What's the deal with blacking out?

[Baine]

I was wondering how much connection has to do with blacking out. It seems sometimes I can fly for hours without blacking out. Other nights, any turn results in tunnel vision with the ultimate black out. On nights like that, it seems no matter how gentle I am in turns or loops, I'm going down for a nap.
Same computer, same stick, usually the same planes and flying conditions, way different results.
I was also wondering why I sometimes I tend to blackout while the guy glued to my 6 seems immune. We're doing the same acrobatics at the same speed (the distance never varies), yet while I'm drifting off to lala land, the LA behind me can keep his nose pressed to my tail without any problems.
Is it a connection issue or something else, any informed opinions?

[Rollins]

It all depends on how much Scotch I've had;)

[Murdr]

G effects are all computed on your front end, so it has nothing to do with connectivity.  When you encounter a G-lock seems dependant on a combination of how high a G you are pulling combined with how long you sustain that high G.  I have reviewed films where I have spiked at 8.9Gs without G-locking.  I have also G-locked a less Gs, but I sustained that G level for too long.

The cause of most of my G-locks is that speed transition moving from compression to no compression.  In other words, the plane is too fast to respond to stick input, then it slows just enough that suddenly it fully responds to stick input catches me by surprise.

As far as the guy on your 6, that is just a matter of proper pursuit mode.  If you pull a 7G turn 500 yards in front of a bandit, all he has to do is move to lag pursuit and only pull a 5.5G turn.  You G-lock, and he is still right there to put guns on you when your plane stops turning.

[trax1]

I was just emailing Skuzzy about this, I had upgraded my ram to 2 gigs and changed my video settings to preload textures in system memory, but it changed my blackouts, now the blackouts seemed to happen with fewer G's and they were visual diffrent, now the whole screen would fade black when before it was more like a hole that would get smaller.  Turns out I had my maximum texure size to high for my video card, I had it at 1024 when my card could only handle 256, you might be having this same issue.