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Bump and agree! So needed for warbirds. A vfr map with flight log, eg. Bearings and distance.

And no realistic answer to competition from AMD. There latest announcement of a 9070 with performance similar to a 4070 means the Nvidia 5080 and 5090 cards stand alone, allowing Nvidia a large amount of freedom with their pricing. Perhaps amd will announce a 9090 card later in 2025 but I feel they've lost the race and lost any momentum they previously had in competing for higher end customers.

I've been trying out various SEAD DEAD missions and tactics recently just out of curiosity. The f16 has always been my go-to and kind of a favourite airframe. It's certainly very potent a2g in general but very effective DEAD. However I'm forcing myself to learn the f18 again having never really seriously considered it in the same way for reliable DEAD. Much to my surprise now an few missions in, I'm starting to think I prefer it! A simple mission of an attack on an sa10 site in northern Kola is the scenario I'm using. I've found a reliable way of approaching with a pair of f18 one armed with 6x TALD and 4xJDAM, the other maxed out with JDAM. A low level ingress using terrain, popping up around 15nm to launch off the TALD, then descend and defend, mask and run in low level for a pop up with JDAMs, quickly targeting them with the ATFLIR, hitting the search radar and tracking radar. Once these are taken out let the wingman mop up with JDAM. A lot of fun and a good challenge and really reminded me just how effective the f18 is.

May or may not be the case in your instance, but I just had something similar, in that during flight the power levers would suddenly go to idle! Like you I went through all the binds and couldn't solve it. I was about to submit a bug report when I checked my voice attack commands. Sure enough VA was picking up noises of things i hadnt actually said but interpreted them as commands. One of these commands turned out to be the power levers!

I'll avoid any technical terms, but I'm using a 7900xtx pretty much since it it released and never had any issues. Great performance for vr with 8kx and Pico 4 on max resolution and dcs settings maxed. I get a solid 72fps with some drops to 65 low over built up areas. I love this card and don't see myself needing to replace it soon. I'm very picky about performance and stuttering and am very pleased with the 7900xtx.

This should work. You could use a Wi-Fi repeater or mesh and place one unit in the same room as the pc. Then connect your pc to that with Ethernet cable.

A very nice setup for the pico 4. Similar to mine. You should manage very nice performance. I use virtual desktop. Godlike. Pc plugged into router via Ethernet. Modem in same room with Wi-Fi 6 and pico connected to that. Use VDXR as the runtime. Get rid of steamvr completely. I recently tried pico connect again, but VD is just better. Don’t need to mess around with adrenaline settings. I use HEVC codec with 150 mbps. 72hz streaming. most settings high or maxed in dcs. No msaa - not required. High textures. Extreme visibility. Disable openXR toolkit. Maybe try quadview foviated rendering. I get a solid 72fps except for maybe very very low over a city where maybe it drops to 60. Other than that it’s pretty much stutter free and a really good experience. I’ve used previously Pimax 8kx and reverb g2 and the pico 4 is way better than both in every way. All I all I’ve found the pico 4 to be very easy to setup and use. Just works every time.

Which codec do u use for that? I've only been using hvec. Seems to be quite good.

Yesterday inwas forced to revisit the pico connect app as VD had had an update but hadn't been synchronised with the app store streaming app! Result VD not working. So I reinstalled Pico connect. I was very pleasantly surprised. It's had a good few updates since I last tried it but yo my old eyes it was a better image and better performance than inwas getting on VD with my 7900xtx. I only tried it wireless and will test it wired later. I was easily holding a steady 72fps in Beirut at sunrise with lots of clouds and all settings pretty high and Ultra selected in pico. Great to have options and for now I'm actually going to stick with the pico connect over VD.

I do think it may be a really good option for dcs. I just wonder if they haven't priced the pico a bit too high, asbit now comes in at a higher price than the q3. I'm not sure yet if many will be tempted by that. It's a shame because I actually think the pico brand are making a really nice product.

Sounds quite interesting. I’m looking forward to seeing some real user reviews. Might be worth upgrading my p4.

Has anyone seen, heard or even got their hands on this in dcs yet? I’m very curious to see how it will perform. I currently own a pico 4 and love it for dcs. It replaced my 8kx and was better in every way. However it would be great to see some hand tracking options and decent pass through that this seems to offer. I’m guessing it’s just hitting the market now so probably not many real users have it yet but I expect they soon will start trickling in.

Is this campaign still being updated? I'm having a similar problem again with mission 5. It seems the ch47 never spawns and the last message I get is from the cobra confirming convoy destroyed and scanning for more targets. After that nothing more happens and there is no change or evacuation.

The days of people gaining that kind of experience on one single type are sadly probably done. That’s an impressive amount of experience and wealth of knowledge that I hope doesn’t get lost.

Did u fix this? I had it happen to me recently. Was driving me crazy. U don't use a usb hub do u? If so try unplugging the ufc from that and plug it into the PC instead. In my case it seemed there was too much power draw with all 4 usb in kne hub. The ufc takes the largest draw. When I removed that all worked again.

Good setup. Actually good choice just getting the chair. It's the best part of the setup. I got the whole thing when it released and the rest was pretty useless and all been replaced by 4080/4040 aluminium extrusion bolted onto the chair. Very easy to do and u can customise later to exactly what u need around the chair.

Can we get the option for force trim on release of the the CD trim button? At the moment it seems to be only on pressing. Both would be good I guess to cater for all, but I certainly find the trim reseting to the datum on release to be more useful and realistic.

Thanks for the replies guys. Looking forward to receiving mine when I get home from work in a couple days. I'll give the nlr software a go first then as I only have the pad and no other kickers and see what it's like. Good to know dcs is now supported.

I just ordered the hf8 and trying to work out the best way to implement it. There's not many recent posts anywhere. NLR claimed dcs support was coming in q2 2023 which has now come and gone but I see no updates on their website. Most posts I've read are at least a year old and folks are using and recommending SSA. Does anyone have any update on this? Does the nlr software now support and work well with dcs or is ssa still the best option to date?

@sclearman did u decide what to build yet? I went through a few iterations of this myself, however s a 100% vr player who enjoys several modules I’ve thrown more effort into vr and immersion. As the tech is rapidly evolving and augmented/mixed reality becomes more of a thing, more options open up. For me, is really hard to beat the immersion vr gives you. I settled on a winwing setup with their phoenix MIP setup, Orion HOTAS and their PTO panel. I can easily switch between aircraft and still use the mfds and just swap out the stick from f18 to f16. I would also suggest building your own frame out of aluminum 8040, as u can make it exactly how u want and then it’s very customizable and easy to bolt on other things as and when u want. Check out panels from the likes of tekcreations and hispanels, then u can easily build extra panels and wire them yourself. As far as which plane, that’s a really hard one! The f18 is certainly one of my favorites too, but the a10c is also very hard to beat for pure ground pounding fun. The advantage of vr here is again that immersion as u switch aircraft. It’s pretty straight forward to make a few accurate usb controller panels and enclosures for them which you could switch in and out as u change aircraft. I made quite a few with my very limited skills and it’s fairly inexpensive. I didn’t bother printing and cutting myself and just ordered the panels and switches. good luck with whatever you choose and it will be a great fun project no matter what you go for.

This seems to have go a little under the radar but it appears that from 7 august psvr2 will work with pc and a pc adapter for connection will be available. Does anyone know if this will work with standalone dcs, not just steam games and openXR? if it does this could be a really good solution for pcvr and dcs with OLED screens, eye tracking and a relatively low price. I’m surprised this has not received more attention but I think all the Pimax hype and other newer headsets steal the limelight a bit. If this is a viable option it might be very tempting to upgrade from my pico4 as I’ve just cancelled my crystal light preorder - or at least tried to! (Another story!)

I actually received a generic reply directing me to pimax faq and thr website, so not desperately helpful so far in answering my question.

Yep I fired off a mail to them today and I'm sure they'll reply fairly promptly. Just wondering if anyone here had heard anything as there is very little, of any info on the forums or discord right now.

Has anyone received theirs yet or any info regarding it? I made a pre-order back in April and received a mail in June saying there was some delay but more info to come in July but so far nothing. Has anyone heard any more or know anything more about the status?

I've had a bit of a summer hiatus from dcs due to all the various summer activities and family stuff. Jumped back in this week to download my pre ordered afghan map as well as a few other patches. I read so many negative comments and feedback in performance and bugs, but my experience doesn't reflect much of this at all. The afghan map looks wonderful. I'm very impressed with this EA map and the areas that are currently covered. I've been flying around, committing various virtual war crimes in the f16, 18, ah64 and the mighty a10c2 (still the best aircraft in dcs!!). Performance has been excellent in all modules and it seems to me it is just getting better and better with each update. Gone the the lagging and stutters of days of old. I'm still using a pico 4 and it looks absolutely fantastic. Over the years the general trajectory of dcs improvements has been really very good when we take a step back and look at how far things have come. Now very excitedly waiting for the ch47 and possibly a crystal light (on pre-order). The pimax may be cancelled though as I'm actually still really impressed and happy with the pico 4. It will be interesting tonsee more reviews and comparisons as they come. Thanks again ED for another good update and keep up the good work. Great to see so many exciting and interesting developments coming to fruition and the continued evolution of this wonderful sim.