How many spend more time here than playing CLoD?

[ATAG_Snapper]

Haven't had a launcher crash this year (knock on wood) and I fly on the ATAG Server at least 1 to 2 hours per night (after family goes to bed). My PC is hardly cutting edge, the 2.67 Mhz cpu can't be overclocked because the BIOS is locked (boo! hiss! to Gateway). I have 12 Gigs of RAM for video work I do on this PC; it doesn't play a role for Cliffs of Dover......but I'd still want to have at least 6 Gigs for CoD + 80 gazillion background Windows processes.

I have a very basic start up for CoD which I consider as no more hassle than the basic start up procedure for a Spitfire:

1. Navigate to the 1C Softclub/IL2 Sturmovik folder and delete Cache
2. Start Track IR
3. Start FRAPS (optional -- George Lucas & Stephen Spielberg insist on this)
4. Start TARGET (that's my Warthog HOTAS scripting software. Didn't need to include this; just bragging)
5. Start Teamspeak
6. Start CoD (from the Teamspeak link)
7. Do a quick check in Options/Controls/Axis to make sure that all control levers are still correctly assigned. Sometimes after a PC reboot after doing video editing (a REAL memory hog) the CoD axis on my CH Quadrant change values. Takes literally 30 seconds to check and reassign if necessary.

That's it. I don't bother exiting and restarting CoD after each sortie, but even that is no big whoop using the Teamspeak start-CoD link. The whole 7-step procedure takes, what....5 minutes? 4 minutes? Considering the huge enjoyment I consistently get out of hooking up with the guys on Teamspeak and frequently responding to emergency calls like "I need help guys.....there's three 110's diving on the radar towers at I12 and I'm all alone here!" --- a 5 minute get-it-all-started routine is NBD, IMHO.