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ATI only here, never had a problem. However, that said, the ATI HD 5000 series is far overpriced for its performance since the beginning, and apparently has not come down yet, or has even increased (not sure). Czech this out, one of the best places to get a large scale look at video card opinions...[H] forum ~> http://hardforum.com/ From what I've heard, don't bother with HD 5750 as a crippled 5770. Get at least 5770 -- or -- for a "somewhat" cheap starter card *and* a backup to your eventual expensive gaming SuperCard, back down to a slower 5600-something. My contrarian suggestion is to get an inexpensive HD 4850, the high end common stock of the 4000 series, or equivalent inexpensive Nvida card (I have no idea about them or what they are called). My Gigabyte 4850 is faster than an Asus 5770 that I also tried, and ditched. Later, you can buy a super expensive current gen card, but save money now, and have a good backup for your later card.

Z.E.M.A. Zombie Emergency Management Agency server floated that one here. Love it to this day.

Thanks GR. Gotta love the short answers. But, this... Yefim writes about MiG pilots thinking of Yak-25 as too heavy, but, that may be natural as other pilots from different backgrounds seemed to enjoy it, or so he wrote. And, Mikhin is another who preferred -15bis over -17, although its possible he means dry -17. I recall another interviewed pilot (?) said MiG-17 too heavy, but -17F would have been nice to have.

Okay then, how about a Yak-28P derivative instead? It had two seats, although it had its own issues I suppose. Be careful with the bubble canopy. Soviet aircraft had a knack for burying pilots in a bathtub. MiG-15 was described that way -- bathtub -- and so had poor visibility downwards, contrasting with the F-86's high perch mount for the pilot. Anyways, I see Su-15 as absolutely the sharpest looking "everyday" tire kicking plane ever made, although it could have been made to look even better. And it was. The Camel cigarette corporation did just that in the 1980s. I'll explain. I was in a 7-11 or something convenience store, about 1989 or so. There was a cardboard Camel cigarette display, and along with Joe Camel wearing shades, was the coolest plane I ever saw. It was, literally, an Su-15TM double delta, but with some clever Modding: First, it had circular/cone Mirage-3 style inlets, and as the French know, such inlets get the girls more often than rectangular inlets, and it may have had twin vertical stabilizers, but I don't recall that now. Most significantly for young American male smokers who couldn't fly Tomcats in the NAVY because they "messed up their knees in Hi~School football"©, the Ca-15TM, we can call it after the Camel design bureau, was taking off from a carrier, the twin engine double "swoosh" curving back down to the deck below. Smoothest plane I ever saw. I never smoked Camels though so even that didn't sell to me. Thanks again!!

AI aircraft? We all know how that will work. Interesting point there. If TK made PC games during the 1950s, he would have needed to make a strategic level bomber game. I've read that the old SAC movie with Jimmy Stewart boosted Air Force recruitment, and I suppose it did way beyond Tom Cruise and that...whatever...boosted post-modern NAVY recruitment (if at all). And they did it with bombers, and never rivaled atmosphere cloud and contrail filming that nobody can do today for some lame reason.

Awsim stuff thanks. Al-7 has always fascinated me. Su-15 for VVS may require assuming that VVS removes the option of operating from primitive airfields, although we did, so....or it could have used a larger and swept wing and more Tire rubber. Suppose Su-15 was derived from Su-7, but with a bit larger wing perhaps. Worse, I've read the Su-15's radar and missiles required an enormous cockpit workload, throwing dozens of switches in sequence, and were geared strictly to high level ground controlled intercept far more so than F-4 which at least had AIM-9s. I think the F-4 worked in this regard so early in tactical BVR mainly because it had two seats, unlike the -15. Thanks!!

:good: Dave, formation marching is an amazing achievment that tolerates no errors. I suppose its a method of learning to instantly obey orders, and it is both individual and group training together, at the same time. 1-tin was complaining about Basic, not later training -- That's how I see it. I was thinking something like ezlead poasted: Shining boots and bouncing quarters off bed sheets may be more needed with a draft force. It rubs home to the Newbies they are now, uh, military. Is this Correct Thinking? crazy:: Its the start of military training? Anyways, its good for shows which seems to be very important to the civilian leadership (ack, I keep thinking of Stalin waving his little hand as the troops march by). Also, long distance forced humping under load trains for endurance, for when it has to be done in the real thing. I've read the old Romans could cover maybe 50 miles a day carrying their iron.

Gwyno:: There is a difference. Left alone, men and women are generally conservative in their finances, saving before buying. Conservative society generally punishes reckless borrowers and reckless lenders alike. In the 20th century, this all changed, and going into debt was encouraged by slowly eliminating non-debt based money for everyday commerce and replacing it with legal tender "central" bank debt currency. I suppose you are in Euro, and I don't know much about that. Over here across the Mid Atlantic Coffe-Tea Boundary (CT Boundary), our debt based currency has fallen in street value by maybe 98% since the founding in 1914 of our "central" bank. As the currency falls in value, men and women can't use it for long term savings, so near everybody -- families, businesses, pension funds, and municipalities all included, are easily tempted into risky "high yield" Wall Street and I suppose City Of London paper investments. Risky financial behavior includes borrowing into debt on the assumption of always ever higher asset prices, like cardboard drywall houses. A falling value debt currency ensures higher asset prices until there is too much debt. That's where we are now. Overly massive debt everywhere didn't get started until weak governments sold mens' and womens' money to the giant banks with the force of "law" behind them. Thus the chicken vs egg scenario is not exact, but perhaps close?

Recon balloon or gondola package? We've been floating them across Russia and wherever since 1950s, and they've collided with a number of aircraft.

Wow thanks vanir great stuff. Soviet designers were fantastic, doing miracles with what they had to work with. Su-7 original (pre -B) was front line fighter, and only a few squads made it before the type was made as fighter bomber. I've always wondered what the universe would be like if the MiG-21 was dropped and replaced by Su-7 then Su-17 optimized fighter versions much like MiG-21F was developed later. However, I've been told the AL-7 engine was very expensive at the time so I dunno. But, pilots loved flying the Su, maybe more so than any plane since Fokker D~7.

I do MinPixelSize=0 This lets me see aircraft lod's farther away (smaller) before they vanish. I using SF1 though.

Yough Wrench, I have not looked at the searchlights yet, but I assume they are terrain objects? In my auroras, I made them ship effects. The effects don't appear until the ship does, and the effect vanishes when the ship stops at final waypoint. Only works for mission editor I suppose, where you control surface object start and stop times. I can use this so aurora turn on near mission sunset, and go away near sunrise.

That's no 9X. That's 9XtremE taco:: haha I like your thinking

FC, PM responded to. Very interesting. FC:: No I'm not kidding. One thing I thought of is cabin walls to hopefully confine cargo flow to one sub-section. But you are half right about the economics. This would not make air transport useless, just reverse the trivialization of air travel. More expensive tickets corresponding to fewer passengers per plane. No I don't think it will happen because this cargo flow leading to this bad a disaster is not very common (I think).

Very interesting story. This one incident should force designers to model passengers as unsecured and self-propelled liquid flowing cargo. How to minimize this? I never fly anymore and I never will again. But, if I did, I would be strapped in at all times, cos I'm chickenlittle. Just thinking about the possibility of going upside down, or just excessive bank or rogue turbulence -- borrowing that from rogue ocean waves -- is scary.

haha Dave. But, that's what it really looks like, sometimes. Now if you lose instrument lights....too bad we can't set instrument failure probability in this game. Su-27 FLAKER 1.0 from 1995 offered a long list of mech and electronic failure, but not guages if I recall (HUD failure, yes). That added a new dimension to the game. ---- Coach, you can do much stuff with the file Environmentsystem.ini. Czech out the Thudwire thread below for an introduction to some of the settings in Enviro. This is the first thing I looked into when I got The StrikeFighters years back (2005 lol )...and its for early SF1 but some things are still the same. Don't bump that thread though...its really old stuff. Tips for sunset/twilight Environment settings ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1447

Related I guess, supposedly, a "leaked" report DailyMail.uk says UK.gov is laying off 10% "public" employees. That in itself is a good start, although watch out for no corresponding reduction in the mass of bureaucracy. Suicidal poasted about Argentine military not purchasing combat material for about ten years. I'm guessing that is because of the Argentine economic collapse and currency devaluation (the what?) nine years ago. Maybe its our turn now. Start:: Not entirely. We men and women all went along with it, bidding up prices against each other for bank "credit," voting only for leaders who sold themselves to our creditors. Its in ye Olde Testament, somewhere...need to bone up on that...the Israelites decide they want a worldly flesh type of king to rule over them. God said..."smooth, but when you get owned, don't whine on my forum," or something like that. A fave screenshot I found, kinda like us tearing at our clothing looking to blame somebody...

I used to do alot of prop swapping. File corruption happened to me recently. One of...F4D it was...went invisible. Instead of reaching for my backup discs, I Re~Downloaded F4D, copied the lod to my game and it was fine again. I have rather old hard drive backups of my SF, and my usual method is to occasionally do new backups to these drives. But, I think I will leave some of them sit, as you never know when some file gets corrupted and if you back that corruption up to all your backups, you are screwed. I'm also thinking of just going back to saving stuff, or even running the game and other stuff on 8 year old hard IDE drives. Scott Meuller has stated that the recent generations of high capacity hard drives about 6 years old and newer are more failure prone than older drives. By failure, I assume this includes bad data and that means file corruption.

Dave:: hehe did you see this the other day in the red blob thread...? In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You I thought it was a humorous title.

Man that is so true. Thanks for the article.

I thought it was some Klingon Battle Blade - or something. Surprised he didn't stab his-self...or they didn't show that part hehe. Top comment...ever

UK:: Seek out more. You will see new angles on J.P. Morgan and other giant bankers of that time. Among the most visually captivating events to the curious eye is turn-of-the-century laboratory experiments dancing on the edge between classical and quantum physics. My fave physics labs were the ones reproducing these early tests of the atomic world. Never before nor since has physical science fascinated the general public so much -- witness the popular technology expo fairs, also in London, way back then.

Jedi, eraser, R5, well said. I wish I could write like that.

Interesting, a link poasted on the 2nd page there... WWII MILITARY RADIO TECHNOLOGY~> http://www.desyatnik.com/index.php , mostly German. Cool stuph.

Its getting near Halloween, folks panic on the internet. -- big EDIT ...me and my cynical "humour" again, rather than real discussion...sorry FC.