Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable

[CptTrips]

This your video Trips? 

Looks like fun.

Makes me want to get the Little Bird free mod and find a great skin and make some Magnum P.I. missions for Marianas.

[AKIron]

I stole TCs bird and took it for a joyride. Very responsive. Maybe too responsive.

Been meaning to get a small touchscreen monitor and finally pulled the trigger. Took a bit of configuring and troubleshooting to get it working properly with DCS and Helios. Video tomorrow. Maybe.

[Tumor]

Eagler (or anyone else seeking info), you might want to check out Discord.  This is one of the more current ways players communicate about games.  Not only does Discord serve as a forum, but it also has chat, voice, and video sharing.  Sad that there is no AH Discord.  Forums are left over for us old dudes!  Here is a link to VR Vive settings.

https://discord.gg/mrXQKdNz

Hope this helps.

Didn't even occur to me that AH still doesn't have a Discord 

[CptTrips]

Didn't even occur to me that AH still doesn't have a Discord 

Half here would refuse to signup.

What's next? Twitter and Facebook?

[GasTeddy]

Half here would refuse to signup.

What's next? Twitter and Facebook?

TikTok, of course!              The uncrowned royal of all the manure spreaders in the slough called social media.

[RichardDarkwood]

Didn't even occur to me that AH still doesn't have a Discord 

Several player groups have discord.

[Eagler]

Didn't even occur to me that AH still doesn't have a Discord 

Never used it myself

I am using multi thread exe

I'll check those settings again

Eagler

[edge12674]

Didn't even occur to me that AH still doesn't have a Discord 

I didn't learn about Discord till I went to DCS.  Pretty useful.  Friend had me screen share and guided me step by step with some issues when I was starting out.  I read posts from DCS and Pimax reps on a daily basis.  A lot of tech problems I have run into were solved within minutes thanks to the chat feature. Last week my squad was practicing tactical formation turns  (shackle, etc.) with our flight lead, who was a real life RAF Tornado pilot.  After the flying session we went to our Discord channel and he replayed the "TacView" (another awesome program) going over it in a detailed debrief with Q&A on the spot.

Social media has become even more important as the flight sims get more advanced.

[RichardDarkwood]

Tacview works well but not always. In some of the PvP servers tacview jams up the game and allows stutters.

SPS Contention and ECW are a couple examples. The script they are running in some PvP missions does not jive well with tacview.

[AKIron]

AH has this place which serves in lieu of Discord but Discord might draw more attention. For DCS squads, Discord is a great meeting place.

An aside, I started to delete my F-14 AB video because of my antics but it got a lot of views in 3 days, for me a lot anyhow. Wife said my antics are a plus. I'll shout out a plug for AH when I get famous. 

[AKIron]

Never used it myself

I am using multi thread exe

I'll check those settings again

Eagler

I think the default DCS pixel density is .9. Before upgrading brother was using the default with his Reverb G2 and it worked fine. He had a Ryzen 7 3800X, RTX 3070, 32GB Ram. Try .7 on the pixel density.

[AKIron]

BTW, we've been enjoying the Masters of the Air series but the CGI in the last episode just plain sucked, imo.

(Too lazy to switch threads)

[AKIron]

Something that can affect any program running multi-threaded, CPU parking. Seems to affect Intel CPUs more than AMD but may apply to both.

[AKIron]

Bought a little touch screen monitor. Works great with DCS and Helios. The cockpits on the touch screen are fixed and all the switches and displays work.



https://ibb.co/fFFSfBg

[Spikes]

Didn't even occur to me that AH still doesn't have a Discord 

I made one but never went forward with advertising it. I was not sure how moderation would go and assumed there would be some expected level of tech support/game help offered and not sure who from here that typically helps people out would be willing to migrate to a Discord and hang out. Same with reddit, to be honest.