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Post by sleepygirl on Aug 3, 2019 5:07:42 GMT
So far the game seems to like running on core 2 & 4 of the second CPU, but last time I played it had been running on core 2 & 4 of the first CPU. So far after a good deal of game play I've only had two CTDs which I think is not outside of what is to be expected. Both happened after crossing a lot of open countryside which is fairly typical of the game. My CPUs don't do hyperthreading and my daughter was explaining to me about hyperthreading yesterday and my brain tended to blue screen occasionally because my daughter understands all this to a fairly deep technical level. But the upshot of her explanation is that it is a good thing that my Xeon CPUs aren't hyperthreading capable. This is the spec on the first CPU. The second one is the same except it's from a different revision series and it runs hotter which is always a bit of a worry for me. I would really like to track down a guaranteed matched pair of CPUs for my computer, but as you can imagine that's not going to be easy. Single ones are easy to find and don't cost much, but I don't fancy pulling my computer to bits and swapping out CPUs on the off chance that I strike two that are a good close match for each other. It works well enough at the moment so I'm going to follow the old saying, - If it's not broke, don't fix it.
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Post by sleepygirl on Aug 3, 2019 5:18:40 GMT
My daughters just got herself a new fight sim for her PS4 Playstation, - Ace Combat 7. She's been mostly flying commercial airliners lately in sims so she said that it's been a bit of a learning curve to get used to flying combat aircraft, but she's certainly enjoying the challenge.
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Post by dogonporch on Aug 3, 2019 6:12:42 GMT
My daughters just got herself a new fight sim for her PS4 Playstation, - Ace Combat 7. She's been mostly flying commercial airliners lately in sims so she said that it's been a bit of a learning curve to get used to flying combat aircraft, but she's certainly enjoying the challenge. We had an online carrier squadron that would fly together and fight other teams. Mostly military veteran types. IL-2 was the absolute best for that. Typical...
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Post by sleepygirl on Aug 3, 2019 8:57:35 GMT
Stealthy Dunmer archers are very good Oblivion Gate closers especially if they recently picked up a resist fire ring from someone who didn't need it anymore. 75% resist fire native ability is good anyway, but add an enchanted ring to it and they pretty much become fireproof. Any enemy tossing fireballs in a dim cavern or tower room is simply providing a clear aiming point for little risk, but T'Saara also has proved herself very capable at stealth shooting plenty of Dagon's servants as well. T'Saara is now level 4 thanks to the Oblivion Gate training ground thoughtfully provided handy to the Imperial City. As she makes her way to the Mythic Dawn shrine I'll get her to close a couple more. So long as she doesn't run out of arrows she should be fine.
Eiolynn being UnDead did not like having anyone casting fire at her which is why she would abandon all pretense at stealth in the Oblivion Realms and close quickly with Dagon's servants as soon as she saw them and hack them to pieces. Something she was very good at. So as you can see playing T'Saara is an interesting change for me which I'm very much enjoying.
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Post by sleepygirl on Aug 3, 2019 9:07:46 GMT
My daughter's been learning how to land an aircraft on a carrier. Definitely a new experience for her with a flight sim.
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Post by jgf on Aug 3, 2019 15:44:35 GMT
Flight Sims...had most of them in their day. CFS2 was my favorite...flying B-24s and other big birds around the 1940s Pacific online with the mates. But IL-2 got a lot of play, as well. Other classics: Red Baron 3D, MiG Alley, B-17 Mighty 8th...plus traditional Flight Sim of course...98 on. I started with aerial combat sims - SWOTL, Red Baron, Red Baron 3D, Aces over Europe, Flying Corps, Wings of Glory, EF2000, Su-27, B-17, Navy Strike, CFS, CFS3, some whose names are long forgotten (one in which you flew an A-10 and every time you climbed over 100ft altitude the commander would chastise you, "What do you think you are, an eagle? Get back down here!"). Then I tried FS98, to which my combat oriented friends said, "MSFS? You take off, you fly somewhere, you land. Big deal." No imagination I guess; I fantasized all sorts of scenarios for why I was flying a particular aircraft on a particular route. Had FS9 for years, though I've not used it in ages (my gaming rig ate its mobo and I'm not about to try rebuilding FS9 on this old laptop). Recently picked up European Air War, don't know how i missed it twenty years ago.
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Post by jgf on Aug 3, 2019 15:52:08 GMT
"...my daughter was explaining to me about hyperthreading yesterday and my brain tended to blue screen occasionally because my daughter understands all this to a fairly deep technical level"
Lol, my background is engineering (electronics, not railroad) but my knowledge of programming is less than minuscule; my "go to" friend for tech help is a systems analyst at OSU, all too often his responses leave me staring at the screen after three sentences, thinking, "if I understood any of this I wouldn't have needed to ask".
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Post by dogonporch on Aug 3, 2019 18:46:42 GMT
Flight Sims...had most of them in their day. CFS2 was my favorite...flying B-24s and other big birds around the 1940s Pacific online with the mates. But IL-2 got a lot of play, as well. Other classics: Red Baron 3D, MiG Alley, B-17 Mighty 8th...plus traditional Flight Sim of course...98 on. I started with aerial combat sims - SWOTL, Red Baron, Red Baron 3D, Aces over Europe, Flying Corps, Wings of Glory, EF2000, Su-27, B-17, Navy Strike, CFS, CFS3, some whose names are long forgotten (one in which you flew an A-10 and every time you climbed over 100ft altitude the commander would chastise you, "What do you think you are, an eagle? Get back down here!"). Then I tried FS98, to which my combat oriented friends said, "MSFS? You take off, you fly somewhere, you land. Big deal." No imagination I guess; I fantasized all sorts of scenarios for why I was flying a particular aircraft on a particular route. Had FS9 for years, though I've not used it in ages (my gaming rig ate its mobo and I'm not about to try rebuilding FS9 on this old laptop). Recently picked up European Air War, don't know how i missed it twenty years ago. FS Online was difficult as many were real pilots and wanted to stick to VFR/IFR rules...no Mavericks buzzing the tower...lol. CFS2 was less formal as you had the same FS World to fly in...just empty except for parts of the Pacific. By the time the modders were done, though, much of the 1940s world existed. IL-2...just tactical maps to fly on...fairly big some of them. But boy, the combat was out of this world.
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Post by sleepygirl on Aug 3, 2019 18:54:52 GMT
Aaaaaages ago I did try a biplane flight sim, - I can't really remember what it was, - it might have been Red Baron, but all I really did was fly about in the training levels. During my 20s I'd managed to get a few flying hours in a Cessna so I simply enjoyed flying the old biplanes and didn't worry about anything else.
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Post by jgf on Aug 4, 2019 18:39:32 GMT
You would probably enjoy FS9, you can fly anything anywhere. A serendipitous juxtaposition as this screen shot catches my takeoff in a 1911 Dunne while a modern jetliner took off in the background.
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Post by jgf on Aug 4, 2019 18:50:13 GMT
One of my favorites, the Beechcraft Staggerwing, flying in a rainstorm; I painted this one from photos of a real plane registered here in Ohio (saw it once, ca. 1991, sitting at Don Scott airfield on the west side of town).
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Post by sleepygirl on Aug 4, 2019 19:41:24 GMT
Oooooo could be a slippery slope. A well trusted trader on our local auction website has FS 2004 20th anniversary edition listed at the moment and I'm doing my best to resist it.
That Beechcraft Staggerwing is very nice.
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Post by jgf on Aug 4, 2019 21:07:49 GMT
The "20th Anniversary" edition is the only FS9, lol; it celebrates 20 years of MSFS, not FS9, the first version being the Bruce Artwick sim released in '83, it was so popular that MS bought it and continued improving it over the years. There is an FS2004 Special Edition that has been recoded (not by MS, they dumped the entire team after FSX) for 64 bit operation ....but it is only available via Steam. So as long as it is subtitled "A Century of Flight" you have the right sim. There is one official patch - FS9.1 - easily available online, plus, of course, a No-CD patch.
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Post by dogonporch on Aug 4, 2019 21:42:30 GMT
One of my IL-2 favorites...the Polikarpov I-16...the good and bad.
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Post by sleepygirl on Aug 4, 2019 22:12:22 GMT
The "20th Anniversary" edition is the only FS9, lol; it celebrates 20 years of MSFS, not FS9, the first version being the Bruce Artwick sim released in '83, it was so popular that MS bought it and continued improving it over the years. There is an FS2004 Special Edition that has been recoded (not by MS, they dumped the entire team after FSX) for 64 bit operation ....but it is only available via Steam. So as long as it is subtitled "A Century of Flight" you have the right sim. There is one official patch - FS9.1 - easily available online, plus, of course, a No-CD patch. Steam powered planes tend to fall out of the sky, - that's if they can actually get off the ground. The game on offer is on 4 discs and as far as I can tell is the real McCoy.
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