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Hi, DCS really need to add procedural rendering to the game engine (I don't believe it's present or if it is, DCS need to look at the new break through with trees in any event). Huge gains are now being seen to game engines using procedural rendering instead of just rasterisation. I think one of the biggest wishes of many users is more realism in the graphics and especially terrain, although traditionally this has had to be tampered by the effects that detail has on the rendering load and thus frame rates / hardware needed. However, Gamer Meld in this video in the 3rd topic starting at 6 mins 30 secs, mention that AMD has now made a break through with tree rendering and graphic card VRAM usage, (originally a Tom's Hardware story I believe), something of interest to DCS because of the large numbers of trees in the average terrain map. Apparently, they've found a way of procedurally rendering trees using 667,352 times LESS Ram!!! Tree scenes that would previously have taken 32GB of VRAM can now be rendered according to the reports using just 51 Kb of VRAM!!! The implications of this to DCS in both frame rate and perhaps what can be done with the trees or maybe other graphically areas with VRAM freed up, would seem to be potentially massive, especially if procedural rendering was used for other DCS objects as well. Video report here:

As you can see it's several weeks since I posted so I can't remember the source. However, it was NOT military discussion forums etc or anywhere where classified information might be found. From memory it was a combination of the videos and an official web page. The above Youtube posters are both ex-military and unlikely to post anything classified.

I am aware of the this as I acknowledged in my original post. However, Boeing themsleves have published videos of the F15 QA pulling insane manoeuvres and an EX video titled 9g turn. The EX is based on the QA or as I understand it, the QA is a cut down version of the EX. The 2 videos I linked to above are supposedly using public sources for their info, so that being the case, there's no indication here that any oif the information from those 2 videos is in any way leaked and not public. I wouldn't repeat it if I had any inkling it was "leaked". Obviously with any aircraft, public and actual performance figures are likeyl to differ in any event with the aircraft likely more capable that the publicly published figures. There does appear though to be enough public info here to enable a DCS model to be designed which should be an easy mod given 95% of the aircraft is exactly the same as the previous F15's.

I have seen some mention of this but I believe a few said they couldn't run it successfuly. Also whilst community mods are great they rarely match the quality from ED or the other big content studios in my opinion.

Hi, I was wondering why non of the announcements recently have included plans for an Official F15-EX? I understand from Wag's interviews that with many of the latest fighters the reason is DCS not wanting to put out pure guesswork models or get themseleves into trouble with the DOD if the accidentally put out capabilities that by chance match the real aircraft. However, with the F15-EX, there are many public figures from seemingly reliable sources including some from Boeing themselves (eg vidoe of 9g turn and QA version performance in Qatar (QA shares the same basic platform as EX). 9g normal 12g over G Turn Rate not disclosed but video of the QA version which the EX is based on shows manouevres approaching the f22 Fly By Wire Mach 2.5 800mile range 29,500lb pay load Raytheon ANAPG82 - Pulsed Radar - Detect targets including high Hypersonic and small vehicles on surface - Most advanced radar on any aircraft Legion Data Pod SEAD capability Sniper Adanced Targetting Pod enabling ground vehicle targetting Capable of carrying new over sized US Hypersonic Missiles (currently under development) Given the EX data is out there (or at least some publically available data is) and the EX would be an easy mod for ED from the standard F15 (simply new glass cockpit and some adjustments to the flight characteristics), why haven't ED announced an EX version? Surely it's a no brainer given it's almost totally already modelled. Source for a lot of the above: Task and Purpose (ex military guy) (video includes cockpit instrumentation view): Sandbox News (an ex US Navy Pilot):