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I'll test when I get home. Are you using emergency afterburner and were they in those charts?

You gained 700ft in altitude in the F-5 and lost about 800ft in the MiG though...

Wait for Zen benchmarks and pricing and buy what suits you best on a cost/performance/efficiency basis. For people who don't care about pricing and just want the fastest chip I imagine Intel will still be top dog but I'm hoping Zen will restore some balance and bring prices down slightly across the board. If you can get a real 8 core Zen chip with multithreaded performance similar to a 6900k (a $1000 part) for around the $350 mark the 7700K would be a real tough sell for Intel, even with its better single threaded performance.

Aww man! I'm running a sandybridge i5 too and would love to step up to an i7. If anyone else decides to give one away let me know lol. :thumbup:

I noticed this in the supplements section. -Flighte should be flight -Utility hydraulic reservoir should be flight control hydraulic reservoir -The dark purple lines are not 'wheel brakes' but hydraulic supply lines. Noticed many other typos in the supplements section too which I will add to this thread when I get the chance.

Try setting: 3. MASTER ARM: GUNS, MSL & CAMR to 'OFF' instead. Maybe it's sending conflicting signals as the weapon release button is used for sidewinders (MSL) in this mode? Just a guess...

Sounds like the difference is probably due to installed vs uninstalled thrust then. I guess we can put the 'higher than official' figure down to a possibly uprated engine in later models too.

Page 26 of the manual: "The F-5E was powered by a more powerful General Electric J85-GE-21 engine having a 5,329 lbf(2,185 kgf) afterburner thrust" Page 77 of the manual: "The aircraft is powered by two J85-GE-21 turbojet engines equipped with afterburners. Sea level, standard day, static thrust at military (MIL) power is 3250 pounds (1475 kgf) and at maximum afterburner (MAX) power, 4650 pounds (2110 kgf)"

GTX 770

This is fantastic. I'd love to see more CPU architecture testing though as I'm running an old i5 2500K at 4.2GHz with 16GB of 1600MHz DDR3 and am wondering what kind of performance this will give relative to Skylake.

I agree that this one seems a little rushed. I think it has a lot of potential but it doesn't have the DCS fidelity feel to me at the moment. I'm probably just going to uninstall it for a few months until it's in a more polished state.

Missiles (IR) already do target heat emmissions and are therefore more likely to damage your engines and the rear of your aircraft. You can also tweak the percentage chance of random failures in the mission editor. I think they're currently based on real mean-time-before-failure (MTBF) data which are often in the range of hundreds or thousands of flying hours. If you want to simulate flying an older or less recently serviced jet, just ramp up the failure probabilites.

The failures aren't scripted... They're dynamic based upon which hit box the missile happens to damage. I think the damage model in DCS is actually pretty good for the most part. Almost every system in the A-10C can be individually damaged or degraded which is incredibly immersive (minus the unrealisticly slow way that hydraulic pressure bleeds off meaning you never have to use of the manual revision flight mode).

[REPORTED] Z-fighting with TGP in WHOT and BHOT Not sure if this is a 1.5 bug or a long standing one but most vehicles flicker and you can see aircraft through hangar walls/ceilings.

Yeah, I don't think DCS is reporting the correct vram usage at the moment. I get 100 fps and supposedly 4GB of vram usage with only a 2gb card... Something seems off to me.

Don't suppose this is coming out with an English cockpit?

The MiG-21 has TERRIBLE cockpit ergonomics though. Switching missiles is clunky and the controls are spread out all over the place. You can 'cheat' by mapping controls to your HOTAS but I like to click on things in the virtual pit. The F-5 will be much better in the regard. Plus I won't have to convert everything from metres and km/h to feet and knots in my head!

Well, I certainly wouldn't even know where to start with coding avoinics or a flight model so you get a massive well done from me! I love it when a DCS module really hits a home run and this one in particular looks to be coming along very well indeed.

I'm on a 2500K @ 4.0 GHz with 8GB of ram with a a GTX 770 and am getting pretty bad stuttering even at 1440x900 resolution and with a high 'reported' frame rate in game. It isn't smooth though. Worst in the MiG-21.

Weirdly I get stuttering too after the update. FPS counter says 80-90 FPS but it feels like 15 FPS for a reason I can't explain. It just doesn't make any sense but looks awful.

Yeah, I had the same thing happen after updating to the latest beta. Wrong forum though. The MiG-21 is by Leatherneck, not Belsimtek.

The US F-5E will be a great aggressor aircraft for the NTTR. In the 2009 Training and Readiness Unit Requirements Manual it says: "All Weather Intercept (AWl) Stage. Purpose - The AWl stage is to develop the PUI's skills in the use of the APQ-159 RADAR system to find other FW aircraft that are beyond visual range (BVR)" So even as recently as that the same aircraft and radar was being used for adversary training. I don't really care about firing mavericks if the real life variant of the airframe they are modeling can't.

I can't really see what is wrong with the picture in that link to be honest. In the one I posted it's pretty obvious though.

I like the look of the flap systm for the F-5. A three way toggle on the left of the throttle for UP/THUMBSWITCH/DOWN (where the up and down positions override the thumbswitch and the middle position transfers control to it) and a thumbswitch on the throttle body for UP/CRUISE/MANOEUVRE modes.