DD_Arthur

Mmmm...970...mmmm.....

It is amazing that Loft has managed to find yet another way to alienate his core customer base. Meanwhile, it's cold, wet and miserable outside but I've been mission making

Kira have you ordered any parts yet?

Another big update later this week including the release - at last - of Dserver and the Mission Editor. http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/168-developer-diary/page-3#entry234679 Oh yeah; in view of what fruitbat quite correctly says above about the lack of content - perhaps something even more significant was released this week too; Whats significant about my little vid? - apart from the forty odd a.i. planes its running - well I made the mission myself. I don't have access to the Mission Editor either and its a fairly simple bomber intercept thing but it was a piece of the proverbial to make and I made it. Lets face it; if I can make it, any one can . Check this out; http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/14672-release-simple-3rd-party-mission-builder-bos/ BoS got interesting again.

Another really interesting article; http://www.mudspike.com/exclusive-dcs-world-2-hands-on/

Looking good.

Will there be some sort of opening ceremony when it goes on display? A ribbon cutting......with a band, perhaps?

Wow!!!!! DCS can't get this soon enough.

The mobo quoted by NewEgg is an SLI board but i wouldn't really bother too much about that. I'm with Jabo; go for the best single card you can afford. Kingston memory will be fine. Oh yeah; avoid anything that touts itself as "military grade". The reality is contractors have a habit of selling the military any old shit 'cause they mostly get away with it!

Blimey.

You know you worth it Crash!

I think the ram slot thing might be a genuine concern. When you open the box on your new graphics card I think you'll be surprised at the size of the thing. They got biggggg! There is certainly a possibility you might not be able to use all your memory slots under certain configurations as the card might now allow it - just ask Crash! Edit; on my board the size of the card means I have to be careful where I mount the HD's.

2 x 4gigs of decent ram will see you fine Kira. 4gigs will not really be enough on its own as Windows will be using 2gigs merely to run. I would have thought replacing your CRT screen with something thin, flat and modern would gain you the biggest power saving overall and the size and resolution of this monitor should govern your choice of graphics card too. The 960 is Nvidia's latest mid range card and in combination with a new CPU will have no problem running all current flight sims at max everything. You could put the savings you make over a 770 towards something like this; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236175

Here you go Kira; CPU : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117369&cm_re=i7_4790k-_-19-117-369-_-Product Mobo : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128714&cm_re=gigabyte_ga-z97x-sli-_-13-128-714-_-Product Ram : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220909 GPU : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487092 PSU : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371066 DVD : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151269 OS : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832416806 Edit; oh yeah, an HD! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840 Now up to $967 all in.

A quick glide through Newegg with specs as an i74790k @4ghz on a Gigabyte mobo with 8gig of ram, an EVGA 960 graphics card, Antec 750w power supply and DVD drive came to $835 plus the cost of Windows7 64bit. That's £542 or euro733. That's pretty good.

Kira, just to be certain; none of your old stuff is going to work with a new board. Your RAM is DDR2 - a new board will only accept DDR3. your cpu cooling fan will not work with a new cpu but that's not a problem as if you buy a new cpu it will come with a fan. The only thing you'll be able to reuse is your monitor and box. I suspect you'll be needing a new key board and mouse too. If you build it yourself it will work out cheaper and be to a higher spec than any Dell.

http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/14556-developer-diary-part-88-discussion/#entry231289 Wow! Game on. Of course, being a cynical old bastard this just seems to me another indication of where the cash is coming from to fund this stuff.

Hello SkyPup, yeah I'd recommend BoS. I think its great. Looks fantastic and runs really nicely on my not so state of the art pc. It is still a work in progress but its got plenty of really good things going for it and now seems to have a firm future. We know an a.i. JU-52 is about to be released into the game along with a new - snowy - map and they're working on a Macci 202 also. FME and DServer will be released in the next couple of months and autumn and summer maps of Stalingrad are planned for release later this year too. Jason also keeps mentioning that they are "preparing to announce our next product". Not completely sure what this means. As a professional pilot I think you'll find the flight model 'interesting' but having RoF you'll find it familiar too. Oh yeah, skinning templates have now been released. However, there is for me one slight fly in the ointment. After the most recent update to RoF you now get a welcome screen that reads something like; "brought to you by 777Studios, 1CGS and the Russian Military Historical Society" This makes me extremely uncomfortable. The Russian Military Historical Society sounds like a group of old buffers who like to stroll over old battlefields don't it? Uh uh. It's chairman is the Russian minister of culture. A member of Putin's cabinet. Putin was guest of honour at its first meeting last year and gave a lecture! I think, though I can't say for certain, they are putting money into 1CGS - who produce BoS - for the purpose of encouraging "patriotic" interest in Russia's history. It's part of Putin's drive for Strong Russia - a nationalist, expansionist and dangerous vision of the future. Its feeding a hot war in the Ukraine as I type this. Not keen.

Aha........

Another quick runaround on the Syndicate server - dreaming of P-51B's

What FT said.

Sorry, No! I am done. Three cars are still on their way, and that's it! No more! Stop! C'mon FT, you know you want to. Just two more little 'uns and you could have.........................................................................................

I think I can see where this is going. You'll be needing a green Mustang Fastback and a black Dodge Charger me thinks

May I refer you to posts two and forty-two in this thread?

Are there lots of big American motors in the Netherlands, FT? Shouldn't you have a few more 2CV's?