Project 10 - DCS: A-10C Warthog Promo!

[power5]

:megalol:

 

Been pondering something similar: Dawdling about at Angels 30 and spotting a Shark hovering between buildings seeking cover/lying in ambush. Drop a JDAM, Split-S and beat the JDAM down, give it about ten or so seconds to impact and then slowly saunter past the Shark, taking special care to wave seconds before impact while he frantically struggles about lining up a cannon/vikhr firing solution in an attempt to teach the Hog-driver a lesson in humility :D

 

Pfft, GA couldn't hit the formation of 2 BS at sea level with his huge GAU spewing hundreds of rounds from 6 o clock high. :) They were moving though and the GAU has no splash area on impact. Were you going to try the loop de loop bomb drop from the other thread? Will be funny when you end up bombing yourself... :P :joystick: :D

[GGTharos]

He was tormenting them on purpose.

 

And BTW ... I've already tried the A-10 v Ka-50 thing with another player ... the shark, when both aircraft are used correctly, really doesn't have much of a chance.

[Boberro]

It won't save you from being killed either by my gun or Vikhr :D

i promised you that long time ago...

[Druid_]

Ok so back to DX9c with Shader 3.0 Support. Shame really as DX11 is the way to go with 3D high quality texture modelling, understand your reasons however, anyway moving on... So 2 questions which should be fairly easy to answer now :-

 

1) Does a10c utilise DX9c multi-threaded resource handling ?

2) What kind of frame rates can we expect with ALL options enabled at MAX/FULL? I know this is PC specific but you must have run some tests so quote Spec and frame rates. Ballpark figures are also fine.

 

I have this niggling feeling that the late move to DX11 was due to frame rates. I have to lol, all of the praise for reverting back to dx9 will quickly turn to discontent when the same ppl realise they can't run it at max eye candy levels.

[GGTharos]

I would venture to guess that rather than frame rates, it had to do with time to implement. They started to, realized it would take too long within the desired release time-frame, and postponed it for the next module.

 

I dunno about reading between the lines here, but ... :)

 

I have this niggling feeling that the late move to DX11 was due to frame rates. I have to lol, all of the praise for reverting back to dx9 will quickly turn to discontent when the same ppl realise they can't run it at max eye candy levels.

[Succellus]

This is good news to me... no delay to finish of DX11 and i don't have to invest in a new graphics card until i decide to :)

 

LOL i hadn t thought of that... its 500bucks less for video hardware. Noe maybe i can dream of upgrading my old q6600 to some i7. This still mean CPU, MtBrd, memory tohught, probably around 700 USD.:mad:

 

I also am glad they arent rushing, DX9 on its fullest is enought for now, and my 7570 should handle the job.

Nobody will be on the mud ala OP arrowhead anyway.

[Druid_]

:megalol:

 

Drop a JDAM, Split-S and beat the JDAM down, give it about ten or so seconds to impact and then slowly saunter past the Shark ....

 

Whilst your wingman quickly inputs your laser code and puts a spot on you. Supriiise !! Now that would be funny and a lesson in humility.

[Succellus]

When they find they actually need to learn how the jet operates in RL, they'll move on. :lol:

 

My bets are with you.

Its much more probably such people to adhere to WW2 and one day if hooked they ll adhere to modern fighter.

 

Most os us DCS user are tied on some way to be "Up There" only if we are frustrated, but passionate pilots as i am.(beyond skydiver)

[GGTharos]

Unlikely. You might think the hog is slow, but it's too fast for an LGB to track ;)

[159th_Viper]

Whilst your wingman quickly inputs your laser code and puts a spot on you. Supriiise !!

 

JDAM ;)

 

:D

[sobek]

JDAM ;)

 

JDAM+moving target=EPIC FAIL :D

[159th_Viper]

JDAM+moving target=EPIC FAIL :D

 

 

Getting tired of Spoon-feeding today so I'll just quote the relevant section........:P

 

 

......and spotting a Shark hovering between buildings seeking cover/lying in ambush.....

[power5]

Cluster bomb for the easy win. Though probably dangerous to try and lob one in the air and try to beat it to the target area.

 

Has anyone tried a back flip bomb delivery in game? Embarrassed that I never thought to try to do that in any flight sim.

[Succellus]

Cluster bomb for the easy win. Though probably dangerous to try and lob one in the air and try to beat it to the target area.

 

Has anyone tried a back flip bomb delivery in game? Embarrassed that I never thought to try to do that in any flight sim.

 

NEVER !!! The wai i am lucky it would fall on my head.

 

I prefer the non loop lob, use a lot to bomb navy on WW2 sims. Align low on water, 6 of the floating soap box, start an immelman release finish the immelmann at 180 just look back while the thing is on fire.

[TwoLate]

Although the team has been working hard on DX11 support, there is still a long way to go and it will not be ready in time for A-10C unfortunately. Work continues though and we hope to have it in the next DCS aircraft.

 

As can be seen though, even DX9c looks pretty darn good.

 

This has always been up in the air, and not listed on the A-10C web page for this reason.

 

Graphically looking not much difference, or show stopper between DX9c and 11 but what about performance? Looks like a big hit on performance. With better graphics in A-10 vs Flaming cliffs, I hope the code is more effecient. We might see a harder time to run A-10 then Flaming Cliffs.

 

I was really looking forward to Directx 11 for the performance. Finally a sim that will uitilize the multi GPU and SLI to help off load the CPU. This would have been an Epic as sim's go to have such a detail sim as this will be and also have the performance gain with Directx 11. I hope this would not be like getting a new red wagon for Christmas without the wheels, when you were a kid.

 

 

edit: I forgot the nice feature of 64 bit.

Edited September 23, 2010 by TwoLate
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[Cornbread]

I hope this would not be like getting a new red wagon for Christmas without the wheels, when you were a kid.

 

:huh:

 

DX 11 -- as a possibility -- was publicly only on the table for about two months. According to GA, the current build runs similarly to BS, perhaps a bit smoother. So these kinds of comparisons seem premature and a bit alarmist. Let's not inject into the conversation an undue sense of foreboding.

[TwoLate]

:huh:

 

DX 11 -- as a possibility -- was publicly only on the table for about two months. According to GA, the current build runs similarly to BS, perhaps a bit smoother. So these kinds of comparisons seem premature and a bit alarmist. Let's not inject into the conversation an undue sense of foreboding.

 

I am not running around like chicken little saying the sky is falling. But Dirextx 11 would have been a nice (feature) to the sim for the performance gains alone.

[GGTharos]

At the cost of delaying the sim for several months, probably.

[Python]

Im not too technical in these respects, but can a patch for DX11 not be released for DCS: A10 at a later date? if it does indeed boost performance im sure it would be greatly appreciated by all...

[GGTharos]

'Later' will be devoted to the next module.

[Python]

'Later' will be devoted to the next module.

 

I suppose thats fair enough, will dx11 not be part of the next module though and therefor capable of being intergrated into past modules? im happy enough with Dx9 personally but any boost in fps is always apprciated :)

[power5]

NEVER !!! The wai i am lucky it would fall on my head.

 

I prefer the non loop lob, use a lot to bomb navy on WW2 sims. Align low on water, 6 of the floating soap box, start an immelman release finish the immelmann at 180 just look back while the thing is on fire.

 

Sweet, how do you know when to release? Pretty sure the pip does not know how to figure that one out. Would be seat of the pants like "hitting a womp rat with my old T-16 back home."

[David A Sell]

After watching project 10....

 

First I changed my pants, then I decided no matter what I must run this game fully maxed out with the eye-candy, so my question is what do i realisticly need to upgrade to do this? I have an phenom 9950 quadcore, twin nviddia 9800gtxs and 8 gigs or ram. Suggestions?

 

Will Win 7 make a markable increse over vista 64?

 

Addionally anyone know if that realisticly modeled a10 stick will be out in time for release? And Finally anyone know the expected price on that stick?

 

 

Thanks guys can't wait to fly...

[Duality]

First I changed my pants, then I decided no matter what I must run this game fully maxed out with the eye-candy, so my question is what do i realisticly need to upgrade to do this? I have an phenom 9950 quadcore, twin nviddia 9800gtxs and 8 gigs or ram. Suggestions?

 

Will Win 7 make a markable increse over vista 64?

 

Addionally anyone know if that realisticly modeled a10 stick will be out in time for release? And Finally anyone know the expected price on that stick?

 

 

Thanks guys can't wait to fly...

 

I can't answer your other questions but the latest news on the Thrustmaster Hotas is that it will be $499 USD and is expected to ship on Oct 30th.

[power5]

Stick is very expensive and has no pedals or FFB. There is a thread about it in the input section.

 

The fastest quad or six core. Not sure if the new engine will make that much use of all cores, but the 9950 was not that great. Either grab an AMD thuban 6 core, or an i7 quad and you will need new ram since both are DDR3 CPUs.

 

Win 7 is better than vista not sure about performance increase in games though.