Bob_Bushman

If you do helicopters or jets I would suggest the VKB. Wheel brakes are nice and all, but honestly not much so that I wouldn't be able to use a bind somewhere for them. Might be iffy to use a second pedal for the wheel brake since you often need to use the rudders for steering at the same time, and you need both feet for the pedals to work. Only thing where I would consider toe-brakes important would be for tail dragging warbirds, and I still think you can get far using button binds for that. The CH pedals are so awkwardly angled for me the only way I could ever use them was by pushing with my toes against the heal rest and I never really used them at all. I mostly played elite dangerous while I owned my ch kit, so no need for toe-brakes there. I would definitely pick the VKB over the CH, which are plastic, rolling pedals that will collect dirt, get bumby and won't stay smooth for long, cleaning them is a nightmare, the wires inside there are short, and really thin, just opening them cut the cable to my right toe-brake, and in the end cleaning the rails didn't do much at all for the smoothness. So I took that as an excuse to buy some MFG's :P

I can do it in the hornet mostly-ish, if it's not to windy etc. Tried with the f14 and promptly killed myself by finally managing to trap myself in a death spin.

This, if your motherboard has a second if third m.2 slot, one will be connected through the SATA controller instead, and probably not much speed benefit over a 2.5 drive.

It would also be more suprising if Nvidia doesn't release 3080-3080ti in just a few months around GDC.

@victor3 the oculus dash and systems will alert you to that, many many many many annoying times and somtimes literally pull you out of the game to tell you when they get very low.

First I have heard of it, but it would go vey nicely along side the vfx grip.

I suppose this thread is old., but I got two sets of MFD's. Main two autobinds for the left and right screen in the Hornet no problem, then manually mapped the third MFD, and I use the fourth MFD as a button box by my side mounted stick, one of it's main uses is recenter HMD, labels, kneeboard functions, f10 map, and back to pit, as well as hornet specifics like swithing between barometric and rad-alt, course line and AP heading buttons. I honestly use my fourth MFD just as much as any of the others. Only finagling that might need doing is the game autobinds these to the "wrong" mfd you can swap the name of the files DCS generate for bindings under "saved games\dcs\inputs\ etcetc.

It's under "General" not "Game", but not really. But I find that the General keybinding for labels are superseded by the binding for every module I have checked. So the "General" binding only really comes into play when you are in spectator mode. So if you need to customise your labels bind you need to do so for each and every module that you fly.

I found that I'd the controllers are enabled they grab the pointer at all times, so best way to make sure your mouse is the primary unselect "use VR controllers" in the VR menu.

If full screen and wonky, hit alt+enter to enter window mode and the menus align up again, Then adjust settings as needed.

Higher framerate is better, and not just for vr. Simply put the 75hz monitor presents a new frame every 13.3ms, the 144hz screen every 6.9ms meaning smoother motion that in turn gives your brain more data allowing for better and more correct reflexes.

The 2070S superceeded the 2070, as a mid cycle refresh, especially the 2070 saw a suprising bump in performance with this refresh and Nvidia refrained from also bumping the price. When you are in the single digits of cpu performance you are more likely to be looking at a software preferance than real differences, taking cine bench scores for instance, I could shut down a bunch of processes as well as the fan control software and get another 2-300 points on cinebench but would ever run my machine like that ? Nope. That 3900x was indeed something else, definitely a little jealous of my nephew. And there really is nothing slow or lacking about my 8700k. And this is from a guy who has been running intel in every rig I have built for myself since Pentium III, sure built a few AMD's but those have largely been budget customer stuff. Ryzen has simply done a flip for a lot of the tropes. Intel is now the CPU's that run the hottest, needs the most cooling and draws the most power. As for bench websites I don't really trust their numbers any further than I can throw their cookies. I don't really have any personal experience with DCS and ultrawide, but I'm sure 2070\5700xt should do the job nicely, depending on desired framerate of course for 60hz it would do that without breaking a sweat, if at worst you might decrease one or two settings from max is all. Personally from general consensus the 2070 is the one to get over the 5700xt, in many tests it comes out comparingly with the 2070, but people are struggling with randomly crashing drivers and very poor stability in a lot of titles, how it would work with DCS I'm not entirely sure. It might depend on locale, but I'm seeing 2070 supers for just $20-$30 more than the 5700xt but these where local discounts. We are also expecting Nvidia to launch new GPU's soon, as in the April-June window, but nothing concrete yet.

My solution was to realise its a balancing act. its just as much about relaxing or retracting your left foot as it is extending your right and vice versa. But in a nutshell, just hang in there its something entirely new for your brain to wrap itself around it will take time. It took me perhaps a couple of weeks of near daily use for rudders to feel entirely natural, but after that I wouldn't fly without them.

Getting a power plug on the hub is a good idea, another oddity with DCS, and USB devices. the headset waking up could cause the hub renumerate devices slightly differently and suddenly they identify the mfd's as different devices and won't use your defined keybinds.

if you do sever, you can source new cables, some say certain models of logitech mice use the same cables and you could find those on Alibaba or some such. I last year had an incident when my cat managed to chew over the cables for my Warbrd, my T50 throttle, and t50 gimbal all in the span of less than five minutes. That grounded me for a few weeks. But I contacted Virpil and they sent me replacement cables in a couple of weeks time.

For Ram and GPU, it's ok, mainly used cause it's so easy to get to compared to other monitor software. For CPU and disk utilisation it pools all resources. It's important to know that it pools all resources but if you only have one GPU that's not an issue, and RAM us just one big pool. Say you have a four core CPU, no hyperthreading, that shows up to windows as for sperate cpu's, all four cores must be fully loaded for your CPU 'pool' to report 100%. Even when separating the graph to logical cores giving a graph per thread, won't give s good indication, windows will cycle a tasks CPU usage across available cores so no single core should feel lonely or forgotten. If only one thread is fully maxed out and the rest is idling the cpu utilisation would never report more than 25%, and since windows constantly shifts the load around it won't show up on the graphs either. And we don't have quad core cpu's anymore either, 6-12 cores are becoming very common, and with hyperthreading that is reported to windows as a 12 and 24 cpu's fit it's big pool. So a fully loaded core on my cpu for instance would come in as a cpu utilisation of 8% since 12 threads at my disposal. The best way to tell if you are you limited, us to decrease graphics settings until the GPU sees low use, and if you still don't get any better framerate.

I just built a 3900x rig with my nephew and that is indeed a very nice CPU. And if you are doing anything at all else with your PC outside of DCS, that would be my current build of choice. Heck even if I was building a dedicated DCS pc, id still go with that. Just because DCS is anachronistic and only uses two threads currently, doesnt mean you downgrade your build because of it. And these latest gen ryzen cpus beat out Intel even on single threaded tasks. Flightsim 2020 will definitely use all available processing and DCS will eventually too, it will just take a while. But if they can't get up to speed in the next two years at most, DCS will die and they know it and have been working on it for over a year already. Unlike with cpu's, AMD aren't very competitive with the GPU side so Nvidia is the go to choice there. But anything including a 2070 and above would handle dcs at 3440x1440 easily.

The handle is two axes, meant to be bound for two engines, so use the sliding pin lock on the grip to unlock the two handles from each other and bind as you see fit. If I for instance is in a single engine craft I tent to bind the right throttle lever, for no real reason, I guess my brain thinks right before left considering I'm right handed or something. For say the hornet or Tomcat I bind the left lever for left engine right for right engine. I believe DCS has a binding for the two combined and each engine separate, if you bind the two, you don't need to bind the third.

Leave the guard in, and activate passthrough instead, you might not read the individual letters on the keyboard but you can see your hand and everything else.

For 2d the difference might be getting 176 fps vs 165 fps. Not something you notice on a 60hz-120hz monitor though is it. It's more noticeable in VR cause any frame over the threshold is simply dumped and dumping enough frames causes ASW to kick in, that becomes very noticeable. I actually swapped my ram chips before from 1600mhz ddr3 to 2400mhz ddr3, chasing improved performance after also swapping out an it 4690k to an i7 4790k, and there was indeed an improvement in VR fluidity. Very minor, but indeed noticeable, enough that I noticed having forgotten to clock them back up after a bios reset. Nothing like the boost in upgrading from the z97 plattform to a z370. It's all the little things as well, like USB issues, gone. With ddr4 I can't say I notice the same difference unless dropping down to under 2400mhz, barely at all if any, noticeable at all from stock speeds to OC. There are of course many factors involved, I suspect one being that VR drivers and software is designed to leverage the additional bandwidth or is simply better tuned for more recent hardware. I honestly notice very little benefit from adding in the extra 16gb of ram, but I also see that my 1080ti is running at 10.5GB vram usage, if I had had less vram, I would probably use more regular memory as well. I honestly see no good reason to spend any more money on a z97/ddr3 setup. The benefits of moving to a newer chipset, be it Intel or ryzen will be huge, especially for vr.

Granted I wasn't playing DCS since my old 4790k to an 8790k, butbin Elite dangerous it was the difference between struggling to keep 45fps and spacewarp to barely ever triggering spacewarp at all, with the same GPU. project cars 2 also became significantly smoother. For now, AMD's best is comparative to a 2070s, if you want more than that unfortunately Nvidia has no genuine competition. Personally I consider the boost in performance from a 1080ti to a 2080 or 2080ti as far to costly vs performance gained, granted I have been tempted on occasion. For now I'm trying to keep some change in the piggy bank and waiting for the 30xx's that we expect Nvidia to launch in 4 to 6 months give or take.

I wouldn't bother with spending money on a ddr3 plattform at all. You'll be chucking those new chips out soon. The i7 4790k might not be bottlenecking a lot in DCS due to how much it's thread limited. But for VR gaming or high fps, the move from 4790k to an 8700k was staggering. My recommendation would be to not do anything, since you don't feel like building a new plattform, I'd just save up for when you do.

So by that logic I shouldn't pay for my car repair bill because it doesn't exist when it's in the shop.

Where I live, a track ir, any version is easily $300+, $200 using dodgy ebay sellers. I consider a rift-s for $500 a fairly good get.

You can already do carrier ops with the f14. In fact my recommendation would be to take your time and enjoy that module. You will easily have a few years of entertainment mastering the tomcat if you want to go that deep. But I'm sure you can be profecient and capable in a month. And there will be a new sale come spring, probably around the Easter holidays. I own all four, but mostly spend time in the hornet, that's not because those aren't great modules I just like fully learn a module before going onto another, a tall order for something so complex :smartass: As for what module to get, the hornet is now very complete and a True multitasker, the f16 is very much a work in progress still, should be a great little flier soon™. It is pricy but all told would probably recommend the f18 and PG map bundle. The Cat and hornet has seen most of their action in that precise gulf, and it is truly the best looking map for Dcs. The harrier is something to consider as well, it's main use has been as CAS, but unlike the a10 it's fast, and it has the party trick of Vtol. But it also lacks fuel capacity and range, and can't carry to many bombs or mavericks, it tends to spend 90% of it's flight time either on the way to Target or back for fuel and arms. Sure it can use a FARP like a helicopter, but taking off Vtol is rare and would set even more limits on carrying capacity. And unless you are really really light, like no racks and 1/3 tank you can only hovering for as long as you got water to cool the engine, and that tank can drain in a matter of minutes. So no pressure :helpsmilie: In short it's a tricky bird.