Ratcatcher

Hello mate, First off, having just re read the review, just wanted to thank you again for taking the time to do this. I found it immensely helpful! OK, on to the questions. :) 1: You say the fans are very noisy ( though must admit the video recording you put up didn't sound too bad ) but hard to judge as to what sound levels your recording at, I'm listening at, etc. The swapping out to quieter ones, is that pretty straight forward? ( I have done own builds of PC's but am not the most talented DIY'er by any means ). 2: The connections to the PC, how long are they? Just thinking about how much space I can set this up in and how close it needs to be to my PC. 3: The Chair - I was thinking of buying a car bucket style seat ( hopefully second hand ) how easy is it to fit the chair? Do you need special brackets, etc? Right, I think that's all...for now ;)

Thanks for taking the time to write this up. Will be having another read tomorrow. Stand by for some more questions! :D

Another week and no Harrier in the newsletter (*sigh*)...the wait is begining to hurt! :wallbash:

LOL, ah that ...helps!

Excellent! Many thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I look forward to your review video! One quick question, in describing the setup as tricky without having a "hrlp section" in DCS. Is that refering to the name of the unit? Cheers!

Hey Ravens, Very nice! I'm quite interested in this so could you answer a couple of questions? First off, how do you find the senasation of movement? Does it take the joystick inputs from DCS and accurately translates this into movement of the rig? How noisey is it when running? Did you have to pay import duties? (I'm also in the UK ). Do you know if it would take a centrally mounted joystick? Many thanks!

Well prepare for a disappointment, unless your hope was for another sale, a bundle sale or that DCS 2.1 is available on steam...

Nice pics, but they are a bit too low res.

Don't forget to change your pixel density as well that makes a big difference in readability of the instruments. There is a way to change the aircraft in the hanger. Forgot how to but if you search you should find the explanation, someone has set up files for all the differnet aircraft, apolgies, I can't rememebr who did it.

It is pretty special isn't it? I've been away from home for a bit but just got back and fired up a quick BlackShark tutorial to get me back in the swing and see what my new Gametrix seat was like. Now I'm pretty rusty on the Shark and could barely remember any of the settings but was able to take of, hover and then land reasonably well on a building. (Which is something I would have stuggled with, even with hours of practice without VR.) But I was able to plonk it down on a pretty tight area. All thanks to VR and the natural way you can see things ( just looking to my left, watching the building roof come up ) and of course the fantastic sense of depth you get. VR and DCS are truly a match made in heaven! :)

I got home yesterday and found mine had been delivered from Gametrix. I was in pretty much the same boat, bit confused by what to load or not... it seems to be working for me now, here's what I did... (I also fly in VR with the CV1) Downloaded the Gametrix Control Panel and the massage .exe. Downloaded the "Sim Shaker For Aviators" I already had "microsoft Net frameworks 4.5" I plugged the USB into a free USB port, didn't plug in any of the sound connectors. Launched the control panel and the massage program ( I had initally only downloaded the control panel and didnt feel anything ). Switched it on and launched DCS. Alt tabbing out of DCS I could see that the plane/helo I was flying was recognised in the control panel screen and felt the effects when I went into a flight. Hope that helps! Sorry if I have missed anything, just going on what I did from memory. Good luck! P.S. I only have the SS for aviators running to get the seat working. I did load the jetseat driver and updated the firmware as well.

Yes, fingers crossed! @mickt014 Blimey! Didn't realise that we would get stung for inport duty!!! Would have been better ordering from Andre after all, as he's in the EU I believe?

Sorry, I haven't got access to my original order. But it was about a month ago. They emailed me 8 days later advising they had "Logistic" problems. As mentioned, they offered that I could cancel the order if I wanted to. Sounds like you may be right and they were just behind on their orders. Hopefully it will be waiting for me when I get home!

I've had a similar experience. Though I did recieve an email from them saying it wasn't going to ship on time and I could cancel the order. I didn't but wish I had. It's over a month now and haven't heard anything further from them. I'm in the UK. I'm going to see if I can cancel and order one from Andre. EDIT. Well that's just spooky! I had literally finished typing this, then had gone to check my emails... It's just shipped! I'm away on holiday but will let you know when/if it turns up when I get home.

Please delete post I thought you were Gametrix.

Are you sure thats the seat? ... Just ordered one, lookiong forward to seeing how this enhances my VR experience!

Oh dont get me wrong, the odd canopy effect certainly won't stop me from getting this baby as soon as it drops! I'm sure they will get it looking right one way or another. :thumbup:

I'm not so sure, that may be Normandy but thats the place holder skin, the the overdone canopy that prowler posted on the 11th had the updated skin on it. To quote Prowler. "Here are a pair of new ones, this is a special 2.2 version (DCSW) for the E3"

Now that's not a bad view from the office window!

I'm afraid they have a ways to go then. Of all the shots I have seen of aircraft in the air, I have not seen any that look like those screen shots. I hope its going to be considerably toned down. Personnaly I have never had a problem with how the canopys currently look.

I'm loving the progress and the new textures, but the canopy??? That looks rather odd with how the reflections are being displayed. WIP I take it?

Shame I didn't find this thread before spending an hour or so trying to deactivate the numpad 5 re center! Would be nice to see that fixed one day...

Thanks for the advice guys, I too have only just picked it up having played quite a bit with the Gazelle and to a lesser extent the Huey. A very different beast! I have been on the look out for some good tutorials and am just embarking on some basic flight practice, nav systems, etc before I attempt to learn the startup procedure. The Gazelle is as simple as a childs toy in comparision. :)

Nice shot!

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