T.Power

My Southwest Afghanistan license has been replaced by an A10-A license which I already had. Obviously something has gone wrong, if someone from ED can shed some light on this it would be appreciated.

I'm sorry what was that?

Are you serious? Get in your Rotor and find them yourself you bum.

People honestly thought the SW was final? The really bad textures are clearly the guide layer they work from for placing objects and creating tiles, there are plenty of areas that are fully completed and they are jaw dropping even at low altitude. This will be the new benchmark, and winter textures are coming.

Patiently waiting for the Chinny here so I gratefully appreciate the EA manual to thumb through while I'm waiting.

Very true.

With what's currently unfolding in the Levant, why would you want to fly anywhere else right now?

Everyone is absolutely entitled to their opinions and part of me thinks this is a social experiment by ED to gauge reactions about where to draw the line for the low res portions of the map for those that only purchase portions not the entire thing. I could of course be completely out to lunch, but ED would do well to canvas the comments if I'm wrong. I've spent most of my DCS hours since release in free camera mode looking for interesting FARP locations, I've barely even got started and I have dozens dotted around the map, the rift valley is Eden in the making. My takeaways are this; The template image that they use to place objects on is still in place and visible, it's extremely low res as you'd expect to minimize lag whilst world building, some areas do not have full altitude rendering either so dunes look flat, no doubt to keep performance up before final meshing and optimization, this would also explain highly facetted mountains which is not ubiquitous, I found sections of fully rendered dunes and facet less mountains with all appropriate textures and bump maps applied. Turkmenistan and Pakistan are not just more mountains, the density of urban and agricultural areas in those two countries is staggering and is far beyond anything ED have produced in the past. Sure, the placeholder textures and facetted mountains are currently an ugly duckling, but one day this map will be a swan.

You really are testing the limits of DCS by choosing rotors on an old rig. I own every rotor apart from the Kiowa and primarily fly the Hind, they're all resource hogs, stay clear of the Apache but the Gazelle is very CPU friendly if you ever plan on purchasing more mods.

Somebody really needs to get in touch with health and safety before a fire breaks out.

I'm an ex Steam user after their refund policy became unworkable for testing new modules. I fixed my problem by accessing my DCS user account and re-transferring my Steam FC3 license to DCS.

I just took another reccy with the airport free camera, there are a lot of fun and deep canyons that they've already started buffing up, there's some jaw dropping scenery, higher res and colour matched textures and higher polygon count in the relevant mountainous areas and we'll have a winner. In the meantime we need to get started on some static templates to inject some life into the map.

Found some pretty nicely rendered mountains, it's not quite the Star Wars canyons, but there is at least evidence that the lower res ones are far from representative of the final product.

+1 - To use the South Atlantic map as an example which was lets face it a dog's dinner of a map at launch, now look at it, it's literally jaw dropping. Kola got shredded at launch and is now undeniably a new benchmark. I honestly believe that Afghanistan has the potential to be on par with both of those maps, sub par textures and mountain rendering issues aside, I'm not seeing anything that can't be fixed, but that's just my personal choice to be positive about a game that I love in a world that I increasingly despair for, other opinions are available.

I'm also a rotor head and it will take a brave man with a very large stick to get me out of my Hind, but the options are as you say limited, and this is the crux of the problem, ED has zero competition, yet they don't at least in my view, treat their customers with the same level of disdain as Apple or INVIDIA, by accepting the terms of EA, we get to voice opinions and affect the QC of the final product, feedback can be constructive and yield positive results, trying to form an angry mob to burn down ED is not constructive.

My point is as you just so wonderfully reiterated, life is a giant dog sh*t sandwich, we are all forced to eat it regardless of how we feel about it, but we can make purchasing choices, if one has a tendency towards disappointment due to unrealistic expectations or just being sour about life, maybe steer clear of EA, at least wait until people review it, as someone who suffers from crippling anxiety, my mental health was greatly improved by not engaging in situations that antagonized it. Life skills 101, and I'm sorry you're dealing with cancer.

Thanks, I hope you enjoy your weekend.

Nobody has mentioned the new lighting engine with specular flaring, new rain drops that stream up my hind window and as a Radeon owner the huge GFX buff as I now have no trails/image retention and higher FPS!

Yeh I found the fix but thanks anyway, same here CAM is fine but someone reported issues, possibly a misidentification, we've all done it, at least I have.

I'm seeing reports of nerfed framerates but I was seeing higher, at least until I ran a Bodo replay and found it was actually nerfed, so I investigated and found that the LOD slider now has a huge impact on FPS, it would appear that 0.7 is the new 1.0. On a different note, the new canopy rain droplets in my hind are mesmerizing.

Some mods were broke by the update, VPC and possibly CAM.

I have other things to worry about, like my mum dying of kidney disease, so I'll be the judge of what upsets me thanks. Enjoy your paddling pool.

I'm getting insanely good FPS on Afghanistan, seems very consistent, I've only got an RX 6600M so it must be something specific to the 4080 or NVIDIA as a whole? Would be interesting to know if it's specific to certain configs. Also on on Ryzen 9 6900, I wonder if the issues are intel specific as there are the as of yet unresolved issues with gen 13 and 14.

The solution is so simple for you, don't buy EA, why do you insist on making life so miserable for yourself if you know you're going to be pissed off with whatever you're given? Go outside, smell the flowers, we've only got a few years left before our elected idiots destroy everything anyway, this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, there are WAY more important things going on in the world right now to get worked up over, WAY WAY more important things.