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Last time I saw a link that long it was a poor Nigerian banker trying to flee the country with $50 million. All I had to do was pay legal fees of $1500 and I could have 1/2. What a nice guy.

Not sure I have ran across so many wierd things in a while. DCS ran great then earlier this week Windows update and looooong... Last night I bought the Hind and flew 3 short test. Around lunch clicking the DCS icon just showed the update screen then dumped me to desktop. The I noticed every program msfs 2020, did the same including W10 menus. After a few hail desperate attempts I got DCS up and running but it was a washed out "whitish" screen. ALT/ENTER flickers then was normal. Now back to your issue. I run Track Ir , perfectly setup w/ no issues but now unless looking dead ahead it is all over the place. A slight look l or r and I see the tail. Triple checked my tr ir settings. What a mess....

Just solved my issue of not just DCS but MSFS and even windows menus just loading and then disapearing. I have ASUS GPU Tweak 2 "1080ti w/10 wih 32 gigs ssd that automtically loads on boot. I turned it off, disabled all "auto" features and rebooted. Everything including DCS loads fine. Odd the last flight went great "last night" and after buying and installing the Hind, this issue began.... Makes no sense and might just be me but there ya go..

Might be specific to me but like many I could click on DCS icon link or go to the actual folder. The checking for updates screen comes up and then I am dumped to desk top. As of yesterday before the Hind was installed I had no issues. After FOUR hours of trying everything short of a reinstall I stumbled across a big issue some had with GPU Tweak "mine was the latest iirc.. I couldn't even open any of the managers/management/ advanced setting etc. Same issue. The menu appears and then vanishes. Taking ones advice, I went into the Asus Tweak, tools and turned off all automatically start features, on boot, load game etc. Just turn everything off. Now DSC loads, MSFS 2020 loads, all my menus load... I have seen stranger things but hope this either helps or is a scent more advanced users can follow. BTW- W10, recent patch, 1080ti latest patch. 32 gigs ram.

Add me to the list.

A lot of time in 206 and 500s and love the Huey that I got to fly in when they were still operating at KCAE. I have only flown maybe 30 minutes last night and did a taxi and flopped over. Then I went into hover test into FF trying to get the gear up and fire the guns. Decided it was time to search YT and was amazed at how many "how tos" were already up. That said, Unless there is a POH put there I am not aware of, you can't do a by the numbers check to see if they are close. Just in my short run up the valleys and NOE at high speed I found myself smiling. The inertial appears to be believable and even at a stable hover 100ft or so above the runway a slight decrease in coll put me into a quick settle with power and I collapsed the gear. More later but she looks great and the fact I destroyed it 3x in 30 minutes actually means she is a challenge which is what most of us want.

I lived and live in the middle of Falcon country in central SC. Not unusual to have my morning coffee rocked by 16s out of KSSC SHAW Gamblers or KMMT guard Swamp Foxes. Stir in some AH-64 Apaches also of of KMMT. I flew in and around the bombing range S of Shaw. Now gone we also had A-10s out of Myrtle Beach and the occasional Marines out of KNBC in Harriers, 18s. We have even seen the "Tic Tacs" operating along the numerous low alt high speed routes. Love the vids and DCS sounds running through my nice audio system and 3 buttkickers to rumble my seat and pedals really add immersion. Keep em coming. ShotGun 1.

I have despised cockpit reflections since the day they started to become almost mandatory. The on/off option on all these effects is the best thing to come out of them.

My massive SSD I joked would never be filled is now within 200 gigs of being full. The "other" sim I stopped flying because of the insane loading times. DCS was and still is my quickie mission blow some stuff up go to sim. Not sure which is worse. 3 minutes load times, a for sure CTD after every mission or a out of the blue anytime CTD.

Agreed. I would like the ability to make just guns unlimited but not air to ground weapons. It is so difficult against the ai warbirds it would even out the odds, For those carrying air to ground weapons you don't want to carry around all that weight that keep adding itself back. Maybe someday....

FB bricked my Oculus. You must now have a FB account and log in to use VR. No big deal but FB has locked my account for TOS breakage. It seems I am too young "57" and for my "safety" and other vague community reasons FB wants a original copy of either a DL, a B certificate, passport, bank financial records or a SSN. A incredible request from a company that openly sells your personal information and no telling who has access. The terms even say any pictures or date post is THEIRS and they own it. I hope nobody gave them such personal data just to use VR.

Per FPS. Yeah I have always been single player doing solo stuff and can crank the settings. However, start adding AI and it takes it's toll. I call it a "cheat" weapon" but load some CBUs, the ones that shoot upwards the skeets and rain back down. Even with fast 32 gigs of ram and latest card I can coax it into locking up the computer. I was curious so went out to Nevada, added a lot of clouds and dropped 4 CBUs. The computer didn't crash but I was getting 1-2 fps for a good 20 seconds. However, if you go to a external view to watch the carnage you really need a well running muscular rig. Makes for a good test. As is MSFS is my sightseeing and trying to stay realistic. DCS is my blow stuff up sim. Both = $$$ if you want bragging rights and pile on the eye candy.

Strange bug.... I can fly as long as I want, land and taxi to a stop THEN it crashes. Not sure how the sim knows I am done flying but I guess one is enough.

At first glance I thought it was just going to be a dressed up Normandy map but when I approached the major port city I was really impressed. It is a very diverse map with something for everyone from fast movers to helis. I "gulp" would even like to fly a GA aircraft and a civilian heli like a 206 or H500. Great job all around.

I can't get rid of CCIP on the screen even when going into the nav mode.

Overall the scratches, fingerprints, reflections can and some do look great but I always will turn them off given a choice.Yes IRL the sun will bleach out your displays and at night internal light will project but reproducing these visuals in sim seem to always cause more problems than enhancing the sim. Make them all optional across all modules.

Curious as to how the UFO flying AI has came along so I put 6 AI P-51s highest level against one 109 loaded down. In 3 out of 4 fights the 109 slaughtered them. I also noticed that the number of enemy AI critical hits is still WAY to high and most of my bullets are marshmallows.

My love affair with VR faded with the release of the P-47 and Channel map. For sightseeing and helis VR is still incredible but for anything else the loss of graphics and performance just isn't worth it. I dug out my trusty TrackIR and I admit it is a rough few hours to "go back" but now I can actually SEE targets, read gauges and run FULL graphics in a 45 inch TV and get 100 fps. Now a week in I don't miss VR at all.

I set up a basic 1v1 with usually a German 109 or 190 "easy" for practice and while the longstanding issues of the AI still remain, I noticed what seems to be a unusually high "headshot" percentage. On any given night of lets say 10 1v1 encounters, 8 will end in the pilot being insta killed. Don't know if this has anything to do with the Jug, a recent tweak in any number of patches or my imagination.

I had setup a 2 vs 2 mission against German bombers on "easy" and was getting insta killed will a head shot almost every fight.

The only damage model I see as odd isn't the plane but ME. Just about every death wasn't the plane falling apart but insta kill headshots.

Yeah, I have seen these $20 hookers and their damage models works very well.

I have literally spent thousand of hours and decades chasing every "enter magic tweak here" trying to obtain that elusive performance + visuals. Looking back 99% were placebo or were long confusing ways to simply turn things off giving one the illusion of a increase w/o knowing they could have simple turned off a setting or scale down one. Time and tech are what has given us DCS and time and new tech is what will give us a better running/looking DCS. Some love diving into the weeds and running more test than a preflight SpaceX flight to squeeze out that 2 frames. I thankfully pass on the torch and will wait with patience with DCS warts and all.

I probably spent $2000+ just on payware for M$ last 3 versions and that doesn't include joysticks/hardware etc. I don't think there was anything vanilla left. A certain Orb..'s airports I spent over $500 A wipe and reload took a entire day

I have zero knowledge about the programming issues,compatabilities etc but licensing the other companies that have been making very advanced weather and incredible graphics for the other simulations for decades may be a solution. I would not flinch to pay extra for a cloud,texture weather engine made for DCS.