=VG= SemlerPDX

I just got a huge deal on a new graphics card through an offer from Chase Credit Card (spend $500 in 3 months, get $200 cash back delivered in 3-5 months) -- and they just sent me a referral (passes offer along to anyone in US with good credit, and doesn't already have the Chase Freedom card) - figured I'd pass the link along to you @ZZANG1847 since you're one state up from me: https://www.referyourchasecard.com/18a/99KLH2U3SP

If the goal is to add another 2x8GB for a total 32GB of RAM for an entry level gaming PC, that would be overkill (even looking to the future), IMHO - also 3200MHz is a bit overkill and likely not achievable for this system regardless of overclocking... not that it isn't a great price, but for additional savings, you could go for a lower rated oc speed. Remember that the OS / BIOS isn't going to run that RAM faster than 1600-1866MHz unless you tell it to through BIOS overclocking, which would require testing, and when it comes to overclocking, doing it to the RAM vs focusing on the CPU OC is preferred with current tech. That being said, this MoBo would likely not be able to get that RAM to 3200 in my opinion ( I wouldn't bet on it, that's all I'm saying). You have 2x8GB listed for this 16GB setup (which is more than sufficient for any game this system will eat) but this should be 4x4GB for maximum utilization of the 16GB of dual channel RAM on any motherboard with 4 RAM slots.

Looks like 1x8GB RAM... can't imagine Cyberpower would sell that, maybe it's just the image.... Should be 2x4GB, of course...

To first get into a gaming PC, it helps to make that first purchase (that hopefully contains a roomy case). Later down the road, you can upgrade parts as you can afford them, like adding more RAM if needed, adding more storage space, etc. Can even overhaul the core by pulling the motherboard/RAM/CPU and CPU cooler, and buying something new in 5-7 years, without needing to replace the case/PSU/etc. Same with the GFX card. So, I'd say that the case in the Cyberpower one looks more in line with modern case designs, the PSU is in a covered trough below everything, and the front has a three fan intake looks like it could handle a 240-280mm liquid cooling radiator (someday). Looks like it could survive a few future upgrades, and comes with some good parts inside to begin with. Also, RGB like that should add at least 200 FPS in any game, of course. RGB FTW! (j/k) The case on the other one you linked looks like a cheap POS and cramps a lot of hot stuff too close for comfort IMHO - fine for a starter gaming PC, but not really good for future upgrades due to it's size. No filters, no top fan space, and of course, no RGB so how can you possibly hope to shoot straight in a game? Get into the game, worry about fancy things later. Also, plan to migrate your current HDD/SSD's for added storage and easy import of old files, etc. A case with plenty of space for SSD's or HDD's will make that possible. My 500GB SSD filled up SOOO fast with games. 4TB Seagate's are on sale for $80 right now, lots of sales through x-mas in storage. Go Seagate or Samsung, for the pro gear, price per performance, unless budget is most important. Good luck!

I have restarted the Campaign to Day 1. The difficulty is set as follows:

In Facebook, you asked if you'd need a PC to play these games, and for the record, this includes laptops that are able to play a game (had internal graphics card or something capable). Project Reality is based off Battlefield 2 from 2004, and runs well even on old machines, even before turning down in-game graphics settings, etc. It's an excellent entry level computer game, massive focus on teamwork and communication. It's a very social experience vs. the normal run-and-gun alone with lots of other online people who never talk to each other that is the norm in Battlefield or COD online games. Best wishes and good luck! Have fun!

No worries, Binary! Thank you all so very much for your support!! In less than a week, we have reached our goal of $150 and it makes me proud to be part of such a helpful community! Special thanks to HaterOneActual and CptHawk for the particularly large donations!! Here's looking forward to a great new year!! Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends!

I appreciate the kind words and help! Jersans, I know you bro, and I gotta say, please take care of yourself - your patronage is honorable, but if you are not exactly where you want to be at this time, your help in the server and your friendship is more than enough right now! I know there are some of us who are in a better position that others to help towards this goal, and for anyone else, just know that being here and being a friendly, helpful member of the community is plenty! Not everyone can help out monetarily, and that is okay, because there are more ways to help out that just this. We appreciate everything you guys do! Thanks! *To test the system, I just now donated $1 successfully - it is a PayPal system, requiring that anyone already has a PayPal account set up, and therefore will not be available to all regions as a result. It is a goal to add the ability for standard payments with credit cards, and we did achieve this goal on the last website, but things have changed, and this IPS system is a bit more complicated (if one doesn't want to throw money at some module with a monthly/yearly renewal fee). It's a goal, but for now, we are only able to work through PayPal. We appreciate your understanding, and your patience!

Support your community! Due: November 30th 2019 Goal: $150 USD (Click Here to Donate) Hello everyone! Huge thanks to everyone for making VG such a fun place to hang out for so many people! We have an annual bill coming up for $150.00 (USD) and we are looking to the community to help us out! Normally, we do not push hard for donations, and along with BLuDKLoT, and SolarFlame, we are happy to help pay the various bills and I am personally happy to be in a position to afford the day-to-day (~$120/month). But we do need help from time to time with things such as this and other renewal bills that come up each year, and if anyone is able to help us out, please make a small donation if you can. Recently, we've been able to increase the stability of our Project Reality COOP Server with help from the community and R-Dev's, and thanks to SolarFlame, we now have a completely secure website, as well. Also, thanks to the return of our good friend Ciro, a former member of our Tech Team here at VG, we have enjoyed much help on the back end fixing, improving, cleaning, and repairing many items on our ongoing to-do list and we are extremely grateful to have so many helpful people on the team. Moving forward to 2020, we plan to add a Forgotten Hope 2 COOP Server for community events as well as daily gameplay and we'll be looking for volunteers to help Admin that server when able. Additionally, we are going to be happy to celebrate our 10 Year Anniversary in February, including a series of community events across many games a lot of us play - for those who don't we will share videos and live streams after and during the events. It is thanks to the longstanding support and patronage of all our regulars and friends that we have continued to thrive after all these years. I'm proud to help run a place that has led me to so many real life friends over the years. I hope others enjoy VG for the same reasons!

I was also out on medical issues. I really wish I could have made it, I love these events! But my body said late Wednesday, "You know what would be more fun? Going to bed and waking up with the same neck pain and headache issues for four days straight!" So glad you got the technical issues sorted, and glad Ciro was there to help (thanks bro!!!). I've had a plan to get a bunch of you set up as Admins in Mumble, and had hoped to get it set up prior to the event at TEDF's request, but was unable to do so in time. Will have that working long before the next event, top of the list when I get feisty and frisky again. Huge thanks to TEDF for creating this event, and to the volunteers for helping out, and to all the players, too! Cheers!

Server has been setup for you @=VG= TEDF - GS9 Port 16587 -- didn't copy over the complete VG coop python, just the key parts like death time, etc. You will need to adjust kits and loadouts if needed, these are default COOP settings. If you need me to change these to match COOP, I can, but you'll likely want to edit them for your custom missions so I left them default for now. Let me know. Any issues, contact me. Cheers! *current banlist, admins list, and the Fly South Crash bug fix have been put in place, as well.

UNBANNED *(afaik will take effect next time the server changes map or restarts) /locked

You were banned by FastJack for massive teamkilling. I can see why he perceived this as end of round teamkilling, an apology was not apparent, and it was swiftly followed by yet another teamkill. RULES: [16:15:18 T2 SQUAD 1] =VG= deathdealer203: !setnext kaz coop std [16:15:21 TEAMKILL] TF47OR-6Hausmann [usrgl_m4ugl] WARDOG WARHAMMER101 [16:15:21 TEAMKILL] TF47OR-6Hausmann [usrgl_m4ugl] Arthya [16:15:23 GLOBAL] =VG= Kavelenko: !setnext Kol coop std [16:15:24 TEAMKILL] wellleeee [c4_smallexplosives] Colt1001011 [16:15:25 T2 SQUAD 1] =VG= deathdealer203: l [16:15:25 TEAMKILL] TF47OR-6Hausmann [killed] WingnutDX9 [16:15:37 TEAM 2] =VG= Fastj@ck: !b hausmann tking massive [16:15:37 DISCONNECT] ' TF47OR-6Hausmann' disconnected [16:15:39 TEAMKILL] wellleeee [ushgr_m67] bao-y0000u [16:15:39 TEAMKILL] wellleeee [ushgr_m67] Cel_Coronel-Everton [16:15:39 TEAMKILL] wellleeee [ushgr_m67] WARDOG WARHAMMER101 [16:15:40 T2 SQUAD 1] =VG= deathdealer203: !setnext koz coop std [16:15:42 GLOBAL] =VG= Kavelenko: !setnext koz coop std [16:16:22 GLOBAL] =VG= Kavelenko: you ok with that one FastJack? [16:16:27 T2 SQUAD 2] =VG= Fastj@ck: stop that fucking teamkilling [16:16:41 TEAM 2] =VG= Fastj@ck: stop tking or get banned [16:16:47 TEAM 2] =VG= Fastj@ck: no [16:16:55 TEAM 2] =VG= Fastj@ck: i'm not ok with that tking Please be patient as we wait for the banning admin to post up. You have no history of bad behavior on our server that I saw, and if you can follow the rules, and be careful to make sure people know when a mistake has happened (text chat helps), you may be allowed back on the server. Again, we will wait for the recommendation of the banning admin, FastJack.

Yes, it had crashed. Thanks for the report - I've restarted to the last auto-save, it's running now. P.S. I've not had time yet to work on the campaign file yet, but it's on the list and I've got plenty of free time coming up starting as early as this weekend or next week. I expect it to be that way through New Years, so looking forward to get some more regular flights in as well. See you around!

v1.1 Patch has been released A bug has been identified and removed. This issue prevented the entire Human Pilots Registry system to function and should have been caught before the final release version. All apologies to everyone who has been trying to use this new voice program. In addition to this, I've decided to not use a wildcard to catch the name of the BMS program to send keypresses to, and have gone for the "Falcon BMS.exe" method. Still, this will not catch every user, and players will need to test to be sure commands go through initially, and refer to VoiceAttack troubleshooting (and those tips we've highlighted already) to get commands to fire in the correct window. I'm happy to help new users, and the community has been helpful as well. Any questions, feel free to ask! Patch Release v1.1 Changelog Nov2019 Fixes/Improvements: -Changed common Send To default from *Falcon BMS* to "Falcon BMS.exe" to avoid conflict with open PDF's, etc. with Falcon BMS in name -Fixed Human/Computer Pilots Registry system - last minute addition of a mode check was to blame, has been removed for now Download: (Click Here)

FINAL RELEASE TO v1.0 Please download updated final version! Link below and updated in the main post above! You don't have to remove the old 0.99 beta profile, but it is recommended to not use both at the same time or variables may get messed up. Thanks to everyone for helping to finish up final testing! SitRep: I've finished with all final additions and proposed changes, and all known bugs and issues have been resolved. We've tested quite extensively to try to break things, and it seems fairly stable. The final version can be found in our download section, please rate and comment if you like and share this link if you can (click here). There is now an Audio Feedback Mode that can be turned on or off at any time. It plays a short sound when a command is successfully recognized, to save time and help avoid the frustration of not knowing if we have to repeat a command. I've given the option to have the Audio Feedback sound effect to output through stereo left, right, or center channel(s), and this is set when you turn the mode on. It is a radio cue up type sound, but a bit distinct compared to the ones in BMS to help differentiate feedback. All three sound files are very tiny, and are included in a VoiceAttack Profile Package for easy importing into VA, and will be placed in folder in the VoiceAttack program folder under Sounds automatically when the profile is imported. Finally, there is a single Variable Pause in the KEYPRESS_Variables command that controls the time between a keypress and release for every action in the profile. Default is 50ms, and if a user has any issue with the keypress macros firing buttons too fast for their computer, this number can be increased slightly to slow down the system and fix any issues. Huge thanks to everyone who helped out with comments, feedback, bug reports, and testing - I'm very happy with how well this profile has been developed, and I have a feeling it will be a solid tool for years to come! I'll support any changes for future BMS versions, and will try to respond to any questions about this profile. Here's a copy of the changelog: Final Release v1.0 Changelog Oct2019 New Commands: -Turn On/Off Audio Feedback Mode : Provides sound feedback upon successful recognition of a command (per user request) -Added a non-functional command to help recognize many variations of "Yes" words for the voice confirmations in profile Fixes/Improvements: -New Variable Pause between any keypress/release for adjustment of the time any key is held down, in keypress_variable command. Default is 50ms -New Audio Feedback Mode has custom SFX included, and gives user option of stereo left, right, or center playback for easier distinction -New Speech notification on startup for Audio Feedback Mode (if enabled) -Speech notifications on startup for PTT mode and All-Humans mode (if enabled) have been greatly shortened. -Fixed issues with being able to set Humans in Computer Pilots mode and vice versa Any problems or new bugs, or brilliant ideas, feel free to drop some feedback! Cheers!

"What are we going to do tonite, Melon?" "Same thing we do every night, Semler... Try to take over the world!"

Looking forward to this event! Thanks TEDF! (Best comeback of 2019)

Oh yea, sorry - we did resolve this one, but this post dropped off the top-10 long before that, and didn't get updated. Cheers goes to Ciro on that one, Zadra, PITN and myself were scratching our head for literally half a year, having tried so many things. Can't remember the exact culprit or culprits, but glad this was a thing of the past.... Have to admit a little flush of anxiety when I saw this familiar issue again on the frontpage, before I noticed the date(s) of the posts. No worries, but gonna lock this thread up. Prefer to watch dates of posts before replying, often the older ones are not worth bringing back from the dead, though I understand the enthusiasm to help here - much appreciated!! Thanks anyway!

We expect people who want to be in VG to behave like people in VG: Be cool, know the rules, have fun but don't be too disruptive in-game, make friends and be friendly, but also be yourself, and be strong and confident as you assist other newer players to fall in line with the COOP rules and spirit here at VG. We're all dumb sometimes, alcohol helps, but don't be a dork, don't annoy people, don't go gung-ho over-the-top RP gamer (we are not a hardcore server!), and don't rock the boat. We deal with issues on a case-by-case basis here, and we try to keep it drama free. Go with the flow, and see where it takes you. Life is a journey, not a destination.

Thanks for the application! While we do promote from within, organically, it is great to know that you are interested, and that we should be mindful of your honorable intentions. We are very slow to recruit into VG, people begin as regulars on our server, and over time become well known among other players, PR Admins, and =VG= Members. We have a friendly crew, but to ensure we don't take on a large number of members who do not "click" with the other members, we ask that potential VG members attempt to become friends with the people you see around here. We have friends here who have been around for years and years who are valued members yet not =VG= Members, and while I would not say that we are an exclusive group in any way, we are expecting any new members to go down the same organic route that we all did. Play games, make friends, become part of the wallpaper -- at some point, a current member may nominate you for a Lite Administration role in one of our servers you frequent. Later, you may become a full Admin here. Further down the road, a friend and VG member may nominate you for a =VG= Membership Vote, and any "no" vote accompanied by negative feedback will put that vote on hold for several months or more, but between 10-20 positive votes and a person is approved. Just FYI. Basically, hang out and have fun as if the VG tags don't matter, get to know people and get known yourself as a day-to-day regular, and one day, either it will happen or it won't. We are keen to make sure people are a good fit with each other as part of this larger group, and that is why we don't just allow people in willy-nilly and see how it works out. Hope you understand, and are still interested!

@Robotfungus, @=VG= LittleTortiaBoy, & @Raven800 ... and the midnight shift on Muttrah (because it crashed a lot, and we we're always finding ourselves back at Muttrah, with no admins to change the map) Those were the days

Front Page Overload. It's there, just look on the right, below TS3, above the chatbox... Huge letters Edit: I see you found it. Cheers!