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3D glasses are a gimmick really. I have them, they can work well with nVidia cards but difficult with ATI (have to use Edimensional driver). Not had them working with IL2 since AEP days, something changed and the image is no longer usable

BMP IIRC is uncompressed and will therefore have the higher quality. Both jpeg and gif compress, main difference is compression can be adjusted in jpeg from 0 compression up...

Congratulations x2

Smile ( s ) of the day Bruce is driving over the Sydney Harbour Bridge one day when he sees his girlfriend, Sheila about to throw herself off. Bruce slams on the brakes and yells "Sheila, what the hell d'ya think you're doing?" Sheila turns around with a tear in her eye and says, "G'day Bruce. Ya got me pregnant and so now I'm gonna kill myself." Bruce gets a lump in his throat when he hears this. He says "Strewth Sheila..... Not only are you a great shag but you're a real sport too." and drives off. *************************************************************** Will Young, Robbie and Kylie went for a night on the town, as they left the night-club, Kylie slipped and got her head stuck between the railings of the fence opposite the club. Robbie decided to take full advantage of this and lifted up her little skirt, pushed her thong to one side and gave her a good seeing to. "Its your turn now, Will" grinned Robbie but Will started crying. Robbie asked "Why are you crying, Will? What's wrong?" Will sobbed "My head won't fit between the railings" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mildred was a 93-year-old woman who was particularly despondent over the recent death of her husband Earl. She decided that she would just kill herself and join him in death. Thinking that it would be best to get it over with quickly, she took out Earl's old Army pistol and made the decision to shoot herself in the heart since it was so badly broken in the first place. Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and burden to someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as to just exactly where the heart would be. "On a woman," the doctor said, "your heart would be just below your left breast." Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to her knee. *************************************************************** A blind man enters a Ladies Bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a drink. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, "Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?" The bar immediately falls absolutely quiet. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, sir, I think it is just fair - giving that you are blind that you should know five things: 1- The bartender is a blonde girl. 2- The bouncer is a blonde girl. 3- I'm a 6 feet tall, 220 lb. blonde woman with a black belt in karate. 4- The woman sitting next to me is blonde and is a professional weightlifter. 5- The lady to your right is a blonde and is a professional wrestler. Now think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?" The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head, and declares, "Nah. Not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times "

CH-Hanger thread on dual toe-brakes Here. Method posted by me above does result in one analogue and one digital brake, but since 4.05 I really can't tell the difference.... I'll quote from the CH-Hanger thread directly. Differential braking discussion Here

Unless you think laterally: In hotas section click on the brake bit and depress, say, the right toe brake. In the CH manager (sorry this does not apply to game port versions unless you use the legacy DOS application from CH) map 'B' to the left toe brake assuming 'B' is still mapped in the controls section. This is how I have my brakes set up on my pedals. There are profiles that will emulate differential braking for IL2 too.

I'll peddle my wares whilst I'll pedal my bike Spell checkers suck, I used to be able to spell but they took over. Now with the advent of chip and pin I've forgotten how to write my signature....

If you are using outlook you can custom make forms: http://www.outlookcode.com/d/customimport.htm A google on 'import forms from access into excel' will throw up many suggestions

Access can be an arse. If they are on the network (same as you) than a shared DB would work. However in this case I think Excel would be by far the easier way, if not as sexy! Are you trying to get a neat interface with Access?

Sorry, there was a typo in my post. Now corrected so link will work

You may not need either, Colin requires one because he has run out of USB ports. Most systems these days come with 6 - 8 or more USB ports. TIR4 is just the head tracker, no card or hub.

CH Pro peddles here, don't think I could fly without them now. Didn't get on with twisty rudder on MSFFB2, and rocker rudder on X45 lacked sensitivity so peddles were soon purchased. Really helps with chopper flying too

Hehehehe. Makes me want to re-install it and fire it up again. Never played multi-player in it ....yet...

I voted any so long as it's an even match as that is my preference, however I do enjoy being the underdog too, as experienced with you Glenn in the P11, as there is nothing better for the ego than getting some spiffed up machine smoking with no more than pea shooters!

Hi Trap and welocme to the kennels! I have also updated your profile, you will now see the HH and DD private section where the 4.05 download is linked Would have been done earlier but BG was more interested in Johnny Walker than letting me know we had a new victim..err...I mean colleague

Very good

I don't know if the Asus bios tool will work with your Mobo, bios flashing is one of those things that needs to be perfect so I would steer away from that (I have a copy of the utility here as I have 2 Asus boards but would hate to see you lose your mobo from a bad flash). If you have an Asus CD with your system the EZ Flash utility will be on it, possibly along with ASUS Probe (sounds painful) that will display CPU, Mobo temps and all voltages (and record them too for trouble shooting). Floppy disks are very cheap, buy a box....they can still be indispensable which is why as a 'legacy device' they are still apparent on new PCs. BIOS flash is the lower of your priorities, test your RAM first. RAM 'Qualified for your board': (this list may appear garbled its from Here..) This shows what has been tested to be Ok, if you deviate from this list you need to do your own testing. IL2 will tax memory (and system) much more than most other games/simulations.

Also: Sound card drivers are the latest available for your board. Your BIOS is a Beta version, there is 1009 available Here. Asus (your board maker) do a utility that will enable you to update your BIOS within Windows. As you don't have a floppy (no need for Viagra there then) then this is the only way you can update your BIOS unless you can borrow/buy a USB floppy drive.

Your RAM is not a matched pair You can get an ISO image for Memtest86 and create a bootable CD, as your RAM is not a matched pair I strongly suggest you do this as there could be memory corruption at the root of your issue. Pictures...nice. Everyone of those Icons on your desktop is using memory btw SP2, bummer. Sounds like your copy of XP isn't too Kosher.

Some input I'd like to give: AAA over airfields would work as an anti-vulch quite effectively, primarily because if there are no targets the AAA would be idle and would not impact FR or cause lag. If some spirited vulching were attempted the lag that would ensue should be enough to spoil it for the vulcher....and hopefully the victims would still be able to get airborne. Just a thought! Having a LAN side connection for your client would be more efficient, sharing 100Mbs as opposed to your ISP speed is usually a winner all round . The second copy of IL2 running would have caused some memory page swapping, so as you say is not a good idea! Skin downloads. On a Co-op night this will be Ok, but during a momentous event such as we had not so good. Chances are that some (if not all) of us would not have the skins some wish to parade. This would aggravate spawn lag too. Setting the server connection speed is critical, so it allocates bandwidth to the clients without starving them and causing lag. In days gone by it used to be suggested that clients set their speed settings to the ISDN setting, I don't know if that is still valid or not! Clients that do not have the muscle to render the sim at acceptable framerates can also have a deleterious effect on all players. When the server is waiting for a position/condition feedback from a struggling PC a warp will occur. Hosting and administering a DF server is a thankless task, often requiring the host or admins to F2 through the player roster to make sure there are no warpers (intentional or otherwise) and dealing with them. As we are a squad, and a bloody good one at that, this is not required as we can trust each other to not overtax our systems and spoil the event for others. Aim for around 30fps average in heavy maps and you can be fairly sure you won't cause lag or warp.

Also in first post you state 'AMD 3200+'. Dxdiag indicates it's a 2500+, have you under clocked it for a reason? Should be 200 FSB @ 11 x clock. What rating is your memory? CPU-Z will query and display your clock settings, FSB and memory capabilities. If you are OC'ing you need to use Memtest86 to check RAM (worth doing anyway) and Prime95 torture test to check CPU stability (again worth running for a few hours anyway).

1. Chipset drivers are very dated. Try: These 2. Graphics driver is dated too, have you tried newer drivers from http://www.nvidia.com? 3. Sound drivers are also dated, SoundMax drivers may be available from your mobo/PC manufacturer. 4. Service pack 2, why have you not installed it? A must have IMO.

Lots 'n lots of words Two driver issues. 1. Sound driver is out of date and a debug version, looking up your model number on the HP site suggests this driver available Here ***Caution, this is for a Realtek chip yet yours appears to be a CMedia model*** HP list it as compatible, if your system is now stable you may be well advised to leave this alone until/unless crashes re-occur. If it is the wrong driver it shouldn't install, however if it does and you end up without sound your current driver can be downloaded from CMedia Here 2. Display driver, on board video drivers also dated http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/soft ... pv-38662-2 Lowering the acceleration as you have done should improve frame rates too The later sound drivers I linked above are also supposed to lower CPU stress too!

Hi m8. Please run: start-run-type in 'dxdiag' and press enter. Let it complete it's tests, then click the 'save all information' button. This will prompt you to create a file on the desktop, called dxdiag.txt. Save it, then open it. Do a ctrl+a to select all text. Then ctrl+c Paste the result back here and I'll take a look for you. You may find, in the interim, that clicking on the sound tab in the dxdiag tool, and lowering the Hardware Sound Acceleration level to 'Standard' is beneficial. Another thing to check, in device manager, is for any IRQ conflicts. To see IRQs select 'View' - 'resources by connection' - 'Interrupt Request (IRQ). You do not want to see your graphics card and sound card sharing a common IRQ.

I second Dave's thanks. Excellent work Glenn. Lag was an issue, but could have as likely been caused by over ambitious settings on client PC's, lowering the resolution may well help for future events. Flak is a major contributor...... A great night, time passed amazingly quickly and great to see the event so well supported by both the DD's and the HH's. ~S!~ to all!