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Some Harrier fun, Hunting tanks with the Tpod and using IR guided Mavericks, Using Laser guided rockets (APKWPS's) and self lasing, And genuinely my first attempt at a Carrier landing in it, although had plonked in down on a few large concrete aprons prior to this. Bit of a bump, but happy enough! All in all good fun

When did you order Dave?

More cloud pics,

, when I get back from leave in Paris, and walk back into the mess its going to be like damn, am I in the right place

Can't help smiling knowing what Tom's likely facial expression was at the F15 line.....🤣

I suggest a pm to Rog!!!!

Well they're linked from the same place, so it must be something to do with your specific permissions or settings on this forum.

can you see them in this post Chris? DCS - Page 187 - Other Sims and Games - IL-2 Sturmovik Forum

The less said the better about what happened to that particular airframe Chris was flying, later on.....😇

A few pictures from the other night,

It's not going to be going away anytime soon and remember there's loads of crypto currencies, not just Bitcoin. Until the next gen of cards, gamers wanting the latest gpu's are screwed, period.

At least nvidia is aware of the situation https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56114508 It looks in the future there will be 2 types of cards, with dedicated mining cards, and gaming gpu's. This is already starting with thw 3060, but i guess it won't be until the next generation cycle of cards that this will be fully realised.

Flying in one of my favourite parts of the country, and over mountains I can name and have climbed many times, and if you see this Rox, so have you! Also the white cliffs of Dover and a bimble around SE Kent,

6 and half hours 🤪 I probably shouldn't mention it took me less than hour! Well I downloaded my first free mod earlier, which was very easy it transpired, the QE2 Bridge at the Dartford crossing, as the world update missed it out. Oh and curiosity got the better of me...... because why wouldn't you try this, lol. I like that there is a momentary pause as the game tries to decide what to do, then just goes ah well bugger it.....

'New' London as seen from going up the Thames...

I think anything other than Major....

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402nd debrief. Edit by Fenrir - content added to main Debrief post. Thanks Kev.

The memory shortage is specifically linked to DDR6, which doesn't relate to the 32 gig you recently bought. This is the main reason for the short supply on new cards, and why NVidia also have stripped back how much is going to be on 3080 cards from there original design intention. The difference between 10 gig onboard vs 24 gig on board (plus better bandwidth) is a major plus for the 3090. Indeed a 3080 has less on board RAM than my current 2080 Ti, and is one of the main reasons why I'm not particularly considering it as increasing the supersampling ratio in VR eats VRAM, plus real world performance comparisons show a 17% performance increase with the 3080, vs 33% vs the 3090 over my 2080Ti, which isn't enough to warrant it imo for me, and I'm sure that it won't be enough for what I want to do personally re Reverb2. If it wasn't for VR I wouldn't even be considering an upgrade as my 2080Ti runs everything in 4K maxed out (nearly in DCS but everything else anyway) already. Ultimately, what a user is prepared to pay, comes down to there own disposable finances at that time, and why they want it, the same argument could be levelled at someone who buys a Ferrari as opposed to a Ford Focus, or indeed a cheap second hand car..... As to getting a 3080 for less than 1000 in the near future (within a year anyway), good luck with that, I hope you will be proved correct, but I sincerely doubt it. Of course we could all wait 3 years and buy a 4070, which will no doubt be better than a 3080 and a lot cheaper, tis the way of things....

I just equate it to if golf was my hobby.... membership fee's, clubs etc.... @DD_Arthurprices of top end cards had more than doubled in the space of a few years pre pandemic.

I don't really share that appraisal (hope to be wrong) or your optimism at all I'm afraid. It is definitely due to both (specifically ddr memory shortages), and crypto currency mining is only growing. Prices have gone up @400 pounds since release.

Nor me, that's why i might just bite the bullet. Besides, who knows what the price will eventually be if they keep going up!

So tempted to pre order lol, ▷ Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 Vision OC 24GB GDDR… | OcUK (overclockers.co.uk) Factory overclocked 3090....

Missiles, who needs missiles....