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Technical Support / Re: I think the site is back up
« Last post by freedomgame on Today at 02:25:42 AM »
Scary!

I had to play IL2 for a whole hour yesterday… shhhhhhh!

 :bolt: :bolt:
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The O' Club / Re: Prebuilt PCs
« Last post by Bizman on Today at 02:10:13 AM »
I don't have the dates written down anywhere I just roughly remember when I built this system... anyways yeah 8 years old not 10 got it.
No offense intended, also sometimes I forget that not everyone has given a thought for a simple rule of remembering the Intel Core i# generations (applies to Android versions as well): Simply add 10 to the build number to get the year of launch. Or distract 10 from the year to get the build number of that era. Unfortunately I haven't figured out similar "rules" for Ryzens or any of the GPUs, or the cheaper CPU models.

Regarding the lifetime of electronics, 6 months is a lifetime. Same with cars, it's old right when you drive it out of the store. But that isn't synonymous to "obsolete". The usability depends on many other variables than just the latest quirk - a perfect example of that is how processors are made: They are "baked" as a disk of some 1˝ ft in diameter, the individual chips being the size of a fingernail or so. And all chips are identical by design, for Intel that means that they only make i9-14900KS CPUs! However, the closer to the edge the chip is from, the less perfect it is. But as long as parts of a chip work, it can be used for tasks with reduced performance. They simply disable the non-working sections. Thus most of use CPUs that are second-rate, or third or fourth or...

For longevity the best time to get a new computer would be around halfways of the expected life span of the current Windows so that the system would be compatible with the upcoming OS. Windows 10 was launched 2015 so based on history that halfway point would have been around 2020. Windows 11 can be run on systems from 2018 and up but they didn't tell that until 2021. That makes guessing a hit and miss game.
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Custom Skins / Re: Next skin batch?
« Last post by Greebo on Today at 02:04:45 AM »
I'll do another review on Monday in the hope that Hitech will process them this time.
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: GOAT
« Last post by hazmatt on Today at 12:13:50 AM »
Sounds like you and Skyyr need to get together.
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The O' Club / Re: Prebuilt PCs
« Last post by hazmatt on Today at 12:00:50 AM »
I'm writing my experiences here relating to AH3 performance to hopefully give a reference of some hardware I've used over the years.

If you are running 1080P, you can get by with a really low spec computer, however, when you get into VR stuff I think you need at least a 1070, even thought I was able to run it on an R9 380 for a while.

I have run AH3 at 1080P on a GT 1030 with a 3470 without issues at 60FPS.

In my experience I ran ran AH3 on a 3470 with an R9 380 for many years.(I had no problems with this one in 1080P with a decent level of detail) I as actually running this when I got my Rift-S and it was playable but not with much detail and big fields with puffy ack and stuff would kill the frame rate.
 
I upgraded to a 4770 and a 1070 which handled the VR much better. (This one would run at high detail levels in 1080P too)

Next upgrade was a 12100 and a 1080TI. This allowed me to run my detail in VR at 1.5.

I upgraded the 1080TI to a 4070 Super and didn't see much of a change over the 1080TI in AH3. I did see improvements in other games.

I have a 12700 but I haven't put it into the box yet. I'm hoping that the 12700 with the 4070 Super will last me for a few years.
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The O' Club / Re: Bad Me and Ocean
« Last post by -gg- on Yesterday at 11:41:48 PM »
We have three more songs coming and then an album.
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The O' Club / Re: Bad Me and Ocean
« Last post by -gg- on Yesterday at 11:32:36 PM »
Yeah it's not like we're going to change these songs since they're already mixed, mastered and released.

I just wanted to share them here.

Thanks for listening!
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: GOAT
« Last post by mERv on Yesterday at 10:36:45 PM »
Take on hordes of 10-20 players at the same time on 2 different accounts
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: GOAT
« Last post by mERv on Yesterday at 10:35:50 PM »
Intercept a large formation of B17's with P47M escort in bombers at 30k and destroy them
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Aces High General Discussion / GOAT
« Last post by mERv on Yesterday at 10:32:19 PM »
White flag, deack, dar, VH, ords, FH, VH, kill everything (under 5 players), run the troops, capture the base.

30 bucks a month
2 laptops



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