Heinrich

I should say: Tank Crew 

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Session one got off to a rocky start because I had corrupted the server file somehow. Fixed now.
 
Blue team had a problem with the rescue mission. When completed, it did NOT give a secondary. Well the mission is perfect. Naturally. I flew the mission and NO secondary. I slapped the guy around and he would not talk. I looked the mission over. The trigger for the complete subtitle also activates the secondary mechanism. Not only is there a single trigger but there is a backup. I replaced the primary and backup and it works fine. ( famous last words )
 
Red team had a secondary subtitle with the correct name of the town but the wrong sector location. Corrected.
 
Entente airbase at Firnsted is placed close to some trees. People were spawning in the trees. The base was moved forward. The shadows look strange but it works.
 

 
 
Next- I found some invisible object at Sole Street airfield. It took quite a while to fully locate the entire anomaly. I was eventually able to mark the invisible structure and move the airbase. Do not fly near the water towers.
 

 

Very good description, Etzel; thanks!
 
I would not attribute it to FiF specifically; my guess is that it's some kind of video setting inside the RoF game, or one that is bound or associated to RoF specifically by some other program, like nVidia Control Panel, or maybe your MSI Afterburner utility.  It seems apparent that your monitor is losing it's video input signal completely; that's why you get the standby mode from your monitor.  In other words, it seems like your GPU is crashing.
 
The first thing to try is to see if your GPU crashes when you're playing RoF on some other server, or in single player.  Try to recreate the same conditions that you have when flying in FiF.  Fly for at least as long (including any practice time that you may have played before an FiF session), and fly in areas of heavy video stress (near the ground, over cities, trees, etc.).
 
If it never happens while flying in other areas of RoF, and only happens while flying FiF, there could be a remnant of a mod still in your game somewhere.  However, I doubt that, because normally that would cause a DTD (Drop To Desktop or CTD, Crash To Desktop), and not a complete loss of video signal altogether.  However, anything is possible.
 
What is unclear to me is what exactly are you doing with the Afterburner utility?  Is it overclocking the video card by either manual settings, or even some automatic increases that would step up speeds in response to greater demands?
 
Honestly, if it were me, I would disable all overclocking to start with, both in the system BIOS and also I would disable or even uninstall the MSI Afterburner.  In the BIOS, it is best to start with all settings at Default; and there is always a single setting that does this.  There is almost always a switch or button on the motherboard that can also do this if you can't boot to the BIOS.  Even if you can't do that, you can even short across the MB battery for a second or two, or remove it from the board for a while and then put it back in.  But obviously do the easiest thing first and only worry about the others if that turns out to be impossible.  In any case, you may have already done this by setting it to "automatic", but it would be best to double check to see that there isn't another setting that would set all parameters to the BIOS defaults.  It's possible that "automatic" is part of that....or it could mean that it "automatically" does some kind of overclocking.  For troubleshooting purposes, you do NOT want it to do that.  Setting BIOS to all default settings should disable any kind of overclocking.
 
Then I would get rid of that Afterburner program; either disable it and make sure it's not starting itself on reboot, or uninstall it altogether.  You can always reinstall it later if you want....you might even get a more recent version from MSI than you have now.
 
Then run RoF and FiF in a completely standard hardware configuration and see if it happens anymore.
 
If you don't want to go that route, there is a utility called "ModSearch" you can run on RoF that will find old mods, or remnants of them, inside your installation of RoF.  For some reason it will show a lot of paint files as mods, but you can ignore that part of the results.  If it shows ANYTHING else besides those paint files, you get rid of it.
 
The only way to accomplish what you would by running "ModSearch" would be to run "Recovery" through the RoF Game Launcher.  I would never do that until I first saved a LOT of information from my game installation, like all of my paint folders, snapviews, controls map files, etc.  This is because you lose all of that doing a recovery, so it would be like starting from scratch if you didn't.
 
I attached the ModSearch program plus supporting files in a zip file, if you want to try it.  All you have to do is unzip the files, then place all 3 of them in your "Rise of Flight" folder.  Then just run the executable.  It will show you something like this:
 

 
Ignore anything that it shows inside of the "skins" folder (any *.dds files).  But do look carefully for anything else it might be showing, other than paint files.  To get rid of any specific file that it finds, you just check the box next to it, and then "Delete Selected".
 
EDIT:  All required files now included in the attached archive.
 
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ModSearch.zip

Hello Luftritter,
 
I also use a Virpil HOTAS set-up: MT50 Mongoose Stick and Throttle combined with MFG Crosswind rudder.
Standard I use Button 3 for Push-to-Talk but for demonstration purposes I activated the Button 18.
As you can see it works. 
I started implementing Joy-to-Key but in some games it gave to many controllers (I use stick, throttle, rudder, 2x MFD), the Joy-to-Keys added to that was to much.
Now I went back to direct game input.
 
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Same. Thank you.

For flying in FC, I created 2 personal skins for the Fokker DrI and the Pfalz DIII. I hope you like them and that they are good enough for my JG and Jasta.



 

For flying in FC, I created 2 personal skins for the Fokker DrI and the Pfalz DIII. I hope you like them and that they are good enough for my JG and Jasta.



 

Again nice skin. Confusing sometimes the used paintings on aircraft. I thought the Black Eagle was a JG2 thing but I see a lot of the same paintings on other JG aircraft as well but than Without the had. Could it be that the black painting was done to cover the black stains from the engine and that an creative person at JG2 painted an eagle had on it?
I found these pictures in a Dutch MoD databank and thought they wrongly mentioned as IV./JG1 and 4./JG1 at Deelen airfield but may they were right after all. The marking after the Cross is also new to me.



I will move these later to the Weiss-clopedia    and some others I found including the civil and still white version of the Fw 58 of JG1.
 

Again nice skin. Confusing sometimes the used paintings on aircraft. I thought the Black Eagle was a JG2 thing but I see a lot of the same paintings on other JG aircraft as well but than Without the had. Could it be that the black painting was done to cover the black stains from the engine and that an creative person at JG2 painted an eagle had on it?
I found these pictures in a Dutch MoD databank and thought they wrongly mentioned as IV./JG1 and 4./JG1 at Deelen airfield but may they were right after all. The marking after the Cross is also new to me.



I will move these later to the Weiss-clopedia    and some others I found including the civil and still white version of the Fw 58 of JG1.
 

I kind of feel that you really need to know what you're doing when you build something like that.
 
I can see news headlines like "Police Free Man From Home-built Deathtrap".

Here are some pictures I took at the Military Aviation Musuem’s Biplanes and Triplanes 2016 Airshow.  Some were taken on Friday’s practice day and the rest at Saturday’s full event.
 
We were lucky the weather cooperated on both days.
 
S!
Lee
 
Fokker Dr.1

 
 
Flight line on Friday

 
 
From left to right: Strutter, Fokker C.I, Halberstadt CL.IV, Fokker D.VII

 
 
Albatros D.Va

 
 
Nieuport 17

 
 
Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter

 
 
Fokker D.VIII

 
 
From left to right: Strutter and Fokker D.VI

 
 
Fokker D.VI

 
 
Ford Model T chassis Ambulance

 
 
Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter.  This is the replica used in the movie "Flyboys"

 
 
1911 Curtiss-Ely Pusher replica.  Built to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Naval Aviation.

 
Ford model T chassis with Huck Starter.

 
 
Flight Line Saturday show day.

 
 
Flight Line Saturday show day.

 
 
Rotary Engine Demonstrator

 
 
More birds on the Flight Line

 
 
From left to right: Fokker E.III and Fokker D.VIII

 
 
Looking East

 
 
Fokker E.III (did not fly)

 
 
Blériot XI

 
 
Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter

 
 
From left to right: Fokker D.VII and Albatros D.Va

 
 
Albatros D.Va

 
 
Albatros D.Va

 
 
Halberstadt CL.IV

 
 
Fokker D.VII with printed fabric lozenge camouflage and Hall Scott engine.

 
 
Fokker D.VII

 
 
From left to right: Fokker D.VII, Halberstadt CL.IV and Fokker C.I

 
 
From left to right: Fokker C.I, Fokker D.VII, Halberstadt CL.IV and Fokker D.VII

 
 
From left to right: Fokker D.VIII, Fokker Dr.1 and Fokker D.VI

 
 
Fokker C.I

 
 
Fokker D.VI

 
 
Fokker D.VIII

 
 
From left to right: Fokker D.VI, Fokker D.VIII and Fokker D.VII

 
 
From left to right: Fokker D.VI, Fokker D.VIII and Fokker D.VII

 
 
From left to right: Fokker D.VI, Fokker D.VII and Fokker D.VIII

Out of the grave came a muffled noise which sounded: "hank ou, ir"

Out of the grave came a muffled noise which sounded: "hank ou, ir"

Lol! Well...if I had only one virtual life, I would probably feel that way too.
 
Don't shoot me - take my wingman instead! Wingman tasty. Me yucky!

?? Sorry, I can't speak the words ........
 
I hate people who put wholes in my aircraft, time and time again   

You're about 1/2 way to a (much better) Predator/Reaper control shelter
 

Recently I finished the last part of my computer upgrade project.  Having built the new box last spring, I still needed (or wanted) to upgrade my video capabilities.  I wanted to upgrade to an actual gaming monitor, one with higher refresh rates than 60 Hz, which is what my old 32" 1080p monitor would do.  I wanted to take advantage of the new G-Sync technology in the nVidia GPUs that syncs the GPU with the monitor, if they're both capable.  Lastly, I wanted higher resolution, and no downgrade in physical size, from my old 32" TV.
 
Over the months it's become apparent that ASUS has been making some really nice gaming monitors that have as much as 144 Hz refresh rates, and they're made specifically for gaming (the "ROG" series, "Republic of Gaming").  But it's been almost impossible to find anything bigger than 27" in that series, and I didn't want to reduce the size below what I had before.  A few months ago, they came out with a 34" curved IPS screen, capable of 100 Hz, which is a decent frame rate for gaming:  PG348Q  I did not fully understand until recently the data throughput needed is a function of both the resolution and the refresh rate combined, which is why is was so hard finding a monitor larger than 27".  This new monitor has higher resolution than what I had ("2K": 3440 x 1440), and also a better refresh rate, and G-Sync capable.  Of course it's monstrously expensive; but I realized that what I was asking is not going to be cheap for a very long time, if ever.  So I bit the bullet and ponied up for the $1,250.00 it costed, and also a new nVidia 1080 GPU by MSI to drive it.
 
Once I received everything, I installed the new GPU and connected it to the new monitor via the Display Port cable, which is a requirement to be able to use the G-Sync feature, and also for anything higher than 60 Hz.  (HDMI would not work, although it does have an input for it).
 
The new monitor would not work.  I could see the boot up screens, but once it tried to show the desktop, it was simply black.  After messing around I finally figured out that the longer Display Port cable I had bought that could reach to where my computer was positioned, simply had too much loss to support the data required, even at 60 Hz, let alone 100 Hz.  So I grabbed the 6 ft cable that had come with the monitor, and everything immediately started working.
 
That brought up a big problem for me.  I was going to have to get my computer box much closer to the new monitor, and re-cable everything I had in order to make this thing work reliably.  After sleeping on it, I realized that my corner desk had enough room directly behind the new monitor, and everything else would be able to connect directly to the computer without using any extension cables, as I had before, and that was a nice benefit.  Here is where the case ended up:
 

 
Here is the new monitor, in the place the old one used to be:
 

 
Then I got the bright idea to keep using my old 32", 1080p TV too, as a map display from my second machine, and a backup.  Smaller screens are kind of worthless for displaying maps, since all the map details are too small to really see well.  I thought hey, I could put this thing overhead!  But I would need a VESA mount for that so it could be at a comfortable viewing angle; so I ordered what looked like a good one, and it finally arrived a day or two ago, and I installed it today:
 

 
It worked out well, here is what the entire rig looks like:
 

 
Here's the view from the hot seat:
 

 
The new monitor has a frame rate counter built into it, and with the resolution at 3440 x 1440, and G-Sync enabled, the GTX 1080 GPU runs RoF at 100 FPS, solid as a rock;  that reading never budges from 100, no matter what I do or set.  Gotta be happy with that!  Thumbs up to ASUS so far  

Well in the case of the CPU coolers, they're completely sealed units that never need any kind of servicing. I agree that the cooling capacity provided is over-kill in many cases, and probably only really useful if you're going to overclock your CPU pretty severely.  But they do make smaller single-fan units, or lesser dual fan ones.  The thing I like about them is that the heatsink/pump unit that actually sits on the CPU is smaller and more compact than a decent air cooler.  Besides the space issue you mentioned, the larger air coolers are tall enough and top-heavy enough to exert a lot of uneven pressure through leverage on the CPU because they want to sag when sticking out sideways from the vertically mounted motherboard (some new case designs eliminate this by mounting the motherboard horizontally).
 
Still a good air cooler can be just fine for about anything you're going to do with it, and is a lot less expensive too.  The Cooler Master Hyper 212 is a good example of this, and they've been around for a long time.
 
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