Mars Exulte

Short version : DCS works best on an SSD

So a while back I saw a guy asking about his game randomly dropping to desktop, and he couldn't figure out why. I can't find him now, but I found a possible fix, if you're still floating around out there. Last night, my dad described a gradually worsening scenario where games were almost unplayable because he would CONSTANTLY drop to desktop. He thought it was the monitor freaking out and not holding resolution, or a variety of other things. Seemed to be unsolvable, but was exact same symptoms this other guy described. He frequently uses CCleaner to clear registry, but one day he decided to try a thing called Glarysoft (registry cleaner similar to CCleaner). It turned up a large number of entries related to ''altered key commands'' (his memory of the wording was hazy, but it seemed keyboard related) and after backing up the registry, he allowed it to do its thing and remove them. Miraculously, all the issues he had been having suddenly stopped. Most of these ''gaming devices'' can be reprogrammed on the fly via hotkey, and if you're not aware of it, you could possibly unintentionally create screwed up macros that cause erratic behavior. We now believe this is what happened with his gaming keyboard, that he accidentally created and was triggering macros and that the registry clean ''wiped'' them, restoring normal functionality. CCleaner did not detect this aberrent reprogramming, but GlarySoft evidently did. Maybe it will do somebody a solid some day.

Still, interesting to see it looked into by somebody. Maybe someday

Really excited to hear what's coming down the pipeline! Thanks for y'all's efforts =)

Yes, it doesn't have to be paved, but it DOES have to be prepared. This is good. This is bad. WWII fighters are light enough and slow enough they can land in fields in just a few hundred feet, but there's a big difference between a 6,000lb plane that needs 1000ft and takes off at 100kts, and a 50,000lb plane that needs 4,000-6,000ft and takes off at 200kts. If you want to land in a meadow you use a helicopter, that's what they're for

With few exceptions every aircraft needs a runway. They don't all need PAVED runways, but they do need A runway. Yes, going from pavement to a ditch at 200kts is usually going to result in a crash. A ditch alongside a paved runway is not going to be prepared for handling a heavy aircraft at highspeed, because... why would it be? There's literally pavement right there. If you run off the pavement into a ditch, you will consistently crash in real life, too. A ditch is not the same thing as a packed, smoothed dirt field (ala the Normandy map runways) nor is it a paved motorway used by cars and trucks. This is not a difficult distinction to make, and it really amazes me people keep repeating this nonsense over and over around here. If this is what you're expecting an aircraft to do, then, yes, you will have the same issue with all of them. You cannot expect multi-ton aircraft to hit a gopher hole or large rock in a field and not have a negative experience. A minimally prepared field is NOT the same thing as a farmer's field or random meadow. Heavy and/or high speed aircraft need prepared fields, end of story.

I spent about three to five minutes, and that's not a rant. So then what are you griping about exactly, ''unaccountable faceless'' people ''telling you how to think''? If you HAVEN'T been moderated, I'd say you said something and somebody disagreed? That happens sometimes when around people, they don't necessarily all fall in line. You gave the impression you were catching flak from people in comms for things you said. As coarse as *I* sometimes can be, even *I* basically get along well(ish) with everyone most the time, so I can only infer from THAT if somebody is having consistent issues with people, they must be directly contributing to the thing they're complaining about.

Most these things, BTRs, BMPs, etc are armored to withstand .50s from the front at medium/close ranges and may be moderately resistant to 20-30mm at longer engagement ranges (absorb the first hit or two, but repeated hits will pen). From the sides, pretty much everything will go through except small arms. Bradleys and BMP-3s are generally ''heavier'' persay, but it's still a similar situation, resistant across the front, pretty thin on the sides. They're probably better protected against HEAT rounds from RPGs than from actual AP rounds due to ERA and such. -edit By that I mean it's probably a bug or unintended armoring. It shouldn't be shrugging off 30mm AP usually unless at extreme range. HE rounds won't do much to an armored vehicle, you're basically throwing hand grenades at it. Might damage a track or optic.

The instructor thing is a good idea, although this is probably even better, as it eliminates not being sure what the student is looking at. I've used Steam and Skype both for streaming, and it is really good for this sort of thing.

I've been playing games online for twenty years. Unmoderated = teaming cesspool of idiocy and bigotry, without exception. If you consistently have issues with getting moderated, maybe consider not being a douche or something? I traditionally refrained from modding people on my server, but still had to occasionally to enforce order and discourage excessive idiocy. I also prefer TS, generally, though the ''message board and voice comms all in one'' definitely has its utility. Without Discord you need a separate utility or comm conduit for offline stuff. This is the internet, EVERYONE is using pseudo identities. Or do you have the unfortunate distinction of ACTUALLY being named Mower? There is no accountability for anyone generally, unless they cross the local community's guidelines and then, being private property, they decide to kick you out. Dear me, dissenting opinions? Can't have that. Or perhaps there actually is a flaw in your thinking? Impossibru!

You've seen nothing! Disecting a dead bird in a lab is one thing, unleashing them on men is another! (Ollllld ref....)

J&J, so one and done. Mild fever and tired then fine. I was annoyed to find out how many people got paid to do it, and me just quietly doing it on my own not realising that was an option...

Knowing enough to think you know everything, but not knowing enough to know you don't

No, they're made of foam. Also why is everyone so surprised? They work in the Mi-8, too.

I AAR'd with NVGs no problem in the Harrier. Just turned the gain down until the lights weren't distracting. They're for actual darkness, full moon or a light in your face, you have to turn the gain down.

Being the star of the most successful piece of military propaganda in recorded history probably had a lot to do with that :p

I dunno, they managed it ok with the F-8 and A-7 which were long spindly single engine planes, too, with not terribly huge wings (albeit they were top mounted, though I dunno how significant a factor that is). Possibly. I think it's probably BETTER suited for carrier usage cause of the lower speed handling, but the cost of a compromise design is it is biased more toward one or the other but suitable for both. And had twice as many of... one of the very best fighters ever? They handle differently from each other and have slightly different ''best performance'' margins, but they're both equally effective at pretty much everything. So ultimately, it comes down to ''We would have missed out on a really cool plane!'' That's not a good way to balance your budget or streamline your logistics. And again, what few differences there are, particularly initially as far as avionics, would simply not have existed if a compromise design had been settled on in the first place. Afaik, literally every new generation of aircraft was decried as a waste, its flaws nitpicked, gradually refined, and then ''it's the bestest most coolest thing ever''. Everybody likes the F-14 now, but it was aggressively fought against because the F-4 was ''battle hardened, good enough, and loved by all''. The F-22 was dumped because of all the same crap, and now people all agree dumping it was stupid. Now we have the F-35, I don't think it's getting dumped (too many countries involved and too many of them built already) in twenty years everybody will blow its horn about how grand and awesomest it is and take it's place among the halls of fame @@ It's almost like people behave in a really predictable fashion regardless of context

I wasn't meaning anything harsh either. It is very common for people to rush to the forums with each new tech announcement though Nvidia takes the proprietary route too much and it bites them in the ass, as far as I can see. They did that with Gsync, sounds like they did it with DLSS, and ray tracing too probably. Then sooner or later (usually sooner) somebody (AMD) comes up with a similar solution that's NOT behind a paywall, and drives their market down. Imo, they suffer from ''I'm too big to fail'' mentality that recently burned Intel. Me, too........ me, too....

I would expect people doing this professionally aren't relying on forum posts to hear of developments in their field of employment. That said, wishlist is probably the place to put it, although there's already one over there. Offhand, I'd say most likely Vulkan doesn't necessarily equal inclusion of other features. That said, if it's open source (which as I understand is one of the hiccups with Nvidias solution) that makes it somewhat less of an issue. Implementing brand new concepts isn't a priority in most any development process, though, so I wouldn't hold my breath on it happening next week just because of a flashy sales brochure cherry picked to sound more awesomer. DLSS and FSR are basically adaptive anti-aliasing. So in that respect, it's a compromise between no antialiasing (performance) vs FSAA (quality), yielding better performance than FSAA but worse quality. That's ultimately all there is to it, nothing particularly revolutionary about either technology despite the ardent claims of their advertisers, just like the 2000 series GPUs never came near ''50% faster!!!1!''.

Yep. So just checked and a 10850k sounds like they've got the max turbo set to 5.2ghz which is a unusually high, imo, and 4800mhz is itself a fairly high clock setting. You haven't mentioned temperature or cooling solutions, are you sure you're not overheating and have proper airflow? No plugged or dirty filters/fans? Have you tried a version roll back to see if it solves the problem, since you mentioned an update? Have you insured your CPU/MB/GPU drivers are up to date? Sounds like it's crashing under prolonged usage. If it's ONLY Metro Exodus, then play something else, imo.

It is. Nope, just people with a persecution complex. In 99.9% of cases, stuff is policed by local moderators, same as any other discussion board. Including Facebook, for that matter, where individual ''groups'' are policed by whoever the local moderators/community are (thus the existence of closed groups of shall we say highly illegal nature at times). IE posting against the grain in a given group is likely to make waves not because of the ''site'' but because that specific community dislikes it, or publicly visible comments may get flagged by observers. When people start ranting about ''censorship'' it inevitably seems to be about them posting increasingly unpopular views, and then acting surprised when they get pushback and that somehow this equates ''persecution/censorship''.

It's almost like there's an element to all of this beyond just the visual, and armchair developers take things out of context. The visual element is a relatively small part of all this, and ultimately the easiest. A competent 3d artist can churn out models every few weeks/months depending on the complexity. Unsurprisingly, everything else takes longer. We don't receive updates every day because it is idiotic to post ''I wrote 2000 lines of code today, and debugged 500 lines of code, here's a screenshot of a page of code you can't read''

Well, while we're making well reasoned decisions... I've been meaning to talk to you about your car's extended warranty.

I like that one!

No, it's not. I'm on Heaven's email update mailing list and I never got a notice. I'm pretty sure it's atoms tightly bound by their magnetic fields, which I can turn on and off with my mind. I bought TELEKINESIS with Bitcoin on the Silk Road. Wrong wrong wrong. It rolls out the top when you squeeze it, just like an old tube of toothpaste. Wrong. It's directly tied to the light switch in my bathroom. It's connected to the fart fan via GRAVITY ELEMENT. I heard it will mostly be used to protect children from small dachsunds. Everybody knows God hates motorcycles. If there's any safety tech, they'll be the last to get it. He usually stipulates in the EULA that it can't be used for motorcycles. He hates them after he got cut off in Chicago one time. True, it's approximately the same size and shape of a pineapple, but tastes more like prunes. It blows every circuit in ELECTRICAL SYSTEM and a tow tic-tac must be called from HEAVEN. They are really expensive though, and this guy ''Bob's Tic Tac Tows'' is really dishonest, so I suggest not using him. I think you must have made somebody angry so they aren't giving you the latest information anymore. Everything you're saying is at least twenty years out of date.