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Respectfully disagree, you're doing it wrong. You need to turn on FXAA if you are using big screen. It will smooth out the jaggies. I have a ASUS ROG 27" 1440p 166Hz and a big screen. DCS is far superior and more immersive on the big screen bar none. The only advantage of a smaller monitor is G Sync and higher refresh rate, makes panning in TIR smoother. I use it when I want to snipe stormtroopers in Battlefront, but not for DCS. The DCS 2.5+engine will render a single pixel in 4k that is visible for scale miles. It's really impressive. Nothing else comes close on the market today. I'm not sure what other posters are saying about target spotting. I honestly feel like I'm cheating with my display but I haven't played online with it. Not only that but the long distance horizon effect is damn near photorealistic, looking at a hazy mountain range on the horizon with a town in between almost fools your eye. My Samsung in my sig is a computer monitor that you can watch movies on. Most of their mid range and up line is. It has freesync and can play 1440p 120Hz natively as well. I've tried both, 1440p with MSAA, and 4K with FXAA. 4K is better. I wouldn't call it the new standard yet because the brand new 4K 120 panels are very pricey to buy a clunky prototype. But we're almost there another year or two and the prices will be reasonable. The ASUS 27" 1440p 166Hz is the best monitor I've owned, and it's down below $700 US now. IMHO 4K big screen all the way, you won't go back. There was even a guy who made a YT video for DCS a10, switched from triple monitor to 4K big screen. Either way, happy flyin' :pilotfly:

I regularly track VKB's website. Good luck getting a hold of one. You could wait months while you play with a Warthog set that costs $400 US. TM seems to be refreshing their high end line. The new pedals look nice. I'd been using the Saitek combat pedals for years. A potentiometer went out on the right brake axis, and they used a custom pot. Couldn't fix them, although I may salvage the metal pedals for something. I got some Crosswinds on order from MFG. Been using the TM TFRPs while I wait. Not bad kit for less than a $100 US. Let us know what you think of the Virpil. I've almost ordered from them on several occasions I just put a long curved cyclic style extension on my Warthog, did the lithium grease, and set it up as a center stick. Completely new stick. Like night and day. I'm waiting on a stiffer spring as it feels a little soft now. I'd played with either the table top or sidestick configuration for years. The only DCS mod that uses a sidestick IRL will be under development for several years. Instead of using your wrist to control the aircraft you use your arm and shoulder like a glider or aerobatic plane. It feels really good. You can make very precise maneuvers with the large throw. Only took me five minutes of tuning in DCS's axis curves to get it perfect. If you fly prop aircraft. Pick up a Saitek Throttle quadrant. Highly recommended. Only $60 US and I use it all the time, I even have it mapped to cockpit lighting axis in the F-86 Sabre. I'm personally waiting to see where VR goes over the next couple years. Hard to beat Track IR with a big screen. The price of Oculus has dropped, but for the price of Vive Pro you can get a nice 4K big screen.

Other than what was already said, all good troubleshooting steps. Try rolling back your Nvidia driver with a clean installation. Make sure you turn your internet connection and antivirus off as well when trouble shooting. DOUBLE CHECK POWER SETTINGS FOR CPU AND GPU! Make sure they are still on the max performance profiles.When you reinstall it goes back to default. Your cores might be shifting to low power states, you need on demand power for DCS and other high performance apps. Consider separate SSD for OS and games, it makes reinstallation troubleshooting less time consuming. I forced my build of Windows into a metered connection update loop to prevent updates. All their new "features" that we don't use just break legacy software. I'm happily using Win 10 1511 on my rig and couldn't be happier. I have a 3rd party firewall and only game on my rig so security is not an issue. I got sick of chasing gremlins after each windows update. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Hopefully the Vulkan API will make us less dependent on Windows.

Looks good, but you don't need that much wattage power though unless you plan on potentially adding a second graphics card. I use a 650W and easily power multiple USB devices and an overclocked CPU/GPU with cooling pump. I ran an 1080 SLI rig on 850w. Consider AIO loop for the GPU, you'll see much more benefit than cooling the CPU. It will give you much more OC headroom for DCS. I'm a big fan of the EVGA hybrid coolers, it's how I baby stepped into liquid cooling and you won't have all the issues with potential leaks and upgrades that I have with a custom loop. I haven't lost any components, but I've had a few close calls with pressure leaks. Building and tuning a proper custom loop easily doubles build time as well. Consider saving $ on 32GB and buy faster 16GB sticks. The highest RAM utilization I've seen in DCS is a smidge over 10 gigabytes. DCS does like fast RAM. Pretty much concur with everything Rudel said. Consider going with 7700k, you'll save money. The extra 2 cores on the 8700 can give you some flexibility for streaming and TrackIR, etc. Might as well wait for 9700K if you just want the latest CPU. You get 8 cores. Might not get you much performance gain for the $ though. Most bang for buck is on the graphics card and 1080 Ti is definitely the best bang for buck right now, although that could change in a couple weeks, we'll see. A 2080 perhaps? The Rig in my signature can be built for under $2500 US minus peripherals and display. And it smokes on DCS. You don't need to build some crazy expensive YouTuber fiasco that simulates the sound of a turbofan engine in your game room. They look pretty in videos though. A 1080 Ti with current drivers, properly cooled and overclocked is a close match for a Titan. You can run DCS in SLI but you can end up trouble shooting more than playing. Always seems to introduce artifacts or stutters. I've yet to take the step into VR myself. Just a matter of when not if. I'm waiting to see if Oculus announces anything new this year.

Sockets have redundant pins, you can bend a few and it won't make a difference. The vendor wasn't necessarily being unethical or unscrupulous especially if he said there were bent pins in the ad. That being said, avoid if possible. Nowadays you're pretty much buying the motherboard, CPU, and RAM as a package. Upgradability is limited. Check benchmark scores on 3Dmark. That's a much better guide for high performance parts than outdated build guides. For example, I have top 100 benchmark scores for my CPU/GPU combo. If you check the individual scores you see the same dozen or so people at the top. They're just tuning and benchmarking their systems multiple times. The guy with top scores for 7700K/Titan Xp has my same motherboard. As of now, the 7700K may be a better buy than 8700 or 8086 for DCS. Other Flight sims are CPU bottlenecked. DCS tends to be bottlenecked by GPU. The extra $ might not actually get you any more FPS or settings. The new Persian Gulf map seems to utilize CPU better than other maps, so as always YMMV. Maybe the new Intel 9000 series 8 core will rock on Vulcan API. DCS can very easily hit 100% on GPU utilization even at lower resolution if you are using external views. DCS will usually run smoothly at 70-90% GPU utilization and that gives you a cushion for flying over cities and airfields. Don't skimp on fast RAM. There is a noticeable difference if I don't use the XMP profiles to OC my RAM in my BIOS. Slow RAM can definitely be a bottleneck, but you hit diminishing returns per $ real quick. I actually turn off the overclock on my CPU for DCS. No difference in performance on my rig. My CPU was bought directly from Silicon Lottery. In fact, the higher voltage just heats up my cooling loop, so with the CPU at factory overclock my GPU stays cooler longer, especially on warm summer days with high ambient. I have an undersized cooling loop for my configuration though. It really needs separate loops and radiators for the components. I was going for compact and quiet. My last build was too big and noisy. I use MSI afterburner for GPU OC, EVGA Precision XOC is equivalent. Make sure you set up your OSD for temps and utilization. Otherwise you just be throwing darts in the dark with graphics settings. Utilization varies a lot depending on Map, altitude, and scenery. Keep an eye on temps relative to the max temp in the specs to prevent thermal throttling. I burnt out one of my 1080's from my SLI rig playing The Witcher 3 at 4K because I wasn't watching my temps. A long gaming session cooked her. AIDA64 is really good monitoring software but I rarely use while playing DCS. I always use the OSD from Afterburner. I stress test and tune DCS graphics with mirrors ON. That way when you hit a spot with FPS drops, say over a Dubhai or the Vegas Strip, you can just flip the mirrors shut and it will get smooth. Then when you're back out over the desert or high altitude, just flip the mirrors back down. Don't worry about all the other burn in and stress/ stability tests that some forums recommend. Just play DCS for an hour or two and watch your temps. DCS's graphic engine will push the limits of any PC out there. If you get persistent crashes, lower your overclock or go to factory defaults and go up from there. Rather than try and OC in one afternoon or weekend. It should be a gradual process. Just nudge it up a bit every time and you'll find the sweet spot. Even a slight increase in my current OC will cause my GPU to become unstable, but it stays rock solid at the current OC. I play the OpenBeta build so I still get crashes from time to time, rarely reproducible though. The current builds are much more stable than when 2.5 first released. Performance can vary quite a bit, map to map, and module to module. One setting for one aircraft and map may not be the best settings for another.

What about DLSS? I lot of talk about ray tracing which would be awesome, of course. The Vulcan API does support it as well AFAIK. Lighting that is ray traced or simulated with another technique is looking more expensive than antialiasing, add in development time, driver support, etc. and the next generation of cards might be out before we see it used well in DCS. DLSS on the other hand,... I watched the keynote, from what I gathered DLSS will allow a game or sim to be rendered at say 1080p or 1440p but supersampled up to 4K+ with minimal hit on CUDA cores. It uses the tensor cores to apply machine learned algorithms to imagery. By a process of example, trial, and error an AI neural net created supersampled images that could fool the human eye but with much less processing power needed. (i.e. don't upscale portions of screen with solid colors). Brute force supersampling is very expensive. If it could do this for say the resources of MSAA techniques we could see some big resolution gains over the next couple years. Maybe think of the tensor cores as an ASIC for supersampling like TVs upscale to 4K. Not as good as native 4K, but still looks better than a 1080p blu ray. 8K displays will start to be mass produced by next year. How this is exactly applied to currently existing games, I have no idea. Would the neural net need to play DCS for a couple weeks and then release the driver? Input lag? All still current unknowns. If it's something DCS can do without expending too many resources, awesome. People like eye candy and DCS eye candy is really good. It could really grow the player base. Some high rez YT videos with RTX lighting could have a nice wow factor for noobs to flight sims. Help make people take the leap from console to PC or buy that HOTAS.

I played Chuck Yeager's Air Combat and Falcon AT. I don't care how many posts somebody has. You can make a 1000 useless posts and you made a 1000 useless posts. Kind of like this one added to my count. You really think I never read this forum before posting? This forum is one of the most informative if not THE most informative regarding flight simulation. It didn't get that way by people complaining about a card that nobody has even used yet. If you take a forum post personally and interpret a random person on the internet as being disrespectful, well... I was disappointed to see so many DCS fans fall for social media hype and antihype. You should know when a Youtuber created clickbait to increase his revenue. The NDA gags lift a few days before the release date. This will all be settled by the end of the month. Referencing a link that references another link that references some specs that somebody made up doesn't really help anyone. Even if some of the DirectX12 benchmarks are accurate, that is irrelevant to DCS as it currently renders in the DirectX11 api and possibly Vulcan in the future. If anything, this thread made me realize how closely I follow the GPU space for pleasure and profit and that even the average DCS user has a lot of misconceptions about PC hardware and the purchasing power of your currency. To really make it fun, I was thinking of donating a 1070 to a DCS fan who can most accurately guess the benchmarks and performance increase for a 2080 Ti. Other than that, what's the point? Listening to what people would pay if the price and performance were in a certain range, acknowledges you don't know and I find worth reading. It at least gives insight into what dollar value different people put on PC and graphics performance. Making a definitive statement about price and performance to someone who may be new to DCS or building a PC for the first time, you are just confusing the issue. Now that's disrespectful.

I found the 1 TB NVMe in my signature on EBay as "refurbished", it was pulled from a returned laptop if I remember correctly. Don't remember what I payed exactly, but it was well below retail. And there is definitely practical benefit to a fast NVMe SSD. Windows boots faster, and DCS loads faster. The effect on FPS is probably negligible versus a standard SSD. Concur with one SSD for OS and one for Games. It can save you from losing data or downloading things over again if Windows gets flaky on you.

Well Done! Nice! I'm definitely throwing that on the kneeboard/tablet. Good for when I'm in the mood for old school stopwatch navigation.

How to force FXAA on in Nvidia Inpector A little off topic, but I had a request to show how to use FXAA in DCS even without the option within DCS internal graphic settings. The option is highlighted in blue in the first screenshot. The only other settings I changed from default are boldface. Make sure the "Digital Combat Simulator:Black Shark" in the profiles pull down menu is associated with both .exe files in the green bar up top. Don't forget to set power option to max performance. Using the Nvidia Icon just to the right of the options column will return that setting to default. I also included a snip of my settings within DCS and the utility I use to OC my card, which also includes a really handy onscreen display for temps, fps, utilization, etc. Oh yeah, driver version I use is 388.71 not .12 Don't forget to click apply changes before you exit out. Happy flyin' :pilotfly:

I use Nvidia driver 388.71 on the rig in my signature. I force FXAA on in Nvidia Inspector, noticeable difference especially on big screen. If you turn it off, you see jaggies. Much less expensive than MSAA. It's a post process AA technique done on the card rendering the image. You aren't overriding anything in the DCS graphic engine. I can post a screen shot later when I'm on my rig. There's a whole bunch of techno babble settings that you should just leave alone, but's it's a lot more flexible than Nvidia Control Panel. It's also how you are able to force games into SLI if you have multiple graphics cards even though they may not be officially supported. Introduces lots of stuttering variables though, and you have to test different "sli compatibility bits". Any blurring effect would most likely be noticeable in small gauges and MFD rendering you try to read without zooming in. As always, YMMV.

Not ready for prime time yet Hey guys, been meaning to write up a more thorough review but not really worth the time. 1. Set up and trouble shooting was a nightmare. The quick stall instructions don't tell you that you have to download the latest firmware. Even then, still a buggy mess. 2. Calibrating fingertip sensors equally frustrating. 3. I could get it to flip switches in DCS and BMS emulating a 3D bluetooth mouse. You can also set up the sensitivity where you don't have to even take your hand off the throttle to move the mouse sensor. BUT, it's VERY jittery and VERY inaccurate. Just overall a very frustrating experience from a consumer product perspective. Needs A LOT more development. There is no advantage whatsoever to just taking your left hand off the throttle and using your mouse or trackball to flip switches, it takes too long to get the cursor oriented and do anything useful with it. 4. The developers I conversed with through email have absolutely zero clue or understanding of the flight sim and VR market and what we would actually be using the glove for. They think flight simmers want to play with an imaginary joystick. 5. Final Verdict, IF YOU WANT ONE, I'LL SELL YOU MINE...CHEAP! I needs a new graphics card!

I hope the 2070 can match or beat a Titan Xp. For $499 US, that brings 4k to the masses. If it's 15-20% gain at the high end...meh, I'll pass. If it %30-50+, or roughly approximates a Titan V for $1200, I'm sold. In DCS I can max out everything currently except global illumination and no MSAA, SSAA. I prefer long draw distances on big screen. I force FXAA in the driver, but it can make instruments harder to read with some blurring effects. MSAA is much crisper image quality, but not smooth at 4K60, too expensive. Hopefully, we'll really be able to see what the new DCS engine is capable of. Graphics engines are usually ahead of the hardware, especially for home PC's.

No, just trying to weed out all the useless commenters regurgitating something they read on a teenyboppers YouTube channel. If you're in the market, you should be appreciating this. I've owned AMD stock and currently own a Freesync display. I have no loyalty to any particular company. Do you find all these posts complaining about 1500 Euro for a 10% performance gain that they read about somewhere on the internet useful? I don't. It's regurgitated bovine scatology. That's why I'm posting. Over the next few weeks we might get some leaked benchmarks that are actually useful, but until a DCS player gets a hold of a 2080 or 2080 Ti and post stats it's all just dumb. I'm trying to give some of these people the benefit of the doubt and that this is all just an elaborate ruse to short Nvidia stock, but I think that would be giving them too much credit.

"But Daddy, I want a Lumpa Lumpa now!" Again, it's getting old. Find a better use for your spare time and maybe you can afford the PC upgrade you want.

Thanks for making my point. I'm going go out on a limb and say not too many people would buy it if it weren't that expensive. Any more imaginary benchmarks you care to share with the group? Look up the cost of old Silicon Graphics workstations and rendering workstations and compare the performance. The new Ti model costs the same as the Titan it is replacing. The 2070's are $100 dollars US more. Oh the humanity. I hope your family survives. Nvidia is sure going to be making a lot of money off a product that shouldn't exist. I really hope you are a non native English speaker if you came away that I'm arguing costs should double. I'm a big fan of Moore's Law. We wouldn't be here without it. My point was that people who waste time playing video games shouldn't be complaining about the cost of a card to play said video games. If the 2000 series is too much for you buy a used 1080Ti or wait for the 2060 or 2050 models. Since you play DCS I'll give you a below market price on a 1070 if you want it. You sound like spoilt children who didn't get what they want for their birthday. I'm much more interested in longterm Vulcan API performance and driver support given that's where ED seems to be going. To the people waiting for the FTW model or any particular model for that matter. If you can stand the wait, go with the EVGA Kingpin model, the 1080Ti version could beat my Titan on most games when properly overclocked. It'll be a custom PCB with upgraded voltage regulators and binned GPU's with lots of OC headroom. They are even coming out with a hybrid model. He's an electrical engineer that holds all the benchmark records, Im not even sure he actually games much if you can believe that. He would rather experiment or use liquid N2.

Am I the only one that finds all the negative people posting irritating? Maybe that's why you can't afford a new graphics card? If spending $1000 on a new card is going to bankrupt you and your family, you shouldn't be wasting your time flying imaginary airplanes on a computer or commenting in a flight sim forum. Take the money and put it in a college fund for your children or use the money to enhance your salary and marketable skills. How much time did you spend gaming and siming in the last year? Unless you flip burgers for a living that would have more than payed for any computer upgrade you want. For those subject to high taxes, import fees, and exchange rates, that has nothing to do with Nvidia. Change your government's economic policies. There are serious entitlement issues in the PC gaming and Flight Sim communities. But I have solution. If you don't like Nvidia's prices, don't buy them. It really is that simple. 1000 series prices have dropped, buy one used. $500 dollars spent today gets you a whole lot more bang for your buck than 5 years ago. What level of price and performance would make you happy exactly? 50 teraflops for $400? Maybe in 10 years. I just started the Witcher 2 because I liked 3 so much. Its a 2011 game that looks gorgeous in 4K with the settings maxed. Way ahead of its time. And I bought if for like $5 bucks on a Steam sale. Getting a 4K panel to display it on in 2011 would have been impossible let alone a graphics card that could push that many pixels. We've come a long way in a very short period of time gentleman. Important to keep that in perspective. Nvidia has some of the smartest people in the world working with multibillion dollar budgets. Where do you think that money comes from? If you think you can do better. Get an EE degree and start your own GPU company and compete with Nvidia. Good luck with that. My Titan Xp was one of the best computer purchases I ever made. The 1080 TI came out like a month after but I hit break even on my Titan months ago. Right now, there isn't one single person on these boards who knows how the 2080 Ti will perform in DCS. It's uninformed speculation at best and you are cluttering up the forums with useless information. No amount of trash talking Nvidia online is going to make AMD cards perform better ,draw less watts, or cause prices to drop. All the 2080 Ti preorders in the world are currently sold out. Those are the real numbers Nvidia is looking at. Not the uninformed whiney "expert" on a forum or Youtube. Stop embarrassing yourself. Computer gaming is a luxury purchase for your leisure time and hobby pursuits. I have yet to see one developer, AI researcher, or artist complain about the price because the card will make them more productive and efficient. Faster machine learning, faster rendering. Sorry about the rant, but this is getting old quick. I'm sure there are tons of people who aren't going to upgrade their PC due to budget constraints. They don't whine about it publicly or blame Nvidia.

Bagram Airbase is just north of Kabul, so each of those is a given. Russians and US both used/improved it. Kabul international (KAIA) is a combined civilian military strip currently. An-124's would come into land. They are BIG. We would drive right under the landing path on our way out the gate. Bamiyan province would be nice for site seeing. Beautiful country. I lived in Afghanistan for 2 years, there is much more than sand and desert. The valleys irrigated with snowmelt can get very green. Sometimes I felt like I could have been in the Rockies. Same pine tree smell. Major areas of action in the Soviet and ISAF era centered around the eastern part of the country and the Paki border. The North and West were relatively mellow except for terrorist type attacks. Sharif has the major airbase in the north though. The place I was at for my first year had an old MiG boneyard with -17's, and maybe -19's. Of course more borders and airbases opens up possibilities for hypothetical and counterfactual scenarios. Alternate history is always fun. There is an amazing armor tank boneyard at the Kabul Military Training center right on the edge of the city. About 30 years worth of Soviet occupations and civil war that has not been scrapped yet. I'll see if I can find some old pictures. It's definitely visible from the air. Oh, and a previous poster mentioned there are no major cities larger than a million. This person has never been to Kabul. There is no way to take an accurate census in Afghanistan. People have poured into the relatively safe area of Kabul from all over the country. It is really overcrowded and very polluted. About 3 mil+ when I was there. Wiki has current estimate of 4.6 million. Lots of slums with very little clean water. I had the opportunity to take a flight over the Hindu Kush from Sharif to Bagram. Absolutely breathtaking. 20,000 foot snowcaps out to the horizon for as far as the eye could see. I got a few pics out the window. Doesn't compare to reality.

I actually landed in Tbilisi in 2013 when we dropped some Georgian soldiers off. The view from the air and low level in DCS is the closest to photorealistic of any flight sim on the market today. If you can do better, and get it to run smoothly at 4k60, I'll buy it.

8086K is just a refined, bined, and overclocked 8700k marketed by Intel. If Silicon Lottery got a new batch in, go with one of theirs. They sort and bin all their chips and delid for a nominal cost above MSRP. I like overclocking and tinkering but I still buy from Silicon Lottery. 1000 series GPU have dropped a lot on Ebay used and Newegg new assuming you live in the States. Good time as any to upgrade. Realistically the 2070's are going to be hard to get a hold of at MSRP for a while if not indefinitely till 3000 series cards are released if the high end cards are outside your budget. Hopefully Nvidia has contingency plans for demand spikes.

So far compared to the Spitfire which I have the most time on: -Way easier to taxi, take off and land. It has a nice wide tricycle landing gear with good visibility over the nose as opposed to the Spittie which is a taildragger with a narrow undercarriage and a long nose. -It will definitely stall but it is very forgiving. I stalled way too close to the ground trying a hammerhead and will still able to recover before I augered in. Spin recovery is easy once you nose down and get air flowing straight over the wings again. -You also don't have the power of the Merlin in a Spittie or a P-51. Dogfighting is all about energy management, trading altitude for airspeed, and vice versa. You have a finite amount of power for vertical maneuvers. Even when dogfighting in jets with afterburners, the pilot who manages his energy better and can think in 4 dimensions usually wins. The basic principles haven't changed since Oswald Boelcke.

Uncheck Scale GUI to make menu bar visible Under Options>System>Scale GUI I unchecked the box and that solved the problem on my end making the menu/resizing bar visible. I assume it works for different resolutions.

Does anyone know where I can find a list of ADF frequencies for radio navigation on the maps besides Caucuses? I want to be able to tune in navigation beacons but can't find a list of frequencies or on the charts. All I see are tower frequencies and ILS frequencies. I can tune ADF beacons on the Caucuses map no problem from a kneeboard I found but I can't find the equivalent for the other maps.

No luck here, even on generic piston engine profile. I was about to post on Andre's thread.

Ditto, I can move the wheel with the mouse scroll wheel in cockpit no issues, but no matter what axis I assign you can't get the full range of nose up. I tried playing around with the axis saturation and curve. Doesn't help.