GunnerFlyboy

I've wondered how to get the AI to turn off its lights on fence-in where it makes sense to turn them off. We were always trained to keep all emissions off when on combat missions. At least back in the day with B-52s, back when we were still a low-level penetrator.

I've seen the debate. I always make an exception for the DCS and several other folders that would be vulnerable to being sent to quarantine. Sometimes being a retired software developer haunts me. <laughing> But for some reason, that didn't matter to this new "feature."

I encountered a strange issue. One day, I was flying DCS without issue, and the next day, the sim wouldn't start. I'm sharing this to let people know a solution since there has been a change in my Malware protection capabilities. First, to describe the issue, the DCS.exe would be present in the task manager, and you could see it start loading memory. The memory used/loaded was about 106-8.2 MB... When DCS didn't show any CPU activity, I would kill the process and start again. Through the process of elimination, I found that Malwarebytes had an update between when it worked and when it didn't, no splash screen, nothing. The only way to figure out that there was a problem was to watch the boot sequence of DCS in the task manager. The specific setting had to do with Settings -> Protection -> Exploit protection (and the sub item "Block potentially malicious email attachments"). I turned off the Exploit protection in Real-Time Protection. There is no log to attach, as there was almost no log. It got to the login tasks, and that is where it died. I hope this helps someone.

Thank you but no, I just updated to that version as well, I'll test and see if it still occurs.

Has anyone found a resolution to this?

Good list. I don't think in all my time on a B-52 I knew that much about the ADR-8. If I understand what they have done is use the right pylon to hang a more than one type of TGP. As for the ECM capabilities, I wish DCS had EW. That's a good list.

Did ED ever get this into one of the builds?

I can say using Claude to do troubleshooting, tuning hardware, and DCS has been quite a ride for me as well. I've not had a chance to use the AI for code development. But he did point me here and thank you for doing this.

I've spent a lot of time in the past combing through bug reports to get to a place where I could enjoy DCS. I'm retired USAF aircrew and after that career I spent another 20+ years doing software development. I even developed software solutions for FSX and P3D a long time ago. It occured to me to use an LLM AI to comb though the data not only from these forums, but to also use it analyzing simulation flight test data derived from monitoring the CPU, RAM and GPU sensors and correlating these to the DCS.log. I spent about a month in my spare time training an AI to become a simulation test data analyst. I was pleasantly surprised by how much faster problems could be tracked down in the hardware. Also it helped to tune or retune DCS (like after an update). The end result is I can determine issues almost as fast or faster than spending time waiting and wading through the forums for clues as to what is wrong. In fact, the AI has developed a "mental" picture of how DCS operates. I'm not sure its correct more test data needs to be collected to give credence to the conclusions. I'm now spending a lot more time flying with instrumentation on the hardware running DCS. So if something goes wrong a solution is no longer many hours and and in some cases - days to get the sim and hardware back in a stable state so I can spend more time flying and less time troubleshooting. Is there anyone else here that has done anything similar? And if that is true, would they be interesting in sharing their experience? Maybe the discussion would help others who are struggling to get the sim working faster?

I've been using Claude 4 Sonnet with extended thinking. Many of the errors are in modules that aren't mods. I had a box that needed tuning and OC and undervolting to be able to run most scenarios. It actually goes and reading the forums and other sites that have data related troubleshooting data. It took test flights in three different scenario sizes large (~2000 objects), medium (~1000), and small (~500). It was able to determine not only what errors mattered, it could give guidance on OC and undervolting the CPU and GPU. I even asked it the build components for a new machine. Now I use it for all flights where there is any issue.

Sweet!

I had the same problem, yesterday the sim worked fine, then today I couldn't get it to launch with the new launcher. I did all the troubleshooting and found a workaround that gets you back into the sim without a repair or more invasive troubleshooting. The issue is resolved (until ED can figure out the cause) by bypassing launcher via a modification of the options.lua file. Open the file up in notepad or notepad++ (Make a backup!). You can find it in this location: C:\Users\[Username]\Saved Games\DCS\Config\options.lua Once you have options.lua open, look around line 140, search for this: ["launcher"] Now that you have found this line of code: ["launcher"] = true change it to: ["launcher"] = false Save the file and then you should be able to start DCS like the old way. We are just using old way which didn't depend on the launcher. DCS log was truncated so there was no information that was usable, I looked also at the event viewer - nothing there out of the ordinary. My system specs: HP Omen 30L GT13-0090 (Modified for greater thermal cooling and RAM) Intel Core i9-10850K (Stock: 3.6GHz, OC: 4.7GHz with undervolting) NVIDIA RTX 3090 OC and undervolted. 64GB RAM @ 3200 MT/s Windows 11 Home Build: 24H2 DCS Version 2.9.17.12034 Doc

How did you do that? And did it work on conjunction with the other modification to the B-52H.lua file above?

I'm not sure if this has been requested before. I searched and this aircraft didn't come up. A full fidelity version would be nice, but at least an AI version of the OA-1K Skyraider II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L3Harris_OA-1K_Skyraider_II

So the laser guided ordnance doesn't need a TGP to do terminal guidance? I know there is a pylon on the right wing but no litening pod. Or is it because its AI it doesn't need a TGP?