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I have the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog. It is barely 12 months old and Thrustmaster have already replaced the main PCB in the throttle - more to the point, they sent me a PCB and I replaced it. When I took he throttle apart, the body was full of plastic swarf particles showing signs of wear in th ebearing, I presume. This past week, the buttons on the throttle stopped working on any setting other than full throttle! I took the unit apart and blew, brushed out the case and the contol boards. The boards smell as thought they have been getting hot, you know, that hot electric smell? Why dowsn't the thorttle have a fan installed if it get's that hot? The throttle is working agai now, but I have no doubt it will fail again! So here is the answer to the sub standard of the Thrustmaster HOTAS, 1. don't buy the junk in the first place, save up and buy a superior product or 2. have a second,, spare HOTAS so you always have a working HOTAS while you wait for Thrustmaster support to get back to you, if they ever do! Good hunting guys. Regards
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Hi. I disabled all of my MODS, not just the ones used by my mission, and reintroduced them one at a time. Ironically, I found that the JAS39 MOD seems to cause the crash! Maybe someone else can confirm?
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I think this thread has gone around in a circle. We have determined that you need to click the Collective Clutch Lock/Release Button if you did a cold start with the flight engineer carrying out the start. Read the thread back through and you will see the symptoms and the resolution.
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The Viggen 'buried' wheel problem seems to have been fixed in v2.9.2 - thanks guys Any chance you could look at the AI Viggen, the wheels hover above any hard standing. Not an issue but it does sort of spoil the immersion.
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This has happened on numberous airfields on the Caucus map. It may happen pn pther maps but I can only speak from experience. When I have the radar set to Landing Nav mode and the Auto throttle set, DCS crashes when about 10 to 15 miles out from the airfield. I experience this regularly on the approach to Kutaisi and also on th eapproach to Beslan. I have a couple of mods in th eattached training mission but I have tried it with and without the mods and I get the same issue. The mission is just a selection of hot and cold start AJS-37 Viggens with differing armament for practice, so nothing technical. AJS 37 Flight Training.miz
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I have been having the same issue with AI ATC. Clearance to start-up works fine, when I go into the comms menu to ask permission to taxi, the 'Request Start-up' menu option is still active. Once I begin to taxi THEN I get the cleared to taxi message. From then on, everything works fine - Request takeoff etc.
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I set up a route in the Mission Editor, start the mission, load the data cartridge, 9099 etc. All is well. The LS for the runway is incorrect so I switch to BANAGRANS, input, hit LS and change the runway direction, back to AKT POS and UT. I do the same for L1. While I'm pressing buttons I change the B4 waypoint to a target waypoint. From now on the course indicator for LS is stuck at whatever waypoint I selected last - in this case M4. All other waypoints swing the route indicator other that LS. Once I get in the air the route swings to B1. Okay, so it isn't not stopping me flying other than it is blooming annoying! BTW - since the 2.9 update, and while flying the AJS-37, DCS regularly crashes when approaching the runway in Landing NAV mode!
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@kksnowbear@BitMaster ... Hi Guys. I just had a response from the tech guys at PC Specialist. This clears it up - "The case will fit up to 4 x 2.5" SSD's as it has 4 x SSD bays. Your motherboard will fit up to 5 x M.2 SSD's, you can install another 3 as two are taken up by the following: 1st M.2 SSD Drive 1TB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 5000MB/W) 2nd M.2 SSD Drive 1TB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 5000MB/W) If you want to install 2.5" SSD's then you will need to connect a SATA cable and a SATA power cable from the power supply. However, if you are installing an M.2 SSD then you can just connect these by slotting them into the motherboard."
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Yep, sounds reasonable to me! Is the F-4 going to be delivered 'broken'?
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I abandoned JSGME and found that OvGME is much easier to use so I have my altered lua files covered now. I expect JSGME works pretty much the same OvGME but I just seemed to click with OvGME. I set up two config files, one for the DCS Core and one for DCS Saved Games, I also have two MOD folders, one linked to each config file. Just to go down the belt and braces route, I also created a backup folders. If the MOD is a 'core' MOD I drop it in the DCS Core folder and activate it from there. If it's a Saved Games MOD you can probably guess where that goes. When they bring out an update for DCS I just have to disable the core mods and reactivate them following the update. You don't need two folders but it just saves having to remember which are the core mods and which are the saved games mods. -
HA! In my box of 'junk' that comes with a new high end computer I found a ROG Hyper M.2 card!!!!! LOL Apparently it support for up to four PCIe® 3.0 M.2 drives with transfer bandwidth up to 128Gbps! According to ASUS at least. I think I just solved my own problem @kksnowbear ... Of course I do have the manual. The one I put in a safe place so I wouldn't lose it
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@kksnowbear ... No, you may be right. It's just that PC Specialist, the guys who supplied the PC, said there were two. He may have meant there are two free slots after the two I have used but they never got back to confirm it. I was just looking at other options.
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@MAXsenna - The cloning software I use is Macrium Reflex, I think it was recomended on Samsungs own How To video I watched. I had to clone my 500GB SSD to a new 1TB SSD on my work laptop so it was crutial it didn't fail. I bought an external enclosure on Ebay for the new SSD, plugged it into the USB and then cloned the old to the new using Macrium Reflex. Swapped out the PC SSD for the new one, fired it up and it just immediatly worked - everything exactly the same except loads more space! An aside to this, if you have the enclosure, the old SSD makes a blindingly fast external drive I've already got two 1TB SSD's on my computer but they just get filled up so quickly. I could swap one out for a 2 or 4TB SSD but I just wanted a dedicated drive just for DCS.
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Hi Guys I have a ASUS® ROG MAXIMUS Z690 motherboard in my gaming PC and it has two SSD slots - both used. I want to add a third SSD dedicated to DSC, probably a 2TB SSD, I'm thinking a 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 PCIe running on a PCI adapter card. Has anyone had experience of this? Does the PCI adapter slow down the SSD read/write time significantly? Would I notice it in DCS even if it did? Thanks Nial
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@jonsky7 - That looks like the way to go. I'll work through the video you posted. I had a DCS crash yesterday and did a repair just in case, of course it over wrote my modified files I had saved copies so I just had to rename them. I use JSGME but I have never got my head around that! Maybe a subject for another day. @MAXsenna - Hi Maxsenna. Let us know how you get on.
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I changed the position of the Viewport in the ViewportHandling.lua file (line 33). The filepath can be seen in the attached screen capture. I opened the kneeboard in the AJS-37, positioned it and sized it that suited me, and did a full screen capture. I opened it in my photo editing software and then used the rulers to determine the position (top left corner - 2865,100) and the width and height of th ekneeboard (765,1165). I saved th elua file, opened the Kneeboard in the Viggen and TADA!, exactly where I set it. I think it should open in th esame place on all planes but I really only ever use it in th eViggen anyway. I assume this will reset to default next time DCS is updated so I saved it as a backup in th esame file path. Easy to swap out when they update it again.
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@jonsky7 ... I'll give it a go I'm just loking to see if I can move the position of the Kneeboard. At the momnet it is too far to the right, half way in th emain window and half way in th ecubesim window, so I have to click on it and drag it across to the main window. Once it's ther, it stays there for the flight. @MAXsenna ... I see you posted on the forum regarding moving th edefault position of th ekneeboard. Did anything come of that?
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Okay, I changed my lua file as follows and it works fine now - other than the weird shape of the shape of the AJS-37 TV screen - I tested the AJS-37 and the Su-25T and both the Schkval and the TV screen are up and running. Also, the cursor now works in the mission editor BTW - the lua file with line "try_find_assigned_viewport("Shkval","LEFT_MFCD")" came from someone elses lua file that they were using.
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@jonsky7 ... this is my Cubesim.lus file as provided by Garfiled at Cubesim (excluding the EP13 lines that I put in following your earlier message): This works fine with Su-25T Schkval. It works fine with the EP13 other than the cursor offset. I tried changing the X and y start point to x=100, Y=0 and also x=0, y=0 but I still got the offset. My Cubesit screen is set to be to th etop left of my main monitor as you can see from the code above. If my understanding is correct, changing the cubesim to the right would change the offsets to Centre = x=0, y=0 and the cubesim to x=3840, y=0 (Maybe offset it 80, so x=3920, y=0) Cheers Nial
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@jonsky7 ... 4Thanks for that, it worked, but as you said the screen is an odd shape. I don't know what would cause thsat because if you get up close to the TV screen reticle it is a rectangular screen inside the reticle. I still have this weird thing going on in the Mission Editor whereby by cursor is offset from the object I'm trying to select so I can't actually click on anything. If I place an aircraft down in th eMission Editor I can see the offset as the plane is dropped in to the left of my cursor. I added the EP13 lines to my CUBESIM.lua file which I use for the Su-25T Schkval. I didn't have the cursor offset problem until I put the EP13 in. I also get the cursor offset issue when I use Helios profile for the EP13. @MAXsenna ... thanks for your help on this. I have removed everytihng that Helios added and I am going to have one more go, starting afresh again. I WILL get it to work using Helios
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@MAXsenna ... LOL Yes, that was one of my files. The Schkval comes from the Su-27T and it is from the CUBESIM.lua file. It was a file someone had posted on another forum. I tried moving the TV to the main screen but something has totally screwed up now! When I run the additional viewports I get the message that I already ran it and a whole list of errors. I'v enow rolled it back to see if I am able to run it again on a completely new profile. In the meantime I'm going to try the init.lua files uploaded by @jonsky7 above. Watch this space!
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Yes, the same as mine ... The only thing I noticed is that the viewport in Helios has the name field as AJS37 Viggen_TV without the underscore after AJS37 as above. The Text field in Helios has AJS37_Viggen_TV with the underscore. I'm not a coder either but I might just change line 21 above and remove the underscore. It'll either work or it won't
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@MAXsenna - I was sent this link by the guys at Cubesim. It seems other people have been experiencing the TV not coming on in the second monitor, i.e. all they get is the black screen ... https://forum.dcs.world/topic/178769-radar-nav-export/ In the link there is a ZIP file with replacement init.lua files for the AJS-37 Viggen TV-Indicator and the Radar. In the init.lua file for the TV-Indicator it adds the lines: 21 dofile(LockOn_Options.common_script_path.."ViewportHandling.lua") 22 try_find_assigned_viewport("Shkval","LEFT_MFCD") Does that make any sense to you? Regards Nial AJS37.ZIP
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@MAXsenna ... I moved the monitor just to try it and all I got was sort of a zoomed in version of where I was looking with my TrackIR Thanks for your time on this, I won't waste any more of it. It would be nice to get it to work but I'm not going to stress over it. BTW, with the small screen on the right it cured the mouse offset issue in the mission editor LOL
