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First of all, thanks a lot for your kind suggestions. At the end I bought the ASUS ZenBook I've seen and it delivers many features that I also need for my job. I've quickly installed DCS and ran the F-14 from the SC. I set it up to high with the automatic presets and ran it at 1080. Guys: smooth like silk! It was just a 5 mins cat shot and flight, as I got no time today. It was really amazing! FPS was between 50 and 35. With the proper optimization, it will be awesome! Can't wait to become an active member of this forum! thanks and happy landings!

Thank you very very much, Mike. I am not planning to play in VR, actually. I just would like to play something like this, with TrackIT, rearview mirrors, SuperCarrier, reflections on water and so on...but with a enjoyable FPS: Thanks!

Hallo, this is Tommy from Italy. Hope you're all doing fine in these hard times. I'm pretty new to the DCS world, even if I have a pretty good experience with Flight Simulators and the Tomcat in general (not an actual aviator, unfortunately). Right now I'm playing with 2012 (vintage style, baby!) laptop with an I7 3610 @ 2.30gHZ, 8 GB of RAM and a old but gold GeForce Gt 650M /2GB). As you might imagine, I can play...but with all settings to minimum (except for shadows and cockpit set at Mid). And even with these low settings...I still get goosebumbps shooting the Cat from the default carrier (I got SC, but it runs like at 2FPS) I am an architect and I need a laptop to move around so I must get a powerful one to both work and play. This ASUS I've found looks basically perfect for my job and other hobbies (music and video editing) I would kindly like to know if you think it might also run DCS (basically F-14 + SC, mostly single player) with the level of details of your lovely videos and screenshots. I'm asking because looks like the GeForce 2080 is the best, and this would be equipped with the RTX2060. Unfortunately 2080 laptops cost around 4000+ Euros and they are out of my reach, these days. And they are ugly! Architects like beautiful objects! :) https://www.amazon.com/ZenBook-NanoEdge-i7-9750H-Innovative-Screenpad/dp/B07W5XJ21H?th=1 It's the 32 Gb RAM version. When at home I would plug it into a FullHD 32' screen (lowering the output from 4K to 1080p) Thanks a lot for your suggestions and happy landings!