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Not the pedals, the Y-axis. What’s amazing is some people use a gamepad to fly the Apache. Do they use it for the TEDAC too? Flying with one orientation and then doing a “shooter” in the other? Sure there are no limits to what human skill can accomplish but I really see no point in making a video game so difficult.

Same here. I’ve always just gone on the notify list and got it when the hype cools off. Maybe with VR that’s more often the case. For me on a 4K screen I’m GPU limited. My theoretical CPU limit is about 152 FPS. By comparison in FS2024 I’m CPU bound in the 40s but using FG to boost that into the 80-90s and it honestly looks really nice.

That price is indeed nuts. Aren’t there any legit retailers in the EU who will sell that at a normal price? I’ve never paid more than MSRP for a card here.

DCS is an older game. It’s far from the most demanding title out there. It’s not MSFS that’s for sure. Until I replaced my 7-10 year old PC two years ago it was the only game I could still run decently. The performance trouble with DCS comes from trying to run it in VR at the higher setting which are intended for 2D

Well the upside of graphics card demand is that it’s possible to sell your old one for a good amount and offset the cost of the upgrade. 4090s are now selling for a full $1,000 more than I paid for mine although I suspect that will change when 5090 becomes available.

Do you have your mouse reversed for normal computer work? one things for sure, this has gotta be a very hard thing to unlearn once you’re set on it https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/feb/28/why-do-video-game-players-invert-the-controls#:~:text=If the answer is “up,But why the perceptual difference?

That’s just innately reflexive. Up is away from you, down is back towards you, like a pencil on paper. I can’t fathom there’s anyone who has their mouse cursor inverted like that so moving your mouse away from you would be down on the screen. That’s just insane Your normal computer use with a mouse would be backwards to the game. Such reflexes are involuntary so that would make the game just impossible to play. I can’t believe how games could be like that. There was an accident here at a local airport where the pilot of a dual engine plane had an engine failure on takeoff and pushed the wrong rudder pedal. I don’t know if that was the real cause but if someone was a cyclist such reflexes would be very hard to unlearn. Suit yourself, the request makes sense. It’s just that there aren’t many players who use that I’m sure. So you may just end up frustrated. It would be better to just get a joystick. I never learned to type properly since typing was for girls back in my day. It was the worst choice I ever made. I don’t use a keyboard for any type of gaming because I’d be constantly looking down at the keys

Possibly but so many people already own gamepads I can’t imagine that many do. The other problem you face with both of those is the inverted Y-axis. If there is any little part of your brain that knows pulling back on the stick makes an airplane go up you’re screwed. It’s just innate with keys or gamepads that forward is up on the screen and back towards you is down. But an aircraft’s controls are reversed. I find this simply impossibility unlearn. It’s literally reflexive. So any dumb FPS game that makes me try to fly a plane with the WADS keys I just have to skip that part. A joystick simply eliminates that problem.

Yeah but trying to fly with key presses is Why torture yourself like that? The only reason I figure DCS has those inputs is that since it’s a free trial game someone can screw around with it and not need a joystick.

Using a keyboard is nuts. Get a simple joystick or gamepad. I can’t imagine enough people use keyboards to make any of these options worthwhile.

Already bouncing back, an opportunity a blind man could see https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/small-investors-bought-the-dip-in-nvidia-by-a-record-amount-monday.html

Ha then I am a neoliberal, I lived that era but I don’t recall anyone referring to them back then as any sort of “liberal”. Let’s stay off politics though… PS my brother was a political science major back then. He never heard that term applied to Reagan either, it’s probably a revisionist creation. There’s always something more to accomplish. I know

Or it could accomplish more by harnessing both the more effective AI and newer more powerful chips. And everyone still uses Nvidia GPUs including DeepSeek. You realize the above example there was meant as an analogy, not to go off topic into the specifics of space travel. Liberal?! I think basic economic reality is a rather conservative world view if you ask me. I can’t think of a better example of this honestly. Saturated demand would refer to selling something like washing machines where customers won’t really buy more than one no matter what the price. And they aren’t apt to buy them all up and resell them for profit etc. The demand for GPUs definitely outpaces supply as it does for most goods. Hence the price. Indeed capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the others

Those target consumers just got a performance gain in the form of more efficient AI. So the analogy again is like thinking SpaceX stock should go down because somebody invented a more powerful rocket fuel. So they’ll sell less rockets since less will be needed to go to Mars. Not realizing customers could continue buying the same number of rockets but use them to go to Jupiter instead. Or to accomplish even more missions on Mars. In fact the demand for rockets could go up now that rockets can do even more. And again this gets back to the theory of infinite demand. The beauty the market is that it will correct itself eventually… don’t sell Nvidia just yet.

My wife still has a 2011 iMac but those aren’t the target consumers for these GPUs

Sometimes markets can be really dumb. This DeepSeek reaction is like thinking GM will sell less cars because someone created more powerful gasoline and people can drive fast enough already. Or a new more powerful rocket engine means Elon Musk still just wants to go to Mars instead of Jupiter A great buying opportunity for anyone who didn’t own Nvidia already. But likely any investor already does, so… stay the course.

People don’t take their foot off the gas when more efficient compute power comes along. ”Now I have the fastest computer I will ever need” Said nobody ever… Now there’s a more efficient AI model to run and Nvidia still makes the best chips for that. For the long term investor that little bump yesterday looks like this.

Markets can be skittish. The daily ups and downs shouldn’t be something to make snap judgements about. The bottom line is they are still the leader in GPUs and the demand for those will just get higher with AI no matter how efficient it might be. Did more efficient computing cause people to buy less chips from Intel in the 90s? No…

From Morningstar: “We believe that AI graphics-processing unit demand still exceeds supply, so while slimmer models may enable greater development for the same number of chips, we still think tech firms will continue to buy all the GPUs they can as part of this AI “gold rush,” No fire sale on graphics cards yet it seems…

Looks like DeepSeek was trained on Nvidia GPUs

I’m using TrackIR with its own NaturalPoint software and camera. I’ve never had any problem like that nor ever needed to make any adjustments, I just use it right out of the box and it’s fine. The issue may be with Opentrack but I can’t imagine how the HDM would be de-synced like that. What happens if you turn off head tracking and just look around with the mouse? Is there some odd adjustment in the settings that makes the HMD slew at a different rate than the head? That would be odd.

AFAIK you should have it enabled with that CPU “Should I enable HT / SMT in my motherboard BIOS? Currently, users with 32 threads or more should disable HT/SMT, but for everyone else we recommend enabling HT/SMT.”

Not true. It should be obvious that your monitor doesn’t look like real life. 60FPS is a very decent frame rate for gaming but the limit of what your eye can see is vastly higher. What I find wrong about this math though is the quoted resolution that is perceivable by your eye. The example shown here implies a 27” 1080x1920 screen is at that limit and I think we all know it’s not. Price is an interrelation between supply and demand. Not just a product of one or the other. Demand for a product that can easily be resold at a higher price is nearly infinite.

Makes sense

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