Can someone explain some of the causes of rubber bullets, and eggshell skins on my front end?
In most scenarios, I need to seriously hit another plane several times with 20mm cannon to damage it, while a couple of 50 cal hits does major damage to my plane.
I can also straff (from all angles) a ostwind with a typhoon and use half my ammo load, and he keeps motoring and shooting merrily along. Yet a light peppering from a F6F from a shallow angle (on the deck) and my oswind's gun is disabled, and my engine is smoking. I have a hell of a time killing a M3 with a 50 cal plane, even though I'm seeing a good duration of hit sprites. It's great fun to make to fine straffing runs on a M3, and have another fellow come along and plink him once and get the kill, with nought but an assist for me. Sometimes not even that.
I won't even go into my Tiger vs Panzer/osty sorties. Suffice the same occures.
On very rare occasions, things work right. At those times, a light burst from my P51B will down planes, and ostwinds. But those are very rare.
I'm using a P4, 2.8ghz 1Kram and 128 Gf4 vid card with a XP home OS.
I'm conected via a router to comcast cable modem, and average 60fps in a heavy furball. It's getting quite frustrating to say the least. Yes I've checked, nothing is running in the background.
Also ran a cable speed check:
2.2 megabits per second
Communications 2.2 megabits per second
Storage 270.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.8 seconds
Subjective rating Great (so it said)