Perfesser

That comparison chart doesn't show much gain, Your OS probably is not going to like a new CPU either. Be prepared for a full install of Windows.

Hey Squawk, good to see you. We'll be on at 7-9pm your time all next week.

For the last few years I've had MG's only on the pinky trigger, MG and cannon on the trigger. It's useful to fire MG only to see if you've got the range, or to get a fleeing enemy to turn or go defensive. When I feel I can get solid hits, I fire everything.

Registered. A.P. - I hope to see you and the rest of the NA gang there.

Well now. GK and I fly all the time but in a different time zone. The way this is set up we could possibly make a significant contribution to the effort. We could defend or attack targets when nobody else is around. We're used to dead is dead and bring our planes home for the most part. Can we help?

I'm always looking for some human vs human action, so is Goth and I also know of about 6 more guys in the 352nd FG looking for some kind of action in NA time zone.

I spent some of my youth at the dragstrip. A top fuel dragster is not something that can be adequately described in words. The sounds and shock waves are physical forces that must be felt to be appreciated. Good times....

Had a quick look, they appear to be excellent info.

Actually when you're near stall speed you want to use rudder to pick up a low wing, not aileron. You're right on the edge of a stall when a wing drops, you don't want to disturb the airflow even more by flapping your ailerons about. I'm sure a bit of nose down trim will help your situation.

I've been playing with gun camera stuff. Here's my first upload - compilation of footage from last Sunday. Comments/suggestions welcome. Warning - combat footage, some language.

I would add to this. When you spawn in your elevator trim is neutral. There is a gauge on the lower left of dashboard. Trim nose down a few notches before you roll and it will keep the left wing from dropping when the plane tries to lift off prematurely. You will have to pull back on the stick when you reach flying speed to get airborne but you'll be more stable.

Too bad, this could really be handy for custom game boards or simpits but yeah, pricey. They're asking you to pay about 5x what it should retail for. Needs patch cords so you can mount individual modules remotely from each other.

How do you save your clean copy with a Steam install? And how do you deal with installing mods like HSFX?

Well no doubt if you're trying to PM fleabag. I just sent you a PM ........ it will be from Perfesser........

Any fighter has a lot of power and a lot of torque to deal with. It sounds to me though that you have your elevator trim set all the way back (or up) and the plane wants to stall as soon as it lifts off or you are pulling too much nose up. Set a button or use the default key(sorry, don't know the key) to center elevator trim. When you take off, don't use any more than 70% throttle until the tail comes up, you have control and the plane is rolling smoothly, then you can go wide open. After you launch and start to climb out you should going at least 250km/hr. What are you using for rudder? Keyboard? Twist stick? When you are going slow your ailerons won't have much effect. Pick up a low wing with rudder, not aileron. You usually need to use the rudder a LOT during takeoff. First to keep it straight during the initial acceleration, then to keep it straight as the tail comes up, then to keep the wings level as you leave the ground. Oh yeah, the 109 is one of the few planes that has no rudder trim. You'll (almost) always need to hold some rudder to keep the ball centered. Another plane will be easier if you don't have rudder pedals. We usually fly nightly in your time zone. Either 9 pm or 11:30 pm depending on what shift I'm working. I'll look for you on the dogz TS if you want some help.

I only have one bit of advice if you make a cap - remember to remove it before answering the doorbell. That looks like a good setup you have there.

I did the same thing few years back. To make the pic a little clearer I highlighted the top LED tube in blue, LED in red. Ignore that spotlight thing, that's just where I hang the rig when not in use. I read on the Freetrack forums the farther apart your LED's are the smoother and more accurate your tracking will be, makes perfect sense. I bought this headset with an external frame just so I could mount the LED's on it spacing them as far apart as possible. I used rigid plastic tubing running the wires inside the tubes - Bic pen tubes would work too. The long ones are about 8 inches, I made them so they aren't visible in my perephrial vision. I tried a battery pack at first but quickly dumped that in favour of a USB connection. You will have to put in resistors to drop the voltage from USB 5V to 4.5V. There is a calculator thing on the freetrack site for supply voltage and resistor values - look on the left for LED Assembly Wizard. I recommend a resistor at each LED with all wired in parallel. Makes it much easier to track down problems. Mine are in series and when anything goes wrong ALL LED's quit working and I have to start tracking down where the problem is. I've had my main power supply wire break twice from flexing, use multi strand wire on your supply-to-headset lead. Last time I swapped that wire to a telephone handset wire (the curly one). Solder all connections and use heat shrink tubing instead of tape. If you want any help with settings we can get together on TS and I can set you up with mine. What framerate are you getting with your camera? I have a really crappy camera getting 29 at best. I hear the Sonly PS3 camera is the best one right now, same mods needed to the lens. I bought one a year ago, still in the box

Hot damn Crash, good find. My setup didn't allow me to click the desktop capture option. I see that's a bug that's been fixed in the last update. I still can't enable desktop capture on my GTX 760. Anyone else? FOUND IT! You must have an Aero Theme running in Windows, otherwise "allow desktop capture" is greyed out. It does capture the desktop but does nothing when IL2 is running in OpenGL. The icons and stuff show up when I run IL2 in DirectX and it does record the game however, when I run it in DirectX my Freetrack head tracker doesn't respond unless I slave it to the mouse, creating all kinds of strange movements, drifting, and vertigo.

They already doubled the kickstarter of 65K. I want company shares.

In the cockpit you have a trim gauge on the left side. One or two notches of nose down trim will stop that left wing drop that gives some folks trouble.

In general any extra crap running is detrimental to your machine's ability to run demanding software. CloD seems to have the desktop running in the background unlike IL2 46 Sounds like it's hurting your computing power as well as your video card. Right click on the desktop, select personalize, and choose a basic theme. You won't even notice the difference.

Manual gear as well as emergency gear drop doesn't seem to work - at least in the Spit. Am I missing something?

Spit brakes are actually quite effective. The problem is the engine is so powerful the brakes have trouble coping with both the mass of the plane and the engine power. Land with fine pitch and once you're sure you aren't going to abort the landing crank your pitch back and it stops quite well. As for binding a key....I have my toe brakes mapped to the rudders for German planes. I also have a toe brake mapped to a keystroke via Joytokey so the same toe brake works in both types. For some reason an axis bound keystroke only applies 65% brakes?

I don't see an option for chat in my controls at all. What am I missing here? I have the chat box where I get server messages but I can't reply to any messages. GK isn't seeing the entire chat section or the messages on the right side of the screen like when you set your compass or turn lights on and off either.

I have my install in IL2 folder in C: drive. No issues.