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I can read the same numbers from a display directly on my UPS. It shows voltage, frequency, load in VA, load in Watts, and other things, same as an inline meter. It's just more convenient to display them on my PC screen sent through an USB connection. So is that a meter or a software? Also you're diving into minutiae that are becoming less relevant to the discussion here. The efficiency curve at various loads, or 110V vs 230V difference is something that may save you a few cents in the long run, but it makes little difference when it comes to the choice of PSU output power. Here are example efficiency curves from Corsair manuals. You have something like 1% drop in efficiency between 50% and 75% load, and 2% drop between 110V and 230V. Plus the efficiency curve of the more powerful PSU is shifted left, so the difference between them at the same wattage is even smaller. First of all you need to know which CPU will be used with the card. These recommendations come from the simple fact that these GPUs can be paired with any possible CPU. An 80W AMD, or a 250+W Intel. So in this context it makes sense that a card that's slightly more power hungry will require at least 850W PSU. But we're discussing 7800X3D, not Intels, and it this context, any 4090 model will fit in the recommended 850W.

Sure, but we're not in a business where it has to be measured super accurately. 50W this or that way won't change the overall picture. EightyDeuce measurments are... something else I also checked my UPS with an inline meter and it also showed similar numbers. Reading them from UPS software is just more convenient.

Check the Bloom checkbox in the VR tab in DCS settings.

For turn&burn, it's mostly the weight. If you compare them at the same weights, then F-15E actually has better sustained turn performance in DCS than C. At least at the speeds and alts I checked. But that means comparing a fully fuelled C with an E that has 20% of gas.

Sure, here's a benchmark run of Cyberpunk at the highest setting. 640W max, and that includes a 42" TV that's connected to the same UPS and everything else I have on my desk, not necessarily connected to the PC. I mean you have a GPU that at stock setting won't take more than 450W, a CPU that takes less than 100W (during CP2077 benchmark it's more like 40-50W), so either you have something else inside your PC that eats additional 300W, a very inefficient PSU, or a power meter that is somewhat pessimistic. Don't worry too much, even if the readings are true, you have to multiply them by PSU efficiency, so that's around 800W of actual PSU load.

I think the PSU should be more accurate, and also give you the actual output power readout, while the power meters at the wall socket measure power draw including PSU efficiency losses, so they skew the numbers high. Regardless, even basic power meter that is off by a few % will get you in the right ballpark. Interesting I wonder what else in your PC can take so much power above what I got here.

That's a lot @EightyDuce, 300W more than my Pc with similar specs. Is that only the computer, or also including Monitor, and other things you have on the desk?

And it still is... but also with flight model made by a different company. It would also work a bit better if he didn't put 4x more fuel in the Eagle than in the Viper. But ultimately F-15E is an aircraft in the same weight category as Su-27 and F-14, won't outturn a Viper in a dogfight setup.

What do you mean by overhead, how do you measure that?

I give advice to people in this thread, because I actually have a PC with 7800X3D and I can measure the power consumption. Even with furmark and Prime95 running at the same time, with 6 SSDs, one HDD, 7 fans and multiple USB devices for flightsimming, the thing does not go above 650 watts measured at the wall. Still plenty of headroom even in the worst possible scenario. Normally when gaming it's much less, not even half the PSU capacity. So yeah, as I wrote before answering Ce_Zeta, for 7800X3D a 850W PSU is more than enough. If it makes you sleep better at night you can even buy a 2 kW PSU, it won't hurt anything else than your wallet.

F-15 has the largest fuel tanks of all flyable aircraft in DCS. More than three times than F-16. Fully fuelled, it's also the heaviest. You don't land it normally with "80%" of fuel. That's twice the weight of a fully fuelled F-16.

I'm off by 3 watts, you're off by 143 watts. As I said, do the math properly, or even better, measure your PC with a power meter.

You're quoting Global System power consumption, it's written right there at the top of the chart. That's total power consumption for the whole test PC they used: motherboard, CPU, RAM, disk, GPU. If motherboard alone used 143 Watts, then it would require a second active cooling solution the same size as the CPU itself. So you've counted CPU twice and did all your math wrong. Do yourself a favor and buy one of these for 10 bucks, you'll be surprised what it shows:

Found this mentioned several times but not as a proper bug report so here goes The initial frequency set in FR24 is plain wrong. This is not a valid VHF frequency. It's like somebody typed "123456" in the code because he didn't have any better idea what to put there.

This is not the issue. Your hardware has nothing to do with it. You load with MRM mode active while the switch on the throttle in game is shown in the middle position.

That still does not add up to 850, not even close, even assuming the worst case scenario where you somehow manage to load all these parts to 100% at the same time. A motherboard does not take 143W on its own, where did you get that number?

After dropping all bombs, the pylon disappears from PACS page, but remains "selected". You can still toggle it by clicking the pushbutton above empty space. In the attached track, I drop all the bombs and then I can't select A2G guns unless I deselect invisible pylon. Also clicking the pylon pushbutton again will deactivate guns mode if it's active. bugPylon.trk

It isn't. A fan is a few watts each, SSD around 5 watts, AIO pump maybe around 10W. The rest of the PC simply does not require much power. Even with a lot of peripherals, there's still much headroom on a decent 850W PSU. Most of the time I don't think so, maybe with some heavy missions or MP.

At the start of a mission, the aircraft system is in MRM mode. But the switch on the throttle is in SRM position. They are not in sync. Pressing the "Weapon switch CNT (SRM)" shortcut has no effect and does not select AIM-9. Because the switch is already in SRM, even though MRM is selected. You have to go to MRM or GUN position, only then the SRM shortcut becomes active and Sidewinder can be selected. bugSRM.trk

I use 850W. It is enough with this CPU.

Added F-15E from Razbam.

It may still be worth doing both. A screen area not rendered by the game at all is better than an area rendered at lower resolution. Larger fov also means more objects inside the screen area to calculate. In 2D just bumping your FOV will reduce FPS even without touching any other settings. The point of that tweak is not to achieve FridgeVision. It's to reduce unusable FOV as long as the change is imperceptible.

Both ends. Pc is obviously busy rendering the whole game, then compressing the video for the headset and sending it through the cable, the headset has to decompress the video using its puny little mobile chip. Momentary freezes may be caused by the headset not being able to decode in real-time and too high bitrate may be an issue. Big freezes and crashes are usually a symptom of something wrong on the pc side.

I did not change any options manually, but the file was still wiped out. Maybe because I start DCS from different shortcuts with command line options (like --force_enable_VR)