BIOLOG

Yeh, but new sim would appear probably only in about 2-3 years after 1.2 (and that might be optimistic)

OK, I think we established the fact that some people are really desperate for addon and whine about not being able to get it. That's normal it's human nature to be upset about things you can't get. I can perfectly well undestend that... I can also undestend people who it worked out for, and that have copy of the game that they can enjoy. Finally I can undertstend the latter bunch defending ED for their work on one of the greatest combat flight simulators ever, and slapping on "whiners". However... That doesn't make this discussion any more civil. Infact last 2-3 pages of this discussion been rather personal pissing contest (pardon my language), between couple of people belonging to two opooisite camps I've described above. Simple fact is I don't want this type of discussion on these forums. And I don't want to close this thread either, as it would reappear under different title pretty soon. Let me assure you, even thou I am not a spokesman for ED, neither do I posess detailed knowlege of their plans/actions, I do know that they are a very nice bunch of people who try their best to make this sim available for everyone. However life is a ***** and it keeps frowing challenges at them, challenges that may seem trivial to Western person, but that are very hard to overcome in enviroment of modern Russia. But I know that ED is doing their best. Most of the team are flight entusiasts, and when they fly they get the same "wonderful freedom"(sorry that description is rather bad, but my vocab limits my explanation) feeling as most of us so well know and desire... So please I urge you... People who are really upset about not being able to get FC... Try to put yourself in ED's shoes and walk around in them... Try to understend that most of ED team doesn't visit these forums as they are to busy developing 1.2... Part of the team that is responsible for solving the problems, and do visit these forums, has to deal with Russian and English versions so that are not able to unswer all questions from both forums. They do their best, but can you imagine how frustrating it is to hear someone just flaming your product, product into which you pured your blood and sweat on, for reason that you are not able to control, such as Paypal fiasco? I worked with ED since autumn. They replyed to my messages and beta-reports, when it was after 12 at night in Moscow. That proves their dedication to the product, at least for me, and I am sure it does for many other people. People who got the game and are defending ED... I can understend your feelings as well, but at this point your comments just pure petrol straight into the bonfire... It doesn't extinguish it, it only makes the matters worse... Please consider well what you are posting and what you are trying to say. think if someone else said it already, is it really worth repeating? If someone else is behaving unappropriately, is it really worth behaving like them and lovering yourself to their level? These forums started out very well... At first we had lots of users, and virtually no modding to do. We had a happy community, which was waiting for their dream to come true. It came true for some, it did partially for some others (SF+Paypal+various bugs), and it didn't for these who still don't have FC... Please have the courage to wait a bit longer. I can't say for how long, maybe a day, maybe a week, maybe a month. However, I am sure ED will not give up. They haven't yet, and they will not in forseable future, IMHO. ED might not be replying simply because they are too busy sorting this out. Or maybe they don't want to give you falce hopes after all unexpected problems they had to face. Please, just try to understend, that if these forums become less stressed, it will improve things. Nagging very rarely prompts progress, but can quite easily cause domoralisation. So may I just ask all users, no matter who they are, or what their relation to the sim is... Think about what you post. Try to be friendly to the best of your ability. And don't judge a man before you got into his shoes and walked around in them for a bit. Many thanks, and I do appoligise for rather poor english. Best Regards, BIOLOG

Yep, once your rep rating reaches 100, you are concidered too wise/nice and you are banned automatically :cool: j/k

Hmmm....

Rust is Ferrum Oxide. It's brown in colour (well it's actually black when it forms, but turns brown/red when it comes in contact with more air). Aluminium Oxide Al(2)O(3) is entirely different compound, it's not rust. It does form protective layer which is very hard to remove (can be done with concentrated alkili), and it is white in colour. Also this protective layer is formed pretty much instantly, since "naked" aluminium is very reactive

I've said ASUS drivers are crap, because they were on my machine, I had problems (not only with LOMAC), and these problems disappeared as soon as I've changed the drivers... However bear in mind the golden phrase "everyone got their own best set of drivers", meaning that some drivers might work better on some machines then others. ASUS do infact modify their drivers, and put extra features on them... While these extra features do help in certain games, they are generally bad for other ones. For example ASUS drivers work better with DeuxX Invisible war and BattleEngine Aqualia. I don't rele play these games much, so it's no point to use drivers espesially for them. Also they run pretty much the same on nVidia drivers, which I'm using atm. I will change the drivers this week hopefully, when new Omega drivers set comes out (hopefully). Now these are the best drivers you can find IMHO

OK, this thread is just silly/random now... So it gets axed

Should be a good card... I have ASUS 6800GT/TD 128Mb DDR1 AGP8X, and game looks nice, but I can't use some high settings like overcast, cause I have SD RAM, and crap CPU...

R U sure about extra FPS? When I bought mine ASUS v9999GT/TD I initially used ASUS drivers, but then I stopped using them because a) I was having problems with LOMAC (that was during beta-testing) b) They seemed to work worse the official drivers... So R U sure?

Asus drivers are not very good... unfortunately. I used to use them, but I get better preformance with official drivers (using 71.84 now), or Omega drivers (when they get released)

Theoretical maximum is indeed very close... It's defined by PN gap width (in nanometers). After that we could only get faster in one way - quantum computors. But they have some problems, which are hard to solve... so... Maybe someone else can invent something

And how will ED give you the date if they don't know when they will be able to get it to work? Remember this is the first time they are doing this... If they give you a date, and they will not meet the deadline, hell will break loose on these forums once again... Do you really want that to happen?

Lmao###############

There is an update at the top of the page, one of the stickyes... Paypal is being discontinued, so they are working on alternative payment method. ED is quite small company, so give them some time, ok?

Heh... You don't own 6800 or 6800GT card by any chance? And not using ASUS drivers? Even if not, can you please post your video card and the drivers you are using? I had a similar problem...

Right. From what I know once the radar locked on the target and missile has been launched (Active or Semi-active), radar sends out radio signals to the missile to guide it towards the target initially. These can be intercepted by target, and can provide indication of a missile launch... Same is quite possibly true for HoJ missiles. It is also quite possible that AMRAAM/ADDER go active once they "guess" (from info you inputted into flight computer), that target is withing their seeker's aquiring range. Homing on jamming signal can't always be very accurate... Above is pure speculation btw... Well, I did hear a real pilot saying that you get a launch tone, but I can't remember his exact words, so I won't tell you anymore. I might ask a friend of mine If I speak to him any time soon

In LOMAC, either of video card setups you are considering, will be bottlenecked by CPU. CPU is the main bottleneck of LOMAC. Ig you don't want to be diasppointed - go with fastest processor you can afford.

Yep, that's what the stabilisers are for (two horn-like things on top of deployed seat

HEh it was done back in old days, in Flanker 1.0 I believe. And yes, blackout is due to G-forces, as even if you ejected in level flight, you would experience somewhere around 20 G's, even thou very briefly.... but still quite a bit more then you would normally do in a plane

Ok, can you tell me contents of C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\Lock On\Missions\Campaigns folder? And what campaigns you do have available in game? Theoretically there should be 2 A-10, 2 F-15C, 2 MiG-29, 1 Su-25, 2 Su-25t, 1 Su-33 and 2 Su-27 campaigns

Campaigns should be in your lockon Campaigns folder. They can be started in 2 ways. 1)Go to campaigns in main menu and there should be a list on top right. 2) From open mission menu, you need to select Campaign files from small drop down menu located at bottom right corner, and then go to campaigns folder in main derectory.

YEh... As people already stated it's up for luck and can be dangerous... However... If you want to buy card to unlock the pipes, I suggest you go with MSI NX 6800. They have a very high sucess rate, due to them using very good chips (which would normally be used fo GT's), and their cooling solution is good enough to cope with extra pipelines... I myself have a rather strange hybrid card, its ASUS v9999GT/TD with 6800GT core, but 128Mb DDR1 RAM... Works quite well thou... By crap CPU, mobo and RAM are bottlenecking me now, lol

R-33 basic is pretty much bomber's nightmare... R-33E is improved, but still is evaded quite easily by Fighters. R-37 (R-33EM IMHO), i much better missile and will cause even F-15 a hard time... Phoenix owns R-33, is about the same as R-33E, but with slighhtly better range, and R-33EM is a step ahead of Phoenix. I think this is about right, unless I messed um my designations, or my brain came lose (which is quite possible at this hour of the night, after couple of hours of Kinetic Theory...)

GRRR I should have thought of that... Being an idiot sorry.

LOL, I still have Trinity term to go, and it only starts in 2 weeks. Got 2 exams then but I recon I just flog them :D Now the prelims in the beginning of the june.... that would be the real *****