Gribbstar

I'm enjoying this campaign, has a nice balance of action and simulation. However, I'm a little stuck with mission 5, shooting down the helos. They seem to land or become impossible to lock on to. Is there some kind of trick to this? Thanks for the fun so far

Yeah, same here. Multiple times the dam AAA was dead but other stuff shot the helos down. That and some frustrating AI ramming me or my wingman while attempting the AAR made it a nightmare.

Yep, this. I bind mine to one of my mouse side buttons to save a HOTAS button. I will be grabbing the mouse anyway, so the button may as well be there.

I have to disagree, mine looks pretty awful without 4x msaa. Only running a quest 2 though, so likely having to compensate for the already pretty crap image quality.

I think you might have posted this on Facebook also, I replied there earlier too. Try lowering textures from high to medium. It was that and that alone that tipped Apache performance in VR over the edge for me.

I get same issue here.

Just throwing this out there as it seems the VR Perfkit mod was the source of my 2.8 issues. As soon as I deleted the files from my DCS directory, I'm running super smoothly again. I appreciate that there are so many variables in the mess that is getting VR to run well that I could have inadvertently changed something else too... Either way, if you have the VR Perfkit files in place, see how it runs without.

Sadly still exactly the same crash, just under 50nm from Mother.

Awesome work, thanks!

Just checking back in to say that the latest patch didn't resolve this crash. So seems like the smoke might be a good place to look.

What headset are you using? Is it a Quest 2? If so then I've had that happen to me before and I fixed it by lowering my encode bit rate in Oculus Tray Tool. I was initially running at 500 but setting it to around 350 seems to be the sweet spot to stop it, at least for me anyway. This number might change depending on PC specs and how demanding your PC finds that mission.

@baltic_dragon Of course, would be my pleasure!

Also crashing here. Can fly the whole mission perfectly until I head back to the carrier after escorting Red. Crashes just under 50nm from the carrier every time without fail.

I'm in the same boat on this mission. Must be over 10 attempts now at the bonus tasking and keep getting blasted out of the sky by the manpad, regardless of my AoA, Alt, speed, flare deployment rate etc. Maybe I just suck? Absolutely love your campaigns though, keep up the good work.

Also stuck here. Hoping for a fix soon as I really don't want to edit the missions files.