DD_Arthur

Luuurvley Swep! I've been really looking forward to taking some winter landscapes but so far it's been mild and wet - just like today I was thinking of getting a small compact for similar reasons when I found one I'd bought the kids years ago which they've hardly used #2. Now it lives in the glove box of my motor. Talking of motors; Not my new toy but my eldest son's new magnet. GTi Diesel. Bought it yesterday morning. I've had a play and it goes like the clappers! Late last night he took me for a spin on the local autobahn. When he got it up to an indicated 130mph I had to cry "Enough!"

I couldn't either.

@Snacko, here we go; First of all SweetFX. I'm now using something called Reshade 2.0 to apply SweetFX. It's easy to install and works very well with a minimum effect on performance. Check out this thread; http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/14425-bos-and-sweetfx/ The actual settings I use are from a guy called SnowSniper. Click on this thread; http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/2183-bos-and-sweetfx-works-great/page-3?hl=sweetfx#entry311560 and check out post # 82. At the bottom of his sig. he has links to the SweetFX settings he's using. The first ones are for BoS. I've checked the links and they're still working. Once you have Reshade installed in your game you can copy paste these settings into your SweetFX folder. Find these settings in 1C Game Studios/IL2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad/Bin/Game/SweetFX. Open the SweetFX file and copy/paste these new settings into it. SweetFX is enabled/disabled by using the Scroll Lock key. Once you know how to change settings, plenty of others out there to try. I use SweetFX with BoS, RoF, CoD and DCS. As to key commands and set up; first of all, I suggest downloading the excellent community made manual for the game from here; http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/16752-il-2bos-user-manual-released-first-edition-english/ Very well written by the same guy who did the RoF manual, it gives you just about all the information you'll need. The whole set up arrangement is also identical to RoF's. Before I talk about key settings it would be best to go into your games Realism settings and in the Custom tab uncheck everything except; Object Markers Allow spectators Warmed up engine Auto pilot. and then leave your game running under these Custom settings. This will get rid of auto engine management and has the game running in settings we would normally use in IL2 1946 but you should be able to see the games quite useful "technochat" indicators. As my small brain shrivels on a daily basis I've tried to retain as many key commands/procedures that I am used to in IL2 1946 across all the sims I own. This means I have a lot of keyboard assignments that you may want to put on your Hotas set up but it works for me. I don't have a Saitek set up but I do have Hotas arrangement. I'm using a Microsoft Forcefeed back 2 stick and FT's old Logitech G940 throttle unit. This has two nice big levers that I use for prop pitch and throttle. I have assigned the throttle on my MSFFB2 as the water radiator control. The water radiator and cowl flaps for air cooled engines are about the only thing BoS allows you to assign to an axis or slider. I also have double assignments where they don't interfere with each other. Also, do you have Battle of Moscow too? Some of the assignments in controls in the game will refer to specific planes like the Bf 110 which you wont have if you don't have BoM. Once again, bearing in mind that I try to retain my familiar IL2 1946 settings, here is a run down of what I use/have assigned in game - different from the stock settings - by how it appears in the Main Menu/Settings/Key Mappings/Controls section of the game. From left to right we have Service, Camera Controls, Pilot Head Controls, Main Controls, etc. tabs so I'll with start with SERVICE About the only assignment I've changed in here from the stock settings is assign the Record button to my stick CAMERA CONTROLS Camera Zoom is on my mousewheel. Rotate Camera Up/Down = Mouse Y Rotate Camera Left/Right = Mouse X Camera Player Cockpit F1 External Free Cam/Player = F2 Other cams are also assigned to the F keys. PILOT HEAD CONTROL Pilot Head Zoom = Mousewheel Pilot Head Zoom In = Joystick POV hat up Pilot Head Zoom Out = Joystick POV hat down MAIN CONTROLS AI Autopilot For Level Flight = Q Adjustable Stabilizer Axis = a couple of buttons on my throttle unit - same controls used for FW190 adjustible stabiliser further down the list Trim controls in BoS are important but the game does not allow them to be assigned to any sliders or rotarys so I use the same configuration as in IL2 1946 - the number pad on my key board! Flaps and gear assignments; like my IL2 1946 install. Assigning something to Tail Wheel Lock is essential! Wheel Brakes for Russian aircraft work on both wheels simultaneously so are assigned to a hat switch on my throttle. Wheel brakes for German aircraft are toe brakes and have separate assignment for left and right so I have them on bottons on my throttle as I don't have pedals Gunsight filter; applicable to P40 only at the moment. Altimeter: Reference Pressure Toggle on keyboard - important assignment! ENGINE CONTROLS Ignore the Auto Mixture and Supercharger control. Thats the confusing one you mention in your post. You don't need it! You don't need Auto RPM Limiter either. Throttle and Pitch are assigned to the two nice big levers on my throttle and work for all planes with CSU's - mainly Soviet. German planes with DB engines like the BF109 and the 110 are designed to run in auto prop pitch and this is modelled in BoS very well. You can assign manual controls but I don't use them as it's just a quick way to blow your engine. There is no performance advantage. Same goes for the FW190. Mixture and Supercharger Mode Switches are vital for Soviet planes as they had manual mixture and supercharger stage switch controls so I've assigned them to my keyboard as per IL2 1946. Switch Engine Boost ON/Off - only applicable to the LA-5 Switch Propellor Pitch Control Mode Manual/Auto and Propellors High Pitch/Low Pitch = as above, to work LW 'planes in manual prop. pitch control - see above' I don't use them. Prop Feathering On/Off = I have a key assigned but I'm not sure which planes have this function. PE-2 and HE-111 perhaps? Switch Water Radiators Control Mode: Manual/Auto? Another assignment for LW fighters that is not needed. Water Radiators Shutters = assigned to the throttle on my MSFFB stick Oil Radiators Shutters? Thats the oil cooler in plain english - you'll need key assignments for it Engines Inlet and Outlet Cowl Shutters? for Soviet planes with radialengines only. These are a double assignment to my MSFFB throttle. Switch Engine Controls = key pad. No need to assign all those controls for engine 1, engine 2 at the moment in my opinion. I simply don't have enough levers! WEAPONS CONTROLS This is pretty straight forward and I re-use all my usual IL2 1946 assignments. There are some differences. Drop Bombs Mode Toggle = assigned to button on my stick and selects whether you want to drop bombs individually or in salvo Launch Rockets Mode Toggle = same function as above. Drop Bombs Delay Toggle = no idea what this does! Ignore it. Reload All Guns = needed, key on stick assigned to it Don't use much else except Gunners Fire At Will and Gunners Far Engage Distance to wake my AI gunners up and make them fire at enemies. ORDERS AND GESTURES A true hang over from RoF. You can assign stuff if you like firing flares, etc. Useful for the single player are; Attack Nearest Air Target Attack nearest ground Target Do Like Me Cover Me. If you're lucky your AI wingmen might just feel like obeying these commands or.....they might just f#'k off into the distance for no apparent reason! Phew! Thats about it for now. Hope this helps. Any questions? Just ask Sweper, lol!

Whilst it certainly looks like a nicely built wooden very speedy speedyboat, judging by the gaps in your clinker, once on the water and doing its speedy speedy thing it will rapidly become a submarine. You don't want gaps in 'yer clinker m8. Who would? Edit; how did you build the trailer?

Is this a holiday trip? Why are you towing a submarine FT?

Same technique but this time in a Mig. Even though I stand on the brakes - no ground loop. @Snacko, I'll have a good rummage round tomorrow and check my settings and see what I can come up with.

Hello Pooka. I do occasionally play BoS in multiplayer but the game - and RoF too - seems to require an internet connection of a higher order than CLoD or IL2 1946. My internet is still stuck in the stone age for several more months so if i want to fly BoS online it's got to be after 11p.m. - when local internet useage is going down. You really do need a wing man at least to make the most of BoS multiplayer so I'm waiting.....for a decent connection and enough Dogz to take an interest to make it worth while. Plenty of stuff to do in BoS off line nowdays.

Wow!!! Absolute bargain! Grab it quick m8 Here you go, Gec. A quick landing the LaGG video tutorial. I still can't stop the bloody thing ground looping!

The Occulus dev kits were made in China - or was it Hong Kong?

A couple of predictions; Sony will release a VR unit tied to some sort of Playstation 5 release. Whatever Occulus release this year, next year you'll be able to buy something very similar direct from China for less than £150 including p&p.

January. One way or another, all thoughts turn to SATS........ @ Blubear; 'fraid I'm a fat-fingered fifty year old so I've had to become really good with a micro soldering iron! I also have a little collective pitch Hisky which is around 6" long and for me is like juggling a bucket of frogs. On a good day its like juggling a bucket and a frog. Thank goodness for throttle hold!

Wow! A Great Northern Atlantic. That is nice . I notice they do a model for Painless too; http://www.bachmann.co.uk/image_box.php?image=images1/branchline/31-531.jpg&cat_no=31-531&info=0&width=650&height=211 By a strange coincidence my loved ones clubbed together er...last August (coughs slightly) and got me this for chrimbo! Managed to fly it this morning for the first time - in between rain storms and now have a muddy chopper

Awoke yesterday morning bright and early to discover a; it was NOT raining! b; was gonna' have a "food baby" Decided to take advantage of a by walking off b. Taken with my now old but still favourite toy. Anyone got any new toys for Christmas?

Blimey, they're not cheap are they? One of my brothers used to have one of these sort of things and I seem to recall the antennae was a really important part of the kit. He ended up buying a large extension one with a magnetic base that sat on top of the car roof! He wasn't that interested in listening in but it became a battle of wills; he'd bought the bloody thing, therefore he was determined to make it work. . Next time you have to drive by East Midlands Airport have it ready. Five to ten miles distance does not sound a long way away but the stock antennae might mean you have to be in line of sight sometimes. Civil airbands are in the 109 to 137MHz range and military are between 225 and 400 MHz. Does it cover these frequencies? Edit; aha! excellent find FT. I think you're best bet is to take it to the airport and have a run through there and see how you get on.

I have no idea but whats the make and model?

Personal skins go in; C:\Program Files (x86)\1C Game Studios\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\graphics\skins Tanks are on multiplayer or you need to download some single missions for them. Check out post number 12 in this thread. http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/19490-game-version-1105-discussion-bf-110-e-2-tanks-mouse-control/ A variety of useful training missions. Happy christmas Snacko

Happy birthday and happy christmas Goth.

It's not too late for one of those tests, FT Nice pallets. Where's the forklift?

What are your realism settings Snacko? Sounds like you're in Normal Mode. In this mode the engine management is simplified and you won't get prop pitch control. To change this; go into Quick Mission and by the green start bar is another tab with realism. Click on that and select custom and you can choose what you want. Btw; leave "warmed up engine" on.

This looks like one for Sid!

An account of the action by Richard Todd, one of our great post-wars actors and all round decent bloke. http://www.britisharmedforces.org/pages/nat_richard_todd.htm In the film "The Longest Day" Todd played Major John Howard who commanded the glider assault and has to say a few lines to another actor who is playing Captain Richard Todd - adjutant of 7th. Para!! Not sure where Sid will fit in as the love interest in all this though?

Yeah! Have a great day Bongo.

Happy birthday Jim

Pushing my system to it's limits in mien beloved Emil