Raven (Elysian Angel)

It looks like ED’s current plans are to keep the old pod just long enough to give campaign makers time to swap it for the ATP, and then to remove the fantasy/hybrid pod altogether.

Oh I agree it looks odd on your screenshot. I was just referring your description of a "huge fireball". It doesn't look like that on my end, though. Perhaps clearing shader cache (both DCS ones and the driver ones) might fix it? Alternatively you could try a different LOD setting as Draconus suggested.

Nah, you have to go to the Underdark in person to find one

In the interim you can swap the pods yourself, using the Mission Planner.

The ground clutter in general has a lot of room for improvement, especially given the capabilities of modern hardware. I'd say the visibility range for ground clutter needs to double/triple at the very least, and ideally also be visible from a higher altitude.

Obviously, but let's just say my monthly income didn't rise as much as the prices for top tier graphics cards have in the last decade - and I'd think that counts for most people

Yup, the .88 driver had issues with DCS when ReBAR was enabled, so I had to turn it off. For the new .00 driver I enabled it again, and so far it’s been ok. About time nVidia sorts out their drivers, though…

Very expensive = 1200-1500 euro and that should last at least 4-5 years. A 3000+ euro card MIGHT be worth considering if it lasts 8-10 years. We'll see with 60-series: nVidia better get their act together and provide 6080 with at least 24GB of VRAM...

It'd better last, given the 4090's already ludicrous retail price (at the time when it was still available). I paid 700 euro back in the day for my brand spanking new 1080Ti. 4090s used to go for 2000-2500 euro, now the 5090 sells for 2600-3200. While they are superb cards for DCS, their price is too bonkers to even consider: just 1 component that is more expensive than everything else (CPU, motherboard, RAM, PSU, case, AIO, NVMe drive) combined? I'll pass, thanks...

You probably meant to tag Silver Dragon instead of Baltic Dragon?

I’ve been having issues for the last few months, yes. But I have no idea what causes it: driver, Varjo Base, or DCS. Sometimes DCS indeed launches in desktop mode even while I’m wearing my Aero. If that happens I just exit and launch again - that works.

Or the “airspeed” indication displaying ground speed instead of actual airspeed…

I can read, thanks. My point still stands. It requires functionality that is not present in DCS and that ED clearly is not interested in implementing - or we'd have it already.

After unpacking I bet? I was talking about the download itself, not the size after unpacking

I just did a few dogfights against random skilled AI, and it has a turning circle of half a continent now. It's a significant difference to what it was before. This doesn't have anything to do with the full-fidelity FM though, which is what this thread is about: the link clearly states "flight model human" under 'category'.

Why add a 3rd ECM pod when the previous 2 don't even work correctly? (yes I am aware that the -188 is a training pod)

Yes, I'm aware. The CM amount needs to default to zero unless equipped with the pod.

MiG-21 no longer flies like a UFO now, which is great to see, but can still spawn flares from a different time/space continuum (when not equipped with its dedicated countermeasures pod) - this seriously needs to be fixed... 30GB download for me.

You're posting in the forum for the upcoming full-fidelity module, which doesn't exist yet in DCS as shown on the previous page:

That’s likely because the DCS: F-15C won’t be released until next year at the soonest. At that time there will be documentation available that explains how it works. We only have an extremely simplified version available in DCS now. The forum where to discuss and ask questions can be found here: https://forum.dcs.world/forum/249-f-15c-for-dcs-world/

High quality customer support is a major factor for me when considering any purchase. But that’s a consideration everyone has to make for themselves

I asked the same question on the previous page, without answer from ED.

Yeah, the Apache is awesome for the first 10 minutes, then I’m bored out of my mind. Mi-24 on the other hand: I love that thing and can’t get enough of it.

You loose a bit of capacity (the size of all your partitions added will be a bit less than the total capacity of the drive) by making partitions but that’s pretty much it. Nope.

I’m old-school and always partition my drives to keep things organised the way I like it. I keep C:\ for purely windows and drivers for example, so that I can happily format C:\ if the need arises without losing any data: my documents, pictures and saved games folders are on a different partition. Since I built my new system I do indeed keep DCS on its own dedicated drive. Is there a particular need or benefit to using partitions or even a dedicated drive? Nope, not these days so it just comes down to personal preference and how you like to organise things. Whatever works for you is fine