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Doubtful. As Sham-13 said, the driver will abandon his position and man the weapon if he feels it's prudent.

Or, rather than waiting, just get the Release Candidate now, for free, off the Microsoft website.

Is the incoming 50 cal? If so, the behavior might be somewhat justified. Especially if the Stryker crew is unable to spot the machine gun and respond. I'd probably pop smoke too in their situation, rather than sit there idly and let it damage and destroy important equipment. Hmm, actually this brings up a question. I wonder how easy it is to discriminate between different calibers of incoming when you're sitting in a Stryker, or a comparable IFV. Assuming it hasn't spotted the firing unit, would a crew be able to tell if it's getting hammered by 12.7mm, rather than 7.62, or even 30mm? In fact, this behavior might actually be pretty realistic in a way. I can't imagine that it would be too unlikely, given the stress and confusion of combat, for a crew to mistake light and ineffective MG fire for 30mm impacts, and therefore employ evasive measures.

Yeah, 3x Javelins, plus a CLU, plus an AT4 seems like a bit much for a two-man team. I wonder if he's playing with the latest patch.

Hell, forget the BFC forum's history, many good men were lost debating this on the IL2 forums years ago. I think there's even a commemorative plaque somewhere.

Are you giving targeting orders to the AT team, or are you simply letting them attack as they see fit? I'm betting that could account for the difference between yours and Mark's observations.

you administer CPR by kneeling over someone and slowly waving your hands around in the air

There are a few utilities out there that will do it for you, they should be easy to find with google. Also, you can do it manually through the task manager; right click on the process, and click 'Affinity'. I've done some preliminary testing, and unfortunately there seems to be absolutely no benefit on my end. This is with: Windows 7 x64 E6750 @ 3.2Ghz 4gb 8800GTS 320mb I tested by manually setting affinity, and I tried toggling multithreading in the nvidia control panel as well. Ultimately I found that my FPS was completely unchanged no matter which combination of multithreading and affinity I used.

Hmm, very interesting. There's a similar story with the recently released Black Shark flight simulator, which gives very large FPS increases when forcing multi-core affinities, even though the game was programmed to be single-threaded. However, in that case, the "affinity trick" as it's called only yielded an FPS increase on Vista and W7 systems, while you're reporting a benefit on an XP system. Anyway, this is very intriguing. I'm going to try this out on my W7 system later tonight and report back with the results.

Are you using any mods? If so, does the problem persist if you disable them all? Beyond this, I have no suggestions besides reinstalling the game. You could also try reinstalling the drivers for your 4870. Maybe someone else will come along with some other ideas.

Are you running the latest version of the game (1.11)?

Hmmmm, I noticed something very interesting in that video. The terrorists are speaking Russian. At about 6:50, you can very distinctly hear one of them say, "watch, he's about to shoot", right as the Apache begins firing. Perhaps veterans from Chechnya?

He was having a problem with v1.10, the original release... That's a problem with the original Army campaign (which I and many others have never encountered). If I'm not mistaken, we're discussing the current state of the Marines campaign.

None that I've encountered...

Agreed. I think the ideal solution would be for the current target-arc behavior to apply when a target-arc + HIDE command is given. When no HIDE order is given, the unit should be able to fire outside of it's arc, but of course it will prioritize it's observation to within the arc. In the current state, I feel arcs are rather useless outside of ambush situations; I've been burned far too many times by easy targets popping up and wreaking havoc just outside of the arcs of my overwatching units.

You might be able to continue the campaign from a previous save, it's worth a try. But either way you'll have to update to 1.11, the campaign was broken in 1.10. Also, if you do have to start over, it will be worth going through it once more with all of the nice changes that 1.11 brings anyway.

Not to mention "panicked" and "shaken" units.

My money's on Russians being the OpFor in a Georgian War 2 scenario. This way we get the temperate climate, conceivable NATO involvement, and a good amount of recent history as a design resource. Probably something similar to the "Georgian Oil War" campaign in the recently released Ka-50 simulator. Either that, or something similar with Ukraine taking the place of Georgia. Then we'd get to play with T-84's!

Combat Mission: Narnia

Do you have any mods installed? If so, try disabling them, and then start the game.

Another factor may be that Marine CAS is organic to the ground forces, while the Army gets its fixed-wing CAS from the Airforce.

I just completed Sulit Airfield by forcing an enemy surrender. The air support was pivotal for my success in this one. Ultimately I suffered 12KIA, ~30WIA, 3 BMP's knocked out, and one T-62 knocked out. Compared to the meat grinder that was Suib, this mission was almost relaxing. Interestingly, I found that in some ways the Airborne troops were less effective in urban CQB than the reserves from the previous mission. In particular, it seems that the reserves' AKM's and RPD's are *considerably* better at penetrating building walls than the Airborne '74's, and this fact, combined with the total lack of trigger discipline, make short range urban ambushes an exceedingly effective tactic for reserve troops. Like the previous posters, I was unable to proceed passed the first depot mission. I eagerly await the chance to play through the rest of the campaign. An outstanding job once again, PT. I feel this one may turn out to be your best campaign yet, and if so it is quite a feat.

Most definitely.

Same thing can be frequently seen on the red vehicles in CMSF .

What do you mean by extra slots? AFAIK we already have unlimited slots for skins.