January 16, 201313 yr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBGLb98zkFQ&feature=player_embedded Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
January 17, 201313 yr Sheesh, over 30 mins?! I'll watch later. You're a real convert now! When is that Mig 21 out for it??!! God I am busting for that Simmo W, Melbourne, Ozhttp://www.youtube.com/user/id5556
January 17, 201313 yr I saw your suggestion on the DCS forum...... It's strange, the fans there seemed pretty down on adding any civilian elements in their sim, but this video seems to suggest the possibility. It certainly would be interesting to see something try to bridge the gap between these two secluded little sim-islands. Hopefully without getting shot down from both sides. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
January 17, 201313 yr Author Yes, definitely DCS World is the way to go... I installed win8 this weekend, and DSC World will probably be the only simulation platform in it! Not even my good old ELITE got ported to win8 :-/, nor Silent Wings, FSX... XP10... And, considering I am far from being a fan of military aviation, you can guess how much I appreciate the detail / quality / plausibility / ... of the platform to fully adhere to it :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
January 17, 201313 yr And if you want to fly a 747, 777 or 737? Don't get me wrong, DCS looks great, but it seems that FSX and XP10 have far more aircraft on a platform that is very flexible in that you can fly military, commercial, vintage, experimental and private aircraft not to mention helicopters. From an ultralight to a Cessna 152 to a 737 to an A380 to an AN-225. Thanks, Kevin L
January 17, 201313 yr Author Don't get me wrong, DCS looks great, but it seems that FSX and XP10 have far more aircraft on a platform that is very flexible in that you can fly military, commercial, vintage, experimental and private aircraft not to mention helicopters. From an ultralight to a Cessna 152 to a 737 to an A380 to an AN-225. Problem is.... how the sensation of flight is reproduced on those sims, as compared to DCS World :-/ I've more than 20 yrs of flight simulation, never really liked military flightsims, although I tasted a few, mostly because strangely it appears we allways get better flight dynamics / graphics / etc... on some of those platforms compared to what our usual flightsim gives us... I also like soaring simulation (I do it in RL), and would love to have gliders and weather for soaring in DCS World, just to extperiment the same level of quality / accuracy / immersion... And airliners... That's why I used mostly Aerowinx PS1 coupled with fs9, and later fsx just for the visuals... and still wait for PSX to get back to a realistic heavy flight simulation that one can't simply find in FSX or X-Plane... But yes, I understand your point, and while PSX doesn't get released, or a C-5 or Starlifter or Hercules are announced for DCS World, using FSX or X-Plane is good anyway :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
January 17, 201313 yr I still have to get the client. When time allows, I'm in the DCS world as it looks really great. Same as Devon, I'm hoping for some more civilian content though. I haven't got a problem with the military stuff, but it doesn't attract me as much as the boring VFR or IFR country flying. :blush:
January 17, 201313 yr It wasn't so long ago that you were hailing XP as the best flight sim... then changed your mind... now it's DCS? I agree that DCS makes a great military simulation, as I own BS1/2, all the LOMACs (I still have my originial LOMAC and Flanker discs!), and A-10C. However, the 'world' simulation leaves much to be desired and is easily trumped by FSX and inherently P3D with or without scenery addons like Orbx, Aerosoft, etc. They have a long way to go to compete with the current, and even former, civilian sims. Not to mention, the DCS crowd is... a bit quick to bite when you mention an idea that is not exactly in-line with what they think is good for DCS... Philip Manhart :American Flag: - "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." ~ Plato
January 17, 201313 yr DCS is hands down the most realistic, highest fidelity flight simulation platform out there. I really hope they license the game engine so that a civilian simulator can be created.
January 17, 201313 yr If there was a civilian mode in DCS World they'd get my money in a heartbeat! Simmerhead - Making the virtual skies unsafe since 1987!
January 17, 201313 yr If there was a civilian mode in DCS World they'd get my money in a heartbeat! I'd give my mum and two aunts for them to add civilian mode Phil Mosley - Rotation Films http://youtube.com/rotationfsx @RotationFilms
January 17, 201313 yr Yeah, not even close to the best flight simulator platform if they never allow it to host Civilian Planes. Although flying a P51 is a lot of fun, it doesn't have the simulation feeling to me, since it's a plane so away from my reality. Now, a Cessna, a Piper, that I can relate to. IF they ever license their engine to allow others to develop freely, without any restrictions, and have full access to all the advanced FM code, this can become easily the next simulator we are all going to have on our system. But from what people say the development team, and most important, DCS heavy users don't want it to have anything to do with non-military aviation. Let's hope they change their minds. Alexis Mefano
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