I’m hip. I was skimming through the forum over at the “crazy place” concerning this map and performance. Hit ‘enter’ on a reply only to see that @NineLine has closed the thread, thus my 5 minutes was wasted. But, alas! I’ll spew forth over at the ‘Spike’. FWIW…
ABOUT COMPLAINTS
As a tester in this open beta branch I’m not complaining about the poor performance, I’m simply providing feedback.
All of this sounds familiar; flight sims have been my only indoor hobby for decades.
GROWTH
Showed my son my rig and DCS a few months ago, in VR, with my HOTAS kit. He’s a ‘gamer’ (whatever that really means); has a good, steady job and could afford it (based on some of his other questionable entertainment purchases); works in a military tech field - a likely candidate for purchase.
He thought it was pretty cool, cuz it IS!. Then he asked what it would cost, from scratch, to get up and running, as I’ve configured it.
So I ball-parked a figure. His reply: “Nah, I’m not going to spend $5000 for that”.
I understood completely and don’t blame him. Over the years it has cost me about 1/2 that every few years when I wanted to upgrade to support the latest/greatest (or nearly so) - to ‘keep up’. Half that only gets me a GPU at this moment, maybe, and while I could do it, my good- sense revolts. This is just me, and I intend NO judgment on those that feel differently…as a “blue collar” guy, that likes to ‘escape’ into my virtual jet a few times a week, I have to budget these non-essentials.
*Note that I ‘rationalize’ all my previous expenditures in this hobby over time; FunRatio = (Cost, Time).
CURRENT AFFAIRS
We (hardcore flight sim types and dev’s) are all in an unusually bad time right now: the dev’s are pushing the envelope (good long term biz decision I guess). However lately more customers can’t afford to keep up.
Seems strange to ignore that [SIC]. I really don’t believe you are - it just appears that way to some in this forum [ED forum].
Again, we’re in an odd time economically concerning this genre.
PARTING THOUGHTS
I can “fly”, in my pointy-nose virtual fighter jet, satisfactorily - just like in my other [ non-combat] flight sim - I really, really, enjoy that part of it. I do, honestly, prefer the feeling of flight in DCS to anything before or since - at least, and ESPECIALLY ,in VR!.
As far a my experience with Vulcan goes: it didn’t make my FPS go significantly higher (15-20%-ish?) but it did however smooth things out - stuttering is the most annoying fun-killer.
Even when the piggy-bank is full and I have the latest/greatest/fastest rig I’m still likely to turn things down to keep it smooth. Graphics sell games, always have, but this map has a lot of details I personally don’t get all that excited about - cuz it doesn’t relate that much to the “C” in DCS (but I see why ED would from a marketing angle).
Good day and “Check Six”
JR