Bob_Bushman

Positively a really basic question. Where would I source the pin connectors ? Only place I can find them for certain is the Leo bodnar site, and that would be over £60 in just wire I other wise could have stripped out of an ethernet cable ? And soldering directly to the board doesn't seem like a wise option to me :P

I store my custom knee board in reverse order and flip backwards. That way I open keyboards and just page back once, and there's my briefing with two freq with tacan channels etc.

Yeah just have some patience, stocks well recover. T16000 series that you have set your eyes on is indeed the one I'd recommend. It's the best out there, for the price. And the only next step device or there is the warthog at 3-4x the price. Then you have your Virpil and vkb's at twice that again. And with their availability you would likely have to wait three months or more. Under normal market circumstances.

I'm also using the CM2 grip for everything. And all those extra buttons can sure come to good use imo.

I'm not sure that would do it in this case. The DDI is just a momentary push button and varies function depending with the display current screen.

If push comes to shove,. Its not like we have to pay for them

It is true. But you can so easily hit gpu limits by just cranking resolution and especially pd ever so slightly. But truth is this, doesn't matter if you under sample and drop details to the floor and everything look like a blurry flightsim from the 90's. You will still trigger reprojection in vr cause you are waiting for cpu calls. And even if you do crank settings so your gpu is running 100%, you are still only running on parts of it cause DCS can't leverage the entire feature set. Yes with a 3090 I could expect to run PD of 2x with SMAA. But I wouldn't expect to get out of reprojected frame rate.

Yeah the 3080 is the new "ti" for the current series. Many even speculate the 3070 will be on par with the 2080ti, but I doubt that is the case with anything not RTX. What Nvidia is doing is bringing the Titan off the proverbial Mount olympus, and into the main brand as the 3090. Nvidia is looking to get rid of the ti moniker entirely, what will happen is that in 12 months or so we will see the 3070 S and 3080 S as a mid generation refresh, perhaps with more Vram, but I would be surprised if they do.

With the 2080ti I would simply wait and see. Yes the new cards are better, but we don't really know how much better that would be for non RTX/DLSS gaming like DCS. Even if it is, a rule if thumb would be to normally skip a generation. Which is what I have done with the 20x series personally since I had a 1080ti, that I got a few months after launch before all the mining craze for $800, paying $1400+ for a card that was barely 15-25% performance increase was too much for not enough. And since I'm old, and paid attention to how NVIDIA and tech development goes. RTX was going for something groundbreaking and new, these first steps offer the tech that tentatively get the ball rolling and is often prohibitively expensive. The second iteration is often a massive step forward and less pricy. So yeah, the 30 series for RTX is a giant leap and will become a bigger deal going forward but it's still sometime before that applies to most games, especially DCS. The 2080ti is still a very good card. And in a year I expect Nvidia to release the S series cards (or ti), in two years the 40. New chip etc even more refinement to the new features, not as massive as the current leap, but the usual 20-30% and probably a little cheaper. So I'd keep the 2080ti for at least another year, also the used prices for a 2080ti is free falling atm, you wouldn't get much more than $600 for it now. Honestly I'm sceptical to how much more this new GPU would matter for dcs at all, the game is currently so cpu bound we won't see a real "unlock" of current gpus until we get the switch to Vulkan. As for going vr or not, I can't really recommend you anything. It becomes a personal thing. Personally I have never played dcs on a flat screen. And I just wouldn't. The fov and loss of depth would make it pointless. The S with a little PD increase and some SMAA is better than any 1080p screen I have ever had. As for options, I have a 34" 3440×1440, 65"4k tv and a 100" projection home cinema setup. After vr any of these seem like gaming on a postage stamp, and to "increase" your situational awareness they increase fov to a ridiculous degree making games seem like bad 90's music video. That's my preference, anyone can make up theirs.

Considering it's $1499 price tag. the 3090 should most likely be somewhere in the mark areas, which is indeed "Off the chart" Somewhere off to the right I believe.

I'd build a ventilated cupboard beneath or under my sim seat, just running cables around. Then you can swap out as needed. Now I want to build a rig. I don't need one, really, but I want to..

QFT. Trust me, there are worse things than PC gaming. Before VR, I took a detour into Home AV gear. And run of the mil, barely recommended screen would be $2k. And I spent $800 on a freaking blueray player alone...

I think they are actually skipping the TI variant entirely, making the Titan variant more mainstream. The RTX Titan has an MSRP of $2499. The 3090 getting a full 1k drop off from that, with the new more efficient memory, is making it much more available. As for do we need it? Honestly I don't think so, even the 3070 is a full fledged enthusiast card, and the 80 is very much "highend". Just because something bigger does exist doesn't mean you have to buy it. But I'm probably going to have to be sensible and if at all, fingers crossed might aim towards the 80 as an upgrade to my 1080ti, which I bought in 2017 for $800.

It's new ram with higher bandwidth and they offer new, improved compression. I expect a 3080 with 10gb to perform closer to an imaginary card with 15GB of ram. Head it off at the pass. Borrow a sports car, tell her the lease is just a measly $1500 a month. Then deliver the car back, and swap out the GPU instead.

Considering the increased memory bandwitdh and the improved texture compression on the gpu, I expect the VRAM on the 10gb 3080 to perform closer to a 15-20GB variant. This is a new type of Vram so shouldn't be as pricy as that found on 20 series, but I certainly won't bet that the 3090 will have an MSRP lower than $1400, too rich for my blood counting for the 25% vat. As for DCS. Faster cpu's, aren't going to happen, that game is over and done. Future for cpu is multithreading, and asynchronous processing. The problem is DCS doesn't make use of it. Eagle Dynamics is simply going to have to solve that, and Vulkan is a major current priority in house, per claims. It's simply put, they either get current on their software side, or DCS and Eagle Dynamics as a studio will be done for.

It is different and takes getting used to. And flying helicopters in DCS is also massively different from any fixed wing, it does not translate over. You can't expect to "git-gud" in the Huey in a couple of hours. Biggest brain connect problem I had with this was when switching between rotor and the harrier. The vertical landings in the harrier would make my brain think "helicopter" and I would slam the throttle to max when I touched down in the harrier... It often did not go awesome..

I personally use the virpil throttle of mine, inverted. It's not like I have any hopes of getting into an actual helicopter or anything so I don't worry about potential bad habbits and it is a very precise device that does the needed job. I am tempted if I change my setup to single stick, I can take the second one, remove the spring and use as a very simple collective.

Latest rumor I have heard says 20\24 GB ram for the top tier card. The 3080 a measly 10GB. That would make it a pretty pricy mother I'm afraid. Probably too rich for me. It's also not certain they will even announce the 90 next week, that depends on the quality of the yields, pricing etc etc. And that might not be decided until 3 minutes before curtain. My 1080ti is still holding up ok, but I have been eyeing an upgrade.

My personal preference is to keep the OS drive seperate from as much software and files as possible. Makes an eventual OS reinstall go smoother.

We do know when, the next generation of cards will launch the first of september, next week, and be available for purchase almost immediately after that point. Manufacturing has already been completely stopped on all 20x series cards for a while, perhaps with exception of the lower end cards that won't see a refresh for a few months. But 2070 and up is now only old stock remaining.

It's probably cheaper for thrustmaster to just get a 5-way hat installed. It also allows for additional binds if you where to use your stick for something not the dcs f18 module. And when people are comparison shopping, having the extra button looks good, the f18 grip compared to others are already lacking quite a few buttons already. In the meantime you could bind to anything you want. A macro for the coms menu? Toggle labels. Saluting the catapult officer etc.

Adding kneeboard pages to mission files works fine for me as long as I do not uncompress the .miz file. I use WinRAR to open the .miz file directly and just add the needed directories and images. The main thing I like to add, is for instance mission specifics for radio frequencies, and target GPS coordinates in the correct format etc etc.

Intel is severely lagging behind AMD at this point, and yes theoretically the singel thread performance of intel's are a few percent more, but honestly at this point it's at the margin of error, and barely identifiable in synthetic benchmarks. I don't even notice running my 8700k at stock or nearly a full 1G oc in dcs. And it does so with significantly lower heat and power consumption than Intel does. Upper tier Ryzens also offer more Pci-E lanes than Intel does, meaning you can for instance employ extra M.2 storage solutions for instance. Multi-GPU's are honestly not a thing So granted, for this moment, intel is prefered for DCS, but loosing ground everywhere else. And once DCS switches to Vulkan, higher core count will be king. In truth it doesn't really matter what you get, the problem is DCS and the fact that their code base is almost from the 90's. It doesn't really matter what you get, when your software can't make full use of it. The push for Vulkan, that I hope comes through next year, and ED has already been working on for about two years will be a major step into the right century. If you must go Intel, you can just as well go for i5 10600k, save some money, you have by going intel already decided you don't need the extra cores, and so have no use for hyperthreading either. Which could coincide with both Vulkan deployment, and DDR5 being released.

I'd much rather have realistically behaving infantry than photo realistic looking ones. And you really don't need this much model\texture detail when looking through a LANTIRN at 30k' to be realistic.

You forget the lenses, the lenses on the vive, and thus the vive pro are atrocious, even when compared to the CV1 at the time, and just comically bad compared to newer HMD's. And I'm sure it has been mentioned, the pentile nature of the screens means that resolution is practically half of what is advertised.