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Hmmm, I ordered back on July 1st. Were you earlier than that? I haven't seen an email from them (those rat bastards! :D:D)

Interesting. He didn't say what HMD he was using (I don't think). But the fact that 3090 let's you jack up SS w/o penalty is interesting.

It won't fit in your VIC 20 so you're going to have to upgrade to an Amiga. I never could understand why people get sooooo attached to their HW or vendor. For me, it's just a tool to let me play DCS in best possible way. (And other work, of course) But glad you're excited for the AMD launch. I hope it lives up to your expectations.

I had an AIO cpu cooler. But delid'ing it made a HUGE difference. This was with 8700K which didn't have solder as the TIM. When I got the 10700K, I didn't even bother with AIO. I delid'ed *and* went direct to die (so no more Integrated heat shield) and using Noctua tower cooler. both CPUs are OC'ed to 5.1GHz. So my conclusion led me to believe that delid (or direct-to-die) matters more than what cooler you have.

There is a lot to be said about lens design. Supposedly, G2 Reverb has a better lens design and has a bigger sweet spot. And I don't mind my Reverb, but I'm coming from Rift so the jump up was great (for me). But that reminds me, play around with pulling or pushing the HMD side to side, in and out, up and down. Maybe you're off the sweet spot? might as well as rule it out.

If it *feels* good enough, it's good enough. Some people get motion sickness if it's too herky jerky. I see you had it cranked to a much higher resolution. I had to ask because SS% changed over time. So absolute resolution makes it easier to compare. Do you wear glasses in real life? Meaning are you near sighted? If so, even though the lens is up close, the focal distance is still few meters out. Don't chase the green/red or even FPS. If it feels smooth enough for you, just go with it. I find that 45FPS is the minimum for me to enjoy it. If it constantly dips below that, it gets annoying.

I took that to be granted. But I should have pointed it out. The other permutation is it's not so good, but it's way way way cheaper. That would entice people.

I guess that's 30 seconds I'll never get back. I thought you had something pertinent to discuss. The do have a chit-chat forum where you can do stuff like this to your heart's content.

When you set the SS in SteamVR at 150% what does the resolution say? And are you using the beta SteamVR?

Not a technical one. But you will have to map out the throttle functions on all the planes you own.

OK, now *that* was a good comeback! LOL. :D:D But 2 point deduction for the misquote. "The Pentagon sees to it that I know more than you."

But I think only two of the games tested were capable of VRSS. And this part gave me hope "We have also welcomed a new VR reviewer, Sean. He is a racing and flight sim specialist who also will join us in benching VR for this large and growing community."

Saw this in the HW/SW thread and posting here. I'm sure more of you care. LOL Now write to them and ask them to test DCS. TL/DR: Conclusion We are surprised that the RTX 3080 – although Ampere has no VR optimizations over Turing – is able to give a superior VR experience at more demanding settings than the RTX 2080 Ti. We think that the RTX 3080 is a good upgrade over the RTX 2080 Ti for VR, even more so than for pancake gaming. https://babeltechreviews.com/vr-wars-ampere-vs-turing-the-rtx-3080-vs-the-rtx-2080-ti-fcat-vr-performance-benchmarked/

Not always. Different HW specs have different bottlenecks. always have, always will. But DCS fires up 50-64 software threads. All of which runs on one core (maybe two, I'm told the audio portion runs on a separate core). And resource meter bears this out. But again, I understand the complexity of getting the scheduling right for multiple threads to coordinate. I'm afraid when I took Operating Systems, multi-threading wasn't de rigueur! So I have no way of judging what amount of effort it takes to move the software threads to separate physical cores.

But a full fidelity cockpit *WILL* make A10A just as complicated as A10C. FC's planes were meant to be more arcade than not. It's meant for casual gamers who want to have fun. Not have to spend hours studying how to start up their aircraft. So you can't have it both ways. You can't selectively say "make it complicated by giving me realism, but make it simple" BTW, A10C already has a game mode where things are vastly simplified.

Could care less about the politics of it. The argument against would be: 0) Improve VR performance 0.1) Bring Vulkan to the beta stage 0.2) New texture update for Huey 1) Huey with MP 2) Cobra 3) Making sure Kiowa works 4) Improve F16 5) Improve F18 6) make sure Normandy map creators follow through on using new tech to update the maps. I understand that representation is important. So I'm not dismissing the ask. But I am dismissing the priority of it. I would say the same thing to someone who demands the correct representation of stars at night time. It's all a matter of priorities.

It's not that complicated. It's just a "home" screen where you can launch games, calibrate things etc. It's like Oculus home that runs every time windows boots. Then you need SteamVR plug in. But you do *NOT* need Steam version of DCS. I did a quick tutorial. Keep in mind things have changed, but you'll get an idea of what it takes to configure WMR. It's not much.

But there is lies the problem. By all accounts NVDA had a lot of stock. But every major site had record setting customer demand. So AMD *almost* has to control the inventory so it won't be seen on shelves for days on end.

But you're forgetting the number one reason why vendors don't have performance testing. The results can be used against them by the competition.

Hmm, seems promising!

Until recently, I had 8700K system but running at 5.1GHz. And when I went from 1080Ti to 2080Ti, I saw a nice bump in VR experience. So I would think you would see a better experience going from 1080Ti to 3080. But as others have stated, there is AMD release coming out so maybe they will deliver something that's attractive.

My guess because no one really has JUST a DCS machine. I'm guessing lot of people do other work on the machine. I know I do.

That would be pretty awesome!

HMCS was a lot of work I'm sure. Also, the "it's not a big deal to change some minor things" in software is NEVER true. No one should feel guilty about paying what the vendor asked for. However, I do support ED by buying every add-on DLC etc w/ the exception of Migs and the J something or another plane.

I guess because it would mess up the commercial agreement with the Air Force. But that's just a guess on my part.