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That‘s the correct way to do it. Make sure you set up the axis correctly in the device software when you mount it reverse or sideways. So that the input direction matches the effects direction. Otherwise the device wouldn’t know that you swapped axis and the force feedback maybe in the wrong direction. HOWEVER, despite the above being the proper way to do it, you can also swap the direction of force feedback separately from the input axis‘ direction in DCS. Either way, make sure those match.

Absolutely agree. I‘m a sucker for eye candy myself. I would absolutely love a beautiful milkyway. However, there are many strengths and weaknesses in DCS. Getting so worked up because a particular one is currently not on the todo list seems a bit off to me…..

Dude, relax. Do you expect them to do everything everywhere all at once? That‘s not realistic. Many people are already concerned ED is spreading thin with their tasks. Also, you can‘t expect them to have the same priorities as any random user in the forum. Put just ten of us together and we couldn’t agree on the right order of priorities if our life depended on it…. The answer was neither stupid or ignorant, just factual. At least we can relax now and see what is actual coming. (I can think of a lot of things that are magnitudes more important than some eye candy at night btw.. .)

All right and correct. I just want to add there is a way easier way to try out linux Distros. Virtual machines. Of course, when you eventually want to play games and need as much hardware performance as possible you should install native. But to try the look and feel of different distributions and find your way around linux for the first time, I‘d simply put them in a VM.

You need to create or modify a mission in the Mission Editor. There you can place and click an Aircraft for setting it up.

Good, I‘m not the only one confused… Have you tried un-reversing them? (I‘m not joking. I find it kind of random when an axis needs reversing or not. Maybe they switched it around)

Your issue isn‘t quite clear (to me at least). What specifically do you need help with?

If you want to use curves with FFB and it causes issues, I recommend to use the hardware trim option of your FFB stick (if it has one like the Rhino). Works like a charm.

I have to test it. Been a while I flew the Kiowa. But for now, have you tried if the differnt trim options in the settings make a difference in this behavior?

You‘re aware the module hasn’t been released yet?

Welcome! New to DCS or just new to VR/the forum?

The business world doesn't consist only of big corporations. We've been using Open Office and later Libre Office for years now. Again, I'm not suggesting that there will be a flash and a bang and suddenly everyone is going to use Linux. But it has to start somewhere - and it does.

I mean, neither of us has a crystal orb. And you will probably find examples for this and that.... but one thing is clear - windows becomes crappier from month to month....

Quite the oppsite in my opinion. A lot of main stream software has a Linux variant anyway. And another trend (for ERP Software e.g.) is to make it a web-client-application anyway. Which makes sense, because it makes you not only independent from a specific OS, but from a specific computer AND location. Really the ONLY thing holding back companies right now from switching (and they have much more motivation to do it, then consumers have - especially when not seated in the US), is specific purpose build software, that happens to be windows based. BUT we e.g. have started to put anything in docker containers and compartmentalise as much as possible. That is something e.g. that a certain someone doesn't seem to grasp. The world doesn't revolve around consumers only. Sys-admins are much more open to this stuff than the average joe. And - this is important - there is a BIG incentive for companies to switch. It's a task, but the more Microsoft bends the stick, the more the US goverment shows its unreliability the bigger the pressure becomes.

If you want to try, say, Mint e.g. (or any other distro), I can recommend Oracle Virtual Box as a VM-Software. It's free for private use and performs well. The setup is quite straight forward..... It's nice to have a seperate OS in a window, without the need for dual boot or similar....

eehhh....isn't the splash screen supposed to disappear once the main loading screen appears. I don't recall it staying longer than a couple seconds.... 30 maybe...., no? I deactivated the loader though, maybe that's the difference.....

To be fair (not meant as defence), DCS isn't the only offender in this regard. By far not. It's a widespread bad habit of applications. I wonder if there is a technical reasoning behind it (accelerating the process by inhibiting all other I/O processes?).

Absolutely. Indifference, Ignorance and unawareness (and to a lesser extent inability) is a big part of the problem. As it is in every issue, be it politics or anything. But precisely for that reason it is important that those that are at least somewhat capable and knowledgable fight back as hard as possible.

Yes, gaming in VM only works for VERY lightweight games. However, gaming is not my main concern when it comes to windows. Other than my gamer tag and how much I suck at various games there isn’t much to learn…. But for now, I can at least exclude MS and their associated data brokers from sniffing through my office and (really) personal data. I would still love to ditch MS completely though. I like Mint, it is as close to Windows as it gets (when it was still good XP, 7, 10 (apart from the telemetry BS)). Every Windows peasant will immediately find his way around once he learned what the applications are - if even different from W. But the beauty of Linux is, that the flavour is merely an interface. Beneath it is all same and you can stitch it together as you like (but you don’t need to).

As I wrote in another thread. One way to give MS the finger as much as possible, is to use a Linux-VM in windows and tunnel out with a VPN. The beauty of Linux is that it is lightweight and runs perfectly inside VMs. You can do almost everything in there and just use Windows for those performance hogs (mostly games, CAD and maybe video editing) that aren’t quite there yet.

@zerO_crash I doubt that any amount of GPU power beyond a 5090 will benefit your VR experience unless you figure out a way to Multi-CPU (). As far as I'm aware that's the bottleneck. At least it is for me (4090), but I don't have the latest and greatest.

My solution to the problem: 0. do everything possible to keep windows intrusion/telemetry and overall bull<profanity>ery at bay (luckily there are various tools to help with that) 1. Windows is used for hardware hungry appliances only (for me that is games and CAD) 2. Everything data sensitive or less hardware hungry (so everything else) is done in a Linux-VM that is connected to a VPN. Microsoft can kiss my ……

I think Multi-GPU nowaday is something different than SLI was back in the days. SLI connected the cards directly and was managed by the Nvidia driver. Multi GPU today combines two or more cards logically just by software and divides tasks like scomander2 described.... But that is a very vague recollection on my side. I might be completely wrong.... I think the reason why it is so out of fashion today is, that it is cheaper just to use the next tier GPU, than to combine two lesser. (Unless you are on a 4090/5090, but then you are CPU bottlenecked anyway in VR (with DLSS at least)) - and it becomes stupidly expensive of course.....

Not exactly deep into the details, but when Vulkan API has Multi-GPU support, is a dedicated support by the application even necessary? IIRC back in the days SLI accelerated all games , no? (different animal I know, that was supported on a GPU-driver level, but still)

I don't know if relevant, but just as data point. Virtualization isn't a inherent problem for DCS. I run Virtual Machines on my system and therefore have to have it enabled. Never caused an issue. (I'm on AMD though) Maybe it is just a coincident and there is no causal connection? Edit: and I think, running W pro and having knowingly or unknowingly enabled virtualization and/or actively using VMs isn't out of the ordinary. There are likely hundreds of DCS users with such a profile.