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AV-8B for the NOOB Hi Jabbers! Is this video still valid with updates to the aircraft? What I'm really looking for are complete in-game tutorials for the NOOB. As much as I paid for this, I should get some hand holding don't you think? I was in the Marines from 1980 to 1984 and for most of that time my main duty station was MCAS Cherry Point, NC. I have very good friends that served in VMA-231. (I was a simple grunt in the Air-Wing myself as a combat Marine Hawk anti-aircraft missile crewman in the 3rd LAAM BN.) When I saw that DCS had this aircraft, I had to have one to fly myself with VMA-231 livery. They have made an effort at DCS to include some training, but it's woefully inadequate.

I'm just starting out with DCS too. I just started using my DCS in the last couple days after getting a HOTAS this week. I spent some time with the Frog Foot start-up tutorial, but took a break to fly the P51 just to enjoy free flight around the map. I already understood the instruments and flight controls of WWII fighters from IL-2. All I had to do was get a feel for the flight model and iron out some issues with my HOTAS assignments. What a pleasure that was. It's nice to start slow and enjoy your accomplishments before you continue on to greater complexities.

Thanks For the Input I downloaded and ran the DcsMax utility as per TangoRomeo's suggestion. I started the game and realized my Cougar Hotas, TrackIR and rudder pedals were unplugged, so I decided to run the winter replay mission. Menu screens came up much faster and there seems to be less wait for the mission to start. FPS seem smoother, but I can't tell for sure. The sim is certainly running at playable rates. My NVidia control panel has an option for forcing games to use multicore processors. I'm wondering if that's why I was having such good luck before I began using DcsMax? Anyway, thanks to everyone for their replies. :smilewink:

I bought this sim yesterday. I'd read about it on the internet and planned on downloading it from DCS. Then I saw the retail game at Best Buy and snapped it up. I'm having some confusing experiences setting up the sim, but I'll keep my mouth shut about it until I give myself more time to figure it all out. :book: I'll say this though... I'm running it on vista 64 bit with a phenom quad processor @ 1.8 GHz. 4 GB of RAM. Graphics card is 9400 GT. It's a brand new middle of the road system. I'm playing the game at 1920X1080 (my native resolution) on medium settings and it's very smooth. Frame rates are more than acceptable. I'd heard that BS didn't do multi-core processors, but at this resolution it should be a slide show if it's only running on one of my four 1.8 GHz cores. So I'm Happy! :lol: Everything seems to be going full bore on my system. I've tried some missions and the canned replays that were on the disk. No game ruining slowdowns as of yet. The chopper is beautiful, never saw such detail in a combat sim before. I haven't been this excited about a combat sim since IL-2 Sturmovik! :joystick: I'm sure I'll get alot of enjoyment out of it.