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  1. I wouldn't expect too much from it, just to be safe. It really depends on how much they are able to refactor the software architecture. A lot of stuff in DCS still runs in one thread.
  2. I had already heard that the Mig-29 is peculiar, but man that pitching behaviour is weird.
  3. Tiroler hoit...
  4. I think Wags mentioned that they're basically done porting the engine and will soon start porting the shaders from DX11 to Vulkan and they can't really say how fast that will go. I imagine that depending on the level of optimization for the shaders they'll have to put some serious thinking cap time into it. Nobody but ED know their shaders and they can't really tell since they're doing it for the first time, so there really is no answer to your question.
  5. You can use the GPU to train machine learning algorithms or in more general terms, perform highly parallelized matrix and vector algebra, so yes, definitely possible.
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    AIM-9X

    Hydrogen + water = More water? That doesn't compute. ;) Either there's hydrogen that reacts to water with free oxygen or there's no excess water. There's always a "flame" present in a rocket motor, that is a plume of plasma leaving the exhaust, whether it is visible depends on surrounding light conditions and the chemicals present in the exhaust. Visible light is a result of free electrons being caught by atoms/molecules in a plasma or bound electrons changing from a higher to a lower orbital state in an atom/molecule. The wavelength of light that is dissipated is dependent on the amount of energy of that state change, which is in term dependent on the electron configuration of the atom/molecule. Whether a contrail is formed or not depends on whether the exhaust or parts thereof are liquid or solid at atmospheric conditions. If there was a fuel compound which formed only colorless gaseous exhaust, there would be no contrails at all.
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    Swastikas

    IANAL but as far as i can tell, the Austrian law is more focused on banning activities that aim to marginalize or justify the actions and political views of the NSDAP and other Nazi organisations or reestablish their ideas. There is a ban on public exposition of insignia that belong to organisations banned under the Verbotsgesetz. It's allowed to show the symbols in print, film and on stage under the condition that the body of thought they represent is not glorified. I can't really tell if this is extended to games. This would lead me to think that legally there would not be an issue displaying a swastika if it is apparent that it is not in a national socialist context. People in Austria however are on the one hand rather oblivious regarding other uses of the swastika (like Indian culture) and on the other hand heavily sensitized so a public display of any swastika is certain to cause disconcertment.
  8. EMALS uses kinetic energy buffers (flywheels). According to Wikipedia, it takes ~45 seconds to recharge the buffers after a shot.
  9. Could be lots of reasons. Maybe the asynchronous nature of physics and graphics calculations makes it unfeasible (AFAIK the physics calculations are performed at a higher, locked frequency). Maybe the current software architecture doesn't allow it. Maybe they just haven't gotten around to it.
  10. Yes, that's why i explicitly titulated it a mockup...
  11. Sure nVidia, they delayed the launch of the 2XXX series just so they could get rid of all the surplus 1XXX series chips at the current prices.
  12. GPU mining is dead, it's just nVidia artificially keeping the prices up.
  13. Pictures of mock up Block 60s have 3rd MFD. Haven't seen an actual picture though.
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    MINING

    You have to buy those too and then it'll take even longer to amortize the expenses.
  15. Doing that would actually be a rather bad idea because of the comparatively low bandwidth of the connection between RAM and GPU. To render a frame you need to work on big amounts of data to generate even more data and ultimately that data needs to end up on the graphics card anyway. Offloading things to the CPU would most likely cost you huge amounts of performance while the GPU waits for stuff from RAM to be loaded. More cores is mostly beneficial if your CPU isn't able to fully saturate the GPU (and the application properly uses a modern graphics API) or if you're doing lots of stuff that is not well suited to be run on the GPU on the side.
  16. sobek

    MINING

    At current rates you'd spend ages just to recoup the investment.
  17. According to some vids i've seen of the A-10, the fan in DCS A-10 has way too little inertia, and it is what provides most of the thrust. So the issue is rather that the A-10 engines are way too quick to respond to throttle changes, the F-18 is probably in the right ballpark.
  18. Having a somewhat accurate state space model is always better than having nothing. :)
  19. @00:12sec, could it be that the prop rotates the wrong way? I don't have the module so i can't check.
  20. It makes the instrument less complex. The way it is built means you do not have to invert the pitch axis movement of the gyro, which is the case for "conventional" artificial horizons.
  21. Not unless you are allergic. The Japanese ones are said to be quite aggressive and people have been killed after they disturbed a colony, due to the sheer number of stings. The European Vespa crabro is actually very docile, stings only if squeezed and does rather attempt to escape than pursue humans, quite unlike the much smaller Yellowjackets who tend to get very aggressive if disturbed while foraging. The stings are comparable to that of the Yellowjacket. Nonsense, if you are not allergic or otherwise compromised, the lethal number of stings for healthy adult humans is on the order of 300.
  22. You're being overly dramatic. All bugs should be reported, their prioritization is up to EDs project management. Don't discourage users from reporting actual bugs.
  23. There is no fixed value, it depends on your flight regime (altitude and speed).
  24. That's your opinion against the rest of the IT industry. ;) I'm not saying you should open source the access credentials, just the server software stack to host the torrent.
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