Hiob

Isn't it nice, that we have options. And nobody is forced to pick an option that doesn't suit personal preference......

Herzlich willkommen! ...und viel Spaß mit DCS. Kann ein ganz schöner Kaninchenbau sein, also Vorsicht, Alice!

Magneto’s?

ah, ok…. missed that no idea

I think you aren’t supposed to replace the original files, but put the mod in the savegames folder (subfolder for mod/…/ cockpit)

Thank you. All fair and square, but as you already mentioned yourself - it has little to nothing to do with the upcoming C-130 and its creators and is therefore a little misplaced. Other than that I can partly sympathize with your thoughts......

Admittedly though, I'd love another teaser or influencer preview-video, too.

Can you rephrase that?

Bei Steam, ja. (Allgemein), bei Standalone - nicht dass ich wüsste....

Actually, the firmware of the motion/ffb device should filter out unsafe telemetry. That really isn't that hard to do. Just implement cutoffs above certain acceleration values (in simple terms). Provider of FFB devices really shouldn't deflect blame for jolting/unsafe behavior of those on the game.

Mine doesn’t. Quite the opposite actually. Maybe, I missed something. Care to elaborate your “various reasons”?

I'm not sure how telling the GPU utilisation is nowadays. In yesteryears, when it was just rasterization power, it was much more straight forward. Today GPU can hit several different walls. Rasterization, Frame gen, Raytracing etc..... I'm not sure how the utilization is calculated exactly. I have seen the GPU stuck at 97% reported in benchmarks while setting new (personal) records. Long story short. When the reporting is somewhere in the 90s, I usually assume the GPU is properly loaded. Otherwise I usually see it hovering at 70something when running a frame cap at 120Hz.

Sorry, half of the OP is questionable (to put it politely). 17+h downloads and router hickups - sounds like a you-problem to me. "chewing up harddrive life"? - welcome to 2025..... DCS doesn't hit the SSD any harder than any other big game. Ever glanced over to MSFS? Flightsims are hardware hungry? - Headline worthy news, really. It has been like this since Falcon 3.0 on a 100 MB harddrive.....

How do you figure that the GPU can't keep up? It is much more likely that the CPU hits a wall with calculations. Especially in VR, the CPU is much more a limiting factor.

I would rather buy a used 3080 (12GB) or 4080, than one of the original options. That said, I would probably opt for AMD in this day and age. The 5000 series and the latest bad drivers from NVIDIA are really a slap in the face of someone that is really still very deeply in love with the 1080ti (GOAT). Apart from the 5090, which at least has decent performance (but for what cost) the 5000 series is really, really bad compared to older GeForce generations. Add the cut off PhysX to the mix... (gone are the days of backwards compatibility)....

Actually the ingame fos counter is pretty reliable in reporting the limiting factor. When you use Nvidia driver to limit fps, the limit is enforced by the GPU-driver, therefore it is reported ingame as GPU-limited….duh…. When you use the ingame fps-cap, it is enforced by the main-render-thread and therefore reported as CPU bound (as it is). If there is no artificial fps cap, it will report the actual bottleneck correctly. Reasons for being CPU limited with a Giga-Chad CPU could be (e.g.) GFX settings to low, playing in VR, CPU choked by outside factors (other applications, bios settings etc….)

At least the monitor should be mounted to the moving part of the contraption. So fixed relative to the seat.

Da man in DCS auf Sicherheitsmargen verzichten kann und bei Bedarf mit 5% fuel (unlimited) starten - würde mich eher wundern wenn nicht.... Aber mehr Spaß wird es vermulich machen, wenn die Kiste bis zum Limit beladen geflogen wird. Mir jedenfalls.

1TB ssd is currently sub 50 bucks..... just saying.... Games getting bigger (greetings from the 4K-era), and storage becoming vastly cheaper is just the way the cookie crumbles nowadays. I'm curious to see how many GBs GTA VI will have.

What keeps me from doing it is the necessary infrastructure update (mobo+ram) that comes with it. If it was the swap of the CPU, I would certainly do it. It is just a gut feeling, but I don’t really want to switch to DDR5. And if I’m honest to myself, an upgrade isn’t really economically justifiable.

Frickin’ Legend!

5 years is my ugrade cycle as well. With the exception of upgrading the GPU from a 3080 to a 4090 prematurely (because the 3080 was NOT a worthy successor to the holy 1080ti which I sported 5+ years before that), I intend to keep to the rythm. Therefore it is/was easy for me to skip the lacklustre 5000 series and DDR5 (for now). I was/am a little bit tempted by the 9800x3D though.

That depends a little bit on the exact circumstances and if the current CPU is in fact a bottleneck for the desired scenario and framerate. Generally speaking and looking at the edge cases, a X3D(*) CPU is certainly more optimal for DCS than any current Intel. That doesn’t mean that a 14K is a slouch. Upgrading between those two is certainly not a BIG step in most scenarios. I wouldn’t make this step unless there is another reason that the Intel has to go (like a defect e.g.). (* actually the 9950 isn’t the most optimal for DCS though, the single die X3Ds (9800\7800\5800) are slightly superior due to the absence of any inter-die problems. But of course DCS isn’t the only use case)

For my trusty Aorus Master X570 that is exactly right. Just leave everything on default, turn on XMP/EXPO and you have a ruuning machine that performs within 97% of its optimum. However, things have become more difficult since then (thanks, DDR5 ) - at least that's the bottom line from what I've taken in from the tech and pc-builder-scene. I haven't personally built a DDR5 system yet. Mine's not due yet. So my experience is limited to second sources and hearsay. I see. Thanks for the headsup. Will eventually come in handy.

If that is the case, I would strongly suspect bios shannanigans (or windows chipset driver issues to a lesser extend). Even if the thermal connection would be sub par, it would still boost temporarily. I f it really doesn't boost at all, don't bother opening the case and examine the bios. Nowadays (imho) BIOSs got pretty convoluted and it is pretty easy to mess up. And on top MoBo companies screw up themselves to often.