Very excited about this, been waiting for a decent combat helo sim since Gunship 2000 on the Amiga . I love Flamming cliffs and LockOn

Quote from 5haz :

The problem with LOMAC is that it's so realistic that you have to have full military training on the aircraft in order to play properly.

Far too many controller commands for my poor head to handle.

Still a fantastic series of games though, I have the original LOMAC, but ill stick to iL2 for now, all you have to do for that is point your gunsight at an Me109 and fire the guns .

X-Plane is a bit of a joke, runways that have 1 in 4 metre gradients!!!

You'll be able to play BS in "arcade mode", not that Id know why you would want to , I'm looking forward to 10 minute helo startup procedures wooohoo

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Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Vista also has it's memory diagnostic yokey on the boot menu (I think it is. If not, it can definitely be run from the disk), if you do have Vista you could try that. If not, memtest is the best, as Crashgate suggested

Yes this is a very good tool for mem testing, it found errors for me sooner than Memtest x86. Also, If you are running an Intel chip, IntelBurnTest is a great tool for testing ram stability. And it does it very quickly (compared to other instensive testing methods), keep and eye on your temps if your overclocked though.

1600x1200@75 CRT here

Not to go OT here, but how can anyone play at 60hz refresh rate? for me the anything BELOW 72hz gives me eye strain/headache. How does less flickering give a headache?

Yeah lol, Gio took some one out.

Great action packed race. That shower sure through a wild card into the mix

Great new format for this year. Watched the 1st two sprint races yestarday, excellent stuff.

Looking forward to watching the biggie tonight

Quote from BlueFlame :

Makes sense, those cars are far too advanced for the likes of the BTCC anyway.

Advanced?...hmm...how many races did Plato and Turner not finish because of mechanical problems?

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Thing is, it's a review by Fifth Gear.

They know nothing

I agree with bbman.
Im just interested in seeing some propper footage of it. I thought others might too...

Not really a racing video and may have been posted before, but interesting none the less

http://video.google.com/videop ... com+documentary&emb=1

Apparently Fifth Gear will be reviewing the Scirocco on next weeks episode, if anyones interested. Unfortunately the muppet, Tom Ford will be reviewing it.

They where some great races. Can't help but feel for Plato, it must be frustrating to be so close yet so far. At least the Championship wasnt decided, mathematically anyway, in the penultimate round. Excellent driving by Jackson and Doyle. I recon Jackson will be in a Works car next year.

The only thing I dont like about the BTCC is "anchor man" Ted, But I guess that more of an ITV issue. He comes off as a bit of a smarmy git. I didn't like his comment about Plato after the round was over. "oh well, you can always tell they have thrown in the towel when they talk like that", or something to that effect. No, they where the words of a good sports man. You can be damn sure Plato will be giving it everything he's got until the last race of the last round. I think I prefered Setanta's coverage, but at least they still have Edwards and Harvey, great commentators, and racer!

anyway good races.

Juts wanted to say thanks for the sounds. nice work

Sweet, cant wait for the first of the enduros. I was going to say, "I hope its a good race", but who am I kidding, I dont think I have seen a bad V8s race. Best tin top racing by far. Look out for Skaife and Tander, you know they'll be making life difficult for the VodaPhone boys

Hope you have a great time, looking forward to the photos .

From what I saw, he was drinking it during the race too

I enjoyed the races. Another fine podium for Andrew Jordan. It was nice to see all three races in the dry too, most races Ive seen at Knockhill before where rather wet.

Quote from chanoman315 :

dont know if this has been posted...
this is what is happening:
http://www.navoine.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=551#551

You should really put a warning on links to threads with pics like that. This is an all ages forum....:rolleyes:

I'm trying to compress an uncompressed video to divx or xvid in VirtualDub, but when I go to file menu Video\Compression dialog I only see 5 available codecs to render with:

(uncompressed RGB/YCbCr)
Fraps Video compressor
Intel IYUV codec
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1

I don't see any Xvid or DivX codec available, although they are installed. Any one have any idea on why this is happening?

some times I think, ahh a bit of blood thats not too bad. and then I start to get hazy vision and if I get too bad need to lie down. I think I tend to let my brain go into over drive thinking about how bad the wound is / how bad it could have been. it has to be real (not a film or something) and usually only when I injure myself eg slicing figure with bread knife.....urrrrggg :faint:
I have maximum respect for people who have to deal with nasty injurys all the time, doctors, ambulance and firecrews etc I doubt I could ever do something like that.

Last edited by DratsaB, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 15:33.

I don't think it looks that bad, but what the heck where they thinking with those headlights? :uglyhamme
its "mouth" also needs to be rounder, and less Chrysler-ish

Who cares about the black flag? He already pitted with with car problems. He got the black flag after he rejoined for testing, he was already well down the order. Maybe the car was not at top speed and the stewards where worried it might interfere with the others racers in the last few laps of the race....

The red mist descended in race2 admittedly, but fair play to Gio for an excellent recovery. Race one and race three where good. Well done to Stephen Kane on his first Podium


..And whats wrong with Ben and Tim. Some of the most enjoyable commentators to listen to, they are.

I think it would be a great addition to have a touring car style TBO class, based on the current cars. I remember the FXO was a lot of fun with slickmod. Sure, there would be nothing but slick TBO servers initially, but I would still enjoy driving the standard road car too.

thanks for a great patch, looks fantastic.

edit - NSX_FReeDoM:- thats a planned addition, not in this patch.

Quote from Breizh :

That's what excessive off-topic spam in the test-patch threads does. If you want to thank scawen, start a thread with "Thanks Scawen, for X" where X is what you appreciate Scawen or Eric or Victor has done.. Or if you have suggestions that aren't going to directly help out with squashing bugs introduced by the test patches, start one in GD or Improvement Suggestions.. At most you could succinctly introduce it to Scawen by a link to it in the Test Patch thread. It's unlikely they won't notice those.

But posting off topic stuff in the test-patch thread just clogs it and forces Scawen to wade thru it all trying to get some work done. That's no way to thank him for his efforts.

Hear Hear, my "cringe o meter" usually goes off the scale when reading the test forum. Its embarrassing and I feel bad for Scawen. How many times do people have to be told not to spam :slap:? Scawen must have the patience of a preschool teacher.

Last edited by DratsaB, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 16:13.

Well Slash is up there with the best (with GnR), although though not the longest carrier admittedly. And what about Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman. So many good guitarists :headbang::bannana_g

Dunno if this is default or not. This is the Plate and ForceField I use with my MS Force Feedback 2 joystick, works very well for me.

lol, I'm too gullible
:homersimp