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I figure this is NVIDIA showing some concern about the new AMD offerings that are coming and starting to pivot to see what their next product should be. If AMD releases a card with ~3080 performance and 16GB of VRAM then NVIDIA will definitely have to up their refresh plans. IIRC the rumours of low yields on GDDR6X are not valid according to other rumours but lets NV save face a bit perhaps. We are all being played to maximize our spend.

Probably a link to use Facebook SSO to sign in. <shudder />

Maybe AoA vs speed isn't high enough and is causing the stall and then... concur - worth investigating via a track.

Long shot: when the yaw happens are you also slightly dropping a wing? Might be wing tip stall making things go fubar? Next time it happens maybe try to take note of your speed. JAT

There will be a 3080 card with 20 GB available in December. Some rumours say "3080 Ti", some say "3080 Super". We'll see when it becomes a real product we can buy.

IMO, don't waste your time going to a 2080Ti unless you get it for a screaming deal ( < $200-$300 ). For VR, 3080 is where you want to be. 20GB versions will be released in December. I expect the artificially induced lack of stock thing for 30 series will be over by March/April so that'll probably be when you can walk into any store and buy something off the shelf. In the meantime keep an eye on the AMD offerings. AMD will be "shelfware" probably by January. HTH

Fantastic! Any chances of getting a Catalina, Goose, or Sunderland done to flesh out some WW2 assets? <edit: wow - lots of decent assets on his web site> :)

Holy carp! You are my new favourite person on this forum. :D

I've often thought it would be neat for DCS to have a "Liveries server" that hosts/serves liveries IF you choose to connect to it. Conceptually kind of like an X-Window font server from back in the day (analogy for those of a certain age) This would be a simple way to centralize a livery system for a group of people so inclined and makes it opt in/out in a fairly straightforward manner. Compute-wise wouldn't be that bad and with all those cores that DCS doesn't use the livery server service/daemon would go unnoticed from a load perspective. ;) Right now I'm hosting a nginx container with a bunch of liveries for the missions we run. It's ok as a solution I guess but everyone that wants to partake has to manually download the skin(s) and install them locally. JAT

I made a somewhat similar, tangential request in the Yak-52 section...

Latest rumours (covert benchmarks) have AMD single core being in the hunt with Intel 10900. Tiger Lake (11 gen) is 10 nm.

For certain, wait for the new AMD gear and the subsequent benchmarks thereafter. Don't hold you breathe on better single core though - if AMD gets to 5 GHz it'll be just barely 5 is my prediction. Also, AMD hasn't been as overclockable an Intel in the past so there's that. Looking at what can be done with AMD in the past it doesn't seem to be worth bothering with. We'll see. Everyone likes an underdog so I'm rooting for AMD but am still running Intel in all my equipment. Competition is good. Intel's top of the line CPUs would probably still only be 4c/4t and only 4 GHz if it wasn't for AMD.

Come to think of it, the only real thing that bugs me about the 109 is it is light on the amount of ammo it carries. That said, potential to hone your gunnery skills (accuracy) is there as a result. Nothing touches the Spit in a turning fight but the 109 isn't far behind.

I have both planes (and the A8 also ). I have never been able to warm up to the Dora. It's not a turn plane at all - at least in DCS. If you lose energy you are practically defenceless it seems - unless you get lucky enough to be able to run away. The 109 I like a lot. I find it kind of between the Spit and the Mustang. I feel I could do a lot more with it than I am currently with more focused seat team. It did take a bit of time to warm up to but I think it was more to getting back into flight sims after 25+ years and it being a "non-trivial" plane in DCS moreso than anything. If you are looking to buy a German airplane that flies and fights somewhat more like the Spit or Mustang stick with the 109. The Dora will disappoint from that perspective. I'm far from proficient in any of these but that's my impressions currently.

Preferentially Stable. Do most flying and mission creation there - especially now that the Channel map is available in Stable. It varies but lately I'd say over 90% of my usage has been on Stable. I've been doing mostly GA flying and training recently. I use Open Beta for the features that are not available in Stable and for the occasional MP action.

You can argue it makes no difference for NVME storage as well. Playing games on SSD vs NVME is a barely noticeable difference; 3.5s to load something vs 2.3s... doesn't matter. 4DKLA7w9eeA If/when DirectStorage to load textures directly into VRAM becomes a thing in DCS you could consider that being a reason to upgrade if not already onto PCI-e 4 by then. That said, that implies there isn't already buffering/caching of "next texture" in place in the code already given sytems have access to lots of RAM nowadays. <not_being_ironic_at_all />

I see where you are going but the primary PCI-e on a motherboard (slot 1) is 16 lanes/channels direct to the CPU specifically to make sure the primary graphics card is direct connected to the CPU. All other PCI-e channels could be going through the chipset for sound, nvme, whatever. You need to look at the specific architecture of the CPU and motherboard to know where lanes/channels are going where beyond the 16 on PCI-e slot 1. There's caveats around multi GPU and using PCI-e slot 2 as well but we aren't talking about that. FWIW, bandwidth: PCI-e 3.0: 8.0 GT/s, 15.8 GB/s (x16 channels/lanes) PCI-3 4.0: 16.0 GT/s, 31.5 GB/s HDMI 2.1 is rated 48 Gbit/s (6 GBytes/s) Also, look at the charts in the in the article I linked. Differences are timing issues.

PCIe 3 vs PCIe 4 is irrelevant. The bandwidth is there and any differences ( +/- 1 FPS) are due to bus timing or measuring issues/errors. https://www.techspot.com/review/2104-pcie4-vs-pcie3-gpu-performance/ FWIW wrt 10GB... the 2070 Super in my system is constantly pinned at 8GB in Syria and the Channel map. I very, very rarely will see stutters. The code is managing the VRAM fine it seems. When there is a stutter it is a one-off due to a terrain "scope change" and is fine I guess. All this said, I'm still waiting for a 3080Ti/Super with 20Gb for my next card. Depending on timing I may do a new Tiger Lake CPU when it hits the desktop platform - preliminaries look good.

My 'gut' on the Intel side is that any architecture before the "* Lakes" is hurting your experience and from ~6th/7th generation up scales similarly to the Ryzen stuff. That's totally speculative on my part so take it with a grain of salt. In my experience my 3770K was very bottlenecked by the 2070S so 3080 is going to make it worse of course. With my new CPU the 2070S is bottlenecked but very playable.

I upgraded from overclocked @4.5GHz 3770K to 10700K (no OC). 2070 Super GPU in both cases. Night and day difference. 4K w/ Track IR is now my default. The 3770K was painful in comparison.

Search youtube - there's a guy that got it going on wine several months ago and has a video how to of sorts posted.

My full install of Stable and OB is over 400GB including liveries and such in Saved\ Games. I have all maps, all modules minus 3 or 4 on both installs. Will probably buy the P-47 soonish. I could delete the Gulf and NTTR on both installs I guess since I never use them but ... nah. I ended up buying a second 1TB for Steam (IL-2, RoF, FC, Assetto, Project Cars *, etc.). This is a dedicated game machine with no other real software installed. Do _at_least_ 1TB for longevity IMO. Getting 6-9-12 months down the road and having to resize due to lack of space is a PITA that can be avoided for not a huge amount of money now. There's places to spend money and there's fluff.

I got thinking about what I posted above - I ended up buying a ~$350 Z490 motherboard when I bought back in June. I forget why I ended up spending that much. Seems like a lot now. <shrug />

Also, do your research. I don't recommend a KF series CPU because you'll be losing Intel QuickSync which is used in some products (Adobe stuff, OBS, others) for hardware accelerated transcoding and rendering. For the sake of ~$20 just get the K and keep your options open.

The i9 is probably not necessary unless you really want it. I'd do 10850K or 10700K. Mobo is expensive - what feature does it have that you really, really want? can get decent Z490 stuff in the $200-$250 range depending - maybe less. RAM, do 3200-CL14 or 3600-CL16. DCS likes fast RAM (fast everything). I'm running ADATA/XPG 8200 1TB drives in my machine (x2). Cheaper, just as good IME. Expensive case - what feature does it have that merits that price? Can do something $100 cheaper and not miss anything I'd suggest unless it's a "the style speaks to me" thing. Expensive power supply - can find cheaper unless something changed in the last 4-6 months.. Really don't need any more than 750W, if that. Most current benchmarking rigs with the 3080 and 10900k are only pulling ~500W before overclock. $0.02