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Jabo

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  1. Behind the head sets look cool, but end up being really uncomfortable very quickly.

    With you there m8, plus, if you use TIR with the pro clip, or freetrack, it's difficult to position the uinit

  2. Not sure how much you're paying for that m8, but PC World have it for £25 (down from £40) if you reserve on-line and collect from the store. The website will tell you if your local branch has stock. If not I'd be happy to pick one up for you and post it on. My Creative set came from http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/ though and I've found them to be very competitive as well. Good range of stock in too. Imagine a high-street retailer in the UK with an X52 on display and boxed stock!

    Jabo

    Ignore the PC World thing m8, just had another look at the photo, and realised you're looking at a wireless one. Eclipse have that though at around £65. Personally, I really rate the HS-1000 that I just got from them. It comes with 2-3m of cable, and the sound quality is fab (especially with the latest drivers and the virtualisation switched on!)

    Jabo

  3. Not sure how much you're paying for that m8, but PC World have it for £25 (down from £40) if you reserve on-line and collect from the store. The website will tell you if your local branch has stock. If not I'd be happy to pick one up for you and post it on. My Creative set came from http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/ though and I've found them to be very competitive as well. Good range of stock in too. Imagine a high-street retailer in the UK with an X52 on display and boxed stock!

    Jabo

  4. Good choice Sweper, that's the chipset I run in my rig - I'm running IL2 in 1680x1050, with the graphics settings turned up to til the knob fell off, and I'm still averaging 60fps in the Black Death track. I've been verry happy with it too. My card is the factory-overclocked BFG one, but I've read that the XFX cards are pretty rapid straight out of the box too, so you might not need to overclock it just yet

  5. Nice pics HC. Wish we could see some of those birds over here. Your 'Unknown' is a Fairey Firefly - Heavy carrier fighter used extensively by the FAA late in WW2 and on as late as Korea in the ASW/ASR role (ISTR)

    Jabo

  6. Having recently migrated to Windows 7 myself, and having noticed that a number of other DDz have/are also going down the same route, I thought it might be useful for those chaps who havent yet gone there to know what works and what doesn't. So far, this is where I am;

    All working in Windows 7 (x86 - 32 bit)

    Trackir v5.0.220 (or Beta 3)

    Nvidia WHQL Drivers for Windows 7 (9800GTX/GTX+) v185.85 - There are issues with the standard driver that ships with Win 7

    Saitek 6.2.2.4 (X52 Pro)

    Saitek 6.2.2.4 (Direct Output for X52 Pro)

    Firefox 3.0.10

    Avira AntiVir Personal

    Creative Fatal1ty USB Headset

    Realtek HD Audio Manager (not sure of version, will check - Std Vista though)

    Logitech G15 (needs to be run in Compatiblity mode (Vista))

    Not working in Windows 7

    McAfee Total Protection 2009

    I'll add more as I find 'em, but that's it for now

    Jabo

  7. Use the modded version Sulky, just remember to select the 4.08 button. I have to confess that since moving to the AAA mods, I dumped the other 3 installs of the game that I had, including the 'vanilla' version. Next time there's a big change to the mods, I'll make a copy of this version...Just seems simpler. Especially with FTs great mod checker to keep things straight for me...

    Jabo

  8. The new Mossie requires the Bombay doors mod. Also you can do other neat things like setting seperate buttons for opening and closing radiator/cowl flaps and for landing gear up and down. (tailhook too) Just my $.02.

    Thanks for the tip on the landing gear BA, I thought it was taking a long time to taxi off the active

  9. Hot on the heels of JP's decision to...erm...pull out of this year's bash, I find myself in the unfortunate position of letting you know that neither the Lanc, nor the Vulcan will be going to Duxford either... :( . On the plus side, the French B-17 has not been grounded, she'll be over here tomorrow... :)

    Jabo

  10. ...for punishment.

    I've installed Windows 7 RC, got the PC to dual boot it with Vista (In Vista at present), but my McAfee Anti-Virus won't work with Win7 - I'm getting an 'unsupported' error. Any suggestions as to what to use. Preferably FOC if possible. Everything else seems to work including my wifi card and trackir. X52 is now on the supported hardware list!

    FWIW I think Win 7 looks similar to Vista, but certainly seems a bit snappier. Still stuck with 3.25GB out of my installed 4GB of mem in the 32bit version though.

    Jabo

  11. It's always been my understanding that the changes one makes to the BIOS (when setting up the mobo functions) are written to the CMOS chip.

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    You're spot on Brando, the CMOS is an EEPROM chip (Erasable Electronically Programmable ROM) and as such is non-volatile memory meaning that it does not need to have power applied to retain its code (memory if you prefer). Each time you make a change to the BIOS, those changes are stored in the CMOS.

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    :matrix:

    Jabo

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