Johnny Dioxin

That's the repeated issue. I really think they shouldn't announce a module as "Released" when it's only available in beta. They should have a separate section on the website for modules in beta, and only publish products on the main page when they are released to stable. They should also make that fact more prominent. Not that this will happen (and the minions in the forum will not support such a thing anyway).

Just made an offer for them - they will save my aching knees. Here's a YT review (the only one I could find and a good one, too):

I'm using a Cooler Master MB511 case for mine - was really cheap at around £50 but it's great. Has fittings for 8 SSDs - 4 below the PSU/cable area, 2 on the back of the baseplate (what you attach the motherboard to) and two on top of the PSU enclosure. It has 3 fans on the front, two at the top and one at the back and my CPU & GPU temps dropped 10°C when I moved my PC into it. It has all the RGB lightshow gubbins but I don't use that stuff (the 4080 has an RGB socket, too). This was with my 2080Ti: This with the 4080: It's a hardened cellulose side panel. Only thing I don't like is that it doesn't have a USB-C socket, they are all USB A 3.1. As you can see I'm not massively strict on hiding all the cables - just the worst of it.

Don't really understand that - but I do now know what has happened. Please take note: If you buy a 4080 or 4090 card (you probably already did this, but for anyone who didn't...) you should definitely use a surge protected socket/extension for all of your kit. I use surge protection for parts of my kit and not for others and the ones I didn't protect have all blown due to a surge when I tested SkyrimVR or DCS World. I have my doubts it was the former, as it's the only VR game I play that runs consistently at 120fps, but it might be. It destroyed my powered USB 3 with all of my controllers and external HDDs plugged in, also a mains power tower and USB multi-port charger, which didn't have anything plugged in at the time - so didn't even have any draw on the mains, but still got internally fried. I wouldn't have known as it's a sealed unit, but thankfully Windows 10 told me my USB 3 hub had suffered a power surge - and then I realised why most other things weren't working, too. Never mind - lesson learned and new surge protected extensions/multi-socket power points now used for all my stuff, as well as running a separate power line for my PC and monitor. I suppose it's basics, really, but over time as I got more and more things I just didn't take the necessary precautions due to never having had this happen over 37 years of home computing. The 4080 was the twig that broke the camel's back - though a hefty twig! Now I have to redo all my input profiles. I could just rename them in 10-15 minutes, but I reckon it's time to do them individually again. Seeya in a bit... ***edit: The surge turned out to be caused by my Index controller when I plugged it into a USB hub to charge it. Wasn't even on the PC. Apparently, this is a well known fault, but so far haven't been able to fix it and it causes a surge every time I plug it in - regardless where. So - be careful out there! update: Valve support say the surge is most likely due to a damaged USB-C socket on the controller. I can't see any damage, though, even with a powerful magnifying glass, but people on reddit have reported this problem due to damage on theirs.

Just tried testing. DCS World has pulled another one and my stick has lost all of its assignments. Throttle hasn't - just the stick. I checked the controls UI and even though I haven't done any updates or changed anything with the sim or controllers, I've got control profiles jam packed with red exclamation mark icons. Very few are assigned controls - mostly default keyboard stuff. I couldn't run the track file used in this thread, so I'm guessing it's 2.8, where I'm on 2.7. I used a track file of my own of the M2k, but at some point it just switched to a view of a truck and wouldn't budge from it. So it'll take some time to sort things out. This is a perfect example of why I always hesitate to fly this sim. Don't get this sort of thing with anything else. Yeah it can be fixed, no doubt - but it's a repeat ballsache.

I've not started testing the 4080 with DCS World yet - but have spent the afternoon testing with my VR games that are resource-intensive and all I can say is "Wow". Not just from what I see, but on fpsVR. Hope to do some DCS testing this evening, if Mrs doesn't mind me disappearing yet again. This card is just awesome - and the Pico 4 outdoes all my other headsets easily - though it does have the occasional minor glitch with PCVR wireless.

9900k prices are still quite silly, so for the modest gain in performance it isn't worth the outlay. Last time I tried a cpu upgrade in the same family, I was very disappointed and ended up putting my original i5 back in. That was from an i5 4960k to the i7 4770k, which everyone was raving about. The overclocking was dire and even on standard speeds it gave no better performance than my i5. That's something I won't forget in a hurry. I know the i9 is another step, but it's just not worth the outlay right now, especially with me planning to upgrade to AMD in a year or so. Not used AMD since my Athlon64 days - and they now run some of my retro PCs. That's providing nothing big changes in the next year or so. edit: I also came across this on a testing website: btw I know I said I'd wait until January for the 4080, but a good buy came along and I liked the look of the card and they only had one left - so I jumped. Cost me £1346 for a Zotac Carte Graphique Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Trinity OC 16Go

Just ordered my Zotac 4080 along with a Pico 4 - should be interesting to see what performance they bring in flight sims. My current set-up has been good enough to run all sims smoothly in VR, but at half rates (30 or 45 fps - can only run FSX with FlyInside VR at full 120fps with Index) and low-ish settings. I was hoping to upgrade my CPU, but can't be done sensibly - I have an i5 9600k and the only thing I can upgrade to with the Z390D mobo is the i7 9700k - just not worth it. I really don't want to buy a whole new rig just yet. Luckily, I've only had one sim that had my cpu maxed out, and it wasn't DCS World. That may change now - but I should still see a good jump in VR performance, regardless. I'll still have this card when I next upgrade the rest of my rig Anyway, I'll post VR benchmark results with Index, Quest 2 and Pico 4 once I'm all set up. That'll give people with hardware a couple of years old who are thinking of upgrading their graphics card for VR an idea of whether it's worth it or not.

Well, it's a difficult decision. I just saw some 3080's available for £700 - that's a big saving over a 4000 series - but I don't know if it would be worth it, thinking of how much more VR performance I'd get from a 4080, and how much of a difference the 3080 will make over my 2080Ti. It's likely to be my main card for at least 3 years, so I think maybe the extra layout for the 4080 is worth it. Decisions, decisions... a few months ago I was dead set on the 4080, now doubts start to creep in, if it's the right path.

Okay, time to look for a decent 4080 deal. Was hoping the 7900XTX would be a barnstormer (like many were) but that decides it. Probably wait until January, too - plus I'm due some cash, so it may end up being a 4090, but I struggle to pay those sort of prices purely from a moral point of view. Have to see. edit: Just seen a couple of pre-orders for 4090 at £1680 and £1700 at OCuk, which isn't too bad compared to the £2k+ brigade, so not quite as bad as I was expecting, versus a 4080 at minimum £1220 (a ZOTAC card at ebuyer - been using a ZOTAC 2080Ti - bought new for £800 - for a couple of years and it has done a good job).

When I looked on OverclockersUK under their "7900XTX" heading all I saw was a tube of Arctic Silver TIM edit: I know they are not due for release until 13th, but was hoping to get a price indication - mind you, it's hard enough to do that on OCuk at the best of times (they are worried their competitors will undercut them so you often have to phone to get a price - wonder how many actually do that)

Yeah, that's understood - thanks. If I can get it from the website, that would be great. I'm very reluctant to use the current open beta in particular due to the reports of VR performance degradation, though I haven't used it for a long time now. I'd rather wait until the problems have been sorted, especially with such a large update - cheers.

open beta only? Please make it available to those using release version - and please don't others whinge at me like sad people about why I use release, along with many other people. I've had enough of that in other threads and although I have explained why, I shouldn't have to.

The XTX is the right price - comparitively speaking and as far as it can be in this crazy day and age - but I haven't used red cards since the HD4870 (which I still have and use in my XP rig ), so I'm a little wary.

Pico 4 is back in stock at Amazon UK

Thanks - the Jug was a really nice model to build, though the decals were very fragile - my first Academy kit.

Okay - if we're talking about DCS aircraft - I have several models in my stash such as a 1/72 and a 1/48 Ka-50, same with MiG-29, Su25K and Su-39 1/72 plus aMiG-21, though it's the SMT variant and a poor quality Eastern European one (as is one of the MiG-29s). I built this Su25 by the awesome Eduard team a few years back - my very first "multi-media" build, plus there's some other DCS covered ones

I think I posted a link to my modelling showcase website before, so I'll just post one to my latest completion now. I'm currently almost finished with my Lynx HMa8 so hopefully have some photo's of that soon. Here's the CL-215, though (the plastic was yellow, so not as difficult to paint as it might otherwise have been). it's the Heller 1/72 kit. https://sites.google.com/view/jdscalemodels/home/cl215

I bought it years ago, but as I mentioned before, was never able to get it to carry out my spoken orders. Hollywood offered me a refund, which I declined. He also offered to help me change some things to make it sound more in line with RAF procedures than US ones (although the two are probably more similar now IRL) so he is indeed a "good egg" and I wish him well.

Sold them all of my collection of older graphics cards to pay for my RTX 2080Ti

Someone wrote a bat file for changing the USB IDs. I found it had some issues (at least when I tried it) so now - though sounding a little long-winded - is, when I see I've lost the assignments due to this problem, I go to the controls UI and take screenshots of the USB IDs for each controller (you can get them from the lua files, but I do it this way because I have 3 controllers with the same name!) which I then type into a text file. Then I simply use the windows search function in a folder window to find all the entries for each controller in turn and rename the lot in one go. Sounds a faff, but actually works quite easy and quickly - about 20 minutes, which is better than the old days when I had to reassign 6 controllers for 27 aircraft and it took a couple of hours or more.

Affordable DCS World PC I often see people saying that the kind of PC required to play the sim is just too expensive - and also many who still play older versions or FC1 or 2 for the same reason. Today, whilst in town, I came across a new Cash Generator store in the high street (this is a shop in the UK that buys and sells used things of all kinds) and I was gobsmacked to see a nice PC, with similar specs to my own, at £300. That's with a 3 months warranty included. Z390A Motherboard i9 9900k CPU RTX 2080Ti graphics card 32GB GSkill DDR4 RAM Corsair RM850x PSU all in a very nice looking high-airflow case. I couldn't check the SSDs fitted, but given the rest of the spec, they are likely to be decent. I don't know if the other ancilliaries were included (monitor etc) but it's easy to find out. Not only is it only £300, but there's the option of monthly payments (10x IIRC - so £30 a month). Now, back when I used to be skint and out of work, this would have been a dream come true. So - if you are in the UK and this is something you would like for flying DCS (it would even easily be enough for VR) - don't forget to give the Cash Generator website a once-over. They do deliver.

I've seen posts that strongly disagree with his findings in that video (using Virtual desktop, though, not tethered) - I'm sure that, as with most current and past headsets, experiences will vary. I'll be getting mine from Amazon so that if I'm not happy, it's the easiest place to simply return for a full refund.

My next headset will be the Pico Neo 4 Seems like it has very clear graphics in the cockpit, though it may struggle a little currently with wireless performance, this is likely to improve if the maker is to be believed (and I don't see why not). I'm quite looking forward to having a try with it myself. Someone on another flight sim forum said he thinks it's better than his G2. Of course all G2 owners behaved like he'd insulted them, but he has both and they haven't, so... In any case, it will hopefully allow me break free of Meta. edit: Won't get me to drop my Index, though

The WarBRD base has been very good