Razwald

I lied I did change the frame rate to match my new headset. I don't recall what the setting was but don't go chasing the higher ones start with 90 but I have a feeling it was 80.

I have used the Valve Index with Steam VR for many years and agree you should be getting better performance. It just so happens I just picked up the Big Screen Beyond 2 but have not messed with my settings yet so this will get you started. First things first, I run the Caucasus map as the base line then test out the new settings on the other maps. The other maps tend to not run as well as the Caucasus map. 2nd when trouble shooting only mess with one setting at a time. If you change more than one thing you will be chasing your tail. Here are my specs Mother Board is the Asrock B650E Taichi AMD 9800X3D 8-Core 4.7 GHZ Nvidia RTX 4090 64 GB RAM DDR5 5600 don't recall the brand or if I did any changes to the timings. If I did it was the mother board utilities. I did do a small overclock on my CPU off hand I don't know what it is but its been stable since I got it. You can push that thing with a CPU fan and it does not overheat. On a side note for anyone looking at the Big Screen Beyond 2 the 2E does not work with IL2 Great Battles. According to forums both versions work with DCS. The 2E is just their eye tracking version.

@Snaggle The base game is free on Steam right now and the DLC's are on sale. Are there any DLC's I should get or avoid? Thanks

I've seen clips but never the whole thing till now.

I like it. The scenarios so far are fun and the ones that are difficult are not frustratingly difficult. It's more of a learning curve for the difficult ones. It is bare bones and it's mostly mid 70's US and Russian assets. More assets are planned from other countries not sure which countries but I thought I had seen the UK somewhere. I also saw they will broaden the time period for more than just the 70's but can not tell you what the range will be. All I've seen was 60's to the 80's. They plan on a dynamic campaign but not sure how far out it is. That is what I'm looking forward to. However with the scenarios I've played, a mission builder, and community missions there is a lot to offer at its current state. Also this early access game has more to offer than some of the finished games I've regretted buying recently.

I did both of these at the same time. Problem solved. I also loaded SRS to make sure that wasn't adding to the problem and it seems fine.

Thrustmaster. Everything is vanilla. No mods, no controller software I don't even use anti virus because my gaming PC is strictly a gaming PC. I wanted to ensure the fewest resources running in the background for flight sims. So in the past it was assigned to the Thrustmaster Warthog throttle. I don't recall which button number it was. I do recall the number was also a common number I used on my Thrustmaster Stick. Let's say it was a zoom function. So everytime I would hit the zoom button on my stick it would activate the PTT in Discord. Since I was aware of it I refrained from swearing, talking to myself or breathing heavy. For fear of engaging it when I didn't want to.🫢 On your end if you noticed you probably just figured I was a lunatic who didn't know my button mappings.😉 A few days ago looking into this I found an old post from 2020 I think it was. Don't recall if it was a discord forum or flight sim forum but the poster wanted people to upvote to discord the ability to have controller ID's when assigning buttons or Discord wasn't going to bother with it. So it would seem I wasn't the only one who has this issue.

@Klaiber Lyrically this one might be the funniest. GnR was just 50's singers dropping f-bombs.

@Greif The actual issue that I came across is that my throttle has a roller bearing in the setup. The bearing hits the wall then I have to manipulate the bearing past the wall. This movement is about 5% in game movement. Also there is no stop for the way back into normal power. So if I'm in formation and the power setting is on the edge it will be difficult for me to stay in formation. Like you stated not all aircraft are created equal and like you I also fly by the gauges. I figure I would just update my aircraft spread sheet when I hop into a new aircraft. How ever while I was writing this response I realized the detent stop is a plate with 2 set screws. I could always remove it depending on if the base is plastic or steel. I would hate to strip out the threads on the base if its plastic. Thanks

This was the video I wanted to post its the same thing but more recent including talks about the money it brings in and the loss of money due to covid. It also goes into the precautions they implemented because of the deaths. Deaths due to weather deaths due to emergency vehicles being on the track to name a couple. A guy died a emergency vehicle was on the course and another bike hit the vehicle head on.

This 10 year old video just hit my suggestions. Yes, Yes I would be interested in watching.

In key mapping there is an option profile assignments. In there you can assign profiles for individual aircraft. It does load it to your aircraft when you pick that aircraft in quick mission. How reliable it is I'm unsure because I tend to keep my layouts the same and have no use for it unless it saved throttle curves. I did all the Luftwaffe aircraft at sea level and wrote them down. The outliers being the 109 E-7, G-2 and K-4. The rest were similar to each other. Which brings me to why I gave this approach up. The G-2 has two different engine options and the P-51 has two fuel options. I could chart every aircraft with every option out or I could just chart out my throttle. 100% high dead zone = 96% in game with the last 4% being in the afterburner mode. 0% = 72% in game 52% = 84% 76% = 89% Knowing these I can figure out the ratio when in flight to adjust where the stop is to keep me out of emergency power. Or I will keep using the Warthog for IL2, I have both plugged in for single or multi engine aircraft in DCS so keeping it for IL2 wouldn't be too much of an issue.

I'm usually not a fan of hex war games. I bought more games that I don't like than I do like. This looks like it's something I would like. With grand strategy games like Strategic Command WW1 I tend to forget what I was doing, where I put a unit, or what my plan was when I came back to the game a few days later. I don't have that issue with other games and it could just be the fact that I'm staring at 100's of tiles over a 1000 miles of front and it just turns my brain to mush. With the small scenarios set up, this reminds more of the Close Combat series. Which I enjoyed.

I've looked around and I feel the answer will be no for both or a crappy work around that I don't want to deal with. First question. IL2 I swapped out my Thrustmaster Warthog throttle for the Viper Throttle. The way the detent works in the Warthog throttle never gave me a reason to look into throttle curves. I was hoping I could set up the curves so that after the detent would be emergency power. It seems that the throttle curves don't save to each profile. Am I doing something wrong? My options off the top off my head would be spread sheet of each aircraft and just adjust the curves before I take off. The other is fly a quick fly off line at sea level and adjust before I actually fly online. As far as WW1 a 100% top end dead zone gives me 96% in game throttle at the detent. So that is easy to remember. Now for Discord. When you assign a button 1 on one controller all controllers that use button 1 set it off. Has this been fixed since I have last used Discord? Is there a work around?