Dr_Watson

Would be nice if the new version number was next to the change log, ie 2.5.0.15085.337

Good idea, I can try and compare to real life my comparing a track. Maybe I am landing too heavy, but lets see...

Enjoying this aircraft, but I find the touchdown physics are poor, the suspension doesn't seem to soak up any positive landing, it bounces far too much, especially the outrigger wheels which tends to cause the aircraft to bounce with one wing high. A good landing is still awkward in that the aircraft skips around on the surface instead of the suspension taking up these movements. Comments?

A few years on, I’m still hoping for some basic AI fixes. F15 wingman taking off with 50% performance than your own plane, but twice the performance once catching you up in the air. You land and struggle to stop the aircraft on the runway available, the AI land and stop about 100m after touchdown! Flying in cruise at Mach .9, the AI has a 20 deg angle of attack?? AI turn without banking...all these basic bugs from 10 years ago. The AI in digital integration Tornado in the 80s flew more realistically.

Finished it, and I got to do some A2A refueling after all :) Amazing campaign, the first "real" one I have done. Those R33's are tough but managed to find some good tactics which came good. Thanks for your replies, I understand the limitations of the game, what you achieved is crazy, I never new such dialogue and triggers were possible. A2A as an option would be great, but I could imagine such an option adds great complexity and time to an already complex mission! That's me done with the F15, I know the A10c pretty well, so it's "The Enemy within" next, looking forward to it, especially with the 2.5 map. Cheers

Hi Great campaign, I'm on mission 16, not too many problems or repeated missions so far, very atmospheric. Apologies for being a bit vague, I can't remember exact mission numbers and bugs. - Mission 15, escorting the Yak, Yak climbs at 135kts, cruises at 200kts then only 222kts when asked to go as fast as possible. I guess this is a DCS bug though? Fishbed 1 & 2 split and do a pincer move, Fishbed 2 then overflys your home base, and dives down and crashes into the AWACS parked there. - Mission where you relocate base, if you tell your wingman to RTB, he flys all the way back to the original base from mission 1, instead of the new one. On that note, if you RTB your wingman at any distance from home base, he flys to a random base, sometimes into Russia, I learnt to ask him to join up then RTB close to home base, but this isn't always ideal when he is bingo 1st, which is often the case. - The mission where you are asked to rearm and refuel, you are told to do so then await new instructions, but these instructions never come. Some missions would be better if you had the chance to rearm and refuel, get back in the air and finish off some bombers or a new group of bombers. A2A refuelling would make the campaign more interesting. The AWACS is flying it's orbit very close to the front line from about mission 8 or 9 onwards. It's also flying at less than 200kts so you can't formate on it if you want to. Not a big deal but not so realistic. Many missions would be a bit more atmospheric if there was some other air traffic using the base. I understand the story line, but something taking off or landing would make it more interesting. All in all, a great campaign, learnt a lot about the F15 and it's tactics, looking forward to the last mission. Lastly, I read and watch a lot of documentaries on wars, was 7 years old at the Falklands war and followed it intensely, 16 years old a Gulf war I, I lived in an RAF training area in Scotland so Xmas 91 was pretty special with non stop low level flying over my house! I didn't know anything about this area and this war so now I am reading up on it, very interesting so far.

Which driver do you recommend, I have the last 3 or 4 downloaded so happy to try your suggestion.

So I seem to be able to make some improvements by changing the global settings, can never get the game profile to work. But it seems the AA or SGSS settings are not making the improvement, something else is, which I’m looking into. To add, this is with deferred shading on. I just tried HDR only for the first time and it looks perfect! No jaggies, flickering or shimmering.

I'm having no luck at all with DCS, I'm lucky that my hardware copes easily as far as FPS go, 8700k and a 1080Ti. Setting MSAA in game to 2x or 8x has no FPS effect. The ingame MSAA is the only thing I can get to control the visual effects. 8x looks good when the aircraft is sitting still, but as soon as I taxi, the lines are shimmering and flickering, the TAD map has flickering lines, runway lines are flickering and shimmering, it looks terrible. The strange this is, I can not get NVCP or Inspector to do anything to my ingame settings. I have tried all combinations, but nothing. Tried new profiles, with DCS launcher as the exe and run as the exe. I tried enhance, override, FXAA on and off, SGSS, but it always looks the same. One trick that I think should work is to leave vsync off in the game, then set it to 1/2 or 1/3 refresh from NVCP or Inspector, then if I check my FPS in game, I can see that the game is taking commands from one of the programs, but in my case, it never does, and FPS is not controlled by external vsync. In the past, any gaming was just a case of override or enhance, supervcaa 64x for AA and get rid of the shimmering with spare grid SS 4x, but now it just wont work. Lastly, if I run NVCP and Inspector profiles, which one overrides which? Do they work together or conflict with each other? EDIT : actually, one thing I meant to try, and just pop into my head, was if Inspector profile won't work, then maybe the game is reading the Global settings, so I set some Vsync global settings, and now DCS is responding to them..so some success there, now to try some different AA settings, fingers crossed!

Understood, thanks for the help!

Got it, thanks for the info.

Same problem here, I have 1.58, and it's not updating? So I need to update 1.58 to a newer open Beta version, then update to 2.5?

I have no idea how this works, have read various contradictions. If I run DCS 2.2, it boots into the game, no update. Showing version 2.2.0.12843 If I run DCS 1.5.8, it boots into the game, no update, game version 1.5.8.12823 If I run either of the DCS_updater apps, they just boot me into the game too??

Thanks for the info. I will try that updater clean up and manually delete lockon and see how it goes. Cheers

Hi all. I am planning to buy one or two new SSD's as part of an upgrade to my PC. My DCS install works perfectly, but it's all a bit fragmented. I don't do anything through stream. Current setup. F: DCS World 2 Open Alpha folder L: DCS World folder/mods/aircraft with A10C & KA50 folders L: Eagle Dynamics Folder containing 3 folders --> DCS World & Lock On & DCS Black Shark 2 L: KA 50 folder So I would like to put DCS World 2 onto L: drive so it's all on one drive. Then I can copy the whole lot to a new drive. But then I will have 4 folders for the game! Any suggestions on how to tidy this up? Also, if I start from scratch on a new HDD, do I still need the original LockOn CD? This was the case a few years ago, not sure if thats changed. Cheers

At short finals and flare, the light does not light the runway, it only lights it once the nosewheel is lowered. Would be nice if it lit the runway just before touchdown, just now you just land on a dark runway. Nellis doesn't have the runway end lamps (or whatever they are called) that shine onto the touchdown zone like the airbases in the Crimea map have.

Nothing about F15 landing light?

GTX580 soon to be a GTX970.

Ok, will do. So the procedure I described for the update is correct?

Anyone?

Similar question here. I have DCS World 1.2.0.3205. Modules A10C, KA50/2, SU25T. So I need to unistall DCS world, then download the 5 main files, install then install those 3 modules again. If so, how can I keep my controls setup, it takes me forever to map all the controls again!

It's a SU 25. Just pause the video. Not sure how you can mistake that for a F18?

The U in HUD means UP, the pilot will be looking directly at the HUD, he won't see that much inside the cockpit. To look at the dials he should pan his head down. The default view in the game is way off, the pilot is looking very low, you hardly see anything outside the cockpit, for a CAS aircraft this is wrong, looking outside and the HUD are the primary view points, looking inside are sceondary to check NAV, weapons, etc. I don't believe the pic you show will be the final head position for the full release, if it is I would be shocked, it simply doesn't look right or function properly.

I can't get past the close canopy section of the A10 start up training mission. It says right click and hold the close canopy switch, but that does nothing, I close the canopy with the keyboard which is fine, but then nothing happens after that. THere is still a yellow highlight box around the close canopy switch, tried everything, no luck so far. I switched on the APU and then the tutorial seems to continue with the engine start but the engines don't start as there are a few steps missed out. Win 7 64 bit, Cd2 E8500, GTX470, GB Ram.

23 seconds of mouth watering video, edited with special effects from one of the best video makers in the communicity who has been doing this stuff as long as I can remember. It's an unfair battle, you will always loose. Your GFX look fine!