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You could always set unlimited ammo for range missions. The only big issue, in my experience, is that unlimited ammo is bugged for the F-16C.

Practicing bombing in the F-16C Viper I've noticed a couple bugs with ripple release and unlimited weapons reloading. One (I don't have a track for) is when loaded with 12 Mk. 82s not all of the bombs will release no matter the number of pulses. Checking out of the cockpit on on my port side outer pylon always stayed attached. I noticed this several days ago and didn't bother saving the track. The second (track attached) I had 6xGBU-87s and after I dropped them in a ripple them only 5 reloaded. I've not tested this in other aircraft so it might be an F-16 bug. LastMissionTrack.trk

I know DCS doesn't model them, but part of why the AIM-54 was taken out of service was because newer blocks of AIM-120 were within spitting distance of the Phoenix's range at about half the cost (inflation adjusted), a third the weight and the aircraft that launched them could carry (and land with) substantially more and required less maintenance.

In real life, the bomb might detonate assuming the fuze is triggered, but it won't follow the trajectory of a dumb bomb. A Paveway's fins are larger to help it conserve energy and "fly" to the target (though it's fall is still mostly ballistic) as opposed to merely being kept straight while falling. So while it might be theoretically possible, your bomb computer doesn't have the ballistics data for an unguided Paveway.

I mostly play modern aircraft - the F-5E is the oldest I usually fly and mostly as an unarmed trainer - so is it worth it to get the Normandy map? I've heard it's so small it's not that useful given the range of modern fighters, though I've heard good things about it in regards to helicopters. (For that matter, I might find it fun to "cheat" by flying a modern aircraft in a World War II scenario, which I'd imagine would be a fairly simple edit of scenarios.) FWIW, I'm a bit of a completionist which is the main reason I'm asking.

I recall a joke I heard Vietnam vets say about the wildlife in the jungles: There's 100 types of snakes in Vietnam - 99 are poisonous and the other one is so big it can eat you whole. I'd love both Vietnam and Korea. With the Huey, F-5E Tiger II, the announcement of the A-7D Corsair II and getting an F-4E Phantom II being an open secret we'd have plenty of toys to play with over Vietnam. (And the Tomcat's first combat air patrol over a warzone was during the Fall of Saigon, which really should date that plane.) But for Korea not only do we have some iconic Korean War airplanes (P-51, F-86 and MiG-15), That Other Simulator shipped with a Korean map and I'd love to fly there again in a modern simulator. I can practically fly from Kunsan to Pyongyang with my eyes closed.

Yeah, the slow-speed, high alpha performance of the Hornet is legendary. You can be in a pretty nasty stall, falling out of the sky and still able to point your nose. It has to do with the large leading-edge extensions and the canted vertical stabilizers. The Viper can turn on a dime, but bleeds off energy fast when you do it and can recover that energy just as quickly once you stop hard maneuvering. I read an account - I forget where - about how at the Top Gun school if you were flying a Hornet and couldn't best a Tomcat in 60 seconds you weren't really trying. (Probably one of the many memoires about naval aviation I've read recently.)

I have a similar connection, get decent speeds torrenting, and DCS downloaded at 5-6MB/s tops (HTTP dropped to sub-1MB/s). Steam can do around 35-40 MB/s all day long.

I just tested it at .8 PD and 300% SS in SteamVR and it works great. I tried the F-16 free flight over the Caucasus and intercepted the A-10s off to your starboard, which I've done in the past and had stuttering, and this time it was silky smooth. I'll probably tweak it a bit more later, but I've been awake for almost 23 hours and just took my no-go pills.

No, I have to crane my neck and body like you would in the real thing. Plus, the F-14 specifically, the cockpit is so weathered it's unreadable even on a large 4K monitor, much less blurry VR. I've found certain types of chairs don't work well with WMR because the camera can't track properly. I used to use easy chairs and recliners for my desktop and WMR won't track well down and behind because all it can see is cushion. (I have my doubts more expensive sets would do much better because of the blind spots involved.)

Yes, HARMs can be shot down in real life but it takes a top-of-the-line SAM site to do it. There's a newer version of the HARM called the AARGM-ER that has stealthy characteristics (as well as greatly increased range) to help with that arm's race. I wouldn't be surprised if the AARGM-ER get a new model number because it's as similar to the original HARM as the RIM-126 Evolved Sea Sparrow is to the original RIM-7 Sea Sparrow (which looks exactly like the air-to-air missile). Harpoons are basically obsolete against anything but a defenseless target and probably have been for 20+ years.

Another drawback is the standalone client download speeds are measured in geologic time and can take days even on fast connections, while Steam will saturate your connection.

HP Reverb is Windows Mixed Reality, right? I have a similar Asus model and have to set up the boundaries in the Mixed Reality Portal almost every time I use it or I don't get the full 6-DOF. Since I exclusively play seated I just choose seated mode, hover my mouse over the "Center" button, flip down the headset and click, then close out the menu and click back into the game.

The people saying SLI is dead are pretty much right. SLI has always required both the game developer and nVidia to work together for the improved performance, and nVidia hasn't really don't much with it since the 10xx line. It really looks like while it'll technically exist in hardware and on the driver no one, not even nVidia, are supporting it anymore. Plus, in my experience, SLI has always been a buggy kludge for better performance and I've found buying a single higher end graphics card is the better solution. For that matter, both DirectX 12 and Vulkan allow similar functionality native to the API without the need for a hinky crossover bridge and special driver juju. Now, I can think of reasons for multiple graphics cards, but it's not for gaming.

In the Axis Assignment have you tried setting a deadzone? Even high-end sticks need a deadzone and the X52 is far from high-end.

Try verifying and repairing your DCS install. It might be that the terrain data is corrupted in a way that makes a hole under the plane.

I have them ordered and they should arrive on Friday. Thanks for the responses.

Blame Raytheon and Boeing, they're the ones who made it that way. (Well, Texas Instrument and McDonnell Douglas.)

That's more of a Windows problem than a DCS problem, but I do the same thing and just alt-tab as many times as it takes to get DCS into focus then I make sure I click the window with the mouse.

Ars Technica recently had an article comparing AirWolf and Blue Thunder - both the fictional aircraft, their real life counterparts and the flying abilities of the "actor" aircraft. Apparently the "actor" for Blue Thunder was a civilian Gazelle so heavily modified could barely get off the ground. Airwolf was a barely modified Bell 222 because it was a pretty cool looking helicopter to start with. (The comments are worth reading and add a lot to the article.) https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/forget-top-gun-maverick-lets-settle-blue-thunder-vs-airwolf-once-and-for-all/

+1 Sometimes I'll have Pandora running while I fly (ditto with American/Euro Truck Simulator). Once in Elite Dangerous I even used a VR-based screen mirror to watch Firefly while hauling cargo out in the black.

I haven't checked the tracks, but there's a reason the US is working on the AIM-260 JATM. Despite significant upgrades over the years, the AMRAAM is getting a bit dated and especially in the range department.

My motherboard (Asus B450-I Strix) has a built-in tool that automatically tunes OC settings and it seems to work fairly well. I think it's more of a look-up table based on your installed CPU and cooling solution, but it's something to look into if your mobo supports something similar.

My parent's working-class neighborhood a few miles away has it, as does most of them around me. AT&T pretty much got to my corner of a couple major roads, decided not to cross and then decided stock buybacks were more important than reinvesting in their network. I could draw a map, but it would be pointless, but there's two major roads they never crossed that would have covered my subdivision and newer ones near me. (I started plugging in other houses on other streets near me into their tool to feel out where they stopped.)

They probably stopped supporting IPv4 routing. Chances are the number of people with DOCSIS 2.0 modems was so low it was easier to handle it in the call center as opposed to some kind of DNS hijack (which don't work that well anymore) or mailer that would simply confuse people before it got thrown in the trash. I worked for Charter 10 years ago and they'd already dropped support for DOCSIS 1.0/1.1 and DOCSIS 2.0 was on life support. I got tons of calls telling people to upgrade their customer-owned modems. If Cox is only doing this now they dropped the ball big time seeing how DOCSIS 3.1 is rapidly becoming standard (with the possibility of symmetric gigabit) and DOCSIS 4.0 is on the drawing board. If a node only had DOCSIS 3.0 modems they could support vastly more bandwidth, but even a single 2.0 modem would crippled an entire node until it was removed and replaced. (DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0 had less interference.) As for the OP's question, it really depends on a lot. I get 400Mbps from Spectrum, despite Gigabit being available for a ruinous price, and don't have problems despite heavy streaming, lots of gamers and even frequent torrenting. If AT&T built out their fiber to my neighborhood I'd have switched months ago, but as it stands my working-class single-family home neighborhood has 25Mbps DSL, but the apartments three blocks away that no one will deliver pizza to because it's such a slum has fiber....:/ If you can easily afford it I'd do it, but I doubt you'll see a lot of benefit other than on sustained downloads like from Steam. (Which is why I didn't bother.) On cable with laughably asymmetric connections it's just a way to say you have the bigger epeen. On fiber, with gigabit both ways, I understand it's a game changer.