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ADF was fixed in the last month or so - probably some other stuff I forget - progress has been made.

Intel 10600K/10700K/10900K NVIDIA 2080Ti 32 GB 3200 CL14-14-14-3X / 3600 CL16-16-16-3X 2TB NVME (CPU channel connected) Tune to taste/budget.

Can someone provide a pointer on how to make these aircraft work in OB? Works in latest Stable fine but don't appear in the mission editor in when installed for OB.

I'm starting to get into creating "background noise" for my mission setups. Adding random traffic and such. For WWII era I was kind of disappointed there are not many/any civilian aircraft, ships, vehicles. I found the civil and military Douglas DC3s in the user files. Is there any German stuff out there? Ju-52? Fw200? Even military would be ok for those two... civilian air travel wasn't much of thing on the German side during the war I think... Mission to shoot down Göring on tour could be fun. I haven't dug into Cold War and later yet. I've seen some airliners floating around in the forums (just downloaded CAM) but no sea or land stuff. Pointers appreciated.

Also, if you decide to go ahead and install Open Beta (I did - no regrets) the installer will copy your already downloaded modules/terrains from the Stable install and copy to your Open Beta install. This will save you some time and bandwidth. If you are at the end of a low bandwidth connection that's a big deal.

Would love to see this added to the Yak-52!

qMMm9nHFe0Y TL;DW;!!!! Nvidia got cocky with TSMC (7nm) and played them against Samsung (8nm) TSMC told NV to pound sand so new NV products will be 8nm Expect 7nm "Super" refresh within a year 3080Ti is ~30-40% faster than 2080Ti 3080Ti will consume 300W at full trot, 400W OC'ed b/c 8nm AMD is playing humble AMD RDNA2 is expected to be ~40-50% faster than 2080Ti, 2 times faster than current 5700XT. Maybe even more (PS5 rumours based) AMD will be 5nm CPUs in 2021 to bring even more hurt to Intel; video cards to follow by 2022 Cards from both will drop Sept-October Not said in the video - AMD has made TSMC lots of money - probably have a good relationship. Between being flush with cash and not needing to put up with NV's bullsh!t the fallout for NV re: TSMC makes a lot of sense. Interesting times. If Nvidia stays cocky on their pricing I'll be going AMD regardless of AMD "first release driver" issues. :)

The new machine is great. At 1440p I'm seeing 70-90 FPS averages, 4K it's 50-70 FPS. I think both numbers would be higher if I had more VRAM (using 2070 Super). CPU is keeping up no problem - totally GPU bound now. Re: latest OB - might have been a few FPS in it but nothing that makes you say "wow". I'll take whatever ED can do to tune FPS though - not complaining!

I expect he plays a lot of 'The Witcher' and those types of games and is enjoying crazy high FPS in them. ;)

If you have the ability to capture what the VRAM is doing while flying low over a densely populated town like Dover on the Channel Map then we can see how it is being used. A tool like 'MSI Afterburner' allows you to output the captured metrics to a text file and then you can bring it into a spreadsheet to visualize the data. An example, here is taking off from High Halden on the Channel Map in the Spitfire, running a bunch of touch and goes, landing and taking off immediately again and then touring around until landing back at High Halden again. Wrt to is the RAM used vs allocated, I misspoke earlier. Looking back on some other missions I fly they are not all pinned at/near 8GB of VRAM. They vary from pinning at ~6.5GB to 7GB. Makes me think it is only allocating what is required. As far as the requirement for 8GB only in 4K - DCS doesn't follow any of the regular gaming hardware sizing rules of thumb so... My hardware would probably be over 200FPS on a regular game at high res. LOL Anyway, if @Frostlake can generate similar data we might see what the peak VRAM that is used.

Baco, is that north of Tbilisi?

Thanks for posting @Wags so we have the data "handy" to the thread. The big thing with DCS that I think Wags' videos show off is that you need lots of VRAM. This is where the 2080Ti comes into it's own of course. I have monitoring software running on my system at all times that I'm playing DCS these days. VRAM is pinned at 100% from mission start to end no matter what I'm doing (2070 Super w/ 8GB whether 4K or 1440p, 10700K CPU w/ 64GB fast RAM, more or less same DCS config as Wags). My frame rates are noticeably slower over densely populated places like Dover (~40 FPS?). Pretty sure I'd be similar (i.e. ~40 FPS) over Damascus. I think more VRAM would probably clean that up for me. I'm more of A-A and not ground pounder guy so it doesn't bother me except when sightseeing. :) I often wonder how a Radeon VII with 16GB of HBM2 RAM would perform with DCS. Compute is quite decent but not as fast as 2080Ti but it has lots of VRAM... $0.02

I have all the maps - never play Persia or Nevada. Caucasus, Channel and Normandy are in permanent rotation depending on what I'm flying (Jets vs WWII vs Civilian).

I had no intention of getting Syria - expected it to be another tan coloured wasteland like Persia and Nevada. After seeing the vids by Wags - pre-ordered!

If you have enough RAM (~32GB+) try turning off the pagefile and see if that helps.

I can appreciate that it can be done with high power, starting to get there myself, but you need to walk before you can run. The slower you do the take off initially the more time you have to react to the visual cues and build muscle memory. There is no other feedback to tell you what is happening in this sim. This is especially important if your frame rates are low. I'm all for letting new traildragger pilots get in the air with as little frustration as possible so they can build confidence and skills quicker. $0.02

I've taken to manually adding a tiny amount of rudder (with my feet) to control the roll when cruising at a speed where the static trim tabs mentioned above are not effective enough. Crude, but it works. It's basically trimming out the roll with the rudder like you do in the Spit. Keep practicing take offs and landing... after doing non-stop ground ops and touch-n-go practice in the Spit for the last six weeks I find the 109 not a big deal to handle. Another thing for take offs and landing... dont be afraid to use the whole runway. I see tutorials say stuff like 'advance throttle to 8 psi smoothly over 4-5 seconds' or similar. Recipe to torque off into weeds when learning the plane. 4 psi more than enough over say 10 s on a normal length runway. (May be muddling time - not in front of sim). Landings have much less drama if you have the throttle closed just over the fence (no more torque effects to worry about) but enough speed to 'drive in' the aircraft and land on the mains with very little descent rate. A little bit of tail down is good. This all said - I'm still not consistent enough to nail it every time. HTH

Yeah, I think the fall will be a good time to look at GPUs. From my monitoring tools I've determined that 8 GB of VRAM is not enough. I almost wonder if a Radeon VII (16GB HBM2 Memory) would be a good stop gap for DCS in the meantime - if you can find one. At some point I'm going to experiment with dropping textures and such to reduce GPU memory load (i.e. mean below 100% utilization) and see if it makes any difference to frame rates with the card I have now (2070S w/ 8GB VRAM).

For giggles I'd download 'MSI Afterburner' (or whatever tool you normally use) and turn on monitoring of the GPU (write to a log file) and see what the temperatures on the card are doing when it fails. Another thought: could also be that the thermal paste on the card has dried out. I was having lots of issues with my Intel i7-3770K when overclocked. I bought a new cooler and as I was taking it apart realized that the old OEM cooler was most likely starting to fail because the paste had dried out. Things to check before having to spend big money are always good. :)

I've been flying this plane a bit lately (it's great!) but there is something definitely "off" about head movement with TrackIR. All the other aircraft I have don't behave this way. </bump>

Good to know! Thanks!

Did you verify the fans on the card are working? Maybe the fans are dying - need to be refreshed. You should be able to tell just by watching the card while it is running... Might be worth verifying what firmware is flashed to the card also - used card with unknown history - who knows. Just a thought - shame to bin a nice card like a 1080Ti.

Hmm, I was thinking/investigating putting together some Arduinos and/or RPi's to control some linear actuators or hydraulics to do a 6DOF seat setup. That H6 set up - ready to unbox and plug in? Very tempting. I could build it for a lot less if my time is worth nothing - but it isn't so I'll call buying that unit "good value" if it is plug-n-play. I've got some automotive projects in the foreground - maybe next spring...

You can still have a lot of fun in single player, non combat if you treat DCS as 'just a flight simulator'. I do that a lot - bush flying with the Yak-52 and just touring around in the higher powered aircraft. I have both XPlane11 and IL-2 but don't spend any time with them - it's always DCS for me regardless of the type of flying. The UH-1 is a lot of fun also but really needs a proper collective stick I think. I keep getting "lost' in the throttle quadrant due to regular aircraft finger/muscle memory, Ha! TF51 is a great tourer and not that terrible for ground handling in DCS. At this point just have fun with it - see where it leads. :)

I've done it in the past with Assetto Corsa and a Hackintosh VM. The video card used was a NVIDIA GTX660 and AMD RX580 respectively. It works, lots of fiddling. Windows performance increases; FPS performance is identical to Windows since it's the same thing (direct hardware connection into the VM). The VM has the same or better performance as on bare metal. Depends a lot on how many cores and RAM you can commit to the VMs. Of course over-commitment is not advised with a gaming VM. Honestly, I'd just build a machine to run DCS (less fiddly). If you get sucked into DCS (or other games) you'll appreciate having a stand alone machine. That old Dell is not going to be 'super fantastic' for running DCS - even on bare metal - IMO. Try it on bare metal first maybe to see if it's worth bothering with. HTH