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Ehrlich gesagt ist das schon ein ziemlich perfekt abgerundeter PC. Die 1080ti ist so ziemlich die beste GraKa die Nvidia jemals rausgebracht hat. Klar mittlerweile wird sie auch von aktuellen mittelklasse Karten geschlagen, aber Du müsstest schon tief in die Tasche greifen um eine wirklich signifikante Performancesteigerung zu bekommen. Außerdem wird Dich dann ziemlich schnell die CPU ausbremsen. 32GB und SSD hat er auch schon. Meine Meinung: beschränke Dich auf 2K gaming und spar das Geld für einen echten Generationswechsel, anstatt Flickwerk zu betreiben. Nur die HDD gegen eine (Sata) SSD zu tauschen macht ökonomisch und aus Performance Gesichtspunkten halbwegs Sinn…. (oder wenn Du vielleicht wirklich(!) günstig(!) eine gebrauchte 3080 schießen kannst)

Ram doesn’t give you a „performance boost“ in the sense of higher fps or something. It doesn‘t affect max or average fps at all. However, if your Ram becomes a bottleneck you WILL notice it by occasional stutters or even freezes when assets are loaded from hard storage instead of memory. And DCS is certainly able to exhaust 16 Gigs easily, depending on what you’re doing.

"It's not the plane, it's the pilot!" (Rooster) I'd rather sit in the Fulcrum though, if I had to choose....

Absolutely, there is massive variance in quality amongst modules. Still a performance hit though. But it doesn't bother me to fly without mirrors. Especially if they can be folded away or have nice stand-in's instead of a black void.

You really don’t get it, do you? Nobody suggests that Linux is the end-all-be-all solution just yet. But things are improving and some mighty players (Steam) are pushing it. Eventually, hopefully it will become a viable alternative to windows. And that’s a good thing, because windows SUCKS (nowadays).

Well, I could imagine it depends a little on available runway length. When you don’t NEED that much braking action, it certainly less headache to leave it alone.

Maybe I should read a manual every now and then….

You can turn it off? I was only aware of high gain/low gain.... whereas low gain should be the default unless high gain is positively needed.

Our company is about to transition the Frontend Workplaces to Linux. Only thing that kept us back for a while was our ERP, but this being switched now to a server/browser solution. everything else like office solutions, e-mail, Internet runs natively on linux anyway. Most users won't even notice a difference. PC Gaming and Office are really the only places, Linux doesn't have the bigger market share, and most office workplaces could be swapped easily to Linux. In the past there wasn't much incentive to switch. Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 (already less so) where relatively inoffensive and Linux (admittedly) was cumbersome. But now. Windows becomes increasingly annoying and intrusive with each update. MS becomes greedy with the licences and Linux becomes easier and easier to handle and to use. I can't predict the speed of change. But change is happening. MS wouldn't be the first "unsinkable ship" that went keel up.

I stand corrected then. The ground physics of the DCS F1 is definitely delicate.

Nvidia is past its prime as well if you ask me (from a consumer/gamer point of view). Yes, in absolute terms they still have the crown for peak performance. But all things consideres the leap from 4090 to 5090 is pretty weak (all things mean, next to performance, price, driver quality, features, efficiency). More and more people are fed up with this BS and are eying towards AMD (and maybe even Intel in the future). Diametrically to Nvidia they improved their drivers instead of breaking them. Nvidia made it more than clear, that gaming, even though it made them what they are, is merely an afterthought by now. And users took note and didn't like it.

I would go so far to say, you shouldn't use the brakes at all until slowed down considerably by aero braking and chute. (Which I believe is RL practice too, to save the weak brakes from wear and overheating).

I don't like high roll forces either. Even if the objective force is the same in all directions, laws of physics (leverage) and anatomy results in subjectively much higher forces in roll. That's why I applied a flatter force gradient in my (fixed wing) default profile for my Rhino. That said, elaborate FFB settings like e.g. the Phantom offers would be much appreciated.

Some awesome aerial footage from, amongst others, the C-130(J?)

Hey, which FFB-device are you using? I just checked the telemetry for my Rhino, and without TelemFFB running and no curves applied the force is equal in all directions. No judgement, just adding a data point. I happen to have a flattened force response curve enabled for roll in my default profile. Therefore I didn't even notice an issue in the first place.

Considering the massive support and push from Steam towards Linux, who for sure have more insight and data on that then you (we), I think you‘re wrong. Tides are shifting. Admittedly slowly, but they are. The downfall of AAA is also in favour of the shift.

This! 100% agree.

Isn't the startup procedure pretty much the same? Elements are in different positions and you have those handy "switch all"-levers, but apart from that - the steps are pretty much the same, aren't they? Well, both are fun to cold start (if you are into switchology). (Though I can start the Hip by heart when you wake me from a drunk stupor, whereas I would need to search everything in the Hind cockpit - but that's a matter of getting used to)

I don’t know man, perhaps you‘re just overthinking. If you keep it real, there is really no apparent problem (as far as I can tell that is). Well, of course I like the Crosswind mod! I should, since I created it originally*…. (though you might be mistaken about the original motivation - I just was tired of crouching under the table to release the spring for helicopter flying…)

One “issue” I have with the corsair is that in my mind the reactions to minute control inputs are way too high. Especially in pitch. Displacing the stick for millimetres already results in high G’s. Since there is actually two seperate logical things happening here (control input and FFB output), opposed to one direct physical cause and effect relationship in the real craft - maybe there is a teeny tiny disconnect between pitch trim and stick displacement, but you would need to be particularly picky to notice that imho. If it even exists. Another thing to keep in mind is, that increasing load on the control surfaces will have a bending/stretching/torsion effect on the connection to the stick. (In the real craft I mean). So if you would (theoretically) lock the stick in place and trim, there would be increasing load on the linkages and wires which would give in ever so slightly. Enough for the elevator to move a bit. I don’t know if the physics simulation in the module goes so far though…..

No, it doesn’t. Well it is kind of hard to hold perfectly still, since the force obviously increases, but it only pitches over significantly when I let go of the stick. To put it differently, I could control the aircraft in pitch and roll (and yaw actually, with ffb pedals) by virtue of using trim only. You can actually monitor the trim position on the controls overlay.

Your post just made me hop into the corsair and try for myself (with my Rhino). It just works correctly. The Trim is in the right direction, and the ffb stick displacement is also going in the right direction. Somewhere along the lines you have set up something wrong. 1. You need to make sure, that in the VP config the axis are set up correctly. (Depending on the mounting direction of your Rhino). Make sure the control dot goes up when you move the stick forward and vice versa. 2. Leave the Pitch axis in the controls config in DCS alone, it should be the right way round by default now. 3. If necessary, go into ff tune for the Pitch axis and invert the effects direction. (I had to invert Y, leave trim force at 100) I Don’t know what else to say. I’m using the same hardware as you are and it works just as expected with the corsair. (random though: have you bound trim up and down correctly, or maybe switched them up?) 2nd idea. Are you using TelemFFB? What happens when you try without?

I actually started my Flight Sim Career with endless sessions of tweaking the config.sys and autoexec.bat to squeeze out 600K of expanded memory to make Falcon 3.0 run on MS-DOS…. But you are right. To MS credit, Windows (NT and descendants) improved the experience/stability a lot. In the early W95/98 times Blue Screens were almost a daily occurrence. Still, a gaming platform it is not…..

The main problem for gaming on windows was always windows. It wasn’t made for gaming (most OS aren’t) and it shows. Microsoft for the longest time couldn’t care less and then half arsed some “gaming features” <cough> on top that never worked. Only half decent attempt to improve the situation was the advent of DirectX, but that didn’t fix the patchwork of process managing, cpu scheduling, memory organisation and so on. Well that is what we’re stuck with for now and have to work around. Let’s hope that SteamOS (or something similar) will gain traction eventually. /rant

No Problem. Sometimes we have preconceived misconceptions and become stuck with a wrong idea. Happens to me all the time. Wasn't meant to be condescending. Sorry for the wording - it was late. This stuff becomes increasingly interesting when you dive into it. Fortunately in todays world there is plenty of good material to be found on YT. The Video I put there for visualization probably isn't even very good. It was just the first I found that showed this particular effect. I learned a lot about aviation in general by following some good youtube channels like Mentour Pilot e.g.