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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
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Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA
2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online
2,005 legs,
8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs,
196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2004 15:45 ET by Luke Kolin
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A brief question for those of you who use our Fleet Library for your aircraft, panels and sounds. How concerned would you be if the sizes of our sound schemes increased significantly, from 2-7MB to around 20MB?
The reason I ask is two-fold. Up until know, I've been using a set of ten year old speakers since I've never been too particular about my audio and my hearing is pretty abysmal anyways. However, I recently picked up an Altec Lansing 2.1 system and have noticed just how crappy our sounds are. I'm considering evaluating some larger sound sets to see how they work and sound.
Remember that sounds are NOT packaged with the installers, so this would be an optional download.
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA1790
First Officer, B737-800
Joined on July 15 2004
Northeastern United States
7 legs, 20.4 hours
3 legs,
7.7 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2004 15:54 ET by Burke Duzenbury
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The new sounds you propose would add immensely to the simming experience, but for those of us with archaic dial-up connections a 20mb download would take over an hour. All in all - I'm up for it! I have to wait a long time anyway for most of the fleet installer's. Unfortunately there are no plans for a broadband connections in my little corner of the backwoods, I think it is time to move towards the city (the sacrifices we make for flight-simming) I hope my wife understands.....
Hey Luke! What's yer phone number? Maybe you can explain it to her better than I :-D
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA
2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online
2,005 legs,
8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs,
196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2004 16:00 ET by Luke Kolin
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[Since I've obviously derailed the thread, my response is consigned to the bit bucket. Sorry folks.]
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA1044
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club
"Fly Delta Jets"
Roswell, NM USA
127 legs, 388.8 hours
62 legs,
199.3 hours online
2 legs,
5.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2004 17:56 ET by Lloyd Arms
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Luke I'd go for it because I have DSL. I understand those that are on dialup would take much longer. Is it possible to have a choice for both?
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DVA1008
Senior Captain, B757-200
Joined on December 14 2002
B757 100 Club
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"Fly 'till the map turns blue"
Kokomo, IN
633 legs, 1,731.3 hours
613 legs,
1,689.9 hours online
212 legs,
792.3 hours ACARS
35 legs,
77.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2004 18:07 ET by Matt Young
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I still say it was a good thought for the day.  That said, I think some higher end sounds would be great. I downloaded a 50MB CFM package for the 767 tonight and it shakes my desk with the base cranked.
Matt YoungSenior Captain, B757-200
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DVA1791
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on July 18 2004
Northeastern United States
17 legs, 30.6 hours
5 legs,
6.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2004 18:38 ET by April Townsend
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New sounds would be a cool add Luke =)
~April
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DVA894
Captain, B757-200
Joined on September 27 2002
Round Lake, IL USA
24 legs, 55.6 hours
8 legs,
22.1 hours online
4 legs,
10.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2004 20:34 ET by Bill Bouxsein
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Luke:
I would be all for the new sounds. I do think that it would be nice to have an option on which sound set to download for those with slower connections.
Bill
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DVA1651
Senior Captain, MD-11
Joined on April 25 2004
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Globetrotter
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White Pearl Accomplishment
"DAL1651 heavy is type MD-11, ready for blastoff"
Nashville, TN
879 legs, 3,275.4 hours
436 legs,
1,621.5 hours online
626 legs,
2,413.4 hours ACARS
28 legs,
89.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 02 2004 05:12 ET by James Marshall
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Will quality sounds slow the frame rates?
James MarshallSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA1892
Senior Captain, MD-11
Joined on September 13 2004
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Eurocap Club
Online Triple Century Club
White Pearl Accomplishment
Quatercentenary Club
Everett Century Club
"Fly Douglas Jets!"
Buenos Aires AR
460 legs, 1,384.1 hours
336 legs,
1,086.5 hours online
271 legs,
726.6 hours ACARS
12 legs,
24.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 02 2004 06:10 ET by Gaston Doval
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I'll take up on James' question, would they take up more CPU and eat your frame rates? Anyway, that should be a matter of time till I get my new stick of RAM.
So I guess, all in all, I'm up for it!
Cheers!
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DVA1790
First Officer, B737-800
Joined on July 15 2004
Northeastern United States
7 legs, 20.4 hours
3 legs,
7.7 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
November 02 2004 07:29 ET by Burke Duzenbury
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| Heck Luke, I can always start the download just before bed and let it run!! Set it up for us. Just don't make a download site in East Africa. :-D
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DVA1633
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
Joined on April 17 2004
Century Club
Den Haag, Zuid-Holland NL
163 legs, 437.6 hours
2 legs,
11.5 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
November 02 2004 10:27 ET by Sander Jordans
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as far as I know you don't loose fps by soundsets
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DVA1651
Senior Captain, MD-11
Joined on April 25 2004
Everett 250 Club
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Million Mile Club
Eight Century Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
White Pearl Accomplishment
"DAL1651 heavy is type MD-11, ready for blastoff"
Nashville, TN
879 legs, 3,275.4 hours
436 legs,
1,621.5 hours online
626 legs,
2,413.4 hours ACARS
28 legs,
89.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 02 2004 12:00 ET by James Marshall
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I'm all for it either way anyways, but I was just wondering.
James MarshallSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA1867
First Officer, MD-88
Joined on September 01 2004
Midwestern United States
26 legs, 35.3 hours
26 legs,
35.3 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
November 02 2004 13:37 ET by Keith Calvert
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I would be all for it...im on cable so size is no problem...i downloaded a cfm-56 soundset from avsim, and have it mated to the 737-800..it sounds awsome on my speakers.
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DVA894
Captain, B757-200
Joined on September 27 2002
Round Lake, IL USA
24 legs, 55.6 hours
8 legs,
22.1 hours online
4 legs,
10.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 02 2004 21:14 ET by Bill Bouxsein
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As long as you a running a sound card or on-board sound with a DSP chip, you should not see any real difference in the frame rates. The only way there would be a frame rate hit would be if the on-board sound used processor cycles to process the wavs.
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DVA630
Senior Captain, B777-200
Joined on June 22 2002
Million Mile Club
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B757 100 Club
"Flightsimaroma therapy."
Bainbridge, PA
873 legs, 2,775.4 hours
783 legs,
2,429.4 hours online
487 legs,
1,454.8 hours ACARS
19 legs,
64.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 04 2004 14:37 ET by Kenneth Rodriguez
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You will definately see a decrease in performance using on-board sound and the sound quality cranked up in FS. Would be wise to invest in a decent sound card.
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