Burning Beard

There is no specific link or anything. The later model Nvidia Cards are 3D capable is all. You set it up via the Nvidia Control Panel. They give you the options of a hardware solution (wired or unwired glasses or box or something) and the old fashioned Red and Cyan tinted lens glasses (which I just happened to have a set of). Set up via the control panel was very simple, you just select what you are using (in my case the glasses). Then they showed a screen that asked what you saw with your left and right eye. You click those then proceed to a screen to see if it worked and walla, you have 3D. Really very easy. I know the option wasn't there on my 8800GT, but I have it on the 260GTX. I'll grab a srceen shot later and post it so you guys with reds and blues will be able to see what I am talking about. What really got this whole mess started is my father took a ton of pictures with an old stereoptican camera (has two lenses eye width apart) and I was looking for a way to view the slides on the computer. This required downloading a program that would accept stereo pairs, once I set that up (also easy) I was off to the races. OFF was just a happy by-product of setting up the 3D slides. The cool thing is you can save the double image pictures as a regular jpg or bmp and view them on anything. I downloaded a couple to my Nookcolor and viewed them there. The Nvidia software will convert the images in OFF to stereo pairs automatically in the game, so you do not need any other special software to view that, just the glasses. So if you just want to play in 3D all you need is the Nvidia card. If you want make your own stereo pairs from pictures you need some other software. Beard

I have an Nvdia 260 GTX which is 3D capable and I figured what the heck I would give it a go. Much to my amazement it actually works and is easy to set up. You get a real good 3D feel for the cockpit and the plane in general, outside of the it is fairly normal. Long distances dont give you much depth (as is normal) but there is a feel for it on midrange. I am viewing this the simplest way, using red and cyan flip ups for my normal glasses. There is some loss or distortion of color, but not overly bad. The menus and such are still in 2D and it works with TracIR. There is a fps hit but the game is still easily playable, I did not find it necessary to turn down my graphics settings. Also, it does not seem to make the card run hotter. This also works on Wings of Prey (probably a little better), the color doesn't seem to be as distorted. I haven't tried with any of the more sophisticated methods of achieving 3D. Beard

The book "Catch 22" is much better than the movie. Though at times it reads like a used care salesman on meth. Beard

There was a P47 movie made called Fighter Squadron, starring Robert Stack and Edmond O'Brien made in 1948. Beard

Looks like a good skinnin' project. Reproducing that Indian would be fun. Beard

That was some dress she was wearing in that scene..... Kept trying to see around the edges Beard

I was with the Ringers for a couple of years up to the end of the squadron. I think at the end we only had about five pilots, and it was harder and harder to get the big online wars running, especially with the limitations of the game and the hacking that was rampant. Beard

When it comes to politically incorrect, Greg 'Pappy" Boyington pretty much covered all the bases all by himself. When you read his autobiography you find he didn't even like himself. But, with that said he was a larger than life individual and I think if nothing else the television series down played his exploits. I knew an old Marine F4U pilot that trained with Boyington and my have even run across him in the Pacific that had nothing good to say about him. Would I have liked to meet him, you bet. The series was called Baa Baa Black Sheep. It is available through Netflix. Beard

Guys, some time its just fun to smack up 'long side the head. Yes I was and Army NCO. Beard

My father was a B29 Pilot with the 676th of the 444th of the 20th Air Force, Army Air Corp. He was with the group that initially took the B29's to India, Flying across the Atlantic to Morocco then on to Egypt, from there to India. He flew the China Burma India route and was then moved on to Tinian from which he participated in the fire bombing of Japan (flown a 10,000' at night). He had some scary stories which he didn't tell me until after I returned from Viet Nam. Beard

Personally I'm pretty depressed we have only gone over 100F a couple of time this year. We usually have nice warm weather starting in the end of May. Temperature will commonly be over 110F starting in July. We have been suffering in 80 to 95 degree weather for weeks, I'm not sure if Summer will ever start. Beard

My daughter (onliest child) was born when I was 36, and I think that is very good age to have children. You don't sweat the small stuff so much. She grew up well, though a little pig headed, lol, but all in all a credit to my wife and me. Beard

Yes it is unfortunate. Al, for all his foibles has always been a number 1 fanboy for OFF. He could be prickly and maybe a little put-offish but he was never really inconsistent. His tips and cheats were a great asset for the new people and will be missed. By the way, from his writing I believe he came out of Viet Nam in one piece and lost his leg in a motorcycle accident (I think). Wont make excuses for him, but will miss his input here.... though he still posts on another forum I frequent. Beard

Sometime, especially if you use warp, your pilot just gets lost. If you use the tac screen, make sure you are following the blue line. I have been lost over Paris, almost to Berlin, one time I swear my pilot was going to Scotland. Beard

I have used the X52 for 3 years are so. Somewhere along the line I blew the pinky switch, but if you are flying OFF its no big deal. The sloppiness can be corrected by putting a spacer on top of the spring, between the spring and the handle. I made mine out of the top of a plastic 35mm film can. Just cut it to look like the letter C and slip it over the shaft. It makes the stick feel much firmer. Pair this with a set of Rudder Pedals and you are good to go. Never liked the feel of twisty sticks and you can lock the X52. Beard

I usually load up with rockets if available ('cause they're just fun OK) fire them at whatever, usually airplanes but buildings are nice too. I make just one pass and beat feet for home. Beard

Olham, when I loaded the black and white it came up Pfalz D111's, and the it was obvious that the paint schemes where field modification because the proportions and stripes around the crosses were quite often wrong, like it was done by untrained maintenance personnel. I figured if anyone would see it, it had to be a sign guy. Beard

If you are flying offline only you don't need that file, and unfortunately there is really not MP going on now. Beard

Make sure you installed OFF correctly. Been flying it for years and got the insane idea I would try to reinstall to see if it would work without a CFS 3 disk. Long story short it was the wrong CFS 3 version..... Anyhoo, took the time to reinstall CFS3, then 3.1 update. Then installed OFF and got a list of aint gonna works. Did it again carefully flying CFS3 after every install. Installed OFF and ran CFS3. Then ran 1.32 update, ran CFS3, ran 1.32g patch and ran CFS3. Then installed HiTR and took a chance and updated 1.46 and 1.47 (I think those are the correct numbers) and everything ran fine. So, it can be done, sometimes it is just harder..... Point is, we all been there. Beard

Same here Beard

Geeze how many new ones did you put up? I really like the gunner on the B2C (or whatever it is). Sighting down the gun looks great. That will add a lot to flying her. But maybe you could make his face dirty Beard

Wasn't that what I said Beard

I think that same conversation took place in my house years ago, but it was the first Red Baron and my daughter liked to fly Sco-pilot. Times sure fly when you're having fun. Beard

On the next release have his name on a brass plate somewhere on the control panel Beard

Wow Lou, the Air Force had bumper stickers, the Army never gave me one (not even an Air Force one). But then I just analysed the dits, I never chased 'em. Beard