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I just found the same thing. I assume it needs updating but its really not acceptable. It is still for sale and they are taking money for it.

I am having the same problem. An installation repair doesn't help. Update: My open beta install would not load while the release version still worked fine. Deleted the A4E and MB339 mods and it started right away.

Last month I contacted support and got no response for 2 weeks until they wanted to charge my card for a preorder and I mentioned it. This month I needed a new USB cable and they got back to me in only a day or two, but then said they would send me an invoice to pay for the cable. That was a week ago. I have just bought the parts to fix it myself rather than wait however long it takes to let me pay, then another week or so for it to arrive. Then I'll have a spare too. This was why I suggested they create a spare parts section of the web shop for simple things like cables but they shot it down as too hard or impossible.

I buy Digital COMBAT Sim modules, not second job simulator modules. The designers of the modules and campaigns are doing what satisfies most users. if you think most people sit and cold start the bird every time you are seriously mistaken, let alone realistic alignment times and so on. As has been said already the option to edit the missions to cold start is available and very very simple. On the other hand just saying "oh well auto start is there so just make everyone start cold completely misses the point that Autostart is quite slow, and slower than doing it yourself in many cases. So really that's just saying it should all be done my way. Writing off other players as less than with "Air Quake" and such references is the sort of lame, pathetic elitism that gives flight simming a bad name and drives many away. You press buttons the right way? Wow. If you think that's a good thing you're wrong. As complexity and cost to produce ever increase with improving technology we can either try to increase the player base or watch it languish in increasingly outdated appearance. Its really that simple.

Exactly, that was the point. Althought, simply returning the price level to what it was before a massive price rise doesn't make it a bargain. Just what you got for your money before. Just look at the comment above "Not much more than a 2080ti" makes it worth the money somehow. Its still a $1500+US card that is not much better than an $800 card. Nvidia have successfully mind melded people into thinking they are getting a bargain.

Nobody should have been surprised that the RTX 3080 ended up being "only" 30% faster than the 2080ti ... that's the standard bump in performance from every generation. It was just a miracle that they decided to drop the prices back to sensible levels. (OK, maybe less offensive levels rather than sensible) I'm glad I didn't cave in and buy a 2080ti The 3090 will not be a large jump over the 3080 at all. Just look at the hardware. This isn't like GTX 1080 VS 1080ti where the 1080 had the smaller GP104 chip and the 1080ti had the full fat GP102, or like 2080 (TU104) VS 2080ti (TU102). This is more like 1080ti vs Titan where both used the GP102. The 3080 and 3090 both have the same GA102 chip with slightly different specs and memory, that's all. Forget the names that they change around all the time to bamboozle noobs or the prices they try to charge suckers, Just look at the silicon. The Titan was never worth its extra price for gaming and neither will the 3090. Nvidia even said it in the launch. The 3080 is for gaming and the 3090 for other applications.

I ordered a Constellation Alpha 30th July, still in processing and haven't been charged. I contacted support 2 weeks ago for an idea of approximate timeline and haven't had a reply. Edit: Of course immediately after I write that I got an email saying I had been charged for the grip and it should be just a couple weeks away. They never did bother to answer the support ticket about adding a control panel to the order so I gave up on it. I'll make my own button box just for the fun of it and maybe lock again when the panel with the gear handle becomes available. No doubt that will be just after the Alpha ships. I honestly think I preferred the old system. With regard to the posts just above, it might have to do with the fact that the Warbrd was the one item they seemed to be able to consistently keep in stock before the new system.

I may of course be wrong but that looks very much to me like a part that just clamps on to the throttle arms, similar to the project a few posts above. If so it should mean that the new part could be made available. I certainly hope so as after all the waiting and huge expense for these devices I have now, to see them rendered second best so soon would be extremely frustrating. I really want to buy a button box but would the same thing keep happening?

Is this the same sort of stuff used in the X56 throttle friction system?

Interesting You seem to have a new version of the stick mount interface. Mine is as shown on the website with the smooth threaded stick mount and pin plug that screws in from the top, where yours has a castellated stick mount thread and pin plug that appears to now mount from underneath. Man they iterate on these things a lot. Mine is only a couple months older.

Near full SSD's are very unhappy SSD's. The miniature computer in the drive uses very complex algorithms and clever firmware to ensure that wear is evenly distributed between all the cells. With only a small free space this becomes very difficult and the drive will slow down before eventually kicking the bucket early. Its very different to old school spinning rust. So yes, you should absolutely look at getting a bigger drive as rapid storage has become one of the most important factors in modern systems. It needn't be anything expensive as gaming doesn't take advantage of the really high level stuff. Its just important to have the space.

Lol

And downloading!! I've been really looking forward to this one. Now I just have to wait while our Australian "high speed internet" downloads it at 5Mb a second for 50GB. Thanks Malcolm Turnbull! Mr broadband my butt. I'm glad your own party knifed you for a cretin like Morrison. Anyway, these are the joys of third world internet in a first world country. We could have had fibre to the premises, but no, We can't have anything nice because its Australia.

I am normally not one of those people who always promote waiting for new hardware that is "just around the corner". Its usually a matter of waiting months or weeks for announcement and release, then more waiting because the prices are absurd so just wait till the competition releases their new stuff and the price will drop ... and on and on it goes. Having said that, right now is a particularly bad time to buy new hardware, especially Intel. New graphics cards are very very close to being revealed, and there is a chance that because the new cards will be PCIe Gen 4 and Intel is still stuck on gen 3, that they won't be able to get the best from them. Generational changes are always things you don't want to get stuck on the wrong side of, even if only for resale reasons and/or buying right before a big price drop. Supposedly Nvidia is livid that they might have to use AMD systems to show the potential of their cards. I would look for some used hardware for right now and save as much as possible for upgrades later. At the moment its a perfect storm of inflated prices because of the pandemic, when usually prices would be dropping to clear out the stock to make way for the new. There is a high likelyhood of an i5 and 2070 ageing very rapidly for the price they command right now.

Mine doesn't behave like that, obviously. What does the windows controllers tab show? Have you tried re calibrating everything? If it looks wacky in windows you could use the windows recalibration tool or there is a hardware/ firmware recalibration routine. https://support.logi.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360025175874--FAQ-X56-Space-Flight-H-O-T-A-S-