Raven (Elysian Angel)

Nice to finally be able to put a face to the forum handle!

I'm going to stick with 576.28 for now. That one works perfectly well and I see no reason to update to 576.40

That’s pretty much impossible given the different hardware people have… ED already has such an algorithm to set cockpit lighting and MFD brightness depending on the time of day your aircraft spawns at. Have you ever known that to be even remotely accurate? At the industry standard gamma 2.2 deserts are already far too bright for me, and the colours washed out. A visor fixes that. I see in your signature that you’re using a Reverb G2, and I know from experience there’s a massive difference between a G2 and what I use (Aero Varjo) in terms of brightness and colours. Remember that gamma doesn’t just affect brightness: it shifts the entire colour spectrum.

Based on my understanding, games in general and flight simulators specifically have a lot of tiny data packages being sent back and forth between the CPU and the memory, very repetitively. Thanks to the V-cache of X3D CPUs, those data packages can stay in the cache of the CPU itself instead of being sent in and out all the time. This causes a massive reduction in latency, so even in scenarios where the average frame rates are not that different compared to other CPUs, the 1% lows will see a huge improvement with X3D.

Yes, the most comprehensive and detailed list is probably on the RAZBAM Discord. Notso keeps the list up-to-date and even lists work-arounds where applicable. Look for the channel called #strike-eagle-known-bugs *edit* This is the invite link in case you're not in there yet: https://discord.gg/gCJBbNmkKF

Quite the opposite: CPU benchmarks are done in 1080p for very good reasons.

Some incredible people in this thread: creating liveries for a module that didn’t even start development yet

Reducing pre-load radius to 10km (plenty for helicopter operations) has helped me with excessive memory usage.

I don’t know what everyone is using, but I’m using none. And you’re right, they’re not very well suited for helicopters… Removing the springs helps, though.

It’s probably deep on a programming level. Perhaps it’s related to HearblurUI, or how a specific subsystem is modelled? Who knows: there’s plenty that makes Hearblur stand out from the other modules and that’s especially true with the F-4E

Indeed, in other words: fun! Not as boring as a *yawn* Hornet *snore*. Easier to refuel than a Hornet and very stable on approach, much more rewarding in a dogfight, much more exciting kinematics and deadly in BVR Superb immersion too in familiar Heatblur fashion

Not really. A good while ago ED strongly discouraged using openxr toolkit as it was incompatible with DCS after an update. I don’t really remember the specifics.

Because you spend too much time in "the drama" thread

Hey, what’s that C-130 doing there?

I've been testing 576.28 for a few hours now, and I didn't have any of the problems I had with the previous versions - so far that is. Graphics card fans are no longer attempting to lift my case off the ground, and sky rendering was flawless too.

Ok I can confirm runway 07R doesn't have that problem, and works properly: Jester goes through the take-off checklist as per normal. 07L on the other hand makes Jester proclaim: "Man, the CO is going to bust our balls for this. We are WAY too fast. Are you out of your god darn mind?" Keep in mind I am following proper taxi procedures - as in: exactly following the yellow markings on the taxi-way to the runway.

I did not. I’ll try the other one next time

I don’t have a 50-series card, but I’ve had issues with my 4080Super and the last few drivers, yes. I have noticed two things: - my graphics card fans would ramp up to 100% seemingly at random (they are LOUD!); - I’ve had artefacts while sky is being rendered. But this was only during the first time DCS loaded after clearing fxo/metashaders. Right now I’m running the hot fix driver (thanks to Jayztwocents for making a video about it), and this one runs alright. Mind you, I’m not using 3rd party polling software so I didn’t run into the temperature issue - besides, both Sleep and Hibernation are disabled on my computer.

A lot depends on what you're after. Back in the old days, a dedicated sound card was the way to go if you cared even a bit about audio quality, but on-board solutions have matured a lot since. It's probably safe to say even a mid-range onboard audio chip beats the older dedicated sound cards. That being said, it's good that you found recent drivers that seem to mitigate a lot of the issues you're experiencing. Are you also running the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard? If you still prefer to disable the onboard sound chip, a DAC might be a good solution. There are very decent ones out there that are not too expensive (I take it you're not a hard-core audiophile?), and if you only use headphones and don't care about connecting speakers, there are DACs such as the Sharkoon Gaming DAC Pro S which costs only 35 euros.

Historically, drivers of dedicated sound cards have caused tons of issues. Have you checked the sample rate in Windows, to make sure it's not set too high? Windows only supports up to 24bit/192kHz so there's no point in setting anything higher than that if your audio solution supports it (and it might cause CPU issues). I use a DAC/pre-amplifier connected via USB, and don't have any issues.

Yup, I just spent hours editing a mission assuming the auto-save feature (in my case set to every 5 minutes) works properly, but it doesn't if DCS crashes while you're editing. In that case, the mission reverts to the original state of the last manual save. Losing hours of work is indeed incredibly frustrating!

There's something very wrong with your control setup, then. If I spawn in that very same IA mission, I need to trim up to maintain level flight (about 2 clicks will do the trick). I just watched your track replay, and I indeed see -5 degree down trim and you still keep pressing down trim. As soon as I take control in your track, the plane does a violent -3G pushover and dives straight to the ground. As Maxsenna said, and as been stated in pretty much every thread in the last few years where people have weird problems with FFB, you should double check your DCS axes controls to make sure you have 0 deadzones, 0 curves and 100 saturation on both X and Y. Any other setting will mess up FFB.

No, that’s not how it works.

That depends on how serious one is with DCS. Looking for mounting solutions betrays a certain commitment already, and while using cheap joysticks is perfectly fine while you’re still figuring out if flight simulators are something you want to invest your time/resources into, something more durable/higher quality is probably better if you’re planning to stick with DCS in the long run. Something simple such as a wooden stool works just fine as mount while you figure things out.

When I got back into DCS, I had a Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, and used Wheel Stand Pro as mounting solution. While that company probably is more focussed on driving simulators, they also make stuff for flight sims and their setup is very flexible. Monstertech is very good yes (I use it myself now) but as others have stated/implied things can get very expensive very quickly, and it doesn’t make any sense to have mounting solutions that are (far) more expensive than what you mount on them. I used Wheel Stand Pro for years, and I was happy with it until I decided to upgrade my entire setup. https://wheelstandpro.com/