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Ok, sounds good. I have a family event this afternoon, but I will check back later if I get home in time. From what I can see, everything looks good.
I will give Psycho a stern talking to.
DT
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Thanks!
Okay, got it, and I have (apparent) success! Loaded up with the 6.0.17 splash screen and was able to start a quick mission. Very glad to see some of my favorite mod planes are in this set-up.
Is there a current server running the HSFX I could test internet connection on?
DT
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I think this is where I ran into trouble:
"Current modded game version - HSFX 6 - Link to our mods folder.
Which files from that link do I have to download and install before installing the Hot Fix and running the Auto-Updater?
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Hey, M8s, I might be able to join in for the map test tomorrow so I have been updating my game.
I followed the instructions* and everything went well (I kept launching the game at each step to make sure it functioned) until I auto-updated and tried to launch. I see the correct splash screen, it loads to 5%, then crashes to desktop. Any suggestions?
*I am almost certain I started with a clean install, because I always left one on my PC in order to update to new patches more easily. I will try doing it all again clean if all else fails but thought I would ask if there was maybe something that was the issue.
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**Hold on. I installed the auto-updater, but did not actually run it. Ah---Duh. We'll see what happens when it is done. Will do a true clean install if it does not work.
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Peter Jackson rules. George Lucas can suck it.
The actor who plays young Bilbo is the same actor who played Tim in The Office, right? Looks like him, and if so, good choice.
DT
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Nice workshop but never really could get into Battletech.
My friends were into it, and I had the basic set. I liked it because it was a very visual game and not overly complex allowing you to actually get a battle done in a reasonable amount of time. I would have liked to have played it more but it is my experience that among my group, the games I am interested everyone loses interest.
DT
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"the charge was reduced to the lesser charge of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, to which the shitbag pleaded guilty.
I guess the diminished responsibility relates to being a murderous mental religious nut job."
The American comedian Dennis Miller had a bit about that along the lines of:
"Oh you're not guilty because you are insane, huh? Well, great. Then I want to see you sitting in a jail cell cackling away like Woody Woodpecker for the rest of your life."
"The eminent young neurosurgeon who operated on me a couple of years ago is a practising Muslim. I can confidently say that he has all the qualities that place a person head and shoulders above the baying mob as typified by the blogger that JP unfortunately stumbled upon."
A big part of the problem is that the political correctness and bowing down to the altar of multiculturalism ignores everything that does not jibe with the narrative of poor persecuted minority.
In the US, when people were protesting the building of the Ground Zero Mosque they were labeled anti-Muslim bigots or reactionaries besides the fact there were Muslims in the US and Canada ALSO speaking out against it, warning it WAS a big FU from the radicals. Some of these people lived in countries where radicals ran the show, and they know how they operate. They, of course, are ignored because it does not fit the narrative of the radicals only being radicals because they are so badly treated.
Let's face it, it is part of a larger problem where certain people sympathize with the perpetrators of crimes rather than the victims.
DT
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I don't get it...Why didn't he eject and then hit refly?
DT
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~S~ Fine fellows,
Just wanted to ask if anyone can suggest what DD_Bojan can do about his RC4 problem. He wants to fly with us in the North Africa MDS but his RC4 game crashes a few seconds after it has loaded to the menu/home page.
He has installed a clean copy of the game from disc, installed the "mega patch" up to M410.1. , downloaded UP3 RC4 from a torrent and installed it .
This is not the first time he has tried to get it working so he can fly with us but still no joy : (
He has not run a check sum as yet.
Any ideas please chaps ?
Thanks, Painless.
Painless,
No expert am I, but what is Bojan trying to run it on? A XP machine, Vista, or MS7?
I had the problem with it crashing to desktop on my wife's laptop (MS7) , and I screwed around with various settings from the RAM setting on RC4 start-up screen to fiddling with the compatibility modes. Eventually I got it to work in a stable enough fashion to do FMB, play tracks and run tests of missions. I can't, however, explain to you WHY that worked.
I hope he is able to figure it out. If I come across something I will let you know.
DT
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Guys, I can't swear its the same link (although it seems like the same video), but the last time this was posted, I remember some sort of malware/virus issue. Be wary.
DT
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trying it now...boy it is slow though.
Try something called MPEG stream clip for the MAC.
We use it at work, and it's fairly easy to use. It might still take a while because converting a two hour movie in high quality video is a lot of processing.
It does have it's limits. Last time I tried to convert FRAPS video with it to MOV files, there was a CODEC issue that forced me to use something else.
DT
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I'll have a wee bit of scotch tonight in yer honor, M8!
Rest in Peace
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""Psycho on my ass...Bastard would not let me go"
Oh, DT. My dear, dear DT...this explains so much about you...
Just remember, I was the victim! (sniff)
DT
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Oleg hates you...be sure.
My favourites with the AI is how they happily abandon you at the first sign of trouble.
Which is probably more closer to real life anyway
True, but I remember one time that the AI came to my glorious rescue.
Was playing a coop of some sort in the Pacific, and I had Psycho on my ass as I tried to make it back to my ship. Bastard would not let me go, and I kept calling for AI help. Well, I was in a last ditch dive after trying to lose Psycho in the clouds. I emerged from the clouds, and there was Psycho, right behind in his Zero. I was looking back and up at him, trying to evade and keep track of how much alt I had left when what do I see but 4 Hellcats come screaming out of the clouds in a dive like they were pissed, right after Psycho. They proceed to lit him up like a dry Christmas dipped in gas. Oh my GOD, do I have a good laugh at that one. Yee-HAA!
DT
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...What a bunch of shameless, kill-stealing weasels the AI are.
SCENE - SKIES OVER FINLAND 1942
ME: "Uh, red 3, no need to shoot that guy..."
RED 3 AI :"RIGHT! I will shoot him."
ME : "NO! You don't need to shoot him, he's going down."
RED 3 AI : "He's still flying..."
ME : "His engine's dead. I saw his prop stop turning..."
RED 3 AI : "He's trying to get away!"
ME : "What part of dead engine do you not..."
RED 3 AI : "He'll glide over the border."
ME: "We're 30km in, he won't..."
RED 4 : "I see a Mig trying to sneak away. I'm going in!"
ME and RED 3: "NO! That's my kill!"
ME : "Shut up, RED 3!"
RED 4 : "Looks like he shut his engine off so he can sneak away..."
ME : "HE DID NOT TURN HIS ENGINE OFF."
RED 3 : "Yeah, I just disabled it."
ME : "You did NOT $^% disable it."
RED 5 : "Hey, anyone going after this Mig I am shooting right now??"
ME, RED 3 and 4 : "YES!"
RED 5 : "What? Oh, look, I got him flaming...and BOOM! Down he goes! I'm an ace!"
ME : "MOTHER-*%&$&!"
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Holy Frack! Color me impressed. Buying something that premade would cost $300 at least, right? Fantastic.
DT
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.....that none of us could ever afford.
Keep living, you will. Tech always comes down in price, and I am sure they will figure out ways to recreate the experience in more feasible ways than having a huge tent in your living. Consider, for example, the 5 projectors. Why do you need 5? If you had one that could project in extreme wide screen, maybe 180 degrees, it could be on a servo that would spin with you as you turn, and the software would redraw the image accordingly.
The coolest thing out of the whole bunch is that floor, which is such a "simple" concept in one way, but really brilliant and revolutionary. Jesus, if I DID have one of these, I would be in damn good shape!
If anyone has the time and inclination, this is a bit of a mind-blowing read and related.
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Huh, and this works with a range of games?
DT
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I found this video of a hawk (personally, I'm not sure that's a hawk) attacking a p-51 rc model on the RoF forums this AM. Action starts at ~ 3:14
enjoy!
I'm a freakin' moron (or a crate-obsessed flyboy, take yer' pick). When I read this I thought;
"Huh? Wow! Really? Two guys dogfighting with R/C planes, and one is a model of a Curtiss P-36? COOL! Can't wait to see it! Must be really hard to dogfight with model planes..."
Not going to tell you how far into the video I figured out I wasn't going to see no P-36 model.
DT
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I was in a bit of a mood a little earlier over some aggravating non-sense involving paperwork, or it's online equivalent, which I damn well truly hate. I then stopped over at the forums and continued to try to catch up with things as I have been absent for a long while. Of course, what I find are posts from some fellow dogz dealing with some truly difficult things in their lives, hitting with me with a nice icy cold slab of ol' perspective. That's a good thing to get whacked with once in a while.
Made me think about what what the Dogz mean; what we do here and why we do it; what BG wrought when he created this group; what Roger has done creating and maintaining the site, and the myriad different things people have done to make it what it is, even those who have come and gone.
It means something, guys, it really does.
Even if it just means somewhere where someone can unload a bit about the craziness of their life, or the sorrow in it, it means something.
Even if it just means somewhere some can escape to for a dirty laugh, or to take to the skies high above their troubles, or more satisfyingly blow them all to shit, even for a little while, it means something.
Even if it just means you can work on something like a mission or campaign or skin or utility that most of the damn world does not give a fig about, but a select group looks at and says, "Damn cool", it means something.
And, having gone to another site right after getting my little dose of perspective, I found a little more which may suggest in some way what we are doing matters in a larger sense:
"Steven Pressfield in his novel Gates of Fire captures the danger of this information loss in his classic opening paragraph, which describes the dead of Thermopylae on their way to oblivion when one of them is recalled to life by the duty to give witness to the past.
'That state which we call life was over.
I was dead.
And yet, titanic as was that sense of loss, there existed a keener one which I now experienced and felt my brothers-in-arms feeling with me. It was this.
That our story would perish with us.
That no one would ever know.
I cared not for myself, for my own selfish or vainglorious purposes, but for them. For Leonidas, for Alexandros and Polynikes, for Arete bereft by her hearth and, most of all, for Dienekes. That his valor, his wit, his private thoughts that I alone was privileged to share, that these and all that he and his companions had achieved and suffered would simply vanish, drift away like smoke from a woodland fire, this was unbearable. …
Then from behind me, if there can be such a thing as “behind” in that world where all directions are as one, came a glow of such sublimity that I knew, we all knew at once, it could be nothing but a god.
Phoebus Far Darter, Apollo himself in war armor, moved there among the Spartiates and Thespaians… so quickly that surprise was impossible I felt his eye turn toward me, me the last and least who could expect it, and then Dienekes himself was beside me, my master in life.
I would be the one. The one to go back and speak.'
Apollo, Far-darter had chosen someone to go back to speak. And this is what history does in its various forms. But while not everything the past has to say would agree with us moderns, nor would even be comprehensible to us, it is what it is, as we are what we are. Our deeds are ultimately judged by posterity..."
Some may think I am reaching here, but while fun is and should always be the focus here, I really think that in some small way we keep alive one part of the story from our collective past. Sacrifices made, costs paid, and just a glimpse into the skills and ingenuity it took to fight and survive among the clouds. Scoff if you like, but how much collective information, both facts and numbers but also some glimmer of the actual experience have we pulled forward for both ourselves to understand, and maybe to enlighten others. History often suffers packet loss; in it's way, the DD's help rescue that past.
Keep the flame. It warms the heart and lights the way.
DT
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I think we should say that RC4 is the OFFICIAL current version and that we will NOT be applying any patches just yet.
Anyone who wants to test it out should do so WITHOUT affecting the version they play on line with.
All too often I think we have early adapters who's game has the new patches "but its ok I can turn them off" and then we get all the funnies.
Lets take this one nice and slowly, the last patch gave us lot of headaches. Once it has been checked out we could have an "Upgrade Weekend" were experts are on hand to help and we all (well as many a possible) go at the same time.
Any thoughts...?
Cheers
Friar
I second the Good Friar's thoughts...
DT
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WHile working on something I stumbled across a couple more container items. I will add them to the list and then post them to the vault.
DT
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I was unable to upload it to the vault.
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Whoops - sorry Glenn.
Should be fixed now, added xlsx and xlsm file extensions for the new fangled Excel file type
No problem. "More than one way to skin a cat". said the nun one day in high school, to which I replied, "I prefer a chainsaw".
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I love me some Bill Whittle. He's done a number of fascinating videos.
I am kind of fatalistic at this point. Many people cannot be convinced that the perfect should not be the enemy of the good or better, and only after things take a real tumble and reality kicks them in the posterior will it maybe sink in for some of them.
DT
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Was able to log on and fly with no apparent issues, thanks.
DT