PG_Raptor

my display sliders: Scenery: - Terrain Mesh = 51% (won't go to stright 50%, lol) - Terrain texture = Medium - Terrain detail = land and water - Water effects = none (won't show up on my Vanta anyways) - Special Effects = medium - Scenery complexity = Very Dense - Autogen density = Normal - Addon density = Extremely dense - Extended Terrain, lens flare checked Aircraft: - Ultra High Weather: - Everything is down as low as possible. - Detailed clouds, with density at low (I just didn't like the look of the simple clouds) Hardware: - 1024x768x16 - Bilinear filtering - MIP = 8 (though I set it to 6 if I know I'm flying in cities, doesn't affect the look too much) - Hardware rendered lights = 4 - Global map texture size = High Ai is at 66% (and the only reason for that is because 100% seemed TOO busy, and not a good representation) Like I said, this gives me about 15 fps in the country, about 10 in cities. While I would rather have 30+ fps all the time, doing that looks like crap. To me, my fps is perfectly flyable, and it doesn't look all that bad. Just depends on the owner. Cowboy, I'm sure with your system, you'll be able to pull off 15+ in even the most fps hogging places with some tweaking.

Rgr, I can't see it either.

common navycheif, by now you should realise that you should put links with pics like that ;)

Personally, I think that's bull. While upgrading never hurts (well, rarely), I have system worse than that, and I can still run it with pretty good details. I have to settle for about 15 fps, but that's perfectly flyable/playable. Here's my rig: P4 1.7 GHz 384 Mb PC133 RAM Nvidia Vanta 16 Mb You'll have to sacrifice some details for fps, but with some tweaking, you'll be able to run the game fine. And it'll still look great. I wouldn't worry bout it much ;)

Oops, well, here we go again. Take at look that that thread, its a nasty little bugger.

Everytime I try to run PCMark04, it just tries to reinstall again. I can't get it to work. How do I?

I'm flying with a buddy of mine, come join us!

BUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

well, either that or he saw the smilie and decided it went with his nickname ;)

sweet! ...uh... gots a link? nvm, got it. Thanks :D

I don't like them, actually. but hey, we still have the ninjas :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:

Yeah, they looked really cool. would it be possible to just take those smilies and take off the hats? They were probably some of the best looking smilies I've seen (with the exception of that winking one ;) )

Can't fly without a server...

So are we going to have a fly-in tonight? I'm gonna be out with some friends for a while, but I don't know when I'm getting back. I'll try to see if anyone is one tonight.

nope, the airplane on the main forum page is still red. Well, maybe not. Most of the time it works right, like hitting the back button. But after you've posted, and it goes to your message, when you hit a link to go to the main page, THEN the plane is still red.

PG is currently looking for a webmaster. We are looking for someone who has experience with flash/postnuke, or is willing to learn. PG is a collection of like minded flight simulation fans who fly operations within several combat simulators (CFS3 etc) and are now starting operations within the LOMAC environment. PG aims to have wings flying all the flyable aircraft types that LOMAC has to offer. We ask that you have a sensible, mature attitude towards the Sqn, our friends, and our 'adverseries' alike. It is the aim of PG to supply its pilots with an immersive flying environment within LOMAC. There will be more to us than just furballing! Missions will be tailored to allow on or offline flying, training sessions arranged and just plain old flying for fun! If you are interested in joining, please contact me at pg_raptor@hotmail.com.

Wow, that sounds really cool. I can't wait till August... (when I can buy my own computer)

What he said :) Also, this helps you organize your files a lot easier. Here's the basic layout of most, not all, aircraft installation: A zip contains three folders: Aircraft Effects Guages Uninstall the files into a temp folder. The files in the Effects folder go into the FS9 effects folder, generally located at C:\Program Files\FS9\Effects. The files in the guages folder go into the FS9 guages folder, generally located at C:\Program Files\FS9\Guages. In the zipped aircraft folder, you will there should be a subfolder which has the name of the plane. That gets copied into your C:\Program Files\FS9\Aircraft folder. That should be good for most aircraft. I, however, like to go into the FS9 Aircraft folder and create a new folder, and rename it to "~*****". I use the ~ to easily differentiate it as an addon, and not stock. That keeps in neat and clean. Then, I put the name of the aircraft in (in place of the *****) as I would understand it, such as "~F-14" rather than the original "f14dvf133" or whatever. Then, I make sure to copy the Model, Sound, Texture, and Panel folders, along with the aircraft.cfg file into that renamed folder. I hoped this helped, and I didn't confuse you too much :)

Whats that new hardware? Make sure you do a complete uninstall of the file. You might also want to use Norton to quarentine it before you do. Also, I think there's a way you can go to a system backup and reboot your system to the way it was before that file was downloaded. Maybe not. Anyways, definatly quarentine the file with Norton, at least.

Heh, that's ironic. The university I'll be going to to study aviation (University of North Dakota, majoring in Commercial Aviation) also has the Division I ice hockey champions, lol.

You sure this won't air in the US? that sounds like a really good lineup to watch.

Wow, that thing can turn! I wouldn't want that thing on my tail... A few of those explosions look Hollywoodified though...

No you don't. I've never had to do that with any addon to any MS flight sim, unless specifically stated in the addons readme. As for the original post, make sure you have deleted everything when you uninstall. manually check and make sure the directory has been deleted. Then try reinstalling (full version, not the one where it leaves files on the cd). If that doesn't work, you've stumped me, lol.

You know, I'm not so sure that it does. I mean, yes, some is needed, deffinatly. I think this kind of stupid stuff is rather hyped up by the media though. If you look at the gun discussion we had a few weeks ago, you'll notice the same thing. People overreact, the media picks up on it and decides this is what everyone wants to hear about. While its sad that this kind of stuff happens, I'd hardly call it nationally newsworthy.

Yeah, practice. and they take a lot less time and fuel than having to do full stop landings.