Hi, as the title of this topic says, im a retired flight simmer that would like to get back into the air.
Last time i flew a sim whas when the lock on sim came out.

The last years ive been basicly only playing on my ps3. A few months ago me and my wife decided we need a new computer, we bought a fairly cheap one and i need help to see if i will be able to run DCS A-10C on it.
Its not really a pricey gaming rig but we needed one really for school works since were both students and i also wanted to play diablo 3 on it.

Anyway here is what we got
Acer Predator G3100
processor: AMD Phenom II X4 850 3.30ghz
8gb ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 ti

How will this rig handle the A-10 sim?

I have the same video card as you, and the same amount of RAM. I don't know much about AMD chips, but I've got an i5 2400 @ 3.1 and the sim runs perfect on my rig. I don't have all the details cranked up but I haven't really tried to see what it could do if I did either. It's perfectly smooth when I play, you should still be able to get the whole A-10C experience.

Thanks for the help i guess its time to get my x-45 out of the closet

Hi Fille,
Want some new peripheral hardware suggestions?


Welcome to the A-10C world! I was out of combat flight sims for about 5 years following LOMAC, but the A-10C sim pulled me back in. Enjoy!

Wrecking Crew

Yes please even thou im a bit short on cash atm

It was actually the combination of DCS A-10C and the Thrustmaster Warthog that pulled me back into this combat flight sim. And a Track IR (4 or 5) is essential for my flying, anymore.

You can get by w/o rudders.

Christmas is coming!

WC

Its tempting but cant afford those things yet but thanks for the tip :-)
Saving up for new motor for my rc car

By motor I am assuming a nitro fuel-powered car as an electric motor is rather cheap

To enjoy this sim, a simple joystick is required. A few pilots I know get by with a cheap Logitech Extreme 3D Pro. You'll have to do the finger acrobatics quite a bit but after a while when you get the hang of it everything will be fine. The "ultimate" setup is a TM Warthog, TM Cougar MFDs, TrackIR5 with Track Clip Pro, and a set of rudder pedals. I got a Saitek Pro Flight set, the cheapest available, and they do fine. Then you might want some touch-screen LCDs or even just a few more LCDs for the dash display and peripheral vision (triple-screen). But that is as budget allows and is not "needed" to learn and enjoy the sim.

If there is one thing you will want to prioritize though, it would be the TrackIR.

Well its electric motor me and my wife is on a tight budget at the moment atleast until august, so i cant spend to much. Anyway i got my saitek x-45 and i was hoping i would work with dcs a-10. Well maybe its better to wait with siming until im on a better budget.

The X-45 will work. No need to wait or buy all the suggested peripherals.