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Jabo

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  1. One Q: Your windows desktop resolution is 1280x1024, and your in game resolution is 1280x960. Why is that?

    Set in game resolution to 1280x1024, and retry...

    Durrr...Not sure m8, will have a looky

    Hmm, that's an interesting point FT, as I am currently running a higher monitor resolution than usual - I wonder if switching between modes is causing this - Oh well, I'll go kick the tires and light the fires and see what happens. Will report back later

    ~S~ Jabo

  2. Every time I alt tab out something goes wonky(TS mic hiss or Freetrack lockup) or the game crashes.

    If I use the windows key it almost always works fine.

    Hmm, not tried that, but always used alt-tab before without a problem

    In your case I might try a system restore to a date before the problems surfaced but since my last suggestion caused you more problems I'll just

  3. I will ask them tomorrow about the warranty re Vista. I think it was Jabo who told me that when I suggested converting to XP. I think he also said some of the new stuff in that version of computer would not work with XP. But then I could be wrong about who said it. My memory sometimes plays tricks on me those days.

    Nothing wrong with your memory Jim, it was me. I also pointed out that when in the past we had taken machines which were pre-loaded with Vista, and tried to re-build them as XP machines, we had big problems getting drivers for the internal components (this was a particular problem with laptops, but also to a lesser extent with desktops too)

    Not sure I am crazy about using Ghost or Snapshot to take an image. I made a couple of recovery DVD discs when I took possession of this computer. Wouldn't they do the same thing?

    Yes and no

  4. There are a number of sort of free codecs out there which will enable you to play back DVDs - I'd need to have a look though.

    ~S~ Jabo

    You're running XP right?

    Scrap that - download VLC media player (google for VLC and you should find it) - plays pretty much anything...

  5. Talking of classics and DT, did I ever tell everyone about the time when I pulled off this wondershot on DT...Well it went something like this.......I was in a 190 and I saw this plane try to duck down and go under my nose.

    ...........you remember it?

  6. No better I'm afraid Rog. I have found something interesting though - The problem only seems to surface when I alt-tab back to the desktop. This indicates a pretty obvious solution, but I like to be able to hop out and back into the game again while I'm waiting for everyone else to finish.

    ~S~ Jabo

  7. Set affinity for Trackview etc to other cpu core

    Sorry for being dense - how do I do this?

    Doesn't help I'm afraid - now FreeTrack doesn't work and I'm still at 10fps

    I don't understand this at all - it's been working fine for a couple of weeks without any problems - now (without changing any programs, installing anything new - it's FUBAR - not happy.

    Worth a re-install of windows or not?

    Is there a Linux version of IL2? - Only partly joking

  8. I used to have issues with choppiness (some process taking up CPU at the worst time) but I now go into task manager and set IL2FB.exe to "high" or "realtime" priority after the game starts.

    I set TS to "above normal".

    This has always made things better for me, however, a few Dogs tried that and their situation got worse.

    I'm afraid this has made things significantly worse as now FreeTrack doesn't work in the game at all and even when I put IL2 back to it's original setting, the issue with FreeTrack remains.

    I'm beginning to wonder if it might not be better just to go back to XP and stop fannying around...

    ~S~ Jabo

    Oh this is just bizarre. Without shutting the game down, I've just launched the QMB again, and I'm back to my more usual 60+ frames per sec...and FreeTrack's working fine. Changed aircraft - still fine. Changed aircraft again, back to 10 fps. WTF!!!

    LOL alt-tab out and back into game - now 60fps. Alt-tab a second time - back to 10

  9. The DxDiag Report looks fine to me, though I must state I'm no too familiar with the Vista ones...

    (Your Conf.ini I could not retrieve from the vault, it seems to be missing.)

    However, the way the drop happens, sounds to me like some other (not IL2 related) process has started running in the background.

    Maybe some Vista timed one. Or a Virusscanner update. Or defrag. Or Vista maintenance stuff...

    So, next time this drop occurs, alt-tab out of IL2, start the task manager, and check if there's a process eating CPU cycles...

    Thanks FT. I can rule out anti-virus activity, and there doesn't seem to be anything else grabbing resources, but I'll have to check again I guess.

    ~S~ Jabo

  10. Hi guys, hopefully someone out there can assist me. I had some serious issues this evening with single figure frame rates both online and offline during frantic efforts to 'fix' (ha ha) the problem. Some of the guys online suggested posting a dxdiag and my conf.ini, for you techie bods to have a squint at, so here they are. Fingers crossed the problem will be diagnosed at least.

    Thanks in advance

    ~S~ Jabo

    Not sure how to attach files here, so popped them in the vault for now.

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