Major Lee

Much easier to crash a very large map, export the BMP, resize and rework, then re-import with adjusted height % field...

Well, actually, the data points are still going to be at 250 intervals, no matter what you do. The TE doesn't know/care about any resemblance to actual real-world terrain; it's just data points. Obviously you will lose detail and accuracy if you go "off-scale". You can always adjust vertical scale to get back any lost height, which is what you do any way because of the 250-meter resolution.... You could always crash the map at 125 meter resoultion, resize and re-import the bmp...

Well, TK is independent, methodical and determined. He "hears" the communities requests, but operates from his perspective and information. If one does not see what they want, they can mod it or pay him to do it, like Alex did with FE... I'd like a SW Pacific WWII game with Thunderbolts and Corsairs, but I don't think ever I'll see it as an official title...

2-5 years before another title? Hardly... TK has put out SF:P1, WOV, WOE, FF-Wright Brothers (with Birhle Engineering), FE, Fe-Exp, WOI, plus the sim for the USAF recruiting team, plus the graphic update for Birhle Engineering's D-Six test simulator... and he has patched all existing commercial sims to the latest standard all along the way, which is a continuous process... He puts out new titles in less than one year...

2% hit rate? In the Army, we called that "Spray and Pray"...

Happy Birthday Dave! :yes:

400 is a fine number... 400 is the number of grads in a circle... 400 is a Harshad number... fine number, 400 is...

This article might help sort out the power of various CPU's... http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/16/cpu_charts_2007/ WOI has upped the "in" for the SF series. TK has plans to activate dual-core architecture in the (near??) future. This will make SF even less friendly to lower speed machines running single core CPUs; it's the price of progress...

Has anyone made a Snoopy LOD for a pilot in SF-FE??? Now that would be cool...

FWIW, my new build... Gigabyte P35-S3G mobo E6850 dual core 3.0ghz x 4MB cache EVGA 8800GTS G92 512mb video KHX8500 1066mhz DDR2 ram 2 x 1GB in dual channel mode Seagate Barracuda 250gb hd with 32mb cache Soundblaster X-FI extreme gamer sound card (get the sound off the mobo and cpu) Arctic Freezer 7 cooler ASUS WV222 22" 2ms monitor Windows XP sp2 This moves SF and Silent Hunter IV along very nicely... Lots of room to overclock speeds on the cpu, video and ram. I can always add two more gb of memory. I would have preferred an E8400 3.0ghz Wolfdale cpu, but just could not find one... Well anyway, this setup works very well. I think we should standardize some kind of "in-game" test mission to note our frame rates... FPS, mission load times... Just so we can compare apples to apples...

Just remember that SF is NOT currently setup to use either dual or mutli core CPUs, nor does it use ATI Crossfire, and not sure if it even will use nVidia SLI.... http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.p...+dualcore+love/ http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.p...light=crossfire Check out Tom's Hardware review of video cards... http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/12/gef...800_gts_512_mb/

For multimedia, you could just use FRAPs and make an SF video... Have a good time in the Marines and stay safe. Thank you for having the courage to serve our Country! It will be a time unlike any other in your life...

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Well, crap... After Alt-N, the first radio comm will result in a BSOD crash... Looks like the Soundblaster driver is not happy working with the EVGA 8800 driver.... Need to disable my sound card to test this... Got the latest nvidia drivers. Need to try the onboard sound and/or the new beta soundblaster drivers... oh what fun... Still, it looks and sounds great, at least until it dumps...

Well, WOI on a 22" monitor @ 1680 x 1050 and unlimited settings looks absolutely stunning... Need to tune clock and fan speeds... This is a blast! Newegg is a great PC parts supplier!

Blackbird; you are the MAN!!! I "disabled" SATA mode and XP kicked right in... HD is formatting now as I type this... THANK YOU! I can't wait to run SF on "Thunderbolt", my new machine...

I hope it works for me too! Thank you very much for the tip. I will give it a try tonight. Can't wait to fly on my new machine... EVGA 8800GT.G92.512mb, E6850 3.0ghz, 2GB Kingston 1066DDR2 ram, Soundblaster X-fi extreme gamer sound card... Thanks for all the replies! :yes:

IDE? ok, worth a try. Will give it a shot tonight... But why IDE instead of SATA when it is a SATA drive on integrated SATA port? But anyway, it doesn't work with it set as SATA...

Yes, changed it from IDE to SATA... Also set it to boot from DVD drive to install XP. One odd thing; one screen showed some kind of boot options, but only two choices (can't remember exact wording here) but it did list the exact model number of the drive, but the POST screen doesn't show it, Seagate disc tools won't run because it doesn't see a HD... I'll have to check this part exactly tonight... Probably some obscure BIOS line value not set just so somewhere... (or, as my old buddy Reese used to say: "Some BS checkbox somewhere ain't checked...")

Initialize it? How did you do that?... Anyway, not sure why this would even be an issue, this mobo only came out in November of 2007... Not like any of this stuff is unknown technology here...

That's what I am doing, using a new XP-PS2 disc to install windows. It starts the initial installation process but doesn't see a HD... Might there be seperate drivers from gigabyte?

Seagate website doesn't indicate that additional drivers are required... I am planning on calling Seagate tech tonight... Last OS install I did just booted from the Windows CD and installation went without a hitch...

I know, my mobo has both SATA ports and IDE... Computer boots from DVD drive and loads some drivers into memory, and analyzes the system. Then, where Win XP would actually load, it fails at the actual installation because it sees no HD... Is there some other step I need to take here? Gigabyte P35-S3G I just want to test the machine until the replacement HD arrives....

ROFLMAO! :yes:

Someone knows how to work their feet!