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It may be BS mate but I also think the profiles are kinda specific to the user and their setup. i had everything working great and then swapped from a 21" to 30" monitor and had to redo my profiles and then I bought a nice desk and was sat a little further back and had to tweak them again. I guess position of your head to the seating of the unit has its effects.

These interaction/immersion device have been having a go at breaking the ice into the mass market for years. I love it and I've always wondered why they never really took. Must have been 18 years ago when I went to a Computer exhibition at earls court in London and was playing in a VR system. This had a screen within a motion tracking head unit. the graphics to the games were crap but it didn't seem to matter as it all seemed very real. Kinda like lawnmower man.. Then I used a Large scale Digital mock-up head set from sony about 12 years ago that had lcd goggles and a motion tracking box you clipped on the back of your head for looking around aircraft mock-up's.. Nintendo have always tried this stuff... Remember the virtual boy and the virtual glove. The wii remote seems to be the odd one out in that it's really taken off. I've had a few TIR and love it, Ordered the V5... But I foresee that high res oled/lcd goggles and gyro head tracking unit may come out soon that makes it redundant. :( for NP, but :) for immersive gaming.

I don't think they were, maybe wrong.. I bought a gery copy for ARMA 1 and some guys created language patches and translated the whole thing.. :) yeah its a hardcore mod base. Even the BIS patches that followed very country version specific. It was a right old mess... Although I think I own 3 copies of ARMA 1 :j: It was nice when they merged it all and made all version equal. I sure/hope they learn from that headache and all versiosn will be multi language and the exact same thing across the board..

I'd Agree that a focused land based game with simplified air/ground support is the genre of this game and to expand it in to full on air/air is asking a bit much and spreading the development thinner. There really are not too many good flight sims out there, I think lockon mac is probably the best of recent times.. Also due to the weight limitation there really arn't any VTOL aircraft. Once you add a load out and fuel it becomes an impractical concept we have stovl aircraft. You wont see an aircraft going on a mission loaded up doing a vertical take-off.. maybe at an airshow.

Dslyecxi, Thanks for the great video and I used your link for a purchase. I've had a TIR 2 and a 3pro with the vector and theyre just superb. So it's time for a double treat of TIR5 and ARMA 2.. Let the immerse killing begin.. :)

Hopefully Atari (if there even the US publisher)can get on the ball with this and get it on steam for a grand release coincident with the initial release.. They just have to look at the ARMA relase to see the headache that caused for everyone buying out of the country.. I think I ended up with 3 copies in the end :)

I was playing Arma today all working great. It took me ages to get this working I mean months and months.. I'm die hard about this game. I owned OFP the moment it was released and every upgrade and bought two copies of ARMA from different sources orginally to get playing it. I upgraded to QB today a walla! Program has stopped working msg on boot.. It gets past the starfarce BS and does the ticking boxes thing and then program has stopped working error and close. In vista 64 and it was running perfect this morning the qoute about it only adding content is BS I think.. I was only playing it 5mins before installing QG.. ans super how $20 can spoil a perfect sunday..

yes it was already patched mate so during gb install it said "patch already installed". I'll try to reinstall all tomo. And leave gb to do the 1.08 patch. Thanks

Also guys it's not really VTOL, it's stovl. Stovl planes can take off vertically, but not with all the added weight of a full tank of fuel and all the payloads with capacity. thats why Harrier/AV8 and the STOVL variant of the JSF/F35 are short take off aircraft. I just mention this because if were saying OFP is a sim then it should replicate this.

I already bough the czech download and a box from germany. I'd just love a patch from fantastic Bis to get me upto date.... Hint hint.. nudge nudge..

Using fraps I see no difference between Xp and vista. I'm running OEM Ultimate with latest 8800 drivers and It's great. I generally don't chime in as there are more MS haters than blades of grass on Sahrani. If you ain't used Vista final then your opinion should be pretty much mute against the people that are using it and like it. if your looking at upgrading and have a nice machine(which arma needs anyhow) then go for it, the extra's are really worth it.

100.91 official drivers out now on the nvidia site. Includes support for SLI.

Thanks to Mondkalb creating the huge map, I got one printed and stuck it to my desk. No more m toggle waiting times for me now. The detail see for larger images here

This isn't quite HDR guys. This effect is as discussed used to recreate the over or under exposure of sun light yes. but that isn't HDR. HDR- High dynamic range is taking the results from many levels of exposure and merging these together to give an image with much more detail to comparing area's of exposure. Imagine taking a picture from the ground looking up past a group of tree's at the sky. the sky is bright the tree's are shadowed and dark. in a picture it would be easy to either loose all the detail in the sky and see the tree detail or vica versa. with HDR you would take the images of various exposure and merge them to get the detail in both the sky and the tree's. Although this is new to games it's been around along time in photography. just search for like HDR/I. Oblivion/HL2 ep1 are really the best example's so far of its use within games. ARMA can look very nice, but alas as mentioned I think it effects the player to too wide an angle and seems to toggle unrealistically. maybe just me set-up or drivers.

Yeah i thought that once I had completed it. It looks vibrant like an LCD. an LCD as a table top maybe a little warm. Maybe some E-paper if it ever comes out. Duel output would be amazing. I already have a DVI out to my projector. Getting a live map on there would be sweet.

Yes. Works fine. It's a logitech mx1000

Cheating? Yeah, if the enemy get the better of me I can just crush them with my lil' finger. Stock cooling on the PC, but thats a different .place

I just got it from fotki where I host my photo's they'll print anything. I think it's 24x36 and cost $12 including postage. if you go here where I cost it you can order it straight from fotki or dl the pic from there or see link above for other idea's people had. Again thanks go to Mondkalb for creating from ARMA.

Sorry, forgot to post original thread for the map. Here

You have the ultimate GFX card and score 1673. Â Guess you have to wait proper drivers for your monster card. Then you might triple that score or better. Well, This was my point about the test. I can run everything full in game at 12x10 res, alas I get crappy results in the Bench. SO If I can up my bench i'm figuring the game will run amazing. Can you upload the modified mark lolsav with the prepare option. Be interested to try it. Or mail it to me and I can host it.

Well I installed my WD 74MB Raptor. It's one of the faster drivers out there. I was going to wait for Vista, but I'll stick it raid 0 with a sibling for that. My scores still didn't change. Loading did. It now gets to initial menu screen 11 seconds faster.. When I find what's holding my ARMAmark bag this things gonna fly.

your link Link is good there just having server problems. But this ain't the proper thread as it's not sprocket and BIS won't help you at all with metaboli DL's. unless the problem is in-game related.

Thanks PM, I'll run the exact same as you and post my result. it's strange. I'd put it down to my XP or ARMA install, but the game runs faultless. Edit .. Here we go, Ran at same settings as above. love to get this score up then in game may run even better...

Yes I understand your point, but it doesn't work. the ratio doesn't present the difference in hardware. It's a great range of scene's in the Demo, i'm sure it test all the various scenario's which the hardware come up against in the game. But it seems reliant on loading rather than actually testing the CPU or GPU. I went from a 1.8ghz amd with nv geforce 6800 where I received 1450 points to the above systema and I only get 350 points more. yet in 3dmark, aquamark, sisoft the results really show the hardware swap. Maybe the test is more dependant on harddrive, due to the location swap in AA. I'll be fitting a small rapid HD soon I'll retry with AA installed on that. Don't get me wrong It's a great add-on, but it's good to know what it's actually testing. to me it's certainly not cpu or gpu.

It's no head shot, it's a left eye shot. I agree with above, Shoot, confirm and move on. Injured people do look so very nice though. It's nice looking at someone in a vehicle considerably worst off than one's self.