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Sounds like you pressed F6 to go to another cockpit view (which you can't see as you turned off the cockpit with F3). Try pressing F3 and check what you are looking at first, and press F6 (each press cycles through the available views) to get to the normal Pilot forward view /seat.

Thanks for the comments guys things are looking good all over hard to take bad screenshots really and even the rest of the stuff we have not discussed or shown yet is coming together nicely the guys are doing wonders. No date yet of course :) (Was wondering when someone would notice those Hellshade lol).

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We spent a lot of time on research and testing on the Albatros FM feel and overall I think we have it about right, and of course everyone has an opinion. It's a solid war machine designed for killing with 2 guns and loads of ammo, not a twitchy delicate flying machine like the Brits made. The RFC pilot test report commented on the very heavy feel of the Albatros controls and response compared to the light allied craft like Nieuports.

High res skins are definitely much better, if you don't see it make sure the skin is sharp (importing and re-exporting dds makes them go much fuzzier (DDS is compressed then you are re-compressing again). Also maybe make sure you have the Aircraft slider high too.

It occurs at places across the front, you can often see it right into the distance in areas lighting up. Also you should see more around major battles /offensives. Also maybe bump up the effects sliders to make sure you see all things.

Unfortunately these days your system is fairly low end, in video card, GPU memory,and CPU speed. Beefing one or more of those will help some and playing with the settings (see FAQ dfor NVidia and ATI tweaks, also close down all programs running in taskbar where possible etc.

LOL Flyby maybe you can make a whole Dr1 ? :)

Thanks guys, it's all coming together well from everyone working hard in the team. Rex has done some magic stuff too but for another time.. Release date? LOL Olham I don't think there's much to worry about the angle is small for the Lewis pretty tied up in between struts oh and avoiding the pilot's forehead! Elephant well there are all sorts of variants even within the marks themselves but it is an Mk.III (first out around 1904 I think).

BTW I did actually hit something with the Lee Enfield too lol but you are pretty much fly swatting with a toothpick.

Good idea Parky - for the sake of good order closed :)

Lewie sorry but it is NOT a CFS3 thing. There are NO spawns in OFF. They are disabled by us, this is an important point. ALL flights are on their OWN missions, totally generated by OFF Manager. Sorry but this is one of our important features we are proud of so have to correct that. You may meet craft in the same area often because there is a very active squadron in that area. It is NOT because they are spawned there, unless of course if you are bypassing the OFF manager to launch missions or you are flying CFS3 QC option then that may be different. If you warp a lot you will often meet enemies, if you fly with no aids, and no warp you will often miss each other.

As the guys say 2 seaters especially German tend to fly high - get up there first if you like (you can also tweak mission altitude settings in workshop for your flights). Plus we are still making OFF there are dozens of aircraft we'd like in there but they take a lot of time to make and implement in the sim. One day we may have dozens of more squads in there flying other 2 seaters etc. Try another area of the front where it's busier, (or maybe more 2 seater squads near) or try later in the war where more flights occur and more meetings - one good thing in OFF you have nearly 300 squads to choose from. As above sometimes you may be chosen to lead anyway, do what your commander says! Also on some ground attack missions you will lead as some AI are not as disciplined and tend to want to go for other targets otherwise, they need you to keep them in check and target for them. There's one or two sections on most of this this in the FAQ. For example under "1.2) Game Play Hints" mentions lead flight items.

Would be great if Alex could get some more published we could link on the web :D - mmm even digital version would be good.

33Lima I'm working on the Be2 at the moment so have to decide on armament - there are some issues with some of the loadouts which limits it some, but we will move the side gun anyway.

If you still see it then it's possible the aircraft you see that on needs wheels adding to a lower LOD. Probably fixed in P4. Most are all getting update, upgraded etc. Yes we know the various mount methods used but I explained why we went for that idea and it wasn't possible to have a gunner physically move a gun between mounts in CFS3 so it is what it is - but as I say we shall see for P4. Yep that's the beauty you can decide what you like with your sim, some like Uncleal set to invincible but kill them off manually if they think the crash is not survivable etc. Slider 5 does not stop effects happening normally, so could be another setting (GPU or otherwise) that is stopping you seeing damage (setting high res skins will too).

Coming in to land at Sutton's Farm is nicely tricky now firstly finding it then realising you have not a lot of space once you get low. Makes you realise why they didn't like those aircraft with high speed landing.

Glad you are up and running at last and hope you are enjoying some. Sounds like you have the aircraft sliders on low. Most craft are well lodded but if you lower the detail level you will see, rightly, low detail lods showing sooner a you zoom. ealier. Move up your aircraft slider to 5 in graphics config (Cfs3config). Be2 yes, they had fixed mounts too, and all sorts of Heath Robinson affairs such as balanced across rigging wires!, twin fixed forward, mixed, centre mounted that could be swung forward over the engine, Strange mounts in various positions, center mounts and many others - they were not standardised as such as most mounts where mainly experimental and not great in any configuration. So we chose a compromise between being useless, to almost useless. As we only have 1 Be craft to represent various years and experiments we wanted to show the almost unarmed version to give a taste of the early war. We could have gone with totally unarmed as they would mostly have been when carrying plenty of bombs or early on, so it's a compromise. Also importantly our extremely tiny team had no more time to make others. Be's were very stable and not manoeuvrable - the AI is flying them as bombers as flying them as fighters they look very silly. But yes they are fokker fodder which is mostly what they were. AI in P4 we are aiming for many improvements so if possible to improve them them we will of course. P4 we are looking at options - all take time to make is the issue. Maybe I'll do a rifle version too before my eyes totally burn out ;)

It sounds more like overheating of the CPU or GPU which would in term throttle speed if you get 40-60 in places then almost nothing. First check your heatsink is fitted properly to your CPU (important) and all fans are working properly and clean - then look in the BIOS and disable try CPU throttling. If you have a problem with fan/heatsink it wouldn't be a good idea of course, but if all checks out then this see the attached pic to give you an idea. If you are not sure about BIOS setting or changing get some advice or help before changing anything. You can use HWMonitor to show temps of CPU under stress. http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html Also CPU speed IS important, so if it's not overheating, try a small amount of some overclocking. The settings not sticking doesn't sound right at all but no idea why that would be - unless you are not saving using FILE,EXIT do NOT close the using the right hand corner [X]. Make sure you are running cfsconfig from the \OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields folder. High res Z buffer should be on anyway usually. Make sure any Antialiasing settings are set to Override application or something not "Enhance application.."

I enjoyed the SDOE WW1 mod he made very much and he is always well spoken all over the place so I'll drink to him too :)

I'll close this in the interest of calm and peace.. We need to support all sims to keep them going. However like on other forums where the same applies, there are general WW1 forums and other sections for discussion about other sims. Posting of "another" sim doesn't usually do anything except stir things up like this.

Yes Olham Winder has been very busy on new airfields and other ground objects. Stary re performance - all running very well so far but like you, we won't know all the ins and outs of requirements until it's done and all in there. So far so good.

Why not try out the FaceTrackNoIR http://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/ first. It's not quite all the features of TrackIR but getting there, and will give you an idea first, if you have a webcam without shelling out. Then you can see if you want to go for TrackIR. But TracKIR is totally strongly recommended and always has been for OFF. Imagine flying a flight sim with keyboard then getting a joystick and slapping yourself for not doing it sooner. TrackIR is the same. You'll be back saying Doh you were right guys..

http://combatace.com/topic/64931-p4-development-screenshots-merged/ Enjoy! Updated 2nd June 2011

Someone mentioned "2 weeks" about a year ago I remember if that helps.