I've been away for a while…...I want to smell it
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…though him and I were butting heads there…
Goose being Goose, hee hee…
He was the Avatar-King, to be sure.
Ara’
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Goose being Goose, hee hee…
He was the Avatar-King, to be sure.
Ara’
GORNY OLD MAN! LONG TIME NO SEE! How ya doin brother!
Gunner
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GORNY OLD MAN! LONG TIME NO SEE! How ya doin brother!
Gunner
Boys, thank you all for your input. I’ll be checking in from time to time, but I might be a little quiet. It’s been a rough two years, and I’m getting myself back on my feet financially. I’ve got a plan, though, and I’ve got you guys recommendations and how and what for systems, so I got my starting point.
Mower and Gorny, boys, it’s been GOOD talking to you and I will be checking in. I need to get read up on the new systems and how and what to do fly this thing.
I’ll be lurking ;D
Gunner
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Gunner, I’m in the same boat. Long layoff from F4, like 8 years now. But I’m back in the saddle. Here’s what I built, and it runs BMS like butter.
– i7 6700K Skylake
– Asus Z170 mainboard
– 16 gigs o’ RAM
– EVGA 750w power supply
– 500 GB Samsung SSD
– 2TB Seagate mechanical
– Asus GTX 1070 8GB
– Win 10The Cougar works fine in Win10 as noted already. Using Dunc’s files that are included in the download. I ran in to a few bumps like the X axis being reversed. And my throttle pot is bad, but I’ve reassigned that to ant elevation. Ant elevation is now on the range rotary and range is handled by pushing the cursor though the borders. Not perfect, but it’ll work.
Very impressed by the BMS software and also the documentation. Quite professional, and good fun to be back at it. Good to see some old Frugal’s members as well.
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Gunner, I’m in the same boat. Long layoff from F4, like 8 years now. But I’m back in the saddle. Here’s what I built, and it runs BMS like butter.
– i7 6700K Skylake
– Asus Z170 mainboard
– 16 gigs o’ RAM
– EVGA 750w power supply
– 500 GB Samsung SSD
– 2TB Seagate mechanical
– Asus GTX 1070 8GB
– Win 10The Cougar works fine in Win10 as noted already. Using Dunc’s files that are included in the download. I ran in to a few bumps like the X axis being reversed. And my throttle pot is bad, but I’ve reassigned that to ant elevation. Ant elevation is now on the range rotary and range is handled by pushing the cursor though the borders. Not perfect, but it’ll work.
Very impressed by the BMS software and also the documentation. Quite professional, and good fun to be back at it. Good to see some old Frugal’s members as well.
HEY DBOND! GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU! LONG TIME NO SEE!
Yeah I’m not nearly in the position yet to where I can start building me one, but thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I’m still digging myself out of a hole here, so it’s going to be weeks/months before I start. Say, I’m not trying to pry, so if you don’t want to tell me I understand, but out of curiosity, how much did your cost to build? I haven’t built or bought a system in years, and I’m out of the loop on prices.
Thanks
Gunner
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Yes, good to see you too. No worries, computer hardware prices are public knowledge:) I spent about US$1600 building the box. I didn’t reuse anything from the old one so new case, keyboard, mouse, monitor, OS. And it’s certainly more than you would need to run Falcon. If you wanted to build a box just to run BMS you could easily knock $500 off that. If you have someone else build it you could easily add $500 to that.
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Yes, good to see you too. No worries, computer hardware prices are public knowledge:) I spent about US$1600 building the box. I didn’t reuse anything from the old one so new case, keyboard, mouse, monitor, OS. And it’s certainly more than you would need to run Falcon. If you wanted to build a box just to run BMS you could easily knock $500 off that. If you have someone else build it you could easily add $500 to that.
Thanks for the heads up. The prices are VERY reasonable. I was expecting a LOT more than that. As I said, I haven’t built a system in years, and I haven’t bought one (a laptop) in about 4 years. I’m years behinds the curve here, and climbing slowly.
Gunner
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The proc and the graphics card were the big tickets, each over $300. But memory, power supply, case, motherboard were all around $100 or less, those are fairly cheap these days. This box runs BMS in campaign at average 90 fps. 60 on the runway at Kimpo and 130 at high alt @1920x1080. If you want to be able to run games like say Witcher 3 full blast it is fantastic. 70 fps with everything maxxed.
But the truth is 40 fps in BMS would also be just fine and you could save some money by getting a less expensive CPU and video card. That said, it sounds like this sort of price is in your wheelhouse. If so, I guarantee you’ve never seen Falcon run better.
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The proc and the graphics card were the big tickets, each over $300. But memory, power supply, case, motherboard were all around $100 or less, those are fairly cheap these days. This box runs BMS in campaign at average 90 fps. 60 on the runway at Kimpo and 130 at high alt @1920x1080. If you want to be able to run games like say Witcher 3 full blast it is fantastic. 70 fps with everything maxxed.
But the truth is 40 fps in BMS would also be just fine and you could save some money by getting a less expensive CPU and video card. That said, it sounds like this sort of price is in your wheelhouse. If so, I guarantee you’ve never seen Falcon run better.
As I said, I’m just absolutely floored by how reasonable desktop parts have become. I’m looking foreward to getting a desktop system so I can fly again
Gunner
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Dammit, Janet, I come back here for a totally different reason and I see all these familiar names…. So the question becomes whether I can still stay out of the Falcon game… errr… sim.
I’ll post a different thread regarding the reason for my visit, but glad to see so many familiar names.