You've lost me with all this technical talk, but is this site any good ? http://www.maps-gps-info.com/fgpfwmobile.html#Java

Quote from xaotik :

Last guy who said that got nailed to a cross.

More importantly, as the story has it, when he did get back one of his buddies wanted to poke his finger in him. Is this some ploy for a free prostate exam?

I suppose that means Kevs mum will win forums funniest personality next year.

Bloody hell 1.8million !.

He could've had him mine for a tenner.

Didn't get Leonard Cohen
But did get Sid Vicious and Bambi

Then again, it does ask a hell of a lot of questions.

Huh ! how disappointing.

Going by the thread title i thought you were looking for an FPS game.

And i was going to suggest a cheap spud gun from eBay for her, and a T-shirt with a big bullseye target on the back for you

Been listening to the new album by U2 - No Line On The Horizon, for the last few days.

Although i've read a lot of negative comments about it, i think it's rather good, and it definitely gets better the more plays you give it. It's definitely not 'fast food pop'. And anyway, isn't the best music always something that challenges convention and expectation ?

Quote from Forbin :

If you're looking for realism in a combat sim, check out:

- Lock On (modern jets)
- IL2 (WWII props)
- Black Shark (helos)

IL2 probably has the best pick-up-and-play factor. The others tend to get pretty involved with all the various cockpit systems.

Huh ? Lock On ?....so real that you can crash into the ground at several hundred mile an hour, rip both wings off and carry on as though nothing had happened http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABHDGUZyWkE

Maybe Falcon 4 should replace it in your list

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I'll get the kettle on, and lubricate and re-set the traps.

I'm on Bootham, mine's the house with the clear view of the road for half a mile in both directions.

Huh ! wish i'd known that before i set off.

Before i left, i watched that vid in the other thread so i knew who to look for. So i've spent the last 3 hours searching every soup kitchen, YMCA and gay club in the town. And there you were, sitting at home, lubeing your traps :rolleyes:

But at least we know where you live now.....just be careful opening your mail over the next few days.....that's all i'm gonna say

Quote from xaotik :

Fellow forum members, I call upon you to join me in a collective sigh and shaking of the head in the direction of thisnameistaken.

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

Adding to that, Can we also include the /facepalm also before the shaking ?

Screw that....i'll get me shotgun

I can be in York by 9

Quote from CSU1 :

anyone know if such a thing could work on a pda(hp ipaq)?

Yes, yes it does, works well too.

But, you'll need something like Sidewindow to extend the desktop onto the pda screen.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I love both Pete Shelley's voice and also Graham Fellows' piss-take of Pete Shelley's voice.

Two words... John Shuttleworth

:zombie:

Nah, Pete Shelley's voice really gets under my skin, really annoying and whiney.

It's ok for a one off novelty record like Jilted John, but for a serious punk god to sound like he's just trapped his nads in a door, it's not right, know what i mean ?

Basically the artistry in punk 'singing' is to shout, in the most angry and menacing way. But when Shelley does it he sounds no more menacing than a big girls blouse. So how are a group of disaffected teenagers looking for a rolemodel supposed to take that seriously ? (Apparently Boy George was a big Buzzcocks fan...)

Huh ! wonder how many people in this thread were even alive in 1976.

And how come no-one's mentioned the originals, the Godfathers of Punk, Iggy and the Stooges, or even their bastard love children The New York Dolls.

For what it's worth, i don't think any 70's British Punk band could hold a light to The Damned - before they went all pop-shitty-tastic -. Generation X had a couple of decent albums, the Clash had some decent tunes too, i always thought the Buzzcocks where shite, and the Pistols was more of a money making venture for Malcolm Mclaren than a real band, more hype than talent, but isn't that the music biz in a nut shell....

Yep, it's definitely 8.50, i guess this must be an MSI only version . But i suppose the driver on the ATI site should be the better and newest one. will try it.

The Express Gate thing is pretty good tbh, apart from the no sound. You can get online within 10sec's of turning the PC on. And because it doesn't go through the full boot up sequence in theory it's using less power to run the thing and on my PC is very very quiet. The only drawback is you can't access the HDD, so you can only download to a USB device. And it obviously doesn't load the GFX card so stuff like Google Earth is a bit laggy. Youtube's fine though, except for the no sound bit

Quote from Takumi_lfs :

http://game.amd.com/us-en/driv ... lyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp

Fixed, Download the Catalyst Software Suite.

After that Like I said above enable manual fanspeed control and raise it up to 60-70%

Just bumping this thread, coz, i've just got myself the MSI version of the 4850, and i'm a bit confused.

The driver/catalyst thing on the cd that came with the card is version 8.50, yet the latest version on that site is 8.12, so, which is the best ?

And just for the record, mines running at about 66-67 degrees C at idle, and i thought that was hot, but if some are running over 80

Have to say, it's early days, but i'm not entirely sure if this card really is worth all the hype. I didn't notice any significant improvement in X-Plane, and Arma's still not playable on max settings (it will run at max settings, but the fps's are too low to be useful) Not had the time to try FSX yet though, so perhaps time will tell. But, i've come from an Nvidia 6800GS, so i would have thought i'd get a huge performance boost, but no...

And while i'm here, maybe i could ask some more questions ?

I also bought an Asus P5QL motherboard with this Express Gate/Splashtop app. And it's a pretty nifty little thing, but, i can't get the audio working (only in the Express Gate though, it's fine in the OS) I've looked at the support pages of Asus, but, they're useless to be honest, and couldn't find any help there. I did send them an email, but they ain't hurrying to reply.

So, any help from you guys would be appreciated.

p.s Linux seems to really hate this MB/Vid card combo, it doesn't recognise the audio or ethernet port

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Quote from Jakg :

Which mobo is it? The only board I can think of that does this (one of the ASRock's) only lets you use one or the other - not both.

Partly correct.

I have the Asrock 4core dual vsta. It does have both pci-e and agp slots, and you can use them at the same time, i've done it myself.

But..

I wouldn't recommend it.

Firstly, the pci-e slot is only a x4, so you're losing performance from the get go.
Secondly, the slots are far too close to each other. The fan of the agp card is almost touching the back of the pci-e card, so the heat from the back of the pci-e goes straight into the fan of the agp, and subsequently gets very very hot very very quickly.
Thirdly, I've only tried it with 2 Nvidia cards using the same drivers. I doubt it would work with ATI and Nvidia at the same time.
Forthly, the Asrock is pretty crap tbh. It's good if you want to upgrade bit by bit from old technology to new (i.e ddr1 - ddr2, ide -sata, agp - pcie) but after that, it's a very mediocre board.

Quote from MAGGOT :

I work in a pretty tight-knit office, and the boss gets presents for all the employees. I'm planning on getting something for the boss and his wife, but I have no idea what to get.

Something under $60 or so (Hey, it's tight-knit but I'm still a poor starving college student! ). I was thinking the old fall-back of a bottle of wine, but then I remembered my boss doesn't drink.

Any ideas?

All the clues are there

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hadleyfierlinger/2522544139/

Well, it could have been a whole lot worse.

Not too much of a mention of standardised parts except radio and telemetry, so they're nothing to get worried about, although the chassis rules are a bit vague.

I've never been a fan of this engine lasting for "X" amount of races, but while it's here they may as well go the whole hog and say the engine has to last a full season.

Ban on refueling, tyre warmers and wind tunnel size, all V good
Possible reduction in race distance or duration (proposal to follow market research). V V bad. Proposal to follow market research eh ! Hmmm not happy about that one.

The other stuff is pretty much Meh

Here's the link for that plane http://store01.prostores.com/s ... x-planestore/Detail?no=61 $15 USD. But, it seems as though he's got a special offer on at the moment http://store01.prostores.com/s ... -planestore/Detail?no=114 all 5 GA planes for $25 USD, (wish i'd waited)

As for the traffic, i didn't realise there was an option for it. Although there are a few freeware apps that put traffic into the game they seem a bit of a pain in the arse to set up, so i havn't really bothered.

If you're have FPS issues try G2XPL. It's best if you turn off all the scenery (i.e forests and buildings and stuff) and whack up the airport objects and overall graphics settings to max. I've gone from low 20's with the stock X-Plane settings to mid 60's with the G2XPL google app settings

The thing that's really surprised me most with X-Plane is, it's actually not quite as configurable as FSX. Multi-monitor support is a real pain to sort out and it could really do with an FSUIPC app to help with setting up and changing all the key macro's. It's good if you want to configure lots of hardware with real buttons and dials and things, but this TouchBuddy thing is all virtual hardware, and you have to really dig around the guts of X-Plane and play around with loads of config files and soforth to get it to do what you want (and i havn't even started trying to get any data from the game itself yet) confusing.

Also the way X-Plane graphically simulates rain and snow could be better, although the real world weather function is spot on, and how it reacts with the planes flight dynamics is fantastic. But, I was out flying over the Lake District in the UK the other day and noticed that the screen suddenly got dark and really grainy. My first thought was, oh bollocks, me graphics cards on the the way out. It wasn't until i looked out the side window i realised it was actually raining The planes could do with a windscreen me thinks.

The interaction with ATC is pretty nasty too.

But having said all that, i still love it.

Yes, yes it does, although i'm yet to see another traffic in the same bit of sky as me so i can't really voucher for it's realism. Although the talk in the forums suggest it's pretty much spot on. Not sure if it's coded into online play though ?

Quote from Hyperactive :

Well, two options really. Go check your eyes or don't .

Few cheap tricks:
1) you could ask your friends and relatives if they have some spare glasses from their dead relatives lieing around (glasses lieing around). Check the local jumble sales too. Remember to try them on before paying anything.
2) when having the eye check they will probably put some kind of lense device on your head that looks like glasses with changeable lenses. When they have found the perfect post, ask if you can go outside the shop to check if you can really see better. After you step out the shop, leg it.
3) buy two bottles of beer and sand paper

4) stand closer to everything.

Looking good, nice one lads.

Eric's done a fantastic job with it, and i'm certain Scawen has coded the physics to be near perfect....and er...Vic made a nice video

Nice landing.

Although X-Plane does have a few drawbacks, I'm loving it too.

Been playing around with the freeware G2XPL addon recently, and it's fantastic. If you don't know, it's a tileproxy type app, but because the land mapping is so much better in X-Plane than FSX it's just about as real as it gets., and i'm yet to find a runway that's misaligned with the google earth tiles.

I've also been playing around with a little program called TouchBuddy...yeah, i know . But it's an absolute treat, i can even get it to work on an old Ipaq i had lying around. I've not yet finished my profile (kinda getting bogged down by VB6 programming issues) but i should reach a point where i won't need to use the keyboard at all.

I have to say i'm not overly impressed with the quality of the freeware aircraft, and i havn't really looked at the freeware scenery. But i did buy a little Piper Commanche from Heinz Dzuirowitz, and it's a beaut. One of the best planes i've ever flown in any sim, ever, and it's only a tenner.

All in all, i have to say there are some things FSX does so much better than X-Plane, but, the overall flying experience is light years behind that of X-Plane. It's just a real shame non of the airports have any buildings. It always seems a bit of an anti-climax when you land and there's not even so much as a hanger at some of the biggest airports in the world. Although the runway lighting is something else, utterly fantastic.

It gets a definate Tommy Two Thumbs from me

Schizophrenia in it's most basic definition is otherwise known as displaced reality.

In other words, being drunk or even just being in love can be medically classified as a mild form of schizophrenia

Quote from xaotik :

I think they should clone Alonso and enforce standard drivers instead.

Two words, Robert Kubica