Aluminum Donkey

DCS runs great with very little crashing, even the Open Beta. Crashing is usually a system problem (drivers/hardware, CPU & GPU temps.) Post all your system specs in your signature so it'll be easier for us to know what we're dealing with. AD

Sounds like a good bet if you're willing to burn the dough! I'm not sure why they are going to have anything less than a 2080 Ti Super, though. RTX 2070 Super = RTX 2080 Mediocre. It's just a crappier version of a card that has been around for quite a while already. Save your money for another week and get an "ordinary" 2080 instead of a hyped-up RTX 2070 Super-Duper-Hyper-Ultra-Uberclocked Special Edition With Leather Seats that still sucks compared to the plain 2080 that's already been available for ages, and performance-wise, is on-par with a regular GTX 1080 8GB that costs 1/2 as much :) AD

Nothing to it. Tons of DCS players (myself included) use a single throttle axis, which controls all engines equally. Differential throttling is done with, I believe, R_Alt and +/- keys, and the single throttle axis will control the two engines together while maintaining the RPM difference you set with the keys. AD

Your graphics card fans are getting ready to let go, or already have. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the card itself--but if the fans are shot, it'll overheat and may crash. You can still save the card--remove and replace fans. Card itself may be just fine, but no/inadequate cooling=constant crashing. Continuing to run with no cooling may destroy the card. AD

Sounds like your GPU is running extremely hot. Use MSI Afterburner to set a custom fan curve. Set the curve so that the fans reach 100% speed at about 75 to 80 degrees C. It's easy to do. Then, try it again :) DCS World places an absolutely enormous load on the GPU. It's just like Furmark, Kombustor or other stress test. Gotta have those fans working. Default GPU fan curves are designed to be extremely quiet--but they're generally unsuitable for heavy gaming, and DCS is the heaviest of heavy gaming as far as GPU load goes. AD

I've never noticed much of any difference with any of the absolutely massive number of updates I've installed in Windows 10 over the time I've been using it. Can't tell the difference between a 'raw' OS install and the fully updated version, which takes me a dog's age to download and install, even with cable Internet. Boot times, gaming performance (framerates), loading times, etc. etc. etc. it's all the same. Windows works exactly the same. Nothing better, nothing worse. No tendency to get more or fewer virus infections. No tendency for any app or game to crash more or less often than it ever did. No difference in anything at all--whatsoever. Oh well :D AD

Not that I have much useful info to add, but this is such a CLASSIC forum post title for DCS World ;) AD

Guys, lets just let ED finish ONE variant!! It doesn't matter which one it is as long as it's actually complete, instead of dragging on for ages like the F/A-18C. ED are a talented buch of guys but they're biting off much more than they can chew. I know they need the money, but lets not have more un-finished modules floating around for years. Leave 'em alone to produce ONE variant of the F-16. It doesn't matter which one!!! The F-16 would be a great module, and everyone knows that everyone else wants one (including myself.) But personally, I'd prefer it if they'd finish the F/A-18 first, such as, you know... a *targeting pod*, instead of farting around with yet another new plane that'll never get finished for years! AD

I believe some versions of Windows 7 only recognize/support up to 16 GB. So, if you wanted to upgrade your OS now's as good a time as any to do so. You probably forked over plenty of dough for that RAM, so make sure your new OS will support it! I'm pretty sure all flavours of Windows 10 will use 32 or even 64 GB, but check to make sure! AD

Yes we do! And, that's the puppy to fly if you want a Flanker with the R-77. Everything else about the J-11A seems to be pretty much identical. AD

Your CPU looks great, but your graphics card and memory are woefully inadequate. You need 16GB of system memory. A 2GB graphics card won't do, either. If cash is tight, get a used 4GB one such as a GTX 980 as the *absolute bare minimum*. I'd go with an 8GB card if you want a new one, 1070 at the absolute lowest. Stay away from the 1060, even the 6GB version. You need both the memory upgrade and a better graphics card. AD

It's called "Youtube". Pay someone money? Why? It's a simulator. Jump in and mess around with everything--if you crash it's no big deal. Re-load and try again :) Plenty of vids and what-have-yous to show you which way is up. AD

There is a mod available. It's called "Flanker 2.5" ;) AD

You guys really worry about this too much. It's a force-sensing stick, but it's still mounted on rubber blocks (or something like that) so it can move a little bit, just to give the pilot a more intuitive control feel, since they all learn to fly on other types of aircraft and expect the control stick to move when applying force to it--it's the normal way it's done. It probably doesn't have to move much at all in normal flying, but it still moves a little. So, the stick in the DCS module will probably move a little bit when you provide control inputs--especially heavy ones. You won't see it much because it's tucked away down and to the side--it's a sidestick controller, and you won't see it in the normal forward view out of the cockpit unless you zoom all the way out. The F-16 has a small cockpit, and the force-sensing sidestick was used because it takes up very little room in the cockpit compared to a center-mounted, full-moving (deflection type) control stick on a conventional gimbal. That's it :) AD

To hell with liveries, let's hope ED goes to town on the actual simulation. I'd prefer it if they released the F-16 fully functional with all ordnance, targeting pod, radar, and avionics features fully implemented and just a generic purple skin with pink polkadots, rather than releasing it with a ton of high-detail liveries (most of which look the same anyway, just a few numbers or a little patch or colored stripe being the only difference) and have to wait literally *years* while they get everything working (F/A-18C anyone?) Simulation=Point Liveries=Window dressing A full, complete module with only one livery is fine for me. Doubt I'll be buying the F-16 when it's released despite it being a great-flying aircraft, since they haven't even finished the F/A-18 yet. Not trying to be a buzzkill here, I'd just rather they not repeat what happened with the F/A-18C. Finish the module completely. THEN announce it on the forum, or wherever you like. Release it as a Beta, and when it's been tested for a while by the community and had any bugs ironed out, consider it a full release, and add window dressing--skins, more texture detail here and there if you wish, maybe a couple new weapon types etc. etc. But, don't drag it on and on for ages like the Hornet.

It certainly does seem pretty straight to the point, and it handles nicely :) It's a better dogfighter in the classic sense than the MiG-21, which I bought the module to complement. Actually, I wanted the MiG-19, but there's no F-100 for it to go up against! If and/or when they release an F-100, I'm probably grabbing both :) AD

Cool, thanks for the heads-up! It's really nice handling little plane :) I seem to have a hard time getting a radar lock on anything, but since it doesn't carry BVR missiles, it doesn't seem to matter much. But, I can't get a lock on anything further than about 5 nautical miles out. Imma check out that server sometime, actually, I'm just getting into some DCS online for the first time, and I was playing DCS when it was first released years ago. Peace AD

Got myself a shiny new F-5. Oh man, just like the Hornet, this module is worth it just for the theme music! :music_whistling::thumbup: AD

Wags, damn man, don't croak on us until Vulkan is fully implemented! Peace :) AD

Sure, do a fresh clean install. Probably won't make much difference. May as well though just for that Fresh-DCS-World-Install Feeling ;) AD

We all have our opinions, but I'd really, I mean REALLY prefer it if Eagle Dynamics stuck with simulating high-performance military aircraft. Props or jets, WW2, Korean War or modern, doesn't matter to me--heck, a WW1 fighter would be interesting, but I doubt it would be much to fly in a sim (save for hours of flying just to cover a short distance!) For me, DCS World was always a great air *combat* simulation. I know the four jet trainers are legit military aircraft, but I find them dull. If people love 'em, that's cool. But, none of this Cessna/Piper/Cirrus stuff, please. Plenty of sims for that. ED have limited resources and I like seeing them go into kickass modules like the F/A-18, the F-14 etc. Just my opinion :) AD

Definitely good here too. You also have a very capable PC, and that helps a *lot*. Some people are still trying to run DCS 2.5 on an old 2.8 GHz machine with a GTX 970 :P AD

I run mine from an NVMe drive, good for about 3.2 GB/sec. Yes, it's faster than a SATA SSD. No, it's not 6 times faster!! AD

Possibly, but then they're just gonna have fun whooping your ass :) AD

When it comes to combat flight simming, that's really solid advice :) AD