What’s the main reason why a clean F-16 can’t supercruise? Why is the drag too high to supercruise? Because e.g. the much older English Electric Lightning was the first fighter capable of supercruise.
Aren’t the wings swept back enough; because the original “light weight fighter” was built for turning fights instead of high speed intercepts?
But why didn’t they further reduce the wing loading then in the original design, like they did (or would do) in the F-16 XL?
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RE: Question on throttle control
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RE: Joystick Recommendation
If you want a very cheap one (under/at $50), I’d recommend the Thrustmaster T16.000m over the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro; because Hall sensors beat potentiometers in accuracy and durability.
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RE: BMS crash after completing a mission
Well, I also thought RAM issues were a bit far-fetched, but what can we do…
In the past, I’ve had the same problem you describe, but that was most probably due
to my attempts to modify things, as I’ve never had it with a 100 % stock install.Can you confirm that you’ve never had this problem with short missions (long mission = 1-2 hours?) That might be a hint.
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RE: Low FPS Even With Low GFX
“…but my FPS is now easily 60+ on both the Rampstart and the Maverick missions, I even saw it going as high as 117.”
Well, I know it’s silly, but if you want to become really happy by seeing a large indicated FPS, measure the FPS in the (daylight) refueling mission.
200?Good to know Optimus apparently does respect your choice. AMD can learn something from that.
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RE: BMS crash after completing a mission
Ok, this is a long shot, but:
Apparently, “Exception Code: c0000005” is caused by Falcon BMS.exe attempting to access a non-existent location, so I suspect either memory problems
or a shortage of memory. How much memory do you have?(There is a trick to allow BMS or other 32 bit programs on 64 bit systems to use more than 2GB addressing space, don’t know if this will solve anything, but still:
1. download CFF Explorer, it is free
2. go to your BMS folder, Bin, find the Falcon BMS.exe file and make a backup of it
3. open CFF, open Falcon BMS, go to Nt headers=> File headers, in the bottom right on the right part of the screen, in the
last row, “Characteristics”=> click on “Click here”, set the “App can handle more than 2GB adressing space” on, save file, confirm that
you indeed want to overwrite Falcon BMS.exe (this is why you have made a backup for safety))You mention the problem occurs after long missions.
Especially if you, by accident or on purpose, have a lot of long ACMI recordings, during that mission, it will take some time to process those
and you will see the waiting screen (“exiting cockpit” or something like that) for a long time (but it will return to the 2D map after some time).
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RE: Low FPS Even With Low GFX
Don’t know if this is the cause of the problem.
But you have it in windowed mode because it crashes if you don’t? That’s weird…Maybe, you could try to check which GPU is being used when you fly in the 3D world,
by logging the GPU use data for a small amount of time.
I know you forced BMS and Optimus to use the discrete card, but with the fancy switching software around,
it could be that Optimus views your choice as a “suggestion” instead of an obligation and still decides to use what it sees fit.
I know this sounds stupid, but this is the case with the AMD counterpart, AMD Vision Engine.
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RE: Low FPS Even With Low GFX
About the resolution: anything else than the native resolution of your monitor and card is not guaranteed to give better results,
even if it is a lower resolution. I believe the GPU just calculates the normal frames and composes a lower resolution frame based on those. -
RE: Low FPS Even With Low GFX
@ Rezzy: do you and OldGoat5 and l3crusader have the same graphics driver version installed?
Graphics settings in both BMS and nVidia cp and the impact of the driver version is demonstrated here:
http://www.72ndvfw.org/forum/m/5688083/viewthread/11304553-woot-i-think-my-friend-stumbled-onto-answer-for-nvidia-hardware-guys-bms -
RE: Low FPS Even With Low GFX
A great benchmark mission to ensure playable FPS in all conditions is the Mavericks training mission or a quick first flight
over the FLOT (front line) in the middle of a first day of a campaign.
Using the TGP or the Maverick view when there a lot of units (ground or air or both) around will certainly cost FPS
(and you"ll have even lower FPS in bad weather) but they are (certainly the TGP is) vital,
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RE: Low FPS Even With Low GFX
Yep, I too suspect that you are using the integrated graphics (integrated on chip with the CPU) instead of the discrete graphics card.
You can probably set which graphics you want to use for a given program in your nVidia graphics manager (nVidia Control Panel or something like that).
As far as I’ve experienced, switchable graphics can be a nuisance.
Also, know that BMS was very nVidia driver version “sensitive”, don’t know if this is still the case (because I use AMD)There are a large number of threads on this (or related) subject:
Forums > Technical Support >i have 2 video cards, confused about settings
Forums > Technical Support >Graphics problem
Forums > Technical Support > Performance issues with overkill rigForums > Technical Support >Good Quality and Good Performance Guide - FPS
Maybe you’ve already done this, but for the sake of completeness: you can configure the graphics
by clicking on the BMS icon to start up and choosing Configuration instead of Start up.
Then: configuration => settings hardware =>shaders
If necessary, turn off some of the shaders like heat blur, rain effects, shadows etc.Setting Shaders=>Lighting=>“Per pixel lighting” to “Per vertex lighting” should give you a large instant FPS boost.