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Old 01-05-2011, 05:21 AM
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Originally Posted by speculum jockey View Post

Not just the actual PC hardware is a limiting factor. Look at the controller options. You have to buy a joystick and doing so is a real mixed bag. A lot of the entry joysticks are either crap with horrible deadzones or non-ambidextrous, leaving a small segment to be even more limited in their option. Plus if you want to do well you need a rudder. Some joysticks have twist rudder, but if you want a rudder that doesn't suck you need to drop another $100 on a set of pedals. If you go the hotas setup you have to drop $100-500 on something that has a good chance of being a lemon.

The Saitek X-52's have crappy spikes in a lot of their units, and G940 still has the reversal bug in the rudder and throttle plus some units overhead and shut down the force feedback. Even the warthog, the holy grail of Hotas setups have issues with DOA units and spiking in them.

It's hard enough for those of us who like flight sims to stay in the game, think about someone just getting into them!

exactly

and then there are all the different flavours of PC Hardware itself, from CPU's to mobo's to soundcards, not to mention the plethora of VGA's.

I find the G940 just has issues - period... and made a mistake in purchasing it.
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