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lomac and BS1 are out-dated, and other than nostalgia purposes, are inferior to flaming cliffs 3 and black shark 2

Have you checked thermals? maybe your card is throttling, only allowing 40% usage because the fan isn't working right, there could be insufficient airflow in the case, a card right up against the fan intake, dust....

yeah, hopefully, with the new 1080 and 1070 coming, more people will be getting into 4K gaming, that'll bring the price of high-end 1440p monitors down, will probably kill 1080p.

Free-sync and G-sync are two different things, G-sync is an Nvidia propriatary hardware solution, a physical chip built into the monitor, free-sync is an open-standard, I think part of the vesa standard. nvidia doesn't support free-sync though, so I don't think you can use it with a 980ti.

way to state the obvious, you can lose half a wing, get a few hundred bullet holes in your plane, and in 160 seconds, some dude can come up and apply some magical duct tape that instantly makes your plane like new, also, it can be re-armed and refuelled in a couple minutes flat, with the engines still running (unless it's fc3) usually people find this out pretty quick after they start playing dcs.... reason being, unlike real life, in dcs, you can just respawn and take a new one, therefore having a short rearm/repair time is the only way it even makes sense to have it at all. since really it's just for fun.

ah, yeah, there is tons of hardware capable of running DCS without studdering, therefore the problem isn't the software. It's the people unwilling or unable to buy the hardware. when they blatantly ignore the advice of the people that don't have problems with dcs, or for that matter, blatently ignore the fact that there are people out there with systems good enough to run dcs with no problems, I don't see how people, who are having problems getting dcs running smoothly, can say that it's not their system that's the problem.

4.6ghz and a pair of samsung 840 ssds in raid0 is far from meagre, are you replying to me?

an SSD, for multiplayer, on servers with more than just 1 or 2 plane types really is a requirement. to avoid loading a bunch of unneeded crap into the game, DCS loads models and textures on-demand, so access times are everything, even an ancient slow SSD can have bad access times and cause studdering. you'd probably need that 32gb of ram and a videocard with a 16gb framebuffer to load every single texture and model in dcs into memory before hand, not to mention, loading the game up would take like 10 minutes. because DCS has super high resolution textures and high poly count models.

I'm keeping my 2600K, but i'll probly buy two 1080s.

the A-10 is a huge moral booster for the guys on the ground too, also probably scares the enemy s***less... that's a good weapon in itself, never mind the actual damage the thing can do.... but then so do unmanned drones...

DCS isn't really a money pit, it takes some money to get into, but once you have a decent modern PC that can run the game well, a good stick, pedals, and trackir, and bought all the modules, it's free to just play, the odd 50$ here and there for a couple of modules a year... in the end, it costs less than a premium account for war thunder or some other mmo annually, even more so if you buy in-game stuff in mmos, like converting free exp...

You don't think that things like steam, that makes buying, installing and playing games pretty well painless, and the fact that a 5 year old could build a PC now, makes owning an non-upgradable PC with a walled garden selection of software (a console) leave much to be desired?

AMD is going to kill in the mobile and low power market(your 400$ brand new laptops) and budget markets(consoles are basically budget PCs), nvidia will kill in the high-end gaming, compute, VR, and 3d rendering markets(3000$ gaming laptops, 1500$-20,000$ gaming/rendering pcs) Amd is trying to sell many inexpensive lower-end stuff, nvidia is trying to sell fewer, but more expensive high-end stuff, both are good strategies

always awesome when people ask for advice, then ignore it lol.... DCS is one of a few games that, although you technically "can" play it without an SSD... if you want to really be competitive on servers like the 104th with 40+ people on the same server, you have to have an SSD, or you'll just keep getting screen freezes and microstudders and just generally not have a good time. I have also found GTA V, dayz and arma 3 run much better off an ssd too. arma 3 runs better just by moving it from my old ssd to my new one.

hmm well if you can afford it, a 2TB ssd is good for steam and dcs and as a scratch drive(for putting unedited video and images on), and any hdd should only be used for things like saved games, and video and audio (that's already been edited) , things that wouldn't benefit from being on a ram drive if computers just used ram for storage.

I have my steam and dcs on a 500gb ssd, but it depends on your game collection. my steam folder is 280gb, so over half my 500gb drive is just steam games.

for all 3 clients, plus a ton of other games, yes.

also just because you have a 1200w psu, doesn't mean it's constantly drawing 1200w... if you can afford a 5000w psu, go ahead, if your hardware only draws 400w, the psu will just be sitting there barely doing anything, nice and cool and probably never fail you till the caps eventually die 60 years from now.... and all the talk about efficiency.... how many years of leaving your computer on 24/7 at full load would it take before it saved you enough money to buy a meal at mc donalds?

yeah, that's basically it, I'm not saying he's wrong to use someone as his own personal awacs, I'm just saying I like just focusing on my surroundings, and using the actual awacs when it's available. wingmen make sense in ww2 planes to me, they fly a lot slower and don't need to mask themselves with terrain, since any and all threats need to get within a few hundred meters and at half the speeds of jet fighters. the main goal then is just to try and get the jump on the enemy, they take turns, one wingman goes down and takes a pass on the enemy, the next stays up high, the one that's already passed starts getting his energy back while covering his wingmen who are making their passes. also at those slower speeds, and not having to worry about bvr or missiles with kilometers ranges, it's not nearly as big of a problem being spotted by enemies, you can use a lot more variety in BFM formation tactics. with the fast paced low flying you need to do with the mig-21, on 104th and the like, it makes any kind of ww2 type tactics very impractical, if not just impossible and obsolete...

Usually tell if someone's launched at me by seeing the missile, no real way otherwise.... Mostly I just assume, and, same with using radar shadows, try to mke the missile hit a cliff rather than me. The radar isn't that bad, not really, I just leave it on, and, just like with using radar shadows to hide, I hide my radar by pointing mostly below mountains, and then every once in a while I point my plane up and do a 360 search, also gives enemies a chance to see my radar beam, bait them in. There are more consequences of not using the radar than benefits. So I leave it on. Since the radar sees out front better than I can, from further away too. Also many people mistake the mig21s radar for ew and the signal strength indicators on the Russian rwr give a false sence of security because the 21s weak radar signal.

Is it a K? A 4790k at 4.4-4.6 ghz should be a really nice boost from an fx chip, but if you can't get it past 4ghz, it's not worth it.

What your talking about then, isn't flying with others, it's still solo flying, except you have another person around acting sorta like a quasi-awacs

That's one way of looking at it... For me, I can't stand flying with others, either having to use my SA on keeping a wing leader in sight, or having to limit what I do so my wingman doesn't lose me, all the meanwhile, two planes close together means twice the chance someone will pick you up on radar. Solo flying means you can easily hide in the radar shadows of mountains and hills and ambush. As for loadouts, r3rs for head-on, 13m1 for rear aspect max range. 60ms are good, can turn sharper and have a better tracker than the 13m1, except 60ms only have a 4km range rear aspect and 13m1s have a 7km range. And it's not so impossible to shoot down f15s on 104th with the 21, flying solo... Check my sig for my YouTube channel.

was on the virtual aerobatics server, when all of a sudden, impromptu formation flight :D

Weight and speed don't matter. Throttle setting 80-90% till all 3 wheels are on the ground, descent rate 3m/s or preferably less till the rear wheels touch, and don't let the front wheel go down on its own, control it with elevator, or you'll break it. I prefer landing between 280-310 kph with airbrakes out, for shorter landings, but that's a preference, not requirement. with this, except for the tiny little X shaped runway, that's hard to land on it even with 5% fuel and the drag chute, and the tiny single strip runway, that you can land on pretty easy if you're light, but can't refuel at... you can land on any runway with any weight//loadout, without a drag chute.