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I do most of my flying from cold n dark to full shutdown. If I use an aftermarket afterburner detent device such as https://www.shapeways.com/product/3M...&utm_content=2, am I restricted to just an afterburner detent? Or can I make use of an idle/shutoff detent and afterburner?

Is there a way to use this device to have the afterburner detent AND the throttle off detent?

Noticed graphical oddities on taxi lines at Al Dafra after recent update. Is this a known issue or a problem on my end?

What are the most accurate axis settings for the TM Warthog to best represent the handling characteristics of the Hornet? Thanks!

Great profile! Thanks! Does your profile edit the axis tuning such as curves, etc? And if so is it by your preference specifically or does it more accurately reflect flight control of the Hornet?

I have the HOTAS Warthog, how exactly do I use afterburner on carrier launch?

How do you render antialiasing?

Yes indeed. Turning off MSAA is effectively turning off antialiasing.

The Hornet is a work of art, as well is the Persian Gulf map. My system specs are below in my signature. Pre-2.5 // 2.5 Open-beta, I was getting a solid and consistent 60FPS with my 4K monitor. Now I’m getting 48-58. I troubleshooted every setting, and narrowed it down to MSAA. Everything else maxed out, including rain drop effects, mirrors, etc, no effect on performance (Video card handles rendering like a champ). When I disable MSAA, my FPS jumps to a solid 60. Disable MSAA and turn on SSAA, FPS crawls at 30 FPS. Disable both I’m back at 60 with severe shimmering/jaggies. I could understand if these settings rid the sim of any shimmering, however at their maxed out settings, shimmering/jaggies are still pronounced and performance severely degraded. If I remember correctly, 1.5 used MSAA of 8?

I disabled SLI since the cloud flicker came back. Is it still going on with the latest update?

I think everyone has experienced a sizable performance loss.

45-58 using a 4K g-sync monitor.

What is the resolution of your monitor?

I used to have a solid 60 FPS pre-2.5 and 2.5 Open-beta with max settings with lots of AI. I was slightly bummed out about the reduction in performance, however it sounds like most people have experienced the same. I’ve narrowed down the root cause in performance reduction to antialiasing. I have a g-sync monitor, and while flying this particular mission, even though frames were down, everything was overall very smooth. At this point I’m used to deferred shading, and probably prefer it now.

I’ll post it when I get back home from work.

Took off from the Stennis in windy/rainy weather, choppy seas, white caps deep in the Persian Gulf in a Hornet loaded with 4 x’s MK-84s. Dark, poor visibility, and rain drops on the canopy. Felt like I was watching an aircraft carrier documentary. Flew a deep strike to hit 4 parked SU-27’s on one of those airfield islands. CCIP bombing in the F/A-18C is much more accurate/user-friendly compared to the A-10C. Flew back to the carrier, which was full speed ahead at 20 knots. Dark, heavy rain, poor visibility...and a pitching deck. Flawless approach, landed without issue. FPS was 48+ on a 4K monitor. So busy flying the jet I couldn’t really tell the difference between 48 FPS or 60 FPS. The sounds, the insane resolution of the cockpit textures, and weather effects made the immersion factor absolutely insane. I can only imagine how amazing this will get when more systems are included with subsequent updates such at the TGP, precision strike weapons, ground radar, HARM missiles, etc.

Thanks! Specifically, I meant what keys do we press to make those happen?

Wags, is there a tutorial for carrier operations? I mean attaching launch bar to catapult, raising the ramp, launching, etc?

Are clouds flickering in sli in latest beta update?

Title says it all. With SSAA set to 1.5, performance is reduced a phenomenal 50%, and image quality is horribly jagged. With SSAA set to 2, performance is unplayable and image quality just a little better.

I did some trouble shooting today and determined the largest performance drop for me, well...the only performance drop settings wise, results from going from 2 x's MSAA to 4 x's MSAA. Slightly perplexing because on the epically resource hungry Prepar3d V4.2, I'm using 4's Sparse Grid Supersampling (SGSS) white extremely smooth and consistent 60 FPS. Clicking from 2 to 4 cost me 15-20 FPS in game and there is still jaggioe city when looking at buildings, ETC.

I agree about the GPUs, I have a 1080Ti and in Prepar3d V4.2, I'm using 4 x's SGSS (Sparse grid supersampling) and I'm rocking a solid 60FPS with maxed out settings. DCS simply has some optimizations issues with the new 2.5 and 2.5.2 I'm seeing massive performance issues.

Thanks for your response!

Lol I hope they are fixing this before they F/A-18C is released into this mess.