17.08.2012, 14:23
UPDATE: POSSIBLE ELECTRICAL SURGE DAMAGE MAY EXPLAIN THIS PROBLEM
To help anyone else suffering the symptoms I outlined in this thread, here is an 8-2012 update. Note that all my flying is offline.
I now believe that my laptop sustained some electrical surge damage, which I believe was mostly absorbed by my CH Products Joystick at the time the surge occured, and yes, I have a surge protector/battery back up unit installed. This would also account for the defective USB I described, the surge dissapating into the USB and the Joystick and the CH joystick acting as a lighting rod, so to speak. This would also explaim why a recently factory refurbished CH unit began to exhibit nulls and other control problems so soon after my receiving it back.
A surge also explains a large part of the diminished aircraft performance, as now the AI mostly fly lazy evasive patterns rather than the aggressive characteristics they exhibited on my present Gateway Laptop and especially compared with my old XP/ATI Radeon 9000 set up (my 'Mystify' screen saver is also a lazier and slower pattern/performance, seeming to verify my conclusions]
Also, in the Crimea area, [I believe that's the one with the adjacent sea], the large Soviet ship accompanied by the 2 small craft is not rendered at all now. I believe my processor is damaged/diminished due to the surge, and therefore the decreased renderings and complexities of manuevre that I experience previously are absent or greatly lessened.
I still note the diminished performance of the aircraft vs my old computer with Pent. 4 and ATI Radeon 9000 card. I have since tested IL-2 on another computer loaded with XP, dual XEON processor, and Nvidia Quadro card, and have a replacement CH joystick . The performance is improved, the Soviet large vessel is rendered as before, the AI engage quite aggressively, but with all this it is still not as fast and furious as my old Toshiba laptop P4 ATI Radeon 9000. If anyone has likewise encountered this and can offer a solution, it would be wonderful. For now, I am enjoying offline flying as much as I can, but I will never forget the exhileration I had with my older Toshiba and Il-2. I only wish I would have saved some of the dogfights with Oscars 20' above the sea, canopy rolls and using flaps and throttle settings more than any other control, it was intoxicating!! Maybe with the next generation of software, I will be able to finally realize that level of fun again.
p3
To help anyone else suffering the symptoms I outlined in this thread, here is an 8-2012 update. Note that all my flying is offline.
I now believe that my laptop sustained some electrical surge damage, which I believe was mostly absorbed by my CH Products Joystick at the time the surge occured, and yes, I have a surge protector/battery back up unit installed. This would also account for the defective USB I described, the surge dissapating into the USB and the Joystick and the CH joystick acting as a lighting rod, so to speak. This would also explaim why a recently factory refurbished CH unit began to exhibit nulls and other control problems so soon after my receiving it back.
A surge also explains a large part of the diminished aircraft performance, as now the AI mostly fly lazy evasive patterns rather than the aggressive characteristics they exhibited on my present Gateway Laptop and especially compared with my old XP/ATI Radeon 9000 set up (my 'Mystify' screen saver is also a lazier and slower pattern/performance, seeming to verify my conclusions]
Also, in the Crimea area, [I believe that's the one with the adjacent sea], the large Soviet ship accompanied by the 2 small craft is not rendered at all now. I believe my processor is damaged/diminished due to the surge, and therefore the decreased renderings and complexities of manuevre that I experience previously are absent or greatly lessened.
I still note the diminished performance of the aircraft vs my old computer with Pent. 4 and ATI Radeon 9000 card. I have since tested IL-2 on another computer loaded with XP, dual XEON processor, and Nvidia Quadro card, and have a replacement CH joystick . The performance is improved, the Soviet large vessel is rendered as before, the AI engage quite aggressively, but with all this it is still not as fast and furious as my old Toshiba laptop P4 ATI Radeon 9000. If anyone has likewise encountered this and can offer a solution, it would be wonderful. For now, I am enjoying offline flying as much as I can, but I will never forget the exhileration I had with my older Toshiba and Il-2. I only wish I would have saved some of the dogfights with Oscars 20' above the sea, canopy rolls and using flaps and throttle settings more than any other control, it was intoxicating!! Maybe with the next generation of software, I will be able to finally realize that level of fun again.
p3