Great. Don’t know how I thought you had switched more to racing.
I must confess i usually fly sp as i have not had any experiance doing mp other then in war thunder quite a while in the past before i upgraded to a pc. i would like to try mp but have no idea how to. i will look on line for info to do it. i fly dcs, il-2, msfs wwll with head tracking and vr
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With DCS, be prepared for worse framerates in MP than SP.
Generally, starting online is done one of three ways:
- friends drag you into a server and you tag along with them to learn the ropes,
- you join a forum like Mudspike
and jump on discord with somebody to achieve the same, or - you do what we did in the 2000s/2010s and just jump on servers basically at random until you can find one where you can work out what you should be doing and don’t immediately get kickbanned for trying to takeoff from the taxiway (don’t do that online if the runway is intact - it’s bad manners and some servers have scripts to kick you if you do it)
I recommend 1) or 2) 
If you’re happy sharing, what times (UTC) are you around to play - perhaps someone here can jump into discord with you and show you the ropes?
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Keep an eye out for the Fight Club thread to pop back up with a future instead of a past date. We’ll gladly show you the rope, haze you, pop your cherry, teach you a trick or two and have a riot of laughs until our eyes drop out of our heads.
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@Rhino1938, Try this. Click “Multiplayer” in DCS. At the top of the server list is a filter that allows you to specify the type of experience you want. In the player count, enter a minimum of 10 to 20. This will pull up the most popular servers. This means also that they will likely be predominantly English (assuming that’s your language of choice). DCS is not like other multiplayer games including War Thunder. Servers are generally not free-for-all kill zones. Some servers are co-op, meaning all players are on the same team fighting against AI. But whether co-op or dogfight, it is 50;50 that you will hop into your flying machine and not see another player. But that’s OK. Just fly around and learn how the screens look and how the chat works. Speaking of chat, be sure to say “Hello” and maybe mention that you are new. I cannot promise that there won’t be an a$$hat or two but that is very rare in DCS. The vast majority are enthusiastic and welcome.
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Thanks for all of the responses i definitely will give er a try. i prefer wwll aircraft and that era, as a i can actually remember those years during the war, born in 1938 in Sacramento Ca. and now live in Reno Nv. so time zone wouild be pacific time. Thanks again
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@Rhino1938 there are just a couple of popular WW2 DCS servers. They likely require either the Normandy terrain or The Channel. Although I prefer DCS, IL2 is where I turn for props.
Also, I love that you are active in the hobby in your eighties!
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Yeah, the most popular ones require Normandy and the WWII Asset Pack. My go to WWII Server is the 4YA Project Overlord Server which runs a historical Mission Set starting in early June (more specifically, one pre-invasion mission on June 3rd 1944) and then runs a mission set which progresses through the Normandy campaign, currently ending with the Falaise Pocket on August 14th. Each mission runs for about 4.5h.
The learning curve is very steep if you’re a beginner but if you ask around on the WWII section on discord (they also have a wingman finder channel) people there are always happy to help out newcomers who ask nicely. Just don’t get involved in any heated arguments about historical accuracy and specifically MW50 and octane 150 fuel. We’re very much limited by what DCS has to offer and apart from the Mosquito, Spitfire and Fw 190A-8 none of the fighters we have in DCS are period accurate for the ETO in summer 1944 
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