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This is one I remembered from a few years back. ${1}

Yeah I saw that post, which is hopeful. I'm not fussed if there's a delay, but it would be nice to at least get a notification.

Can I get some assistance with my shirt? I've emailed support twice over the last 2 weeks with no reply. I received my confirmation email that it was "On Its Way" back on the 7th May, but to date ( 2019-10-12 AEST ) I haven't received the shirt, nor any updates via email or SMS. Is there are delay of some kind? How were they shipped? Was it shipped with a tracking number?

Found the solution, jewelers pin punch set.

Hi All, Need some advice ... The boat switch has died on my TM Throttle and in order to replace it I have to desolder the switches from the PCB and get the 'Hat' off. What is the best way to remove the metal pin in the hat itself?

Thank you so much for taking the time to arrange this, it is something that is LONG overdue in the flight sim market. Your point about the racing sim market being flooded with FFB compared to the sim market is spot on. If VKB / Virpil were to release a FFB base - THAT DOESN'T USE GEARS!!!! Hint! - I'd be smashing that "Add To Cart" button right now!

For the F-16 it's a little different, the stick is basically a force feedback sensor with very small amount of movement, kind of like FFB in reverse. There is already a device available that mimics the F-16 mechanism for the consumer market. http://www.realsimulator.com/html/fssb_r3_lighting.html

If there are glaring differences then yes absolutely. However saying aircraft X is out turing aircraft Y because it's doesn't match the charts is not enough, there's too many factors at play to just come out say it's wrong, e.g. was the test done with a human opponent or AI? What's the skill level of the pilot conducting the test? etc. etc. And if all things are equal - simply submit a bug report. :joystick:

I think what you're experiencing is turbulence. DCS World Models it ( see pages 75 - 79 of the DCS World manual ) and it's definitely active in the Instant Action Cold - Start mission. I've been flying around for a few hours and it's certainly "appears" that the Viper is affected by mountain wave turbulence when flying low level. Don't know if DCS World models that specifically though.

According to Waggs, in the cockpit familiarisation video, the DCS version of the F-16 doesn't have terrain following radar.

I've read thousands of FM posts like these over the years. In the end people will end up having brain aneurysms and / or heart attacks trying to make a sim fly how they "think" a sim should fly. Life is more enjoyable if you just learn to fly the sim (even if the FM changes over time) rather than fight the sim. Unless you're an actual fighter pilot, you're never going to know the difference anyway.

This ... I have $16 in bonuses, I'd get a bigger discount if I wait until it goes live, but knowing my luck they'll jack the price up :huh:

I'm getting CTD at random times during loading or I'm stuck on the loading screen. I haven't been able to reach the cockpit yet. Using Oculus Rift I also get an error message saying my controllers haven't been configured ... well I don't have any Oculus controllers other than the Remote Control.

Ok, I've obviously been living under a rock ... what does vCVW stand for?

Any updates on this? I'm looking to build a 6DOF simpit next year.

@Hollywood_315 When invoking training mode to 'train' the speech recognition engine for keywords, does this erase any previous voice data already captured for a keyword or does it does it just overwrite it?

Yeah I started using tower instead - ATC is kind of cumbersome when actually using comms. As for "Jay Tack" so I have to replace the text in the field so the spoken word is what it recognises?

Ok, I found an issue I can't seem to get passed. When training the system to recognise my voice it doesn't recognise what I'm saying for the following ... "ATC" "JTAC" I'm assuming it is my Aussie accent. Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Never mind ... I worked it out :)

Just to round out this discussion, I appreciate all the posts guys. I've been running the 2080 now for a few weeks now without any issues. While the 2080 VRAM is at 8GB, it is GDDR 6 not GDDR 5 and I've been getting buttery smooth frame rates in VR with pretty much all settings on HIGH. As for the 1080ti, when I went to place my order 2 of the stores had already ran out completely, the last store only had 2 models left and they were reference clocked cards which I stay clear of. In the end I got the MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio, and so far I'm actually pretty happy with it, it's giving me the performance what I wanted for DCS in VR. Cheers.

@Gizmondo ... What if I wanted to have multiple pages on the kneeboard how would that work?

Is this a serious post / concern?

Thanks all. I'll actually go for the 2080, just because I have three local stores and they've only got reference clocked 1080ti left for roughly $90 - $100AUD cheaper than an equivalent 2080. I prefer factory OC cards like Strix. As for second hand cards, na-ah, done it once - never again. @BitMaster, I understand the all 'hype no substance' angle being touted by review sites, and it does come from previous feature set hype. But real time ray-tracing is being under appreciated I feel purely because I think we've been so fixated on just framerates, that we have forgotten that real time ray-tracing has been a 'holly grail' feature of computer generated graphics since - forever. Yeah the first implementation is going to suck in terms of performance but real time ray-tracing has a much broader application than PhysX or Hair Works because it literally encompasses everything we see on screen. In a few generations of GPU architectures from now we'll be expecting real time RT imagery instead of wishing for it.

Hi All, I'm see a lot of stuttering in VR on my current GPU (980ti), I'm thinking it's time for an upgrade. In my area store supplies of the 1080ti are running out - fast, so I'd like your opinions on whether I should get one of the last remaining 1080ti or go for the 2080. I'm not fussed on the RTX feature of the 20XX series cards, but I'm leaning towards the 2080 only because of generational driver support. Cheers.