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Good post DT, Enforcer. I like animals because they taste great!!!!!!!!!! Gec

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090806/wl_canada_afp/canadaushistorywwiiarcheologyairplanecrash_20090806231120 OTTAWA (AFP) – Canadian underwater archeologists accidentally discovered what they believe to be the wreck of a US Air Force airplane that sank in the Saint Lawrence seaway in 1942, the Parks Canada divers said Thursday. The divers said in a statement that they were carrying out routine work in an adjacent area when they came across the wreck. It must still be confirmed that it is indeed the lost plane. "This is a very significant discovery," Quebec region Minister Christian Paradis said. "This plane is a testament to the collaboration between Canada and the US during the Second World War." The amphibious aircraft foundered in rough weather on November 2, 1942, in the waters surrounding what is now the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in the eastern Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The plane was based at Presqu'Ile, Maine, in the United States, and serviced an airfield in the village of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Quebec, about 1,000 kilometers (641 miles) northeast of Montreal. Nine persons were on board when the aircraft went down. Four of the crew escaped the flooding plane and were rescued by local fishermen rowing out from shore in open boats in rough seas. The five others perished, trapped inside. Officials said sonar scans indicate the plane appears to be in good condition and divers hope to recover any remains of the five victims in the coming weeks. "The United States government was extremely interested to learn of the discovery of the wreckage," said David Fetter, Consul General of the United States. In 1941 and 1942, the United States constructed a series of airfields in Eastern Canada to ferry aircraft to Allied air forces in Northern Europe, as part of the so-called "Crimson Route." The construction of the airport in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan was to serve as an emergency airfield along the ferry route between Presque Isle and Goose Bay, Labrador.

Ok this is confusing as hell to me, I can get highly reflective Water in odd sized Windowed mode, But not in full screen. Also in windowed mode the reflections do not line up with the sun. And in full screen the reflections although duller do? [window] width=1280 height=945 ColourBits=32 DepthBits=24 StencilBits=8 ChangeScreenRes=0 FullScreen=0 DrawIfNotFocused=0 EnableResize=1 EnableClose=1 SaveAspect=0 Use3Renders=0

I picked up the 260GTX OC last week from Dell, after rebates, and a 25% coupon I got it for $137.00 If you get one make usre it a 216 SP and not a 192 SP GPU processor: GeForce GTX 260 Driver version: 190.38 Stream processors: 216 Core clock: 626 MHz Shader clock: 1349 MHz Memory clock: 1053 MHz (2106 MHz data rate) Memory interface: 448-bit Memory: 896 MB Video BIOS version: 62.00.4C.00.50 IRQ: 25 Bus: PCI Express x16 Only quirk I have is I can't get water in IL2 to look like my ATI card unless I run it in a off sized window mode. I'll get some screen shots real quick to show ya. And post them in the other thread I have on it. http://www.dangerdogz.com/forums/index.php/topic,7819.new.html#new

It's a dam good thing they don't do that anymore. PETA would have to get involved, Trying to save them poor gerbils from smoke inhalation.

Those appear to be the same I'm using. Date and size anyway. I looked into an older game install and I found these, from tweaking it along time ago for the ATI cards. http://www.dangerdogz.com/K9Vault/p13_sectionid/8/p13_fileid/472 Hey the vault and Admin Panel now work with my install of FF I don't have to use IE anymore )

Are any of you using Water 4, I'm not sure I have it actually working. I wonder do I have those dll's installed? How can I tell.

Hmm, not sure FT Been testing with only 4.08 Vanilla I'll switch and see. It appears that its still using the profile, I set my Global to crap, and then started Game and ran BD track. Converting the tga to jpeg sure turns them into crap aswell. This is the Hit I took with Mods on.

The only changes I made so far to day is the Maximum pre-rendered Frames, I read the controls a bit closer and found it only works with DirectX settings, so I set ti to "0" since were using OpenGL for this application. And it appears to make no difference on the FPS or Image quality. The more I mess with AA I can't tell a difference with my resolution from x4 or x8, So I'm not sure I need to run at x8, the most I can see it doing is creating a bit more heat on the GPU. But my monitoring show 50C so far no matter the setting. So I think I'll drop it to x4 just to free up resources a bit, since I don't see an advantage.

OK, so I let application control it, I loss considerably. section to use this mode: LandGeom=3 (new mode is ON) LandGeom=2 (back to normal mode). Ok found a post over at UBI where FT mentions he is using these drivers. http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=15 Going to clean out and try them.

I'm getting some where with it now.

Thanks GK, I didn't leave on purpose, I was messing with Riva Tuner to see if it would help and I accidentally let it reboot me. Sorry for leaving abruptly.

That's exactly what I did, but as I mentioned something has changed since yesterday.

Comms anybody?

Yeh, I usually do the same, but now that I'm farting around with another Sim that Global settings are not conducive to use. I thought I'd try the profiles. I've only been messing with profiles the last couple weeks with the ATI and now the Nvidia

Thanks, that fixed it. Question about profiles. I had it working yesterday, and it looked stunning, but today, no matter the setting, I still have jaggies, and tearing. I've got it set to 16 AA 8 AF and Vertical sync forced on, but it doesn't seam to take affect. What you just tld me took affect when I changed in the profile? ATI profiles worked by clicking an ATI icon to sart the game to ensure it was being used. It appears

WTH? I can't get it to run in perfect anymore? I have it set to run OpenGL any ideas?

RGR on the cpu, I don't expect much from mine, due to what it is. But IL2 never looked better,

What resolution are you running it at FT? Yeh still playing with water settings, thanks for effects tip. Yep I'm averaging 40fps in BD track, no matter my settings? 1024x 768 or 1600 x1200 Weird But I'm happy with that

GK, I'm not sure of your OS mine is XPpro 32 I had to use driver cleaner and get rid of all the ATI and Nvidia drivers and reboot and reinstall to get mine to work. Well since this post this morning, I had adjusted mine to this, and it's gorgeous. AMD 3700+ Single core 2 gigs 3200 ram Going to run Black death and post the results shortly

I just installed a 260 GTX this week. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Graphics_Cards/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=A2383034&dgc=BF&cid=7421&lid=197378 After rebate, and coupon:1B0MP6701R759C it only cost me $130ish with tax pretty good deal. I've been running a ATI 1950 pro, and have been with ATI cards for over 6 years. I'd like to know your settings, for the cards, and the config.ini

I wouldn't too worried over it now, just yet. It's basically a retail Beta

Not sure, and probably won't till it's actually released. Odds are, it will affect the 4.09 versions for sure. Since they are going to be affecting the core of the game with new aircraft and maps, and such. The other versions, would be the same. So someone will undoubtedly adjust the files the switcher manipulates for 4.09

RC put it about right I think. IL2 was first released packaged 80% better for sure. And RC stating it's taxing on your machine, needs to be stressed. It's very taxing on your machine!!!!!! I've got the AMD 3700+ Ati 1950 pro 2 gigs Corasir 3400 ram. and it spanks IL2 even with the Mods. It crawls whines and begs me to stop, with ROF.

Well, I'm in the process of this myself. Upgrading from my ATI 1950 pro to this. I just ordered a 260gtx from dell Tue. 129.00 after rebates and stuff. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Graphics_Cards/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=A2383034&dgc=BF&cid=7421&lid=197378 I'm hoping that will let me play ROF a bit better till I can save the money for a new Mobo/CPU I'm definitely skipping the dual core stuff, and going onto quad core, from my single core AMD 3700+ My friends flying/beta testing ROF are just able to host a game and fly with dual cores, and the Quad core guys are stressing a bit, but able to manage it just fine. I can only guess SOW will be just as rough on our stuff. I'm along the lines of this possibly in the next few months of one peice at a time, or just saving till I'm close and then grabbing it all at once, by then prices should be a bit lower. If I'd of had the money I'd of left Kansas City today with this. PSU 150