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MAThrasher

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  1. The good In general, my system is performing fairly well. I have a stutter about every 2 minutes of flying. Not super bad, but enough that I want to improve it. I had decided the best thing for me is to upgrade the CPU. I want to go from a 12700k to a 14700k. Before doing this, I decided to overclock just to see what would happen. I bumped the p-cores to 5.1 and the e-cores to 4.0. While doing this, I also noticed that my XMP was not enabled. It must have been disabled when I did my last memory upgrade. Making these changes improved things such that I now have a stutter every 8-10 minutes. I am happy with that! The bad To monitor hardware temps, I downloaded a couple pieces of software to watch temps. One of these was from a less than reputable source and had a virus. I'm usually careful about where I download software, but I made a mistake this time. I got a virus that was masquerading as McAfee. It was constantly popping up and interrupting DCS. I removed the hardware monitoring software, and the virus remained. I reinstalled Windows (not a clean install) and the virus remained. I then decided to pay $20 for Norton Utilities and see if it would remove it. It indeed found the virus. It was "Heur.AdvML.B". Finding and removing this virus saved me many, many hours of rebuilding my system!!
  2. When I saw a video last week, I was discouraged with the progress. I thought they would be further along than they are. I am no expert, but I would be shocked if anything is shipped from production before the middle of next year. Unless there is a HMD coming that I don't know about, I will continue being happy with the Aero for the next several months.
  3. Speaking from my experience, it was very plug and play. I went to the Varjo website and followed their setup guide. Everything worked on the very first try and it is still working without any issues. The Steam base stations also worked on the first try after plugging them in. Perhaps I was just unusually lucky! The documentation (Varjo.com -> Support -> Getting started) is very nice and easy to follow.
  4. I believe the HTC Vive base station 2 is the exact same one Varjo sells. When you search for that on Amazon, the sale price is $149. The one that I received from Varjo included the wall mount. I am not sure about the one on Amazon. If it doesn't have a wall mount, that is an extra $12.99. That is still much cheaper!
  5. When I bought my Aero, I bought the base stations from them also. I later realized that I could get them quite a bit cheaper on Amazon. I bought two and they do a great job of tracking. I have read that one station is enough, but I have always used two. You definitely don't need the hand controllers. I used a mouse for all of the setup. All of the needed accessories are included with the headset purchase. I think the only other thing is the adapter if you have a laptop. Hope this helps!
  6. I'm guessing you should have it by Thanksgiving for sure. I ordered mine and received it in about 2 weeks. When it was at Customs, they emailed me some paperwork to sign. I just checked some dates when I ordered mine. I received an email confirming my payment was successful on 5/17/23. My order shipped on 5/22/23. The Docusign for the import was on 5/24/23. Not long after that I received my Varjo.
  7. I don't have any controllers, and my mouse works great for everything. The only thing I use the Aero for is DCS.
  8. I don't know what is going on...it is really strange. All of the links at the top are inactive. I have not tried to login, but I could not if I wanted too since the login button is inactive also. I entered all of the information for the 5 fields in the reserve section and pressed the button, but nothing happens.
  9. I would like to put myself on the reservation list for the Somnium VR1, but I can't. When I go to somniumspace.com, the menus and login button are grayed out. When I try to register my email for the reservation, nothing happens after clicking the button. It is like i am locked out somehow. Anyone else have this issue?
  10. I was stunned to see the price cut in half! I was hoping also for an announcement of an Aero 2.
  11. The price of the Aero just dropped to $990!! I saw their webinar.
  12. @Hempstead I will buy your pointctrl if you are interested in selling it.
  13. I just ordered the comfort strap mentioned above. I have never noticed much discomfort while flying, but I will see if the strap improves things.
  14. After the initial time to setup the Aero, flying now is just a matter of powering on the headset. I have a dedicated PC for flight simming, so I just always leave Varjo Base, Voice Ataack/Vaicom, and simshaker running. When I'm ready to fly, I just power on the headset and fire up DCS. It never fails or causes any issues.
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