u/IrlArizonaBoi

Hey Guys,

First off very much excited for the new Korea sim. There are always things to complain about but overall it's a great start. In VR it feels like I'm flying an airplane!

Unfortunately this sim brought my 3090 to it's knees to barely get 60 FPS. Which I was able to achieve consistently, but I also wanted more. Pimax at full graphics settings and 4k textures and full FOV also blows up the 5080 I bought as an upgrade due to insufficient VRAM, this game probably needs a 5090 for good high resolution VR but at that point you're a good part of the way to buying a real P51 to fly around in so some compromise is needed.

After a couple days worth of hours tinkering and tuning over the last week here is what worked really well for me with my Pimax 8kx. Using these settings, in a single player scenario with 12 airplanes at about 2000 meters and light clouds. I can achieve consistent 90FPS, only bogging down in dense furballs and landing where it drops to around 60-70 FPS. Usually my test scenario is about on par with what I can achieve in multiplayer.

For Pimax headsets, the NIS upscaling in Pimax play gave the best results visually and performance wise. The DLSS performance option did give pretty good performance but the high upscaling made distant airplanes blow up in size. The Pi Tool NIS is slightly under the "Balanced" settings. What I found was that being able to run 100% resolution in game and pimax tool with NIS upscaling was better than any combo of lower resolution and anti-aliasing that I could run. It looked better visually, and gave better more consistent frame rates.

The graphics aren't the best, but they pretty good. You can clearly spot aircraft against terrain and track them, you have a good sensation of relative motion, the experience is pretty smooth, and I can read all the cockpit gauges clearly without zooming. It's definitely good enough to get immersed.

PC Specs:

• 13600k
• 32gb ddr5 6400 using XMP
• rtx 5080 gaming OC: overclocked to +300 clock/+1500 memory in MSI afterburner
• SSDs and chonker psu and all that jazz.

First, pimax play settings for the 8kx:

1. Hardware Settings:
   • 13600k OC" 5.5ghz
   • RTX 5080 OC: +300 core +1500 mem
2. (Pimax Play) Device Settings:
   • Refresh Rate: 90hz
     • (I recommend locking refresh to whatever framerate you can consistently achieve. This appears to give the smoothest experience overall. This was also true when I was running 60FPS on the 3090, locked the HMD to 60hz refresh)
   • Panel Mode: Native
3. (Pimax Play) Game Settings:
   • FOV: Normal
   • Image Quality: High (1.0)
   • GPU Upscaling: Custom
     • NIS
     • Super Resolution:1.5
     • Sharpness: 0.3
   • Pimax Central Priority Rendering: On
   • Parallel Projection: On
   • Hidden Area Mask: On
4. Il-2 Korea Settings:
   • General Graphics
     • Quality: High
     • Screen resolution: (I have mine set to lower resolution but set to whatever you want your flatscreen at)
     • Full Screen: Disabled
     • Upscaling: Disabled
     • Enable VR HMD: Open XR
   • Visual Effects:
     • Distant Landscape Detail: Normal
     • Horizon Draw Distance: 100km
     • Distant Buildings: Enabled
     • Pilot Body Visibility: Enabled (matter of taste, I find it immersive)
     • Canopy Reflections: Off
     • Shadows Quality: Off
     • Clouds Quality: High
     • Grass Quality: Off
     • Mirrors: Complex
   • Advanced Settings:
     • Anti-Aliasing: Off
     • Dynamic Resolution Factor: Disabled
     • Sharpen: Disabled
     • SSAO: Disabled
     • Indirect Lighting: Disabled
     • Terrain Roughness: Off
     • Landscape Filter: Off
     • Lighting HDR: Off
     • Gamma: 0.86
     • 4K Textures: Disabled
     • Cities Optimization: Favor FPS
     • VR Resolution Factor: 100%

I am still going to play around a bit comparing pimax play NIS upscaler with DLSS. From my intial observation it seems like DLSS gives a better quality image, but performs worse. DLSS performance and performance + did give pretty good frame rates but also ballooned distant airplanes. Makes spotting them easier but harder to judge distance when far away and I'm not the biggest fan.

Spotting in this game is really good by the way. I can spot and track airplanes easy enough, but it's not cartoonishly easy.

Anyways, hope this helps.

I was a road warrior for about 3 years so I've had some bad travel days. Today was one of the worst travel days I've had in recent memory though.

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I woke up at 5am and I was supposed to be home at 9am, departing at 8am on a nonstop flight this morning now I'll be home at 1am the next day and I'm still sitting at DFW since there were no other direct flights. My original flight was delayed then cancelled. The rebooked flight was also delayed an hour. Luckily the connection was delayed too so I'm still synced up.

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Overall time delta from plan to actual is pushing 16 hours and I'm going to have to take an extra day off work as well since there's no way I'm gonna turn this ship around.

Update: connection flight has been further delayed.

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Major ouch, and everyone is running on a real short fuse to add to the misery. Hope you all get home safe.

Hi Guys, long story short I flew out of state for a Unicorn car. I bought it in a rust belt state. It's 7 years old but has pretty low mileage (31k at the time of purchase). I've peeked under it a few times and there isn't any significant rust, just light surface rust on fasteners and stuff like that mostly.

That said, the underside of the car is covered in fabric sound deadening panels and there's all kinds of nooks and crannies that look like places for leftover salt and rust to hide.

I live in AZ where it's a dry ass desert and our cars are almost perfectly rust free. I'm not really worried about this car continuing to rust now that it's in the desert, but I'd like to give the chassis and underbody a thorough wash to remove any salt residue and remove/treat any surface rust or spots where it's beginning under the car. Clean it up and protect the chassis from future problems basically.

Thing is, I have no experience with rust proofing/removal/remediation given where I live. It does not look like the car has been undercoated. I don't even know if that's a service you can get done in Phoenix (I suspect no).

How would you northern car guys approach this? Is it even worth doing it? You'd probably laugh at me if I posted a picture of the chassis and tell me not to worry but I adore this car and want to keep it a long time. My biggest concern is the residual salt.

Hey guys,

I'm looking to sell my Si, and I'd like advice on where I should sell it. It's a clean car and I'm asking a little more than what you'd typically find for sale in the Facebook marketplace pool.

I'm selling private party, where should I list it for sale? Asking $12k so just not sure where to list it for sale since it's kind of in between cheap beater land and actual nice car land and then there's enthusiast tax.

It's in really good shape and low mileage for the year.