Justsomething to remember, if you use Simapp to calibrate your AB detent. If you adjust the throttle curve in DCS it will change the point the AB kicks in on the F18. I used a custom curve from a tutorial on how to AA refuel and the curve moved the AB to just before I hit the detent. I need to figure out how to do slight adjustments to the curve to keep the AB detent settings.
Assuming you only use it for the F-18, why not adjust your curves in DCS to what you want, then calibrate it as above? The above is calibrated based on what you're seeing/hearing in DCS so you should be able to change the Simapp calibration to match how you have DCS set.
GPU overclocking is a well-explored topic in the PC optimization world since it can achieve real performance gains that can be easily measured. The most common tool used for GPU overclocking is MSI Afterburner and as with any other tool, there are settings you need to familiarize yourself with to use the utility to its maximum potential.
To give you a headstart and help you get to the fun part of overclocking I will talk about some settings you need to know about to achieve the best possible performance and stability while overclocking.
These settings will allow you to increase the amount of power your GPU can use (still within its specifications since you can draw more power only by physical mods on the GPU) and stabilize your clocks with constant voltage.
To minimize startup clutter you can disable the Start with Windows options and simply enable your OC every time you boot into your Windows manually. When not needed you do not have to enable your OC to save power and lower the thermal output of your GPU.
For the Monitoring tab, all you should know is that you should disable all of the options so they do not pull information in the background and only enable the monitoring when you need to check on your PC parts during gaming loads, etc.
The rest of the tabs include optional features like benchmarking (which is useful when testing different drivers while gaming), screen capture, video capture, and user interface. These settings will not influence your ability to tune your OC and will not clutter your PC with services and hardware readings, so these are all personal preferences.
With your values dialed in, you should create a profile and apply the values while you are gaming along with a custom power plan that disables idle on your CPU for the most stable latency and polling rate.
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I'm interested in turbojets and turbofans. Both can have an afterburner. I'm wondering if it's possible to engage afterburner on both of them at a time when the engine is not already at full dry thrust.
Afterbuner simply injects fuel directly into the jet pipe (i.e. beyond the turbine) in order to greatly increase thrust. The way throttle levers are normally set up, afterburner is engaged once the lever is advanced past maximum dry thrust, but I can't imagine why, theoretically, you couldn't set one up to be engaged at less than maximum dry thrust.
Mind you, it would be awfully inefficient to do so, as thrust output is exponential, with most of it being delivered in the top 5% of the RPM band; engaging afterburner while you still have a lot of dry thrust available would just be a massive waste.
What's more, jet engines are much quicker to respond today, and, in addition, landing approaches are not performed at idle thrust; the main benefit of flap settings greater than 20 degrees is that they slow the aircraft down, allowing for steeper approaches. In jet aircraft, this also allows the engines to be kept spooled up above flight idle, specifically in order to reduce response times in the event of a go around. In other words, throttle might be reduced to flight idle for the initial descent, but the final approach will use a higher thrust setting.
I did try to connect to the MQTT broker too when i received my afterburner but then realised there needs to be a add-on created in HA so that HA knows what to listen for form the afterburner.
Ill have a look at my settings and i post a pic of my MQTT settings.
Thanks
I agree, the device is amazing and mine is used daily however the interface is not the strongest area, easy to rectify in Home Assistant though as most of the functionality can be lifted and shifted into a nice dashboard.
Secondly, for my now-venerable low-end machine (which was pretty high end five years ago) this plane is a frames-killer. Around Honolulu this morning with live weather but all traffic turned off, I could barely eake out 20-22 fps with major stutters (some down into the single digits) and terrible audio stutters to match, especially when switching views to external or back. When I knocked my graphics settings down from High End to Medium, I could hit 30fps but it still dipped into the 24-27 fps range, but at least things were smooth and flyable.
By contrast, the very same flight conditions in the very same area, I was able to maintain my usual steady 30 fps at High End with both the DC Designs F-14 and FlyingIron P-38. Hopefully my brand new PC (coming tomorrow, with luck) will handle the F-18 better.
The engine nozzle on a jet engine with full throttle and afterburner activated should be fully open. In Dry full throttle setting, the nozzle should be tight. In dry idle power setting it should be wide open, but without a flame.
Now that we are all on the same page about Boost 3.0, the overclocking portion of this guide will make a lot more sense. In this guide, I will be using the popular third party software MSI Afterburner, along with Unigine Heaven Benchmark for its looping feature. Even though I am using an EVGA-branded NVIDIA card, all the overclocking software that I've come across gave me very similar results. However, extra features in some software are generally locked off from other brands. Most notable would be the EVGA Precision XOC auto-overclocking portion of the software, which is tailored made for overclocking EVGA cards, will not work with other brands. This does not mean you will not be able to get the maximum performance by using a different company's software, it just means the quick OC option is usually not available.
After using a few different overclocking software, they all gave me the same results, and really, in the end, the layout of each setting is the only major difference between them. It may be best to follow along with me using the Afterburner software and than afterwards once you feel confident, you can switch to the software provided by the company that made your video card. That way you can still refer back to this guide for a reference point.
Before getting too far along, after opening MSI Afterburner make sure to set an aggressive fan profile and proceed with setting the Power Limit and Temperature Limit to the maximum. This will not harm the card, as it is only extending the already cautious limitations that NVIDIA has implemented. For the voltage control, even though the limit is 1.093v, it can still have an impact on a higher overclock. I suggest leaving it at defaults and once you have your final overclocking numbers, see if that extra voltage helps. Some users have reported an actual decrease in performance and overclock with high voltage, while others said it made that last few MHz stable. By default it is grayed out and you need to go into the settings to unlock the option to use it. I did not for this guide, because stock settings of 1.063v was enough.
When it comes to overclocking video cards, first I like to find the maximum memory speeds, since it is generally more forgiving and less factors to deal with. The GTX 1080 Ti memory only comes in one form, which is GDD5X and made by Micron. From looking at many different results across the Web, the overclock is extremely wide, but it seems a limit of 11,950Mhz is the highest I've read about. With 11,000MHz as the starting value, it's hard to say what individual overclocks will be. Also be aware this is Double Data Rate (DDR). This means 400 is really 800 when looking at Afterburner or other monitoring software.
To start this memory overclock, I suggest running Unigine Heaven benchmark in the background while raising the frequency. Start at 100MHz and continue slowly at 50MHz jumps. Memory is a lot more forgiving than the GPU overclock, so if you start to see artifacts, flickering, or have a crash, write that number down and back it off by 25-50MHz. Try it again and leave it looping for a while. Remember, these overclocks shouldn't be for benchmarks only, but in a stable gaming session, too. For my card, I was able to get up to 400MHz and about 10 minutes into running this benchmark, the screen started to flicker and then the system crashed. Running it for a second time at a 375MHz OC for another 10 minutes left me confident that it was stable enough to move on and revisit it later. So, after you get that stable number, write it down and set the memory back to stock so it does not interfere with the GPU overclock.
For the GPU core overclock, it will be a very similar process as the memory. Open your favorite benchmark program in windowed mode so you can watch it while adjusting the clocks. The GPU core is far less forgiving than memory and a large step will only lead to crashes or strange numbers. Since the video card can downclock for any number of reasons covered in the Boost 3.0 section, your overclock may not match up with what you input. Going from 50 to 65MHz may lead to zero changes in the current overclock. Because of these variables, core overclocking isn't as simple as the memory. You must find the sweet spot between maximum heat, power target, and simply going too far. This is something I needed to fine tune over and over until I had a stable overclock, not just for gaming and benchmarks, but using the card 24/7 while running compute programs.
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