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Attached are the logs and missions for two TF51s sitting in parking at Kutaisi with an AM2 FARP. The one that works as expected has the FARP quite a distance away. The one that does not work has the FARP at the "elbow" of the parking area - something like 80m away from the aircraft. The one that works... well works. The one that does not work makes SWAPR not work effectively. You can still choose/use the slots but you can't see the other aircraft when in the cockpit and from the spectators view you can't see either plane. I took a look at the log files - nothing really interesting in there but I don't know what I'm looking for so... Here's the link to the mod so you don't have to go hunting for it: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4328283&postcount=8 Let me know if there is anything else you need/want. Thanks! swapr_farp_issue_demo_works.miz swapr_farp_issue_demo_no_swapr.miz dcs_swapr_farp_issue_demo_works.log dcsswapr_farp_issue_demo_no_swapr.log

Ha! Would love to have a Tiger or Gypsy or Chipmunk in DCS...

LOL - that was a great movie. Need to watch it again. Thanks for reaching out to have a look at this - appreciated. I figured I'd ask first in case it was something obvious/known and to see if there was interest in troubleshooting. :) One thing I did notice is that if you have two aircraft that are hooked up with swapr sitting side by side and the farp is too close to both of them only one works as desired. If you move the farp about 300m away from both aircraft (IIRC) then both swapr connected aircraft act as desired. I forget the exact distance - haven't played with this in a few days. I'll send something later when I'm in front of the computers again.

Neato. 1440p should be a button as well.

I'd love to see a Normandy update. Don't even expand it - just bring it up to the standard of The Channel and Syria. We'll need to let computer hardware catch up before expanding short of some kind of back end rewrite finding lots of performance (realistically, not likely).

For the record, 4.0GHz in one generation of chips is not the same as 4.0GHz in another generation of chips. Every generation gets tweaks that make single thread performance better per clock cycle. And it definitely does not apply across different chip manufacturers. 4.0GHz on AMD does not automatically imply the same single thread performance on Intel at 4.0GHz. Kind of obvious but worth stating for reference.

Locally there is $30 difference between the 2700X and the 3600XT. The single core performance difference between them is noticeable. Given that Ryzen doesn't overclock much if at all... If this is a dedicated DCS rig I'd be all over the 3600XT in this price bracket. Whatever floats your boat. $0.02

Yeah, I was hoping to see it come to DCS but I guess it's a pet project of one of the devs at Razbam so not something with a schedule or sprint cycle. It would be a great place to have. I'm also looking forward to the Tucano and Pucara from Razbam.

Some interesting NVIDIA and AMD GPU notes in this video. I'm really starting to think taking a wait and see attitude is best. Clocks are not at 2000MHz yet and in spite of that the cards are being over driven electrically and there is a warning disclaimer about heat on the back plate. Wait for the more refined "Super" version of the NVIDIA cards me thinks. This could be a golden opportunity for AMD if they can pull it off with respect to good compute power and possible a good balance between power and compute if they can't outright beat NVIDIA. If they are within 10% or so... I don't have a horse in this game - run both NVIDIA and AMD on my computers but everyone loves an underdog.

I love your mods, Taz1004! This and Better Trees have been a revelation for me. One note about the smoke though and maybe I'm off base here, but it seems like the smoke disperses and becomes too undefined too quickly? Almost like someone took a smudge/dodge tool to a smoke cloud vertically if you follow what I mean? Like it should be more "billowy" and thick for longer/higher, spread out wider? I don't know if maybe this is a limitation of the engine or if it's intentional or whatever... Or maybe it's just me. :)

Yep, awesome little plane. When I just want to fly for flying sake it's the one I pick.

But anyway - I agree with you. the exception MIGHT be that UK shop that provides a two year warranty. I'd still be hard pressed to buy it if it was possoble though with the 2070S where it is.

Yeah, prices have been tumbling since I last looked I guess. This is what I was comparing against (what's in my machine): https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=43_557_559&item_id=140778 < GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING OC 3X 8GB -> $780 at time of posting this thread, Newgg.ca is $749 - I forget which place I bought it - which ever was cheaper at the time - free shipping may ahve been a factor >

Yep, just installed ANOTHER 1TB NVME last night so I can move Steam and MSFS away from the C drive where DCS is installed. It's getting larger and larger and having both Stable and OB... plan for 1TB just for DCS I say.

AN-2 would rock.

Moderately old news but posted for awareness. Basically removes Oculus products off the table for lots of potential VR purchases. I know I'll never buy one.

Depends... Rumours for adapters and such are out there. Really depends on whether your PSU has extra capacity or not and whether it is a well supported platform or a modular unit or whatever. Wait and see is the thing to do for now.

I fly the Yak-52... a lot... like, really.. a lot. It's a "civilian" plane and a hell of a lot more interesting and fun than a 152 IMO. So, one could do that. I also have the CE2 but I like the seating position and general aircraft design/layout/utility better in the Yak and rarely fly it. When I get the WWI itch I load up the Normandy map with some WWI skins on the CE2 just for shiggles. I downloaded the Edge 540 but haven't even tried it yet. I also have the i-16 which I think might have been used as a post war civilian sport plane... or did I dream that on Google? I need to put some time into the I-16 but I've been having so much fun with the Yak-52 when I'm not flying the warbirds or the F-18. I use the TF51 a fair amount but it's not a good platform for bush plane flying and trying to land on the side of a mountain. Yak all the way for that. Also, when I want to fly the Mustang it tends to be to go dog-fighting. That said, been touring the Syria map in the TF51 (and L-39) and it's a good balance of speed and range for exploring a new map at lower levels. I would like to see more civilian aircraft. Bush planes like Super Cubs and Beavers and stuff like that would be great - both wheeled and on floats. A Falco F8L would be great... Razbam is working on the Tucano. Was the Pucara ever used as a civilian airplane? Grumman Goose? Fieseler Storch? I have Xplane - never use it because the Yak-52 in DCS is the plane I prefer when I want to just do flying for flying sake. A case can be made for using the L-39C as a civilian airplane also. When I 'feel the need for speed' tend to gravitate to the F-18 though. No regrets buying it - just don't use it that often. Also, there's the Huey and Mi-8. Need to get a proper collective stick... As someone else said above - DCS has something that the other sims don't have: a very rich mission editor and can drive and improve an experience with an aircraft. The other sims are really quite limited in comparison I think. I've been 'backfilling' all the airfields and airstrips not in DCS on the Caucasus map to have more fun/range with the aircraft and to do longer exploring missions. I need to turn attention to the NS430 also to get "standard" civilian style naviagtion going. The ADF system in the Yak is kind of annoying since you have to exit the mission in order to change the tuning. Kind of a pita when you just want to drop on a airstrip and gas-n-go. So, there's lots of ways to have fun in DCS as a GA sim. There's a decent amount of equipment and the flight dynamics are top notch. $0.02

Latest I've heard is that the 3090 is the replacement for the Titan. I have seen zero reference to a 3080Ti. The 3080 is what I'm eyeing to replace my 2070 Super but still fully intend to wait and see what AMD has coming in Oct-Nov. Rumours are 12GB VRAM. I'm hoping for more and will wait and see what AMD does. Interesting times.

Will your motherboard suppprt ~3800XT? If yes then I'd just upgrade CPU and upgrade RAM to 32 GB or more. Existing RAM speed/CL is fine - add more. GPU is fine - revisit in 2021 after new AMD and NV GPUs have dropped/settled. If your motherboard won't support newer AMD CPUs then 10600K or 10700K is fine. 10700K is faster but both can be overclocked to 10900k levels. Number of cores today is not a big deal but that might change in 2021-2022 and it doesn't hurt to spread non-DCS processes around to more cores to lighten the load on all cores. IME coming from heavily overclocked i7-3770k the 10700k doesn't need to be overclocked - not CPU limited running at 4k. New CPUs are coming in 2021 but there's always new CPUs coming. If you are a heavy DCS user buy now and get the value today. If you can do an incremental upgrade via 3800XT do that otherwise new z490+CPU. New Intel Tiger Lake might be less power hungry and be a good upgrade. With all the optimization Intel has done in recent history on 14nm I'm not convinced AMD will ever catch Intel on single core performance once Intel gets to 7nm (Tiger is 10nm).That's 2021 though and current AMD XT processors are plenty fast. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html HTH

This is one of my favourite aircraft. Would love to see it come to DCS. The images in this thread are impressive.

At £480 (~$825 CDN) that's new 2070 Super pricing. Those two cards are roughly equivalent except the edge cases where the extra 3GB of VRAM matter. If you can effectively trade another card like you did and get the cash outlay lower it's not a terrible deal. I'd do it given the warranty. AFAIK no companies like that here.

Great success! I found the same thing - had to walk away from it for several weeks and then landing "just happened". Big thing for me was stay relaxed and just sail it in more than fly it in.

Goshawk is another free, high fidelity module about to be released. Not created by ED.

Regarding the KF series Intel CPUs and the integrated GPU, if the user has any intentions of doing any video editing or streaming/recording DCS on this computer I suggest staying away from the KF processors (keep the integrated GPU on CPU). Video editing tools like Adobe Premiere can use the iGPU via Inel QuickSync to speed up rendering/transcoding and also tools like OBS studio allow you to use the iGPU to capture/stream/record the game play while not affecting your game's frame rate by taking processing power away from the discrete NVIDIA/AMD GPU.. Once you have a decent computer to play DCS you might be surprised how you want to record your flights for playback later. DCS can be quite cinematic - I never thought I'd want to do it but here we are with a bunch of homemade 4K DCS video on my PLEX server. For the sake of $20-$30 difference between K and KF just get the K IMO.