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Yes, let's get back on topic! Is it going to be the Viggen or not? :lol:

We know a Leatherneck employee has been working on a Viggen 3D model. That's not a confirmation though. Could be a side project he does on his spare time, but it could also be for a Leatherneck module. Who knows...

Doesn't fit the hints because it has conventional means of propulsion (no reverse thrust). I also think it would be hard to acquire all the necessary information to take on such a project.

Maybe you should rethink why you are using Kapersky or Bitdefender in the first place. Is someone forcing you to use these programs? Are they really necessary? Are they causing more harm than good? Are you using them just out of old habit, from the time when Windows didn't have it's own built in protection, which doesn't come at any extra cost, doesn't bother you without reason and is perfectly viable protection?

Yes, if it's only games, then you can just copy everything. Make sure the folder structure is the same. Cloning would be necessary if it was your OS disk, but in this case it isn't.

Level of Detail. There are several 3D models with different levels of detail and the game engine chooses the one that is the most appropriate under the given circumstances. Which model is used depends on graphic settings and range from the camera to the 3D model. You see there's no point in rendering at full detail when you barely see the model in the horizon. The detail is only needed when you get close. Several LOD's are necessary to keep the game running at acceptable framerates while still looking good. This is not only a DCS thing. Almost every game out there use this method.

We can't but it does fit the hints given by Leatherneck, and I don't think there are many alternatives, the other's being mainly AV-8B and Tornado. Also, Cobra himself and several other's on the Leatherneck team are swedes, so a Swedish aircraft doesn't seem all that far fetched.

Sure, that will work. Why ditch the old one though? Just leave it in there and use both the new and old drive. Start installing games on the new one once the old one if full. Personally I have two 256gb SSD's and three old hard-drives in the same PC :)

The keybind is still working for me. I can tell it goes into proper fullscreen becouse I use Freesync and I can see in my monitors on screen display that the refresh rate is synchronized to the ingame framerate and varies accordingly. Freesync only works in fullscreen, not in borderless or window mode.

This is not a Win10 problem. The problem is that the fullscreen setting in the graphics menu of DCS 1.5 open beta doesn't work. The sim defaults to borderless window no matter what setting you use. You can still force fullscreen by pressing Lalt+Enter when inside the sim.

No, unless you run a ton of other programs in the background.

1.5 open beta still has old clouds. New clouds are work in progress and will be implemented soon. We can already get a sneak peek of them by hacking a lua file, but there are game-breaking bugs with the new clouds.

Here's a blind test 60hz vs. 120hz, just if your curious, and just to prove I'm not making things up. Personally I use a 144hz monitor and I know how easy it is to spot the difference. It doesn't even take me a second to know what refresh rate I'm running at. 60hz is sort of a golden standard, or minimum requirement to have a good time in most games, but something like Counter Strike feels like a slideshow at 60hz once you gotten used to 144hz.

Well that's a load of bullshit :smilewink: Yes, over-clocking theoretically shortens the lifespan of components. In reality, even highly over-clocked components will last long enough to be completely obsolete by the time they stop working. Oh, so you believe in the 60fps myth, uh? This is an old myth created long before high refresh rate monitors were widely available. Anyone with a 120+ hz monitor that has been doing even a little bit of gaming will tell you that you are wrong. Not only that, but the benefits of a high refresh rate monitor can easily be proven in blind tests. In DCS the benefits of going beyond 60fps is not huge, but anyone who uses a TrackIR5 will easily feel the difference in latency when moving their head. Latency in head tracking is distracting, and going just from 60fps to 75fps makes for a much better experience. Oculus decided to use 90hz displays in their Rift VR headset because they found that 60hz makes people dizzy when wearing a VR headset. That pretty much says it all.

Lol, nice try, but the bolt picture wasn't posted by Leatherneck :)

Even though the engine now relies much more on the GPU, it's still a fact that a GPU cannot do it's job without having a CPU that feeds it with jobs to do. Google "API overhead" and start reading and you will understand the relationship between CPU and GPU much better. Also, there's no problem here. We are seeing great performance. You are bringing up a discussion on something that is a non-issue.

I'm pretty sure it uses the desktop setting. I have a 144hz monitor, but I have to set it to 90hz to be able to use freesync. I therefore have my desktop set to 90hz and that's what I'm seeing in DCS too.

Dark blacks and very high contrast ratio is the selling point behind VA panels. They can achieve static contrast ratio approaching 5000:1 while IPS/AHVA are around 1000:1 and TN panels are even less, typically between 600:1 to 800:1

Absolutely. 1080 and 1440 is the sweetspot for the GTX 970. It's not good beyond 1440 though. And technically speaking the technology AHVA = IPS. They are just different trademarks owned by different manufacturers. Not to be confused with VA which is actually a different technology with different pros and cons. The Asus ROG Swift PG279Q has just been released in my country and reviews are good but it's damn expensive. It also use the same panel as the previous two I mentioned. Only major difference is that it's overclockable to 165hz, which in my opinion is pretty useless and not worth the price premium. There's also an Eizo coming later this year, with similar specs.

There is no such thing as 144hz in 4k resolution right now, because there is no interface with the required bandwidth to achieve that. The fastest interface currently in use is display port 1.2, and it is limited to 60hz in 4k. The highest resolution where you can achieve 144hz is 2560x1440. Both monitors you propose are TN panels. Don't expect good image quality from these panels. For about the same price you can get what in my opinion is the best gaming monitors right now, which are 144hz 2560x1440 27'' IPS panels with adaptive sync. There are a couple of options. Have a look at these: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/asus_mg279q.htm http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_xb270hu.htm They are very closely matched, and even use the same panel. The largest difference is the Asus has Freesync and the Acer has G-sync.

Yes, good choise, especially for 1080p. No need for overpriced 980 or Titan series. 970 is the sweetspot (or 390 for those who decide to go with AMD).

Lol, that's not what he meant. :) The expression "I don't buy it" usually means the same thing as "I don't believe this". The word "buy" is not to be taken literally here.

True, it's unnecessary and will draw a lot of power which turns into heat, but the cooling should always be able to handle it anyway. If it can't then something is wrong with it.

So clearly you have a problem with the cooler, and yet you blame DCS for the damage done? Normal full load temperature for your card is 65-70°C. You are way beyond that, so it's easy to see where the problem is. Baking it in the oven is not a proper fix. Reattach the cooler with clean surfaces, new thermal paste and make sure it's a tight fit, and not loose in any way. That's a proper fix.

That doesn't mean the card is dead. Maybe you killed it in the oven, but try taking the cooler off, clean the area where heat flows from GPU to heatsink, apply new thermal paste and make sure you mount the cooler properly with a good amount of pressure against the GPU. Something may have warped when you put it in the oven, so that the GPU and heatsink doesn't have good contact anymore.