BaldEagl: UPS dropped of the Parts just NOW...

[bustr]

So its finished.

It was a long and interesting process. The thing screams and XP sees about 3.4G of the RAM. The GeForce 9800GT is a monster, my desk top is running at 1024x768@120H. Offline testing in the game at 512 textures with object and ground vis sliders to the max gives me in the low 80's on the ground and up to 120 flying around and shooting with VSync forced on.

If you don't install XP or any of your other applications and hardware but every few years....well lets just say it took a day longer than I expected to get here. I thought my X52 and TrackIR3 had reached their mean time failure on the same day. Tooo easy to get mad and run around in circles.

I forgot I like to use dot tracking with my TrackIR. Not vector. So by default the software sees my vector license and opens my profile in vector mode. So my TrackIR is having intermittent malfunctions and ablsolutly will not get detected in Aces High. Just before I give up and order a new one....Im in the current profile deep enough to find the tracking format selction. OOOPPSIES....not set to dot tracking.

The only X52 drivers I could get to load under XP Pro sp3 OEM were the SD6. So the programing SD6 software naturaly won't import a Saitek SST programing interface (.dat) format file and convert it....noooo.... it only creates a (.prO) format. And I had to install .NET Framework 2.0 to get the Vista style programing gui to work......suddenly no drivers or programing software for the X52 will install in this version of XP......hours of wasted time. Then I had to sit down and map all of my keys to the new program interface.....weeeeeeeee.....

[BaldEagl]

Run the 1024 textures.

I've got an 8800 GTS 512 running 1600x1050 res, all sliders to max, AA set at 8, Anistropic filtering at 4 (pretty high settings across the board in my video card set-up) and never fall below 60 fps (v-sync forced on).

[bustr]

Just went offline and installed 1024 HiRes. The system dosent know the difference between it and 512 for frame rates. But the fish eye at the edges of my 20 CRT ViewSonic G220f is telling me I need to get an LCD 25inch 2ms.

So now my gunnery timing is off. I'm pulling the trigger too soon. I'm still brain wired to the slower timing on my old system. Few days of offline diveing through the cricling AI cons will retune my timing.

I noticed online tonight that my visual clarity allowed me to judge my cons better so I could slip their fire as they passed. None of the looking like I had separation from their high attack on my turn, their nose past me then watching them 10 yards leaving my 6, and the tail falls off. All evasions were clean and I could watch their tracer stream from inception to missing my rear, to them exiting from my 6.

I fought a yak9u, spit9 and 47N at 20k in a spit8. Was able to make clean evasions on them, but I watched my rounds miss on overy snapshot I took. Pulling that trigger late....... My varyence line never bliped. Just a solid white line riding under the center red line. Guess I get to go back to gunnery school for awhile.   

[Getback]

Just went offline and installed 1024 HiRes. The system dosent know the difference between it and 512 for frame rates. But the fish eye at the edges of my 20 CRT ViewSonic G220f is telling me I need to get an LCD 25inch 2ms.

So now my gunnery timing is off. I'm pulling the trigger too soon. I'm still brain wired to the slower timing on my old system. Few days of offline diveing through the cricling AI cons will retune my timing.

I noticed online tonight that my visual clarity allowed me to judge my cons better so I could slip their fire as they passed. None of the looking like I had separation from their high attack on my turn, their nose past me then watching them 10 yards leaving my 6, and the tail falls off. All evasions were clean and I could watch their tracer stream from inception to missing my rear, to them exiting from my 6.

I fought a yak9u, spit9 and 47N at 20k in a spit8. Was able to make clean evasions on them, but I watched my rounds miss on overy snapshot I took. Pulling that trigger late....... My varyence line never bliped. Just a solid white line riding under the center red line. Guess I get to go back to gunnery school for awhile.   

Sounds like you got it fine tuned Bustr, wtg. It took me some time to get use to the 24 inch as well.