Jabo

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

Funny, don't remember any German planes in that, but the film in general was so awful, I may be in denial. Jabo

Thanks for the intel Rattler, I've not had a chance to play with this setting yet this evening, but hopefully I'll get the chance before tomorrow night's shindig. Jabo

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

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

Thanks for clearing up the complex business of Anglo-French relations there Smash m8. It's much easier to understand in terms of "Fetchez la vache" - and the use by the perfidious French of the cattlepult. Sorry Jabo

Well, it looks like Bill's crowd have done it again... Vista Home Premium (32 Bit) - Passmark Result 1135 Windows 7 (32 Bit)

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

You can't tell just by looking m8, RT is the only way to be certain. Jabo

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

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

Turning the mod off definitely does the trick, but I must admit I quite like the effect of the bay doors opening. Jabo

Big lolz Strider. V funny

Oh dear, Trekkies

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

Found these over at icanhascheezburger.com, and thought anyone who's ever thought

ROFL - Possibly

...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

Griffon Spits are not part of the blueprint, therefore are removed by the modchecker?

>> 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. >> Jabo

Mark Hanna - seriously injured when the Buchon he was flying crashed in Spain on 25th September 1999 - Died the following evening. One of the UKs most experienced warbird pilots, ex-RAF fast jet pilot Hanna had over 4000 hours flight time with 2300 of that flying historic aircraft. Jabo

Delta's right about Tom's H/W, always a useful read. The only thing I'd add to the points already made Col, is that the boards you're looking at are not SLI/Crossfire compatible as they only have one x16 slot. A lot of the newer games get a significant boost from using a couple (or even three) gfx cards. Obviously, for the time being you could use a single card, but to build in some additional future-proofing, I'd look for a board which can support multiple graphics cards (which when they're cheaper later may be an easier upgrade pill to swallow). Jabo

Following on from my Mundayz post a while back. I present... Elephants are cool. Jabo