Jabo

yeah, but in the main DDz page, not the forum. ~S~ Jabo

Great to hear from you again m8, hopefully we'll be able to catch up on TS soon ~S~ Jabo

YES! Ban the nanny state! I don't need warning that my takeaway Americano is likely to be hot goddamnit

Possibly you would qualify for an honourable mention m8

LOL, don't get me started... Welcome Brando - good to fly with you last Saturday.

DIMM stands for Dual In-line Memory Module, and refers to the packaging type of the memory - You may remember SIMM memory a while back, obviously Single etc etc DDR, DDR2 and recently DDR3 have different contacts, and therefore cannot be mixed. If you have DDR now, then DDR you will need. The 400 refers to the clock speed the memory is rated at. In this case 400MHz. This is sometimes referred to as PC-3200. ~S~ Jabo

Using Kaspersky at present, McAfee TP throws a wobbly with XP64 ~S~ Jabo P.S. Only problem so far is that there is no driver for my Linksys WMP300N wifi card (and may not be one anytime soon as far as I can tell). Can anybody out there recommend a good wifi card (not necessarily 'N') with x64 support. It's not a huge problem as I can run an ethernet cable to my router, but I'd prefer the wifi option. Other than that, XP64 is a doozy - even my Saitek Cyborg stick has native driver support!

Just run PassMark - score up to 1101.4 ~S~ Jabo

My 9800GTX is commercially OC'd, and seems OK if a bit warm. ~S~ Jabo

Everything OK at present. Windows installed, updated and stable. ~S~ Jabo

OK gang, I'm going for it. Win XP 64 bit here I come.... ~S~ Jabo P.S. Hopefully might manage to fly tonight.

And this is why I don't do overclocking...If the uber-cautious BG can have problems, I shudder to think of the hash I could make of it.... ~S~ Jabo

I've always used the remote assistance option native to Windows. ~S~ Jabo

I've seen July 30th 2009 postulated - think this is more likely... ~S~ Jabo

Not sure which patch you're referring to m8, but all you should need is that 1.2Gb monster. That contains the files to patch the basic game to 4.08, includes the mod switcher, no-disk crack etc etc etc. Therefore, the process is; 1) install game 2) install 1.2Gb Mod Pack The other mods haven't yet been fully approved for use with DD co-ops so leave 'em out for the time being. Job done ~S~ Jabo P.S. Hop onto TS if you're still not certain m8, I'll be there for the next 30 mins or so

I can't say I agree with the sentiment, but I do like the way he has felt the need to add 'Zionist' in brackets in front of the 'juice' just in case anyone was uncertain... Doofus. ~S~ Jabo

~S~ and welcome to the Pound Jabo

Welcome to the pound Hollywood - Bear in mind that the Sisters of St Oleg (a local convent) are always on hand to offer...erm...'spiritual' guidance if necessary... ~S~ Jabo

As I understand it, the IL2-1946 game is also available as a paid download directly from ubisoft if you have a rapid connection. Bear in mind that you will also need to download the 352nd mod package which you can find in the Vault. Welcome to the pound Eraser - I think you'll like it here... ~S~ Jabo

Possible confusion there Rog, my pre-SP1 copy of XP could not sort out my shiny new PCI-E gfx card, so I slipstreamed it with SP2 in desperation and hey presto! Everything went back to normal (still dazed and confused, but at least I could get Bill's finest installed). The next steps for me are to slipstream SP3 into the mix which will save me lots of time when I next have to do a 'Quazi' on my system (new verb for the Oxford boys there - I quazi, you quazi etc etc). ~S~ Jabo

OK, I think I understand that. I think I need to find a copy of XP 64bit if I want to push the envelope as far as memory is concerned. Thanks for the clarification m8, much appreciated. ~S~ Jabo

Yep, that could be it...

Eh? You're spot on about Oleg overdoing the ground clutter though. Despite the fact that I spend quite a bit of my online time on the ground, I don't spend a lot of time looking around. Hopefully the production team are doing a good job on the programming so (like IL2) it will run on machines that aren't at the cutting edge. I remember being staggered by Forgotten Battles in comparison to FS 2004. ~S~ Jabo

Hi Dep, been doing some googling, there is no point in putting 16Gb of RAM in that Xeon unit of yours. 8Gb is all that Vista is capable of detecting (64 bit), and going above that will probably make matters worse as Vista will try and address the additional but make a hash of it and will wind up slowing the machine down. I suggest you go to 8Gb if you must, but save the cash on the additional memory and put it towards your graphics card. ~S~ Jabo P.S. Need to look into overclocking now as must find a way to beat Jim...

Given that your monitor was causing the problem, I suspect the default refresh rate was set to a level your monitor could not support, and therefore the monitor was shutting down, giving you the Black Screen of Death ie monitor in power save mode. ~S~ Jabo