Lewie

All hail the Developers!. All I can provide for you guys is a virtual round of drinks. But if it were me and you guys in realspace I'd spring for the drinks.

Be extra careful downloading .dds viewers. I found one from a Star Trek PC game modding website that had a trojan imbedded in it. Luckily Avira caught and quarantined the file before I actually opened it.

One of my niggling complaints about FS-WWi is that you can lose a wing to flak, ( on a Biplane, but the monopanes are another thing altogether..) and still attempt to fight and quite easily land. Of course if you're hit with flak on the wing of a Morane Saulnier "N" you go down in a very realistic spiral and end your "career" as a smoking crater. One of my favorite things about FS-WWI is the optional Thornycraft truck with AA twin Vickers gun. I've got a scripted mission defending Vaulx airfield from a flight of AEG GIV's and they are marvelous to watch if you manage to disassemble one before they make your truck a smoking crater. The wings fly off and descend like maple seeds, the engines explode or disconnect and run in over overspeed revs all the way to the ground, the fuselage becomes a giant Lawndart, and if they havent dropped their eggs yet have this amazing pyrotechnic show that follows the path of the lawndarting fuselage. Of course there's the 4 part harmony scream of the jumping German aircrews. It very satisfying.. ( Muuaaahhhahaha!)

I don't know how many of you are Terry Pratchett's Discworld fans, I'm a big one, in addition to Neil Gaiman's books. It's the latest video-ization of his numerous Discworld series. These movies are pretty darn good, I'd even suggest that they're close to the the Harry Potter movies in quality and production standards. I have to say that Vetinari as a blonde had me thrown a bit, but his part is down well by actor Charles Dance. And the woman who plays Angua, :wolfhowl: she's pretty hot. I also love the choice of actress for Adora, she is exactly as I imagined her in the novel. Enjoy, they're in 15 minute segments, and there's 13 of them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vEyI3heHXY

I'm still having a major headspin about them casting David Suchet as Reacher Gilt. Mainly because he's perfect for it. I also think he'd be perfect as Ventinari. Damn, I may never watch another Poirot mystery again without thinking of his part in this, he was a better Reacher Gilt, than he was as a fictional Belgian Sleuth.

Does your MB software have some sort of voltage and temperature monitor program? You can monitor the voltage in real time if and when when these slowdowns happen.

I have added RC Desk Pilot to my laptop's list of sims since I'm primarily an R/C model pilot and my interest in sim modding came from the venerable RC sim Flying Model Simulator. I sometimes fly OFF with my 6 channel Esky USB transmitter interface, 'cause I'm more used to using an RC transmitter interface instead of a twisty stick. The nice thing about RC Deskpilot is the neat little aircraft importer cum FM creator. Here's a model I recently imported to RCDP .. It's an old FMS model from years back that I updated the cockpit and cleaned up some of the meshes on recently.

I understand, and I really appreciate what you and the rest of the OFF crew are doing. I mean the cockpits are intricately detailed works of art. so much time there alone. I'd love to contribute, but I have to honest with myself that my commitments to ArgonV and SDOE's FS-WWI is taking a big portion of my time. And though my aircraft, although up to some of the P3 standards in their exteriors, would need major interior reworking for P4. I'm sure it's more than a few little cut-n-pastes of your stock interior gear and other stuff, learning to set textures in a different renderer, and I'd like to be more involved in the complete import process. The screenshots are totally gobsmacking. I just hope my new machine will be up to running this in a worthwhile manner.

Actually MS's CFS3 had working railroad trains, one of the early practices I did with my 'hybrid' OFF/CFS3 combo, was practice ground strafing with the Bristol F2b against the trains and truck convoys meandering around the airfield in QC. Trains don't kill easy and sometimes their boxcars and flatbeds carry defensive MG and AA, at least in CFS3.

I don't want to be too spoilerish, but how many early kites are there in the works we're not being shown? Any Farmans? Voisins? Vickers Gunbus?, Albatros CIII's? Will the Morane "L" parasol come in both single and two seaters? Inquiring minds and all that stuff...

I've used Poplar as firewood, it's not Maple or Myrtle but it's no worse than many softwoods, and a similar deciduous tree here in Oregon, Red Alder, grows about as fast as Normandy Poplar. Before the War there were some fair forests in Northern France, and they weren't all Normandy Poplars. Quite a few of those forest were destroyed by shelling, there was a fair amount of firewood to be harvested from these shattered woods. Although you see a lot of Poplars along roads in France, they aren't the bulk of trees being grown.

If you read some the accounts of those stationed at airfields, there was a distinct lack of heating fuel in some parts and firewood was always in demand, Trees on the borders of the airfield would have been the first to go.

I have been researching new systems here lately, doing a lot of comparison shopping and looking at 'Bare Bones' and BIY systems. One of the more important pieces of kit for the new gaming box is a sufficiently adequate heatsink/fan combo for the CPU. I think I'm going to build with another AMD processor, mainly because I'm a repeat and satisfied customer, they have a great bang to buck and they took the 3D world head on with the early K6-2 processor with '3D Now!'. I still have an old box running this relic. And because of my fondness for this simple, and above all, quiet old machine I have to wonder about all the recent bells and whistles being thrown at CPU coolers. My other machine is a sub gigahertz Duron running a Thermaltake Chrome Orb cooler that the fan died early on, I just removed the cooler fan from it and put one of the case fans adjacent to it and it's been running this way since 2003. It never gets hotter than 40C, no matter what. Now I understand the heat generated by a more recent CPU is many orders of magnitude greater than these old machines, but have you looked at the numerous and extensive amount of CPU coolers out there lately? And they all look like something put together by the borg collective. I'm a proponent of simple and easy maintenance, and low energy use, and tend to like small foot print setups in a PC box just because of the room it allows for airflow and cable routing. At any rate what is with the monsterous 'heat pipes' setups with the combination of copper and aluminum? Why can't they make them low profile? And coming from what I've researched, and unless aluminum has suddenly changed it's thermal conductivity and atomic number, I'm guessing it's still the best material to build your heat sink out of. My other concerns came from reading one of the online CPU Cooler comparisons, the writer commented on that a lot of these new coolers are coming with less than polished heat transfer surfaces that actually sub optimize the cooling of the CPU. My old Thermaltake had a near mirror smooth surface for the contact patch on the bottom, some of these so called Heat Pipe systems are pretty crude, with gaps between the copper and aluminum. Has LED infested and decorated computer Nerd-dom taken over from sound engineering and precision of manufacturing?

I find new things to enjoy or be impressed with. My pilot just got home to Bruay by the skin of his teeth. It seems that RFC #71 meets a lot of German Aces. We also have a 'poor' rating. My pilot in a flight of 3 Camels doing a frontline arty escort for a group of RE8's, on getting hooked up just east of our aerodrome got immediately jumped by, of all the famous Aces, Ernst Udet and Eric Hamster,..( really?), and four wingmen. I lost all of my flight members and the RE8's didn't fair too well either, especially after the Pfalze DIIIa's showed up to help. Early 1918 missions in what the preview says is a "quiet sector" are damn busy. I'm sorry to say I ran like hell. The fact that my MG jammed after 30 rounds didn't help matters. If my laptop doesn't have a meltdown first. I was chugging along at about 5 FPS in some parts.

Yes, I need to keep some restraint while dodging about in that mess, having to be constantly looking at your six with 9 enemy aircraft in the area doesn't help. I got Eric in my sights for about 4 seconds and just laid on the trigger.

Concerning the laptop, I've already added extra tall rubber feet to the case's underside many months back, it has about a 1/2" of clearance above the desk surface, but I think uncleal has a good idea. I just made a makeshift pair of supports that bring it up another inch and it's running a bit cooler now.

To add more to the screen capture confusion my default screen capture keys are " ctrl + ; " Happy to help, maybe too happy..

I would think Berlin would be a fair enough place to meet the opposite sex, sometimes the best place to meet like minded wimmins is in secondary and community colleges. It's where I met my wife, we both had an interest in fiction writing. That we hit it off well after a few classes together was probably because we became good friends first. I wasn't so impressive to her father at first, but my interest in aircraft and helping put in his concrete driveway helped improve that first impression.

You mean something like this? Ouch!

OK, thank you. I'm recalling the Duron cooler with the yellow thermal pad, I recall it not working so great as a compound. I'm looking at an AMD2 250 Regor dual core running in a Gigabyte motherboard, I just need to decide what other peripherals I can get with my budget.

If you don't watch the ground when you strafe you will definitely, Did that this morning with my 3rd RFC 22 pilot. Don't get into ground target fixation, it's a killer. ( but the resulting explosion is pretty.)

And I'm humming and whistling softly the Over Flanders Fields theme music while waiting at the front desk to get a DVD checked out and one of the ladies who works there, she knows me, and she says "That's a pretty tune..in a conversational sort of way. I'm kinda of taken aback because I'm not the most musically adept when it comes to being in tune. But since I'm filled with the spirit of OFF, I start telling her about Over Flanders Fields, how 'it's based on the old Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 3, that it's a complete revamp of the game and how it's so immersive, because of it's depth of realism and..,' I notice her eyes are starting to glaze over. So not to be a complete bore I just have her look up Pol's videos on Youtube on one of the front desk desktops . I had to leave soon after so I didn't get to see if anyone at the front desk got to finish watching the vid. The music is brilliant and I find myself wasting a few moments watching the opening video whenever I start OFF. I'm hoping I didn't seem like a breathless gaming nerd..

Any shots of the Morane Saulnier "L" in game?

Do the stock AMD II K8 coolers come with the same 'pad' of cooling compound as the earlier K7 series?

Has anyone here read "A Private Treason: A German Memoir" by Ingrid Greenburger? She has a keen view of the post WWI German psyche.