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Well, the name of the magazine is "PC Gamer", not "PC Simulator". Your average 15 year old that owns every gaming console around does not care to sit and read manuals for hours before getting airborne and for this crowd, these are legitimate draw backs. If this was PC Pilot or Computer Pilot, I'd wonder what they were thinking. But coming from a gamer magazine, this actually seems reasonable.

I'd go with that plan myself if I wasn't a poor med student living on loan money:(.

Thanks for the answers. It looks like I'll probably wait for the boxed version, but jump on that as soon as it shows up. I certainly hear the setiments of now is the time to learn the simulator, but seeing as the ealier of the modules I'm looking for are 9 months or more away, I can wait for the boxed version. It absolutely looks like a great sim though. One more question, how does this perform CPU wise. I have an E8400 which has been great for most sims (most of which I believe are running single core--F4AF, LOMAC, even FS9 I believe). However, it's single core clock is 3.0 GHz and I expect a modern combat sim to be very CPU intensive. Again, Thanks. Eric

I had caught wind of DCS Black Shark hear and there over the past year, but had never looked real close since it was a ways from release. Now I'm getting back into combat sims AND DCS:BS is out. I just have a couple questions regardings teh series that I haven't been able to find answers to (although I've seen these point discussed, so I suspect I'm not very good at finding them). 1. Boxed version: I tend to like tangible copies of things and was wondering what information is available about the upcomging boxed version. I know it is listed for an early 2009 release, but this has a broad window. Any more detailed information. In particular, will this release be availabe in the United States, will it be of similar cost and is there a more precise time window for release? 2. Future Modules: I've seen a lot of these discussed. Truthfully while BS looks great, what has me absolutely sold is the plans for the A-10 and AH-64. I understand the plan is to release one of these approximately every 9 months. Is there a list of the currently planned modules and their anticipated order anywhere? 3. Vista vs. XP: I understand that BS currently works on both Vista and XP. Will this be the case for future modules and are their things that only Vista users will see besides true DX10? I asked, as I'm kind of attached to XP, but depending on the answers to this, I could be persuaded to Vista. Thanks. I am absolutely sure I will be buying this. I'm just curious about some of these things. Eric