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Good to know, thanks!

That speed is just inadequate for this or nearly anything else today. I had to look up what that is… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM Don’t know what to tell you. Move. Find a different hobby The game can’t be designed around such an inadequate connection. Forget liveries, what about everything else?

You can’t expect devs to tailor a game to such inadequate specs. It’s up to you to get better service.

Can the mini joystick on these flight sticks be assigned to buttons via the software? Like what could be done with JoyToKey? A mini stick on these isn’t as useful as another hat.

Welcome to DCS Yes that’s what recenter does with TrackIR, very handy. The only improvement suggestion I could make would be to remap that to an easier to find key or stick button than F12. But if that works for you don’t fix what ain’t broke

Aha! No I didn’t realize that. Thanks

You know when I say “still the best?” it’s somewhat in humor. It’s a device from the 90s. But it serves the purpose. And there wasn’t a 12 week back order. One day I’ll get up the motivation to replace these but I’m not in the mood for mass button mapping right now. Fun discovery, when you get another of the same device the ID# stays the same. Plug in and game on.

The CM3 or that CDT is on my list. But hey the plastic toy lasted 15 years and succumbed to a dachshund puppy

I see the preview versions have loose buttons let’s see how they turn out. Those dials look like they might have too much range for a zoom slider though. It was $172 I consider it a band aid until something convinces me to remap everything I have 15 years of button memory there…

AFAIK those are all GPU related settings.

I would think MSAA, DLSS and resolution settings are GPU related and have less to do with whatever CPU you are using.

Very cool. But how many players have a setup like that which would make such a game feature worthwhile? Even triple screen setups are so rare it seems ED doesn’t feel like supporting that is worthwhile. And the A-10 does have blister canopy with an all-around view. The ability to see your 6:00 must have been considered worthwhile.

That makes sense for something like an airliner but in a combat sim you need to be able to look all the way to your 6:00 Your entire view needs to move in a sim like this. In this case the HMD being locked to the center of your screen is replicating how it would work IRL. A fighter plane simpit with a fixed screen like that would need to have a dome projector. I suspect those aren’t too common outside of pro simulators.

That was on my runner up list too. It seems very good. I’m still considering Virpil for everything. They have a 12 week wait for stuff though If I move to another vendor, for me it’s like an all-in proposition. I think Moza’s FFB line also looks appealing. That’s what I’m keeping a lookout for. In the meantime I don’t have to bother remapping everything CH still wins the $/button contest

My puppy ate my 15 year old Pro Throttle’s USB cable . Of course I contemplate getting something more boutique but after evaluating all of them just got another CH. Bottom line is it just has more buttons. And the expensive throttles all try to replicate specific aircraft and include lots of switches particular to just an A-10 or F-18 that are mostly just used to start the plane Few of them have the one feature I’d pay for which is a slider for the zoom view since real aircraft don’t have these Runners up for me are Virpil CDT-VMAX and maybe Moza if their future lineup includes a generic style and not the F-18 replica. CH still has the best price and quality IMO

Yeah I realize that. Honestly it seems just frustrating to me and not worthwhile. A basic joystick is quite inexpensive. The essential problem is that flying has an inverted Y-axis vs pointing with the mouse like you do in the clickable cockpit or for aiming.

It’s amazing that some people can tolerate an inverted Y-axis. Seems like torture to me. Why I bought my first flight stick long ago.

It just happens at random to me. I’ve found just Alt Tabbing out to GHUB and switching the DPI back and forth fixes it. 125 is way too clunky to tolerate.

Right but they don’t look nearly good enough for what people expect here today. A civy sim global map is meant to be seen from high altitude. Combat games have action going on right at the ground. It’s going to just look really dull compared to the custom maps and to me those are preferable in a combat game. Battles take place in theaters. Not across the globe. DCS already has maps large enough for flights longer than most players are probably willing to do. The reason civy sims have global maps is variety, so you can fly to or from anywhere. But to me there isn’t a need to have battles in San Diego or Miami. The trade off in quality won’t be worth it for most people I imagine. My guess is players would rather see something like the Germany map up close vs being able to just fly for hours or stage action in odd places around the world. My vote is a global map is dead last compared to all the other things DCS could have. Maybe that’s the goal? Spherical maps but not global?

This whole idea seems farfetched. ED doesn’t have the resources for a map like this nor is it necessary or suitable for a combat sim IMO especially one with historical eras. They’ve stated they can’t afford streaming technology either which is the only way a map of this size could work. If this has to fit on a local drive it will just be a bland auto-gen map without cities or airports like flight sims had 15-20 years ago.

Sure, that doesn’t sound like an option here. Yet. It’s probably the future though. All other media has moved from packaged to downloaded to streamed. Games likely will too. We’re just at stage 2 for now. I don’t see how a global earth model ED is considering would be feasible unless it were streamed.

It’s a flight simulator. The liveries are just about the chief artwork in the game.

This is how DCS works already. But in many cases that default livery is bright metal. So it’s a bit of an exploit online being able to remove your opponents camouflage if they had selected that.

Works very well for me personally but I guess it’s not an option here. Hard drives will just have to get bigger and cheaper and they are…

If you try that other sim that streams the content it actually doesn’t need that much bandwidth. The recommended is just 50mbps. It seems like the only solution for games with such large content. Like when or if DCS ends up with a global map just putting it on a drive will become unmanageable.