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#4404029 - 02/07/18 04:59 PM Jane's F/A-18E Superhornet  
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Way over in Perth, Western Aus...
Some ASW and anti-shipping Harpoon missile action:



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#4404338 - 02/09/18 12:17 PM Re: Jane's F/A-18E Superhornet [Re: mdwa]  
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Nice! Still one of the best combat flight sims ever!

#4404349 - 02/09/18 01:14 PM Re: Jane's F/A-18E Superhornet [Re: mdwa]  
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What OS are you running that on mate? Getting the urge to dust mine off after seeing those screenshots!


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#4404360 - 02/09/18 01:56 PM Re: Jane's F/A-18E Superhornet [Re: mdwa]  
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Windows 7.

Nvidia driver version is important, sometimes latest driver works fine, sometimes you need to rollback a few driver versions to avoid the AA framerate slowdown.

Need to work out best resolution and AA setting too - to ensure HUD is readable.

Only thing I couldn't fix was the sky banding, but it's not that bad..


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#4404381 - 02/09/18 03:19 PM Re: Jane's F/A-18E Superhornet [Re: mdwa]  
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More ops , mostly over the Gulf:



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#4404428 - 02/09/18 09:08 PM Re: Jane's F/A-18E Superhornet [Re: mdwa]  
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Very nice!! I miss this sim, but the last time I played it, I had sky banding and IIRC, the water was gridded too frown


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#4404430 - 02/09/18 09:22 PM Re: Jane's F/A-18E Superhornet [Re: mdwa]  
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I remember when this first came out, a friend of mine got it for his shiny new near-top-of-the-line 300MHz Pentium II system with a GeForce card, and it was a slideshow. He was very disappointed.


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#4404480 - 02/10/18 09:42 AM Re: Jane's F/A-18E Superhornet [Re: mdwa]  
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For immersion, I think it's the best, the carrier ATC, marshal stack, other flights calling out etc makes it great!


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#4404539 - 02/10/18 06:00 PM Re: Jane's F/A-18E Superhornet [Re: mdwa]  
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I'm thinking about seeing whether I can run this via a VM hosted by ESXi....will need to get a desktop GPU working as a passthrough but I'm sure something like an Nvidia 8400 will be more than enough


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