Lucretius

Athalon and Pentium are different processors. Apparently athatlon is faster than it's Pentium equivilent (like athalon 2 GHZ = Pentium 2.6 GHZ) I'm not too sure tho, you might want to ask someone who knows for sure. Correct me if I'm wrong difficult to explain but it basically comes down to work done. Athlons process more information per clock cycle, so they do not need to run as fast... traditionally athlons are better with games. Raw mhz though is better for encoding and video editing... traditionally pentiums are better here... though AMD has been catching up. The latest AMD 64 bit processors use an on chip memory controller thus eliminating the major bottleneck in the past... the Front side bus... which is often the single biggest cause of slowdown in games. So the athlon 64 bit range is what you want for memory intensive games like flashpoint. It will leave any pentium in the dust.

An athlon is quicker than a pentium in 3d gaming... I don't know what he is talking about

any plans to include the transparent water?

this is really very good.... congradulations for all the hard work and effort... it has paid off.... 100% thumbs up My only nag is sometimes I get audio distortion, but i'm not sure if that's a driver problem on my part If possible maybe the reloading animation improved as well

I heard rumors of an "intermediate" update to the original game... perhaps along the lines of an engine upgrade or new campaigns etc while we wait for Flashpoint 2 If there any truth in this?

It was announced by BIS a while back... I think I remember reading about it somewhere. Maybe another Addon pack?

If you want Operation Flashpoint performance... than the Athlon 64 is the best choice of processor due to the built in memory controller. This negates the northbridge... this improving responsivness and overall speed in memory bandwidth intensive games... such as flashpoint

If you want Operation Flashpoint performance... than the Athlon 64 is the best choice of processor due to the built in memory controller. This negates the northbridge... this improving responsivness and overall speed in memory bandwidth intensive games... such as flashpoint

Don't bother with intel... Considering AMD's 64 bit chips knock the stuffing out of anything Intel offer in 32 bit and offer the best future upgrade path. AMD Athlon 64 3200 = Å129.00 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=304047&cks=PRL EPoX EP-9NPA+ Ultra Mainboard for S939 nForce4 Ultra,4xSATA2,GbLAN,PCI-E,ATX = Å99.50 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=307396&cks=PRL Gainward GeForce 6600GT = Å144.00 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=302678&cks=PRL TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 1024MB Dual Pack Kit w/two matched PC3200 DDR DIMMs = Å92.50 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=118498&cks=PRL Total Cost = Å465 That would be a full system upgrade leaving you with a fairly high end system

Don't bother with intel... Considering AMD's 64 bit chips knock the stuffing out of anything Intel offer in 32 bit and offer the best future upgrade path. AMD Athlon 64 3200 = Å129.00 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=304047&cks=PRL EPoX EP-9NPA+ Ultra Mainboard for S939 nForce4 Ultra,4xSATA2,GbLAN,PCI-E,ATX = Å99.50 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=307396&cks=PRL Gainward GeForce 6600GT = Å144.00 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=302678&cks=PRL TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 1024MB Dual Pack Kit w/two matched PC3200 DDR DIMMs = Å92.50 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=118498&cks=PRL Total Cost = Å465 That would be a full system upgrade leaving you with a fairly high end system

The Shilka... something very fearsome about it

not going to make much difference they are still going to fight from inside APC's and aircraft... A terrorist is not even going to get a shot off at a live soldier

bollocks

with what? i hope they aint going down the stupid road of replacing MBT's with LAV's which have 125 mm cannons or plastic tanks plastic and ceramic tanks armed with thermo-chemical guns are the future... lightweight, fast and very deadly

1. FAS.org will give you a good overview of the Abrams. For comparisons, I remember a military site that would compare armies against each other, but it's been a long time since I've seen it. 2. Advantages of turbine: quieter, better acceleration. Disadvantages: high fuel consumption, fuel is much more flammable than diesel. 3. Abrams have proved impervious to all known threats in the frontal 60 degrees of their armor. The sides and rear have shown more vulnerability - an advanced RPG-7 round took out an M-1A1 in Baghdad about a year ago, and two other Abrams were lost to enemy fire in the drive on Baghdad (nobody knows how for sure, except that whatever it was took out 2 M-1s and an M-3 as well - rumor has it that it was a 100mm AT gun firing at their rears) 4. Yes, the Army is planning to replace the M-1 around the year 2020. not all threats... an arial launched AT missile will still take an abram (or any tank) out, regardless of where it hits

like they really need to worry about that

lol... Visions of the iraqi army trundling all over the middle east in challenger II's

The UK force pictures do indeed seem doctored on close inspection The "urine" droplets do not seem to cast a proper shadow and the drops themselves seem far too large... like a water canton or something The "stain" on the hood also does not seem quite right

your kidding right? The t-90's explosive reactive armour is still nowhere near good enough the abrams is using armour 10 years out of date The Challenger 2 and Leapord are the two best protected tanks out there AFAIK

Nelson... full stop

the explosion must have been huge to cause such a death toll how many thousands of tons of fuel must have up in that explosion?

This had several reasons -most of them were attacked from above; a place no tank (not even the challenger2) has good protection against RPG's -The others were hit on the engine (from above); also a place almost no tank can take a hit. -some were hit on the back of the turret, doing little damage, but setting the bags and pack alight that are stored on the back. The fire than leaked into the engineblock and destroyed the tank. One lesson than could be learned is that the crews need to find another place to store their stuff. An RPG can go through 500mm of armor so not even the mighty challenger can take a direct hit. Most often it won't actually penetrate, though, but do some serious damage anyway. Very interesting are the stories of Bradley crews about RPG's bouncing of their vehicle because of the sloped armor. Scary!. Also interesting is to see a lot of Bradleys in Iraq now bieng equiped with ERA amor. On an APC for crying out loud!! That's like killing everyone who's close to the vehicle. true the abrams were unlucky most of the time, however it still uses antiquated 1st gen chobham. No challengers have been lost or disabled in iraq to enemy fire, although there are numerous reports of multiple hits by RPG's. You could of course counter and say... well the US has more abrams in iraq so there is a higher chance of losing one. that still does not change the fact that it is outdated and due a replacement unfortnately

RPG's were proven ineffective against the challenger II in Iraq However the Abram was shown to be highly vulnerable

your probably looking at a Athlon 64 3700+ 2GB DDR2 Geforce 6800 Ultra For a decent experiance ^_^

i'm not sure if this is a common problem but after maybe 15 minutes gameplay my system locks hard and a restart is necessary. This did not happen with my old ti-4200 so I assume it's something to do with the radeon... do you guys have any tips to improve stability?