Kimosabi

Uninstalled. At last!

I have no idea on who I'd give that gift to anyway.....

I recall that he mentioned October in a thread over at Banana...... Never actually believed it but things are stacking up so we'll never know.

Thanks to you MT, I'm gonna sit here for a while now. I'd give my left nut to actually sit THERE.

Should do it.

The 5970 is quite the beast. I've heard stuff about drivers not 100% optimized for that card yet but true to ATI tradition, they should have it sorted soon. Just in time for BoB. You do need a good processor to fully utilize that card though.

FT and I will be doing a routine. 110 and 109, or 109 and 110. Depends on how structured you are. ~S~

Thank you for posting this, Jabo. Excellent film!

And the shitload of time us normal players have to put in to afford upgrades/tanks etc. is starting to put me off as well. I realize that they are making a game that's supposed to give us many hours of joy but once you get into the heavy league, things get rediculous. I'm writing a feedback with certain wishes to the developers. 1. More people allowed in each squad. 2. Notification in game when you get a message, or atleast a big *pling*, *plonk* or w/e when you get back to the garage. 3. Disable the possibility for nubs to drive around in tier 10 tanks. You should have to earn it.

Sounds suspicious, JP. You might wanna feedback to the developers on that, it's only a beta and shit happens when you're in a beta. The only beef I have with it is all the dorks driving around in Maus and IS-7 tanks, thanks to their wargaming accounts, and not actually earned them.

Yes. Give me Canada. Minus BG's property ofcourse. Oh wait, that IS Canada....

That's a meaty looking system there Kim, congrats. I've never used plexi before either, and that may be the issue that EK need to get to grips with. Basically O-rings need a distinct channel or lip to seat in, and possibly plexi is too fragile to machine a good seat into. I will certainly be feeding back to EK on this. I'm happy that my rig is quiet again though, and now that the VRaptor is replaced replaced with a solid state drive I'm enjoying the merest hum of a couple of slow-moving fans. cheers That's basically why I don't use plexi for that. Too fragile in some areas, while it's very good in others like transparency etc. Waterblocks have lots of temperature swings & tensions and need to withstand a greater pressure than, say, a reservoir so I don't really trust the material for those kinds of applications. Must be because even cutting a sidewindow in plexi is nervewrecking enough IMO. It's also sensitive to any kind of chemical that contains any kind of alcohol whether it be coolants or just spilling isopropanol on the outside surface. BUT plexi looks good and you can see the inside of your block without dismantling it so that's a plus. SSD's is my next upgrade as well. Well, that and W7.

It's important to have a nicely balanced machine for sure. What's even more important is how the game is coded. Seeing how IL-2 is coded with a nice balance between cpu/gpu load, I expect something similar to that in SoW, even though it's a freshly developed game engine.

Ouch, that sounds messy. I usually steer away from plexi alltogether when it comes to waterblocks, reservoirs only. Converting to AMD mount shouldn't be that tricky, maybe some feedback to EK is in order. Never had your kind of problem though with any of my blocks(not EK), it's space and clearance I usually struggle with lol.

Got the Tiger. Costs 1.2mill and takes a beating but holy crap, ammo starts to become expensive. No problems for me today, GK.

An orange is yellow. Everyone knows that.

Yep, 10.8 is better than 10.7, no doubt. Reinstated Vertex arrays(which was the ONLY beef I had left with running OpenGL) and it looks awesome now. Even vertical refresh is smoother now on my system. I downloaded the 10.8b hotfix as well, maybe I'll install that later and see if it does anything for my card. It's supposed to be a hotfix mainly for 4870x2 and 4850x2 though.

Almost brings a tear to my eye watching that RedBull aircraft snap the barrel roll. Thanks for sharing, Artie!

Yeah, I don't think we'll need monster rigs to run SoW but maxing it out is going to take a bit of horsepower, I think. Maxing out IL-2 is no problem at all with my Q9550/5870 on 1920x1200, and if you want to sell lots of games like a combat sim with so many adult players and not that many up to date geeks,you can't make it too demanding either. If I have problems it's usually that I go bonkers with forced AA/AF/AI etc. on the graphics card.

Yep. Might as well go 1366. Tried finding a good 775 board but the socket is being phased out, it seems.

I have to say that my ATI cards have been very little troublesome, and since I got the 5870 and newer drivers starting with 10.3 and up, all the earlier issues with Perfect Landscape is more or less gone(especially after your setup help in an earlier thread Brando!). I'm now running 10.7 and IL-2 runs very good on it, so with Brando's words in mind, maybe the Nvidia plans should take the backseat for now. Haven't tried the 10.8 drivers yet though, Brando, any need for them? Here's my conf. right now: [Render_OpenGL] TexQual=3 TexMipFilter=2 TexCompress=0 TexFlags.UseDither=1 TexFlags.UseAlpha=0 TexFlags.UseIndex=0 TexFlags.PolygonStipple=1 TexFlags.UseClampedSprites=0 TexFlags.DrawLandByTriangles=1 TexFlags.UseVertexArrays=0 TexFlags.DisableAPIExtensions=0 TexFlags.ARBMultitextureExt=1 TexFlags.TexEnvCombineExt=1 TexFlags.SecondaryColorExt=1 TexFlags.VertexArrayExt=0 TexFlags.ClipHintExt=0 TexFlags.UsePaletteExt=0 TexFlags.TexAnisotropicExt=1 TexFlags.TexCompressARBExt=1 TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=0 TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=1 TexFlags.DepthClampNV=0 TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=1 TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=0 HardwareShaders=1 Shadows=2 Specular=1 SpecularLight=1 DiffuseLight=2 DynamicalLights=1 MeshDetail=2 VisibilityDistance=3 Sky=2 Forest=1 LandShading=2 LandDetails=2 LandGeom=3 TexLarge=1 TexLandQual=3 TexLandLarge=1 VideoSetupId=17 Water=2 Effects=1 ForceShaders1x=0 PolygonOffsetFactor=-0.0625 PolygonOffsetUnits=-1.0 I'll try to enable UseVertexArrays tomorrow and see if the purple colors have disappeared.

Try running the updater from the TS folder instead, ROX. Worked for me.