Tinkickef

Great answer. I too have preordered. Whether it is wise to do so is down to your personal circumstances. I have been saving up for a good while for a new card to replace my ageing 980TI which is being pushed to the absolute limit of stability running 1.6ghz in DCS and VR. I am not expecting her to be around much longer, albeit I have the temp under control now. I miss a generation whenever I replace my card, so let the 10xxx series slide. I was always going to buy into the 20xxx series, so I have no problem with my decision to pre order. I see little point in buying into the Pascal series at this point, just to save a buck and do myself out of a possible 30% + of the best possible performance currently available. Turing will be a vast improvement over my Maxwell card. It's a no brainer. The pricing hurts, make no mistake. However, I do wonder if the prices are artificially high to make the cards unattractive to the crypto miners. Nvidia were very concerned that genuine gamers could not buy cards for any money last winter. Even the 1080TI was far north of $1000 last January in some places. Can't help feeling that crypto has poisoned the well where future pricing is concerned. Scalpers are already selling Turing pre orders on eBay for a big mark up. Then there is the memory price gouging cartel...... AMD falling by the wayside is not helping matters. It is all a big clusterf### at the moment. Yet I still need a new card.... ouch. I settled on the Asus 2080TI DUAL OC. Hopefully the factory OC versions have been selected for having the best performing chips and will manually overclock better when it is reaching the end of its days.

Really is a lot of ill informed chatter going on here. The Nvidia performance chart is detailing the RTX2080, which is NOT $1000 to $1400. It is $799. The RTX2080 is based on the TU104 chip (2944 cuda cores). The RTX2080TI DUAL is based on the TU102 chip (4352 cuda cores) which is a hell of a lot bigger and more powerful. The OC version of that is the one at £1300 and change including the 20% VAT sales tax, I know because I ordered one. Whether it was a wise decision is debateable, I needed to replace my aging and struggling, mega overclocked 980TI, so I went for it. Everything will come out in the wash. Extrapolating performance from figures from totally different cards is pure clickbait conjecture. A more balanced view, but yet again pure speculation: The one thing I am confident of is the fact that it will comfortably outperform my old 980TI and I have absolutely no regrets. I always replace my card every other generation anyway. Next update will be the 2280ti. If, as Jay Z says, the 2080TI dual is replacing the Titan series I will be over the moon. September 20th cannot come soon enough.

God help us. I preordered too. I went for the Asus GeForce RTX2080ti Dual. Overclocking capability is yet to be decided, but I'm hoping it's going to allow a little leeway on futureproof. My poor old Asus GTX980ti is having to run at 1.6ghz and 1.15ghz respectively just to keep things fairly smooth and she don't like it much. Vram size is becoming a problem too. She throws regular tantrums some weekends and behaves lovely at other times. She seems to have a hard ceiling for OC, even 5mhz more on either GPU or memory means a hard crash before you even got the plane fired up. Speaking of which... My marriage needs a little futureproof at the minute. The missus is a bit sniffy about it. I ordered her some frame mounted Bassett hound cartoon pictures to hang up in the kitchen to get back in the good books. Hope I don't get the hard crash of one on the back of my head. I've been saving up but I'd been telling her it would be around a grand. I forgot to add on the extra for the TI OC and the VAT..... Thought she was going to feint. Mind you my hand was shaking when I pressed the payment button. The stuff we have to do.....

I had that once. If I recall I had the number 2 of 2 aircraft set as player, hoping to fly wing on the AI leader.

Seems to be crashing the Nvidia driver.....Only since last update. Stuck on initial loading screen. dcs.log-20180818-155344.zip

If Windows / G keystroke does not open the game mode window, you have not got it enabled. Mine did not work, so I got in through settings and found this to be the case.

The ones in the red shirts are going to die horribly and all alone. One shriek and its all over. He's dead Jim.....

PG map. AlDhafra. Populated with lots of static units. Added 6x stinger manpad unit and 2x standalone SAM, can't remember the name to shoot down a trio of Floggers attacking the base. Complete stutter and jitterfest making the game unplayable. Deleted ground units. Performance restored. Also noticed this overflying enemy bases with air defence units.

Had some major framerates drop and huge stutters on a (VR) mission just now. This after about a hour and a half into the mission. Happily had task manager running at the time to view my GPU. Stutters occurred when 3D engine maxed out and at the same time, on board VRAM (6GB) hit 100% I guess its using pagefiles to boost VRAM from disk and that's where the stuttering is coming from

Since last update. PG map, full moon night mission, no clouds, climbing out from AlDhafra at 400kts, raindrops appear on canopy as if static on tarmac. Evident as black spots that flash on and off.

...On Takeoff. Since last update. PG map, AlDhafra Base. AI aircraft always use RNWY 13, Pad 1 for takeoff whichever the direction the wind is coming from.

Firstly. I intended no offence and if you feel I have attacked you in some way, I apologise unreservedly. My previous post was aimed squarely at the poster immediately before mine. I should have quoted it. My bad. Second, I came to this thread from Hoggit and the title of the Hoggit thread detailing this poll says very clearly it was an attempt to change their minds or in other words, to apply peer pressure. This is what coloured my view on the matter before I even arrived on this page.

Nope. Not wearing the mantle of whiteknight and I don't see anything in your post to get you banned. My opinion from a personal view is that they got it wrong. I already said the F4 is the only proposed module I am interested in buying. However, ED are not in business just to keep tinkickef happy. They have other customers with other priorities and wishes. As said, they have the right to prioritise whatever they want and other than occasionally voicing my disappointment, I will always uphold that view. There is a vast difference between stating ones preference and voicing a little disappointment, and getting a petition together to try to force them to change their minds. One is the action of a rational adult. The other stems from a real sense of entitlement and a skewed perspective of the relationship between ED and the end user. If the petition worked, 100s would be happy and 100s of others would be bitterly disappointed. ED will not have dropped the F4 on a whim, there will have been meetings and discussions; taking into consideration factors that neither you, nor I have any inkling of, including resource management.

Nope. ED is a business selling a product, they are in no way, shape or form any type of great leader in my life and unless you have some type of problem, they should not be in yours. You are a customer, you have a choice, buy the product or do not buy it. ED are a business, they have the ABSOLUTE right to conduct that business how they see fit. THe relationship between you and ED is simply that of a supplier and a consumer, absolutely nothing more. If read more into it than that......well.

On a personal note, the F4 is probably the only module I would have any interest in out of the proposed list. However, ED know what they are doing and it is not for me to try tell them how to run their business. I am sure the decision to put the Phantom on the back burner was not taken without a lot of thought beforehand. Because of this, I have refrained from taking part in the poll.

Yup a fine case and the Thermaltake RGB AIO looks pretty good. Only downside is the dreaded GPU sag. Out of sight, out of mind in the old case, it has taken a pretty bad set. I made up a plastic brace to hold it straight, but the damage is done, unless it is sagging it cuts out. Hope it's not the motherboard connectors. Means I will have to replace the board too when the new card comes out. Again lessons were learned..... stupid design. At the time of build, I never suspected the card would sag.

Are you looking at the ones on Axis Commands (mouse)? If so you cannot designate it. On the All page, there are some more bindings that will work with the warthog nipple. I had exactly the same yesterday. Also double check that some random control has not changed since the last update and that when you need to use the dispenser, the dispenser switch is still in middle position, the countermeasures system is armed and the correct mode you want to use is selected. Might be you are enabling it all and something else is switching it back off. As for radar Tdc slew, do you still have the diamond in the top right corner of the DDI?

Rebuilt in the new case now. Running DCS in VR with most settings high. CPU temp hovers around 50C. Sometimes it might drop to 45 and other times it might hit 55 for a second or two. GPU with fans at 60%.... 65C. I have them on manual at 60% as the auto setting lets the temp climb to 80C before cranking the fans higher. In the old case, fans at 100% resulted in a temp of 74C. So.. what's in a case? A case is a case right? Hell no, lessons were learned...... DfK. As you said, that case is awesome, a real pleasure to build it. Particularly like all the snap in drive caddies and easy cable management.

Ah the infamous red tint. There is a tool you can get from Oculus support called Spud to remove it, but use it at your peril. Technical name for the tint is Mura. It is where the pixels stay switched on but do not go to true black. I think spud tool tells the pixels to switch off. I have it around the edges, but a line across the very centre of the vision is black. Makes it very hard to see stars through the fog. I always ensure I have a light source at night, either moonlight or daybreak.

Yep it is the airflow edition where you can see the fan intakes on the front panel. The case just arrived. I'm looking at the box with a gimlet eye.... It's the size of a small wardrobe just about. Was thinking about rad on front panel as intake and moving the included case fans to the top of the case as exhausts instead of having the rad as the exhaust. Bit concerned about GPU cooling then though. May just stick rad on case roof as the exhaust. Also got some Arctic mx4 thermal grease. Not going to use the stuff that comes with the cooler.

That would be megabits.....

Living in a small rural community out in the middle of nowhere, I only get 3.5 - 4mb/s on a very good day. It doesn't take much.....

Thanks DfK. Funnily enough, after reading loads of reviews, I settled on and ordered the Corsair Obsidian 750D case, so great minds think alike ect. While I have the CC out of its little windowless cell where the missus keeps it a prisoner, I have also put right some other budgetary shortfalls in my previous build. I have ordered the Evga SuperNova 850G3 modular PSU to replace my cheap as chips Corsair CX750. I have worked too many hours overtime to pay for the new Turing 16gb card to have it spiked by a cheap ass PSU failure. For CPU cooling, I have gone for the Thermaltake Floe Riing 280TT AIO cooler. It has had some good reviews. It should be here tomorrow. Was looking for a Swiftech H240, but it appears they are made of unobtainium in Blighty. Custom cooling is way out of my budget. Just to swap the bits over and wait for Turing to come out. Also, when it's time to update my CPU and motherboard, these new bits can be reused, so I have then got a nice leapfrog replacement thing going on.

Unfortunately, it appears to be heavy data traffic between the ED server and each individuals machine causing it. It even badly affects VR single player on the PG map. Jitters and stuttery hourglass symbols everywhere. Disconnecting your internet connection prior to starting DCS and running in offline mode cures it. Unfortunately for MP......... I guess someone dropped the ball when altering the data gathering applet.

Looks like I need a better case, airflow is rubbish, although today's air temp is 22C. Side of case removed, both CPU and GPU running around 60C in DCS.