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  • Birthday 08/27/1991

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    USA, East Coast
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    Gaming, shooting long range competitions, spending time with my wife

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  1. audiman
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    Do you happen to have pictures of how you mounted the MIP to the Track racer frame? And how you modified the seat for center stick? I have the TR120 frame(non-motion) with VRS DFP pedals and a VRS DFP Direct Drive wheelbase for sim racing, but have spent the majority of the last year using the rig for DCS... I think I can add some aluminum extrusion to the Wheelbase mount and clamp the MIP stuff to the extra extrusion. My HOTAS is currently side mounted and would have to cut out the center of the seat a bit. (i have the GT style seat with the surrounding headrests) The arm rest is the best additon ever to be honest
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    One thing that was discussed is the potential of the GPU not having the required power. For reference, I have an Asus TUF Gaming OC RTX3080 and the Power Supply is a Corsair RM850. The GPU is given power via two separate 8-pin connectors/cables. I made sure to use two separate cables rather than the single cable with the extra 8-pin "splitter." Rest of the specs are in my signature for reference as well. Nothing super crazy
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    yes, when I set up the sim rig with the triples, I color calibrated all 3 monitors and made sure they all had identical settings with no power saving modes enabled. But that is a good thought.
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    Small update. I submitted a ticket. Troubleshooting still ongoing. It is not "fixed", per-say, but I think I have a workaround for now. To re-cap the ticket troubleshooting: I was asked to change the name of my Saved Games DCS folder to "Backup". Then to verify the integrity of the files (I'm on Steam). This created a new Saved Games DCS folder with completely default settings. As in no mods at all like SRS, all key binds were reset to default (don't freak out, your key binds are still in the original folder now called "Backup" under an input folder), default graphic settings (for me that is going from triple screens to a single screen). Then I was told to launch the game and try to recreate the issue. I simply bound the throttles and the stick Axis' so I could fly around. I flew around for 10-15 minutes at night in the pitch black and could not recreate the issue. I then changed one graphic setting by going back to triple screens and tried flying again. Immediately began having the darkness bug where I couldn't see anything which was a bummer. So, for me at least, if I want to fly at night I need to change back to a single screen as a work around. Granted, I didn't spend a ton of time flying in single screen to see if it still happened after extended periods of time, but changing back to triples makes the issue occur within a minute or two. So it seems like Single screen is more advantageous at night for me. Not the end of the world, just slightly less immersive. Also, several of my buddies who have experienced the same issue I'm describing play on single screens or in VR. So I have asked them to submit tickets with track files and log files for additional data as well. My ticket Rep has also asked if my friends have submitted tickets. Hoping to provide as much data as possible. Thanks again for all the input I've received on this post.
  7. audiman
    here is a track file. towards the end of the flight the screen went very dark and stayed that way for me. pitch black f18 darkness bug.trk
  8. audiman
    well damn...I assumed all tracks were saved automatically. I'll figure this stuff out eventually. thanks for the clarification. I'll try and get another track and post it, possibly this afternoon. Will be out of town this weekend starting tomorrow though.
  9. audiman
    Alright, so here is a short video I chopped together really quick. I took the track file that Flappie gave me and edited it to put me in an F-18C where I spend most of my time, and therefore notice it the most. I flew around for about 9 minutes and shortened the video to the most obvious clips of it occurring. Posted it on YouTube for troubleshooting purposes. For some reason I can't find MY track file for this flight though. Makes me feel dumb. but hopefully this is a better example for everyone. And before anyone says anything about it being G-lock, it is not. I just happened to be yanking and banking on a few of the examples because I was just flying around waiting for it to happen enough times. it happened at the start of the video when I was on Downwind for a practice landing, too close to the airfield but I digress... Thank you all for your comments so far
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    Ah, true, I'll do that.
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    So, I finally tried this last night. I flew around for about 5 minutes and had one brief instance of the whole screen dimming again. but it took a few minutes of flying and trying different things to trigger it, which is frustrating because it seems so random. I can try and upload the track file this afternoon when I get home to see if anyone else sees it, assuming the track file is not too large. Essentially, I flew around for few minutes just fine, then tried different maneuvers to change the perspective of the ground lights from the city compared to the dark sky. last thing I did was a full loop, and towards the end of it as I was pulling up from the ground and could see the city lights, the whole screen went dim for just a second and came back. then I crashed into the ground because I have never flown the SU-25T, don't know how it flies, and I was just having fun with it. Plus, wife was getting home and I was hopping off for the night. What settings did you have to make it so dark? I was unable to recreate this in my own mission, though I did not change the time of year, only the time of day and weather conditions. Thanks so much for providing that track file for my testing though!
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    Sorry for such a late reply, had some personal matters take up my time during the last month. I'll try this out this week hopefully Thanks!
  14. audiman
    So how do you set the weather/lighting in a private mission to be absolutely pitch black with no moon light? I tried to make a dedicated mission to reproduce this issue, but I can't make the weather/sky dark enough regardless of the cloud layer or time of night I select. I must be missing a setting somewhere. It's most noticeable for me when I fly GAW at night, but when there is a VERY thick cloud layer at multiple altitudes, so no Moon light is visible. I can't seem to recreate this in a private mission.
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    Well unfortunately it happened several times again yesterday evening while flying at night on Hoggits GAW. It was exceptionally dark with no moonlight and some heavy cloud cover. So the contrast between the cockpit instrument lights and the exterior of the jet was pretty extreme. After I deleted the contents of the FXO and metashaders2 folders previously, I flew for hours at night on several different days I thought for sure it was fixed. But it wasn't as dark as it was last night on GAW. I flew around for a bit, shot down some planes, and then logged off and exited DCS. I deleted the contents of the FXO and metashaders2 folders again. Launched the game again and hopped back into GAW at night, launched off the carrier and still had the random blindness/dimming of the game. I want to note that I'm running triple monitors on my Sim Racing Rig that now doubles as a flight sim rig. Still using Track IR. But I had the thought yesterday that while the center screen is normally the cockpit/HUD view two peripheral screens on each side are essentially seeing complete darkness. So I wonder if DCS just doesn't know how to handle such severe contrast between the center monitor/cockpit instrument lights and the peripheral monitors seeing complete darkness. The issue seems to be independent of where I'm looking with track IR. I can already be heads down looking at the Radar and the screen goes very dim. I can look outside with NVG's and the screen goes very dim. I unfortunately removed the "mark as solution" from the shaders folders suggestion for now. Here are some pictures from a few months ago of what my setup looks like. Unfortunately don't have any similar pics of night flight, but I'll try to remedy that next time I fly at night. But just picture the side monitors being pitch black and the center monitor full of instrument lights. Just makes me wonder if I tried running it on just the single center screen if I'd still have the issue? Just thinking out loud, it might not even make sense
  16. audiman
    I'm going to call this one FIXED. After deleting the contents of the FXO folder and Metashaders2 folder, I've been able to fly at night for hours without any lighting/contrast issues. Thanks for all of the questions to double check that I didn't miss anything simple and for all of the recommendations!
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