Broadside uda Barn

Sorry boys, It was MY camel that got Manny! and if he had a little dog, I'd shoot him down too! Camel FTW!

Yes, but if you fly the camel, you have the goods to take out the Richtofens....both of them!

Forget the compas and AH Steve! I just shot down the red baron! Heh. Erm....sorry, just a bit excited over here. Lessee, I found that AH when switching the compass etc around with the Shift F4, F5, F6 etc IIRC. You can move them any where you want with your mouse, btw. As for the compass, I find it's the most important instrument of them all. I often run out of ammo and need to head for the hills, but cant using warp as there are enemy nearby. I guess I could just use the map, but I like to reference the compass. No it doesnt swing around at all, at least that I've noticed. Oh and since I shot down Manfred and Lothar, YOU go get Olham. It's your turn mate!

The sky was angry this day, my friends! I counted 21 planes in the air over the front. It was a troop strafing mission, and while we were doing that, 2 jastas and a squad of spad VIIs joined our camels. Wow! So many planes. Got shot up by an ace and had to land in no man's land. It was great My fps went to the cellar tho. I've been mixing up my settings again, trying to get rid of the white triangles , anyway, FPS went down to about 24-18 for the duration. I've been getting 30-40 fps with max settings. 3 questions: How many planes have you seen at any one time in a dogfight? How do you do with FPS in these situation? White triangles: (I only get them when quickly turning to see my 6 with trackIR, and only when I'm facing up, so the back of me is facing the ground, with more texture to render. And then only for a split second as it then renders the scenery, then all is fine). Anyone NOT get them in this situation?

Lou-- I switched to your slider settings, and am getting 50 - 60 solid FPS, down and dirty near the ground in a dogfight I get in the 40s. Rare jaggies with TrackIR now. Turning the scenery detail down was huge. Can you tell me what the settings are in your nvidia control panel? Thanks for the help!

wow! Great shot! Never seen one like that. Here's a flamer I just took.. Might make a desktop pic out of it...

Any way that this can be stickied?

here's one for you, brand new: http://cgi.ebay.com/nVIDIA-GeForce-7950-GT...id=p3286.c0.m14 512mb and that card is the fastest agp (I think). I think I even used to have one of those cards... :) hth

a couple of shots showing the great dm

Iscin, welcome to OFF! dont worry about the pending order bit. IIRC, it always says that and doesnt change, due to the fact that Avangate is selling OFF for OBD software. My copy came in about 6 days, and I'm on an island, so hopefully you'll get it sooner. See you in the skies soon!

With the improved AA in the superpatch, I'm wondering if there's some tips on staying away from the black clouds that hurt. Is there a particular altitude where it's LESS likely to hit? (seems I recall something like above 9000 feet, or under 4000) Weaving high low and left right seems to help, but it's difficult to fly this way for awhile, especially the missions that have you flying over the front long ways instead of just passing over it. Thanks!

That's the OFF standard: Pilot Never Dies.

Nvidia just released a new set of drivers....I'm wondering if these 190.38 drivers work well with OFF. Anyone tried them yet?

I cant seem to figure out what to do to get my hat views working. Whenever I press my hat switch back, forward, whereever, I just see a brief splash of white triangles and then nothing. I have trackIR 5 which works great, but sometimes I'd just like to use the hat switch POV. the controlls have POV listed as the hat switch.... Is there a command or way to get this working? thanks!

I've been hit and killed by archie in a flaming mess that anywhere else would be an exotic dessert in a 5 star restraunt. That was BEFORE PND standard. I'll have something to post about PND in a day or so. Needless to say: DiD? phtttf! PND is the standard that's fun!

I saw a blurb on this and was thinking about reading it. It's $17 or so for the paperback, which seems a lot, for a paperback. Any opinions on this book? Also, wasnt Yeates in ww1?

heh! cant ignore required reading! I'll pick up a copy. Looking forward to reading it. Thanks!

Is anyone using an i7 920 with a gtx 260? I'd like to compare graphics settings and FPS results. These are the settings I'm using. I'm getting beautiful graphics, no shimmering, no tearing (unless you call tearing the white out when you quickly turn your head to see behind you with TrackIR...which I get, but it disappears quickly as the scenery is rendered). About 25 FPS on the ground taking off. About 45 FPS in the air with no one around me. About 30 -40 FPS in a dogfight with 8 or so planes. About 15 - 25 FPS in a dogfight with 10+ planes. How does this compare with what you are seeing? My rig specs are in my signature. Drivers are 182.50

Clouds at 1 and 2 helped a little, but not much. I like the better clouds tho, or at least I think I do. It's hard to tell, because each mission is different. hard to get the same settings for a good test. Unless someone can see something in the nvidia control panel settings, I think I'll just follow rickity's suggestion and leave well enough alone. Honestly, it plays so smooth, that steady 50 FPS, isnt really any different than 25 FPS...the key being that it's steady and no stutters, which I dont have. The white jagged tearing is something else. Maybe it's ram, maybe uncleal is right, it's the cpu. I'll think about OC'ing, tho it's not THAT annoying as it only happens in situations where I'm climbing and look back quickly. It also might be a setting in the TrackIR. I still cant figure that out tho, so I havent messed with it since HB recommended his settings. Slower turning might fix the issue. Thanks for the input on your settings hellshade! And thanks everyone else for the suggestions. Keep em coming if you think of anything. BuB

So is it any safer to be lower, or at a higher altitude?

I have a whopper of a cooler already in the case. It's a vigor monsoon 3, about the size of a football (I'm not kidding). Yeah, I bought this specific chip because of the OC potential. I havent oc'd yet as I havent really seen the need to up to this point, and there's no sense in putting the wear on the cpu if there's no real need....but I'm not opposed to it. I think it might be an issue of RAM, since XP only sees 3GB. I'll try with some lower graphics settings in cfs3 and see what that does.

I just lost my favorite pilot (again) trying to take out a flight of two seaters. Flying a sop. camel, I dove under pulled up and fired as loong a burst as I could before the plane got his gunner into firing position. Got him smoking after a while, but was shot up pretty good, then I go into a crazy spin, like a top: tail down, wings and prop up, spinning clockwise. I tried everything to recover but couldnt: cut gas, cut engine, restart engine, full gas, full rudder both ways. Is there any way out of a spin like this? This isnt the first time I've spun like that in a camel...it happens now and then, but I never recover.

My in game graphics settings are set at: 5,5, 4, 4, 5, 4. this is a possibility. I dont think it has that much to do with cpu performance (remember that the i7 reads memory at 4 different cores, instead of the bottleneck that dual and quad cores have...it's a completely new architecture for memory reading), as opposed to graphics card settings. This card has ample room to spare...896mb memory. curious to see what others are getting...and does anyone have a comparable rig to an i7 920?

the settings didnt load like I wanted. here's a jpeg of them Crud...having troubles here. here's the specs the hard way aniso filt. 16x gamma on AA mode: override application AA 16x AA transparency: multisampling Texture clamp: hardware Error: off Ext. limit: off mipmaps: off pre rendered frames: 6 multi display (cause I have 2 monitors) Texture filt. off lod bias: clamp Texture fil. quality: high quality Trilinear: off Threaded opt. Auto triple buf. On Aniso mip filter: off Vert. sync Force on

Have you noticed that you hear AA fire, even when there is no AA near? I hear it at my airbase, before I take off, after I take off over my air field, even if I'm 10 or more miles from the front with no enemies in the air. very odd....just noticed this during the last few missions.