The Tinker Toy
My nephew run,s an electronic,s shop , bring,s over a dated box , with wind 7 in it ,
no external vidio card --Hp machine -- since I was the thinkin some day I might have
to up grade to the next generation platform , It would give me something to tinker with ,
HP twin Processer 2.8,s -- nuthin but problem,s , you,d think even a single 2.8 would suffice
to run cfs-2 with a bit of respect for it,s age , Hunmn dual purpose 64 bit too , but people are using
it with out a lot of fuss about it , It would work for about 15 minutes , and then start ,
messin wth the graphic,s Big houses for land texture , missing airplane textures , lock up,s ,
Islands where there not , Kind of like it had a great big cork somewhere in the lower intestine,s,
Actually I thought about beating the crap out it it , Perhaps a 12 gauge ,
I swear it was worse than window,s 98 with a wee 0.450 Pentium II , and an A open vidio card ,
that would run for day,s with out even a hick up , on 74,600 Kb Ram ,
This one,s got 4 gig,s to play with , Yah I know no vidio card , The load time was Slow ,
like 3 minutes , on 25 aircraft are you kidding me , half of those are Cfs-1 planes ,
External load up , not in programs , remote directories , sound panel , and models , ship models , ,
It should of been finger snap time , This one must have come from Gomer Pyle , Running back and forth
to pick up what it forgot on the last three passes , Nuthing stable about the platform ,
the hotter it got the faster the graphic,s changed air craft responces ,, not slow down ,
but too fast now , The responces were quickening , almost like a cash problem , but shortly
after , the main textures began to misread , and that starts lock- up,s , forget about Q-Combat ,
Re-boot clear the ram and start over , The game cash was already maxed out ,
Sander,s read 4 gig,s of ram installed -- Read look for answers --
Try addional cash , not sure where to put that , But one tip was worth a shot , Cfs-2 only run,s on
one processer , So I added it to the root Cfg ----
[JOBSCHEDULER]
affinitymask=1 The idea was to move it off the Wind 7 main processer --- Fail --
same thing no difference -- Lock ups studder and crash ---
That figures the Fs guy,s get away with it , Try the cash angle ,same place
[JOBSCHEDULER]
affinitymask=1
Cache_Size= 1256512 ---- now that was noticable , smoother responces , and no over writes
so far , gona play with that some more , and see what works better ,
still the vidio corruption , but clears on reboot ,
Four sticks of ram , may be one got loose , Try swapping them ,
Mistake -- use a light next time idiot -- one bar was black with 3
white one,s , It now wouldn,t boot up -- Ahh Sh%t , don,t panic , you
did them in pairs , The Ram from the black bar has to have been flashed ,
put it back and hope the boot try didn,t erase the flash ,
You got lucky -- it booted -- but the fan speed went hyper fast ,, shut down ,,
see if it,s in the bio,s -- Yep and adjustable too -- Well crank it to high , save and exit ,
The ram swap didn,t prove a thing , same result,s -- and it tests ok any way --
I was thinking 12 gauge once more , Out of the blue , change the affinity mask ,
Try the base processer , Shells are a buck a piece , ahh what the hell ,
can,t be worse than now anyway , affinitymask = 0,
Whosa that did load up in a snap , High speed cammera footage too ,
You tripped over something , Q-Combat 2 p-39,s verses a single 109e ,
still testing the Pai , over water only , the lock up,s -- The Eai rolled and went down ,
I was still fiddleling with controls set up and climbing , and I got hammered from below ,
2 pages of record,s , I bailed -- end of test -- Wait a minute that sucker dropped below me ,
Came around faster than ever , climbed and shot me to pieces ?
Test 2 , Try again, this time I broke opposite direction , when he moved , came around in a wide circut ,
I watched him circle , 1500 meter,s , still setting up my trim , Crash bang thud , a 3 page damage report ,
my plane , on an angled frontal pass , the speed of a 262 Jet , he flashed by , I was late hauling
on the stick , nosed over in flames , and no responce , I bailed , thinking I was probably too late
even for that , The air sucked me out , in a violent shute opening , But I got to see the p-39 , with no wing,s ,
burning as a lawn dart , on the way down , Toast , twice back to back ,
something,s definatly changed here ,
Humbeled I went back to free flight , My roll over was no longer 5.5 seconds but half now ,
2.45 secs -- So the time factor altered considerably , and the incredible damage on the forward pass ,
means the processer speed had switched dramatically ,,
How come --- The hard drive has a second partion -- the 64 bit area ?-- looks empty --
nothing show,s up but , It must be processing via 64 bit -- on mask = O ---
think about that -- twice as fast -- Now that,s for Bear cat and his Jets ,,
Man you gotta try that out --- I wish you good luck though !
Mean while though I,m gona play with the cash flow , about 12 million , to see if I can back
to WWII , and prop aircraft , ---
