Popequation24

Sorry if this has been asked before, but planning a new build to mainly use for DCS. I was hoping to get some pointers/advise on my shopping list based on your experience/knowledge as DCS does not always seem to correlate to the typical game benchmarks posted on youtube. This will be my first shot at building my own pc and I don't have an unlimited budget so naturaly I want to maximize my dollar to performance ratio. Here it goes..... Case - Cougar MX330 Mid Tower PS - Corsair RMi Series, RM750i, 750 Watt, 80+ Gold Certified, Fully Modular MB - ASUS AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi) ATX CPU- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X RAM - CORSAIR VENGEANCELPX16GB (2x 8GB) DDR4 3600 HD1 - Sabrent 512GB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 HD2 - Seagate Barracuda ZA2000CM10002 2 TB Solid State Drive SATA 6 Gb/s 2.5" SSD GPU - XFX Radeon Rx 5700 XT Primary display will be Oculus Rift S Played DCS flaming cliffs with my son's HP Omen i7-8700/16GB/GTA 1060 3GB machine with the Oculus Rift S and it did OK to fair...but good enough to know there is no going back to a monitor. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

It was around 1985-86. The 15s went thru a Multi-stage improvement program (MSIP) that included an upgraded a programmable armament control system and I believe that same upgrade included the new control stick. I know all 15s with APG70 radar had the newer control stick. It's been too long since I worked on them to remember all of the differences between models and upgrades. Radar was was not my avionics specialty......and I started my USAF career at a test wing so we saw all sorts of strange configurations before they made it to the front line units.

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but just joined the forum and trollinf thru the old posts. Worked 15s for 11 years and been around them and in the back seat during numerous burner maintenance runs. From the cockpit you don't hear anything, but you do feel a little thump in the seat. They probably modeled the game to provide some sort of feedback. Now standing near the back of the jet during an afterburner run is totally different. You definitely can FEEL each stage of afterburner. It's not a bang but more of a percussion that you feel head to toe. Kind of hard to explain that feeling....but very impressive.

Worked F15 avionics in Iceland (92-93). CFTs actually add lift. When they are installed a pin is grounded that adds a -1.5 degree pitch down command on the flight control system. I never heard our pilots mention the disadvantage of CFTs vs a regular C model. FWIW....the DCS cockpit is spot on and takes me back to my USAF days every time I play it.