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Originally Posted by vtccgolf

AVGWarhawk...my wife would tell you that there is plenty of things that I do that would truly "amaze" anyone (all married men reading this will know that this is code for all the stupid things we do). I quote: "Oh honey...THAT's just so amazing! :o How long do you plan on doing THAT?"

My main TC usage while multi-tasking involves that long truck back to Pearl or Fremantle...especially since I am limited to 512X. Usually, these routes are clear of the enemy. I am still wondering what a small gun boat was doing in the middle of the Pacific. I am going to check the defrag and cut back on the background programs. Since I run Vista, I have to be careful what I install so the gods of Microsoft don't rain down thunder on my desktop. I am going to bump up that video card before StarCraft 2 hits the shelves.

Peabody...just a couple things you mentioned that I didn't mention. My rig has a FSB of 1066Mhz and the RAM is a PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM.

One last question for everyone. I love to hit the harbors since that's where the large tankers like to hang out. And Kobe...holy cow! Both Yamatos and several carriers! Anyway, is there a MOD out there that would cause these ships to get underway under fire? It's easy tonnage with them sitting there, but that gets old quick.

Thanks guys! Love the warm welcome! :yeah:

Ship that are placed at a dock will get under way when shot at if they are not checked as "docked" in the files. If they are put in, as some are, with 0 for speed but not "docked" they will move.

If you have those specs on your computer and you get a max of 512X then it is the multitasking or Vista using up your resources, not the ships you sank.

And I also forgot to say welcome!

Peabody

Yeah, I am looking into the multi tasking stuff running in the background. I don't have much because I just had to do a factory reset of this desktop. Just one day this thing slowed to a snails pace, and I wonder if it had something to do with an HP update. I have barely anything running on this aside from TrendMicro, IE 7, and Silent Hunter 4. Went into the registry and shut all the crap down that I didn't need. Good thing I didn't sell my old desktop with XP on it...plus the wife likes having her own computer for working on art and craft stuff. More time for me to patrol! :up: Defragging right now. Going to update the drivers for the vid card too.

Wow, I should have joined up with this forum a long time ago. I came here off and on to see what was going on with games...but there is so much good stuff. I just looked at the general topics forum. I could easily spend more time here than on Facebook (just found the SUBSIM.COM group...feel free to look up Wayne "Rudy" Nimmo).

BTW...anyone know how to change the avatar photo and title? Didn't know if that is an option I could change, or if that was up to the moderators. I didn't see an option for it, but my wife also calls me blind quite a bit. I better work on that before being on a bridge again.

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Originally Posted by vtccgolf

BTW...anyone know how to change the avatar photo and title? Didn't know if that is an option I could change, or if that was up to the moderators. I didn't see an option for it, but my wife also calls my blind quite a bit. I better work on that before being on a bridge again.

It'll change with every few posts. Keep posting and you won't be a bilge rat long. Welcome aboard. :cool:

@ Peabody: Is there a way I can change those files so that the ships are not marked "docked?" I didn't know if that was specific to each patrol or to the game as a whole.

I used to have stuttering with my old 7600gs, I couldn't run over 4096 at the end of a patrol. With an 8800gt I can run at max TC and get 7fps(in game fps=ctrl F8). My Athlon x2 4200, nForce 4 board with 1GB RAM is hardly a powerhouse. I do run with a minimal XP footprint of 11 XP processes and 16 total using 150 MB of available memory.