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I'm, not knocking it. For what it is and what it does, it works well. There a lot of people on the yuplay forums ranting about "THIS IS NOT A SIM!!!". Pointless really. My Warthog axis are mapped strangely in terms of calibaration. 100% collective seems to reset to centre, which can get you killed. Might be a patch issue as i doubt the devs tested on a warthog ;) Its a great bash and i am enjoying it. Loud uncomplicated fun.

Well, its a whole lot of, HEAD OVER HERE TEN SECONDS FROM WHERE YOU STARTED, fun as long as you dont take it, SHOOT THE FLASHING RED CURSOR ON THE SCREEN THEY ARE BAD GUYS, too seriously and treat it as a, DESTROY ENEMY CLOSE BUT IF YOU TRY AND SNIPE FROM MORE THAN ONE MILE AWAY YOU WILL BE TELEPORTED TO DIRECTLY OVER THE ENEMY LOCATION BUT THEY ARE DUMB THEY ARE BAD GUYS, console game and therefore a bit of, MISSION COMPLETE HERE ARE SOME ACHIEVEMENTS NEW SKIN, fun then you wont be dissapointed. Those who go expecting, DEFAULT 3RD PERSON VIEW, blackshark with next gen graphics are in for a shock. Fun game once you setup cockpit view, 'realistic mode', TrackIR and your HOTAS, and a nice distraction and a break from the effing BS trimmer :) Oh, and you need to be online to login to game i think. No probs for us towny broadbanders, but if you are on hill in Wales........

Alright i caved in and ordered from Amazon yesterday. Way i figure, i've got his beast £300 new HOTAS and precisely 2.5 games to run on it, (BS, FC2, A-10 beta 4 when it comes out as 3 is borked and i cant be arsed with it crashing in every mission anymore and the "downtown athens" fog makes a mockery of my new GFX card and reminds me of the draw distance of TUROK on the bloody N64.....muttermutter). Also, some 'sim-lite' shenanigans should be fun. :pilotfly:

Ive temporarily ditched A-10 as beta 3 breaks my bollocks, but i have gone back to Black Shark and i can say that with the Hog, its a whole new ballgame. No curves or deadzones needed. Its beautiful. I am working up a TARGET profile for BS which should be done sometime this week. I am keeping the profile A-10 centric of you get my meaning as i want to minimise the amount of brain farts when i transition between A-10 and BS

Flying blind and without support and low. Thats darwin award territory! Preparation is everything. Know the enemy lkely locations, know your safe escape routes, tweak your waypoints, use geographical features, stay out of SHORAD envelope, use the TGP, and rain death from "slightly more above than before" ;)

Have i missed something here? New firmware. Ive had mine from day one and no issues. I did hear that a few guys had vanishing throttle issues. Is that what you are afriad of? Otherwise, STOP BEING A WUSS and get it out, fire it up and kick some ass! :joystick::pilotfly::thumbup:

Thats what i was thinking. The best of both worlds then. Get it to the area you want in a hury then accuratly tweak.

Looks like in A-10, ED have compensated for the crazy TM slew control somehow with extra damping. Or maybe their axis settings are different. i changed mine so i lost the defaults but i recall they were about saturation 10 but had a straight then diagonal "curve". not smooth. can anyone confirm and replicate this setup in BS?

under 20? wow, i was messing between 60-80. i wil give that a go thanks

just assign the axis for "absolute shkval slew" i think its called. in options under the throttle column. the hog slew show up as JOY_X and JOY_Y

I’ve been learning TARGET and have been setting up a BS profile on the hog. The slew controls are driving me mad though. I’ve tried reducing the sensitivity in-game with a curve and reduced the saturation but it’s still way too twitchy to be of any use Has anyone got this licked? And can I change a profile I’ve spent hours on to be “advanced” so I can enable the I/O modifiers? Cheers

Just to get things straight here, you are talking about BS right? I had a right carry on with LOMAC on Vista/Win7, but FC2, BS and A-10 dont use that same starforce system AFAIK.

started doing one using target as WH beta3 was doing my head in. its coming along slowly but using the slew control on the throttle for the SHKVAL is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too sensetive even when you alter the curves, i cant control it.

I am having crashes in most missions with beta3. Clean install. i am thinking that the "difficult 3rd album" may be replaced soon ;) We have been lucky though as betas 1 & 2 were pretty damn stable at least for me. I got a lot of learning done with them. ..and lots of testing of course! :smartass:

Lets hope beta 4 comes soon. Ive gone back to BS, as flying DCS:HillFog/CrashTodesktop was getting a little wearing

....or we will be on beta 26 :megalol:

an option like in BS would suit both 'visible' and 'invisible man' camps i think a ginger goth would be best ')

You are jumping two generations so you will be in for a nice surprise. Run a mission now with framerates on. Then repeat with new card.

Gonzo What tool are you using to measure GPU usage? I downloaded GPU-Z but it doesn't have the good graphing capabilities of rivatuner, but then rivatiner doesnt support new 580's

What is your core loading on average? I get about 60%-80% on the two cores that DCS uses, so the gfx card is limiting factor, even a 580! Still, from what i'm used to it's a whole new world. I had to stop myself getting a Dell U2711 27" monitor as i can get them cheap, but i thought that its resolution (2560x1440), would put me back to GTX285 speeds albeit with a 'god monitor' to drool over. And an angry girlfriend to appease ;)

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. In FC/LOMAC the AI had to have visual to engage otherwise you got "negative". In BS you can send shkval target and get AI to engage In A-10, even broadcast SPI and "attack from SPI" gets a negative 50% of the time now. Hopefully WIP

Fopeyducker Did you do a driver clearout and have you installed the new "580" drivers from NVIDIA? (Just the latest 262.99). Also, in NVIDIA control panel, record the settings you used for your 285 and set them all back to default and save. New card, new tweaks. I see about a 100% improvement in A-10, now at 60 fps (without HDR). Just looking at your stats on your sig. What speed is your CPU running at? You may well be CPU bottlenecked on a stock 920. My 920 ran at 4GHZ no bother with a decent cooler. Just a thought. My 930 @ 4.1ghz runs at 70-80% in DCS, i haven't taken the speed down to see where DCS hits it for 100% but i would imagine its about the 3.6ghz mark.

just installed a gtx580. framerates doubled from 30 ish to 60 ish. super smooth and now no bottlenecks! enabled HDR and back to 35 ish. the hdr needs a lot of tweaking. trying gpu-z. what i want though is a realtime GPU load viewer. not sure if such a thing exists. **EDIT** ooh hang on, it does that. now what about graphs?

Sorry, i see your point mate, my card was 2 generations back. I usually skip one. Although i may change my policy because my GTX285 is only worth £120 on Ebay, whereas if i was selling a 480 / 5870..... Just had my first test. with GTX 285 - average FPS 30 with GTX 580 - average FPS 60 Super silky. At 1920x1200. Like butter. Havent done any tweaking yet. Time for HDR test

Cheers guys. I guess the limited SADL implementation will be fine for MP but for SP its really crippled ATM. Having an AI wingman who cant / wont broadcast the SPI targets he sees ("CONTACT"), and wont acknowledge your broadcast SPI and therefore wont attack ("NEGATIVE"), make single player an exercise in frustration ATM. Hopefully its some WIP glitches as ive used attack orders in beta1/2 and they generally worked.