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Ha. While playing Another Sim MostlySharedbyForeignStudents (in 2024) the 1500VA UPS used to drive the computer and all the little fiddlybits therein attached, think USB hubs and 37" monitor and 12V loads for external screens and a couple panel lights, can get overloaded. Makes me wonder if that poor little 1200 watt power supply is up for the task, but that was as big as they got way back when it got built. I have stutter issues and being a genius completely forgot about some of the basic steps in this thread, so thanks for all that. Start with renaming saved games, because that also takes mods out of the equation. Of course Windows 11 is also having issues since I downgraded. Rah. I can still remember when Windows 10 was the last OS.

That will be a nice change. Last time I was in London in late September it was 37. Bloody melting in the heat, and of course...not dressed for it. Next stop was Norway, and at least I got wet enough to cool off. Come to think of it last time I was in Russia in September it was in the 30s. Russian winters are propaganda! Really looking forward to the Normandy updates. One of my favorites. Ugra is top shelf; anything they do is an instant buy.

VA-196, Main Battery. Part of air wing 14 that sailed on the Connie with the inaugural F/A-18A deployment along with VF-21 (have the livery), VF-154 (have the livery), VFA-25 (got that, too), VFA-113 (yup), and a few for which we lack air frames. The fact I was on that WestPac is completely coincidental...

Any skins (and mods) are going to be in c:\ but you just reminded me I have to run a script to re-fix all the luas (you know, like control bindings) that DCS breaks on every update, because $greaterDiety forbid someone have a realistic set of control bindings, or export a display. </rant> I wrote a powershell script to handle that rather than use a mod. I'm kind of an anti-modder. In the meantime I'll get the broom out; thanks for the info!!

Huge update. For grins (while this downloads on my 110 baud acoustic modem in the fancy oak box) I looked at my DCS directory. 1.5TB Is that right? Maybe I need to do a little fall cleaning? Has it really gotten that big? Not a problem, just a lot of D to S C.

Which hasn't stopped me from hanging out in the north, staging BadGuy(tm) helos on a satellite image of an airfield, parking air defense on the Kansas-flat farmland nearby, and working out the best way to defeat the latter. Run through the mountains, or up high? Need to put an SA-10 in there and see if the results change. Love slaloming those mountains. Afghanistan is growing on me, but I also stay away from the sand.

I've had it work, I've had it not work, but in general it works. Or at least it did; mostly I do carrier ops in an F-16 lately and the taxi director gets pretty huffy waiting for me to fold my wings so I run over him to park. I seem to recall finding some magic sauce on requesting takeoff but now I can't remember what that was, and they've changed a few things since then.

DCS isn't even the most annoying thing I run into; I run 2.5d (not VR) and get ~149 FPS most of the time. If that's not enough it's time to check your entitlements! It's those other guys where I get 55 FPS despite a 5090 drawing enough power to run the helium liquification plant at Fermi. I haven't dug into the hardware enough to figure that out, or decided if I even care enough to do anything about it. The overall upshot being it's not time for an upgrade yet, which is good given I built this nine months ago. My last machine lasted five years before I decided to get a performance boost, and honestly all I really needed was a new video card. OCD kicking in again.

That would be a false impression. I got the feeling it's not enough of an upgrade to go through the brain damage of getting my sim machine apart, playing musical parts with two different computers, running my powershell scripts to re-set all the controls, etc etc. That doesn't mean I'm not going through the brain damage, just not in the near future and I might wait for the next gen CPUs. I consciously went i9-14 rather than -ultra just because of the gaming reviews. I don't think that's going to fix the stutters. I keep putting off Windows 11 because they've turned harvesting personal data into an art form and I don't have a ready tool to fix that in the registry, but the information here about tweaking it for games has been awesome. Also noodling a PiMaxSuperDuperDeluxeUraniumEdition whatever the latest VR is later this year, so this entire area is priceless. Lots of great information.

Well, cool. You just saved me a bunch of coin because I've been noodling that exact migration, which would be somewhere around $1500 by the time I got the new MB. Can't complain about frame rate in DCS, apart from the normal 143 FPS to 9 FPS. The Macro stutters are...irritating. In the other SimsThatShallNotBeNamed I'm CPU limited and only getting 50-60 FPS. My 5090 did basically nothing for those because I was also CPU limited on my old 2080Ti.

I'm getting better at defeating the Pantsir; got one defending a BUK. It's a beast. Anecdotally every SAM system is a piece of crap, or a space ship with lasers, depending one who writes the anecdotes. At some point designers have to draw a line in the code and say 'the specs say...' Once that's done it really doesn't matter what the anecdotes are, the one I'm going up against is capable of...<insert results here>.

Karachi is as sparsely modeled as the engineering spaces on the CVNs. It took me a while to recognize the harbor, and even then I had to cheat and reference maps. Never lived there, got to spend some time, and I have to say I really enjoyed the place. Nothing but pleasant memories. A little sad it's just a field of grass, not even a satellite photo superimposed on the terrain.

I just noticed that this morning looking for a base for BadGuys(tm) while I fly out of Bagram. Saw the textures on the map, flew over and it's photo textures all over in that area, put a scout helo on the airbase and only had to climb fifty feet to see through all the grass to the underlying image, but the whole area is Kansas flat so I have to assume there's some elevation tweaking to be done as well. It's like that all around that canyon, so my assumption is that's part of the north map, which is the one I'm waiting for anyway. In the mean time the Blue guys and Red guys are working up plans for the Red assets up there. I'm sure all that will need tweaked if that is indeed part of the north map, but it also gives the red force an airbase, so win all around.

Wait...a $150 (sorry, this is the military, $150,000) solutions aren't viable for military purposes, but anything the air force flies uses this non-viable technology? You did that in sequential sentences? Now I'm really cornfused. TACAN, incidentally, is being phased out. At the rate the US Military moves I expect the last TACAN station to be shut down shortly after the sun enters its red giant phase.

Ahhh, but after the Hawk debacle they fixed it so that can't happen again. Still have my user manual for the Hawk; it was a fun bird...totally get why those mercenary pilots from Oman thought they could shoot through the hanger bay doors on the Connie!