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Ahh yes I will wait for the new drivers. I'm using Vista 64, thanks for the heads up! Ah Thanks Siggi, I keep forgetting about the master override panel, thanks for reminding me! They are like a box of something but I don't think its chocolate, lol!

With my ati 5970 (and my 5870) bad weather lops at least 20fps off my total performance! I have all of my sliders set perfect just the way I like em where I can get 45-60fps and then when I get a mission with bad weather I am down into the teens & 20s The weird thing is when I used to play with my Nvidia 8800 ultras I never received any frame hits from bad weather! Is there any way to disable bad weather? I looked in workshop but I can only set how the weather is presented, ie ai controlled or historical. Or is there any way around this? The other weird thing is, I increased my total FPS by about 10fps when I enabled 2xAA! Lol, what the heck is that all about, I never heard about performance increases from increasing AA, but it is a reality with OFF and my ati cards!

Lol he used the hospital like it was a bed and breakfast!

Oh and the one other thing I did was turn AA down to easy...yes its not hardcore DID, but after loosing five promising pilots in a row to AA I had enough. Either the AA went or I went, it was driving me nuts. Its bad enough that I have to worry about my wingies colliding with me. Here are my leading causes of pilot death. 1) AA 2) Wingmen running into me 3) Friendlies running into me 4) Other planes and objects running into me 5) Crash landings due to plane damage and a stubborn refusal to bail and try to land it. 6) Crash landings due to my misjudgement of the dangers of landing so close to a tree, tent, car, etc. 7) Stall and then crash, but this is less frequent after aquisition of G940 8) Actually being shot down.

LOOOOL

Yea 111 claims and he died with 19 pending so who knows what his final confirmed tally would have been had he not been cut short in his prime lol. I am playing with labels and radar, plus I have a dream setup; Triple 20" monitors @4800x1200, trackIr4, a logitec G940, a quad core q9650 overclocked to 4ghz and a Sapphire 5970 overclocked to 900/1200. So it makes it easier to see and kill everything until my ammo runs out http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/120520098597.jpg

This is my best pilot to date and now he is freshly dead due to a slow 20mph crash landing gone bad. He survived all kinds of hell in his short month lifespan and should have been dead nearly a dozen times over, which is funny that a simply crash landing claimed him, but such is war. I play with radar and labels on, but everything else is DID. Post em if you got em, you can post live ones too but I advise strongly against that unless you want the curse to claim em! http://img.photobuck...rd/Hornzbee.jpg Guess vista takes out the medals once they are dead, or maybe his many many wenches pawned them. Heres a picture from a happier time displaying his medals http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Hornzbee2.jpg

Woooaaahhh easy there Uncleal, that thar Red Baron be sacred gaming ground ye scalewag

Yes it was my bad, I twas frustrated, thought I was missing something.

Yea, I got it now, misunderstood on my part. Thanks for all your help!

Thanks, I will check that out.

Yes I will have to check that out. I was hoping that there would be the easy way for us lazy idiots. The game seems to run much better, smoother, even with the same amount of frames as before!

I was under the impression that there would be a user friendly application where we could simply design our own skin. I was anticipating an application like Red Baron had. What a giant disappointment.

I do not see where I can make custom skins for my ace. This is pissing me off!!! Where is this feature at? I got an ahole with 42 confirmed kills and I have been wating for this feature to make him a skin!

THis is driving me bats**t crazy!! How do I make custom skins for hat in the ring, where is the feature at? I have looked everywhere.... where the HEAVEN AND HELL IS IT!!!! Thanks for help

hEEELLLLP

Just installed HIR and do not see where I can make custom skins for my ace, am i missing something here?

Morris, the ati divers are fine and VIsta 64 works perfect. Its not that I get bad FPS with my 5970, I dont, I am just bitching because I get swings from 60fps to 20fps and I would not have that problem if the game engine supported crossfire. You will love your setup, trust me. I am just running an ungodly hi resolution of 4800x1200 so that is why I am wishing for crossfire support.

Siggi, I am running at a resolution of 4800x1200, which is nearly 6 megal pixels. My 5970 maxes my 30" monitor out on all 5s at 2560x1600 resolution. What resolution are you running your Gtx285 at?

Morris

Ok let me put it another way before everyone gets carried away with the DirectX11 comment. I have an ati 5970 and 5870, which is a hell of a lot of GPU power. And I am running a 4800x1200 eefinity display, however, due to the limitations of OFFs engine, I cannot use half of my 5970s gpu power and I cannot crossfire in my 5870. So I am stuck playing with settings at threes and fours with fluctuating frame rates from 20fps to 60fps. I would love to be able to have all three of my GPUS working in Crossfire to be able to peg OFF at 60fps with all settings set to five, however its OLD engine will not let me. This is one of those games that will not let you throw ungodly amounts of cash at it to get what you want and that kind of sucks So if Santa will not bring OFF a new game engine, will he at least let me use Crossfire, because that is what I REALLY REALLY WANT!

I wish they would develop OFF on its own brand new engine that took advantage of DX11 with all of those bells and whistles! I just pains me to play a game like Dirt2 that looks drop dead photo realistic gorgeous and then come back to OFF which is aged DX8 & DX9 at best. It kills me that all of the kiddie games get all of the big development budgets and the games of any realistic substance don't. Don't get me wrong, Dirt 2 is not a bad game, but can you imagine OFF with Crysis quality graphics! IL2 is getting the new graphics treatment with Storm of War, which is due out in about two weeks I just wish, wish, wish, OFF would too! Maybe they can get an agreement to MOD IL2s new engine like they did with Combat FLight Simulator 3! I dunno, OFF does not look or play bad as it is, but the engine is limited, very limited. And yes, please throw in some Eyefinity, Crossfire, and SLI support while your at it Santa!

ENTER THE FIREBALL!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/120520098596.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/120520098597.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/120520098598.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/120520098599.jpg

Ohh all of the shots I posted are at default zoom! I just sooo wide that you think I am zoomed all the way back! Heres a pic I have zoomed in on the guns. http://img.photobuck...09-18-33-55.jpg And here is the same Pic I have on page one, which shows you how it physically looks in person http://img.photobuck...20120098500.jpg This should give you a better idea of how much more immersive & better widescreen gaming is! This is a pic taken at 2560x1600 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot10-04-09-15-34-49.jpg And Here are some more at 4800x1200 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-05-09-01-38-28.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-05-09-01-33-37.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-05-09-01-36-04.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-05-09-01-26-28.jpg Ill post more pics when I get a chance!

This guy is eating crumpets and hay for the rest of the war so I have declassified some of his widescreen shots! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-17-39.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-19-01.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-23-12.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-23-26.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-28-47.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-29-51.jpg