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Thanks all. So far no-one has said they have done in previous years. I've decided to give Winwing a miss altogether (they have sale on now) and I'll see if Virpil add a sale next week before spend anything.

SoH changes the first post to reflect the next 30 pages so start there! Very useful although I swapped my G2 for Q2 in the end...

Thanks, yeah I am re-looking at the winwing products. I really want to change the TM warthog stick base, so I was thinking warbrd, but the Orion stick and base is not much more....

Anyone know if this has happened in previous years? I am considering some upgrades, seen that winwing are doing sales this week but just can't convince myself to buy winwing....

No I would only restart if I changed something major like that. But... I change values once the link is established and I do have to press enter after changing every single value for it to be accepted (ODT). Also for quite a few months now I have been running with bitrate, resolution width and dynamic bitrate (airlink only) all at default values of 0 (auto). Oculus is now capable of managing these on its own and for my system I notice no difference to the higher values. I think this is important as you can over do these and just add/force stress rather than allowing the auto options to decide. Beware of some advice that is based on much older versions of oculus software. For a long time you had to set the bitrate or it looked poor, oculus has moved on their software massively in the last year. If you are on a link cable and do want to try changing bitrate, still leave width at 0 this will be automatically set in accordance to bitrate. If you change standard bitrate, then I have found this will break airlink (unusably slow "wobbly" connection) unless it is at 0. I have used airlink and it works just as well as cable for me, also with bitrates on auto. The only reason I now use a link cable is for battery charging!

Yeah you can do it like that. I personally just tune with forced to 45 and tune to a track replay with something I consider to be high stress and representative of what I play. I dont use OTT anymore. personal choice, I use ODT and start + make changes once the link is connected but before DCS is launched. I have noticed that I need to hit enter after changing every value in a dropdown otherwise the don't always work (asw changes especially).

Tornado? I had to do some pinpoint pausing to get that. Initally I thought Mig23 but it is the wrong shape for that.. Just the AI tornado maybe....

Not really. They are both for both eyes. Never really understood the "per eye" data as it's fairly meaningless. If you turn it off then it's just displaying it's max total frame rate. If it's on then it's capped at half your refresh rate and adding in frames to make it appear like double that. This is why you get some ghosting. It's all trade offs. I always run at asw 45 forced as there is little point in letting it bounce around. Just stick to the asw cap is the smoothest experience for me.

You could try disabling link Sharpening (OTT). That will make things less sharp, but reduce a little shimmer/aliasing. Also you can switch MFAA to on in the Nvidia control panel, minor effect, some perf hit. Mostly you will just have to get used to it for now. When you are testing and setting up it can be annoying but you forget once you start doing something properly. Running at high resolutions help but hard, you can knock down the FOV to 0.9/0.8 to help run high res.

Yeah apologies. I may have misread your question. Kneeboard certainly works, but by default is limited to the lack of information which DCS provides. Some 3rd party modules have some nice extra bits. I was sort of answering the Q about getting airports and freq data, as there is currently no way to actually add data to a kneeboard unless you make your own png pages outside of DCS (DIY) or use a mod (VIacom + others I can't remember) Or you can use a premade user file kneeboard card which is a quick DIY version. I am sure ED have something better in the works but I would love it if they would put a text box in the ME that allows text to appear on a kneeboard page for that mission. We could then work with it. Currently the briefing appears only on the ESC briefing menu so not possible to add in co-ords or frequencies from there. If you create a mission with your own tacans, tanker frequencies etc there is no way to read these from anywhere once the mission has started, and no-where to record these details for the kneeboard, hence "forgotten corner". Not a game breaker, but a shame and not something I have never seen appear on a roadmap either. Workarounds are available. I always now include the freq and tacan in my unit names so they are at least available in the f10 menu. Sometimes I may forget to write them into word file, save as png, then add to the relevant aircraft kneeboard folders in saved games.

Use ground moving target (GMT) on the ground radar. Pick them up. SS right (if Radar on right DDI) then uncage mav, and let her go, Its almost too easy. No TGP required, although Im sure you could build that in on the AMPCD if you wanted to check what you are shooting at properly!

Kneeboard pages are currently one of the forgotten corners of DCS core. The only way to use it is DIY, or via an external mod. Still surprises me but that's the way it is for now. There is a great user file which gives all the map data for each map as a kneeboard page(s). This is the quickest workaround but obviously not specific to any mission. Integration with dcs also varies depending on the map which isn't helpful!

For DCS and VR. CPU and GPU choice is the bigger the better! Its really down to what you can afford but if you think you will like it, you will always want more. Spending extra on the initial purchase is cheaper than upgrading after 6months to a year, but yes the best value for performance is low to mid range.

Discussions about the eurofighter..

Welcome! A few quick thoughts, with some possible answers 1. There isn't a playback/replay function. Just a track based rerun where it will run the game again with your inputs recorded. This isn't always accurate and often leads to things not playing back correctly. In the tracks, if the radio menu is open in the top right, the F view keys will not work for changing view. They will also not do the radio as its a track replay. The opening and closing of the radio menu will be done as part of the recorded track so not changeable. It isn't a perfect system at all. 2. Difficult to know what happening. Could be your windows sound settings, if you make changes to controls or volumes makes sure you use the ok button to accept. Anything ese will not save (I do that with keybinds all the time) 3. See above, its a track rerun. Not replay 4. Unsure exactly what your problem is but as you are new I would think this might be down to the tail wheel steering of this aircraft needs a little learning. They may not respond how you think. A rudder doesn't have any authority over direction at low speeds on the ground, and tail wheel needs to be used with independent wheel braking and in the p51 the position of the stick also relates to the permitted movement of the tailwheel - have a look at a tutorial Hope this helps. DCS can take a little getting used to at first.

Not sure if you have covered this elsewhere - apologies if you have. Do you find that DSR improves things? I notice this is only a global setting....

I noticed this yesterday in the manual. I haven't had the rudder trim option selected yet. I was going to try this as it is apparently more realistic? May start to make more sense of the yaw AP switch if the pedals are actually trimmed. I'm sure the dampener switch is only for hover or taxi.

Can you not do this via Nvidia control panel? or an AMD equivalent...

All with all modules in DCS the best one to get is the one you are most interested in. I always fancied flying helicopters so I bought the huey. It was hard, very hard. I never really seemed to get it and always ended up flying a fixed wing instead. Hind came out and I really like the look of that helicopter, bought it. It is also hard but because I really like it I kept going and actually started to get somewhere. I still have hardly anytime in the huey but I can manage that now, because I learned in the hind! I still only really fly he hind though because its all I really want to spend the time in.

I have the opposite! I can do low level over any city on Syria just fine. Of I try Guam I get fps loss. For some reason Marianas is heavy going. I actually think Syria is quite good given the detail it has. Channel map is somewhere in between.

You can try anything for free for two weeks. Helicopters are a challenge. But satisfying when you get it! I recommend!

I think that you should try setting the pixel overides to 0 (leave it as it is when opening) this should be the same as 1 as 0 is the default values. With res set to max in software my 3090 has no headroom to increase this without it having a noticeable impact (lagging!)

Yeah. I didn't think it would work out like that when I watched the event. I'm sure things will be different in a year or so and that this fidelity will be available for less. Q2 is still a great purchase!

A very disappointing and perhaps predictable event from oculus/facebook/meta/whoeveryouarenow No new hardware out soon, one tease of a new social/productivity headset named "Cambria" which will be out at some point next year. Odd that a new fresh branding for a new "open and inclusive" company called the headset Cambria (Analytica?) and the company is called Meta(data?). The laugh is on us.... Slightly disappointing end to four VR events. Only Pimax and Varjo have anything interesting and the Varjo is cheaper and quickest to sale! I think Valve will add something to the space we are interested in but no announcement on their announcements, so hmm. Wait for that. Seems the Q2 is still worth it considering the price.

Its a nice boost to clarity. But comes with a little extra aliasing. Check your Oculus Debug Tool. If you have v33 you will see a new option for link sharpening. Its on Auto by default but maybe try Enabled to ensure its working for you.