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Is the nuke disabled in Multiplayer or something? I was goofing off the other night and had some friends I was going to show the nuke off to, only to find that I can not click the overhead controls to do so in multiplayer after rearming... If I go through the steps in single player it works fine. Not sure what's up.

Good call. My monitor does indeed do 75 Hz at some lower resolutions :thumbup:

You do it in the display settings in the control panel after setting up the OR to work in extended mode. It will appear as a second monitor which you then make primary. I do not have a monitor that does 75 Hz and I can experience the judder first hand if I leave it as primary and run DCS. Word of caution, the menus suck to navigate in the OR. Someone told me the lowest two resolutions work pretty well for it though I have not personally tried yet.

I have an i7 3770k and sli 970's and no judder. I dont buy that you have to overclock the system to get rid of judder. Is the OR being set as the primary display on both these rigs? If not does one of them have a primary display thats doing only 60 Hz? If so thats a recipe for massive judder as was my situation.

Bullitt got to it before I did. Specifically: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Air_Force#Aircraft_inventory Doesnt even look like they have the Ka-50 the game gives them.

It should work either way but, as I understand it, unless you have a Primary monitor that can do 75 Hz you're in for some serious judder if you don't make the rift Primary. My monitor only does 60Hz and it makes a huge difference for me in DCS World, but I notice no difference in Alien Isolation, so it may just be a DCS World issue. Having the rift as primary unfortunately makes starting the game and navigating the menus a total PITA. They are not set up for Oculus Rift so I end up moving what I can left or right and closing one eye or the other. I know they can fix that, as Alien Isolation menus work with rift, so hopefully down the line it gets all that wonderful attention. These are the early days though, so I expect the growing pains. The moral of my story is that if you can do 75 Hz on your primary display then leave the Rift seconday. :)

Do you find the S-25T HUD readable? Even with the large fonts it has by default I find it difficult to read.

I have SLI 970's and I don't take them out of SLI to use the Rift. What funky magic it' could be doing in the background I have no idea.

You need to set it extended but unlike DCS I experience no judder with it left as secondary monitor. The menu screens work with OR too so navigation of those is easier as well... Google for setup instructions. You need to edit a line in an XML file and pause the OR service. It's all fairly easy.

I have read they do some stuff in Elite Dangerous software-wise to remove the issue. It's noticeable on the edges, due to the lenses. Maybe eventually it will become part of the SDK so devs don't have to compensate manually. Alien Isolation is a blast in the OR for sure.

The immersion is immense. the 3D look of the cockpit makes me want to reach out and touch things. Looking back I feel like if I could crawl out of the cockpit I could touch the wing. I think many have mentioned the look and 'feel' of landing as the ground approaches. Flying around I find myself looking over the side of the pit a lot. I have noticed chipped paint along the edges of some of them just outside the glass I have never seen before otherwise. Sims are perfect for this tech. You are sitting in a cockpit you can't walk around in, so the limitation that you need to sit in front of the IR tracker is not jarring. It is currently hard to read the HUD, gauges, etc. but for pure flying, say on Virtual Acrobatics, I'd use it in a heart beat. Fighting would be rather difficult at these resolutions in most aircraft though. Re: weight, I just look at it as pilots have helmets they wear. Some of them are probably heavier than the rift. Just adds more to the sensation in my book. I'd love to see JHMCS emulated. It would _really_ add to it :) If CV1 gives a big boost to the resolution and loses the screen door effect we'll be in heaven. Also, I did the config setup for the distance between eyes, etc. and have noticed no eye strain. I do get some weird sensations when I see myself going up or down or doing a barrel roll and my body of course doesn't move. It's not nausea by any means. Maybe like a mild butterflies in your stomach sensation. That can linger a bit, but other than feeling a bit 'odd' it's no bother. It's not what I'd call unpleasant.

ECM indicator is on the right console for Su-27 and Su-33. Not sure if those were broken.

If no one noticed the Su-25T tells you the ECM and IR jammer are up with HUD indicators. WOOHOO ECM and DIRCM on the left side.

There are some objects that are really bad on performance. There is an old performance thread that points out one vehicle in particular as an example. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=107551 It's probably not CPU, just being in range of objects that tax GPU performance. Mirrors, Shkval, TGP, Macerick Camera, etc. will all cause hits too. Flying straight and level in nowheresville looking at DSMS and CDU will yield drastically different results from being near lots of objects looking at TGP and Mav cam.

I agree with his thoughts about one card being overloaded. I have a 4k monitor which is in the somewhat ballpark for total pixels and I can't get great FPS with everything turned up even with SLI 970's. I think you're going to be really hurting trying to drive all that with one card. I am also hoping that EDGE has some DX11 tricks up its sleeve to make life better. My current system cannot manage 3-way SLI and I can't afford to upgrade anymore than I already have so I have to tap out with what I have.

I think you just need to get used to it. I have the default smooth profile and it works great. It did take me awhile to get used to it as I never had TIR before DCS and even for quite awhile after, but once i did it was no issue at all.

I don't think that is true of A-G load outs. They are very specific that you can't pull more than 5G with A-G weapons.

I wouldn't necessarily say don't bother, but consider that if you're looking at smaller you should probably be running Windows 8.1 or better unless you're willing to accept that you'll need to mess with icon sizes and fonts. Regardless of screen size, also consider that you're probably going to need an SLI setup to play anything at 4k resolution. 3840x2160 is 4 times the pixels of 1920x1080 and I feel like two 970's is _barely_ enough. You certainly won't be maxing out DCS without even more. Most games seem to do just fine. The font thing I mentioned within DCS is the worst I've come across so far. I've done a fair bit of MWO since getting them and it's fine. IL2: BOS runs very well in all regards so far. If you do go 4k do make sure you get a monitor that does at least 60Hz. 30 Hz monitors are supposed to be terrible for gaming. I think you'll find some people that say you should only get a 120Hz, but I don't notice anything wrong with 60Hz. I dual boot Fedora 20 and I had to do some work with the xorg.conf to get 60Hz, before which it was running 30 and it was pretty bleh even just using the desktop. Then I had to do the font/icon scaling, which was not hard, but probably similar to what needs to be done for Windows 7 and older. Things aren't perfect for 4k yet, but they're not terrible either. And they yield some pretty gaming.

I have an Asus PB287Q 28" 4k driven by 2x eVGA NVIDIA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 It's beautiful, but all those pixels take a lot to drive. With a little tuning I am getting acceptable frame rates (usually 40+ into the 70's), but they still dip sometimes, even with the two cards driving it. The only problem is DCS fonts do not scale so they are very small, which becomes noticeable in places like the multiplayer server menu. Labels in game are hard to spot and very difficult to read and I have not found a way to adjust them anywhere. For what it's worth Windows 8.1 scaled perfectly. I didn't have to fiddle with anything. I hear this is one of the things it does VERY well over Windows 7, but I have never tried 4k with Windows 7. A bigger monitor like ///Rage is looking at will certainly make fonts more readable, so that's one way around it :)

EDGE is a new graphics engine we've all been anxiously waiting for. It boasts better graphics, better performance ( as it's optimized for DX11, etc.), boasts some new possibilities, like maps with the earths curvature taken into accounts, and multiple map support. It's probably somewhere around less than 2-3 months away, as they're still suggesting we might get NTTR (Nevada Test and Training Range) by late December, which implies EDGE. The Straight of Hormuz is another EDGE based map in the pipe, as is a WWII period Normandy map for the failed RRG kickstarter that ED graciously rescued. On topic, my OR shipped. Tuesday is going to be fun. :)

Two eVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0's in SLI are able to give ~40-50 frames on a 4k display with most settings turned up to high. I'm not dipping below mid-30's flying around and sometimes getting up to 60's and maybe higher. Looks good.

Ya, I'm taking this to mean we might see Edge just in time for Christmas, and if no then some time not long after the new year. With all that's going on and all the modules coming I can easily forgive them a few weeks (or more) so they can get an hour or sleep between now and the new year.

TL;DR version: November: DCS: Su-27 EFM DCS: L-39 (Pre-purchase) DCS: Bf 109 K-9 (Pre-purchase) December: DCS: MiG-15bis Nevada Test and Training Range (possibly). F/A-18C Hornet and EDGE still in progress. No dates. Edge sounds like it may push past the new year, but sounds like December could still happen.

A 980 is something like 10% faster than a 970 and costs almost twice as much. In contrast two 970's will cost a bit more than a 980 and should beat the pants off of it. Benchmarks I've seen on tech sites appear to back that up. But on the power side two 970's from what I've read need a 700-800w psu wheras a 980 can likely make due with less, maybe 500w range like a single 970. I made the choice to go with the 970's and think for my situation they were the right choice.

You will be. Honest paying customers are always wrong when the DRM disadvantages them. That's how DRM works.