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Yeah, it's a great system with the exception of the grahpics card - that's the only thing that's worrying me. Still, I can't do anything about it until I get back home, so I'll post an update here when I'm able to provide more details. Thanks again for all the help, sir!

Hi Adger1971, my specs are as follows:

• Intel i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz
• 8GB DDR3 RAM (think it's 1333MHz)
• AMD HD6670 2GB GDDR3
• 2 x 2TB SATA Hard Drive

I can't give you my frames for OFF at the moment because I'm at university for now, and hence don't have access to my machine. I'm getting home on the weekend so I'll be sure to put it up then! From memory though, I would say about 15-30fps when starting a mission on the ground at an airbase, then anywhere between 30-60fps while flying depending largely on the weather.

Thanks again!

Wow, Adger1971, WOFF sure looks great on your rig! Thanks for going to the effort with that post - it's really much appreciated. It may be worth me giving it a try judging by those frame rates; I suppose if I can't run it properly I'll be able to keep it somewhere safe until I have a graphics card that's up to the task. If it's any help, I can run Battlefield 3 at about 20fps on Low settings at 1080p, and 25-35fps on Low at ~720p. Thanks again guys!

Hi Adger1971, thanks for the reply. I had a look at your card, and it seems to be much more powerful that my current one. What kind of frame rate are you getting on WOFF? And, if it's not too much trouble, would you mind posting your frame rate from OFF, just to see the comparison?

DukeIronHand, that's exactly my worry. What kind of sims do you label as "graphics intensive", and which card are you using? Apologies if you've already said, I had a glance back through the thread and couldn't see it anywhere.

Thanks again!

Hi guys,

I'm concerned my card will have problems running WOFF. It's an old HD 6670, and if I recall correctly it did at times have some severe frame rate drops on OFF. I'd love to be able to take to the skies of WOFF, but I can't afford a new graphics card at the moment, so there doesn't seem much point in buying it if I won't be able to run it. Using the Hardware Compare site Tamper posted about (those posts were really great by the way, thanks!), I can see that my card isn't really up to much at all, and it is infact worse - the card on the comparisson site has GDDR5 memory, while my card is on GDDR3. You can also spot it on the chart UK_Widowmaker posted near the poor-performance end, so I'm not very optimisitc.

Anyway, any advice either way by those more experienced in such matters would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Snipes may not have grown on trees, but some other kites sure did! ;)

@Hauksbee: Indeed it was! Unfortunately I don't have a grahpics card anywhere near capable of running the game above 30 fps, so I'm going to have to give it a miss for now.

@Tamper: That's a really good point about the FoV, I didn't think of that. I suppose the best bet at the moment then is to go down the other routes already suggested.

It's been a while gents, but I decided to hop back on and see how thing's are going - only to find WOFF's release is imminent. Great stuff!

Just thought I would add my two cents - over at my sister's house they have a projector which provides you with a truly massive viewport; perhaps that could be something to look into for those who want to go the extra mile? Of course, I would presume getting a decent projector (with a good enough refresh rate etc.) would be somewhat pricey, but I'm not too sure either way.

Anyway, I hope you're all doing well, and hopefully I'll be able to join you in the skies some time soon! All the best.

17 years of age here. :)

I really love the camouflage on your wings RAF_Louvert, it looks great. I'd love to join you all up there again, but I'm having hardware issues. But anyway, good job! :)

Congratulations gents.

I'm not sure if this is the case with the CFS3 engine, but on another game I used to mod, when you got white squares in an effect it was because it couldn't find the correct texture file. As I said, I'm not sure if this is the case with CFS3, but it's worth checking all the same. :)

Thanks Shiloh. And yes, I did mean Olham - apologies for my mix up there.

Just a shot I took testing out my new graphic settings - many thanks for sharing, Shiloh. Editing done in Gimp as usual.

Amazing photos - thanks for posting them here! I never check anything other than the OFF section of Combat Ace, so if you hadn't posted I would have missed out. Truly wonderful photographs though... not only does it really makes you appreciate the scale of WWII, but it also shows you how people coped. That one in the Battle of Britain section with the actresses in, I think really shows how people tried to make the best of it, no matter what. I probably didn't put my point across very well, but you get the idea. Thanks again for sharing!

@Hellshade: Thank you sir. To get the colours to look like that, I edited the screenshot in GIMP following this tutorial: Fake HDR Effect in Gimp.

@Olham: Sound advice. But I am definitely interested in flying the Pfalz more - any advice on how it should be flown, or have you not used it much yourself?

@Shiloh: Excellent screenshots! I've never flown the Dr.I in campaign before I don't think - I never last long enough to get there.

Well I planned for this to go in the Reports from the Front topic, but unfortunately the pilot was killed shortly after the shot was taken. I was flying for Jasta 8 in Pfalz, on a routine patrol, when I spotted six SE5a low over a friendly airfield. Seeing a perfect ambush, I swept down on their tails, and within 30 seconds the trailing machine was going down in flames. It was then I flipped on labels, only to realise I had just flung my flight into RFC-56! So I ended up with two SE5s on my tail, but it was not them that killed me - it was lack of experience with the Pfalz. I was trying to turn it was you would turn a Pup, and it didn't go too well. I slid into the ground mid turn, to find my pilot was killed. Ah well - guess I should get in some more practise.

Excellent news - I got FreeTrack to work this morning by some kind of miracle. It looks like when I was soldering it wasn't a very good connection, because when I rotated my head the lights would flick off. So I did a bit of altering and there we go! Just in time to start a new DiD career, I think?

Olham, I'm thinking of giving full DiD a shot too, starting in the early war and (hopefully) progressing through it, learning all the way. The only thing holding me back at the moment is my lack of (working) head tracking software, because for the life of me I can't get freetrack to work. It makes tracking enemies a pain in a dogfight using the num-pad keys.

@redpiano: Check out this Command Key list by HomeBoy. It has all the functional keys that are used in OFF:

Hello everyone.

I have just checked, and I am already on the settings that you have both recommended. I also tried changing the Cloud Scale slider, but nothing happened so I have no idea what that's for. I'm completely out of ideas, especially seeing as my old machine had no problems with clouds at all.

Thanks for all your help so far!

Thanks guys.

I've been messing around with my settings for a while now, but I can't get it to improve at all. I have a question though - in CFSConfig, under the "Texture Info" window, what does the Cloud Scale slider do? Thanks again.

Hmm. Is there any way to prevent OFF rendering these clouds in the game? Thanks again.

Hi Olham, thanks for the quick reply.

My current sliders are...

Aircraft: 5

Terrain Detail: 2

Scenery: 2

Effects: 5

Clouds: 5

Also, I just tried it on a cloudy day in Quick Combat (Snow Clouds) and recieved no fps hit. It looks like whatever is killing the fps is in the OFFMediumWeatherDynamic option, as on that setting I get the cut in fps.

Thanks again!

Hi guys, it's me again. :)

I was really looking forward to getting back into OFF since I updated my computer, but I've been having a few problems - the most annoying of which is how the clouds seem to slice apart my frame rate. I can have a solid fps of about 60 on a clear day at 2,500 feet, but in stormy weather it get cut to below 10. I have no idea what's causing this, so if anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it!

Thanks again.

Hi folks.

I just upgraded my hardware, and have finished installing everything, OFF included. I did a few test flights, then decided to try and get FreeTrack working. It works in CFS3 v3.1a with 6DOF, but when I try it in OFF it just doesn't work at all. It's worth a mention that with CFS3, it worked even without TIRAttack v1.6, which I previously thought was essential for it to work. I remembered reading a thread on here a while back that had a useful link on that I used on my old PC, but I have been searching for a while and can't find it anywhere. So if anyone has any ideas, could you please give me a helping hand?

Thanks in advance. :)