Richrach

Copy all. Thank you Hoss!

Hoss, thank you for the word but that does not help. Where (file location) does the WinWing Orion2 HOTAS - A-4E-C Profile need to be unzipped to? Yes, I have SimAppPro and have tried to use it. The "directions" which are more like a treasure map created by a drug-fueled Martian are about useless. For the simple unfrozen caiveman I am, I need actual directions on what to do with this file. So far nothing I have tried has worked.

WinWing users, I run the A-4-E in the sim. Just got the WinWing Orion2 setup, but it does not recognize the A-4. Downloaded the WinWing Orion2 HOTAS - A-4E-C Profile from downloads. Now where does it go so I can get WinWing to recognize the A-4?

I have a mission with the Molniya Tarantul 3 launching SSMs at another ship. I want a radio call to go out calling this event, i.e. a Vampire call. How can I use triggers to effect this? The SSM Mosquit the Tarantul carries is not in the data base, nor is it listed in triggers for missiles in the air. The ship has a moving trigger zone on it. I have tried to trick the system into calling a launch for the HY-2 (SS-N-2 Styx) missile but the game is clever enough to know this missile is not on the Tarantul. Help appreciated.

Copy. That will be useful when I move to F-4 campaigns. Thank you again.

Found it. Not sure how, but I did. Thank you MAXsenna!

Copy, but not sure how to do that. The notes I saw in the forum said it had to be in \DCS.openbeta\Missions\Campaigns\en. Can you guide me to this new storage location?

Can someone lay some wisdom on me? Built a campaign around the A-4E-C. Built the missions. Used the Campaign Builder to put them in. When I try to get to the campaign using the main menu, the campaign does not show up. Nothing seen, not there. If I go back into Campaign Builder I can get in to the campaign build portion but cannot get into the campaign itself. What am I missing? Just a simple, unfrozen caiveman here...

Bitdefender just flagged and deleted the above named file from my computer. BD identified it as Trojan.Generic.37324545 FF, Richrach

Max, Copy. Windows Defender is inferior for my security needs. BitDefender is only part of a my protective suite. My startup time for DCS VR is 48s for what it is worth.

Sometimes the new problem is just an old problem repackaged. Switched from another anti-virus vendor to BitDefender. No problems until trying to play DCS with my Pimax 8KX in VR. Nope. Nope. More nope. Starting through the troubleshooting list provided by Flappie, (a most excellent resource by the way) I discovered that in changing over from one anti-virus to the next it turned on parts of my Windows Defender. That wrecked everything with lower FPS and random crashes. Windows everything off. Problem solved. Sometimes the new is really the old. Hopefully this saves someone out there some aggravation. - Richrach

So, we are back to the fact Elon Musk did the impossible, catching a burning rocket ship mid-air with giant tweezers. Impossible is what a group of people think until another person outside the group goes ahead and does it anyway. I have said my piece. Thank you for your efforts on behalf of DCS to explain their position.

Elon Musk just caught a rocket ship with a giant pair of tweezers but DCS cannot solve a problem that was solved by another set of programmers two decades ago? I see you are running a state of the art computer, graphics card, and gear. What is the point of all that hardware when the game is not even up to half of what that system can do? Nothing can make a game more immersive in 2-d unless one goes the full cockpit and display dome route. Is that what DCS thinks is the best way forward? So the answer is, "We just do not want to do it." Your screen shot of larger aircraft in your reply shows it can be done, in fact DCS has done it, but the "Devs" do not want to apply it. Your argument the aircraft on the carrier look out of place is a strawman. I can think of several solutions for the carrier scale issue sitting at my bench right now. I cannot think of a solution to motivate "Devs" other than logic... and that is clearly not working. Eventually DCS will be eclipsed by a group of programmers who think outside the box DCS built for itself. Sorry one more thought: You stated in your response that a scale up for VR would be "exploited" in multi-player? Another strawman. There does not already exist an advantage for 2-d players against VR players now by forcing the VR player to look through a soda straw to see the other side's aircraft? You admit this in your rebuttal. This statement in indefensible on its face, so we are back to, "We just do not want to do it." You have to step away from the problem as someone defending the status quo and actually analyze what you are saying. Stovepipe thinking is deadly in actual combat. I have personally experienced guys getting shot down in real life because they would not adapt to the threat at hand. Every day DCS refuses to see outside its box brings it that much closer to its demise. Personally, I would prefer not to see that but acknowledge I cannot stop it if they will not listen.

SharpeXB, Yes I run DCS in VR, a Pimax headset. Understood about other games, however: 1. The game in question has been "off the market" for 20 years. Shockingly, their solution to the problem of seeing other units was/is better than anything DCS has offered. Regarding the "exceedingly awkward" comment, did you ever see the solution applied by the other sim-which-shall-not-be-named? It worked great. 2. If DCS is not going to utilize corporate "best practices" no wonder they have issues that do not get resolved. 3. Zoom view in VR is idiotic and a bandaide solution for a sucking chest wound. I flew actual combat missions with a set of USSR binoculars back in the 90s. The experience was so funny my squadron made jokes about it. Totally useless. 4. That ED does not want to use "smart scaling" is acknowledgement they have a problem and they are not going to fix it. This validates my suggestion that the programmers really need to fly in actual aircraft and get some real world experience. My observation of DCS is they are more about the shiny new toy (new airframes/terrains) than fixing things in the background of existing products that make for a great experience. Eventually this method of operation collapses under its own weight as the underlying support structure is weak. This is akin to building a skyscraper with no foundation. DCS is a good product. Good is bad in the world of combat, however. Every flight I took in uniform had a debrief afterward where we broke things down into two categories, good and bad. Bads were things that needed attention and improvement. Without that critical review of every mission we would have ended up like every other banana republic's military, flashy but a joke. DCS needs to become more introspective of their products and how to improve them instead of trying to roll out more and more new items. Taking good ideas from others and using them is far more cost effective and logical than trying to create the wheel from scratch every time one needs to transport something. Eventually, someone in the market who is willing to do think outside the box will overtake DCS and it will end up in the dustbin. ShareXP, Respectfully, I did forget another point. A spotting dot does not give one the aspect and attitude of other aircraft. Without that information no tactically sound decision can be made on how to respond to a threat or even if it is a threat as one does not know if it is hot, cold, maneuvering, etc. Richrach