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That's a fair point. I absolutely love having boxed stuff and I remember seeing someone posting a photo of his boxes of that other sim (the early series though) placed in a bookshelf right next to Shakespeare and alike. You simply can't put such memes on the internet today with some product keys on an online account you aren't even shown anymore. Especially the manuals of DCS modules get updated after the modules get updated themselves, and it takes quite a while to get a module out of EA. Not even to mention that they won't even be feature complete by then (ref Hornet roadmap to get a live example of that). I wouldn't wanna buy a manual (with a box around it) that's outdated a month or two later. On the pro side, nowadays you don't need more and bigger rooms anymore for your games collection, instead you need that for having a decent 360° roomscale playspace for VR without setting off the guardian after like half a step from the centre.

Now with HAGS off the framerate literally is cut in half and the stuttering got worse, but less long freezes. And it even made my microphones stop picking up. I stay with my statement: Microsoft sucks. Was all great on 1909, but since you can't prevent it from updating... looks like I'm grounded for the time being. -------- Edit: ------------------------------------------------- Looks like I got the right clue there with that mike not picking up. Something was pegging it's recording volume down to 0. As soon as I tried to pull it up, it would just went down to the bottom again, similar to an axis mapping in DCS that you'd not be aware of. And it was the case for all mikes. Well, since I had to update the driver software of my onboad audio (VIA HD) which was quite a thrill already (the installer would just crash and I had to follow that guide: https://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/tools-anwendungen-und-sicherheit/507129-tutorial-via-hd-audiotreiber-hd-vdeck-zum-laufen-bringen.html ), I just decided to try shutting down that VDeck software, which the old version of never ran on Win 10 and the new one is specifically made for that OS (go figure!), et voila, I could turn up my mikes again. So I just went into my task manager, entered the autostart tab and disabled that thing altogether from starting on bootup. Don't seem to need it anyway, I just use that device for my headset which works without that tool as well. Then I decided to try DCS again, but in Pancake first. Viper at Ramat David, ~95fps on the ground, no stutters when looking around. Neither when flying. Restart the sim in VR, same flight. Down to 22fps again, but smooth at least. As soon as I left the base, I was pretty much at 45fps, sometimes it went down to 40. Still smooth. Pretty much what I had in 1909. Well... I still don't like their forced updates and those "hey, THAT does NOT run anymore now!" messages which made me replace the audio driver... At least I could sort it rather quickly... could have spent days over days trying every single setting instead

Just had the 2004 update forced on me and it literally wiped all registry changes I made and reset most Windows settings to default as it it was a new install. Well, that's how MS sucks hard. And it brought a ton of issues that I had to deal with first, it's literaly an eternal pre-alpha. But well, since you can't stay on old versions anyway... Installed the 452.06 drivers (with that complete reinstall option), went through all the driver settings again and tried to run with HAGS on for the time being, especially since that is being recommended to run that other new sim, but it didn't help me any. Anyway, DCS 54046 has some very nasty freezes of like 3-5 seconds where literally nothing happens at all an the GPU drops down to 0% as well as the CPU, and I just guess it's the HAGS. I hope so to say the least... too many things have changed since I ran it the last time; 451.67 driver, 1909, DCS 53756 and maybe I didn't get exactly the same nVidia settings, and of course, HAGS, also had to do a driver update to my onboards, but since I don't use that I guess it doesn't have any impact, but you never know.

Does look quite decent there. It's rare to see someone using a Cosmos. That thing has been talked down a lot, for valid reasons. But I guess when you're not using the hand controllers for simming, it's OK, even though it's still quite pricy as all the HTC ones are. The flip-up design can be useful though if you take notes or wanna have access to the pdf files you might need a look at sometimes.

Literally not the best thing you could do. Go ahead and set a fixed size instead like 8192 - 8192 at least. To get the correct value, just multiply the GB you want by 1024. I also added one as I'm also one of those "no swap" guys (well, just 2GB for the beginning as I'm a little tight on free space) to see it it already prevents Windows from closing things even when there's still like 8-9GB free as that happened recently while just flying over the Syria map without any assets on it. If you can afford to have more, go for 16384 instead, or even 32768. More than that shouldn't be of any use really. But having Windows manage it means it will constantly be resized which just isn't great since it always costs valuable performance when it does that.

Literally no news at all, but yes, the clouds there don't look like that in my DCS, so that must be the news slipped in there. And it does look promising. That other sim sure has some awesome clouds, but let me just drop a meme on how (not so) well it actually runs... I mean, we have been complaining about DCS' VR performance in the past when we haven't seen it all yet.

Thanks, the search for "kneeboard" somehow didn't turn it up, probably because of that \ in the title.

I put some custom pages in Mods\terrains\Syria\Kneeboard (via JSGME) as I did with the other maps, but they won't load up... works well on the others.

I've seen that somewhere else where there was like 2 spots I could place a MiG-29 on, but it didn't allow me to put them into the shelters at all. Don't know on top of my head where it was though. Just as a not to have this checked in general, not just for Rayak.

Which?

Maybe the default one with thicker lines would do it already as well, and it would be closer to the original one, which is literally invisible especially in VR.

No matter what you'd do or where you're at, there's always that cheeky git. Giving in to him is the wrong way to go.

Just did a free flight on an empty map, starting at Ramat David in the 16C, going north low at eco fuel rate, in order to see the landscape. What a great job! But when I just entered the Beqaa Valley, passing Lake Qaraoun, by DCS, Oculus and Target GUI crashed up, so basically Windows 10 again was killing things because it thought it was out of memory at a point where I still had 9GB free. Man, this OS sucks balls like nothing else! I mean, can't it just crash things when it's actually out of mem? Guess I'll have to run a swapfile now for the time being. Might just try having it on a boot-time ramdisk if that prevents Windows from closing things prematurely. Would at least keep the speed up and write cycles off the SSDs. So yes, this map is rather heavy on the mem. I need a new rig with 2x 32GB in it (anyway, long overdue already and a new thing needs to have more mem than the one before, especially after 8 long years)

Interested as well, just flew there and it was at MSL instead of below. Still looking great though.

IMHO the outside sounds are meh now... just sounds like the Tomcat now. F3 is really boring now, before the change it actually sounded very similar to airshow footage, now it's just a loud roaring with absolutely no dynamic at it. BTW while we're at it, what happened to this? https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=227921&highlight=turboprop That sounded kinda awesome, especially in F3, and ED said it was correct according to the SMEs, but still it got removed at some point unknown to me. Does ED just give in to the whiners here? It's rather weird when people complain, they say it's correct as is and then out of a sudden, do a 180. Especially on audio which is nothing you could provide any data on pdf for.

Looks great. Fun fact: Trying to see places like this on Google Maps, but the Satelite Imagery of that general area (I mean Israel, Syria etc, not just that air base, Haifa for example isn't any better) seems to be much worse even than North Korea... I mean, the team had to work off of that. Amazing.

Don't forget the brain melting "huh" module there Flying rotaries just rocks on this map.

The only time when SLI was worth it was when it still was a 3dfx thing. As others said, doesn't work with VR, doesn't work with DCS, so at least here it's it's just a waste of money. You'd be better off buying me a 2080ti instead and have my eternal gratitude BTW back in the day I had the X1800XT and bought a CrossFire Master later on which literally doubled my frame rate in most games. That worked! Never heard that about nVidia multi-GPU solutions though...

They all show up. But after messing around I noticed just something weird going on. When clicking those links, absolutely blank tabs open and nothing happens. But then, when clicking the address bar and hitting enter, the download dialogue pops up and I could get the files. Usually that happens without further ado...

Just had a glance at the map, and came across this thread. Fun thing is that in DCS "Kobuleti" is actually Meria, and I remember seeing pictures of it with bomb craters, but those have been replaced. It's like this now: https://www.google.de/maps/@41.9293541,41.8638113,1818m/data=!3m1!1e3 Reason for checking simply was I couldn't find that airbase in the other sim to take off from... The moment you realize you're flying over a historic map almost on a daily basis in DCS

Finally someone did a recording of that. I have that in the loadout screens as well, all modules, also affects the comms menus. And the worst thing, I can't get rid of that in the Rift, even when disabling ASW completely either via ODT or OTT. Proves again that the fps lock indeed is caused by ASW somehow being forced on. When using the Quest via VD, I don't see this at all, but my toaster doesn't handle the higher res of that in DCS very well which is why I'd still like to use the CV1 until I get a PC.

I have yet to do this, just used the fuel slider and livery selector so far. I'll se how it behaves on my end tomorrow. The least I can say, the new look is 1000x better, as the old one was extremely hard to see in VR. Have you ever done a right click on a program sitting in the task bar under Windows 10? Takes ages to open that menu (well, actually it's something like 2s, but it feels like an eternity), was instant in all Win versions with those I operated on before (95B, 98, 98SE, ME, 2k, NT 4, XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, Server 2003, Server 2008). Shift+rmb which opens up the old menu is instant though just like in the old versions...

Finally the RAM is being used... TBH this map is like 3 times the amount of one of the others. That's kinda expected... I did that already ages ago in MS Office. Every third word you write or number you enter, hit Ctrl+S. You will not regret it, at the latest when you ever try to use any professional Adobe software. Those literally love to crash up all day long.

Just flew around Haifa in the Huey, was pretty much locked at 45, some spikes to 90 when facing the sea and still a bit of landscape and buildings within FOV. 3570k @4.4, 32GB, 1080, CV1, no PD/AA/SS, settings mid-highish. Basically, not worse than any of the other maps. And I do see like 30fps only at Senaki still. That airport is the Bermuda Triangle of FPS for sure. But that's exactly why I usually take my numbers from there since it'S rather demanding even without having units active. I had some stutters though, but they were rather short.

He didn't do his Lester though...