Tea-Pig

Yes, plenty of Pico/ethernet stuff but I didn't really see any Quest/ethernet worth pursuing. No matter for me, I'll be back at the other house next week where the big PC lives and will play about then. Thanks for all the replies.

LOL! Mine was actually "lightly used to work on an Unreal Engine project". Other than the seal broken on the box it would have passed as new. I've seen them on Amazon for £5-600 with Amazon return policy. Yes, but I declined to open a developer account after it demanded too much personal information.

I actually got mine for £430. It seems legit. Already did the rear pad mod. At the moment I'm just messing around with it on my old computer. VR in DCS is so fragile and I like to work out at least some idea of what I'm doing before mucking about with, and possibly screwing up my main PC which has XR Necksafer and XR Motion Compensation on it so there's a lot to screw up. I have bought Virtual Desktop but don't have a WIFI setup on the old PC to make it work properly. I didn't realize VD doesn't work with a cable until I'd bought it, lol. So at the moment I'm just messing with the Meta link. Perhaps once it's all setup there won't be much need to see the PC desktop so the dashboard thingy won't be an issue. My main PC is hard wired to a WIFI6 router so presumably VD will work when I move onto it. I did download Quad Views and saw it working, but only as fixed at the moment. As I understand things the eye tracking data is only available if I open a developer account and I baulked at that when Mr Zuckerman demanded my credit card details and phone number. This alone might be the decider for VD.

There seem to be a lot of apparently new and sealed QPros for sale in the UK at the moment for around £500ish (half what Meta UK are charging), so I picked one up to replace my G2 and have been setting it up with lots of help from this thread. So far I'm loving the quality of the visuals, not hugely loving the comfort, and not loving at all the bloated, intrusive META crap that comes with it. Part of that crap is the infuriating controller pop-ups. So far my research has only come up with keep the controllers on the charging dock or turn them off by holding the menu button for at least ten seconds. This seems to get rid of the pop-ups in game but there's still an even bigger one plastered over the PC link dashboard saying the controllers can't be found. I've even un-paired the controllers and this pop-up persists. Also there seems to be no way to interact with the link dashboard without the controllers. I can use hand tracking to start the link off but only the controllers seem to be able to click that one stupid button needed to show the PC desktop. I was wondering if a Bluetooth mouse might be able to click that button but presumably the stupid pop-up would remain. How are people here dealing with these pesky controllers?

Oh how I wish I'd seen this thread a few months ago. I've just been reading it thinking it's exactly my experience: expensive new system, works great with everything except DCS which is a stutterfest. And for me the solution was the same: wipe DCS completely and reinstall from scratch (I didn't wipe Windows). So I'm leaving this comment to bump up the thread and hope it gets noticed by some other stutter sufferers.

Well now it seems we're all agreed that there's a problem and some even consider the plane unusable in its current state, how about an immediate hotfix that just rolls the Mosquito back to how it used to be as a temporary measure? I'd vote for that if we had a poll.

Yes I just had a quick go with the Jug and it seemed ok, although I can't really remember what it was like before. I tried the Mossie with the new update. It still bounces up and down like an epileptic frog and the tail wheel collapsed on me twice while taxiing at walking pace so I lost interest before I even got to the runway.

I'm downloading the update now, all 69 gigabytes of it, but only onto my old backup computer to see what it's like. Initial posts on the Jug forum actually seem quite positive.

Yesterday? Oh no, really? Comedy ground handling for all. Bit late for April fool.

I remember reading that they they were eventually going to roll out the new tyre thing to all the other warbirds. Hopefully The World will end before they get a chance.

I hate the new tyre/suspension thing in the Mosquito. I can't comment on it's historical accuracy but it feels and looks totally ridiculous to me. Like a cat tiptoeing over hot coals. "Ooh, ouch, hot, ouch!" Of all the things ED could have spent time and resources improving and they chose to do this...

I've made some Authentikit stuff and the Mosquito throttle is on my to do list, right after I finish the current Heli collective project. Authentikit stuff is brilliantly designed and generally features ball bearings, adjustable friction and damping so the feel is better than you might think. It is plastic of course and can be a bit flimsy but if something breaks you can just print a replacement part. If you want things to assemble as easily as in the videos you need a decent and reliable printer and know how to set it up and calibrate it accurately, and this is I think the biggest challenge. It's very satisfying to use stuff when you've made it yourself.

The South Atlantic map seems to divide opinions. Some reviewers praise it for offering something different and amazing terrain, some criticize it for apparently patchy quality and poor frame rates. Most reviews are older than recent updates so may, or may not now be invalid. As a potential purchaser it's hard to not see the lack of free trial as a lack of confidence by the developer in their product. In the absence of consistently good reviews I can't see that I'll buy without a trial.

Thanks for clarifying @BIGNEWY. Like others, I had a yuk knee-jerk reaction to the thought of having to have some bit of Google spyware just to play DCS but on further research it seems quite innocuous really. And the free trials are a very nice and generous feature of DCS.

Well if it's just for website access then I think I'm going to give it a go. My Facebook and Steam accounts have both been stolen in the last couple of years. Facebook were worse than useless and showed no interest at all but Steam did manage to recover my account with them. I've got a lot more invested in my DCS account and wouldn't want to lose it.