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Hi, In the BS2 I used to just jump in, take off, activate that yellow optical eye piece, look at roughly where the target is then hit lock and my shkval would be on and locked near the target. With a recent update on the new BS3 when I press the button for the yellow eye piece, instead night vision turns on and I can't for the life of me turn on the Shkval. If anyone could give me the instructions to locate targets with head tracking and turn on the Skhaval like how it was in BS2 before the update that would be great! I can't even turn the Shkval on anymore!

Thanks heaps for all the helpful advice. Very much appreciated. I ended up playing around more with the inception range, I think I settled on either 1 or 3% which was awesome. With this range the ships mostly use the CIWS? Machine gun, and we were able to have heaps of fun dodging the machine gun fire and eventually sink the fleet using mark 84s believe it or not. Still lost a lot of planes but it was the perfect balance for our skill level and the mission. The ships still engaged other ships with missiles.

The inception range has helped a lot but I was wondering if there's anything else that can be done? Can you make certain ships not engage planes but still engage other ships? Also is it possible to limit their ammo? Thanks

Hi, I just made an epic naval warfare mission but even on Average the ships are too deadly for my amateur flying skills. As soon as I get airborne I immediately get blown out of the sky. What are the ways of limiting the firepower of the ships the most fun way possible? Is it possible to make them only use guns? My mission is a modern one so I am using like 6 modern warships on each side. Thanks!

I had the same problem, camera mounted on top of monitor. All worked fine but when I looked down it would spaz out. Fixed it by tilting the camera down and wearing my cap higher on my head so it is directly pointing at the camera

Turned out my 5 year old 1050w seasonic platinum wasn't quite up to the task. Got it replaced under warranty and the problem disappeared. Was the most annoying problem ever to diagnose.

Hi, I was wondering if someone can tell me what are the best views for watching an enemy ground target after I've released a bomb or missile? Ideally a view where it is just focussed on the target that the bomb is heading towards or one where it is following the bomb. I found one but it is so shakey and disappears as soon as the target is hit. Thanks for your advice!

Hi, I have a DIY trackhat and I noticed in YouTube vids when people look around they can see the HUD wherever they look. For me, this does not occur. Is there a button I need to press or something to make this feature work? Thanks

Thanks heaps for the advice! I will do the switch. I had the 735il, it was a very nice straight 6, loved it. Had an e38 with the 4.4L v8 after and although the v8 power was great, never liked it as much as the e32. Unfortunately I never had the pleasure of experiencing the V12. I should have got one when they were a few grand. They are classics here now, impossible to find.

Hi, I've been interested in switching to standalone for some time now. Sorry I know this topic has been covered many times but couldn't find specific answers that I'm after. Just have a couple of questions. My main motivation is so DCS gets all my money, also in Australia the modules ATM are waaay cheaper on standalone. F14 is $84AUD on DCS compared to $130AUD on steam. 1. I mainly use DCS to create a server and play with just my cousin, missions that we've created. I have steam and he has standalone. I am in Australia and he is in France usually with a ping of about 300. This is the only game where a ping of this high doesn't seem to really matter (we mostly do coop). My server never automatically kicks him for high ping. If I change to standalone is there any chance that there are any limitations to ping when creating a server for the type of server I run? 2. Is it possible for all my settings and keyboard and joystick bindings to be transferred across? 3. I assume all my modules will be transferred across, is this the case? 4. I remember reading a detailed guide from DCS on how to transfer to standalone, can anyone link the guide? If anyone can provide any answers that would be greatly appreciated especially to question 1 Thanks, Kind regards, e32lover

Tosmonaute nice thread hijack! Hope you get your issues solved . I will crank my preload radius up and attach my crash log. I'm pretty sure I noticed that with a lower preload radius the stuff in the distance like trees on the ground didn't look as detailed bit this is just a hunch.

I just downloaded and installed it, first it didn't work when I installed it in steamapps/DCS etc but when I installed it in username/savedgames/DCS/mods/aircraft or whatever, it works fine. (Steam user) It is actually quite nice! Pleasantly surprised. Don't expect the same level of refinement as the Huey or ka50 but it is a nice change. I'll be interested to see how it develops. Are there any other good free mods? If so, where could I find them. The only free mods I've installed from 3rd parties have been missions but now I much prefer making my own since I figured out how to use the mission creator. Good luck! And thanks for the free Blackhawk whoever made it!

Hi, Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong section or breaking any rules. My friend just told me there is a new free DCS Blackhawk. I couldn't find any info on it until I stumbled across this Skyward website where they do claim to have a free Blackhawk available for download for DCS which I have downloaded. What is this? I went to the steam store page and couldn't find it there. Is this just some crappy mod that some guys made or is it a proper aircraft? Can't decide if I should risk installing it or not. All my other thousands of dollars of mods have come straight from the DCS steam store and I want to keep my DCS as pure as possible (I remember messing up my MS Flightsim 2000 back in the day pretty bad with after market mods) Is this a legit mod or should I avoid it? Thanks for your advice. Please move to correct forum if this is the wrong one.

Hi Ramsay Thank you so much for your advice, I owe you big time. Fingers crossed that has fixed the problem. I have spent a few hours playing the Syria map all sorts of missions and not a single crash. I set the windows page file to 32768 and I reduced the preload radius to 60,000. I have 32gb ram. My next question is what hardware changes are necessary to put the pre load radius back to max? At present I have nothing overclocked, i7 6700k, 32gb Corsair vengeance 2400, 3090 and a 1tb cheap samsung sata SSD. Thanks again for your generous help. I play so much DCS that being able to play the Syria map has really made a big difference to my quality of life no joke.

Hi, I'm running Steam DCS, I have a 3090 but the rest of my system's quite old, i7 6700k and all my other gear apart from the gfx card is from that 2016 period. The only thing I've changed is I got a new 1300w PSU as my old one died. I'd say 80 percent of the time it won't even load the Syria map, and then if it does load it, it will crash within less than a minute. It never crashes on any other maps. The funny thing is there are a few quick missions where it loads up fine, and it runs beautifully, but most don't work, and my PC crashes within minutes or during loading. I have all settings pretty much on max on 3440x1440 and as mentioned, all other maps run fine and if I do get lucky and successfully load up a Syria map it runs perfectly fine but that hardly ever happens. I noticed the 3090 is getting up to 79 degrees, not sure if this is normal. My CPU is all within healthy parameters so not sure what else it could be. Could it just be that my CPU is too weak, or my SSD is too old? Thanks for your advice.

Convoy escort would be great, with maybe an ambush along the way with some shoulder launched AA weapons

Hi, I recently upgraded from using Smoothtrack on my phone to FacetrackNoIR with a PS Eye camera, and wow, it is vastly superior. Except for one problem, FacetrackNoIR will periodically "freeze". Usually I can get it going again by pressing the 'stop' and 'start' button repeatadly and just waiting for a while, and eventually it will come back on. Sometimes this method won't work, and I just have to wait ages, like after 10 minutes it might "unfreeze". Has anyone got any suggestions on how I could solve this issue? Thanks

It would be the ultimate version of Desert Combat

Hi, I am a bit of an amateur, I have been playing with the Kh25s, and my first one always hits the target, but the 2nd one I fire ALWAYS misses, usually it just falls early but it seems to have no guidance at all. Im sure I am just missing something simple, if someone can advise me what I'm doing wrong that would be great. Thanks

Hi, I have been enjoying the Black Shark. I only play DCS single player, and utilise a nice 5.1 channel surround system. It is all setup correctly and with all other aircraft the sound is great but with the Black Shark, when I am pulling high G manoeuvres, the volume will go completely quiet out of some of my speakers and all I'll here is the rotors at certain times. It is sort of hard to explain but there is some issue I am having with the surround sound. Is there any known fix for this, or alternatively a downloadable alternative sound pack for the Black Shark that I could try? Thanks for your advice.

I just had a look and it does look good, much more affordable than the Track Hat Plus. The only issue is that I don't wear a headset. Is there any way to utilise the Delan clip with a hat? Like maybe attach it to a hat? Also in regards to the PS3 Cam, what sort of modifications are done to it? I had a look at the Track Hat Plus shop, and they don't have any cameras, just the hat. Can you buy just the modded cameras somewhere to go with the Track Hat Plus?

Hi, In regards to head tracking in DCS, I have been using opentrack with smoothtrack on my phone and the while it has blown me away and I have been incredibly impressed, I wouldn't mind upgrading to something better. My main problem with this setup is that I am constantly having to press the 'recentre' button to re set the view as it doesn't always go exactly back to straight ahead. Also it is a pain not being able to use my phone while gaming and there is a bit of lag. It is also not quite sensitive or accurate enough to use helmet mounted sighting systems properly. I am interested in purchasing the Track Hat Plus, it is affordable and I am already familiar with the opentrack software and I like it. I am just wondering, in order to get this setup going, apart from purchasing the track hat plus, do I just need a "PS3 PS Eye" webcam and that's it? Are there any other components I need to buy or anything else I should know before buying this setup? I use a little 5.1 channel setup so prefer the hat option since I don't wear a headset. Thanks for your advice.

Hi, I just downloaded smoothtrack for my phone and I must say it is very impressive. My only complaint is there is quite a bit of lag, is there any way to reduce the input lag? Also, are there game specific profiles that I can load for DCS into the open track software? It all more or less works but some of the axis are a bit weird feeling, and I thought if there was a specific profile for DCS it may save me having to tweak it for ages. Thanks

Hi, I just got a 3090 and now my 5 year old i7 6700k PC can run DCS with literally every setting on max at 3500x1440 or whatever that res is. Almost! The frame rate is very good but does occasionally dip down slightly below what I would like. I was just wondering which settings I can turn down that I won't notice? Just need a few extra fps. BTW DCS plus 3090 =OMG! Most impressive thing I've ever seen in my life! Thanks for your advice

Hi guys, Great forum! I'm relatively new to DCS but absolutely love helicopters, and without a doubt DCS is the best helicopter simulator Ive ever played. It's a bonus that it's a combat Sim too! Anyway I have been having the greatest gaming experience of my life flying the huey. I just have one issue. Whenever I fly the huey for an extended amount of time, like more than 15 mins, even if just cruising along, I always get an engine fire and the thing crashes. The report says something like Main Generator Fail, Starter Generator Fail. I was just wondering what the cause of this is, and how it can be avoided? Also, what would you recommend as my next helicopter? I love the huey but find that it doesn't quite have enough firepower for many of the missions. Thanks for your advice.