Great article Ajay. like the other posters, I can relate to a lot of what was written there. I am currently in the process of an upgrade after my graphics card died and cant wait to see what windows 7 64bit will be like! Isn't it funny how most of us turn the adversity of a computer breakdown into the opportunity to do a computer upgrade?

Win7 64 ..me either stewart

and Darren ..don'y worry..we knocked Hitler and his crew off remember

Thomas Edison has some good quotes i think ..

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

I know you mentioned it, but it's a shame you haven't tried Rise of Flight. I love ww2 era, and wondered if I could get sucked into ww1 kites as much, but put simply, it is the best flight sim I've ever played. And like you, I've put more hours into IL2 than into most other things, so it's not a glib statement. The best thing is that you don't even need a monster rig to play it.. mine is going on 3 yrs and happily lets RoF run at normal detail levels (but with quite nice water!)

Spiffy, you have the most betterest awesomenest name in a forum I've ever seen.

Great read Ajay!

I could relate to a lot of your experiences.

Its funny how so many get technical skills just from wanting to play the next best thing on PC so much so that you go from knowing nothing about whats inside "the box" to being technically competent and up on all the latest technology.

I've also had one of those hammer incidents (and pending divorce) and still have the case (my server) with the dings to prove it!

Cheers,
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Maybe we need a 'Hammered Anonymous ' or something group..seems to be a few of us I dont think i will ever get rid of the old sidewinder case that will not latch properly..we have grown quite close over the years and i think it has forgiven for the many months of solitude i forced it into all those years back

Cool read Ajay. I was an EAW fanatic until the dreaded 7217 error ended my playing days with it a few years back. Trying to find a fix for EAW is how I stumbled across IL-2 at the old Airwarfare site. It was another WWII flying sim and looked pretty good so I went out and bought Pacific Fighters, which was the most recent version at that time, hoping to be able to make it work on my system. It didn't work all that great but at least it loaded, unlike EAW anymore, and let me make my own simple missions using the FMB. There are still some things I liked better about EAW but overall IL-2 still keeps me pretty happy.


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