Gypsy

Thanks for the trip thru history!!

Yeah, my lack of cable management needs to be "hidden" ?!

Life, as in real, must always take precedence and time worked now means easier going on the flip side.

Good for you.. Now quit working so hard and get some "flyin'" time in!

Found this on the interweb https://portforward.com/bt/home-hub-3/ Is that what you are looking for?

Actually ~300USD seems to be a really good price if it works (and I suspect it does) as good as it looks! Can't wait to hear/see your appraisal of this.

Current appearance of my "pit". Note the cookies for in flight nourishment (left side of keyboard) ?.

What do I have to sell (other than my first born) to get one??

My particular setup would probably only allow up to maybe 32-35" but that would be pushing it as I can only get about 36" away. The white PVC has Bern painted gunmetal grey now.

It is definitely a process that can wear on your nerves. For me, it's a love/hate relationship. Love the detail, hate the tedium (not to mention the costs of AC).

Thinking about going up to a 27" monitor. Current monitor is an Asus 24" 144hrz, 1ms, TN panel, 1920x1080p. Looking at a 27" curved 144hrz, 1ms, VA panel, capable of 2560x1440p by MSI (vid card and mono are MSI). I know my 1060 6gb vid card may struggle with the 1440, but I can run at 1080p if needed until I can upgrade my card to a 1070/1080 Ti. Budget rules out Gsync but I haven't had it and am having no tearing problems. Thoughts, suggestions would be welcome. And no, VR is not in play here. Budget is a consideration, somewhere close to ~400 USD. Thanks!

I still only have the P51 but I have the Normandy map + WWII assets.

Bodenplatte is gonna be fun.. I have flown around in the Mark IX in both the clipped and normal wing configuration and I like it.. lots of good "birds" coming!

FINALLY. I have never had to go thru so much crap for a game. Guess ED had a bunch of problems with Steam or people stealing their stuff. Shsesh. For a game.., but it's their money. I need to go back to work to get some rest from these games ???????!

Well after digging in the depths of the ED forums and jumping thru 1 or 200 hoops, I got the 51 to work. Trying to launch the Normandy map now and it is sitting and spinning. Win some, wait on others.

So I bought the Normandy map + WWII assets. Didn't pay attention to the disclaimer about it not being compatible with Steam. Figured (assumed) they just weren't on Steam. Nope, ya gotta have the standalone version of DCS to download and install. Well damn, I really should pay attention. So anyway I put in a question to support and while I am waiting for them to honor me with a response, I copied my P51 folder to another location and I am downloading the standalone version with hopes of putting my P51 folder where it needs to be it the standalone. Someone tell me I am wrong/right/maybe thinking. Thanks as always.

Not sure if this is related to the freeze I experienced tonite, but when I exited the game I had a msg from Windows that the location of my temporary internet files had been moved from its default location and did I want to diagnose the issue. I, of course, said yes and it found the files moved to my D drive and moved it back to the C drive. Just throwing that out. I can up my network speed to 100mbs (symmetrical) if need be for DCS. Hey it's only $20 a month more and if that is what it takes to keep blowing up tents, I'm there ???!

I am running an I5-6600 and a gtx 1060 6gb and a 500w ps and run almost wide open in Box, CLoD, 1946 and a tad lower in DCS and never get south of 60fps normally staying in the 90 -120 range on a 144hz monitor. Same Bazooka mother board. I purposely didn't get anything overclockable to keep myself in check. I have 16gb of DDR4 2133 and will upgrade to 32gb of DDR4 2400 when the cost of ram drops some. Again, file this in the what its worth column ?!

I'm a noobie with DD but long in the tooth with IL2. I am currently using the Thrustmaster T.16000m FCS HOTAS and CH Products rudder pedals. I don't do any jets in DCS yet so they work out well. I have both the CH products Combat Stick and throttle but they are 12 years old now and I need to rebuild them some day. I have the parts but not ambition since the Thrustmaster stuff is working good and were relatively inexpensive compared to a lot of the stuff out there. Anyway, that's my .02 cents worth. Good luck with your hunt.

I have been reading the same and am waiting for RAM prices to come down a bit. I have 16gb of DDR4 2133. My motherboard will handle up to DDR4 2400 but right now 32gb of DDR4 2400 is a bit more than I wanna spend (see my other posts about paying for horse stuff). I don't have any problems on the Caucasus map offline with a few aircraft but have never been online with it.

I may add the Normandy map/WWII asset pack and maybe, just maybe the Spit ?! But paying for horses, saddles and other rather expensive horse-sh$t is taking a lot of my mad money right now ???!

Well damn, missed another one. But, we were out hunting for horse tack. When she sold her last horse, all her English tack went with the horse (Yes, she rides/rode English growing up on the East coast - Virginia - riding hunters and jumpers). So now she needs a new set but she is too damn short (4'11") for most pre built Western saddlery and custom stuff is way too rich for us. So, we are going Australian. So now that I have bored you with crap you didn't want to know, I hope to see ya Thursday ?!

I am waiting for the Nevada map, the F86 and F5 to go on sale. BoX, CLoD and 1946 scratch my WW2 itch ?.

Wow, just WOW!

Right now I have the P51 and the original Caucuses map. Still a clutz with it as I don't fly it often enough. I want to get the Nevada map and F86 and F5 (that's about as "high tech" as I can handle ?), but waiting on a sale.