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I've got an EVGA GTX 980 Ti Hybrid, which has its own water cooling loop built in. It runs fast and super cool. I've yet to overclock it but I will. I do get coil whine but I've only just built the machine and run DCS a few times - pretty sure I only get whine at the main menu not during play. I am suffering some stutter but I think is likely due to software version/configuration rather than the fault of the card. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess it has something to do with aircraft being near me and some threads suggest a bug with model visibility so i'm going to switch that off as my first test. I've compiled a list of things I'm going to try: Cockpit displays (remove every frame rendering) Mirrors Model visibility Flat shadows nVidia VSYNC Bios settings The odd thing is that I think I've got good horsepower because I can fly low over Vegas and get beautiful smooth 60fps but then I'm turning with a couple of other aircraft nearby out over the countryside and suddenly I'll get freezes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I'm also suffering intermittent stutter in two scenarios (thus far) - on the ground taxing at Nellis, i think only when there is other traffic on the ground. When manoeuvring in a fur ball. When flying alone at all altitudes, even low level over Vegas i get a solid 60fps. I have everything maxed out and am running at full res on my 27" Apple Cinema Display (2550x1440). The behaviour i see is super smooth 60fps and then a pause for maybe 0.5 second up to maybe 2 seconds. It seems to be due to other aircraft nearby but that's just a guess. Any help diagnosing where the fault lies would be brilliant.

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New PC, DCS 2.0, NTTR and F-15C = happy chap. Day 1 was a real challenge getting my Thrustmaster Warthog setup and learning the absolute basics of DCS and the Eagle - particularly because I'd made the mistake of thinking I could get away without pedals. Lots of bouncing on landing, trying to pull 9g turns and wondering why I was ending up at the stall very quickly, etc, etc. Basically a disaster [emoji4] Day 2 I managed to setup a mission with 4 unarmed Flankers orbiting north of Nellis (I was pretty pleased just with this achievement TBH), got airborne, found the targets (mainly on the map view sadly), locked one up and took him out with a Slammer. Lots of passes later I'd taken out all 4 defenceless SU-27s. I got back to Nellis and performed my first successful landing and parked back on the ramp. Very, very pleased with myself at this point! I'd struggled to justify spending the time and money on a PC purely for sims but now I feel like I'm learning and I've got such a huge amount more to learn that I'm really excited. Sorry for my noob excitement!! [emoji4][emoji4][emoji4] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great info I'm starting to get my head around this. High altitude + low speed = low fuel flow rate due to lower volume of air entering the engines (lower speed and air density) plus lower drag. Low and fast is the opposite. I hadn't thought about bleeding more energy at lower speed but I'll be sure to enter the merge with a lot more speed from now on. Good point about reducing energy by pulling the nose up and I'll make sure I don't enter final approach with too much energy from now on and expect the air brake to magically fix my error. This is all making good sense - I flew as a passenger in an English Electric Lightning ten years ago and that has somewhat similar performance to the F-15. I recall that it took a fair bit of time to accelerate into the supersonic regime and when we came into land the only way to slow it down was to crank in some decent g turns to get down to around 200-250 knots on the downwind. That's a long story in itself but if you're interested then check it out; Google "Pengelly Thunder City Lightning". I'm impressed so far by how challenging (and i'm guessing accurate) the simulation is. It's going to be a great challenge to achieve some basic level of competence!!!! [emoji2] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I do love a bit of aerodynamics being a glider (sailplane) pilot as a hobby. I haven't found anything in a (very) brief google. Is the idea that if you start a high performance turn too slow then you end up burning more energy due to induced drag than if you start at a higher speed. Thinking about it that would make some sense - in gliding we load up water ballast to weigh the aircraft down to increase wing loading, thus reduce induced drag. I'm guessing that higher speed = more g = less induced drag????

:thumbup: Day 1 on DCS. Day 1 on Warthog HOTAS. You've just saved me a bunch of pain, thank you.

I'm mapping autopilot to 27 and 29 on my Warthog HOTAS and doesn't work for me.

Makes sense. I'll give it a bash. Using the keyboard didn't seem to make a notable difference in terms of the fuel flow initially but then it was up to 50-60 and I was able to sustain 7-8g turns at 500kts at various altitudes so I must be doing something stupid somewhere.

Def something wrong - if I go to full throttle immediately i enter the Aggressor mission then i'm at the stall before i've managed to do a 180 turn at the merge - i must be doing something v stupid. I'll try adjusting the throttle with the keyboard to see if that shows it to be the HOTAS throttle config.

I just did a cold start from Nellis and was getting 50 PPH (thousands presumably?!) at 3'000. At 24'000 in the instant action i'm getting 30. Does that sound right?

I'm getting 96% RPM in both cold start and instant action. However, i get 40 (units?) fuel flow in cold start and 30 in instant action. What fuel flow should I see in full burner? If I do the Instant Action Aggressor mission then I'm down to 150 knots during my first turn after the merge and then i'm wallowing at the stall from there on into the fight. Either i'm not getting full power or i'm expecting way too much turn performance but I thought the F-15 could sustain a high rate of turn indefinitely due to high thrust available? I've got 'Sync controls upon mission start' enabled and 'Use these options for all missions' enabled too. Sorry for being such a noob. Literally day 1 :) PS Also - i'm not totally convinced that i'm getting minimum power either - it takes all day to slow down from 300 knots to 200 knots at min power with the air brake open, in a shallow (5 degree) descent with throttles on the backstop. Confused! :S After engine start i'm seeing 66% at idle - sounds about rright?

Day 1 of DCS for me! :) I've been looking fwd to this for a LONG time. Just finished building my rig with 4790K, GTX980 Ti and Thrustmaster Warthog - plus TrackIR obvs. I'm struggling a bit. If I cold start then I have proper throttle control but if I go instant action then I can't get to 100% throttle nor burner. Clearly i'm doing something stupid but I know not what. Any advice?

This is a great idea! I'll download it this week. Thanks very much!

How do you set it up so that you get more precision when you look at cockpit panels?!?

OK - I'll have a play with the TrackIR settings. It worked just fine with the old version of software but I upgraded to v5 and now it seems shaky. Once I've got that sorted then I can start learning proper. My first full start up went really nicely - right up until 30 seconds after i got off the ground and then i accidentally switched off all the autopilots and just a moment later there were lots and lots of little bits of ka50 spread across the airfield. oops

That is hilarious - lol! =) I'm having a little trouble with keeping the accuracy of my Track IR 4 and Proclip (i think that is the problem) - when i'm trying to push buttons in the cockpit it's almost impossible to keep the crosshair still over the button. Am I doing something wrong? Also, how do you zoom in so quickly on gauges and controls? Is that just by moving your head with TrackIR?

So simple when you know how!! Thanks SOOO much. I was getting frustrated. Now I just need to learn how to start it up, fly it, and then I guess how to shoot things but...one step at a time =) Thanks again!

Hi all, Sorry for being a total noob but I want to practice cold and dark start ups. However, I am struggling with the Mission Editor. I just want to have a mission I can load that had the chopper at a base with everything switched off but I can't figure out for the life of me how! Help! :doh: Cheers, Jimbo

Hi all, I built my first ever rig this weekend, which i bought because BS looks so incredible. I've done a little flying but whenever i try to clock my i7 above 3.2MHz it seems that BS gets upset and freezes for about 0.5 seconds before continuing with good frame rates. I *think* it's OC related beacuse with lower mhz i get normal behvaiour. ANyone seen this and have a solution? i7 D0 stepping, Asus p6t deluxe v2, bfg gtx 285 ocx, ocz blade 6gb 16000, w7 64 rc Yours, Jim

Ah - that is totally perfect - i can put them on my laptop and train myself that way

Very helpful guys - the manual is excellent