Back Again

Hi guys, I'm away from flight sims for almost 10 years, and wiiling to come back I was wondering if my Lock-On will be still up to date for a good flight sim experience. Also, I will need to buy a new desktop computer, so advices on some spec will be great. My old thrustmaster I understand that must be replaced (most because of "play" in the stick wich is annoying), also some advices for a new one will be appreciated.

Thank you

Fernando

Hi Fernando. Whats is your budget for a new joystick? I highly recommend the acquisition of a HOTAS system. Here are a few references:

Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X ~50€

Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS Hotas ~130€

Logitech (ex-Saitek) X52 Pro ~200€

Logitech (ex-Saitek) X56 Rhino ~300€

Thrustmaster Warthog ~440€ invluding the price of a quite simple rudder

Back after 10 years

Hy Guys. after almost ten years I'm back to fly again the LockOn flight sim. I have FC 2 and need advise on what to d/l to improve the flight simulation.

Thank you!!

Biga

Thanks!!

So, is no needed to prior install Lockon and F/C?

All previously products to A-10C and Ka-50/2 has Phased out All has been update, improve, with new Caucasus Theatre, new aircrafts and with more features.

Welcome back to a new World ;)

Wow Welcome back!

I suggest you download the DCS World 2.5 Open Beta and once confirming that your computer can run it ok I'd start with the FC3 aircraft pack and then work from there.

Oh NO! He's back! He's here! And naked! :D

Oh NO! He's back! He's here! And naked! :D

Hahahahha....Thanks guys!

I'm thinking buying this rig, do you guys beleive I can get 30fps at full Graphics?

Intel® Core™ i5-4670K

MSI Z87-G45 Gaming (Socket 1150) HDMI Intel

Corsair Dominator DDR3 16gb(4x4) 1600MHz

HD 1TB Western Digital

HIS Radeon R9 290 4GB IceQ X2 Turbo

Power Pcyes Electro 600W Certificado 80 Plus Bronze

Case NZXT PHANTOM 530

Led Full Hd Ips 23,8 Widescreen Dell Se2416h Preto

Keyboard and Mouse Wireless

Logitech G Saitek X56

Thanks!

Would consider later vid card and an SSD.

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I just built an upper end flight sim rig for DCS. GFX card should be your last consideration simply because you can upgrade later on when prices drop upon new pending releases this year.

Make sure you get an SSD and, if you can afford it ("bite the bullet") 32 MB of 3200Mhz ram.

My present system gets sustained 30 FPS (Settings High) with some concessions due to GTX 960.

I have an i7 8700K, good MoBo, M.2 SSD and 32MB 3200 MHz ram. Even at 30 FPS things are "glassy" smooth with no micro-stutters or pauses. But the latter results are probably due to the CPU coupled with good quality Ram and the Samsung SSD M.2 NVMe EVO Drive. I can only imagine when I finally upgrade to a GTX 1080ti. Bite the bullet and don`t cheap out on ram. Why do you think Matt Wagner uses 32 MB of Ram in his demos? He does it because he knows it reduces the "beta" micro-stutters. Furthermore, John Venema (Producer and Developer of all ORBX scenery products) insists that SSD eats through scenery (read) files at a phenomenal rate over conventional HDD. The latter means smoother "auto-gen" and faster load times (which you will appreciate when tweaking settings back and forth).

Don`t underestimate M.2 SSD (fast SSD) for today's flight sims they are almost mandatory when combined with other components including a motherboard that supports M.2 SSD. Run the OS and DCS on same SSD boot drive as well with nothing else on it. Devote another drive for all the rest of your games and files. I researched for a year while saving up for my system and finally succumbed to the facts and now have no regrets. Bring it on DCS.

My specs:

Intel: i7 8700K CPU (Noctua NH-D15S Air)

Asus: Hero X Z370 MoBo (Latest Bios Update)

Corsair: Dominator DDR4 32MB 3200MHz Ram (2X16)

Samsung: 960 EVO 500MB M.2 NVMe SSD (for OS and DCS)

Samsung: 850 Pro 512MB 6G Sata 512 (all other programs)

Corsair: HX850 PSU

MSI: GTX 960 4GB Video Card (will upgrade GTX 1080ti down the road to support 4K)

Asus: 4K 29" Monitor (I currently run DCS at (2K)=2560x1440 res)--and it looks stunning!

Note:The CPU hardly breaks a sweat @ (44c) and the GFX card (bottleneck) maxes out at 100% @ (60c) The latter specs are in Nevada with 30-45 FPS and down to 30 over Vegas. In Caucasus the frames are a little lower. All of this , of course, is relative to preferred settings and the current state of beta.

I just built an upper end flight sim rig for DCS. GFX card should be your last consideration simply because you can upgrade later on when prices drop upon new pending releases this year.

 

Make sure you get an SSD and, if you can afford it ("bite the bullet") 32 MB of 3200Mhz ram.

 

My present system gets sustained 30 FPS (Settings High) with some concessions due to GTX 960.

 

I have an i7 8700K, good MoBo, M.2 SSD and 32MB 3200 MHz ram. Even at 30 FPS things are "glassy" smooth with no micro-stutters or pauses. But the latter results are probably due to the CPU coupled with good quality Ram and the Samsung SSD M.2 NVMe EVO Drive. I can only imagine when I finally upgrade to a GTX 1080ti. Bite the bullet and don`t cheap out on ram. Why do you think Matt Wagner uses 32 MB of Ram in his demos? He does it because he knows it reduces the "beta" micro-stutters. Furthermore, John Venema (Producer and Developer of all ORBX scenery products) insists that SSD eats through scenery (read) files at a phenomenal rate over conventional HDD. The latter means smoother "auto-gen" and faster load times (which you will appreciate when tweaking settings back and forth).

 

Don`t underestimate M.2 SSD (fast SSD) for today's flight sims they are almost mandatory when combined with other components including a motherboard that supports M.2 SSD. Run the OS and DCS on same SSD boot drive as well with nothing else on it. Devote another drive for all the rest of your games and files. I researched for a year while saving up for my system and finally succumbed to the facts and now have no regrets. Bring it on DCS.

 

My specs:

 

Intel: i7 8700K CPU (Noctua NH-D15S Air)

Asus: Hero X Z370 MoBo (Latest Bios Update)

Corsair: Dominator DDR4 32MB 3200MHz Ram (2X16)

Samsung: 960 EVO 500MB M.2 NVMe SSD (for OS and DCS)

Samsung: 850 Pro 512MB 6G Sata 512 (all other programs)

Corsair: HX850 PSU

MSI: GTX 960 4GB Video Card (will upgrade GTX 1080ti down the road to support 4K)

Asus: 4K 29" Monitor (I currently run DCS at (2K)=2560x1440 res)--and it looks stunning!

 

Note:The CPU hardly breaks a sweat @ (44c) and the GFX card (bottleneck) maxes out at 100% @ (60c) The latter specs are in Nevada with 30-45 FPS and down to 30 over Vegas. In Caucasus the frames are a little lower. All of this , of course, is relative to preferred settings and the current state of beta.

Thanks! But man this Rig here in Brazil is USD 4K with Hotas and Monitor...too expansive for me!!

I'm thinking buying this rig, do you guys beleive I can get 30fps at full Graphics?

 

Intel® Core™ i5-4670K

MSI Z87-G45 Gaming (Socket 1150) HDMI Intel

Corsair Dominator DDR3 16gb(4x4) 1600MHz

HD 1TB Western Digital

HIS Radeon R9 290 4GB IceQ X2 Turbo

Power Pcyes Electro 600W Certificado 80 Plus Bronze

Case NZXT PHANTOM 530

Led Full Hd Ips 23,8 Widescreen Dell Se2416h Preto

Keyboard and Mouse Wireless

Logitech G Saitek X56

 

Thanks!

You should do well enough with this system. You will probably not be able to max the settings but 30fps with most options on high should be possible in 1080p. The recent 2.5 optimisations are good even for AMD cards.

The graphics card market is bad at the moment though. Demand is high due to the mining craze which pumped the prizes up. DDR memory is right behind.

Yeah. The memory prices are sickening right now. Not to mention the inflated GFX card market. Most people will make due with a middle of the road card for now.

In regards to the 4K monitor: I picked one up at a sale although I still think 1080P is probably the way to go because you need the best hardware all around to run 4K. Having to lower the res of a 4K to 1080P reduces the quality of the monitor image. This is why I run at 2560x1440 (2K). At these settings I get solid 30 FPS in Caucasus and 40+ in Nevada. This is probably due to i7 8700K and 32MB 3200Mhz ram, plus the M.2 NVMe SSD. Don`t underestimate the latter over a 1,200.00 dollar GFX card.

I'm thinking buying this rig, do you guys beleive I can get 30fps at full Graphics?

 

Intel® Core™ i5-4670K

MSI Z87-G45 Gaming (Socket 1150) HDMI Intel

Corsair Dominator DDR3 16gb(4x4) 1600MHz

HD 1TB Western Digital

HIS Radeon R9 290 4GB IceQ X2 Turbo

Power Pcyes Electro 600W Certificado 80 Plus Bronze

Case NZXT PHANTOM 530

Led Full Hd Ips 23,8 Widescreen Dell Se2416h Preto

Keyboard and Mouse Wireless

Logitech G Saitek X56

 

Thanks!

Loose the HD 1TB Western Digital in favor of an SSD or an M.2 NVMe. You will be extremely unhappy with DCS load times using a HD 1TB Western Digital. The difference is huge.

Rig arrives tomorrow, what do I need to have installed, FC 3 and DCS World? I do have flaming Cliffs 2, do I need FC 3 in order to play?

thanks!

Just DCS 2.5, and some sort of HOTAS.

Rig arrives tomorrow, what do I need to have installed, FC 3 and DCS World? I do have flaming Cliffs 2, do I need FC 3 in order to play?

 

thanks!

Just download DCS world 2.5

You get 2 cool planes for free to try out, the Su-25T is a free FC3 aircraft, yes you will need FC3 or you can buy them separately now if you don't want them all.

Have you got an ED account? You may as well signup now, this is how your install will know what you have bought when you login when launching DCS.

Go to www.digitalcombatsimulator.com click the link at the top (Login) then click on (Register)

You will login to the ED store when purchasing modules, maps, campaigns and they will get assigned to your ED account automatically.

Once anything is purchased it will show up in the module manager inside dcs, the button is at the top once DCS has launched.

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As said. Install DCS World. If you own FC3 (not FC2 and previous version) then you will be able to install it. You will have to login to your ED account, as mentioned above.

Rig arrived

Intel Core i7 770K

MB Asus Prime B250M

32GB DDR4

GTX 1050TI

240GB M2 SSD

1TB Seagate

X52 Pro arrives on may 20th, old cougar with his rusty pots is giviming headacke.

Everything is working fine, the Cougar problem was solved with contact cleaner aerosol and is doing well. All graphics settings are at max, but I'm little disapointed comparing the DCS videos with what I got inside the simulator...they are not quite the same. Do I have to install FC3?

............ All graphics settings are at max, but I'm little disapointed[............../QUOTE]

 

 

No wonder...at max settings the 1050Ti will tilt !

 

Try lowering a few settings, MSAA 2x is already enough for that card, shadows to medium or flat, etc...

 

50-60fps is the minimum to have a good feeling while steering an aircraft, more is always better.

Everything is working fine, the Cougar problem was solved with contact cleaner aerosol and is doing well. All graphics settings are at max, but I'm little disapointed comparing the DCS videos with what I got inside the simulator...they are not quite the same. Do I have to install FC3?

You mean not the same in quality?

Running max settings on 1050ti will not work for you. You will have to reduce them a bit. :)

After some experiments in adjusting to get the best FPS, I realized that switching off MSAA improved my frame rates. Also, I leaving Vsync to nvidea not to DCS. My monitor is an Ultra Wide 29" and I'm getting 50-60 FPS inside cockpit. Heatblur medium, Shadows flat.

3 questions:

Why water, although is set on max, is not as good as it shown in DCS videos?

What is MSAA?

How do I get rid of circle with a radar position in the upper righ corner of the screen?

Thanks