bulz

Do you have your card overclocked? Almost sounds like a heat problem, vid card fan running or slowing down? I had a fan failure on my old Ti4800 that would do what your talking about in iL2. iL2 puts a lot of load on your vid card

Your not running in Direct X are you?

I'm using the 66.93's on a PNY 6800GT 256meg. Have you tried switching back to the 66.93's? I believe that's what Oleg recommended. And when you switched drivers did you use a driver cleaner? To get rid of the old bits and pieces of the old vid drivers?

Not to state the obvious, but you do realize that you may be experiencing Death. Or I hope that's the simple explanition for your black outs. If you switch to outside view and still see the game you've been killed.

Don't have a clue where this should go, but this looked like as good a place as any. :) Admin, feel free to move. Here's how it's done. My mouse pad measures 7-1/4 X 8-3/4, the images are sized for that. I used 3M-77 spray contact adhesive to attach the cover to the mouse pad. If you don't have a blank white mouse pad. You may want to cover your old pad with and blank piece of your old white T shirt. Before you attach your new cover, keeps the bleed thru down. Iron-on transfer paper for your printer. Old white T shirt Follow the instructions for the paper. Remember to reverse the picture so the text is printed backwards I also cut out a frame ,oversized, from stiff cardboard to surround the image to keep it from distorting when it's cut free from the shirt. Coat your old mouse pad with the 77, align over the old pad and stick'er down. Alignment, here's a couple of suggestions. 1.Use double stick tape to attach your old mouse pad to a window. This will produce a dandy shadow outline on the padcover to be attached. 2. Use about 8 streight pins going around the perimature, near the corner's. With the pointie end up. As you let your cover down over the pins let them come through the edges of the image, the pins will guide the cover down. Once the cover is down press from the center out to the edges. The transfer has an odd slick finish to it but it doesn't seem to bother the mouse. But what would bother a mouse? Anyway, injoy.

Thanks for feeling sorry for me Pete! ;) I'll have to get the wife's permission for this. Now lets see, around $2,000 dollars for the round trip airfare. Thousand dollars for spending money food, side trip to Briggin Hill, Cosford RAF Museum, FAA Museum. Oh, and I dont think the wife will let me go alone. So if she goes it's off to Liverpool to see the Lads birthplace. There goe's another $2,000 and another 1,000 for spending money. And around 11 dollars for the mouse pad. So.. total cost of the mouse pad is around $6,011.00. Humm.. on second though forgot the wife's going better kick in another 1,000 ;) Just kidden Pete ~S! Cheers :)

:) Here's the pad it produces.

:) And another

~S! Billfish: Here's what works for me, with lots of rudder. Oh..and by the way those settings are with a Saitek X36 [rts_joystick] X=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0 Y=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0 Z=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 RZ=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0 FF=0 U=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0 V=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0 1X=0 52 59 65 70 76 83 88 95 100 100 0 1Y=0 51 56 61 67 75 80 87 92 98 100 0 1RX=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0 1RZ=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0 1U=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0 1V=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

Ditto ~S! BOP5_Bulz