DaveRindner

Turn Deffered Shading to OFF. I dunno what it is supposed to do, but all it does on my system is run slow and looks ugly. Everything is either burned out, or too dark like film noir. Sliding gamma around just brightens or darkens a garrish ugly scene. I7-3700 3.7, PNY Quadro K4000, 32gb ran, DCS is one screen 2560 X 1440. Latest Nvidia reference drivers 377.35 Vsync Off

The update looks great and so far trouble free. At least for me. But I just don't like trees, grass. and Deffered Shade. Deffered Shaded scene looks ugly and garrish, regardless of Gamma and is an FPS killer. Trees if set to 100% slow down FPS. Trees at low % seem to grow out of the ground . Very distracting. Trees and grass, without Deffered Shading, are awfully bright. The leaf and conifer colors are too bright. The tree variation is low. They all look like instances of perhaps 2-3 base trees. They need to be more randomized in scale and orientation. HDR ON and Flare lens effect is OK. But I don't see any difference when dirt lens effect is ON or OFF. Is dirt lens effect , a type of ambient occlusion, or is it literally some kind of dirt effect that I am not seeing.

YES. But it would depend on type of map, quality, variances of terrain, should include maritime and littorals, and price. One adjusted map I would like to see is a potential littoral map of real location but with substantially higher mean sea level with less iced over areas. 50 meters or more, as to create inland sea with access to ocean with chokepoints. Perhaps even user adjustable MSL.

How would F-14A crew fight Fulcrums , assuming only Aim-7F/M , AIM-9 L/P/M, and guns? Fulcrum A would have kinematic advantage of F-14A in nearly all regimes except top speed.

Yep current inventory of DPRK KPAF is 56 Mig-23 of unknown flying condition. So figure 33 years ago they could very much have had a credible flying fleet of Floggers. Personally I would like to see Maverick fightin Fulcrums, but Flagger is more probable.

Perhaps. Gotta check if and when Mig23 were ever provided to North Korea.

And I though DCS simmers have no sense of humor. How wrong was I!

With Top Gun II kind of in production, it is a good bet that original will be re-released with new VFX. Replacement of F-5E Aggressors with CGI Migs. No I have nothing to do with it, and know nothing. I was thinking what would have been the actual threat faced by 1985 F-14A's (D?). The scenario in original film mirrored a Pueblo takeover by North Korea, and air craft markings used by F-5E/Mig-28 were North Korea like for the time. So I figure either the North Koreans would have at that time a Mig-21bis/Chengdu J-7, Mig-23, and possibly Mig-29A flown by Soviet exchange pilots. Both would have been armed with R-60M missiles. Soviets would unlikely to have introduced R-73 in early to mid 1980's to North Korea.

Which is why Air Force combat aviators were usually most relaxed and combat flight ready having fulfilled required rest periods sleeping in a nice warm bed, then in a soggy sleeping bag or poncho liner in mud next to an infantryman M-60 gunner with gas from MREs.

Is this a NATO style MGRS gridmap, or Soviet Warsaw Pact version. The lack of English notations is obvious. I recall, from training, the two being similar, but not identical. Soviet maps always used elevation as terrain feature name. NATO MGRS was not so strict. Both NATO and WP published maps in both variations, but NATO MGRS grids was always used for directing fire and movement , on NATO side.

This is only my humble opinion. Nothing more. IMHO modern anti-submarine warfare is not a good suit for consumer desktop simulations. Here is why I hold this view. The tactics for ASW, even though decades old, are classified, and are an arcane dark art. The tools, systems, and employment of sensors and weapons, are even more classified, and should be. For sake of our submariners. In reality, and simulation, ASW is time consuming and boring. So while it is a usefull tool for training of sub qualled and non sub qualled naval ASW personell, it is too boring for a consumer level desktop sim.

F-5E do form those. Here is a photo of Swiss F-5E pulling G. https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=Hcl9OuT4&id=4C12FB18B78251B768E2A8417092FC7F16D49460&thid=OIP.Hcl9OuT4FHlF9f-OZoyIfQEsDe&mediaurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sky-flash.com%2fspeed%2f076.jpg&exph=371&expw=500&q=F-5E+overwing+vapor&simid=608006928370699646&selectedIndex=2&ajaxhist=0 https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=mftJ3dGv&id=89D2D931D37A819B6A3EDDED64B9B51BD4AD4325&thid=OIP.mftJ3dGvsL8gbcD2XFze0wHaFB&mediaurl=http%3a%2f%2fczechairspotters.com%2fphotos%2f2015%2f4132.jpg&exph=1017&expw=1500&q=USAF+F-5E+Tiger+II+vapor+trail&simid=608020753832085291&selectedIndex=89&ajaxhist=0 https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=jaAIKuVq&id=82D8EDD75A51397931A9827A858B2BE94DF81325&thid=OIP.jaAIKuVqIEN1p3zK9HlZpgEsDN&mediaurl=http%3a%2f%2fcdn.airplane-pictures.net%2fimages%2fuploaded-images%2f2013%2f10%2f30%2f331352.jpg&exph=702&expw=1024&q=USAF+F-5E+Tiger+II+vapor+trail&simid=608040351831493628&selectedIndex=87&ajaxhist=0

The ones I got were in new Logitech branded box, from Fry's in El Segundo. Fry's is great, provided you know your own stuff, as their 'associates' don't know how to tie their own shoes.

MFG pedals look incredible. There is another option for high end pedals. Slaw Device RX Viper Both are pricey. Depending on which cornet of net you look, the set is between 500 -800. A bit much for desktop hobby. The other thing is that assembly for MFG is kind of well , constructor set. The YouTube video is 20 minutes. Saitek and TM pedals, are like. Take them out of box , plug them in. Drivers install automatically. Good to go in few minutes.

I am working through the same issue. You have to watch wheel break pressure. Gear locks up fairly low on the applied brake pressure. Mine lockup at about 20% of the slider. Though some disagree, I think this is bad on BST part. Hopefully they will fix it.

Violence and technology. A marvelous combination. I'll give it a try. In mean time I am using TM Pedals I got for my PS4, and aside from pedals being a bit too close to each other, I like TM pedals more then Logitech/Saitek product. Saitek equipment is build poorly. I got X56, becouse my muscle memory was burned in with X55, and X52 Pro. Otherwise I'd be getting TM Hog. Thank you.

Product is brand new. The malfunction occurred about a week after purchase. It may well be a hardware malfunction, but it is not age related.

A FLIR would be nice. Were KA-50's upgraded to SHAR FLIR system? KA-52, was procured as 50 airframe order. I think they were intended to be part of Russian Navy / Naval Infatry, and operate off now cancelled French built LHA type vessels. Russian Army and RuAF went with MI-28N Night hunter as main attack helicopter.

Taiwan, Spratley Islands, Malacca Straights and chunk of SCS would be quite nice. Baltic& Scandinavia theater would be a challenging environment to fly and fight in. North Pacific-Bering Straight-Aleutian chain would be fascinating.

There is already a game mode in DCS. I do not want DCS to be dumbed down. Actually I want DCS to be smarted up. By that I mean, aviators (cv & mil) are not supergeniuses (some are), but they still posses above avg. intelligence and task management skills. I want more procedures added. CG calculations, fuel management in mission planner. Proper use of aircraft lights, and airfield lighting, as in RL. With points lost for improper procedures. Fuel usage, and fuel management affected by weather and altitude, as part EFM , PFM, and ASM in DCS. Runways that are not flat , but adhere to topography of the land , it is built on. When landing on Kuz with SU-33D, or Ike with F/A-18, OLS meatball should be functional and visible. For Harriers , there are special director lights on LHA that guide pilot to a safe vertical recovery. OHP, Ticonderoga also have director lights for helicopter recovery.

I was fortunate enough to receive a Xmas gift from my employer/client. A New PS4 1TB that came with Star Wars BattlefrontII. I was like wadda F!!! The graphics, with baked textures, normal maps, and fairly hi-rez meshes, is ultra smooth at 1080, 1440, and 2160. Everything apeared to be never slower then 48, and 60 in many shots. Of course that is a game not a sim. Not even a sim of TIE fighter! But it ran smoother then anything I have experienced with DCS and Prepare3D. I am not a gamer. But the visuals in games on consoles today, are just unbelievable.

Example of mission plan with Google Earth assistance Example of Enguri Dam mission. Ability to see the area in freeform 3D in Google Earth is very usefull for mission creation.

With full QWERTY keyboards and USB HOTAS compatibility with PS4 and Xbox, is there any possibility of DSC ported to console. Those consoles have power and GPU that rivals high end gamer desktops.

Perhaps this was raised before. Integration with Google Earth. Ability to write out ME coordinates as place in GE or similar. Even better if right click on ME location has option to scope in GE. GE is really good at seeing terrain from arbitrary angle.

I don't beleive I am the only one. Others have described issue with enough similarity , that the same problem is being described. Other issue is that the module lacks anti-skid system simulation, and gear locks up fairly low on wheel break pressure.