Von Paulus

Fourth. Congratulations! Best wishes!

Unfortunately I didn't tried with OFF. I tried with ROF before I had OFF. But I didn't like it at the time. Maybe I didn't configured it well or I was just getting an excuse for myself in order to buy TrackIR. But you can always try it with the Demo with just one axis or jump straight to Freetrack which is a good cheap solution (I heard) for TrackIR.

Welcome foreigndevil!

OFF topic: Is there already a ERD version for Win7?

@almccoyjr I know that with ARMA II people are trying to use RAMDISK with excellent results. Probably you don't have to load all files in RAM. Maybe we don't need 24GB of ram. Here is the thread at ARMA's forum about the use of RAMDISK http://forums.bistud...ead.php?t=88388

My experience tells me different. Even with good hardware Vista doesn't work well. My perception is the one who builds, sells, repair rigs and talk to customers. Vista is worse than Me. After I used Win7 for a couple of times, I knew immediately that it was going to be a winner. I know this might not sound too analytical / racional but that's the way the things work after 20 years in this line of business. Win7 is more stable than XP with SP1. There's that growing myth that it's perfect, which isn't the case. But I'm migrating much more quickly than I could imagine at the beginning. I predict will have my dual partition with XP for more one year. As far OFF is concern, I really don't have a chance, it simply runs better, in my case, with Win7. I know it might sound strange, but OFF was the main reason why I bought Win7 so quickly.

Eheheh.

The same happens with Vista (32) and Win7 (32). Only the 64bits OS can address more than 3GB directly. And yes, Windows XP Pro (64) can adress more than 3GB.

I'll speak again the reality I know. All the serious simmer's that I know never bought a HP or a Dell computer. They want good performance and prefer to spend a little more and have a more powerful / balanced system. Like I've told you that's the reality I've always known in Portugal. Maybe it's local. I've nothing against Dell or HP machines, they are designed to work well and usually work very well. For my office I bought an HP, they are really reliable. Only they are not really so powerful for CAD, Video or PC gaming.

That's not my personal experience. In fact only half a dozen people went to my shop and asked Vista for their new rig. And only one was a gamer (I remember quite well because it was the only Vista 64 bits that I sold). All the others asked me to build their machines with XP installed. And notebooks... A lot of people (great majority) told me that they would only buy the notebook if I could change it to XP. Now with Win7's arrivals the tide is turning quickly. Due to the growing myth that is bug less people now only want Win7 and not XP.

Just don't use the same hub for joystick and TrackIR. In the hub you connect TrackIR try to not use another USB device.

Siggi you can always run Process Monitor and look what is running when you're playing. Try to see if your AV or Windows indexing is messing up. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-troubleshoot-usb-power-issues http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-troubleshoot-usb-bandwidth-issues

Like I've stated in another thread in my particular case OFF is running better in Win7 (x86) than in my XP (x86). Hereis my system: Asus P5B-Deluxe // E8500 @ 3.16 // 2x KHX6400D2/2G // Asus 4890 1GB Voltage Tweaker // Creatve Audigy 2 Platinium // HD WD5000AAKS // HD SG Barracuda 7200.12 // HD WD1001FALS // LC-POWER HYPERION 700W // Artic Freezer Pro 7// Antec TX1050B // Win XP SP3 and Cat. 9.11 // Win 7 (32b) and Cat 9.11

Yes I can agree with Tamper, a lot of times, stuttering is related with texture loading. Its beneficial to have a hardisk dedicated to OS and another for the game. You can always add a third for the pagefile. That can help smooth a little. The great bottleneck of our system nowadays are the hardisks. SSD will help a lot, but will not be the final solution, I think. There are still some problems related with the longevity of SSD. I might be wrong but RAM will be the key.

You can check USB Bandwith and Power in control panel /system.

Look at this: http://forum.combatace.com/topic/48844-windows-7/ For reducing the stuttering you can try a few things. First I would disable Windows indexing. ( http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/17854-index-locations-add-remove.html ) Second I would check the compatibility tab for cfs3.exe and offmanager.exe. I would tick "Run as Administrator", Disable Themes and Desktop Composition (this will disable the aero themes). Thirdly I'd uninstall just CCC (not the drivers) and try ATI TRay Tools. ( http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=275077 ) ATI Tray Tools will give you more options to control your ATI card. One setting that might (or not) reduce stuttering is the "Flip Queue Size". This is option is similar with Nvidia "Max Frames to Render Ahead". It has more performance impact when VSynch is turn ON that can cause some mouse lag. But people once in a while report better performance when they change the default value (3 or Undefined). It will really depend on your system and with different games one can expect different results. ( http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_9.html ).

Go to the windows event viewer and look for any odd errors. It mightn't be OS but you should start there.

Use the software version 5.0 Final B of trackir.

I wish I could have also a day for myself. OFF is indeed the king of the WW1 combat sims. I play video games since 1978 with Philips G7000 Videopac. And OFF is one of the best videogames I have ever played in any machine. My compliments to the devs team, they have just created a classic.

Eheheh.

Yesterday I notice for the first time, that when I have a "prolonged" dive, the image starts shaking. I suppose it's a shaking effect simulating stress over the plane. Am I right?

True indeed.

To all my American mates in here , I wish a happy Thanksgiving day.

Unfortunately the studios didn't. They usually don't understood the nature of the creative process. What they have done with "Touch of Evil" is just criminal. This is also the problem of the game industry and the reason why so many potentialy good titles end up in the gutter. Take your time, OBD.