Thank you for the update, Pand!

(Also, dillon is gay)

CHEERS, DAKPILOT

Make sure you don't fuck up the thermal paste.

You have a pretty decent PSU?

I heart you for making this, btw.

Gnarlism!

The canopy closes, though?! Hahaha

 

Hokai,

I've recently (and rather unceremoniously) nuked my Win 7 install and did a Win 10 install from scratch.  So far, with very little exception, it's been quite smooth.

Those little exceptions, to date, have been directly related to Sim-centric hardware, so I am starting this thread to catalog fixes.

First off:  Cougar MFDs.

This may not currently affect many of you, but if you use Pand's Target Script, it will fail out of the gate currently.

What happens: MFDs will flash on and off during login/at login prompt (assuming you have one, I am on Enterprise), but stop once you log in to Windows.

When you launch the Target Script, everything looks fine, but within a few seconds it will state that one of two devices (USB X) has been disconnected, and the entire script will abort. 

Why it's happening: Windows 10 is apparently trying to do some super efficient green-power happy unicorn fart saver mode with your "not in use" USB devices.  You are going to need to go into the registry to fix this.  Of course.

What you need to do: In a nutshell, you're going to need to dig down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\ find the correct VID for both MFDs, go to the "Device Parameters" Key and change "EnhancedPowerManagementEnabled" from 1 to 0.

The step by step from MS: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2900614

Some notes/tips:

1.  Every time you switch USB ports, you're going to be creating a new entry in your registry.  Try to keep them in the same port.  If you leave them in the same place on your hub, and plug your hub into the same port on your PC, you're golden.  Just remember this in 6 months when you re-arrange your desk and stuff stops working again.

2.  It appears that Thrustmaster's VID is VID_044, and my MFDs are PID_B351 and B352.  (Your mileage may vary)

3.  This may or may not pertain, but I went ahead with this suggestion I found as well.  Go into Device Manager, go down to "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" and right click each Hub (Generic and USB Root) click the Power Management tab and uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".

4.  REBOOT.  The registry changes won't work until you do.

 

Gracias!

I've never been skiing, that'd be tatties.

First off,

Last night a couple of us were talking about getting more TWB peeps together next year.  This sounds awesome.

We were talking (tentative) a year out, so late summer/early autumn next year?

The questions to be answered are:

• Where?
• When? (Precise date, or at least narrow it down)

What you can do to help:

Don't commit unless you're serious.  Feel free to discuss, but we don't want to get to a point where we are selecting a venue based upon the economics/preferences of people who aren't going to show up.

Figure out which destination cities/areas would be in your price range.  Once we know who all wants to get together, we will try to come up with a meeting place that makes the most sense/fun.  (For example, somewhere in the mah fakkin Carribean, B.)

Lastly,   

Yeah, definitely worth the watch, first couple of minutes and 10:00+ a lot of good action.

Quote from: Nraged on April 25, 2015, 11:44:31 AM
I thought that you guys ate him

You ain't allowed to make fat jokes without posting a picture of yourself first, N-rag!!!   

Right before Dillon passed out.

Very cool article. 

Sitting back and thinking about what all pilots went through during that conflict is always a sobering thought process.

When you then try and factor in the bullshit that these women had on top of that just for being female... hat's off to them for getting it done anyway.

I like this one with the hand-roll cig here:

Quote from: Pand on April 09, 2015, 10:33:21 AM
Roo5ter » Thu Apr 02, 2015 12:41 pm

Where the heck is this damn He111 flight of bombers wrecking shit video Ive been waiting a week for? In progress with editing or is it up somewhere and there is a link?

Thanks in advance!

So, any word on this?

 

Quote from: Pand on April 12, 2015, 04:10:45 PM

Quote from: hooves on April 12, 2015, 03:38:04 PM
Right there with ya Pand!! Icant wait to tear up some germans with the I-16!

I'm excited for the P-40 and 50 cals   Hope it will be appropriately modeled!   

Yeah... I'm trying to remain somewhat reserved in my excitement, but using the damage output we are seeing with even 2x rifle caliber MGs in this game... 6x heavy machineguns at convergence should be basically one and done.