Dogmanbird

Hi @hannibal, I'm good thanks and hope you are too! I had to poach the parts to use on another project (I'm bad for that) but I plan to build a new version of it Are you still using yours? I recall seeing a youtube video on how to use an older version, but I think the latest version might have had some of the older features removed from it's interface, unless I've overlooked something. There was once a tablet behaviour mode as sell as a general controller mode, but I can't see that in the version I've just updated to. Although I've tried both modes, I prefer the controller mode (if that's what it was called). There are registry settings you can tweak to alter the distance from hand to headset to horizon. Once you get this set right, there's little movement of the cursor when moving your head around and you can literally move switches while looking about. It takes some fiddling to get it right. I haven't quite got the latest version working as well as an older version yet. If you haven't already, check this link and scroll down to "VR Offset" and have a go at tweaking until you get results you're happiest with. https://htcc.fredemmott.com/settings.html HTCC introduces a little bit of cursor lag but I still manage to use it okay. Let us know how it goes

Overall I've had a good experience with their after sales service, though most things were in great condition from the beginning. The only disappointment is that in less than 12 months, the paint on all 3 of my metal ultimate grips has gone soft / sticky and rubs or scrapes off. However, I'd prefer paint issues over mechanical and electronic faults

I have a small bit of movement too, even when fully tightened.

that's interesting. I have 3 x ultimate grips with the older 3 pin connectors and I'm using them on a couple of ffbeast bases. I've not experienced this so far. Are you applying enough downward pressure on the grip when attaching it to the base and tightening? Sometimes a gentle wiggle left and right while pressing down and tightening has helped folk overcome intermittent connections

the q3 hand tracking is pretty noisy and they've used a lot of averaging to try and stabilise it, resulting in lag. I think you'd be pretty disappointed if you could try it with the crosshair or pointer attached to the finger the leapmotion device is about as good as I've seen for finger tip control, but even that has it's own caveats due to problems with reflections, shadows and any nearby cockpit objects affecting it's performance The HTCC app and Q3 is a reasonable compromise once it's setup well

The only thing that is preventing me from switching to Linux I've been saying this for 20 years

If you run apps in the background (streaming, screen recording, simhub) and if money is no object, you could get the 9950x3d and turn on "X3d Gaming Mode" within your bios and this essentially makes it a 9800x3d by disabling the non cached cores. Then when you're ready to brave process lassso, you can turn it back into a 9950x3d via the bios and get the best of everything Otherwise, I agree with Aapje and get the 9800x3d

The second half of this video shows how to create affinity profiles that load automatically when the game is started

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/927060 Currently $948 if you use the code at checkout I don't believe there is any disadvantage over the 9800x3d (except price difference)

I have a 9950x3d. There's a notable difference in performance between forcing DCS onto the cached cores versus the regular cores, using Process Lasso,. If this is an indication of the difference between the x3d v non x3d cpu, I'd certainly go the x3d version If you run simhub, streaming software or other apps in the background, I think you'll see the benefit of the 9950x3d versus the 9800x3d, if you use process lasso to assign the various processes accordingly. Process Lasso can be configured to auto detect the games so it's all automatic. p.s. 9950x3d came down to $969 aud delivered, recently in Australia. It might have just gone back up in price a bit.

Going from 32GB to 64GB (with nothing else changed in PC) made no difference to my performance in DCS and MSFS2020 / 2024

5090 here in aus got as low as $3750 aud for the lower tier models but now starting to creep up again, maybe because black Friday is approaching?

About $300 aud if you can find an old hoverboard to take the motors from and use the ffbeast configuration

I second what Raven has said. Go for a ffb base. Do you enjoy DIY? Would you consider building something?

I hope you get it resolved.