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Yeah, the rest of them easier. I count 8 Spits, 4 P-51s, 2 Hurris, 2 B-25s (you better get those ), 1 P-47, 1 F4U, 1 F6F, 1 F4F, 1 P-40, 1 Skyraider in the clear. Then there are 2 overlapping pairs. I believe one pair is an F4U in front of an F7F. The other one I'm not sure. The background plane is too obscured to even guess. The one in front of it I'm not sure of. Anyone?

Lots of good ones in there.

All speeds were taken at sea level. Max continuous was reached by setting the throttle to 100% with the radiator closed. Prop pitch was either 100% or automatic when available, whichever yielded a higher speed. And on Russian planes fuel mix was set to 100%. The WEP speeds were obtained by simply going all out and disregarding engine overheating. Radiator setting, prop pitch, and fuel mix were same as before, but throttle was 110% with boost enabled if available. IAS (indicated air speed) is what the gauges show, and TAS (true air speed) is how fast you are actually going.

www.greatergreen.com/fbd2/fbd2.htm

I've known about this page for some time, but I just noticed something that is exactly what you need. Take a look under Optional Install Files at locked.txt. Basically they can individually grant you pingkick immunity. If you want, you could try to contact the guys that run the servers you want to be able to play on. Depending on how hard this would be to do, they might be nice enough to do it.

Sorry Molders, I forgot about this. I went through and watched it. Very nice job with the repeat attacks. Got one every time, and no serious hits from the gunners, perfect technique. The skid landing was great too.

Sorry to hear that BigBear, it was a pleasure having you as a member. I wish I could have chosen to have my computer die after the online war was set up instead of just before. I'm doing what I can as fast as I can, and I understand your reasons. Good luck with wherever you go, and I hope to run into you online regardless. Take care, S!

It's great to have you Holst, welcome.

(I'm using another computer for this because I can't use mine to do it.)

I'm having a serious error with something, I think either with my video card or the software connected with it. It first happened Saturday morning. Friday night I put it on Stand By, woke it up in the morning, used it a little, and then went to watch some football. The screen saver was on, but after a while the screen shuts off. This is when I came in and moved the mouse to wake it back up and POOF. Three pixelated vertical bands about 1 inch across the screen and distortions around the cursor and anything that's moved. Restarting didn't fix it. Shutting down and starting up didn't fix it. Unplugged everything, opened it up, cleaned it as much as I could, hooked everything back up, no change. Updating my Cats from 4.1 to 4.9 didn't work either. And then it got worse. About half the time after the windows loading screen, which by the way is checkerboarded with square distortions, before getting to the desktop my whole screen just goes black. One time I got a blue screen because it shut down windows to prevent damage, and mentioned that the file ati2vdag might be causing it, and it mentioned something about an infinite loop. Had to do a hard shutdown and startup again and right off the bat it gave me a black screen with a color window that said some frequency was wrong, and had to do another hard shutdown. My sister found on another forum a process that a lot of people said worked if you had a problem with ati2vdag and infinite looping. The problems they reported were no where near as serious as mine, but I gave it a shot. When I started up I was given a DOS type screen and selected Safe Start, tried that process and restarted. Same ole crap. I'll be calling Dell later today. Any of you guys know what is going on?

I'm looking for a program that can tell me my GPU temperature. I don't think the 9700s were capable of that, but I know this is. Any suggestions?

Next to Fresno. Looking at 109 degrees tomorrow.

Well, it took 2 years for my 9700 to burn out in a crap Dell case. It had no venting except for the back, no case fans, and a single fan in the garbage PSU. The CPU heatsink/fan was ducted to the back, so it wasn't helping anything else out. I had my current case built specifically to prevent something like this. It has a dual fan PSU, huge Zalman copper CPU heatsink and fan, and 4 case fans with external venting. We even left the top slot open in the back to provide airflow directly across the video card. The case sits in the same place in the same room as the Dell did. How it lasted only 4 months, I'll never understand.

I'm probably going for the X800 something, leaning towards the XL. I have an AGP slot, not PCI-E, by the way. Molders, I'm pretty sure the 9xxx line and Xxxx lines have a very different Radeon chipset. Supposedly 2-3X faster. And from what I hear, the R520 based X900, ETA autumn, will be 2-3X faster than that. But it'll cost around $600 at debut I'm sure. Maybe in a year for BoB (I hope) after the prices drop. For now that X800 XL is $275ish and far better than what I'm used to. On ATI's site it listed the engine clock speed and the geometry rate as being lower for the XL than the Pro. Everything else is the same or higher, including 16v12 pipeline advantage for the XL. Anyone know how important engine clock speed and geometry rate are?

I hadn't heard of Fry's, looks like it is northern and southern Cal, I'm central. But thanks for the suggestion Specter. I doubt a new or different GPU fan would make a difference at this point. That was my original hope, when I switched the two 9700 fans. The one on it now works perfectly, so that's not the issue. Even with it, and the side open with a desk fan directed on it from 6 inches away, it freezes up on me instantly. There is no way it's overheating now. That may have been the initial cause (or not), but it seems like something's been damaged since it's still doing it with more than adequate cooling. I've never heard of an integrated video card on the motherboard, so I doubt I have one. I can probably get a hold of a mid-grade Nvidia for a day to at least make sure it is the video card in general. Richter, thank you for the offer. I'm not quite there yet, in terms of needing a short term replacement, but I'll let you know if I do.