I Hope to do a release Tusday.

[Animl-AW]

Thats bat crap crazy cool
A year ago I would have never put such faith in AI

Side note
We actually had gut-wrenching text of fear on 200 that an update would ruin their gaming
<blank stare>
Wait! What?!?
<smh>

Ya can’t write this stuff

[CptTrips]

Real men code assembler!   

Maybe, but no one will pay them to do it.

I think programming languages are going out of style completely.

The Spec will be the code, and the syntax is English.  We've been moving up the abstraction ladder for decades trying to get to that.

AI will generate the desired machine code directly for your prefered chip.

[Eagler]

Welcome to the machine..



Is there going to be a release tomorrow...

Eagler

[captain1ma]

all i can think of is space odyssey 2001, dave and hal:

dale(dave): write me this code

Hal(codex) im sorry dale, i cant let you do that!

dale: do it anyway

hal: i cant let you do that, its for your own good!

[AKIron]

Wasn't HAL's fault. Was given conflicting directives.

Ever notice that you get IBM if you increment each letter in HAL by 1?

[Eagler]

I gave it a go..

Me
Hurry up with the cloaking device for my 109g2..

Chatgbt
😂 I’m working on it. Your Bf 109 G-2 cloaking device is apparently still held up in the Luftwaffe procurement department.
Until then: stay low, use the sun, and tell the Spitfires it’s just a rendering bug. 😎✈️

    

Eagler

[Animl-AW]

Doomsayers: “…AH is dead….”

Myth Debunked

Rumor had it, I had no idea what I was talking about, I was just wasting my time.
<snork!>
Please, explain that to me again?

[CptTrips]

Wasn't HAL's fault. Was given conflicting directives.

Ever notice that you get IBM if you increment each letter in HAL by 1?

I like their structured syntax.

"HAL <command>, please."

A prefix, command, suffix, so it is easier to parse.

[AKIron]

Survey: What is the most common command given by new users of Alexa?

"open the pod bay door...."

[AKIron]

I tried Claude for some coding, free level. You don't get much for free. To do anything serious you have to subscribe.

[Randy1]

Ya but do we really know Hitech even exist anymore?  Has Codex replicated him? 

Oh crap!  Now Codex will become the players, and we will be eliminated to stop all the grumpy posting on here and 200.

I noticed Eagler was flying better than usual. Is he now a flawless, Codex replicated AI player ?

 

[Mayhem]

I should have added some context - was looking at a new vr set as well.. Pimax Crystal Light seems to be what I'd like to target so not sure how much horsepower will be needed to run that smoothly

The VR headset shouldn't matter that much even on a lower system as you can always lower or scale back the resolution of your headset (Most headsets can do this) it would be like running your game in 1080 on a 4K monitor. That is so long as your system can actually run VR. You can go big just to future proof your set up but then your gambling on the ability to purchase components at a reasonable price in the future. Honestly right now I'm not so sure that is ever going to happen.

Not sure how AH is going to do VR in the future but right now its one of the easiest flight sims to push in VR even on older systems like my 11 year old Xeon 1080Ti system.

The Pimax Crystal Light is not that big of a step up from an Index compared to the Crystal Super 8K Micro-OLED, I could easily run the Chrytal light on my 5900x 3080 system and I could probably run it maxed out native in AH3, but I would have to dial everything down for MSFS DCS Xplane and even IL2 (Not sure about war thunder). DCS is such a stuck pig in VR that even running my index on my 9950x3d 5080 system I will have to dial things down.

If you want a system that can push any game at the native resolution in a modern High end VR hreadset like a Crystal Super 8K Micro-OLED you are going to need a beast of a machine and that is going to cost you A LOT OF MONEY. This is about the worst time to buy memory SSDs and Video Cards. So unless you have very deep pockets, an upgrade or new system build system is going to hurt.

I purchased my Corsiar CORSAIR Vengeance RGB DDR5 96GB (2 x 48) DDR5 6000 CL30-36-36-76 for $339 on March 21, 2025 from amazon. Currently it goes for between $1600 and $1700. (Don't bother going over 64gb right now)

I got my 5080fe for $990 direct from Nvidia (I Got on a Wait List) You can't get the Founders Edition any more and the cheapest 5080 on NewEgg is $1,579.9.

It's the same with my SSDs just not as bad in the smaller sizes as I got my 2tb Samsung 9100 pro gen 5 for $320 it now goes for $399. I purchased my 2 4tb Samsung 990 pro gen 4 SSDs for 292.60 each, now they go for 969.99 each. My WD_BLACK 8TB SN850X Gen 4 SSD cost me $599.99 on NewEgg now it's $1,519.99 (note the higher the capacity the higher the price jump) 2tb drives didn't even double. 4tb and above seems to have tripled.

At the going rate in a few years we all end up with Agentic Thin Clients attached to or built to our smart TVs and every app program and game will be cloud based with a subscription fee. (You will own nothing rent everything and be happy) That is if Skynet and the Terminators © (My future punk band name) don't come for us first.

I think I'm going off topic and we should probably take this to the Hardware and Software section.

[fd ski]

Returned after 4 yrs and it's great to hear about upcoming updates. Looking to upgrade my GPU for VR and was looking at a 9070 XT but later read that Nvidia is better optimized than AMD for VR. For AH does that hold true? Current pricing just seems insane these days. Curious to hear your perspective for AH specifically..thanks!

welcome back old friend.

lots changed in VR world but one thing is constant, AH requirements in this area are very low.
If you want to get a newer headset, read up, lots of choice. I got bigscreen beyond 2e due to form factor ( i'm too hold to have a brick on my neck for too long ) and i'm very happy with it. Paired it with 5080 and it works just fine. It should do ok for DCS level flying as well. Glad to see you back.

[Brooke]

But everything since 7 has sucked donkey balls!

Windows 8 was terrible.  Which is what caused MS to to quickly move to 8.1 to try to fix all the stupid things they screwed up.  But I skipped 8 and 8.1 entirely.

I stuck with Win 7 until Win 10 had been out for a while, then moved to 10.

10 was good.  I stuck with it until it was nearing out of service, then moved to 11.

11 is good.  I turn off most of the spying stuff using the tool Donotspy11.

[Animl-AW]

Windows 8 was terrible.  Which is what caused MS to to quickly move to 8.1 to try to fix all the stupid things they screwed up.  But I skipped 8 and 8.1 entirely.

I stuck with Win 7 until Win 10 had been out for a while, then moved to 10.

10 was good.  I stuck with it until it was nearing out of service, then moved to 11.

11 is good.  I turn off most of the spying stuff using the tool Donotspy11.

Me too Brooke
I was 98 until XP until 10, now 11.
I wouldn't even touch those other OSs.
These days I disable things manually.

In 98 and XP I had it so bare bones the only thing it pretty much thought about was the game. I even killed Explorer, which killed desktop. literally just a black screen underneath.
The game launcher I built did all that, when game closed it brought it all back to life as it was, ready for office use. SO it didn't have to stay that way, all tweaked up.
Maybe I'll write another one for 11. I'll prolly finish it and 12 comes along lol.
I think I can convert the XP one to 11. just need to change registry functions. It actually still works otherwise. I wasn't playing any games in 10, so it never got bumped up. I was too busy with work to even pick my nose.

<shrug> good times lol