Justin1Ntime

Yeah, its long overdue for an upgrade, that is for sure. I was just waiting on the new Ryzen or 13th Gen CPUs to come out before pulling the trigger. Its an 4 core 8 thread processor. Its a 6700 I think. I know its Skylake.

I have. a I7 6600 Skylake processor. Its quite a few years old and I have it overclocked to 4.6Ghz from 4.2Ghz. I have 32 Gb of Ram running XMP Profile on Windows 10. It could be QuestLink,I didnt think of that. I wonder if I try to switch to Air Link maybe that might help too. I think I need to figure out how to use OpenXR toolkit. I have never used that before. I will also try to turn down the RR and see if that helps. Maybe set it back to 1.0. I will give it a try tonight. Oh yeah I am running DCS standalone. I did not purchase vai steam. I took all overclocking off of my GPU and that didnt make a difference

HI quick question. I have a 3080TI and Quest 2 set on RR 1.6. I have semi high settings in DCS. I notice that my GPU usage is bouncing from 95% to 47%. it looks like a sawblade when I look at the stats after my game is over. When GPU usage sinks so does the frame rate. I go from 60FPS to 35FPS. its bouncing all over the place. When I play other titles it pretty much stays at 90 - 100 percent usage for most of the game. Does anybody know what is going on here?

Yep thats it.

I must be missing something. In mission editor I cant have my F16 Take off from parking cold. I can only do hot, runway, ramp. I am sure I am doing something wrong.

Hi, when I jump into VR with the F16 and I renter the headset it seems like it is way to far forward. I have to Lean forward and then recenter so when I sit back I can see the throttle to the left and the stick to the right. Is there any way to make a default position for VR so I don't have to do this every time?

Thanks steelfalcon for the tip

Is there a way to drop more than 2 GBU 12s? I can select single or pair but can I drop all 6 at once? I cant find the setting to select more than 2.

Thanks that is what I needed. With the SA15 its fast. It pops up it radar then I see the spike and then the launch just as fast.

How do you turn on your RWR?

I have placed some SA-15s out in the field in mission editor. MY f16 RWR does not show them at all or give me any kind of warning. When I play the Syria map gauntlet it shows the SA15 and when a missel is fired I am getting all kinds of warnings. What am I doing wrong? Am I forgetting to turn something on?

Thanks guys. These where the answers I was looking for. Being I am not running into issues and its butter smooth most of the time I will stay where I am at. I am running 3080Ti and with a +145 core clock and +1000 on the Ram I am seeing my GPU is processing at 2100Mhz and 45 FPS while playing DCS. Occasionally, I will see it spike to 2115Mhz. I do have my GPU fans at 100%. Its not quiet that is for sure. I am going to hold off on the 3090 and see what comes of the new 4000 series. Again Thanks a ton for the responses. This has really helped me figure out what I need to do next.

I have a 3080Ti with 12gb of Vram. I notice when playing in VR on high setting I am seeing mem utilization around 12100 and everything seems to be running fine all though its in the yellow in my MSI. For those of you that have 3090 can you use any more than 12Gb of vram in DCS being you have 24Gb or is it maxing out at 12 for you as well?

Ok I just got it to work. I noticed that even though I set everything up to 30000 ft, task AWACS, 400 knots, Freq 265 nothing worked. I found him still at 6k feet which did not match the ALT I gave him and was like WTF are you doing this low. Deleted the AWACS and re-added him to the mission and now its working fine. God I wish I had done that last night. All though this was a weird issue MAC, Excorcet, Bandit, and Pete thanks a ton for the ideas and help. I learned alot trying to figure out this issue.

I know its me that has to be doing something wrong. I added AWACS task and when I take off still no option to contact AWACS. I just dont know what else to do here. I got the AWACS on the map. I have assigned a feq of 265. I have him orbiting a way point. I have a bullseye. My way points say a enroute of task of AWACS. I take off I have the option to contact everybody but the AWACS. I tried using manual and punching in 265 like I do when I contact the carrier ( different feq obviously) and still no option. Do i need to turn on some kind of transmit switch? Is it a bug?

Exorcet do you place him close to the action or have him orbit way far away?

Thanks so much guys, not a dumb question at all. I didnt know you had to do that. I just put him on the map and ordered him to orbit a few way points. I just clicked on my AWACS and added a enroute task of AWACS but cant test it as I have to go to work. is that all I have to do? A few questions how far out can he be from the action. I have him about 10 - 20 miles off shore at 20k feet. The action is set overland at 6k feet. What are the limits of the AWACS so I dont put him too far out and too high and miss seeing anything?

Ok I have set my com to to channel 1 AWACS is freq 265. I created a channel program of 265 on com 1. I can hear overload saying he is passing way points. Its when I bring up the Comm 1 communications it does not have the AWACS in there. I see everything else, ATC, wingman etc. I can communicate with my carrier but I don't have any option to talk to the AWACS. I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I have watched a ton of videos but there isnt an option for AWACS for me. I have even turned easy communications on and off and nothing. Any thoughts on how to get the AWACS to be listed in my COM 1 menu selection?

I cant find a good video to show me how to communicate with my AWACS on the f18. I have it set up on my mission. I have easy communications on with a hot key of \. I have the channel set to 111.110. I kick off a new mission. I hit the rounded button on the left to turn on the com 1 radio. I then enter 111.110 and hit the enter. I push the \ and I don't see a way to communicate with the AWACS. I can communicate to my wing man and all the other stuff but I dont see AWACS. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Justion

LOL DRWatson. "Energy of your aircraft is key, worst thing you can do (in a medium range fight) is start evasive turns and firing out counter measures the moment you detect a missile launch." Yeah I was doing that every run and is a good description of me in full on panic mode hearing alarms and my wing man yelling missile at x o'clock. Yeah I am a big CAP fan he has taught me how to fly and kill almost every thing on the ground. I just avoided any A2A as I got sucked in watching laser guided bombs and JSOWS blowing things up so I got started there. I just finished his DL / SA 2 part video. Going to give all that a try tonight. I like the idea of getting rid of the wing man. I was relying on him to help me out so I could make it to way point 2 if I ran out of missiles but sometimes as I am trying to practice he shoots down the plane I was trying to find it. The one on one sound more manageable. That way I dont have 2 guys shooting at me. I was watching Spudknocker for missile avoidance tactics and A2A maneuvering late last night. Good stuff there too. When you say use the F6 are you saying you can steer your AMRAAMs? Stearmandriver I knew it was for the TV guided missiles. I thought that is what you were talking about. I just associated the two DL and DL POD. Good call out. I was going to put it on but will skip that step. One other question. I keep getting Radar Jammed I have not logged in this AM to look but is there a place to turn that off? Thats annoying I am waiting for my missel to go pitbull then I get jammed on every run and it says "lost" . After watching CAP it looks like I got to burn through it but I am reluctant to do anything when they are jamming me as I cant see where they are at and I know a missile is coming. Or maybe when I start using SA that will help with that. Or I guess I will know how long I got with DR Watsons method of learning when to / not to turn with a bit of practice.

Cool Stearmandriver. I have not seen that AZ / EL before. Just googled it. Thats kind of cool. Typically I have my stores page on there which is a waist in A2A. I will try substituting with AL / EL. Im still struggling with sirens going off, missiles being shot at me, trying to maneuver, wandering where my wing man is , dealing with my wing man calling out bad guys and missiles at 12 o-clock, (by the way when he does that I am like where the hell is 12 o-clock when I am upside down headed toward the ground ) using my countermeasures in a panic, changing missile type, and then there is, oh yeah, trying to keep an eye on where the bad guys are all at the same time. This is going to take a lot of practice and patience Slowly making progress here. I know others in this thread recommended SA. Just have not started down that path but its time. So I am also going to load up the DL pod and add that as well. Going to need to google how to use the DL pod now. All good advice. Going back to drones so I can get quick on changing all this stuff, and understand what I am looking at on the fly while looking around and keeping an eye on the bad guys.

I see the advantages of moving the radar you can keep them locked. I died a few times after the post above but now I am watching maneuvering videos. I did have a few good runs though.

Wow what a difference and thanks a ton guys. I didn't have to tweak my radar while I am sure thats important DR watson for a long range engagement and I will work on that but I was missing the basics. I was just using the wrong type of radar. I solely relied on TWS and RWS in all situations and after using LACQ and Boresight I polished off bad guy number one from quite a few miles out and kept a lock the entire time but he got a missile off (typical). After my 120 missile went pitbull but I turned down and per everybody's advice I pulled my head up off the radar screen and out of the cockpit and looked around while using my countermeasures to stop missile 1. Low and behold Bad guy number two was below me going the opposite direction (which I would have missed relying on my TWS radar like before) I looked around and quickly locked on to the second guy coming at me at a 1000 or so feet lower than me and in a matter of seconds. (no F10 needed this time) Keeping my head out of the cockpit, I kept a lock turned into him and switched to AIM9x and boom he was gone. The reason I was not getting the lock warning, is I didnt turn it on. My bad on that one. I thought it was on by default and didn't know there was even a power button. So with everybody's help I was able to put missiles back on the bad guys and get rid of labels and quickly deal with them. My computer wing man FINALLY!!! owes me one. I guess I need to spend less time with all the different A2G missiles and bombs (which is about all I have done mostly in the last year tring each and every one out. FYI Big Lazer guided bomb fan here) and start watching A2A videos Thanks for everybody's help.

All great advice guys appreciate the response. Going to turn labels back on and practice some more. I think I am relying on my TWS radar WAY WAY too much and your right Tholozor I need to practice target acquisition by looking around more when in combat. I am going to get rid of the bad guys AMMO and increase their fuel so I can practice targeting them without dying. Oozler do you ever use the Helmet Acq Mode? That seems like it would be easier initially than trying to line everything up in the heads up display. While in order to fire my AIMs I need to use boresight on the HUD as my AIMs cannot make that kind of a turn If I am looking to the left, right, up, down. it seems like if I lose track using the helmet would simplify finding them being the radar follows my helmet right?

Thanks guys, Yeah I was familiar with the cone. I watched enough youtube that that is burned into my brain. I think I need to pay attention more my alt vs theirs. I noticed one time I was super low. Thanks for the tip Oozler. As far as Kang you are right. About the time I see the white smoke I am in full on panic mode wandering why isnt this thing in alarm. Now i know and that makes sense I am going to change their loadout. How is everybody acquiring targets again? So I avoid the first fired missile by killing the first Jet then turning and using counter measures but many times I get killed just trying to find where the 2nd guy went. I cant even find my wing man again most of the time. Do you just put yourself into a turn and keep looking at radar? Or are you looking around more for a visual targets. It seems when I am going up against 2 I kill the first guy and lose sight of the second guy. Then my wing man starts firing and I have no idea where they are at. The only way I can find them is to push F10 (which seems to take to long) and the second bad guys missile seems to find me during that time . I cant figure out how to find the second bad guy or even my wing man after the fighting starts. Glad he wasn't relying on me to save his bacon