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Perfect, nice to hear. I remember quite well how disappointed I was when I felt the play after greasing up the base.

Hi CommandT, its me again I had the same situation when I disassembled my Warthog base. One thing that helped me is to unmount everything until the big spring is out and you can lift up the part where the O-Ring is glued to. It is a cylindric part and you can assemble it in 4 ways by turning it 90 degrees each way. I figured out that in 2 of the 4 possibilities I had the play you are describing. Before you unmount everything you should mark the parts to remember the original position. I hope this helps and yes, I guess you need to glue the O-Ring again, otherwise it will most probably come lose again and again. After I re-glued it I also greased everything up properly to have everything buttery smooth. Xoxen

Hi CommandT, what cordite wants to say is that it would be better to post in the Thrustmaster section to get more answers. Anyway, you should check the state of your O-Ring, which is in the big cylindric part where the big spring is standing on. I heard it very often that this O-Ring, which is originally made of rubber material and is glued, comes lose and is creating issues. Attached pictures, which I found in another forum, display exactly what I mean. When you remove the big spring you can easily move the part displayed up and watch the condition of the ring. Good news is, that you can replace it. Hempstead in this forums offers them. Simply shoot him a PM and he will offer it. Just had the opportunity to have contact with him and ordered one. I hope this helps in your case. You can also degrease the rubber ring and the surfsce and re-glue it with a rubber glue like Shoe-Goo (watch the internet), I did this sucessfully some time ago. Xoxen

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The Aluminum mount comes from Monstertech, a German Company. Here ist the Link to the homepage: Link They are rock solid in every situation. With some knowledge it is possible to build them on your own. I did so, here is a link to a post I wrote in the german forum: Link I hope this helps, Xoxen BTW: I also bought the green spring as a christmas gift and will share my information later on. I own a 7cm extension and in the center when doing AAR it is till a little too stiff. I hope this will be better with the spring. I rarely find information about the combo extension + green spring. I will know at the 26th od December Edit: I just installed the green spring to replace the original spring of the Warthog base. The installation was flawless, but as always you have to take care of the plastic thread when untightening and tightening the screw of the stick (in my case the extension). Not much force, slow turnings. I greased up my base several times so I´m used to it already. The difference by just pressing the spring down when it was unassembled was not obvious. But once it was installed I immediately noticed the easier movement. As mentioned I´m using a 7cm extension and I feared it would not come back to center that easy anymore. But all works very good and I´m very satisfied with the purchase and even the combo extension/green spring works very good. I cannot wait for my first AAR with it, because there the old spring was kind of hard to move in the center region which made it harder to make very small inputs. Thanks Sahaj for your support of the community.

I guess you are referring to my picture. Without Cockpit Illumination it looks not good from my point of view and remebering. I played a lot with settings and they are actually fine as they are and I remember that I flew a long time without the illumination on. Now it looks better.

I´m running 3 x 27" (WQHD) displays and my card is utilized at 100%, so I guess there is still room for a new GPU, my CPU could still be fast enough. Maybe we can run the same mission with the same settings and compare to see, if a faster/newer GPU is benifitial or the DDR4 RAM you have. I have between 40 and 65 FPS dependent of the situation. Over large cities it goes slightly below 40. Here are my settings.

Did you check the CPU and GPU utilization with e. g. MSI Afterburner? This can help you to identify a possible bottleneck. If the GPU is at 100% (or close below, but steady) it is not the CPU. But many thanks. I own the GTX 1080Ti by myself and carefully watch what is going on with the new hardware which came out this year.

You may search in this forums for "Debolestis" who runs a Spapeway shop. I was able to find locks for the F-15 and F-16 (just found them in his shop, do not own them). They are made from pastic and I have no clue if they are exactly what you are looking for. But it is worth a try. Here ist the link to his shop (Shop link). I hope this helps. Xoxen

Go for the SSD first. This will improve your stutters most probably (no guaranty). But it will be a totally different feeling to have fast loading times. 16 GB are enough as long as you don´t fly on crowded (AI and/or clients) online servers. Otherwise 32 GB are very much benifitial. The prices for SSD as well as RAM are not that high at the moment. I guess you would make yourself a good christmas gift investing in both. I hope this helps. The higher the resolution you fly in the less important the CPU gets. I would aim for a GPU first. But you can watch with MSI Afterburner how much the GPU is utilized at the moment. Mine is at 98% nearly always, so it looks like a GPU bottleneck. Xoxen

Hi, actually I would go for Ryzen 9 5950X CPU, RTX 3090 GPU and 64GB of fast DDR 4 RAM. Additionally a fast M2 SSD (I always ran good with Samsung). I guess with this combo you would get the most BAM for your bucks. Alternatively a Ryzen 7 5800X and a RX 6800 (XT) should be fine as well to save some money. I guess above mentioned combination might run well over your budget or at least use everything.

But now you can drag and drop it as well as rezize it with your mouse. I have a triple screen setup and also find the kneeboard in the lower right corner at startup. One things which is not optimal for the moment is the fact that you have to move it everytime you start. Using Kneeboardbuilder solves this problem but I cannot move the kneeboard anymore when doing so. Everything not optimal for multi screen users so far, but it kinda works.

I have the same problem but GFE isn´t installed. Still didn´t find the cause. I will try to unplug the TM to see if it works (if it makes sense because GFE isn´t installed). Edit: I cannot believe it. The TM is causing the issue. I also unplugged the Saitek Pedals but it is the Warthog. I did not expect this to be the cause. I thought it would have been related to Windows 10 Built 2003. Maybe it´s the combination.

Thanks for the answer. I just see in your thread that I left a post as well :smilewink: But this is a good piece of the puzzle. It could be an indication for me to aim for a GPU and gather more eye candy as the CPU is still capable to feed it. Hopefully I get some feedback from someone who changed the CPU to underline this. Xoxen

Hi, I have something I´m asking myself since a long time. Actually I´m using a triple screen setup wit 3x 27” WQHD, respectively a total resolution of 7680 x 1440 (plus the exported MFCDs which have no impact on FPS) . I´m running the hardware displayed in my sig (i7 4790K + GTX 1080Ti) and am getting reasonably good FPS (between 45-85, dependend on the situation, settings attached). Higher is always better. I read in a PC magazine that at high resolutions the CPU doesn’t matter that much, but also read DCS is very CPU hungry. My GPU is utilized at 98% and the RAM is completely filled when running DCS. I wonder if a CPU upgrade would be beneficial for my setup. So I´m asking the triple heads outside for their experience. Does a faster CPU and especially DDR4 RAM improve anything, is it better in frametimes instead of FPS? I´m asking this as the new products out in the market are quite interesting. I only can estimate that upgrading the GPU only would run into limits at one point CPU wise. But when? Any information into the right direction would be very much appreciated. Thanks and take care, Xoxen

Under "My Profile", "Edit Settings", "Account" you can hook "Show Signature". This works for me in a browser. Hope this helps.

Just got 48, been flight simming since C64 days (Gunship). I´m in DCS since 2013 with the Hog and now switched to the Hornet. I own some other modules but don´t spread my limited time to too much of them, better go in depth. Still bad at A2A, but can handle A2G and A2A Refulling. DCS fills a huge portion of my spare time, thanks ED ;-) It´s good to see so much people around in similar or even higher ages. So I´m not alone.

The layout is OK, even though I like the former one better. But the new format is damn slow. Clicking into a post and then go back to the page before lasts way too long. This is what I hate about it.

Many thanks for sharing. I was exaclty waiting for a thread like this as I´m also running a 1080Ti and 3x 1440p displays. My CPU is older but still performing well. I achieve the same FPS mentioned by you, also without MSAA. I really wonder if it would be worth for me upgrading the GPU. Or should I aim for the CPU first whch means a new Mobo and RAM as well. I could imagine that DDR 4 already improves something over the DDR 3 I actually have. I think a little long term as it is a bad time to invest into new hardware knowing all the new CPU´s and GPU´s are around the corner. But isn´t it always a bad time to invest as always new hardware is around the corner :smilewink: Again thanks for sharing, thisis a puzzle piece I needed for getting a clearer picture of my current situation.

This would be great. I am very curious how the 3080 will hit the FPS nail in DCS. Thanks in advance. Xoxen

Hi, maybe I can be of any help as I saw issues in FPS as well when exporting the MFCDs via a second GPU. Have a look over here to see what I did and how I finally solved it. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=261225 Finally I removed the second GPU and ran a Matrox Triplehead2Go. If you need further information from my ends please let me know. Good luck, Xoxen

Please let me know if you managed to hide THIS from your wife and how you did it :smilewink: If you are sticked to intel you should consider to go for the new 10x00 CPUs. They use a new socket and it might be more future proof.

You could use MSI Afterburner. There you can place the OSD wherever you want and get even more information if you like. E.g. CPU, GPU and RAM usage of both of them. FPS, Frametime etc. I hope this helps. Xoxen

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I run it at 4,4 GHz all cores and the DDR3 is at 2,4 GHz.