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Hi Cyph3r, Wonder if you can help with a couple more questions please? I have just received the T-50 flight base and grip - they are great - really pleased with both. With regard to the throttle can you provide pictures of the mechanics of how the levers operate at all? Wondering if they are as engineered as the flight base is. I purchased the base flightstick from the Virpil site prior to the Amazon shop being available. Will i have to order the throttle from the same site in order to qualify for the % discount or can that be done through the Amazon site? Also will there be a cover for the throttle similar to the flight stick cover? Thanks - and keep up the great work! Si

I think your right Panzertard - virtualisation is amazing and in the enterprise it does some fantastic things however on a desktop for heavy duty 3d games it is not even close.

Hi there, I would imagine that, considering the performance we see with Blackshark even on powerful machines, virtualisation would provide poor results. VMWorkstation and Virtualbox are very very good (they now have access to 3d graphics) however I would not consider running Blackshark within them as the performance would be mediocre at best. Running various server type vm's on VMWorkstation/Virtualbox (not at the same time ) each has proved, on an e6600 8gb ram 3 x 750gb hdd's, to be adequate although definately slower than the physical versions. I can only guess that the extra power required to deal with the 3d graphics may be much more noticeable. As for Linux......well I can only hope that DCS may, one day, port the series over to Linux. Running under Wine or Cedega may allow the game to be run reasonably however I would imagine nothing beats native support (and as mentioned would allow a complete move over to Linux). Anyway that was my first post and what a good subject to post on - Blackshark and Linux - two of my favourite things! Take it easy. Si