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After the first 30 sec it's pretty obvious the guy is a pro. A lucky guy might get away with one wing scrape without loosing it but by the third time ........... Another master. Bob Hoover and maybe some good advice for our daredevil pilot. http://www.livevideo.com/media/commentmedia.aspx?cid=9BC3F865EB534C7D9F6FF500498D15F2

Hey Trooper. I heard some of your boys are gearing up to head for Haiti. Good luck with that.

I tried the reflective balls at first. They work but are sensitive to changing light conditions in your environment. In a room where the sun shines I was always adjusting the sensitivity and the dreaded stutter/freeze would happen. LED's make it always reliable. A dark basement may not be a problem. You can find foam balls that are a lot lighter than the wooden ones at a craft store and reflective tape can be had at any auto parts store.

No flu shots here either but I'm old enough that I may have been exposed when a child. I would have gotten the nasal spray if it was convenient. I have issues not so much with the vaccine but with the adjuvant used and that once anything is injected into your bloodstream it's there forever without having to pass the natural barriers of your body. Funny you should say that TOAD. I never get sinus stuff but I had one hell of a bout over Christmas. Didn't even know what was going on till it was full blown.

Welcome Doc. I bought my first serious headset a while ago, pretty happy with them. Turtle Beach HPA2. http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/efhpa2/home.aspx Easy to attach my home built headtracking setup to.

I find it more reliable to use the windows key to minimize the game. Alt Tab would crash the game the odd time.

Since you've flown here before we won't be able to catch you with the "20 seconds" initiation. I feel cheated. Anybody still have the whoopee cushion?

It's been very cold here but no snow to speak of. The frost is deep in the ground now and the roads are getting that washboard texture, you hear of a water main break almost daily.

mmmmm. It's looking pretty bad folks. if you want to know how long you'll have.... http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/zombie_bite 1 hr and 12 min is all I'll have

I'm sorry. I had no intent to begin a discussion on the causes of global warming. The cause really doesn't matter. It is a fact and we'll have to deal with it. I was however trying to point out what it might mean to some people. Europe might freeze their butts off as in the "little Ice Age". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

Mine is set up the way it says and Win firewall has IL2 allowed and still nothing.

Well, one of the first side effects of no polar ice cap would be that the Gulf Stream would weaken or be disrupted entirely as it's supposedly driven by melting fresh water, denser than salt water. Less ice- less current. Britain would have a climate more in line with it's latitude, could probably be compared to the west coast of Canada.

Funny that Ireland is still .. emerald. Has the Gulf Stream shifted? Maybe the lack of sunspots all year (usually followed by colder seasons) is to blame.

In the seond pic Virtual Servers Settings section does anyone know what the stuff in the red circle means or what it should be set to? I can't remember why I did that but it wasn't pulled out of a hat or anything.

In Win 7 it appears to be in the control panel. I have a D-Link router and seem to have the correct ports forwarded but still no luck .....

MMM ...that is something that has changed.

I connected to TOAD instantly so the problem is obviously on my end.

Never used to have any problems hosting, anyone could join by my IP. Since 2.0 nobody can connect. Same for Trout, can't connect to him nor him to me. The port was forwarded from before, the game is still IL2fb.exe Has to be something simple I'm missing.

Great read thanks. Interesting how much time spent in ground school.

I went 64 bit a few months ago and had no problems with drivers or anything. Somewhere they talk about how much memory IL2 uses. 64 bit can boost that to 4Gb with the Ultra 2.0. That alone is worth it.

Be aware one of the downloads for Gamebooster carries a virus. Cost me a couple of weeks of headaches.

Then for older games like IL2 you want a chip with faster speed, not so much more cores at slower speed. Maybe price out the 3.0 or 3.16 Mhz chip then

I have a core duo 2.66 CPU and I was thinking it's time for a little more speed. Dunno if the quad core will make much difference in IL2. Maybe price out a faster chip?

OK I found the problem. Apparently some maps have a memory leak that will eventually crash the map. I searched AAA forums for memory leak. I gather problems are displayed in the console with ##### Right when the map loads pull up the console and look for those. Apparently some maps lock everyone up online after some time period. All the maps that do so exhibit errors in the console when you first load the map. Load a map, pull up console, and if you see those errors that look like this in the console: ##### House without collision (3do/Buildings/Port/BaseSegment/live.sim ##### House without collision (3do/Buildings/Port/Floor/live.sim ##### House without collision (3do/Buildings/Port/BaseSmallSegment/live.sim the map will eventually lock up. I've never seen it, but these guys fly in groups all the time and see it a lot. http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2757&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=memory+leak&start=30 I checked that map and it does have the errors. Nothing to be done about it without tracking down the offending object I guess.

With all mods disabled to stock 4.09 I can last the whole mission but you can still see at the end it's beginning to slow down and would eventually freeze. Not a hint of this online or in coops, only single player campaign.