1st Multisquad Campaign Battle of Britain

[Osprey]

Just for the record, I wasn't requesting to refly that mission, but rather a 'refly' which allows one to exit and re-enter the server. When the server was re-started I had the chaps restart IL2 to minimise such an event occurring and normally I will not get these freezes at all. Last night, for some reason, I did.

Something else for red only. I think in future we need to avoid airgroups consisting of lonewolves or at least assign a leader with them who is used to some squadron protocols. At Hawkinge everything was fine until the Spitfires spawned in. Quite a few of them ignored the fact that it was an EXTREMELY busy airfield and that all of the Hurricanes were on the taxiways trying to get to a known take off direction. Guess what happened? Spitfires taking off in all directions, towards each other, crashing and even worse slamming into Hurricanes trying to do the right thing. Over the airwaves I had to hear shouts like "He's coming towards us" followed by "he just took me out". Now I hear that SYN were at Hawkinge with Spitfires too I have to question if your chaps were involved in that Jed? I don't know how many you had there but before we set off I was clear that Hawkinge takeoff heading would be east to west on approx 250 from the eastern end (the T marker). Is that how your take off was organised? Perhaps next week one of you chaps can come into the common comms on ATAG and take on board the whole game plan. That would help a great deal. Thanks.

~S~

[SYN_Jed]

Not us Osprey. We were the guys in hurricanes using the taxiways who took off in front of some other hurris. Better look for someone else to blame.

As for the issue of comms, we explained our position to the mission hoster with regards to the 3rd party Teamspeak location. He seemed fine with it. We did suggest if there was an issue that we would retire.

[SYN_Per]

Nah mate, not us. The only culpa on our behalf was that we took Hurri Rotols. We were assigned Spits, but originally asked for Hurris, so we overruled HQ by our own design. We like Hurris.
Besides we've been around long enough to know how to behave on a crowded airfield. We have a TS channel. Feel free to join us there next time. It worked flawlessly.

[SEE]

Originally Posted by Osprey

.....before we set off I was clear that Hawkinge takeoff heading would be east to west on approx 250 from the eastern end (the T marker).

~S~

Just noticed the above in your post, that instruction was not given - I certainly wasn't aware of it, in fact I lined up behind Hurris and Spits facing West to East with Hangars on port side, hence the problem of TO in wrong direction. Apolgies for that but will hold and check in future.

[klem]

Originally Posted by Untamo

I have been doing some server jumping, and I have never seen the game take more than about 2,5GB. Windows taking about 1GB so there's always been about 0,5GB free. Nevertheless, I've been thinking of getting some more RAM.

My apologies Untamo, I was talking total usage and I just rechecked. I'm sure I have seen 3.8Gb total in the past but of course there may havebeen other things running. Here's my breakdown as of now:

Windows only: 1.54Gb
Plus Teamspeak (+0.3Gb): 1.57Gb
Plus TS Notifier (+0.01Gb): 1.58Gb
Plus CoD...
in Menus (+0.3Gb): 1.88Gb
or
in Server Map Room (+1.37Gb) 2.95Gb
or
in spawned Hurricane MkI (1.54Gb) 3.12Gb and VRAM was 1.044Gb
That's with the channel map but I haven't looked while flying around.

[Sven]

I didn't crash to desktop in this round

my rig:

AMD Phenom II x6
ATI Radeon HD5770
6 GB DDR3 RAM
Windows 7 64bit.

All settings high except ground details. Unlike last time I did had some FPS trouble over Dover. But that might have been because I ran into 20 enemy aircraft

[BGs_Ricky]

Again really enjoyed the mission.

The procession of Hurricanes taxiing at Hawkinge was great.

The combat also felt very realistic, getting from a sky full of planes to an empty one in a matter of few minutes.

The new sounds are amazing, hearing a Spit land just after me back at Hawkinge while sitting at the dispersal really sounded and looked lifelike.

Had a few stutters at take-off and when bouncing the Stukas.

No crashes in two sessions, my specs are below and I run the sim at med-high settings.

SYN_Ricky