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I gave up hopes on a new gpu upgrade. Instead I'll be looking at second hand deals if I can get a hold of one. Any advice on what to look out for with old cards? Maybe spesific benchmark advice?
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Hi mate, ssd is a must in my opinion. It will definitely speed loading by a mile. But as far far as I know it has to be internal because of sata connection to mobo(which provides all the speed and consistency).
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2 hours ago, Flappie said:
This is a bug and it has been reported earlier.
Thanks for reply.
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Hi guys, just a quick question. Do lights supposed to look like that?
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On 11/8/2021 at 4:39 PM, SMH said:
Same. Used to see about 45 FPS when looking straight up at empty sky. Now get less than 30. (Suspect it's poorly optimized textures. My GPU only has 4 GB VRAM. Everything was fine before the October updates though.)
This is in all maps but Marianas is even worse.I'm in the same boat, running on 1050 ti
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Same for me. And on my potato rig it sits just about at 30 now with medium/low settings..I wonder if that's a future of dcs, just degrading a bit with each release..not everyone can get 2080, 3080/90 etc. I am planing to upgrade, but already thinking that my long waited upgrade will only get me a few extra frames at best..not to mention years from now..:/
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I also noticed fps drop after last patch
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Hi guys, a bit of a mistery for me.. So I flew a mission from su27 campaign, where I came across 2 f16, and they got my wingman but I ended up shooting them both down eventually,which I was super happy about. So I decided to save track and record a replay of it. But to my surprise in the replay I was gunned down myself.. How is this even possible? I swear I didn't dream that win. :))
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Thanks for advice! Dcs Community better then Google and YouTube altogether.Replying to Specter1075...
I dont see any major reason to jump and upgrade your CPU, Mobo or Dram right now. Sit tight and see what prices Intels Alder Lake comes out at. Or see how low the prices for AMD 5000/X570 series drop to when Alder Lake is released.
I will offer this advise. I am not an expert but a long time PC user (since the 90's) who happily plays DCS at 4k 60fps without chasing stutters. See how your PC is performing and what parts are reaching their limit for yourself. Whether you are on AMD, Intel or Nvidia it doesn't matter. Download MSI Afterburner Beta, the latest one at the time. If you dig around in the setting you can set up the in game overlay to show all your PC components usages.
Another useful tool is the Windows "Resource Monitor" open it up before you open DCS. While flying if you notice a fps drop. Pause and "ALT/TAB" out as quickly as you can. See if an individual core is maxed out in a certain area. Then you will know for sure if your CPU is reaching its limit. A few hours loading up DCS for the purpose of evaluating your PC's performance within DCS can save you a lot of money and guide your upgrade requirements if you have them.
Addressing the mining kills GPU rumours on the internet. If someone does mining it is mainly using the memory and the memory bandwidth, thats one of the limiting factors. They will attempt to run the GPU at a much lower and limited clock speed often half of what a gaming clock speed would be. They will also try to run it under the lowest core voltage possible. So they will mine on a low clock speed with sometimes lower than idle voltage on the core. If someone does not mine this way they are stupid, dont look after their stuff and you dont want to buy anything off them anyway. The only real thing to check on a GPU that has been used for mining is dust in the heatsink as they are often run 24/7. That and check the fans spin up ok. they might be worn out if its a couple of years old. At worst the performance of the thermal pads could have degraded, no more though than if someone gamed on it for playing esports for 8 hours a day.
Buying a used GPU. Just look at the advert closely. If someone has put effort into a description and well taken photos then you a probably ok. Look for if it is boxed and comes with everything as if it was new. There is no 100% certainty, but looking for these signs reduces the probability. If you buy a used GPU when you install it. Run a game with vsync off and the settings maxed out, drive it as hard as you can for an hour. If there are no artefacts then it is probably ok. Check the temps, if these dont go up too high then the fans, thermal pads and heatsink are ok. Another thing to do, check that model of GPU on a review site, look at how it performed in the games list then do a comparison if you have one of those games.
Taking a little time to learn how all this stuff ticks will really help you out and give you a better understanding and experience enjoying PC gaming.
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Yeah I know, but still some light in the end of the tunnel.
Yeah with all of that said, a small caveat always buy from a very trusted ebay seller. Nothing worse than having a DOA card (or anything else for that matter).
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Nice one, thanks for the link. Im surprised, and a bit relieved to be fair. Linus the myth buster. Good to know really, as new gpus are imposible to get hands on and the prices now are just stupid.Yeah I wouldn't worry too much about that. If the card is completely functional, and not defective in some way, and has been used within its normal thermal limits. Most miners usually take good care of their hardware, it would be too expensive for them to do otherwise.
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Do you know if there's a way to check if gpu was used for mining? And how bad it is if it was? I'm desperate to change my gpu, but ebay is the only place with somewhat stock atm, even tho its all second hand.For now the best advice would be to wait. There is really no reason to upgrade to anything just yet, Alder Lake is around the corner and we need to see what AMD will come up with to counter it. Prices in PC Hardware have gone up through the roof, and hopefully they will stabilize once the Pandemic is taken care of but for now there is no real good reason to buy anything new unless you are getting a steal on the price, or you have a component fail on you.
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Replied in another thread ) and thanks for advice, I also think I have to stick with 1.5v1.5v is likely DDR3 ( what your System runs on ) but the 1.35v is a DDR4 value and that RAM will not fit into your system.
Best is to go to a local shop, friend etc. that can guide you.
Replacing that board might be not the best idea, rather think of board+cpu+ram then, makes far more sense if you can afford it.
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I see what you mean and definitely agree on it. In my current situation I'm just on a super tight budget. And swapping mobo and adding ram will set me for about a 100£, on the other hand if I go all in mobo new cpu and ram I will end up in the area of 500-600 I think, for a decent oneYou misinterprete the CPU value. You refer to the total CPU load but for DCS it is far more important to see each individual core as it mainly uses 1 core to run the game and a few other in addition for other tasks. YOu will never see DCS use 100% on modern CPUs, they have too many cores of which DCS currently makes no use of.
Look at the individual CPU graph ( logical cores in Task Manager ) and you will see that 1 core is likely at 95-100% most of the time.
More RAM makes sense but I would hesitate to buy a new "old" board and another 16GB of new "old" DDR3 RAM. Maybe a new board-cpu-ram combo makes more sense !?
. I would love to do it but first I need a new gpu and then everything else. Also I'm adding ram now so that I can run multiplayer to at least some extent. But my potato rig will still be a potato rig, even with 32 ram 
and I'm still waiting for stock on trackir5
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Hi guys, a question for experts. So I'm changing my mobo in order to be able to add ram, as my current one only supports 16gb, so I'm getting a different one to add another 16gb. I run i7-4770 at the moment and 2 sticks of 8gb 1600-cl11-1.5v. Should I look for exactly the same config for new ram? I found similar ones on amazon with exception of volts, they're 1.35 instead of 1.5v. Does it even matter? And also my new mobo will have xmp option. Should I have it on or off? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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I currently run i7 4770, and it's about 30 to 50% utilised. And gpu is at 100%. I am getting another 16 Ram, in the coming weeks to make it 32, as its max possible size for my mobo. But I imagine nowadays with multiplayer even 64 is not extreme anymore. So my point is I don't think you will get much improvement from changing cpu, I would rather suggest additional ram.
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Hi, did you sell trackir?
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Thanks for replyProgramme language is English and everything is therefore in English in the cockpit, irrespective of the operator.
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Maybe a silly question. But will the cockpit be in English? Since its going to be German eurofighter(at first at least)
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It is always better to lower saturation and no curves. Curves just do not work linear lol, your brain can't trust a curve setting so to speak.
Nothing wrong with using a curve though, just what makes you feel comfortable.
Just saying that curves tend to mask the aircrafts characteristics. Flying a warbird without curves and proper hardware should be your future goal.
Good luck!
Cheers for advice, step by step for me. :)
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No curves here, it is highly depending on the used joystick, base and extension.
If you buy lets say a base with a 20cm extension, desk mounts to mount it between your legs you get rid of those curves pretty quick.
Grab a bottle of water at the lower bottom and try to make small movements, grab it on top and do the same. Gives you an idea how an extension works.
Best advise would be not to buy the Warthog base, the stick is awesome but the base uses a horrible gimball system which is just bad. I have it, put it back into the box after 15 minutes.
Using huge curves because of bad hardware kills the modules intended flight characteristics. A Spit was sensitive as hell and is a dream to fly with an extension and no curves at all.
Buy a proper base with cam system like VKB or Virpil, with extension and a monstertech desk mount for centered use between your legs.
If you are short on cash, the T16000 is cheap and just as good as the Warthog. Same system.
If it happens you live in Europe you can buy my Warthog base, brandnew but you have been warned :-)
Yes, I heard about that extension to stick fixes the input output ratio problem. But I dont have a chance to invest in it just yet, so have to live with a table top stick for now. What about saturation? Do you have it at 100% or less?
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Hi guys! Just wanted to get an opinion on axis controls. I don't have much experience but I found that all the time I'm overpooling the stick, especially pitch, and aircraft becomes uncontrollable and goes into spin. It's just so sensitive. I end up stalling even at high speeds because of high aoa. Found a video on youtube by a guy called Phil, and he showed his spitfire axis saturation muted to 40-60%, and curves around 30. I know that every aircraft is different but I tried 50% pitch saturation and got a lot more control on turns straight away. I'm using just a regular logitech 3d pro stick btw. Would love to hear what others are doing with curves.
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One way you can potentially come to a choice is to look up each aircraft and get a sense for what roles they are best suited for and what kinds of scenarios interest you the most. For some players, it is all about air to air combat so they will focus on aircraft that specifically provide that experience. For others, it is about multi-role capability so more modern aircraft like the Hornet, Viper, or the JF-17 end up being strong contenders. The more you know about the various aircraft, the more informed your choice can be and the less likely you are to get something that doesn't quite scratch the itch you were hoping it would.
To give you a quick summary of each of your choices to kinda see where I am coming from.
1.) The F-5. As I said before, the specific version we have is pretty sparse and is more at home as a dissimilar air combat trainer (think the planes they used in the real-life Top Gun to simulate enemy aircraft) than as a front-line combat aircraft. It can still shoot a couple of missiles, fire the gun, and do some bomb/rocket trucking but it has a very primitive radar, avionics, and only a fairly basic adjustable radar gunsight to help get weapons on target. Deploying weapons from it can be a lot of fun and rather interesting but when you try to fit it into a mission where you need to bomb protected targets or fight dedicated air to air focused jets, you will find that the F-5 starts to hit some pretty hard limits that can't always be overcome with a romantic notion of "it's the pilot, not the aircraft". There is a romanticism for the simplicity of planes like this but at the same time, that simplicity has a cost in terms of capability. This is why I tend to think it is a good third or fourth module since it is a lot of fun to fly and learn but if it is your only high fidelity module, it will not cover as much ground as you might like.
2.)The F/A-18C. First and foremost. The Hornet as a module is not done yet. It is pretty far along and is almost at a point where it is largely complete but it is important to know that it is early access. Beyond that, the Hornet was the first true multi-role aircraft in DCS and as such, it can cover a lot of different mission types without significant compromise to any one role. With the Hornet, you can do dedicated air to air missions or a wide variety of air to ground/surface missions with its various weapons and sensors. If you want a aircraft that you can use to sample pretty much every major mission type that DCS offers, this is a good plane to get that experience.
There are two things that really stand out about the Hornet from a "buying your first module" perspective. The first is that you get to explore carrier operations in a pretty detailed way. Properly landing on the boat is very challenging but it can be quite a lot of fun to learn if you let it be fun to learn. Likewise, its ability to mid-air refuel also offers the new player the ability to learn that skill and feel rewarded when they eventually are able to pull it off.
3.) The A-10C. Out of all the aircraft in this list, this is the one that is most specialized and really highlights how important it is to understand mission types and roles before hitting the buy button. The A-10 as a airframe has largely been focused on close air support, CSAR, and COIN. All these mission types rely on the aircraft operating in "low intensity" areas where enemy aircraft, long range radar SAM systems, and other major threats are either gone or too far away to do anything. Unlike the Hornet or other fast multi-role jets, it can't really do deep strikes into defended enemy territory without getting shot down. About as deep as you will get behind enemy lines is just behind the front line to do some BAI attacks. If you can work inside its limits and really commit to the roles it is actually supposed to be used for, you will find this to be a potent, rewarding experience. If you try to use it like a Hornet or a Viper and try to use it as a strike platform, you will have a bad time.
The A-10C module has a reputation for being "very hard to learn" and "very complex" but I am not sure I really buy that. If anything, I think a lot of that comes from players who are using incomplete and/or incorrect information sources to learn the aircraft and as a result, they understandably get confused when they don't get all the info they need to effectively learn and use the aircraft. This is a module that REALLY rewards players who can embrace learning from a manual since using the manual will probably be the (despite popular belief) smoothest, most complete way to learn. It isn't really a difficult module to understand but you do need to get over a bit of a hump at first. Once you understand how the HOTAS controls all come together, it actually gets pretty straightforward to learn.
Man, that is very indepth reply, cheers for that. :) I totaly get what you're saying. Im going to fly more of p51 at the moment, especially since they're introducing new damage model soon. And after that I'm curios to try su-25t and su 27(I have it already). I guess it should give me an idea of a modern day ground attack and air to air experience. I know its not clickable, but it still a good impression of modern jets. I suppose :)
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I am not sure I agree with the somewhat popular notion that it is a good full fidelity module for a beginner. On one hand, I can understand that its simplicity makes it a popular module overall and I can understand that said simplicity can make it seem less intimidating to new players at first glance. That being said, we are talking about a consumer flight simulation built largely for entertainment and as such, new players should be encouraged to only spend money on aircraft that truly excite them and they should be ACTIVELY encouraged to use the rather ample, easy to understand resources resources to learn whatever module they end up choosing.
I kinda think of it like this. The specific version of the F-5E that we have in DCS World is more like a DACT aircraft than anything else. It is great if that is something you very specifically want but if you are a new player that is attracted to DCS via more glamorous aircraft like the F-16, F-14, or the F/A-18, getting told by many voices (who will seem very experienced to a new player) to buy the F-5 and essentially "work your way up" to what you actually want is not unlike getting told you should buy the L-39 to work your way up to the F-16. It is unlikely that the new player who wants to get into the F-16 will ever, ever touch the L-39 again after making the jump. It turns into potentially wasted money that could have gone to what they wanted to begin with.
Now, don't get me wrong. I am not saying that one should NEVER buy the F-5 module. I own it myself and enjoyed learning all its various systems, procedures, and quirks a great deal. What I am saying is that the F-5 (like the L-39) is a good module for those that specifically want that experience. If I were to go back and make all my DCS purchases again, I would still have gotten it after I got modules that interested me a lot more. It is a good second, third, or fourth module but I am not sure I would tell a new player that it should be their first just because it is less complex.
Thanks for the input mate. I am not quite sure at the moment as to which model I really want to go with. Be it f5 or f18 or a10c.. Currently I'm learning and flying p51, but it's completely different era of course. I do enjoy manual flying it and managing engine and weapons etc. That being said bombs and rockets are not the easiest to deploy. :) however I feel that I would really enjoy a modern jet also, so I keep my mind open
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