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That's exactly correct; I just tried it and the game worked perfectly in QMB. BTW if you want to try this, don't delete your skins folder. Just rename it temporarily by adding one character to the name of the "skins" folder. As far as the game's concerned, it's no longer there. When done, just rename the skins folder again correctly by deleting that one character. Simple.

famous last words....

+1 Yes, the cloning thing is most necessary when you you're moving from an old magnetic drive to an SSD. You can just move everything except Windows to your new drive, then install all future programs on your new drive.

I've used Samsung's drive cloning software and it worked well at that time. Might need to check things out afterwards in Windows drive management to see if you end up with unallocated space that needs to be appended to your new, bigger drive. Back then, seems like I used some kind of USB to SATA adapter cable to make it easier.

The field of view would be greater, assuming the game could support that aspect ratio. From what I've seen it seems to support whatever your native resolution is in Windows and Nvidia Control Panel. However I have noticed certain "fish-eye" effects that vary while turning your head. For instance, a plane may look a certain distance away, but as you rotate your view, it may appear to be closer or farther away, depending on which way you move.

What about the ones I left in your head? (While shaking with laughter, notices strange rattling sounds in own head)

Any and every world-wide organization should do that.

I used 32" TV for years also. Get what you have space for, and what is appropriate for how far away your eyes are from the screen. I went the "gaming monitor" route a while back, and even though it does have higher refresh rate performance and higher resolution than what I had, how that translates into real world visibility and quality of what I see is honestly not the improvement I had hoped for over that 32" TV. "What fits" for me is really pushing it, for a 43" TV, for me. But, since the outer frame size had decreased to almost zero, my next upgrade is going to "go back" to that, and screw the frame rates. I've come to believe that the overall size is the most important factor, bar all others.

Everything is bigger, so distant things are easier to see. Of course that is dependent on the type you buy. OLED would be best, but the last time I looked, nobody makes that technology in any size 43" or smaller. It is probably less necessary in those smaller sizes since smaller screens inherently look better than larger ones. QLED would be about as good as you're going to find in that size range. If you get less than 43", you probably won't even be able to find that. Standard LED will be cheaper and by far most common, and should look very good, especially if you get a decent brand like a Samsung or Sony. Max refresh rate will almost certainly be limited to 60 Hz, even though some advertise 120 or even 240....with those they use a proprietary term exclusive to their brand, and those basically just mean the it "looks like" or "seems like" higher refresh rates....but it isn't. So don't get fooled by that.

Glad you decided to join, Jaus! Welcome!

Well done, all! S!

I'd love to do that for you, but wouldn't be able to start it until after April 8 (assuming a successful escape from Florida back home via airlines).

I'm not sure to whom you're referring; but I doubt anybody who's really interested in participating is going to suddenly show up to fly later, regardless. I do see the need to discount all of those squadrons that are on our team only on paper, but not in participation. That's nothing new, though, and is going to be addressed when re-registration happens. Regardless of how players are accounted for later, the big problem is we still need a viable, cohesive and hopefully effective new group of pilots to join our team, in order to make things more even. That's harder to come by than it may seem, especially if not to upset the balance on the blue team side.

I know J5 started a separate bombing organization within their group. I don't remember what name it was....wouldn't be Schusta 26, would it? I thought it was Schusta something-or-other.

Yes, the good thing about TM is that they'll sell you just about any part that they still support. Sometimes that part will only be available as part of a subassembly. It's up to you to decide if it's worth it to repair, as opposed to buying a whole new stick. As far as the gimbal goes, I've never done a Cougar, but with the Warthog, you don't usually need to replace any parts. It's a matter of careful disassembly, sometimes some fine sanding, and re-lubrication with the special plastic-safe grease. Once that is correctly done, the stick feels as good as, or even better than new. I have that grease on-hand, and have performed that operation.

Outstanding job, all! Special shout-out to Greif for outstanding wingmanship, excellent job, a pleasure to fly with you! Can't figure out how I snuck in there, though

Wow, what a nice surprise! Welcome back, Dutch!

I see Jake, Dutch and Osten....can guess which one is Dudley. Not sure on the J5 guys. Guessing that's Quaker Steak and Lube Looks like they should be having that event again this year. I had remembered it being 3 days long the times that I went; looks like it's only 2 days long now. Maybe we just got there a day early to set up the LAN party.

Couldn't resist posting these pics, even though they may not be the final version. SOMEBODY is getting a new SPAD: For the forward fuselage I used a hyperbolic curve and created a graphic file that I hope will be used again on his other planes, if possible. Hotlead is totally responsible for the design, other than the wheels and the wing sunray. I have to say, I'm jealous

Gotta come to "Dawn Patrol" there, sometime.

I think something similar may have happened to me, due to something I probably did a long time ago. I think way back then I may have registered my tag in the brand new IL2 (forums or whatever) that took place after the original IL2; that might have happened even before RoF came about. All I know is that when I tried to register much later, it would tell me that my email (or even password) was already in use. I was like, really? Somebody is using my exact same email and/or password? Then I realized that it had to be me, but that their stupid system could not differentiate between that and what happened 5 years ago; in essence, "JG1_Luftritter" was already taken. So I couldn't create an account using the name that I wanted to. In any case, I had to play around with exactly how the squadron was named, together with my pilot name; and there are rules, like you can't have a "leading underscore" in your pilot name....which basically made it impossible to to use the simple "JG1" as my squadron. In the end, I think I used that then-acceptable "II./" as my squadron, and the "JG1_Luftritter" as my pilot name; where as in RoF, my name was all one "JG1_LuftritterJ4", denoting my squadron, as per the current squadron rules on the WWI side. However now, the limitations of the all-encompassing game do not really accommodate both WWII and WWI separation of names; and so the standard that we are using because of that is simply the squadron with pilot name, in order to take into account everything. So, even though that this would not allow me to use a name that is simply "Luftritter", "LuftritterJ4", or "_Luftritter", it would allow me to register with a BLANK squadron field, and a pilot name of "JG1_Luftritter", which I could not do in RoF, because there were too many characters. So apparently you have to play their stupid game, rather than hoping that they'll someday recognize your own old credentials as your own.

I'm with GC, I used to use a 60 Hz 32" monitor before what I have now, and I'm seriously considering going to a 43" TV again (that is the maximum size I can fit on my space, and it's only about 2 feet away from my eyes anyway). I'm pretty sure Butzzell uses a big TV; and for all the supposed gain of having an actual gaming monitor, I haven't seen anything that I consider game-changing in doing so, and honestly I think the color might actually be better on the TV. I think strictly with regard to "our" game, having the larger size is the one thing that you're really going to be the most happy with and what's going to help you the most; and the price difference between an actual gaming monitor and a regular TV is so striking, it really does tip the scales a whole lot in that direction. The only real "limitation" is that you're "only" going to get a 60 Hz refresh rate, maximum; but, you are to consider that an 80 series nVidia GPU can do that all day long with absolute maximum settings in the game....and that you probably drop down to that range anyway in the most demanding situations. You are not going to notice any slowdowns because you should end up running at 60 Hz basically all of the time, even using standard V-sync instead of the possibly available G-sync. Beware of TV specs that claim higher refresh rates; in almost every case their true refresh rate is 60, even though they say something like 120 or even 240 Hz on some. They all call it something different, every brand has it's special name, because according to their processing they say it makes it "seem" like it twice as fast, but it just plain isn't. But that doesn't really matter since you are not going to see the difference between a rock-solid 60 Hz and a varying synced rate that sometimes may drop down near 60 Hz in certain circumstances, if you have a GPU for which 60 Hz at any resolution is a walk in the park. I've personally had a suspicion for a long time that these games are basically designed around 1080p, and work the most trouble free that way. Varying from that is where all the potential trouble begins; and VR seems to be a huge source of potential trouble, or at least limitation.

You can't just add any old number of planes, because there's a ratio of main/secondary plane types we're trying to maintain; and then you also have to take into account the 50/50 use of the Pfalz and Alb, since the Central side has one more scout plane type available for use than the Entente side does. In order to keep all that in line, the next number from 30 total you can go up to is 36 total; if more than that is needed, the next number up from that is 42 total. He is trying 36 first. It will be looked at with that number and then adjusted further if: 1) needed and 2) possible. The server does have limits.