 8x AA and then set the Nvidia set up so that OFF runs at 16x AA "Enhance Application Settings" One thing I found is that for some reason it only works for Global settings of the Nvidia set up. I had created settings for both CFS3 and OFF at 16x "Enhance Application Settings" pointing to their exe files in the custom program settings tab. That should have over ridden the global settings which were set to 8xQ "Application Controlled, but I didn't see the smoothing in OFF until I changed the Nvidia Global setting to 16x "Enhance Application Settings." With that set up working, and getting about 50-60-fps, I then changed OFF AA to 2x and re flew and it didn't look any different, still very smooth. FPS with the 16x "Application Enhance" is much better then the 8xQ App Controlled. See the photos below and be sure to click on the top bar to see them full screen size. Here's a full size screen shot of the 16x App Controlled, you can see the really smooth lines and fps stayed in the 50's most of the time. This next one is the same shot with 8xQ Application Controlled and the jaggies are obvious along with lower fps about mid 40's So, HB, does your's look like the first one or this second one?

Just pretend you're a new recruit in the flight mess hall and the regular pilots are giving you a hard time.. that's all it is. They are actually a really good group and will go out of their way to help you when you need it.. when that disk finally arrives at your door step!

Hi, HB: I remember a post awhile back by Winding Man.. I think it's in the FAQ's as well, saying that you need to set OFF to match your monitor resolution at 32bit and then set the AA at 8x, then set your card to what ever you want. The OFF 8x will not look liike it is staying set to 8x, but it is. I don't know why it has to be set to 8x if your card is making the AA decision, but they seemed to be convinced that was the way to do it. I think you miss understood that very confusing link you gave, I had a hard time understanding it, it's very poorly written. They weren't saying that "you must use 2x or 4x in order for the driver to use CSAA" That would only give you MSAA since the application The way I interpretit it, If you have no AA controls in a game use the "Overide Any App" setting. If you only have 2x or 4x or On settings in the game, use the "Enhance App Settings" but you will only get MSAA. From their article: "If you are only going to use 2X or 4X AA in a game there is no reason to do “enhance the application setting” because you won’t receive any benefits doing so. So only choose this mode if you want to try out 8X, 16X or 16xQ CSAA." If your game supports 8x or higher (CFS3/OFF), set the game to 8x and set Nvidia to 8x "App Controlled" for 8x CSAA or to 16x/16xQ "Enhance App Settings" for Nvidia 16x or 16xQ CSAA I'm using the 8xQ MSAA setting and it looks pretty good with the game set to 8x. I read the page you linked and I wasn't that familiar with CSAA.. good to know about. I'll see what happens trying that out setting it to 16x CSAA "Enhance App" with OFF set to 8x and let you know if it makes a difference here. Thanks,

It could be a lot of things.. Some other program got installed that changed some shared dll's? You have a hard drive going bad? A Microsoft update messed up part of the OFF install? Some one else with more tech knowledge can probably help here.

Here's another one...

Set the OFF Workshops setup resolution to your monitor and be sure it is 32 bit color, not 16bit. And set the AA to the max 8x. Then set your video card to AA what ever and set it to OFF. IE: I have a Nvidia 8800gts 320MB and an Acer 22" LCD with default 1680x1050 res. I set the OFF Workshops setting for video to 1680x1050x32 8xAA I then set the Nvidia video card "control panel" "Program Settings" tab set up with an entry for OFF, which I created, with 8xQ AA.

OK, you got me.. here's mine: