WWDarkdiz

Sigh. Once again I am reminded why I lost my enjoyment for this sim and rarely fly it anymore. While searching for Torp boats escaping to the SE (never saw them after about 5 mins of searching), came across 4 C47 (LI-2?) flying low level up the coast. Rolled in to identify, confirmed enemy. Came around, hammered one of them with all guns blazing (FW190A3 with 180 extra rounds in 2 wing cannons) from relatively close range (wingtips outside of the reticle, so around around gun/cannon convergence, had to dive underneath it to not collide) multiple hits, no results. Turning back around, 1 burst from a fighter I assume had just taken off from the airfield, I'm dead. Would have had to have been a lead shot from fairly long range as I was turning at fairly high speed. But yet again, 1 burst, I'm dead. I can understand an occasional kill like that, BUT THIS IS EVERY TIME. Spent all that time getting airborne, getting to the combat area, for this? Not fun.

Oh yeah! 1 shot, 1 kill... Oh wait, I'm the snipee... Can't really complain, P-39 got me as I started to make my approach. A TON of rust, found myself hunting and pecking for stuff I used to know by heart. Was more or less lost for 28 out of the 30 mins I was up, but managed to find our base JUST before I died. That is CERTAINLY a positive. Good thing I looked to the right, as I would have passed it. Saw 3 friendlies (may have been the same 109), I don't think they were on comms, and never saw the P39. Wen't from 1 black smoke to another for the sortie, saw a very small plume, turned out to be the destroyed airfield. Interesting I got pretty bad stutters when I was around the airfield to the SE of the battle bulge (it was the destroyed one). Frame rate was never below 70, so I suspect a network issue on my end. Good news is that my new HF8 haptic seat worked as advertised, will take quite a bit to get used to I think. Good seeing everyone again, I REALLY have to fly a bit more. Sorry I left suddenly, I was getting frustrated at my lack of contribution due to my fumbling about trying to remember my controls (kept hitting the DCS equivalents). Especially @WWSandMansorry I didn't really have a chance to say hi to you (you came in JUST as I was leaving).

Updated 109F4... You know what to do. custom_photo109F4.dds

I have a 100W beast, works quite well, no issues so far

More than likely. I'm still flat-screening, no push to get into VR yet (although NOW I have a spare VR output slot on my main rig instead of the laptop so I can finally use the Rift that Craven gave me)

Got the 1650 out, while doing so popped out the little clip that "clicks" into place to hold the card in, couldn't get it back in place, so it is now in my toolbox. The 4060 slotted in quite nicely, and it was relatively straightforward re-configuring the Windows monitor placements to what they were. Payoff was a frame rate increase in DCS that was noticeable (from around 30-ish to well over 60 in most cases). The 1650 had its own power cable, which fit the 4060 with the addition of the 2-pin adaptor (made the 6-pin into an 8 pin cable, standard VGA pwr cable). Time for a few rum and cokes to celebrate

I already have the 1650 on a separate cable, so my plan is to simply pull that one out, then slot the 4060 in and use the pwr cable from that. Fingers crossed!

One of my DCS buddies had a 4060 8GB graphics card collecting dust, I volunteered to "dust" it for him. A few days later it arrived (Winnipeg from Hawaii). Since I currently run 2 graphics cards, a 3060 and a 1650, I'm going to try and simply replace the 1650. Should fit, but we'll see (single vs double width card). Lets see where this goes... Tomorrow is the install day...

I have them all, including the vehicles

Pretty sure I have all of the franchise, even the TC stuff (not 100% sure on the TC stuff, but I have most of them) and all of the planes

When I was newly married, MGOMU and I attended church on a regular basis. The priest said something during one of the sermons that has stuck with me through the years: We are all terminal cases

Mentally anyways. It could all end in a heartbeat. 3 hockey buddies, 1 a massive heart attack (on the ice), didn't survive. Second one, a massive stroke (unknown status right now). Third, a child of another dear friend hockey buddy, passed away suddenly and very unexpectedly. They say things happen in threes, we'll see. Pretty sombre around here of late.

OOOOO, that's harsh, but fair

All skins in the vault and catalogued

Welcome aboard!

I’ll get to them tomorrow

@WWCraven Found Dawg and Navy, no Biker though. Did you upload it?

I'll get these vaulted and catalogued when I see them on HSD

Merry Christmas all you magnificent men and their flying machines!

Good advice. Still getting used to the new bindings, so a bit of time spent with my head "in the cockpit" probably didn't help. But still, over the last base, I saw him about 70 dog off to my right, looked like a non-threat due to distance (well over 500 yards from what I could see), he fired, then I was dead. Similar happened on a few of the others, all of a sudden I'm dead, never saw at least 3 of them. I find it a bit frustrating spending time re-spawning, starting, taking off, flying to the area, not even getting into the fight, and back to the re-spawn because, once again, I was one-shotted. Time frustratingly not well spent. I think there was only one instance where I was aware I took damage (holes on the canopy I saw), managed to disengage, decided to RTB, flew for a few mins, THEN was one-shotted. I think every other death (except the time(s) I crashed all on my own) seemed to be a one shot. And to be clear, I see a one shot as the first burst from an enemy getting the pilot kill. IMHO, it happened far too many times.

Despite all of my deaths from a single bullet, it was fun flying with everyone. I was about as useful as tits on a garden fence, the rust was evident. At least I only balletted on the rwy once, until I remembered about the tailwheel lock. Spent the last few days re-binding my keys so that they are closer to what I am used to in DCS, still a few bugs to work out, but nothing that will be catastrophic (hopefully). Now to see if I can find the magic anti-one-shot elixir!

More updates from the 5.05 patch... Standard process, I'll get these into the vault today custom_photoP39L1.dds custom_photo109F4.dds custom_photo109G2.dds custom_photo110G2.dds custom_photoG6AS.dds custom_photoG6Late.dds custom_photoGothaG5.dds

Yeah, the throttle appears on the stick, mixture is on the right. Probably some sort on cosmetic spark timing adjuster?

So I was trying yo update all of my new aircraft snap views, and in the FE2b cockpit on the left side is a lever with 2 cables going to the engine compartment. Lever says advance, and retard. Couldn't figure out WHAT this is, nor find an existing binding for it. Cosmetic only? If not, WHAT is it?

yeah, we have a finished rec room in the basement, as well as 2 bedrooms. One of these I use for my office/gaming pit. Ahhh, who am I kidding, its my gaming pit