NightHawk1867

Instant Action with F5E Tiger II on Caucasus map menu crashes and DCS freezing. Hi, I have the standalone F5E Tiger II aircraft mod and was trying to use the Instant Action in Caucasus map and after clicking on the mission a series of screen flashes and blank menu would appear and DCS would freeze. I had to use the task manager to end the program. At some points the screen flashing which occurred with any key press was a little nauseating. Occurred with the first 2 from top on the menu for instant action on Caucasus map with F5E Tiger II. Think they were called 'Cold Start' and 'Cold Start 2' This occurred at the mission menu, mission brief and once at the mission debrief. Other instant action mission on the Caucasus map worked fine as did some instant action missions for the F5E Tiger II on other maps (I have all the maps). I have the latest DCS version and did a clean install when the major update with new menu was released. Plus Flaming Cliffs 3 and Flaming Cliffs 2024 with the F5 and a lot of other aircraft. I have also started using aitrack with opentrack which has been replaced with beam eye tracker and open track. If someone could check out their DCS so see if its a DCS or me issue I would appreciate it. If anybody has possible cause or solutions please let me know, thanks. Ok just loaded into DCS Wed Aug 14 after latest update DCS 2.9.7.59074 which also included a Flaming Cliffs 3 update and everything seems fine with this. I will leave post up in case the issue returns. I did not have any eye tracking active on this test.

Hi, a small note. A file in 'CH Military Asset Pack Ukraine 1.1.0' failed the integrity check for a multiplayer server. I have temporarily removed this mod. Wish I could be more specific about the file but do recall 'su-24 collision' and then the file string appeared. Thought you would like to know. Date July 14 2024 fully updated DCS (clean install).

Hi, a small note on 'Pilot Ground' mod. It failed the integrity for a multiplayer server. So I have temporarily removed it from saved games. Date: July 14 2024 fully updated DCS (clean install). Wish I could be more specific about the file but there seemed to be several in the mod.

Hi, I have a quick question. I'm planning to uninstall DCS and do a clean install of the new DCS (with new manager) that came out July. I noticed that my DCS Updater Launcher GUI has been keeping user data in the C drive saved games folder. I would like to move this to a specific folder. For me it would be D/DCS Utilities/DCS Updater Utility/ [data files]. Can I move this thru 'use custom user profile folder' in app settings. And all the data will move over. Thanks, Rick. [Update: Setup the 'use custom user profile folder' and it worked fine, transferred the old files there as an archive. Then updated the App]

"What does Flaming Cliffs 2024 mean and how will FC2024 affect, if any, aircraft modules that are already owned by users? Such as the F5E II Tigershark and F86F Sabre both by Belsimtek" The above question should have been answered by now. DCS need to be clear about this before people purchase Flaming Cliffs 2024. I would expect each FC2024 aircraft to be standalone and not affect other purchased aircraft modules. But you never know.

Hi. Yes the RCAF used RAF ranks from 1924 to 1968, Then amalgamated Canadian Forces ranks 1968-1984, hybrid CAF-RCAF ranks 1984-2014 and current RCAF ranks 2014+. Description of RCAF ranks 1924-2014+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Royal_Canadian_Air_Force#Ranks_and_uniforms I think DCS generally uses current air force ranks. I believe DCS uses current Russian ranks over Soviet era ranks. And of course use USAF ranks not WW2 United States Army Air Corp. I think we would be better with the current modern RCAF ranks.

Proper Royal Canadian Air Force Rank Insignia. Hi could DCS update the Royal Canadian Air Force ranks to the proper RCAF blue insignia. DCS has the old yellow ranks from the days when the Canadian Forces was combined 1968-2014 approx. RCAF adopted blue ranks around 2014. Naval ship borne aircraft, helicopters, are crewed by RCAF crew so no need to worry about Royal Canadian Navy ranks. Official RCAF page: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/defence/caf/military-identity-system/air-force-ranks.html Possible RCAF ranks with the King's crown: https://www.deviantart.com/dragon-of-ra/art/Royal-Canadian-Air-Force-WWIII-992514401 If you want to geek out on the RCAF this wiki page has a lot of into and a section with large pictures of modern RCAF ranks; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Air_Force https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Armed_Forces_ranks_and_insignia For the Brits. explainer on King Charles Tudor Crown for Royal Air Force https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/his-majesty-the-kings-coronation-heralds-a-new-era-for-raf-uniforms/ Canada has adopted the 'Canadian Royal Crown' to represent King Charles III. This crown will begin to appear on all Canadian forces, army, navy, air force and the RCMP and most police services over time. Details in the links. https://www.gg.ca/en/heraldry/royal-and-viceregal-emblems/royal-crown. https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-symbols-titles/royal-crown-cypher.html Since it will be a long time before King Charles crown becomes common if you wished to stick with Queen Elizabeth's St. Edward crown I think that would be fine and easier. Don't forget to keep the 'CANADA' on officer ranks; officer cadet, 2nd Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lt. Colonel, Colonel. Canada has had these blue RCAF ranks for 10 years now. Thanks, Nighthawk1867.

RCN Scooter livery for Community A-4E Skyhawk by 'bulico' I have the most up to date DCS 2.7 open beta and news A-4E mod v2 (downloaded Jan 07) and began flying again after a long absence. Flew off the USS Forestall and successfully landed on the carrier. I love Canadian content so I tried the RCN livery created by 'bulico' created in Aug 2020 which did work fine but now does not. The words 'missing texture' can be seen on the fuselage and there are rectangle patches like tetris. Any ideas how I could fix? (I know nothing about creating livery files but would really like to this RCN livery working). Link to the original livery here: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3312072/ Solution found thanks to 'plusnine' on the a-4e community discord channel. Decided to continue the post to help anyone else with similar livery issues. The solution is to edit the original RCN Scooter livery description file with notepad++ 1. First make a back up copy of your description file and save it somewhere safe. I renamed mine 'rcn scooter description' just to be safe. 2. Find a livery in the A-4E mod package (openbeta/mods/aircraft/A-4E-C/liveries/A-4E-C) and load the 'description' file into notepad ++ 3. I used livery called 'Trainer USN NFWS Gray' 4. For RCN Scooter description replace "Bottom", ROUGHNESS_METALLIC, "fus_bot_v472_RoughMet_hi" with 5. Trainer USN NFWS Gray description "Bottom", ROUGHNESS_METALLIC, "a4e_ext_bottom_RoughMet_lo" 6. For RCN Scooter description replace "Top", ROUGHNESS_METALLIC, "fus_top_v494_RoughMet_hi" with 7. Trainer USN NFWS Gray description "Top", ROUGHNESS_METALLIC, "a4e_ext_top_RoughMet_lo" 8. Save the description file for the RCN Scooter. 9. Test it out. Hopefully it works for you. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Original RCN Scooter with 'missing texture' Fixed RCN Scooter with edited description using files from 'Trainer USN NFWS Gray'

DCS Crashing on 2nd mission load: Once a again a potential success in resolving DCS crashing on second mission load but don't get too excited. Did a DCS repair and restarted the pc then went into settings and turned off SSAA SSLR SSAO. Restarted the pc then loaded DCS and was able to load 3 instant action missions in a row, exited the ran DCS again and loaded another 3 instant action missions. Think there is somebody in the thread above who did this and it worked for them. Note that my clouds are set to low. SSAA Super Sample Anti-Aliasing [may have been turned off already as MSAA on]. SSLR Screen Space Local Reflections. SSAO Screen Space Ambient Occlusion [new to DCS 2.7 and NOT in manual. Involves the GPU and real-time ambient occlusion. Whatever that means?]. Time will tell. Update: Lasted less than an hour then 2nd mission crashes continued. Below is my options screen to provide a visualization. Settings are bottom left.

May take some witchcraft to solve this mind boggling DCS crashing puzzle.