Jabo

We could make you an honorary Brit Swep.

mossie please

Excessive use of the rudder does lead to loss of energy especially as that leads not only to a yawing moment (energy loss) but also a rolling moment which the natural tendency is to correct with aileron input (further energy loss). If an attack is timed correctly, little or no use of the rudder (to correct the deflection angle) should be necessary. As to whether or not you're using too much rudder, well, there's really no way of knowing - although the fact that you're asking the question may be the answer in itself! Jabo P.S. Even if I am correct about the above, this does not mean I am any good at putting this into practice!

Who's in trouble? Incidentally I restore the computer 2.6422568 times s year - ish

I'll look into it again. Perhaps I just enjoy breaking out the windows disk a bit too much...

Lordy, I've really no idea - Are you counting 'work' as well or just my own computer at home?

Not really in my case Hill, I do own TrueImage (as in bought, not a hooky copy - I know, shocking right?) but my OS setup changes frequently and I can't be bothered to keep updating the image - plus, I've never been too enamored with it's imaging capabilities - maybe it's time to have another look. lol - maybe Pretty much yeah - plus both SSDs are SATA III and are connected to SATA III connectors on the mobo - which in theory gives a throughput of 12Gb/s although this is not possible in the real world - SATA III actual bandwidth throughput is up to 600MB/s so I could get 1.2GB/s - pretty quick. I also store a few big programs ike Adobe Photoshop and Premiere on the RAID - launching them from the SSD is a real treat. One day Michael, one day... Anyway, 'tis all sorted now. Jabo P.S. problem was, I believe, due to a power outage followed by a big voltage spike when the power came back on screwing the settings of the RAID controller - not much I could do about that really.

So I get in from a hard days keyboard bashing at work all aglow at the prospect of fleigening with my chums this evening. Plonking myself down in my comfy chair I switch on the 'puter for a quick system check and the thing fails to boot - device not found. Odd I thought and went through the BIOS settings and I notice that at the boot device was set to one of my SSD drives rather than the RAID volume it should be. Still not too perturbed I reset the boot device to RAID, save and restart. Second boot goes past the BIOS but then fails at the RAID controller. According to a friendly screen my RAID volume now comprises 1 SSD. Now you can't make a RAID volume with 1 disk so I have to remove the array completely and then rebuild it which wipes the drives. And now I have to reinstall windows. Oh joy.

Actually there are very few like that! There are so many now that it would be impossible to remember them all. Jabo P.S. Unless you're FT

Dp you really need more than 3 for a driving game?

You would be... I think the point is Mick that while I might play other games I don't spend much time doing them - Skyrim excepted - got a few hours in there now.

It's no good, that green bacon in the middle is definitely off. However, what every good salad needs is...

Think you might be confusing that with '46?

Ouside IL-2, BoS, RoF, CloD, DCS? Skyrim's probably taking up most of my spare gaming time right now which is unusual because it's not normally the sort of thing I enjoy but I did pick it up for a bargain price. I usually prefer civilisation-type strategy games (Tropico 4 most recently - although I've now completed all the scenarios and all the DLC's too - still have the sandbox though). Also racing games such as PGR or Forza on the Xbox (not recently though - the kids are using it more than me. Jabo

My view is that the CloD vs. IL-2 '46 debate boils down to a few points - Firstly CloD has a hugely restricted aircraft set compared to IL-2 (no Mossie, P-38, P-51, Beaufighter etc etc etc) although what aircraft there are look verrrrry pretty. Add to that the fact that despite TF's amazing work CloD is probably at an evolutionary dead-end - will we ever see new aircraft or maps or are we doomed to fight the Battle of Britain for ever more? Secondly, in order to get the best out of CloD you need a machine with a fair bit of horsepower, yes, you can dial back the settings but most of us are used to playing IL-2 turned all the way up to 11 (graphically). Plus there are a few omissions such as the lack of proper anti-aliasing. Don't get me wrong here though, I really like CloD and I have huge respect for the people who've made it playable. I just wish there was something out there we could point to and say, "yep, there's a proper successor to '46", perhaps I'm just being naive and the days of games with the depth of IL-2 that take time and effort to learn let alone master, have gone in favour of instant gratification, zombies and statwhores? (obviously I'm not referring to any of the other equally ambitious flight sim projects out there in that last statement) Jabo

You'll need at least a 600 series card for that FT, I had a look too hoping I could run it on my ancient (NELI) GTX580 but nope. Jabo

It's a problem for sure. Time to review which days we do what maybe? Il-2, CloD, BoS, RoF, DCS, FC3 etc. As I see it though the problem is that IL-2 is still the most 'complete' game with (most of) the bugs ironed out, light enough to support large-scale battles with multiple air and ground targets on even relatively modest (by current standards) machines and so on and so forth. Something that none of the others can (yet) compete with. Yes, they all look great and play pretty great (this varies a bit) too but if the point of the Dogz is to be inclusive then should we risk 'shutting out' people who might not have the wherewithal to have a hotrod PC for playing games on? Incidentally, I am in no way advocating a blinkered 'IL-2 or nothing' approach either as that would be to the detriment of the squad as well as to those newer, shinier toys but perhaps a rethink is in order. Jabo

Hmmm, maybe that's where I'm going wrong. Jabo

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Thought so... Definitely through the prop there Arthur.

It's certainly not true about the blood - in fact blood stains red fabric black. The adoption and continued use of red by certain regiments (and later, forces elsewhere in the Empire) after the Restoration in 1660 seems to have had more to do with the relative cheapness of red dyes than policy. Funnily enough this also led to the end of red tunics as general issue in 1914 as the cochineal dye used at that time had become prohibitively expensive. These days red tunics are only authorised for officer mess dress and regimental bandsmen. As far as French officers wearing brown trousers, I'm pretty sure that might be part of the joke too. Jabo

Better than what some people paid for the 'teatowel edition' anyway!

Done, although you don't need to access the group to join in. Jabo

Could be that you've changed the size of your backdrop or one of the buttons. Mine threw up a similar fault yesterday, Got around it by removing the last change and it started working again. Actually, having taken a closer look, it looks like you've got the Flight, Bombing, Radio and Info tabs all on. Not entirely sure how you've managed that but they're all showing in red. That's why you've got all those buttons on top of each other.

As Milton Jones said "Its amazing to think..............." Lol Sent from my SM-T210 using Tapatalk