New to DCS

[Priller]

Good afternoon,

I'm completely new to DCS, just installed it yesterday afternoon.

I would be most grateful for pointers to freeware addons that can be installed into this sim.

Also, pointers to good settings for a fairly modest system would be highly appreciated. My system specs:

i7 6700K @ 4.2 Ghz
GTX1070
16 Gb of DDR4 RAM
DCS installed on a 512 Gb Samsung EVO 850

Thanks in advance!

Priller

[Priller]

In the meantime, I've found a freeware A-4E, downloaded and installed Flaming cliffs and the Nevada map.

Did a few easy free flights, but this is flight simulator on another level than FSX and P3D! This is going to take some reading!

Priller

[scotth6]

HI Priller,

There was a nice MB-339 released just a while back.

http://www.freccetricolorivirtuali.net/

Also, the included SU-25 and TF-51 are excellent aircraft. I would suggest going through the training missions for any aircraft you have installed, and if there are missions and campaigns, then these are also excellent ways to figure things out "on the fly", or at least they force you to figure things out. You will need to set up control commands for each aircraft separately. I usually do this while I am learning. As I am going through training or free missions and I see I should be assigning commands to joystick or throttle, then I will just press "esc" key and go in to the controls menu and change that setting there and then. I also try and base my joystick and throttle HOTAS assignments to replicate the real aircrafts layout as close as possible ( I use a HOTAS Warthog).

Also check out the DCS World forums, there is some excellent information and downloads to be found there.

As for settings, there are presets, so you could start with medium and go from there. You may want to keep things like texture resolution on high (1024) and terrain settings fairly high. Compared to FSX and P3D, DCS World performance is generally excellent. The usual things such as shadows etc will have detrimantal effect on performance, but really you will just need to see what works on your system. I don't imagine you will have much trouble. I used to run DCS smoothly on my i7-2700k, even in VR.

Cheers,

[Priller]

Thanks Scotth6!!

Priller

[Mach3DS]

Welcome Priller to an entirely new flying experience! I HIGHLY recommend you pickup the F-14B tomcat package by Heatblur. It's not freeware but it includes the F-14B, and soon F-14A. This is THE module to own in any sim. It should also at some point include a forestall class carrier and possibly AI A-6 tanker.

[Priller]

Welcome Priller to an entirely new flying experience! I HIGHLY recommend you pickup the F-14B tomcat package by Heatblur. It's not freeware but it includes the F-14B, and soon F-14A. This is THE module to own in any sim. It should also at some point include a forestall class carrier and possibly AI A-6 tanker.

Thanks Rick! I've done some reading and read about that package. I'm definitely interested.

The packages that interest me the most are the F/A-18C and the F-16 in development. But given that I've already spend about 100,-€ on one sim today, I'm waiting till payday!

Priller

[Dimus]

I highly recommend "Chuck's guides" for any plane you have:

https://www.mudspike.com/chucks-guides-dcs/

He makes things as simple as possible for you. I very much appreciate the parts where he recommends which functions to program on your stick and throttle. Helped me a lot enjoy DCS and eased up that learning curve slope.