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I just on a whim went into the mission and changed the date so that there is moonlight..no graphical issues.

This is Fear the Bones Mission 1 null I actually got a reply to the ticket i opened: Hello. I talked to the testers. They said that this is an old and well-known bug. It will be fixed, but I am not ready to write you any timeframe Best regards and many happy landings ! MotorEAST Eagle Dynamics IT Team I looked back to try to find similar issues.. and apparently this has been going on for years Its not really a huge deal when viewing externally.. but in VR its completely unplayable due to the outside of the cockpit being pitch black. not being able to play even the first mission of a purchased campaign is quite annoying. Here is a video of the track file that I just posted.. dcs.log Light source issues.trk

Will replicate and post after work.

I only play in vr.. and at times .. not all the time, the nights are EXTREMELY dark to the point where the game is unplayable. There is no rhyme or reason as to when this happens.. it can be fine in one mission, but impact another, even on mp servers. When it's happening it looks like the lighting bloom level inside the cockpit is set to burn your eyes out mode.. I can see the displays and everything inside the cockpit, but the reflections from the glass inside the cockpit are horrible and it's pitch black outside.. no lights can be seen from city lights or stars.. even the moon is gone. If taking off from a fully lit carrier tou can only see it's lights if you are very close to it.. otherwise you can't see ANYTHING. Switching to f2 external view it looks similar.. no stars, no city lights etc.. like there's a pitch black cloud obscuring the view. this hasn't happened often.. but when it dies it's extremely frustrating.. especially after I purchased the fear the bones campaign and can't get past the first mission due to this. I tried starting the mission without vr and noticed that everything was very dark as well. Turning up the gamma from 2.2 to max just washes everything out, turning the pitch black background..with invisible stars and city lights grey instead. Heres what it looks like in 2d.. external views.. in vr its even worse.. as everything outside the cockpit is just pure black.

how are the voiceovers and instructions in this campaign? I got the Mi8 campaign memory of a hero, and while its fine... the voiceovers and translation are completely cringe to the point of not being able to understand what the mission wants me to actually do at times. I just picked up the Hind and was wondering if this would be a good campaign to learn it with.

It's weird.. I wiped my machine and installed a new ssd. After reinstalling dcs and my pimax software..dcs has been randomly performing very poorly. I9 14900kf, 64gb ddr5 6000 , rtx 3080. 2d I'm getting 300fps..but random frame and cpu spikes down to 10fps in the main menu. In vr the spikes make the game unplayable. I turned off hags, have exclusions in defender, made sure cpu isn't parked. Dcs set to high priority. At first I thought the mouse polling issue was back because the spikes were especially bad when moving the mouse on the screen.. changed polling rate to 500mhz..but it didn't seem to help. It doesn't happen all the time but it does happen often. Sometimes if it happens, I can close dcs, then relaunch and it won't happen for the entire session. When I'm getting constant frame spikes, I go into task manager and can see that my cpu is only running at 30%. It's only impacting dvs, and not any other game.. so frustrating.

Have to agree . Chinook performance is by far the worst fps out of all my other modules..no matter what map..but Afghanistan is a literal sideshow on my crystal

I tried lowering my pimax to 72hz..but for some reason it just seems ..off.. put it back to 90hz, but limit frames to 75 in dcs..seems to work well with my i9 14900 64gb ram and 3080. Thank God for quadviews..without it game would be unplayable

Are there plans to change the controls when in vr for gunners? I find the aiming system to be extremely hard in vr. When set to move with head movement the view angle makes it extremely hard to get any semblance of accuracy. When set to aim with with device, it's pretty much the same.. it's like the vr view is impeding aiming.. cant get a good angle to really aim down the barrel. As for the rear ramp and gunner. Is the requirement to not have a gunner in place to load troops/supplies the way it will stay? I can understand having to remove the gunner for large crates to be loaded.. but not troops they should be able to go around the rear gunner imo. Thanks

thanks for updating this.. just picked up the f5 on sale and glad you are keeping this one fresh.. good luck to you

has anything changed from these instructions since posted? i installed reshade.. but dcs crashes when loading when the api is enabled.. and its last on the list as in the original post. soon as i disable the reshade api dcs loads.. but obviously not reshade

This thread is almost 3 years old...

It's nice to see the hands in game, but they are pretty useless. Interacting with the cockpit is absolutely horrible by default. I've installed htcc and purchased a pair of slugmice...(slug-mouses?) As a solution for now..which works well.. but it would be great to see if the integrated system can be improved. Another gripe is that you have to keep your head perfectly still to be able to interact with anything because if you don't the cursor moves when you don't want it to.

Make sure you are loading your apis in the correct order. Download the openxr api layer tool and you can shuffle the load order around.

I have it.. I use it with htcc and slugmouse to click stuff in the cockpit.. works great!

I have the winwing f16ex stick and the f15ex throttle.. works wonderfully. F4e is a great jet in dcs, and heatblur has done it great justice.. just can't wait for the navy version... and the intruder...

Amen brother.. I can understand not supporting new content. But If you sell something, you should at least support what you're selling. The module comes with tutorial missions and 2 campaigns. It's not alot to ask that those actually work properly. With respect, I don't think its "entitled" to think that.

Based on the date of this post I'm assuming the module was never updated to work with Afghanistan because of the ed/razbam spat that's going on. I bought the module last week.. thinking that I'd at least be able to learn how to fly it. Cold start tutorial..broken 1st mission in included campaign.. cant start up without critical errors. 2nd mission in included campaign.. stuck mid mission due to a broken trigger. It's fun to fly.. but the lack of updates and fixes is unacceptable. You got my money.. the stuff that came as part of my purchase should work at minimum.

The need to go into the me and do this in order to even learn to start the jet is unacceptable.. Resolve your differences ed and razbam. Your paying customers are getting angry.

It's bugged. Cold start instant action works fine for me..no caution lights. The caucuses campaign likely won't be fixed any time soon due to the ed/razbam drama. Baltic (understandably) wont work to fix bugs if he's not going to be paid for his efforts. If you use autostart, it seems to work fine.. but I got to mission 2 and hit a wall when I encountered a broken trigger. It's a shame and annoying as hell to buy a module, expecting an OFFICIAL campaign to at least be playable..especially since before this spat happened everyone said this was a great way to learn the jet.

On a semi related note.. any chance of making smoke move with rotor wash?

seconded on the rocket pods. tried loading with 2 pods at the top of the list.. the HE pods with 19x rocket each. it only loaded one pod and that pod only fired ONE rocket before refusing to fire any more. Also is there anything that can be done regarding the task to kill the infantry after destroying the technical from task b? my gunners run out of ammo trying to hit them.. I have no idea how many are left since they they apparently run out of ammo as well, since they stop firing at me . without incoming fire i cant see if there are any soldiers left to kill or where they are since they are so tiny and blend in with the ground textures. maybe a timer of some sorts just to move the mission along? today i hung out there until it got dark trying to find things to kill and even ran out of gas.

Hello. Enjoying the campaign. I can't remember the mission number.. but the 9ne where you are Springfield 1-2, and have to drop off the troops, then load up on rockets and guns to provide cas at yankee.. I tried to load up on rockets, but it only loads one pylon even though I chose 2. Also that one pylon only had a single rocket.. Is there a specific load out we need to choose? I've tried with and without front facing mini guns, but both times only a single pylon of rockets gets installed instead of 2. Nit sure if we are supposed to load the 19x or the 7x. He or heat? Would it even make a difference?

I've been having issues randomly with my pimax crystal at night.. server set to clear sky but it looks like I'm in a thick black fog. Sometimes the stars will peek through.. only seems to happen when focused on an aircraft either in the cockpit or outside. Changing camera to a ground unit clears it up.. changing back to an aircraft br8ngs it back. It's completely random.. I've left a server that I had this happen on to try and recreate it myself in single player bit couldn't. People I fly with have said that they get this randomly on 2d as well. Very strange.

JUST STARTED THE CAMPAIGN AND AM ALSO HUNTING DOWN THAT ELUSIVE SHIP LOL