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No, I don't. First time I noticed that I am affected by 3D graphics causing nausea was way back with the original Wolfenstein. I just watched a friend playing it and got sooo sick, for hours. I then realized, 3D Ego Shooters are not for me..until BF1942 came out. That I played for years with no problems. I guess better graphics and fluent gameplay make it acceptable. After BF1942 I forgot about it, that's already over a decade ago, until I got that Rift thing and couldnt use it. In the end I gave it to my buddy for his kids...they loved it. Maybe when those things have fully matured I try it again. It was awesome, no doubt. It's a totally different sim in VR. I may add: I don't have any problems flying, 3D-Acrobatics ( did that when I was younger on the passenger seat ), can live on a boat ( half swedish, that's my genes there ), have a very good feeling for balance and timing, maybe that's why my brains thinks I get fooled. The reason why this happens is a little different to Eugel's explanation to what I got told, maybe both are valid..I am no doctor by the end of the day. It says that your brain's fault tolerance "App" can only take so much garbage ( the wrong signals from your eyes saying " we are spinning downwards !!!" and your ears saying "No, you sit still you fool, you ain't moving at all!!" After a too high dose of that bad input you would eventually fall into an epileptic seizure, that's when your brain goes tilt, shuts off, and the spinal cord takes over your vital functions. So the trip wire is the brain not tolerating too much bad input. Acting ( likely ) first with nausea..and if you don't stop that bad influence you would finally end in an epileptic seizure. BTW, Page #1 in every Game booklet and Readme.pdf by law iirc. It's said that you could possibly force anybody into such a seizure if you force them audio-visual input that overloads the brain. Think that was also tested by some of the 3 letter agencies.

Tbh, I suffered the same sickness and it got worse over time, not better. i finally gave up VR for now.

Not only that, nothing of their greatnesses has become true for mortal Desktop users yet. Bigger modules, lower voltage.

This is getting toxic and btw I never claimed 70ish gains, all I said is comparing things is not always easy. Anyway, too much aggression for my taste

Are you talking about the "same" DCS at all ? According to your both signatures, one runs VR and the other runs 2D... that may explain the different experiences. Also other DCS settings may effect your possible gains as well as add-ons, 3rd party modules etc... and maybe not having deleted fxo and metashader, there are many variables to be considered when you "just compare". I didn't get more fps, heck..the 1080ti is my bottleneck, but in 10+ years it has never been that smooth. just my 2 cents

Nirsoft's usbdeview tool may be of help

Ya, that should work fine unless you want all it has to offer.

Very nice, it's so much smoother. MP with a full server was as smooth as never before imho.

I run 11 on all of my own machines and most of my clients, family and friends, those on 10 have mostly incompatible hardware, only 1 company still runs 10, worldwide afaik, so I follow with that local office. If you are afraid of Windows 11 spying on you, Windows 10 is not the answer, that's for sure.

By looking at the RAM module you might be able to read what specs it "has" but that may not necessarily be the speed they run on now. There are many tools that can tell you your current, active, RAM settings. HWinfo, CPU-Z, Aida64, etc... I use CPU-Z for quick checks. Remember, whenever you update Bios and sometimes ( though seldom ) even after sudden power losses and hard resets the RAM reverts to SPD values instead of any XMP or manual settings. Just check it from time to time to make sure it still runs with it's faster settings.

That's one of those not so nice USB problems. You could try a Bios update if there is one, a newer or older chipset driver for your motherboard, there should be no need to install any USB controller drivers in 10 or 11. If possible, install a 2nd copy of windows on another drive or reinstall yours to see if it's just your install causing it. What happens is mostly clear, just what causes it !

It's all about bandwidth, no one would care about any CL value if the MHz were there to compensate it. Actually, the way it is handled shows that increasing CL values are accepted over generations of RAM, always increasing. The actual latency presented to the system is not the RAM's CL value but the outcome of MHz / CL. When more RAM is needed, nothing can solve it but more RAM. As things are, you need the "mo RAM" in the same time as you did the with a lesser amount of RAM before, i.e. a texture got 4x as large as before because you upped the LOD, then bandwidth is your friend when you look aside and load that texture first time in game. The higher the fps the faster the new texture has to be processed/loaded etc.. a rat's tail performance wise. Be it system RAM, VRAM, SSD's. As long as the outcome of MHz/CL is acceptable, more bandwidth is the way forward. My rule of thumb over the years for a responsive gaming rig is to stay below a value of 1 for actual used RAM/Bandwidth. My DCS needs usually anywhere 30-40GB mostly and I have ~60GBsec bandwidth at a good latency of 7.77ns ( 3600 CL14-14-14-34 ) If DCS would suddenly need 100GB of RAM, likely DDR4 was too slow to handle that while maintaining acceptable fps and fluid flying. Once it grows outside it's 40-50GB max usage size DDR4 bandwidth may start to struggle and DDR5 systems with twice the bandwidth will likely say "no, I don't have those stutters on my rig". Tune down your DDR4 to 1333MHz early DDR3 speed and see what happens, despite you could run now insane low CL values. I hope that with the next coming platforms, after 13th gen Intel and 7000 AMD, DDR5 will have more choices and better pricing, coupled with general availabilty. If I had to build one now that should last 4-5 years I'd pick a DDR5 system meanwhile, the prices have fallen enough to consider it and 64GB are still ok for DCS. With newer, more detailed and feature rich modules and maps, hopefully Multi-Threading and Vulkan in the coming years, missions will grow in size and RAM demand, etc etc. at some point, 64GB will be in any new system and 128GB the standard gamer, 196 or 256GB then the top end rigs. Hey, my 1st one had 2MB RAM. I thought 16MB was heaven for eternity, now I am at 64GB but have understood, this is not gonna stop growing.

Almost everybody uses MSI Afterburner

likely a powered USB hub could help. see if your monitor has one built in, that may do the trick already. could also be far more complicated and hard to track down and resolve, so try a hub first.

It really shines in MSFS, that's a reason to hope

Avoid any card with less than 16GB VRAM unless you aim for 1080p. You can work around some shortcomings but lack of memory cannot be compensated other than with a delay. A decade old wisdom. Just my 2 cents about Nvidia trying to rip us off F***off Nvidia *corrected to 16GB

Oh, 64GB is for DCS, I can use 128GB in virtual machines, not for DCS (yet). I had my DCS way over 40GB, almost 50GB usage, MP, heavy mission, big preload and highisch LOD

Indeed, it will be very interesting to see how they perform across a variety of games and apps and how the single CCD 7800X3D performs and how much better the 2x CCD variants 79xxX3D perform. Will DCS prefer the Cache heavy CCD or will it use both for the coming new threads, who knows. Just if some of those threads really like fast cores more than Cache it will show once multi threading arrives which may happen this year ( fingers crossed ). I just know, for 100€ more I would grab the 16 core CPU this time and load it with 128GB if those kits are available then.

What you could also do, if you have the skills or courage if you lack the first one, install Ubuntu ( likely the easiest Linux to install for this test ), once installed let it have/install the Nvidia GPU drivers ( 3rd Party Drivers ), install Steam and one of your Steam games that you hopefully have and take metrics there. I play many games Cross-OS and some really shine better in Linux but they all run 90-100% the speed they do in Windows, some better. So if you have Asetto Corsa, Project Cars etc... they all run in Linux at full speed. If your rig still suffers FPS in another OS something in Bios or Hardware is not right. Just another way of probing where it comes from.... your mileage may vary depending on skills.

My son said he needs a new PC....so if the monkey bites me I'll end up with one of those 9er X3D's and hand my rig down to my eldest one, take his 7700k in return for the younger ones and call it a day. Yeah, there is the need for a GPU as well...will see. Thing is, I really LOVE this 5900X Build, it's the most reliable machine I have built in more than 1 decade, maybe ever. Not a single BSOD or glitch ever, hands down. That keeps me more back than anything else. I remember 6700K disaster, 7700k was OK and still is, my 8700k never liked fast RAM but loved BSOD's, etc etc... and this 5900X just works. and I say this as someone who fixes and builds rigs, this is one of a kind.

Actually, eBay has 11 for 5-15€ everyday multiple times. No need to pay 30+ When you choose DDR5 for your build then I'd wait for the 7000X3D series CPU's and see if they are better than Intel's offer. The rest is great, looking at that 2TB 980Pro...damn, I paid that much for each of my 980Pro's, just all 1TB. Nice to see that at least some PC parts have gone down in price. Think I'll grab a 2TB as well once those low prices reach Germany.

I'd say, wipe that thing clear and do it again from Zero. Install 11 Pro, install Chipset drivers right after, then GPU + Audio + LAN/WLAN etc devices, then OS Updates till done. To me it sounds like a broken OS install and if you are not sure either, wipe it and start clean, slowly, bit by bit.

Yes, but it will take AGES to do so unless you only refer to the Saved Games folder of DCS. You would need to UPLOAD all those hundreds of GB to OneDrive and then DL them again. At that point, you have many alternatives that work faster and easier. Get a external USB drive and copy-paste it that way....or connect both PC's via network and copy /paste via LAN at 1Gbit/sec......all way better than OneDrive imho. It may even be just as fast ( or slow ) to reinstall from scratch compared to OneDrive.

It pays back. Understanding MSI Afterburner is fundamental.