Rossterman

Bought new in the box for $350 from abt appliances out of new york. They do a sale once in awhile and if you register, they’ll send a $20 off coupon to use as well.

Will do, I’ll send them tonight. Do you have an email address you prefer?

Not sure how to do that but if you have some instructions I’d be glad to. The other pertinent info is as follows regarding hardware: I7-6700k Gigabyte gaming 3 Z197 MB Evga 2080ti black edition M.2 alldata 480gb ssd 10gb sata HD Odyessy+ vr headset TM warthog hotas and stick Windows 10 latest release (the one you have to manually upgrade to as hasn’t been pushed to allow running or 3d mark port royal benchmark).

Everything works fine in a quick mission in various theaters, etc. but when creating a mission and trying to fly, the elevator doesn’t work correctly with limited or no movement. Ive tried remapping in the game once started and no improvement. Also checked for duplicate bindings and none. I have a tm warthog btw. Please fix this!

As an fyi I have a i7-6700k overclocked to 4.5mhz and 2080ti evga black edition. Both run through a custom cooler. The CPU now is bottlenecking the game in VR mode. As others said, buy a cpu that will overclock to 5.0mhz. Multi-cores have limited value right now (with vulcan that might change). Also consider base model 2080ti version or stick with a 1080ti for ~ $400 usd if you can find one. Very little performance difference between the 2080 and 1080ti. Another advantage with a 9700k is it doesn’t need delidding as it uses solder insterd of thermal paster for the heat spreader. Finally you can fully custom and configure a computer on cyberpower PC. Imdid that with mine and pricing was about $100 more than buying parts and assembling it myself. Personally, the cost you stated seems way high for a 2080 and no water cooling. I just specd a 9700k a d 2080ti with cooling on both and 16mb of ram and it’s $2800 on cyberpower.

Perfect! Just ordered some

Just bought the correct connectors for my 3d printed joystick extension for the TM warthog. Looking for any recommendations on wire size and if there is a cable that will work to make the extension? Maybe a lan cable or telephone cable? Any ideas?

Probably too rich for my blood as well. Now, a stick like the TM warthog with FFB functionality would be worth another $100 over the standad issue warthog stick. I just moved to the TM this week from the X52 saitek, and the build quality is night and day different. For $320 at the online sale at ABT it was hard to not buy it!

I use an over the counter correction of +2.0. I’m able to see things clearly far away but without glasses, my vision is blurry looking at things close up. Would purchasing these improve clarity in my situation or are they designed to work only for those that have blurry vision far away?

It’s night and day better than the HP WMR headset I sold to buy the odyessy+. Mechanical IPD, wider FOV, higher resolution, virtually zero screen door effect. Colors are bright and vibrant. The headphones are excellent too. The only negative is it leaks alot of light around the nose piece and I’d expect the vive or rift probably have better headstraps (imo, the HP and the odyessy + were OK and usable but the HP leaked less light).

VR is a complete game changer. Nothing else comes close to being fully immersive in the game. That being said, it does give up some graphical resolution but the tradeoff is 100% worth it. Right now the samsung odyessy+ is on sale at their site for $200 off making it $300 buy. Easily the best WMR headset out there and some prefer it’s resolution and screens to those in the more expensive Vive or Occulus. If you are contemplating VR, jump on the deal before it goes away! As to hardware, it does require quite a bit of Computing HP to run at high graphical settings so consider a rig with a 1080ti and 4.5hz cpu to get the most visual enjoyment. Until DCS writes better code, the single core speed of the CPU is more critical than the number of cores. This isn’t as critical with other games as more developers are coding to better utilize multi-core CPUs. DCS hasn’t got with the program yet which is a shame. In summary, try it once and you’ll probably never play in 2d again. There are also a ton of other non flight sim games that are amazing as well.

I was on Samsung’s site this morning and they put the Odyessy + on sale again for $299. Normally they retailfor $499. I bought one at the discounted priceon black friday last year and it’s a great WMR headset.

Snagged one on sale as well! Thanks for the heads up

Currently have a fairly new pc with the following specs. I recently upgraded the videocard from the 980ti and although saw a 20fps improvement, I was surprised it wasn’t more. Running ~ 45fps with most details on high now but some dips into mid 30s. Thinking my CPU might be the bottleneck now? Any thought about what (reasonably priced) CPU upgrade to consider and what likely performance increases I might get as a result? As an aside, I play in VR using the odyessy+ only. I7-6700k OC at 4.4ghz w/ z190 gaming 3 MB 32mg of 3000hz ddr4 (4 sticks) 2080ti black edition w/ evga waterblock Nvme m.2 500gb SSD 250gb sata SSD 2tb hdd Custom 360mm water loop with cpu and gpu 750watt corsair gold psu

Thanks all! Was thinking similar- FF stick for helis and prop planes and the saitek for jets.

I’ve always liked the feel of the FF stick and wheels and wish it was implemented in more current controllers. I have a mint ms sidewinder ff2 stick and would like to pair it with the throttle control from the saitek combo,but the saitek system is connected together with cables. Has anyone done this and if so, how do you do it?

I would offer up some money as well. To date, my 6700k @ 4.6hz and 980ti hydrocopper were barely adaquate in VR. I just upgraded to 2080ti with waterblock and although frame rates are better, it still drops into the low 30s when flying in areas with lots of objects like Dubai. Unfortunately single thread clock speeds haven’t increased significantly enough to warrant a cpu upgrade too.

I had the HP version which was decent for the price ($220) and recently bought the odyessy+ when samsung had it on sale for $300. The samsung blows away the HP as related to screen quality and colors. Manual IPD was a key feature that made screens and sweetspot much better as well.

An M.2 drive will make a huge difference in load times compared to a std disk drive (or even the latest sata spec SSD) if you buy the pcie nvme variety. 6x the speed of even the latest sata spec. I bought the Adata xpg brand that specs very closely to samsungs 970evo (uses the same controller chip) for sightly over $100us in the 500gb varient.

It’s a complete gamechanger in VR. Fully immersive like you are flying in the cockpit! There are a bunch of decent VR headsets out there. My personal favorite is the samsung odyessy+ which just came out and was on sale for $299US. Everything is plug and play.you will need to get the MS WMR app but it usually prompts to add when you set up the headset IIRC. My first headset was the HP V1000 which was on sale when WMR first arrived so picked it up ($240 vs. $500 or more made it a no brainer). It works fine but SDE (screen door effect) and FOV leave something to be desired compared to the new samsung unit. Either way you choose, you will be blown away at the difference complared to playing on a monitor! Your system is plenty beefy to run it.

I'm surprised that they haven’t made the main focus on coding to improve the ability to run the game on mid-tier machines the top,focus. It would greatly expand potential customer base moreso than any additional modules or terrains.

With as much money invested, you might consider a 1080ti for,a few dollars more.