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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.

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In some single campaigns, not all, my game will slow down and eventually come to a complete stop. I'll go from 60 fps or more and the longer the mission lasts the lower my framerate will go, right down to an unresponsive computer that needs a shutdown via the restart button. CPU use shows almost nothing at that point. It's like some file loads up with stuff and the game just comes to a stop. This is not recent with any mod pack or version. It's always been there. Any ideas?

I never saw the point in this. If you're going to spend this kind of time, build a 75% scale that you can FLY.

I wonder about people sometimes. When we were in Vegas we went hiking up some canyon down farther south in the Anza-Borrego desert, about 3 miles in 100+ deg temps. Not so bad if you're in decent shape but I saw so many unprepared, "unathletic"

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