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I mainly fly jets, I’ve just recently begun flying the warbirds and can’t dogfight without trashing the plane because I have no idea where the pull limit is until it flips inverted and heads for the ground. The Concorde, the Space Shuttle, FFB sticks, Tabasco Cheese-Its, all gone. What is the world coming to? Not saying it’s all negative. We’ve identified two or three dozen new genders, so at least we’re heading in the right direction on the stuff that matters. Alas, I’m not real keen on used joysticks. Is the Bruner stuff just as “good” as the old sidewinder FFB? Is it the same thing?

^ Fixed that for you. Your initial version was impossible, Mr. Putin, the United States of America has a robust, competition-driven market that is the envy of the world.

I'm having great difficulty flying warbirds without pulling into flight departure. Warbirds are the one area where lack of FFB is really a handicap. For me at least. Has anyone found a flight stick with good enough effects that let you know where the pull limit is on the WW2 planes?

IS IT HERE YET??!!!! It's April, and technically *could* be here, so is it? Is it here yet? I know you're getting sick of the question, so let me rephrase it: Here yet it is? Or yet is here it? If not, is it almost here yet it is? I'm aware that you cannot be specific, so how about this .... on a scale of 1 - 1000, with each number representing the number of days from today that the module will be ready, what number would it be? I'm not asking for the hour, minute, or second, or anything crazy like that. Or maybe you can reply, and the number of characters in your reply can indicate the number of days remaining until it's available? How about the $20 trick? Would the $20 trick work? You know that thing where if you slip Vegas hotel clerks an extra $20, they hook you up with room upgrades ... if I slip you a little sumpin-sumpin, will the module appear faster for me? Would be pretty cool if I could zip around these other guys, handing out AMRAAM suppositories like Tic-Tacs, while they point at the monitor screaming "but ... but .. whaaa ... what .... who ... HOW does he have it already?! !" Come on, fellas, together we can make the dream a reality. Do you hear that sound? That's destiny calling. Pick up the phone. PICK UP THE PHONE!!! So yeah, anyway, is it here yet?

Oh wow, awesome. This util is how I launch DCS and this looks sweet!

With that being said, I found another set of benchmarks which would support your conclusions in some gaming titles: http://www.redgamingtech.com/does-intel-hyper-threading-hurt-gaming-performance-i9-9900k-analysis/ BF5 is about 5 frames faster across the board with HT disabled, and with DX11 it is massively faster with Max settings ... 163FPS with HT off vs 131 with it on.

I don't think this is true. At least not always. Highly-CPU-intensive tasks usually benefit from SMT to some degree. Handbrake is one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can run, and even it benefits from SMT a little bit. Some CPU-bottlenecked apps run worse, but most run a bit better. I may be off, but if I had to take a complete stab in the dark, the DCS render threads are probably somewhere around Cinebench or Blender, with the logic cores probably in the Geekbench neighborhood. I think DCS has to pull from RAM quite a bit, and it needs to talk to the GPU, network cards, disk drive, etc. This would yield enough idle cycles to make SMT beneficial.

Per DCS, it seems to depend on how many cores/threads you have. From the MT FAQ: (emphasis mine) I imagine most people have fewer than 33 cores, and thus should leave HT on? It looks like the logic threads will use all available cores, but the rendering threads will use a max of 8 P-Cores if Hyper-threaded. At least in theory, I supposed everyone's MMV.

It even made my 1,500 unit Omaha Beach scenario marginally playable by doubling the framerate! This is my entire "master" D-Day mission which I always reduce from before actually playing. Same Game-Master view from the beach for roughly the first 5 minutes of the mission. Single-Threaded: 11-03-2023, 16:01:32 DCS.exe benchmark completed, 4874 frames rendered in 294.985 s Average framerate : 16.5 FPS Minimum framerate : 11.8 FPS Maximum framerate : 51.0 FPS 1% low framerate : 5.2 FPS 0.1% low framerate : 2.4 FPS Multi-Threaded: 11-03-2023, 16:10:30 DCS.exe benchmark completed, 9213 frames rendered in 272.282 s Average framerate : 33.8 FPS Minimum framerate : 25.5 FPS Maximum framerate : 45.9 FPS 1% low framerate : 7.9 FPS 0.1% low framerate : 5.8 FPS Not bad for 300+ Higgins Boats, every WN Strongpoints, Troop Ships, LSTs, Allied Bombing Campaigns, Artillery Batteries, etc.

Yeah, I'm finally pinning my 2080Ti, which used to be difficult to do as the CPU rarely let it get there. I see the GPU @ 100% as an extremely positive thing. Your GPU is finally getting to use it's full performance, whereas, to this point, the CPU has been the limiter.

I loaded up a mission that I struggle to get 30fps on, and I was hovering in the 90s with runs to 120 (the max refresh for my monitor and the FPS limit I set). It's running everything significantly faster. I have an 8-core/16-thread CPU, and I used to never see more than about 15% CPU utilization MAX during DCS (given that most cores were idle), but now it's using 70% of my CPU, which means I'm maxing out numerous cores. My 2080Ti finally sees 100% utilization too. While it helps VR to some extent (I had one VR session glitch down to like 11FPS, but most held 40-80), from my testing, my monitor (5120 x 1440) sees a much larger benefit. I gotta be honest, ED didn't seemed super-optimistic that MT was going to be a huge deal, so my expectations were fairly low. I figured they'd throw some damage-model tasks to a couple of other threads, and call it a day. I figured it would help a little, but not be overwhelming (kind of like when iRacing threaded their damage models). After a couple hours of use, however, this seems like a game-changer to me. Really nice job, from what I've seen so far, it finally makes those multi-core gaming CPUs worth the money, and it lets the graphics cards use all of their resources.

Dear sweet mother of HeyZeus the dancing giraffe, please tell me that EA has nothing to do with any of this.

sorry just saw this ... sure, I'll generate one

This keeps happening to me and it's driving me crazy. Did you ever find a cause? Sometimes I can recover it by doing a CTRL+S, and sometimes it will CTD.

I have trouble flying warbirds due to lack of FFB. In the heat of battle I tend to pull too hard because I can't feel any buffeting or resistance (beyond the stick springs). Do you mind if I ask which stick you use?

I have a work-in-progress "base mission" for Normandy which is just some trigger zones, labels and markers that I created in the "Draw" feature. (example attached). Question: Is there a way to import drawings into an existing mission? I tried making it a static template, but that didn't work, and the template contained nothing.

That's comforting ... somewhat. I think. You'll excuse me for being a little jaded, though. If they sell, they'll lose the ability to fulfill that promise. "Even ardent supporters of the company were immediately skeptical that Facebook’s business model could rot the foundation of Oculus’ VR ambitions with invasive user-tracking and ad serving. To assuage such fears, Facebook, on behalf of Oculus’ founder, Palmer Luckey, promised in no uncertain terms that users would never be required to log-in with Facebook to Oculus headsets, nor would developers need to do so to develop content for those headsets. It was the day of the announcement of Oculus’ acquisition that Luckey took to the Oculus community on Reddit to offer explanations to angry supporters. “I guarantee that you won’t need to log into your Facebook account every time you wanna use the Oculus Rift,” he said in response to a Redditor asking if he could at least promise that much. Yesterday the company demolished that promise when it announced that it would begin requiring all new users of Oculus headsets to log-in with a Facebook account starting in October, and that existing users would also be required to log-in by the end of 2022 if they wanted to retain full use of their headsets. "

I'm not knocking your decision whatsoever. To each their own. I don't use Steam for DCS (I personally don't want ED to take the 30% haircut), but I do use it for some games (I could give a frig less if EA takes a 30% haircut, or a 90% haircut for that matter). That said, I often worry about having so many games under one tent. If Steam's servers go down, or they go out of business, there's going to be a whole bunch of things that I can't play. A few weeks ago I couldn't launch anything until I updated Steam, and the update server wasn't in good shape (at least from my network), leaving me without my content for maybe an hour ... admittedly not long ... but enough to realize "oh crap, I have so much tied up in that thing that if Steam has a bad hair day, I'm out quite a bit of my content". I get the convenience, but centralization is kind of a double-edged sword. One company could take 20, 30, 50, 100 of your titles (and thousands of your entertainment dollars) with them if they go down. I mean, if you worry about such things.

I get this question. I really do. I would think the same thing if it wasn't me. But when so much of your free time is dedicated to this hobby ... yes? I mean, I was counting down the days for the pre-order, even knowing I would get nothing on that day. The human psyche is truly a weird thing, but yes, it's satisfying to some of us on some level to have contributed in some way to the existence of this thing. I think it makes it more "real", or at least proves to us in some way that it actually is coming, versus being just another rumor. Nothing is real until money changes hands (I know there are exceptions to this), so I think maybe that's where the "fun", or at least the drive to do it comes in.

Angry? I just "pre-bought" mine and even though the concept of "pre-buying" is still kind of silly to me, I've never been happier to part with sixty bucks in my life. I mean, unless you count that night in Tijuana when I met this woman named Conchita who was a dead-ringer for a young Charro and when she asked if I had sixt ... you know, it's not important. What is important is that the F15 has been my favorite plane for 30 years and I would have paid twice as much, twice as early (not that I'm you know, suggesting that), but who the hell could be angry now that this thing is closer to being reality?

When someone promises me nothing by a certain date, then dammit, that is EXACTLY when I expect to receive nothing! And I will accept nothing less than noth .... uh ... wait

My conversations today went something like: This morning Me: I'm going to put something on the online card today, I'm not sure how much but I'm pretty sure it'll be less than a hundred bucks Wife: Sure, what are you getting? Me: Nothing, but someday I might get a new DCS plane Wife: When are you going to get it? Me: I dunno, but, someday, I think, maybe This evening Wife: I don't see any charges today, did you buy that thing? Me: Nah, it wasn't ready yet Wife: I though you knew that already? Me: Oh yeah, I did, but the thing that's not ready is not ready for me to buy before it's ready ... uh ... yet Wife: But ... Me: Oh but here's the thing ... the thing that's not ready will still not be ready in two days, but they might be ready for me to buy it, you know, when it is ready ... Maybe. I mean, it's still possible that they still may not be ready to not have it ready to, wait, be ready when it's, uh, ready ... you know the cat's looking really fat, what have you been feeding him? Wife: Temptations! The cat is a fiend for those things! I read online and people are calling it "kitty crack". By the way, can you put some more wood on the fire, it's getting cold. Me: No can do, the last time I even talked about firewood, BigNewy changed my thready title, so I got rid of it all. You know how I am about making people uncomfortable. Wife: Who's BigNewy? Me: Oh he's ... you know what, forget I said anything, tell me more about these Temptations things ...

Correct me if I'm wrong, because I probably am, but the F15E is not a fully FBW aircraft like the F/A-18. Or maybe it is? I know that new versions are supposedly getting it, but the 15E of the generation that is being released by Razbam still has a CAS, correct? Does this mean that the module will benefit from an FFB stick? I've been thinking about getting one of the high-end FFB sticks, but with the F/A-18 being my primary driver, it would be of limited benefit. What do you imagine the situation will be with the new Eagle?

How about you guys work day and night to get it out by the end of the month, and we'll just send you our checkbooks and the deed to our houses?

If I had to choose between the DCS F18 and the upcoming F15E, I would sell plasma until I couldn't stand in order to buy both.