HUEY22

Hi I have been contemplating getting getting a 2560x1080 wide screen to play Arma 3. Is this supported? Worth the investment or not? Any feedback welcome. Cheeers Huey

One of the best bits of TOH is ripping round the high rise biuldings in Seattle. Unless winning the lottery comes any time soon its probably the closest any of us will come to doing it it real life and feeling a bit '007'. With that in mind another city would be very well received if possible. London, Newe York, Sydney - just another place to fly around and forget about normal daily life for an hour. Happy days. Whats in the pipline Bohemia? HUEY22

I bought Operation Arrow Head and loaded it onto my machine - when I open up TOH now I get the two error messages shown below.............solutions on a postcard please. Thank you for any help supplied No entry 'config.bin/CfgIngameUI/MPTTable.shadow'. THEN Error compiling pixel shader PSSpecularAlpha:0

Sorry all at BI but Im not totally convinced that 'Cougar' is totally finished. Im using the Saiteck x52 and CH Pro pedals. Updated to 'Cougar' last Saturday and then sat down to enjoy the new and improved flight modelling. After being a good armchair pilot and checking all settings across the board I went into free flight and as the heli comes up on screen I put some collective in at which point the bird just sank to the ground and crashes. I then rechecked all settings and set off again. To condense 4 evenings of fiddling into a nutshell the collective seems to have no authority. It doesnt matter if Im free flight, time trials or editor the collective now seems under powered. Checked all settings then checked them again. Cant fix this bug. Reinstalled everything from disk again last night up to the previous patch and will remain there until the bugs are ironed out. Anyone else having issues with Saiteck X52? HUEY22

Thanks for the feedback DNA. Appreciated. It's defiantly more of a sensitivity issue rather than a complete failure. If I raise the collective the ship will take off but the power margin seems really low. As soon as I make a turn there is not enough power to keep altitude. I checked the dead zones but will recheck them and feedback. HUEY22

Before TOH I got my helicopter fix via Xplane. After returning to Xplane last night the one thing that I really noticed is how well they have modelled additional yaw as you pull more pitch. You have to put in more pedal to keep the ship stable. Like wise when you reduce collective you must use pedal input to stabilise the heli. Within the next patch it would be a great addition if TOH can build this factor into the flight model. Really adds an extra dimension of realism to the sim. On the horizon Bohemia team? HUEY22

If you bought your copy of TOH from Amazon like me don't forget to give the game, and BI some positive feedback on the reviews section. They deserve it and it might help them shift a few more copies. Im off to straff some militia in my 'little bird' Cheers HUEY 22

Is anyone else having issues with their Nivadia GTX580? I seem to have a completely random stuttering problem on my system when running TOH. Some times all works well for 20 mins then the screen freezes for a second or two then frees up again. There seems to be no logic to why or when this happens. Anyone else had Nivadia issues? Huey22

Glad you got it sorted fella. HUEY22

When flying missions in editor a small empty square pops up on the screen when enemy vehicles are close, just before they open fire then it fades away. It happens in both beginner and expert profiles. If anyone can let me know how I get rid of it, it would be much appreciated. Cheers HUEY22

Thanks for the tip fella. I will experiment tonight. Huey22

Low level down the canals. Nice.

This one goes out to the guys at Bohemia & Nvidia. I bought myself a new PC for this game as Im a self confessed helicopter nut. I love them and I want to love this game but I cant yet as I just cant seem to get any consistancy in performace. System details: Intel core i7 2700k Quad core Asus P8Z68 GEN 3 8G Ram Nvidia GTX580 - Running Driver 290.53 1TB WD Caviar Black Since getting TOH i get random stutters on my system. Somtimes all works well for an hour other times as soon as the menu page comes up its nnnn.....stutter............nnnn.....stutter etc. I updated drivers to 290.53 which did improve things but its still far from perfect. After speaking to the guys at PC Specalist they suggested disabling hyperthreading which I did but that actually made things worse so I enabled it again. I have disabled the shading option as mentioned in the Nvidia game compatability section to but still getting the stutters. A couple of questions for you: Have i missed somthing simple which would stop these stutters? Why do they only happen somtimes and not every time? Are you guys (Bohemia) working with the guys at Nvidia to iron out these issues? I cant be the only one. I want to love your game. I bought a new PC to do so but at the moment Im not feeling the compatability love between my system and TOH. I look forward to your feedback. Huey 22

Hello. I got a 120gig from Crucial. Works a treat. Happy flying. Huey22

I have now been running the SSD every night and not one stutter. The drive was the weakest link without a doubt. If anyone is having stutter lag issues with TOH i would recommend upgrading. I found the link below very helpful. http://www.geforce.com/Optimize/Guides/how-to-get-rid-of-lag-guide Im sure if you contact the BI guys they will give you a solution re how to manage your steam challenge. They seem like a helpful bunch. Also - i bought my PC from PC Specialists. They all new what they were talking about. Service was fantastic. Cant rate them enough. HUEY22

Thanks for the update. I am concidering 3 screens myself so any more news welcome. Happy flying frenchie :-) HUEY22

Good evening all and Happy Friday, I upgraded to an SSD drive and not a stutter in sight over the last 4 hours so thank you very much Zipper 5 for the tip. I can fully love this game now. Thanks for your time and effort to all at Bohemia Interactive. You have made this helicoipter nut very happy. Cheers HUEY22

Evening gents. Just swapped to a SSD drive and so far all good. I will continue to test this week and report back. The other drive was brand new and fast but not fast enough it would seem. Cheers HUEY22

SSD drive ordered. Any top tips on BIOS set up appreciated. Cheers HUEY 22

I sold the old girl to make way for my PC. She was pretty but she was slow :-)

Very well put Sleepdoc. Hats of to the BI guys for getting this sim to market. Us helicopter nuts feel the love. Cheers HUEY 22

Zipper5 One last question - what is your bios set up? i actually migrated from Mac to PC for this game so im still picking things up. Are there any key settings i should know about? As mentioned i did try disabling hyperthreading but that made the stuttering more frequent so i turned it off. Any top tips. Thanks again HUEY 22

Thank you for your responses. Much appreciated. I am running Windows 7 64bit and i have defraged the drive. I think i will invest in an SSD as from everything that i have read they seem to be worth the money. Probably of stupid question but do you have windows on your SSD as well or just TOH? Thank you again for your help. HUEY 22

Yup - definatly happens more often in challenges and in the editor. What I dont get is why it seems so random. Somtimes its ok then the next miniute nnnn.....stutter.....nnnn.....stutter. All I want to know is that sombody somewere within Bohemia is trying to resolve these issues. As mentioned in my last post I want to love this game but at the moment its frustrating me due to lack of consistant performace.I was told the Nvidia GTX 580 was a top of the line product so Im not sure were the issue is. Whats going on Bohemia chaps?

Mine is the same, sometime it's fine for an hour or two then I will move to a different challenge and the glitches start. Going to go and do some tinkering and see if I can resolve it once and for all. I will report back.