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Thanks for the cooling tip, Bandy. I am flying May 1917. And I noticed, that the white jaggies did return, when I flew my Marne region pilot. So it seems to be so, that the southern regions with many more wood / trees take more graphic or CPU power. For the southern regions, I need to set the "Scenery Detail" slider back to 4. But a common opinion here seems to be wrong: clouds I can still run on 5, and when I check fast head movements, whilst I look up (so no terrain is to be generated), then I don't have jaggies or stutters.

Von Baur, I did some test flying my new skins yesterday, and I broke off right at the start, cause I saw something wasn't yet looking right. But I was credited: flying time 53 minutes. For what? I hadn't even lifted off. The second time again; flying time: 83 minutes. Without taking off at all. It seems to me, that each mission just has a pre-estimated flying time, that you get credited with - no matter how long you really fly.

Yes, thank you, Matt! A friend just told me the same. Seems, it has to be done "in tune" with other parts.

Thank you, von Paulus. I'll check, if I have MoBo tools.

Yep, have the same cooler, Lou. Will check, if I find that "Mobo setup utility".

Must have been a bit uncomfortable, but it's the perfect piloting, when you can even fly only after instruments, like on a night flight or in thick fog.

Absolutely, Matt. I forgot to mention, what system details this worked with. CPU: Core2 Duo E8300 (2.83 GHz) Graphics: HD 4870 with 1 GB RAM: 4 GB System: Windows Vista 32 bit Conrad has also posted a way to make things work faster/better here: http://forum.combata...post__p__394964 Does anyone see objections for this method? Any problems with that? Otherwise I will try that too. Does anyone know, how to overclock the CPU? I know, that it can be safely overclocked by 10 - 15 %, but don't know how to do it.

No, Creaghorn, not at all. I now always saw 32 - 37 fraps, when I checked, and so it was running smooth. And although I have also changed my TrackIR settings faster/less smooth, I am now getting an extremely real overall view. As if I'm really there! And the "Terrain Detail" on 4 instead of 3 looks superb, as you can see under "Screenshots".

Just found, that in the TrackIR5 menue, the slider "Speed" decides in "Yaw", how far round you have to turn your head, until you get 180° / your "six". Now I have raised "Speed" to 0.8; and set "Smooth" to 30 - that gave me a much faster "check six" look with less turning my head. It felt pretty nervous first, cause all head movements are more immediate now; but I will keep it. It feels more like a real head movement.

Unbelieveable! I had never thought, that I might be able to run most sliders on 5; so I had them like this: Aircraft: 5 Terrain Detail: 3 Scenery Detail: 4 Effects Quality: 5 Clouds: 2 But then I told a friend, who is more into computers and games, that I am getting white jaggies at the screen sides, when I quickly move my head with the TrackIR clip. He gave me the advice to set all on 5. He meant, that my graphic card, an 4870, would be more than able to handle the sim; but that the processor might have additional work with deminishing the visual qualities again. Not sure, if that's true, but I tried it. Now, all on 5, I still had jaggies; but when I put "Terrain Detail" on 4, they were gone! All others are still on 5 now! If you have stutters or jaggies, you should give it a try, to set them higher instead of lower.

Not much - never live long enough, that they should be wheathered! No, all pictures I have seen of Albatros so far, they all looked well painted and well cleaned. German officers and their mechanics kept the craft in good looking shape as far as possible.

Test-flying a new D III skin for our "Krauts vs Crumpets" campaign, I saw these R.E.8 diving on Cuirieux field. Three won't return; I got down two, and my wingmen another.

Lou, I am all but a computer expert, but shouldn't it be posssible to "rescue" the data? Couldn't you search for such a "data rescue expert"? PS/Edit: and get yourself an external hard drive (50 - 80 bucks), were you store your precious data as a copy. (I know, it aches to hear such "great" advice AFTER the crash...) Really sorry for you, Lou, as I have a vague idea, what you lost.

That would be great, but isn't yet simulated. Usually, enemy fighters I have fired some rounds at, follow me all the way home, if I don't shoot them down. I can't even warp away, because I get the message "you may not warp - enemies near". I am just reading the great book "Der Sturm" ("The Perfect Storm") by Sebastian Junger; about the last sortie and the sinking of the Atlantic fisherboat "Andrea Gail". As for the facts, forget the movie. I liked it, but it is Hollywood compared to the naked truth. I highly recommend that book - Junger has an incredible way of telling the story without inventing anything he hasn't seen. It's documentary; when it comes to the point, were the ship must have sunk, he doesn't paint a picture from phantasy. He researched and tells you, what other people have reported, who survived such situations; he lets them neatly describe, how drowning felt until loosing their consciousness (before they got rescued). He tells you the biological research results about it. Now, in this book there are descriptions, reports, that told me, how different you feel and act and react, under extreme situations that are most likely to cost your life. It is obvious, that our brain works different under such conditions, and that we could not be like that every "normal" day. Having an accident (I had two heavy car accidents, which could have cost my life easily), my brain seemed to be running high speed like a camera. The higher the speed of a camera, the more single pictures it takes, and the longer and slower could you watch a slow motion replay of the recording. That must cost an enormous energy, and be very hard to "digest" by our consciousness; so our brain isn't doing it very often. It is also very hard, if not impossible, to simulate. This "mode" is only switched on in the real danger. Otherwise we would live a very different life.

Creaghorn: ...and side of anxiety etc. is almost not existent at all. Intersting points in general, Creaghorn. To speak for myelf, I must say, that I am very anxious to loose my DiD Campaign Pilot, and often it makes me tense and feel unwell; especially when I have to go into enemy territory like yesterday. Still though - I can't do it any different - I risk my pilot, when my wingmen are in danger. Don't know how I would fly it, if it could cost my real life. But not to help my wingies out, only because I would have to start to fly two-seaters again would feel too selfish for me. The "flow" surely has a lot to do with phantasy. How much can and will you imagine the result of your actions. In the racing movie "Grand Prix", the French driver (Ives Montand) tells a female reporter, that he doesn't have any phantasy. If a driver has a lot of phantasy, he could imagine all the most terrible accidents, and then he wouldn't be able to do the job successfully. Some people do not imagine the results of their actions; they only become more careful or even afraid of racing or dogfighting, once they had a terrible accident. For me, the tension is big enough as it is - I have, maybe, too much phantasy. I'm flying it to have some fun with it. Only if I had lots of time to do so, I would create one pilot for this experiment - but that is, unfortunately - not the case. I can usually only fly one hour per day. So I'm not simulating the full horror of the Great War - cause I would have never liked to really be there.

Didn't know, that the Entente had allowed fighters with so much decoration. Not really "loud" colours, but very nice designs!

Hmmm - yeah, the problems with the freedom of speech: everyone can hear you.

Good and interesting view points there, Von Paulus.

UncleAl: Actually there's a better argument for the Parasol, atleast it would provide a target for the EIII's That's true; the E III has no "fitting opponent" in it's good times, before the Nieuport 11 came. Which is so much better, that hardly anyone picks an E III campaign.

Aw, come on, Shred - you guys would have found any other reasons for heavy drinking and smoking, like the rest of us. But definitely no better ones than creating OFF! Oh, and braincells are by far overrated - the whole development of mankind proves that!

Oh, I like the last pic, the SPAD XIII - who is the ace that's been flying it?

That upper wing looked unreliable anyway, Wallaroo - as if it had fallen into the hands - or teeth - of a beaver!

Sorry, guys, but I haven't got, what the line should look like.

Really? - I always shoot them down, when I meet them. Probably, because I wasn't aware...