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Holy necro thread. Are you carrying stores (missiles) on that Su-27 or flying clean?

@LucShep thank you! That's just what I needed. Will give your settings a go.

I want to undervolt my RTX3090 (non Ti) in order to get it to use a little bit less power (50 Watts less would be ideal). I assume I can do that by lowering the power curve a little bit to drop the max Mhz and then undervolting it so it can run stable at that speed? Am I getting this right?

VRAM size is only one factor. Bus bandwidth is actually even more important, which is why the 4070Ti for example, is a terrible, absolutely terrible card for VR. It has great performance at 1080p, but that 192bit BUS bandwidth is limiting it horribly at higher resolutions and VR despite that card having 12 GB or GDDR6X ram, which is absolutely wasted on it.

Good choice. In DCS switching to VR is like chasing the dragon. You can't go back to TrackIR, but at the same time you can't get it setup exactly how you want it and you keep chasing the FPS counter. It's frustrating in how addictive it is. I'm seriously thinking of going back to TrackIR at least for the fixed wing aircraft.

First things first. There is a huge difference between what is needed in DCS World for VR and what is needed for great 1080p performance. If you want the former you will need to spend a HUGE amount of money or (please note this is NOT hyperbole) you will be disappointed. Even when spending an absolute pile of money on your gaming rig to get the best and fastest hardware money can buy, you might still end up being disappointed with how it all performs. Case in point, my 3090 was a great card a year ago. Still a great card today, just not for VR in DCS. Now to get stable framerates a 4090 is required. But I digress.. Let's get back to some more realistic expectations. Performance at 1080p. I hate to break it to you but that RX580 is also a dinosaur. At least as far as DCS is concerned. You will need a full system upgrade. Which means a new CPU (and cooler), new RAM, new motherboard, new graphics card, new M2NVMe SSD, and very probably a new PSU and case. For 1080p performance the 5600X will probably be more than enough, but if you really want great frames then the CPU will be the limiting factor here, depending on the graphics card. DCS likes team green. Go with Nvidia this time round. Since the 4XXX series came out you can find great deals on the RTX 3XXX series, and all of them will do great at 1080p though I wouldn't go lower than a 3070. The rest is easy, 32GB of DDR4 rated for 3200, decent M2 SSD storage (don't even think of going below 1TB here, since DCS will eat up a full third of that drive, maybe even more) a 750Watt power supply (I have an HCGAntec 750W and it absolutely is more than enough for my needs, despite me having a ton of peripherals and a 3090) and a motherboard of your choice that will support all of that.

Okay, so one of the best gaming chips released ever, probably the best of the last generation (and proven to be especially great in DCS World) is according to this benchmark beaten by an entry level i3. Sure. I'm wrong.

Well apparently I'm an idiot. The board arrived today. Eagerly I threw myself at the upgrade. Unfortunately, I am a complete tool. Apparently my cooler is missing the LGA1700 backplate and mounting brackets, despite being advertised as supporting the socket. I checked online, i didn't look in the box. I will never make the same mistake again. So I contacted the BeQuiet manufacturer, and hopefully they can send me the mounting brackets.*I will know more tommorow. The worst part is that this cooler DOES SUPPORT 12th and 13th gen Intel processors, however when I bought it that platform and that socket didn't exist. They added support later, and well....tldr I DIDNT LOOK IN THE GODDAMN BOX.... Needless to say I'm down and more than a little angry with myself. *of course they will charge me for them, that is assuming they have them in stock

I'm sorry but a site that lists the i3-12300 as better rated than an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X can't be trusted. At all. This siteand it's synthetic benchmarks are complete BS. And the two others you listed are not much better. Tom's Hardware used to be one of the best sites around, 10 years ago. Now I can't trust them to write a single review. Single threaded performance is King in DCS now, that much is true. But for proper benchmarks look at youtube channels like Gamer's Nexus or JayZay2Cents, at least they take the time to benchmark games directly.

I would never look at synthetic benchmarks as anything other than guidelines. Especially for gaming. You need real world performance, and you can get that only from reliable gaming enthusiast sites and content creators. This particular table is especially bad.

The problem is the ever increasing hardware requirements of the game. A very powerful rig built especially for DCS World, that ran the game perfectly fine a year ago should not be struggling to run the same game today. (This is not really apparent in 2d gaming, but it is very apparent in VR) Also, we have gone way off topic.

Still not there yet, apparently the store had to order the MB directly from the supplier, so the motherboard should be arriving Tuesday.

These are not some random musings, as a VR enthusiast I have taken the time to research this. Please name one VR game that uses DLSS to increase it's frame rate. Just one. I'll wait.

Really? Which ones are those? Everything I've read about DLSS points to it being completely and utterly useless in VR.

My concern with DLSS is that it doesn't work with VR. In fact it does nothing for VR, but it should help those who have recent Nvidia RTX cards but not the most powerful of PCs, but who don't play in VR.

It's a little bit marketng speak, a little bit legalese, but from this little blurb it seems that most of the work on the Eurofighter is actually going into the general framework which will be used to build all other modules after the F4, at least as far as the radar, weapons system, displays and flight controls systems are concerned. This is actually pretty good news, as that should mean that most of the other stuff is finished or close to finished.

This right here gents. This is what matters the most for extreme resolution gaming OR Virtual Reailty. Unless you are gaming exclusively at 1080p then this card is a complete waste of money.

The F14 is probably the best module in DCS bar none. You have chosen well. Don't be put off by Jester, I have flown this plane a lot with Jester in the back seat, and once you get used to it the contextual wheel is very intuitive and easy to use and for most Air to Air tasks you will be more than capable in the F14 as long as you are aware of Jesters limitations. It's definitively the best implementation of an AI co-pilot in the game. One of the very cool things as a very new virtual pilot is learning start-ups. Jester will help you out with that too. Eagle Dynamics should have bought, bribed or stolen the code for Jester from Heatblur, because frankly what they have in the AH64D and the Hind is complete garbage by comparison. There I've said it. Many will not agree but it's my opinion and I'm entitled to it. P.S. You absolutely need a decent pair of rudder pedals, and a joystick to fly the F14. It's a very hands-on and feet-on plane. Don't even try rolling at more than 15 AoA with just the stick. Oh and TrackIR is highly recommended. I would say essential but some manage to fly without it.

Very low troll effort. I give it a 3.5/10.

What? Since when? Heatblur used to be Leatherneck, which was a Scandinavian+Serbian development team. They then split into Heatblur and Magnitude. Since when have they become primarily based in Poland?

I went with the i5 13600k over the 5800X3D. Still waiting for my new motherboard to arrive , but in most benchmarking scenarios, especially with multithreaded games, the i5 comes out on top. A lot of recent games seem to like the big cache on the X3D chips, but the even newer engines seem to like more physical cores even more. I was skeptical of the P + E core configuration of the new Intel chips but they seem to work really well now.

I love it when people speculate. This thread has been a lot of fun to read, there are a lot of very, very knowledgeable people posting here and it shows. The thing is, we won't know really until the Phantom gets here, and more importantly until people become proficient with it and learn how to operate it. When the F14 was first released into early access people were throwing tantrums that it flies like total crap. However it wasn't the plane, it was the pilots. When eventually people learned how to handle it at high AOA and how to actually fly it properly (rolling the plane with pedals at extreme AoA or a combination of stick and pedals) it was a whole different story.

Now that you mention it, that's exactly what this looks like. Good catch.

I would suggest that you download the latest BIOS update to your motherboard and flash the bios. From the screenshot you provided it looks like that chipset+bios only supports XMP for very specific DDR5 RAM combinations.

Bought the i5 13600KF (same as K minus the integrated graphics) managed to snag it for 350 Euros, also ordered the Gigabyte B760 Gaming X DDR4 motherboard for about 180 Euros. In the end I went for the 760 chipset, it doesn't support overclocking out of the box like the Z series, but it's cheaper, it's a very new chipset which is designed to work with 13th generation processors out of the box, and it's got all the stuff I'm ever gonna need on it really. I could have gone with an mATX form, which would have been even cheaper but I dislike how they really cram everything in there and you get even fewer USB and M2 drive IO lanes. I'll let you know how this thing flies when I assemble it later this week. Thanks to everyone for their replies.