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Finally - some rigorous benchmark testing of a flight sim by a respected technical reviewer! Big focus on GPU performance in this review.

https://youtu.be/y6RIvvMPBTg

Time for an update on progress with my PC build, including how it performs with flight simulators. First, I have made 2 changes since I originally posted: After seeing memory utilisation in DCS World testing, I opted to upgrade to 32 GB RAM sooner rather than later (another identical 2x8GB set). I a...

Build update: all parts have safely arrived, and I have assembled the system and am up and running with Windows. All good so far! The case was quite nice to build in, with good cable management. I haven't yet done much to configure the PC, other than updating drivers and the like. The only real chan...

Skycat - nice looking spec there. Amazing how well some of the better graphics cards hold their price! That Fractal case looks amazing too. Are you planning on bring across an SSD or HDD from your current PC? In my experience 500 TB will run out pretty quickly if you plan on running P3D, DCS and the...

Hobart Escin wrote: ↑26 Jul 2020, 18:43 I assume you're going to be overclocking since you're using a watercooling system?

Yes, overclocking is the aim. Nothing too extreme though.

Good luck with your own build when the time comes!

looks good and your hardware choices seem to be near or at the sweet spot. You can easily spend twice as much money on a PC with only a slight performance advantage by just buying the most expensive part. Have you considered putting your operating system on a it's own smaller SSD and the rest on th...

Part Selection - Detailed As mentioned in the previous post, I went through a long process to choose parts for this build. I have now purchased all the parts. My justification for each choice is detailed below. I choose parts in (roughly) the order presented. CPU: Intel i5 10600K High single-core p...

Part Selection A lot of research went in to selecting parts – some great technical reviews I referred to heavily include those from Hardware Unboxed and Gamers Nexus , highly recommended! Note that gaming benchmarks must be considered with the proviso that flight sims are almost never the subject o...

My 6-year-old gaming laptop is on its last legs and has started to give me grief – most annoyingly regular USB disconnects, which is less than helpful when in the flare in a gusty crosswind! Besides, the hardware is barely up to the task of running flight sims these days and is borderline minimum sp...

Attempting an unusual short/soft field landing. Spoiler: no, no you cannot.

Wonder if Accu-sim can model this?

https://youtu.be/m9-hiESBis0

Last night, following a night shift at my 'day' job (I fly satellites for a living) and with plenty on my mind making sleep difficult, I set out on in the P-40 on a 200 mile cross country flight across the Australian interior at night. Not the best aircraft for night navigation, but an interesting c...

I have experienced similar before with my CH Products Eclipse yoke. It has an axis that is controlled by two paddles on the yoke (sort of like the gear shift paddles on some modern auto transmission cars). This can be used for rudder control, but I don't use if for that since I have rudder pedals. I...

Nice! I had some similar fun yesterday, flying the Connie in to Karachi in Pakistan just after sunset. Severe turbulence during initial descent as I tried to pick my way through a line of thunderstorms, then hand flew the ILS in thick fog all the way down to minimums. Seeing the runway lights appear...

Thanks for clarifying Lewis. As I said, not a big worry - I don't use time acceleration very often anyway

Not sure what the A2A process is for bug reports... I noticed that when using time acceleration in the Spitfire (I was experimenting finding the service ceiling, climb rate is pretty anemic above 30k!), the vertical speed indicator shows the vertical speed multiplied by the time acceleration rate (e...