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Honestly, for the amount of money you'd be spending on a large, high-quality 4K television, invest it in a VR setup instead.

This has been reported before across nearly every module and the problem is your real-life head (with TrackIR or VR) can do stuff that the real-life pilot can't (because they'll bump their head and you won't) and fixing it would involving changing how 6-DOF tracking is handled at the core in a way that would be less realistic for more normal movements. In VR you can even stand up and walk around, which is properly tracked in room-scale assuming your hardware supports it, which leads to weird results.

FWIW, every high performance Western jet fighter - and even low-performance planes like the A-10 and probably the C-101 - in DCS has pilots wearing G-suits (with the exception of maybe the Saber). They're not exactly a new technology and early models date to World War II.

In Vipers in the Storm, Keith "Rosey" Rosenkranz mentions using radar mapping frequently in low visibility and dropping bombs (apparently CCIP) on a radar-locked diamond based on what he knew the target looked like on a map. Other parts he'd find ground vehicles using Ground Moving Target (not implemented, but uses Doppler to see things that are moving as opposed to stationary) before locking a Maverick-D on them (with some difficulty, again due to weather and smoke). Desert Storm was fought in ugly weather and dense smoke from oil fires and it wasn't uncommon for flights to RTB due to poor visibility. Laser, TV and even IR is useless in poor visibility. There's a reason the JDAM was invented.

Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

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I found you have to put the throttles just ahead of the detent at game load, then pull them back once you're in the cockpit properly for it to work.

Spoliers, sweetie...

Digital #2.

+1 but make it a toggle on the loadout screen for the times you don't want it.

I have a slight curve on my Thrustmaster Warthog to sync the afterburners in-game with the afterburner detent on the hardware.

I've found 5.1 (and 7.1, whatever) support is terrible across the board from nearly every game and even movies from PC speakers. I've used Logitech 5.1 speakers and found them to be utter crap (rear sounds especially). And I say that from across about a decade of both soundcard and speaker hardware advancements. Dedicated home theater gear I can't vouch for because my house is too small for even a low-end setup and see below. Headphones with surround support are vastly better, and that technology is supported by Windows 10 natively without special hardware. (You still need to pay for the software, but it's a token amount.) My roommates and (ex) wife both prefer headphones for DCS (hours of engine droning is mind numbing if you're not in the game).

I was going to say: No bug: Sparrows couldn't hit the broadside of a flying barn with radar reflectors attached in real life. Tom Clancy, the "Rah, rah Team America" author that he was, quoted about a 23% hit rate during Desert Storm with the latest model in Air Wing, which probably had the latest and final statistics for the Sparrow's performance since it was in the process of retirement at the time. In Vietnam I believe it barely broke double-digits. Good that it's fixed, though.

I have a 1440p monitor and never had a problem with it in DCS.

I completely concur and I'll add that I always found those interfaces to be clunky and felt like they were trying too hard to be clever. I think there could certainly be some improvements to the UI in the way settings are organized (especially the ESC menu during play) and I think the myriad of paths that result in you getting into the cockpit from the main menu could be streamlined, but none of them are so terrible I'd consider them a priority over simulation development.

You're right, the 2070 is cheaper, has real world performance within low single-digit percentages of the 1080Ti and a little less VRAM that would be wasted in DCS anyway.

Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. You know, giving him the bird? You know, the finger! Interesting trivia, the real world pilot in the F-14 in the "foreign relations" scene was Scott Altman, went on the command STS-125, which was the last Space Shuttle mission to repair Hubble. The F-5 pilot was Robert F. Willard, who later became Commander of the Pacific Fleet.

My wallet feels the pain, too. I'm planning on rounding out my collection with the C-101 and M2000C.

For the question of Intel versus Ryzen, I'll just mention what I read in a similar argument on a tech news forum - Intel might have marginally higher single-thread, but Ryzen is curb-stomping them on multithreaded performance. The thing is, games have been heavily multithreaded for years, and there's plenty of day-to-day productivity tasks benefit more from multithreaded performance than single-threaded. FWIW, the article was on Ars Technica and about the newest MacBook Pro and the ARM-based A-series in the iPadPro was running rings around the Intel chip in the Mac. It's pretty sad how far they've fallen when a passively-cooled thermally and power constrained tablet chip can outperform the latest actively cooled 45-watt Intel laptop chip.

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My vote is the CPU. I'm assuming you mean the Core i7-2600K, which is close to a decade old and obviously your weakest part compared to the graphics card.

I would consider them separate issues and not really related. In general you really need the buttons on the real aircraft's HOTAS (and other handy controllers like the radar controls on the F-5, Viggen or F-14 RIO) to be within your finger's reach on your real life controller. I think VR is a major improvement to the game no matter what controller you use. I would argue a HOTAS with lots of buttons is more necessary with VR because you're effectively blind to the outside world so finding the right key on the keyboard is that much harder. I think the Warthog is the best controller I've ever used, but your mileage and budget may vary. Depending on the airplane you fly a controller with fewer buttons might be usable in VR. I will say, that while the Warthog is wonderful in DCS World, other flight games like Elite: Dangerous I found the switches on the throttle less useful because they don't map properly as button presses so I ended up with fewer usable controls on the throttle. YMMV, depending on what else you play.

I've clicked the option "Use Mouse" which allows you to use the mouse like a mouse. It's still twitchy with the headset, but it's easier to compensate for. I'm not a fan of the VR hand controller method because twisting your hand up and down to change which way you flip the switch is so awkward it annoys me more than fees intuitive. (Honestly, it kind of hurts twisting my wrists like that and having to drop the hand controllers to use the HOTAS and then fumble for them to press buttons is more trouble than it worth.) If the movements could be mapped to different buttons on the hand controller I might have a different opinion.

I have long load times, well longer than most of my other games, but DCS is a massive game that loads lots of assets so I don't see it as terribly bad. I've found once Windows caches the files into RAM it loads substantially faster. (But you have to have loaded the game once doing that reboot already.)

I always loved the Skoshi Tigers with the yellow and black checkerboard between the main wing and empennage.