Reggie

Thanks Crash, will save the file and see if it picks it up or not on the new one.

After some extended discussions with Mrs Reggie - which have been interesting, and considering I have agreed to extend our home to house her mother to allow her to get out of Zimbabwe and live with us for the rest of her life, I have been permitted to obtain myself a new rig - she could not argue against my primary argument that I need to upgrade in order to be able to see and appreciate Painless in all his magnificence and beauty 🥰 This will be arriving on Wednesday next week on Wednesday, I was hoping to have it this weekend to get it built in time for the next P38 mission on Tuesday. I shall try to have everything built and ready for ops on the 27th. I need to figure out what to back up from current pc to move to new one. I know skins and Mods folders will be useful, but not sure about controls, as when plugged in to the new pc, stick and rudder pedals will be recognised under a different device anyway. Any advice - gotchas, brilliant things you have learned when doing this yourselves please let me know, thank y'all kindly 😀

Welcome PooBear - don't worry about the name, it could be worse, you could be called Winnie The Sh^&* I am sure you will get on famously with all us weirdos - will look forward to meeting you online 👍

Reporting for boobies. Umm, I mean reporting for duty 😲

Reporting for duty - providing my rig doesn't overheat 😲

Actually, now you say that, my life would be so much simpler if I was, hmm, you got me thinking now 😲

This is where I am at at the moment too I am afraid, difficult to make more than 1 or 2 nights a week for me - and stay both employed and married 😁

Reporting for duty chaps, and congratulations @Painless 👍

Chaps, I hope you got my tally for last night. I claim 1 x German Spy disguised as a member of our Ground Crew. Stupid bugger walked across the taxiway as I was taxying past straight into my engine, resulting in engine damage. 🤬 I know this, because I have just pulled his wallet out of my engine intake - his name is apparently Hans Von Pratt 😁 To be honest, I had no idea the "human" models had any kind of collision/damage model and didn't even try to avoid him, thinking I would just pass through him. There was no big explosion, or jarring halt or anything of the sort, it looked like I did just pass through him, and then about 5 seconds later, I had warnings of engine damage on the side that hit him. Very frustrating as I was looking forward to last night 😰 Hope you all did well - but none of you got the notorious Nazi spy, Hans Von Pratt - only me - I am the spy catcher 😂

I will be online tonight for ops chaps in my new persona (and maybe my new skin) but as I have a 5am start tomorrow morning, I am hoping it won't be a super late night 😲

Have to say Les Payne, sir, I hope you are not "hung like a Baboon, their "overhanging bit" is not very attractive you know. Secondly, it would be an honour to be your wingman should Top Brass see fit to allow it

Ooooh, that's it now chaps - you are being colonised by the Africans 🤣 Welcome aboard Seagoon, will look forward to hearing whether you sound like Cheshire or Cape Town - can you do a good Cape Coloured Ek se? 😁

Quick question chaps, after my sad demise last night, is there any chance of a skin change? I am not a skinner myself, but wonder if there is any chance one of you kind chaps may be able to throw together a NMF skin for me with a new noseart I can provide? If not, I will stick with my current OD skin and resurrect it. Also, not sure if the framerate issue is something I need to look at more closely re pc performance or not - it was pretty dire last night. To be honest, I should have known the evening was going to go the way it did, I should have taken the fact all my controls were screwy and had to be remapped in the practice server as an omen 🤔

Reporting for duty puppies

I don't have any I am afraid, it is unsanitary to chew money and then give it to other people 🤑🤢 I can give you a credit card statement and a mortgage statement if you like? 😁

Too true - I knew we were in Holland because I was flying so low I could see the wooden clogs on the farm workers' feet 😁 @Painless - thank you for the gifting of the enemy a/c last night, to be honest I am thoroughly enjoying flying as your wingman, the teamwork is working well, so thank you for that. 👍 I have also gained a real appreciation for the P38 - she is a great bird. I understand how Robin Olds felt when he got his P51 - and loved it, but still pined for, and missed his P38 😃

Reporting for duty

Thanks guys, I have looked at the MB - XMP is enabled, I have run the Benchmark, and the PC seems to score pretty well - results here: UserBenchmarks: Game 92%, Desk 90%, Work 79% CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K - 83.5% GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 - 107.9% SSD: HFS250G32TND-N1A0A 250GB - 103.1% HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) - 76.9% RAM: Crucial CT8G4DFD8213.C16FBR2 2x8GB - 73.5% MBD: Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3

Hi FT - yes, I have an external powered hub which the X55 is now exclusively using. Next time I fly will tell me how much (if any) difference this has made. Regarding other spec of the machine - here it is I think CPU should be ok. I know GPU is the major thing - but these aren't available, and cost a freaking fortune, £800+ for a GPU is out of the question right now - so I will leave that for now. Mother in Law is coming to live with us in a few months and all money is going into extending the house to make room for her. Will be paying that one off for some years yet

Hi All, Some advice sought here - I have been having some issues with "ghost key presses" on my X55 that some of you know about, this may require additional power, but I am trying a couple of other things first before I spend cash on a Power Supply, I would hope my 600w is enough for now. On the other hand, I have been noticing that things these days are needing more and more RAM - I have 16Gb at the moment, but have been having some performance issues in IL2 even offline. After seeing my RAM is also only 2133Mhz, and my MB can support up to 64Gb of RAM at 3800Mhz I am considering upgrading my RAM to 32Gb of 3600Mhz RAM. Are any of you chaps pc hardware gurus that can tell me whether this is a worthwhile investment or not? Any advice/suggestions gladly received. 😁

Love this page on Facebook, something new and interesting almost daily. This one was pretty shocking, we see people chatting about realism of oil stains in sims - and I have read books by pilots who talk about having to be talked down/not able to see at all due to oil stains - but this picture really brought it home to me how crazy some of these stains can be. Cause of oil = direct AA hit to the engine which shattered 2 of the cylinders. P47 - Oil Leak.

Reporting for ops tonight chaps.

Brilliant show chaps - and Major Painless you are a dab hand at AAR's - you should write for Viz magazine 🤣

Chaps I am afraid I will not be there. Had my vaccine and am suffering from side effects so will be in bed early