Lewie

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'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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

Aces High introduced a WWI online sim a few months back, and it was popular for about 2 months. 4 aircraft in the initial release.

OK I will be the first to post this smiley.. Hope it all goes well, I'd like to do a system build thread for my new machine when it happens

My curiosity got the better of me and I dug through our old computer stuff. I still have that old Orchid vid card, both the DX100 and the Pentium 133 486 DX processors and all of the main board memory and cache chips. I never seems to throw old stuff away.

I wasn't quite a computer nerd back then but a good friend had one of the early mac's and it had some interesting space physics simulators on it. Later when my wife was getting her degree in IT she brought home the an orphaned 386SX MB with the math Co-processor and we assembled a 'puter from leftovers of the IT department. And I learned a little about the Devil's Own System. My first 'gaming' PC was an 486 DX 100 with the psuedo Pentium CPU, and the Very LARGE Bus, 2 meg Orchid video card. WOW! All of 600X800 resolution at 256 mind bending colors and it ran Flying Model Simulator 6.1 I used to think the POST graphics for the Orchid card was particularly nice as they had the text do a slow fade from pink to violet as the memory sorted itself out. I kinda liked Window 3.11. No Commodore or Amiga stories here..