7rooper

Yes, they do. An outdated engine.

Maybe that level of realism can't be achieved these days but one thing is for sure: DCS graphics need to be greatly improved. My wish list includes: -Graphics need to keep up latest DX standards. HDR, physics libraries(Havok or physix), create new, better and plenty of smoke and particle effects, Strong shader use (Many ppl have the raw GPU power today), better water shader (That small texture tiling over and over is dated). How about better resolution textures? RAM memory is very cheap these days. Don't worry about us. -Optimize the application by natively supporting multi-core processors. Also, the fact that there's water everywhere underneath land makes the use of high quality water prohibitive. -A slighty better UI. We want plenty of options to choose from. Mirror resolutions, in-game option of Antialiasing an Anistropic filtering. If you don't want to tax the graphics interface with too may options you can include a configuration screen before entering the sim. -Some gameplay and realism achieving things like collidable trees, more building populated terrain. If possible expand the map. I would love to see more places to ground pound. -Where's the dynamic campaign? We need it!! -Some AI fixes. I think soldiers should keep moving when their vehicles are being crushed instead of just standing there waiting to be shot. -The Multiplayer UI is ugly and lame compared what one usually needs when MP takes more of your BS time. I'm pretty sure that all of these cannot be ready for the next DCS modules but I hope to see sustantial improvements thru DCS upcoming releases. ED, you have a gold mine here. Listen to your community carefully. I know you have been doing it. Just keep up the good work. DCS is the best that has ever happened to the simulation on PC in a very long time. uffff... gone are the days when I thought that a extremely realistic FM and a fully clickable cockpit could not be achieved on my PC. Thank you ED for writing DCS.

Impressive performance gain when using two cores in windows 7. Can't wait to see what happens with 3 or 4 cores (how about an Intel i7?). Guys, so far nobody has posted graphics settings stating if mirrors are on or off in their benchmark results. That's important for an apples to apples comparison. Downloading the track. I'll post my results later on

You can crank all the settings up but the water quality. If you get these value set to "normal" you'll get a significant boost in fps since you'll be most of the time flyng over fields and land.

That one was funny for me too :P at first. Then it made me think how unsafe these russians technicians do the reload. Seems the man in the gray overall is havng hard times holdng that rocket. Somebody help him!

..I don't think so. Actually, I'm using an Logtech Chillstream XBox360 controller and is so cool (both meanings ;)). It's intuitive and pretty easy to use but you get to need to bind more functions and 8 digital buttons, two analog ones, one crosspad and two sticks aren't just enough.

Can't wait to see!! downloading...

Wow!! That looks so f***** awesome!!!!! I'm using the first release and kinda like it but this one is a total overhauling!!! Great effort you made trying to paint grass. I mean it :thumbup: When will it be ready?

That one is toggled off and ond with the easy avionics option.

That's what exactly haappens to me when I set the affinity to 2 cores! SOme keeoboard entries are not responding or sometimes the whole keyboard stop responding at all.

It's clear that there isn't any noticeable increase in performance (or no gain at all) in Win XP by setting the affinity to 2 or more cores. My big question for the people who tested both win XP and Vista with the same rig is: the maximum FPS gained in Vista are higher than those in XP? I mean, Is there slower performance in Vista, compared to XP, without the Core affinity trick? PS: I tried setting the afinity of DCS.exe to two cores and my keyboard stopped responding. Negative impact here.

Actually hardcore simulators have a lot of stuff to load, far more than a regular game, and is pretty common to see this loooong load times with them. What i think would've been better, and not so annoying seeing your game back to the desktop, was a "Loading... please wait" screen (with a beautiful KA50 pic) while the sim is switching from one interface or code to the other. As a matter of fact I'm running this sim with 2 GB of RAM. Can somebody tell if having 4GB takes shorter to load? Maybe a test with 2 GB first and the insert the other 2GB and see if the loading times improves.

It won't be long until Venezuela gets one of those Destroyers ships. Beautiful machine by the way...

I don't really know what the president of our neighbor country (venezuela) is planning to do but this situation is making us and american goverment a little bit paranoid. Venezuela president is a sick person and is planning to revive a comunist state and encourage small third world countries in southamerica to join him in his crusade. Venezuela folks has been rearming and purchasing russian warfare technology with their profits from the petroleum and now they're being visited by russian forces. This kinda seems like the russian missiles in Cuba situation back then in 60s. Russia is a great country and its people seems to me very smart and industrious but I believe that Venezuela is dreaming about the comunism taking over the world while Russians are just simply doing bussiness :P.

Hey, mav. I just sent you a PM. I'm located in Colombia and I have been trying the online for the las two days. There's a lot of stuff I still need to learn. I don't know why but when I do my search for internet servers I can olnly see as many as 4-5 servers. Why so few? I usually fly online in the morning from 10 AM to 1PM. We are GMT-5... what time do you guys usually fly just to look for you... I believe it could be great.

Whenever I activate a switch or push a button using the keypad, keyboard and Joystick I hear it. In fact, many of the bugs discussed here has not been present during my experience with black Shark. My system: Athlon X2 5000+ 2 GB RAM 8600 GT Built-in sound system Logitech Joystick Seems to me that many of these bugs can be solved by updating some drivers and if neccesary, installing your OS again. The game is just beautiful. It's a shame that in this HDR era we can no see some HDR shot in Black Shark

This what you get when you treat serious stuff with gamers :megalol:... I sincerely hope you get well very soon, Gys.

Download link for God's sake!

Are those graphics from a game? what game is it? :P

ED Working hand in hand with a modding talented artists team!! the outcome is gonna be awesome!. DCS will be the best sim ever. Thanks ED for being open to the community help.

Thanks, man.

Is this mod available for free download? if so. Where can I get it, guys? The FA18 model is so sweet!

****in beautiful! astonishingly inmmersive. I'm gonna embed one video of yours on my Hi5 page if you don't mind.

I just tried the game and I'm f**** pissed! It's crap! Graphics are lousy. FX are comics like. The pilots are broken in every limb and articulation they have, I prefer to toggle them off. Models are low poly and don't even get me started with the quality of the non flyable aircrafts. Textures don't even look good either. No possibility to keymap controls. Some options aren't saved after exiting the game. The list of bugs and flaws is endless. Too bad!. This game doesn't even refresh my chopper sim thirst.

That's right. If FSX runs better on Vista than XP after installing the Service pack is due to manipulations and tricks MS pulls off to force us to use Vista.