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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.

Not me, sorry. I just program it all in game..

He didnt say it, but I suspect he meant SAM radar in this case. I have also been very very low and had SA-11's firing at me with buildings between us (yes, low enough for the buildings to matter) and all. The missiles generally dont track which is good, but they should never even get off the rail. Granted there are other problems with the scenario i speak about, like why did I intentionally fly that close to an SA-11 in an su-25 or a-10, and would anyone in a chopper and not in the process of landing ever really fly that low, but still.

Doesnt setti g a slider to zoom work with OR? Is doing that asking for a puke fest? I use this a lot with a monitor already and cant really see why it'd hurt unless its diorienting...

I have heard the same about guages. I will find out first hand in some weeks, but at the least the resolution has increased from DK1 along with reduced latency and improved head tracking which should help with the puke factor. I got to try the DK1 and DK2 and the 2 has noticeably better resolution. My hope is CV1 ups it even more.

I agree. It should definitely work and I've done it many many times, but I would also drop closer to 10k than 5k. You might also consider turning auto lase on and setting the lase timer to 10. Also, are you holding the lase button if you're doing it manually? Without changing the latch setting it will turn off instantly if you release it, so you'd be effectively just lasing the target for a split second.

You may be the epitomy of awesome, but some people do have a hard time landing other aircraft besides the FW-190. If there are real pilots (granted not of the Dora) saying it is insanely difficult that throws some caution flags to me. Sure its not the end of the argument, which is why I prefaced my whole comment with 'If'. Because Im certainly not the one to say. I'd even be fine if someone in ED in the know said it's pretty accurate.

If it really isn't bugged or badly modelled, then sure let's be quiet and learn. On the other hand I think what many of us find is that the Dora is literally the hardest plane in DCS to land, by a long shot. I used to think the Su-25T was hard. After some of the newer planes intro'd I now consider the Su-25T easy as pie. F-86F and MiG-21Bis are my new tough but doables. FW-190 still makes me miserable. And I personally think if it was as hard as it is in DCS there wouldn't have been many Dora's or Dora pilots left in short order. They didn't have simulators and dual pit planes to learn on back then. Guy went up for his first takeoff, guy came down probably white knuckled and heart pounding for his landing. It had to be easy enough that even a relative beginner (and definitely a beginner to that plane) could make it down successfully, even on his first few attempts if they wanted to have any pilots left. Now I know that doesn't mean easy, but... I forget what the number given on the vertical velocity indicator to make a successful landing in the manual and tutorials as it's been awhile since I tried, but I basically found it had to be less than half that and you need to stall it out onto the runway at that gentle decent to get success. That's all I could do in the end to get it to work without a giant bounce - it was very nerve racking, but worked for me. But it seems insane and wrong that that's the way they'd land.

Holding ctrl while loading from the main menu to the game can cause the prompts to come up. I knew someone who used it for TS press to talk that it was happening to all the time. Also, if you have to do it every time after a hardware change and it wont take try this: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/faq/activation_wiki/ I cant easily look at the linked reg files on my phone but I believe they jsut delete the registry keys so you can reactivate like new. That same person I mentioned with the TS issue hit this one as well and this worked for him. You can imagine he was a little upset with DCS activation by the end of that night. Edit: I now see kazereal pointed at the wiki already, but can confirm it's good advice.

I have SLI 970's ordered, one for each eyeball, along with an Oculus Rift and I cant wait to see DCS in action with it either on the display or being pumped directly into my brain. But I still have at least a month wait, particularly for the OR before I get to experience it. That should give some time for the supposed OR/Nvidia features to actually manifest in the software though. I'm thoroughly convinced OR will be the way to go after trying it, especially if the CV1 ends up boasting better resolution.

They have never given a solid release date much before it's ready. Not hearing anyyhing doesn't mean anything.