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lol - and that's why "we" don't like being made fun of!

lol

HEY! We don't like being made fun of!

I am confident that we have stability.

I am confident we have stability.

Last night I ran RoF for the first time since upgrading my rig. My goodness! I set everything to the absolute maximum and the frame frame is still phenomenal. Albeit, I only did a few single player tests, but it's still like night vs day compared to my previous system, which wasn't bad to begin with. Old Rig: AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE (Quad Core - 3.4 GHz no OC) 8 GB RAM Single EVGA nVidia 560 Ti (used to set to medium or medium high, with little or no forest) New Rig: AMD FX-8350 BE (Oct Core - 4.0 GHx OC'd to 4.5 GHz) 16 GB RAM Two 560 Ti's in SLI EVGA nVidia 560 Ti nVidia nVidia 560 Ti (everything set as high as possible) I am somewhat impressed that RoF has taken advantage of SLI, but I think it's only to say that there is an SLI profile and that the game turns it on. The observations I've made does not make me think that it's completely taken advantage of. But that was only cursory observations. Best regards, Raven

The previews look really good and why not? It is the Digital Nature engine. But there is some "things".. First, it's DirectX 9. BoS will be DX9 until such time as they feel it worth putting in DX11. Double edge sword here, but still looks good. My guess is DX11 would be implement en masse to RoF and BoS. I am really hoping that they extend the existing online campaign engine. Myself, getting a taste for what the IL-2: Cliffs of Dover scripting can do, has really set the bar here. Compared to the issues that RoF had/has with online campaigning, IL-2 has really spoiled me here. This will end up being a really big deal for me. Also, this better be Windows 8 compatible. I don't care about the 'metro' style but sheesh it needs to run. While they say 'FreeTrack' will be supported I hope that doesn't mean that we get something less than full TrackIR support. They say that Falling parts (from other aircraft) can damage your aircraft. I wonder if that means large pieces (wings or tail feathers) or small pieces too so as general debris. Regardless of the short comings I will be getting the game. With the exception of my multiplayer expectations, and the Windows 8 support, the others are nothing more than talking points.

oh and +9000 for pre-order BoS... You get the Fw-190 A-3 with the 80 buck version.

Good thing now with computers is they don't double in performance every 6 months. Machines now are still 3-4 GHz. The really meat and potatoes is in the video cards. Graphics has always been the bottleneck. So good news, a graphics card update may be the solution to get reasonably up to date.

Website and mail servers are migrated. I don't think I'll need to take it down again. But just the same tread lightly over the next couple of days.

Website and mail servers are migrated. I don't think I'll need to take it down again. But just the same tread lightly over the next couple of days.

Thanks Labroisse! --- Its back up but will be intermittent for a while.

Its back up but will be intermittent for a while.

Regarding the web site server and the mail server, the past couple of weeks have been pretty uneventful. No outages and fairly decent performance. However, the servers are set up as a Virtual Machine, and the host is my main rig. So, I am replacing the rig with a faster equipment. I am going to be working on the server tonight, and this weekend. This means that there will be some intermittent outages. The longest will be close to a copy hours and be tonight. I am going to do an OS shuffle so I can build a new personal rig. This site will basically be moved to the same hardware, still be a Virtual Machine, but on a different host OS, Windows 7 instead of Windows 8. Best regards, Raven

Regarding the web site server and the mail server, the past couple of weeks have been pretty uneventful. No outages and fairly decent performance. However, the servers are set up as a Virtual Machine, and the host is my main rig. So, I am replacing the rig with a faster equipment. I am going to be working on the server tonight, and this weekend. This means that there will be some intermittent outages. The longest will be close to a copy hours and be tonight. I am going to do an OS shuffle so I can build a new personal rig. This site will basically be moved to the same hardware, still be a Virtual Machine, but on a different host OS, Windows 7 instead of Windows 8. Best regards, Raven

Yes of course, that's why there's populated forums right now. I wasn't implying you guys should "save" your work like saving a file. I meant save as in hold off on until stability has returned. Even with backups there is a window of minimum data loss, should a loss occur. For instance, our backups were from 2 AM on the previous day. Any posts that happened after that were lost because that was the last backup.

Over the past several weeks, we've been having some problems with the webserver. It's been blue screening more and more frequently. I had assumed it needed to have the dust blown out, and I'm sure it was a contributing factor, but it finally had enough and pretty much stopped running completely yesterday. This machine had been in service for two years, almost exactly when it was called into server duty after the great pool flooding the basement incident of 2011. During this time it has faithful acted as our webserver, our email server, our database server, and our game server from time to time. To say it was a work horse would be an understatement. Tonight, I set up a virtual machine which is now hosting our sites on Windows 8 running IIS8 with SQL Server 2012. I have not yet restored the mail server, so jg1.org email accounts will not work until then. Presently, this VM is running on my main computer and will remain so for the next week or so while I determine how to set it up. I've been wanting to upgrade the server for sometime and this may be the opportunity. That being said, within the next week or so, more than likely the site will again be migrated to another machine. That means that if something bad happens, we may loose information such as forum posts, or pictures or other information related to the sites. This is very unlikely but given the situation it's prudent to plan accordingly. Try to save important, hard to replace, threads until the system becomes stable again. Best regards, Raven

Over the past several weeks, we've been having some problems with the webserver. It's been blue screening more and more frequently. I had assumed it needed to have the dust blown out, and I'm sure it was a contributing factor, but it finally had enough and pretty much stopped running completely yesterday. This machine had been in service for two years, almost exactly when it was called into server duty after the great pool flooding the basement incident of 2011. During this time it has faithful acted as our webserver, our email server, our database server, and our game server from time to time. To say it was a work horse would be an understatement. Tonight, I set up a virtual machine which is now hosting our sites on Windows 8 running IIS8 with SQL Server 2012. I have not yet restored the mail server, so jg1.org email accounts will not work until then. Presently, this VM is running on my main computer and will remain so for the next week or so while I determine how to set it up. I've been wanting to upgrade the server for sometime and this may be the opportunity. That being said, within the next week or so, more than likely the site will again be migrated to another machine. That means that if something bad happens, we may loose information such as forum posts, or pictures or other information related to the sites. This is very unlikely but given the situation it's prudent to plan accordingly. Try to save important, hard to replace, threads until the system becomes stable again. Best regards, Raven

USB 3.0 is the current iteration of USB and is backwards compatible. I doubt it's MB problems, more likely driver problems. I'd try to find a port you've never tried and try it there. If there are none, then see if you can unistall the TrackIR drivers from your system. Also, make sure you are on the current version of the software that you can support. TiR 4/5 systems should be on TiR5 software. Which version is yours?

James May in his extravagance builds a Spitfire. Set aside an hour to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=zID8rnZcshs