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Damn, all the food-related jobs are taken
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Don't listen to him Jim, he's just jealous...
Thx for the larger logo, it'll be useful for the shirts (sigh) - must get back to the sewing.
Jabo
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LOL
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Good man - I'm not going there for a loooong time yet myself.
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Damn, I'd buy that myself! Ditto all the above m8, but I had to spend extra on one particular item it'd be the gfx card - NVIDIA's current 8600/8800 series are very good but the top spec models can be pricey - shop around for the best deals. Mind you, I'm running the game on a card that's a a few years old with no frame rate problems (well, only occasionally) at very high quality settings - can't squeeze to 'perfect' tho
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~S~ Enforcer - couldn't agree with you more m8
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~S~ Campi, glad to have you aboard - made a nice kill in that P-39 of yours on Tuesday night as well...
Jabo
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Hey hey,
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Yep - I'd agree it's a Flanker, although one of the early ones, the later Su-30 derivation has dinky canard foreplanes. This photo's been floating around on the web for yonks and the current belief is that its a fake and this is actually a stationary aircraft with the landing gear digitally removed for two reasons (which I didn't notice) one being that there's no blurring of the background which you would certainly get with an aircraft moving at speed, and two that there's no evidence of exhaust from the engines. I'm no expert in these matters, but if it is a fake it's a damn good one.
Saw the Su-30 a couple of years ago at a show (can't remember whether it was Farnborough or the IAT) and as you say Jim, it's a big ol' airplane, but I remember those pilots really throwing it about the sky...Nice work
Jabo
PS. Good photos those, I'm not normally a big fan of airliner piccies, but there's some nice ones there
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Indeed,
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Some more of these...
P: Autopilot tends to drop a wing when fuel imbalance reaches 500lbs.
S: Flight manual limits maximum fuel imbalance to 300lbs.
P: Unfamiliar noise coming from No2 engine.
S: Engine run for three hours. Noise now familiar.
P: Pilot's clock inoperative.
S: Wound clock.
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Velcome back Highlander
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I thought it was just a newer version?
Jabo
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~S~ Fumps
Amazon's a good bet, I've been doing a bit of idle googling around this issue, and they're currently the cheapest I've managed to find doing this game mail-order with the item in stock (@ £19.95). 'GAME' (the store) is cheapest at £9.95 (makes the £40 I paid for it look a bit sad), but they've no stock at present. I'd pop into your local store and see if they'd match that price before trying Amazon though.
Incidentally, if you need a headset/mic combo, I've got a HP set going begging. Yours for the cost of the postage if you want (drop me a PM)
Cheers
Jabo
P.S. Honorary blonde? Hah, wait til you've been here a couple of months...Lots of 'notes to self' are the order of the day for some of us...
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~S~ DT
Just to clarify a point m8, I was referring to 'files' placed on the desktop rather than 'shortcuts', which are rarely reported as more than a Kb or so, and therefore shouldn't place too much load on the system.
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~S~ GK, got one of those on order, so that info will be v. useful
Can't beat a good firtle eh Sid?
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Welcome Fumps, I think you'll like it here, don't worry too much about taking off and as for landing...weeell, I'm not really the guy to discuss that with...
Hope to catch you online soon
Jabo
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~S~ chaps
It appears that some of you fellows with new NVIDIA cards are having some problems particularly with vertical shear. It occurred to me that sometimes 'new' drivers from NVIDIA don't always work as well as they might, and perhaps this was the problem.
These are third party drivers from NGO, and I'm making absolutely no definitive claims as to whether or not they will a) work,
not work, c) cause the end of the universe - although the the last one's unlikely.Download them here
I suggest the way to install them would be to uninstall your current driver set first (having made sure your current driver installation file is safe if necessary) rather than trying to install the
new ones over the top.
The file will be available for the next seven days via yousendit, and then I'll find out how to post it into the Vault if it's useful for people.
TTFN
Jabo
P.S. These drivers are only for cards with the following GPUs
* GeForce 2-8 Series
* GeForce Go Series
* Quadro Series
* GeForce/nForce IGP (Integrated GPU) Series
Supported OSes
* Windows 2000
* Windows XP
* Windows 2003
Please don't install them if you don't have the above as I really don't know what will happen
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Oh wow GK, those shots of the carrier are sweet. Thought when I started reading this thread it looked like you were on the verge of getting a hot machine. Must remember the Aldi/Lidl thing cos it looks like a great deal, although I'd probably just do a straight guts transplant from the stock case to mine (I know it's sad, but I do like my PC case....)Just off now (yeah, I know it's 3:30 but I can't sleep) to have a fiddle with my gfx card to see if I can squeeze another erg out of it...
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~S~ Colin,
I'm with you on this one, I always understood that files (as opposed to shortcuts) stored on the desktop was a significant problem in terms of memory usage particularly on startup, so moving files stored on there to another folder is always a good plan. Not 100% certain about 'My Docs' as it's a system icon rather than one placed there by an installation, but if it works for you I guess it's all good. I'm going to remove it from my machine and benchmark the whole thing again to see - Given my current rate of success with these PC thingies (technical term), I'll probably break the machine again and I'll see you all in a month...
Jabo
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Hah! Welcome to the UK - BT are currently refusing to admit my connection problems are down to their useless fuggin hardware - I've just got off the phone after another hour-long discussion about the WIFI card in my machine playing up (which it isn't) and not the HomeHub (which is). Why won't some people understand!!!! AAAARGHHH!!!
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I like this game!
Y & T - Midnight in Tokyo
From afar I have come
’Cause you called to me
A guitar was the sound that you heard
Like a song on a wave
From across the sea
Like a vaguely familiar word
The ring of fire won’t discourage me
Though the earth moved under my feet
The day that we touched
And now, I’m here with you
But now, I’m wanting to
Get back to my home and the ones
I miss so much
CHORUS:
Midnight, midnight in Tokyo
Where the neon lights the land of the rising sun
Midnight, oh midnight I must go
But one day I’ll return if you’ll only wait for me
In each place I can feel the warmth of you
In your face I can see that you’re strong
And respect is what I’ve learned from you
When I’m gone, it won’t be for long
I ride the bullet through the heart of you
Though the winds will blow
And the rain will fall when I’m gone
But now, I’m here with you
And now, I’m wanting to get back to my home
And the ones who miss me so much
I dunno, all that work to get an 'O' at the end of the title so Psycho could have another go with his entry...
Later
Jabo
P.S. Nice to see you back on the forum BG - Hope you had a nice holiday
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~S~ guys
Picture the scene...I was struggling with hugely c**p frame rates for the game on Tuesday with Task Manager showing the game as using 97% of the available CPU cycles, and generally everything naff. Stripped and rebuilt the PC over the last couple of days and reloaded all the software - one hitch tho, everything's still FUBAR. Much scratching of head ensues, until I go into IL2 setup and lo and behold the graphics are still set to the default (OpenGL) not DirectX which my card seems to prefer. AAARGGGH!
I still won't be able to hit anything, but I can once again crash smoothly.
As the subject says - Sigh
Jabo
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Ooops - got the wrong end of t'stick methinks
Danger dog Logo
in Jim's Place
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Hi again chaps - sorry about missing the SEOW tonight, but I'm not at home at present, and don't have access to a pc capable of playing the game but at least I can get to the forum.
In answer to your unasked question Tonar