GeneralDynamics

That is one clean, nice looking build, Hawke! We'll done!

Well, this is my upgrade from plywood, popsicle sticks and chewing gum - it's nothing NEAR what some of you guys are able to accomplish, but it's definitely a major upgrade for me. Took me a while to build it and it turned out pretty clean so I thought I'd share... This started out as a Trak Racer racing frame, and I adapted it to be used for DCS flight simulation with the WinWing MIP, Thrustmaster Warthog throttle and FA-18C stick, Crosswind combat pedals, Virpil stick base and button panels, a miscellaneous X-Keys button panel I had and an Earthquake Sound shaker unit. The frame is high enough that my eye position is level with the center of the 55 inch LG OLED, and the casters allow me to simply unplug everything and roll the entire unit off to the side when I'm using the PC and display for gaming or other things. I roll it right up to the desk when in use. Please forgive the mess, still cleaning up... I purchased a metal cable raceway and that really kept things neat and tidy, except for the birds nest where I plugged all the USBs into the powered hubs. I'll go back and clean that up later... I made the USB labels out of plain printed paper and scotch tape - worked surprisingly well. I have a good friend who is a retired machinist, and he made the pedal plate for me per my drawings with six inches of pedal adjustment in one inch increments. Here you can also see a front view of the cable raceway. I pretty much ditched the mounting instructions for the MIP panel and used heavy duty gussets to mount the MIP and stick base. It's really solid, no flex or movement whatsoever. You can see the Earthquake shaker mounted to the frame at the rear. Found this metal power strip that was easy to mount to the profile for powering the USB hubs and whatever else I might need later. Final result - still working on choosing what all I want to map to the button panels, but it's flyable now! This will work in the interim until I can fulfill my dream of building a full sim pit after I retire - that's definitely a bucket list item! Thanks for having a look!

Just want to mention one thing regarding the CH-46D video that makes it all the more impressive - a Marine commented that the ship is probably travelling at around 18 KTs, so not only is the pilot swinging around and hovering to pick up the load, but he is also matching the speed of the ship at the same time! He said they watched those pilots do that all day long during Desert Storm. The F-22 video speaks for itself... as usual:-)

I just updated open beta to 2.8.2.35682, but I don't know if that's when this issue started. I noticed that when flying the Caucases Free Flight mission just to test the update, and while in the F4 view, there are evenly spaced lines all across the wing that change in spacing and angle as the orientation of the aircraft changes. I've marked some of them in red in the screenshot below. In this orientation flying straight and level after setting the AP to Heading and allowing the aircraft to change course and settle out they extend from the front to the rear of the wing as shown. Also in this specific orientation, they creep slightly to the right every few seconds. Track file attached. Thank you! FA-18C Caucuses Free Flight F4 view.trk

Moderators - I'm not sure why this thread was at some point moved to "General Bugs" as the original question was simply a curiosity, nothing more. Please feel free to move it to a more suitable home in the forums if you like. Thanks!

Well folks, for all it's worth, are solar eclipses modeled in DCS? The answer appears to be YES! I opened this thread back in August of 2019, and at the time the general consensus based upon other posts was that solar eclipses were almost certainly not modeled, so I took that a face value and went on about my life because I didn't have the slightest idea how to use the mission editor at the time. I decided to revisit this question now, years later, since I've been dabbling with creating my own missions. Researching past and future solar eclipses visible from Las Vegas, Nevada, I found a partial eclipse that would be visible from Las Vegas at its maximum on Oct 14th, 2023, at around 9:26 am. Here is what the eclipse should look like: I set up a mission with a single FA-18C sitting on the ramp at Nellis facing east at the specified time. Loaded the mission, hopped in the aircraft, looked up into the eastern sky above the open canopy and here's what I saw: The position isn't perfect, but I'm not going to split hairs over this - I'm just impressed that the eclipse is visible at all. Now, would a total solar eclipse actually darken the landscape as if it were nighttime? I have no idea, and I suspect that would depend entirely upon how the light source from the sun is modeled, i.e. is it a point source actually emanating from the sun, etc.. Anyway, just my small contribution to put this question to rest. Cheers everyone!

This screenshot was begging for a meme, so I gave it one.

Hey MAXsenna, after reading your suggestion I pulled up speech settings and saw that speech recognition wasn't turned on. I started it and followed the prompts to the end, and that resolved the issue. This did indeed occur after a clean reinstall of Windows. Thank you!

Hi all, I need to do keyword training, but pulling up the Editor page in the control panel and clicking on the microphone icon does not start the little MS voice recognition window with the blue microphone button. Instead, it starts this: I've already been here and set up my mic, and I have no idea why starting keyword training pulls up this window again instead of the MS voice recognition window. Windows 10: Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044 VAICOM: 2.5.26.4 Any help would be appreciated, because I absolutely CANNOT make the speech engine recognize "Kutaisi" otherwise. Thank you!

From what I read about TrackIR, there was something about its camera refresh rate being 60 Hz or something along that line, and what I experienced was that it's very laggy/skippy at 120 Hz even with smoothing cranked up. I'll play around with all this stuff some more tomorrow, for now I have to sign off - going on midnight here and I have to go to work tomorrow. Thanks so much for all the help! Hawkeye, I tried VR a while back, granted not before acquiring the 3080 Ti, but I found I still preferred my old Helios glass cockpit and TrackIR - maybe I'm just old:-) I guess it's just a personal preference, but thank you for the suggestion:-)

OK, so I Googled LG C1 motion blur, and arrrrgh, I found a forum discussion where motion blur with LG OLEDs at 60Hz is a problem. Now that I think about it, I was running the LG at 120 Hz for the other games. I had to dumb it down to 60 Hz for DCS because TrackIR gets all wonky at 120 Hz. It was suggested to increase Black Frame Insertion and turn on True Motion, but that results in a dimmer screen. I guess I'll give that a try, but it doesn't sound promising. Yeah, LG OLED is one of the best for gaming, but apparently not at 60 Hz. I'll see if I can gather some additional info on this. Huge SIGH.

I don't think there's a motion blur setting on the LG but I'll check, and other games at 4K are crystal clear. The HDMI is an Audioquest Pearl 48, rated at up to 48 Gb/s with HDR.

That's the crazy thing, I thought Gsync would take care of all that with Vsynch off but it doesn't. Reading about it online, I saw where a number of folks had the same issue with stutters and used a combination of Gsync and Vsynch together, and that seemed to resolve that issue for me as well. I didn't have any heat issues even when running the LG at 120Hz and Vsynch off. Some areas I saw 100+ FPS, but the GPU never got above like 75 C, but there were stutters. The subwoofer brand is "Definitive". I don't remember what the specific model is without dragging it out of the enclosure, but it's big and the jet sounds are quite punchy. I need to redo my specs to reflect the new hardware, have not gotten round to it yet.

Motion blur is off. I do have Vsync turned ON in nVidia settings because without it I get stuttering.

I sure hope someone can help me with this issue. I've finally gotten my hands on all the parts for my dream system, and I pretty much have everything dialed in for relatively smooth performance while flying except for one last annoying problem. When looking out the front of the cockpit, everything looks clear and crisp, however, when I look out to the side while flying at say 1000 ft or so where the terrain is moving by faster, it's blurry like it's out of focus. There's no stuttering or lagging, it's just blurry and causes substantial eye strain because my eyes are trying to focus on a blurry image. My system specs: Asus Maximus X Formula Z370 I9-9900K@5.00 GHz 32 GB 3600 MHz ram EVGA 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra 55 inch LG C1 OLED 3480x2160 27 inch Acer touchscreen for Helios 1920x1080 EVGA 1000W PSU TrackIR 5 It took me quite a while to work through the all bewildering settings required for the PC, DCS, TrackIR and the LG to work properly together, and here is where I've ended up: LG refresh rate is set to 60 Hz Acer refresh rate is to 60 Hz G-sync is set to ON in nVidia settings for the LG for both windowed and full screen mode Frame limit is set to 60 FPS in the nVidia control panel for the DCS program settings V-synch is set to ON in the nVidia control panel for the DCS program settings Prefer maximum performance set in nVidia control panel Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias is set to Clamp LG has Game Optimizer ON and motion processing is turned off, but for some reason Game Optimizer shows "59 FPS" in it's settings and I'm not able to change this. Problem? There are a number of other hard coded settings in Game Optimizer that I'm not able to change but they don't appear to be related. The HDMI input on the LG is set to PC. Both screens are extended and are being rendered for DCS+Helios as 5760x2160. Nothing crazy is set in DCS system settings or maxed out, Visible Range is set to HIGH. That's about all I can think of right now, but if you 4K gurus ask for more I'll be happy to provide anything you ask for. I'm SO close to having all this working, and the blurry terrain is the last darn thing I'm dealing with. I'll be forever in your debt if someone has an idea of where the problem is. Thank you!