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Back in the 90s my dad had a BBS set up using ShamPage as an automated help system. It was purely exotic scripting triggering off keywords, with some ''imitate a human typing'' stuff like hesitation, making and then correcting spelling mistakes, very basic stuff. If you asked questions about the board, it could answer them, in detail, as he had carefully programmed it for that use case. But if you were rude or demanding, it would trigger off that, too, and quickly escalate to antagonistic insults. Again, just scripts and keywords pulling from a database of prepared responses. The number of people who would argue with it in circles for lengthy periods was truly remarkable, and there was no AI even involved. It's easy to fool people. Just look at how many run around copy pasting sales brochures around here like it's Jesus' Second Coming.

More likely nobody wants to meet up with strangers, much less sweaty gamers from the internet

Hey, thank you! Now, I just need to convince my wife that spending $2500 on my video game is in fact a reasonable purchasing decision and not at all a sign of mental illness.

Funny, I mostly hear how ChatGPT sucks for coding because it makes up complete nonsense. Even if it didn't, its ability to code for a proprietary closed eco-system with no publicly available documentation is exactly ZERO. It EMULATES stuff it encounters online, and may or may not actually do anything. There is no magic ''mek gam fastah plz'' button, and unlikely to be one anytime soon. AI is a very useful tool, in limited work case scenarios. It is not a magic button. Any articles you read written in breathless terms about how revolutionary the tech is, how it'll change the world any day now, blah blah, are about as credible as all the crypto garbage from a few years ago (ie written by somebody trying to bait investors). It is a tool. It will find itself useful for certain niches and not for others, just like all the other tools ever developed in human history.

Will do, thank you.

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of FPS are you getting and what approximate settings and resolution? I'm sick of my Reverb G2 being perpetually flakey and actively searching for a replacement. Varjo is top tier but it's also $2k+ cause gotta buy base stations, too (and controllers?). The DFR is appealing for performance and the auto adjusting IPD is nice for guests, too. Just... so damn expensive. I started with a Rift S which worked great, but image was mediocre, then Reverb which looks great but is unreliable and the tracking sucks.

Look at past me using math and stuff. I definitely googled those formulas, cause I understand exactly zero of what past me said. Unless... future me is dumbing down. Bet it was the vaccine what did me in.

The flightsim world's Gecko45 is back, taking a break from shaming his professors in aeronautical engineering using a Tom Cruise action flick as a reference point for a wishlist item. What a time to be alive!

When it's ready. It varies. A new major update usually takes a while. This one went pretty smoothly, so it probably won't take long. Or... hear me out now... you can just be patient. Or update yourself.

Agreed. These were not generic ''PC hardware'' threads. They were specific to input devices and controllers.

*Slow-mo JDAM busting through roof of tank* *Record screech as driver looks at camera* Hi, there! I'm Jamal! You're probably wondering how I ended up HERE of all places. Well, it's a long story, that started waaaay back when I was a little boy in Damascus... *flashback begins*

Except those numbers aren't at all accurate. They're definitely visible from greater distances than that. WWII Brits reported watching the German flights assembling prior to them crossing the channel, and that's a lot more than ''6 miles +30%'' If you're going to pull something out of your arse at least say so.

But we have intricately modeled wiring underneath the access panels of our helicopter! Spotting is and always has been screwed in DCS, and I say that as a fanboi. Just like the BS about missing and irregular LoDs causing models to pop in and out of existence at irregular distances that has been that way for literally ever. It's not ''impossibru'' like some people say, but it doesn't work very well, that's an objective fact, ranging from shaders and resolution issues to the previously mentioned broken LoD system. It is very much not ''working fine''. It is at best ''poor''. But hey, we have access panels and wiring harnesses @@ BTW, the reason I keep mentioning that is I know 3d modelers aren't responsible for all areas of coding, but they ARE responsible for things like LoDs which are a rampant problem. ED spends a considerable amount of time on things that serve little to no purpose and won't ever really be seen... meanwhile ignoring very basic things for years on end. Like the jet engine prop planes I mentioned the other day, but I am not griping about after seeing WWII sounds getting updated and I don't know if that was part of it (after however many years, I should hope so) Great! And after they're done assigning community fixes to the ban list, maybe they can like... fix it themselves so these things aren't necessary.

That's what turbulence is. You're not generally battling for control or bouncing wildly all over the sky, even if you were it would only be in smaller, slower moving aircraft. That's called a ''severe thunderstorm'' and you usually don't fly in those.

Turbulence is modeled and most commonly encountered at lower altitudes when coming in to land and takeoff, and around mountains.it is also a setting so mission dependent like wind speed, many online servers probably disable it. There is (or was) something like thermals years ago, particularly under clouds (encountered in Yak-52 which is light enough it actually started climbing). I don't know the state of thermals now with the new cloud system as I haven't flown the Yak cross country (or at all) in ages. Also bear in mind heavier faster moving aircraft are less affected by all these things than something like a Yak, but yes they are present in some form.

It's a lot better than the original JetSeat :p This at least has some padding. You can put additional cushions on it though, it will still be ''feelable''. That depends on the sim and how it's set up. That is something that can be configured. I disable that, as it is unrealistic. Which is a completely different deal, if you weren't using SSA. SSA ties into the physics engine directly. If you aren't using that, you just have a vibrating cushion and that's it. It never will because AFAIK the majority of aircraft in that sim lack the physics modeling this is designed for. Again, vibrating cushion most the time. If it's configured properly it should be most/all the motors active and vibrating together, including for most effects. It's highly configurable in SSA. Again, if you didn't use SSA you did indeed miss 95% of the point.

It can't. Just the nature of flight sims in general and DCS in particular. It's the nerdiest end of the nerd spectrum and we are grossly outnumbered. It's no different over there at War Thunder, a much simpler game. It's a smallish population in general, although it dwarfs this one, and the bulk of it is in the arcade section. The realistic and simulation side of the community was basically the same few hundred people and we mostly all kinda got to recognise each other. DCS is like that times 50. The massive time commitment required to operate most the aircraft to a useful level means 90% of people literally can't play, or just offline because they're enthusiasts. Everyone in DCS is an enthusiast, but of them, only a few have the time to be online a significant amount. DCS total online population is only a few hundred active people, with another few hundred to thousand infrequent. Nothing about that is ever going to change. DCS is small and will remain so. Go try to get a few of your friends to play. Note how basically all of them will remark it's cool, but then not actually be interested in doing it themselves. It is what it is.

Yes. It isn't anything ''first''. What it IS is a video game, full stop. Specifically it is a PC video game, and as opposed to the highly uniform world of consoles, every PC is different, necessitating configurable settings. No amount of Mountain Dew consumed, regardless of flavor, will change the fact this is a video game. You cannot log the hours, it is by every definition a game. *clutches pearls* Then play offline or join a clan. Mixing with the unwashed hordes on a public server you will, shockingly, find a variety of people with a variety of machines and mindsets. Console games don't HAVE settings, because they're already optimised for their universal platform. PCs, as previously mentioned, are far from universal. If you want a rigidly controlled environment, join a clan or a tournament tailored for a specific theme. I consider this equally as dumb, yes. So shortcuts and external aides are fine as long as they're ''Blastman approved!'' @@ Good thing absolutely nothing is that drastic then, huh? Labels are the closest thing to an actually relevant aide. I can at least understand the objection there. But ''MUH IMMERZION'' because of somebody being able to change their settings? Ffs

Yeah, me, too. I didn't build this damn thing to play with Minecraft visuals! Play Arma a lot, I already know online 95% of people turn everything as low as they can. It occasionally results in an obvious ''preventable death'' but the majority of the time it's not likely to have been a factor. True, but point is person with it has a big advantage over person without it (easier to do while multi-tasking, usually frees up a couple hats, etc). It's probably even more useful than decent controls as far as being a ''game changer'' goes, it's hard to over emphasise as long as you stick with it through the initial clumsy acclimation.

Correct on all counts. SimShaker Aviators is the only thing you need.

Are you new to gaming or something? It's 2023. People have been doing that since at least the 90s turning down graphic settings to increase FPS (and response times) as well as improving visibility by removing grass and trees. You choose eye candy at a cost, it has always been that way and always will. Guess what else? The guy that spent $4,000 on a high end PC, head tracking, and pro controls ALSO has a significant advantage literally paying to win! Just play your damn video game and stop obsessing over minmaxing nonsense. Speaking from 30 years of online experience, that ain't what gets you killed 95% of the time.

Congratulations on joining the league of disappointed Reverb owners. Cables are a frequent failure point. I'm on my third one and it is very possibly crapped out on me once again. I'm eyeing possible replacements rn.

If it's stuck at 45fps you have motion reprojection on and locked. If you're trying to get a steady 90+fps, that's just now becoming possible with the release of multi-threading. It will become more achievable once DLSS arrives in the presumably near future (I expect they're staggering release to minimise the amount of crap they have to bughunt for). Aside from those things, the AMD series have a reputation for issues with VR, aside from being inherently less powerful than their equivalent Nvidia counterparts. You're not going to get stellar performance from them, especially as it stands right now. You get what you pay for, and that's what you paid for. Regardless, "throwing hardware" at it isn't going to solve anything. The things that need to happen are engine side, and are in process as we speak, so I'd just be patient and chill for a bit.

Shakers (whether buttkickers or a jetseat) help immensely with feeling what is happening with your aircraft. You can feel turbulence (from light bumps to heavier kicks), vibrations from deployed gear or battledamage, gunfire and weapon releases, engine RPMs, shudder during hard turns. Everything. If a good PC, simulator, and controls take you 80% of the way to flight, haptic feedback of this sort takes you another 10-15% of the way until all you're really lacking is inertia (g forces). On that note, I recommend disabling the "g-feeling" selection as it is unrealistic and honestly distracting because of how it works. You get shaking and turbulence when appropriate during hard maneuvers and disrupted airflow, but an aircraft does not have off-axis vibrations while pulling Gs like SSA does. -edit general impression It works more or less identically to the JetSeat, although it has a slightly different feel in some ways (to be expected, considering it is indeed different gear), and is much more comfortable. I was concerned the thick padding would interfere with the sensations from the motors but it does not. It also uses a regular USA plug, if you're from here that means you can get away from any clunky adapters from Euro-US. The control panel itself is much nicer than the JetSeat's as well. I rate the HF8 10/10 and an excellent choice to replace the JetSeat even if you already have one as I did.

I am running the latest version of SSA. It works fine, you must select Forcefeel instead of JetSeat. Sometimes I have to click "restart" in order for it to refresh and recognise. There is is a helpful "test motors" button on the same screen. Make sure they are working before you start the game. Otherwise I've had no issues. Yes, it works fine with USB and SSA.