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You mean when they are overpriced? :) Don't get me wrong. The current cards are so old, it might be a good idea to wait, but to buy a card hot out of the oven is not great either. You usually want to wait a few months after the release so that price stabilizes. If you go for the high end segment, that can save you hundreds of dollars actually.

It's AMD unless you are living in the past, like pre 2006. That's almost ten years ago. Also, I would say performance per dollar is what matters, because otherwise you could start comparing low end cards to high end cards which obviously isn't useful in any way. Everyone has a budget. AMD does currently have a card that matches the 980ti which is all the way up there in the high end market segment. Again, you are living in the past. The AMD driver has been great the last two years, especially since Windows 10 came out. I hear Nvidia are still having problems in Windows 10 though. AMD was working well from day one after Win10 release. Also, AMD has stopped selling their cards with the OEM cooler. Most are now after-market coolers similar to what you get if you buy an Nvidia card with after-market cooler. There are exceptions, like the Fury X which comes with an OEM closed loop water cooler which is nothing like the OEM cooler you are thinking of. I know I'm nagging, but your living in the past. You clearly haven't heard about the AMD Radeon Fury X which matches the 980ti. The 390X is really close to the GTX980, even beating the 980 in certain games, but it's slightly slower on average calculated from benchmarking many games.

If it is significantly cheaper, then it's a no brainer. No I wouldn't worry, although it's a difficult question to answer since results vary so much depending on what games you play and at what resolution and settings.

Works fine on my 290X with 1.5.1 open beta. I noticed that Catalyst Control Center is still there, it's just not the default UI anymore. Some settings are missing from the new UI, such as the new custom resolution utility, which I really appreciate because it enables monitor over-clocking without third party software, although I don't do that stuff any longer since I got a 144hz freesync monitor a few months ago. Otherwise this just feels like business as usual. I have been happy with the AMD driver during 2015. It's been very stable and I have only had some minor gripes. Let's hope I can say the same for 2016 in about a year.

Don't forget to go for a card with a good cooler/heatsink. The cheaper cards tend to run hot and sound like hair dryers. Currently, I'd say that Saphire and Asus makes the most appealing AMD cards. If I were going to buy an Nvidia card I would look at Asus and EVGA, with a slight preference for the latter.

Absolutely no problems there. Almost no games worth mentioning on a flight sim forum run physx on the GPU anyway. None of those you mention does. Arma3 uses physx but it runs it on the CPU regardless of what GPU you have so it doesn't favour either Nvidia or AMD. And sorry for mixing up the 390 with 390X in my previous post. The 390 without X is closer to 970 in performance, but I still think it does have a very slight advantage.

Not sure why life would be simpler with nvidia. Are you talking about buggy drivers? The AMD drivers have been great the last few years, especially this year. I know some people think the AMD driver is buggy but I'm pretty sure their opinions were forged many years ago and they haven't tried the red team lately. The 390X is slightly faster on average. It's right in the middle of a 970 and 980 performance wise. The only real downside it has is higher power consumption (around 290W at full load), but for most people that shouldn't be a problem.

Well, if you are already close enough to engage him using your own missiles then you are already too close to run. Running away is more useful for dodging medium and long range SAM's and also for dodging BVR shots from modern fighters. I haven't played that particular mission in a while, but if i recall corectly, it was pretty easy to sneak up behind that Su (think it was 34, not 27) and kill it with an IR missile without him ever reacting.

There are some really nice things in the changelog. I just hope the new UI is okay. Already downloaded, and going to install in a minute.

Correct, and yes, it has been discussed. It was considered one of the more likely options along with the Viggen.

I agree. We shouldn't believe anything from either side at this point. I wasn't trying to pick a side, but I can understand if it looked that way.

Depends on the situation. One of the advantages of the MiG-21 is it's speed and acceleration and that gives you an option you seldom have in the A-10, which is to run away from the missile.

The timing suggests that the Turks fired an AIM-120 when the Russian aircraft crossed the border. About 13 seconds later (3-4km) the Russian aircraft crossed the border again back into Syrian airspace where it was hit by the missile, and travelled a few more kilometres before crashing into the ground.

Maybe powered by a water jet? Didn't they say "new method of force distribution/propulsion"? :)

Nope. It was meant to compensate for the fact that looking through a monitor will never yield the same visual clarity that real pilots enjoy. The most realistic option depends on your monitor size and resolution. Of course, it can also be used as a cheat, but that is not it's purpose.

What if the market is suddenly flooded with VR headsets from twenty different manufacturers, and they are all viable options? Would it still be a not so big issue?

If you look closely you will see that except the DRM, it's all graphical changes. I think it's likely that a single person did all that (Rudel? :) ). Most of the team is probably working on new modules. As you have probably seen on the LN website, the team consists of eight persons.

Best way to explain is probably with a video. [ame] [/ame] In DCS open beta you can clearly see z-fighting when you are looking at the contrail of a twin engine fighter. The two contrails are flickering, or fighting each other.

Thank you Dolphin. :)

Not really. It is entirely up to the developer of the game or application. They have to start from scratch every time they want to add compatibility for a new headset or manufacturer. What I want to see in the future is a standard for VR integration, in the same way D3D or OpenGL are standards for how graphics are rendered. Imagine if a developer had to integrate VR support into their game engine only once, and then it would work on all headsets. What we need is an OpenVR API that is supported by all the major VR hardware manufacturers. As it stands right now, every manufacturer has their own API. Must be a nightmare to develop games for VR and wanting to support several headsets.

Initially when 1.5 open beta was released, their servers (or maybe upload capacity) couldn't deal with all the traffic so they had to temporarily shut down updates. I was lucky to get the open beta before that happened, but others were not so lucky and had to wait. I'm sure they see torrenting as a solution to that problem, to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Speed will improve. This is how torrents work. Initially when there are few uploaders and many downloaders, it will be slow, but when time goes on, downloaders turn into uploaders and the ratio shifts so it becomes faster.

Not ED's fault. The best thing you can do is to contact your ISP and complain, or even get a different ISP. Any ISP that doesn't accept the principle of net neutrality doesn't deserve to have any customers.

"by mid december"

I don't think so. 2.0 will likely be released this week or at the start of next week so it doesn't seem worthwhile to put out any more hotfixes when 2.0 is so close.