Mr_sukebe

Can’t you just fly the C without the JCHMS, targeting pods and guided weapons? IIRC the airframe and engines weren’t upgraded.

Google maps? Maybe they’ve got lost after using the Doppler navigation.

On their mobile phones?

Just to clarify, by longer times, I wasn't referring to DCS generally, rather the load time for the Germany map when compared to most of the other maps.

I've just done some more testing. With SAMs at 31 of the identified sites and additional smaller units at some of the airfields (e.g. Sa6s) and the mission is basically unplayable on my PC. The GPU is fine. The CPU is simply flattened. I've just tried running the same mission on a dedicated server and then logging in, it was no better. So I'm going to be sticking with the slimmed down version that I've uploaded earlier (v.3 and newer).

No, just longer than normal load times. Most probably due to the fact that it's loading more into RAM.

I can't comment about "all", but I found at least two Soviet tank grounds whilst trying to work out what was where. If you take a scan in this thread: That is really good thread collating locations for SAM sites. I've attached my current sandbox mission into there, within which I marked locations for 4 of the Soviet armoured groups, at least 2 of which appear to have tank training areas.

OK, I've tried to get all of the above into my sandbox mission (attached). That mission has: SAM sites, as above Additional local airfield SAMs 1985 period(ish) aircraft for both sides. They'll need to have newer weapons and things like JCHMS made unavailable I've tried correctly name at least the Soviet air groups based upon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_military_sites_in_Germany A NATO carrier group in the Baltics I've started adding location markers for known tank units from the Soviet side CSAR/CTLD It's far from finished or perfect, but might save someone a lot of time getting to this point. =========================== Update: The v.2 version of the mission was simply too complex, and really stuffed my frame rate. Not a GPU issue. It was my 7800x3d running out of steam. I've thinned out the number of SAM sites to avoid CPU bottlenecks and have made other enhancements. See later in this thread for new versions.

One thought, the SA5s have massive engagement ranges. Plonking them in as is may well result in them shooting at western aircraft over west Germany. Personally I've set them to late activation, and have set them to only wake up if a western coalition aircraft goes into the eastern zone.

Great thread idea, my thanks. The location of the Wittstock is UV20 Other locations that I've found are: PC93 - SA3? PC93 - SA3? Unfortunately I don't know what would really be sited there, just guestimating. The SA5 sites are clearly different in their design.

DCS now provides the info on not just VRAM reserved, but also VRAM in use. If you open the FPS counter in DCS, it's visible in the more detailed box. To date, I've yet to see more than 12GB of VRAM in use.

No issues yesterday, 72fps most of the time in the F1 in VR. That was with a Quest Pro, quad views. 7800x3d, 5080 and 64GB of ram. Task manager was suggesting the following usage (note that this includes me also running Simshaker and Roon audio player): - 48GB of RAM - GPU around 70% - CPU use was primarily across 4 cores (all 8 in use), with those 4 cores around 80%, so not much headroom left in that area DCS was saying under 10GB of VRAM used Overall, didn’t seem much different to most other newish maps.

Please take a scan here:

Orbx have stated that their planned introduction of the new airfields didn't make it into the update. It happens.

That's a lovely piece of understatement.

This week I've been working through all of my modules to sanity check, overhaul and enhance my keyboards for aircraft controls. Today was the i16, which meant taking it out for a flight. Wow, had forgotten how antiquated it felt, even when compared to other warbirds. I use a jetseat and FFB stick, and it was like cycling on a cobbled road. If I didn't know better, I'd also think that someone has overhauled the audio, as I'm sure the engine sounds even more nasal. Don't take any of the above as a criticism of the module, quite the contrary, it makes it amazingly immersive. Great fun!

200GB, cue the gnashing of teeth by some. Pre-emoting the noise, if you haven’t already, get yourself at least a 2TB SSD. In the context of the amount of money we spend on DCS, it’s modules and the hardware to control and run it, they’re not expensive.

Yeah, that is a bit weird. Several in Belgium though. I'd love to see some French airfields. One option would be temporary field FARPS on a good sized road. That would work with at least the Harrier, Viggen and maybe F1

That's a great starting point. Other elements worth practicing: Autorotation landing without power Sling loading Landing onto small pads Combat landing (i.e. ingress at high speed, then scrubbing that speed off followed by a fast landing) Landing in tricky windy conditions Landing on a moving pad (e.g. helicopter pad on a ship) Combining the ship landing with nasty wind conditions Flight in poor visibility Landing from high altitude by a fast descent into an LZ Recovery from deliberately induced vortex ring state The Huey was my first DCS module, and I loved learning how to fly it.

In the menu for the AB9, should I be using Direct?

Thanks, didn't know that.

Will they be the same files? Yes Will it perform the same? Not necessarily As I understand it, a clean new install will nicely lay down files into logical groupings, meaning that sequential reads and similar are really quick. As time goes on, and files are replaced with patches and similar, Windows will free up space from the "old" files, and then dump the new files onto the drive. Windows might well place that data in a different area of the drive, meaning that a sequential data read might go 1, 2, 3, oh hang on 4 has been replaced, let me go find it, then back to continue 5, 6. With SSDs, that delay should be massively less than with say a HDD, but it'll still exist.

Can I please suggest that you take a scan here:

Is this only for the F1CE? Apologies, had a quick look yesterday, and couldn't see much about it.

I'm getting a level of FFB with all DCS modules using "telemetry". Ref full support, I did read that ED recently acquired an AB9, which would allow them to start working on "direct". Probably going to be a while before that's not just up and running, but also fully mature.