metalnwood

If it was me, I would go for the G2 and run it at half resolution mode until you have more horsepower to run it at full. You probably already saw this through the lens comparison and while it doesnt really show you what it is like it gives you an idea relatively. Hard to tell through a camera but backed up with him saying it looks better through the lens I am betting it is. The rift S doesnt look as bad looking through as the camera so the camera is making it look worse, that also means thae G2 at half res will also look better... With a baked in upgrade when you can take advantage of it. The other reason is that proper IPD adjustment is important if you need it. You may never know if you need it until you have a headset that has it. The rift S is not usable for me for very long because of the fixed IPD. The quest is adjustable with the lenses but once again, if you dont fall within it's adjustment zone it wont be ideal and you can lose some FOV depending where your IPD lies. As far as oculus, I owned three of their headsets but wont give them anymore $$ at all. What doesnt work for me may work for you though :)

My local shop told me their G2's will be there on monday... I hope it doesnt take long to get the email for pickup.

You can build one yourself or you can buy them as kits, i.e. all the parts and you just assemble them. I have a simlabs p1 and locally I bought some extra profile to use for other bits and pieces I wanted to attach, like the throttle , stick. Here are some of those and when you look at their site you can see some of the other addons you can get for it https://sim-lab.eu/shop/category/cockpits-3 trakracer in the states has some options https://www.trakracer.com/product-category/tr160-cockpit/ https://www.trakracer.com/product-category/tr80-cockpit/ You could look at say the manual for simlabs and get the dimensions and order direct from 8020 if that is a lot cheaper. I think a lot of people in the us prefer motedis to get their profile. They even have a kitset on their site as well https://www.motedis-usa.com/shop/Sim-Racing:::999991169.html I dont like it though and would just clone the simlabs one.

I use an 8020 pit and very happy with it. So easy to add things/remove things and move them about. Last post on my thread shows how I currently move from racing to flying etc with a video https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4469207&postcount=128

As long as the 3080 performs better I dont care that it has 1gb less than my current card. I guess we will just have to wait and see but I am guessing that with less ram, it will still perform better. Possibly even better still with more ram but better is better.

I have been using my index with the lenses all the way out in preparation for the G2 so I dont get such a shock with the smaller fov :) One thing I do notice is how much smaller the the clear area is when the lenses are out and how much better the image is from edge to edge with the lenses in on the index. Even though the g2 has a smaller fov, I certainly hope the lenses are reasonably close to be looking through the good part of the lens for a greater part of thta fov.

That is strange, I am not sure whats happening there except perhaps it has not worked out what directory it is in. add these lines ahead of it. This will change the working directory to the correct one before running dcs which could be the issue. h: cd "H:\DCS WORLD Dedicated Server\DCS World OpenBeta Server\bin" oh and just rad that if you are running a server you should have the parameter --server.. i.e. dcs.exe --server

I think you may be referring to culling as shown here

fyi, MSFS on steam was was the 61'st most popular title today with 14, 317 people active. War thunder was 20th with 24664 people. So I guess we know who the king of flight sims is then :) I don't know what figures are for people that got it through xbox store but pretty much no one pays for it there they get it through their monthly subscription.

I would say the chances of it being delivered any later than necessary because msfs doesn't support it will be very close to nil.

going back to the thread title.. 3090 no.. 3080 something, for sure. I am in vr and can live with the performance of my 1080ti for a bit longer as I get 90 in most of my sims other than DCS. I dont expect that a 3080 series will get dcs to > 45 in VR so at least here I dont see any great improvement to be had in upgrading. I suppose that buys me a little time to see if there is a 3080ti.

It's interesting for sure.. $2500nzd over here for the 3090, probably more.. its all very optimistic to do the currency conversion and hope thats where it lands :) I wont upgrade before my G2, so time to see if there is something in between, i.e. 3080ti. Also time to see the real performance, not just the RTX performance. Its hard to know if the increase in performance they tout over the 1080ti is based on your usual benchmarks. Its no good to me to find these improvements are only for games supporting rtx. 10GB ram seems small when DCS loads all that up right away but then you have to think if it really needs to? 10gb on disk is a lot of assets, maybe there is a better way for dcs..

I have tried xplane with the vr only, I cant say I liked it much at all compared to physical controls. The other things with xplane is that you are in aircraft with simple controls, there really is nothing on the stick/yoke you need to do most of the time. Some may have a trim, throttles are bare compared to most aircraft in dcs. You can sort of get away with it for most GA aircraft and in DCS you could probably get away with it if you were just going for a sight seeing flight. You would be very hard pressed to use vr only controls and use DCS for what it was made for which is in it's name. If you are using a hotas you would never use the controllers instead of a mouse for most operations as it is harder. Coming up on target, 15 seconds until some action required and you forgot to do something. A few mouse clicks and averted having to abort. Not so if you had to fumble for a controller do your stuf and put it down. It's a bit like how some racing sims had rubbish support for game pads. They didn't put in the effort to make a gamepad work well because the people playing those sims were using wheels. They were not catering to the need for speed crowd. Better controller support will help DCS in the end but I think thats going to come to fruition more when we are dealing with things like hand tracking. DCS would be a frustrating proposition using only a controller with any of its complex aircraft. @OnlyforDCS we were replying at the same time so I didnt see yours. Yes, that would be good. I would be happy doing startups using a controller that had good mechanics for switches. In the air I would end up with the mouse.

Ah.. ok.. Change the dcs_updater.exe to just dcs.exe. Do it in your first example, not the ones using START. The updater will start the DCS process after it has checked for updates but then quits right away making your python script run. If you change to dcs.exe it wont check for updates and you will have to run the updater yourself from time to time.

Very important to keep the same case for about 8 years, no matter how many changes happen inside of it.

What the point of the eye tracking though? I only saw them talk about the use for social applications so other people could see if you are smiling, where you are looking etc. No one has talked about foveated rendering for a while which was the first obvious use of eye tracking to increase performance. So if it wont give me a performance just then so be it if no one knows where ny eyes are looking.

We are used to paying a lot for our gpu's over here. I certainly couldnt justify paying the $1600usd or so the 2080ti is over here given the gains over the 1080ti but if the 3080/90 is a reasonable gain then it could help with the g2 and make it worthwhile.

OK, so when the dcs process ends is when you quit to desktop. You then want to run abc.bat You will see that when you look at the properties of the dcs icon it is something like d:\dcsword\bin\dcs.exe update - somehting like this, I am not in front of computer to see that exactly. I would take that and add it as the first line of your batch file. Then run your batch file whenever you want to run DCS. your batch file will run dcs and then whatever else is in it when DCS finishes. You can still create a desktop icon or menu item to run your batch file to make it convenient.

I know a number of people have had good service for small amounts of extrusion from item24. https://www.item24.com/ Looks like they service Canada.

I don't know where I read this recently, maybe here somewhere. CONFOR foam is used in seats for long periods of sitting. Apparently used a lot in aviation https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cmpages/conForFoan.php

Why dont you just add dcs.exe to the first line of your bat file and use that to start dcs and then run our commands afterwards? edit, i may be reading this wrong? you want to run it when a simulation ends and takes you to the end of mission screen not when the dcs process is about to end? So you have added your call to run the batch file in to the LuaExportStop but it is not running?

Looks like I am pulling my thread back from the dead. Hard to believe that it as nine years ago I started the thread. It's interesting looking back on it how I started with something that let me do racing and flying, to pretty much just flying and for a while, just racing. Now I am going full circle back to racing and flying. For some time I had moved away from the idea of one rig does both and I had both rigs. It was really the only way to do it. With one rig if it was set up for racing it could stay that way for a long time because of the hassle to change to flying and vice versa. Now I just have one and for a while it's been mostly racing as flying was a bit of a compromise. I used the racing pedals for rudder pedals (no toe brakes). Works ok but not ideal. A while ago I made the SFX motion platform and figured if I wanted to do racing and flying it would have to be on a single rig using motion for both. Back to figuring out how to make the change quickly. I have got it down to under a minute. Even I am not that lazy to let that be an impediment to swapping when I want to fly instead of race! :) So now my rig is very different to anything it has been in the past and a very happy VR user. Things I use for racing I can use for flying and vice versa. The warthog throttle is a great VR button box when racing, I have a number of things mapped to it and being hotas, no need to look for the button in VR. Also when flying I can keep the formula wheel rim attached. The joystick _nearly_, but doesnt touch the wheel when in use so I can still use the rim. As well as having a lot of buttons it has 6 rotaries on it so a lot can be mapped in aircraft like dimming lights, freq tuning etc. I don't keep the stick attached when racing. I bought four buttkicker LFE mini's some time ago for racing and I am finding them really good in DCS as well. Thanks to sim aviator software I get to use them and they complement the motion very well giving me effects I cant get through motion but add to the experience. Motion is very good in DCS, you dont need a lot in VR to give you cues that you are moving. As well as your standard feeeling coming from pitch, yaw and roll the other effects that come through the motion are great, gun fire, stalls, feeling when you are getting outside the flight envelope. Landing on the carrier and feeling the motion dip and the active seatbelt pull you hard in to the seat are all very cool. The active seatbelt I added after doing the motion. It tightens or loosens the seatbelt depending on acceleration or deceleration for racing but for flying could be for other things, i.e. if upside down and g's are letting you fall out of your seat. The fans I use for racing and flying, mostly just set at a level to keep cool in VR. often the fans will be running faster by the time i am finished than when I start, it can get warm in VR. My stick has had a quick method to attach for a while but not my pedals, so my rudder pedals have not been attached for years. It was only in the last couple days I decided to do something about it. On my 8020 rig everything is bolted down so a number of bolts are required to be undone, re-positioned with rudders and done up again. So it never happened. Have now come up with using the quick release handle levers and making plates for the rudder and racing pedals. Now it only takes a short time to swap them out. Undo 4 levers , slide two out of the way and lift pedals then replace with others. You don't seem to see too many 8020 rigs for flight but they are very easy to attach things and move things. Right now I am pretty content with how it is. Only new thing on the horizon is a reverb G2. Looking forward to seeing what DCS might look like in that resolution. Here are a couple pics as it is now and a video with really bad lighting on how I swap from racing to flying in no time.

I am just going to be boring and say that for 1700 you could be looking at a warthog throttle/stick. TM TPR rudder pedals and a reverb G2. A 2080ti should do well enough wiht the reverb. All is good gear that I dont think you would regret and fit within the budget without problem.

I just went to the module manager and it told me I had the Syria map available to download so clicked yes.

Darn, I was super impressed with it today. Downloading Syria at 108MB/s from New Zealand. They must have local content here.