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It all works great. Including the brightness on the MDF screens. Mike IMG_3256 2.MOV

there is tuning of axis in the DCS controls section. You can put a dead zone (5 or so) on both axises and adjust the other parameters to control speed and curser movement extremes. I had issues with drift, and making the dead zone 5 worked. Mike

Watched every episode. The show is quite entertaining. Of course I enjoyed "for all man kind also," so what do I know LOL Mike

Ok, you convinced me, so how can I Zoom and get back to the beginning level of zoom? I usually have to futz around with it to get the FOV I had originally. Is there a hot key? Mike

nullIMG_7562.pdf So if I have this next to me when I am flying, I'm ok? LOL Mike

Interesting conversation. A little zoom to compensate for the difference in resolution 'screen' vs 'real life vision' makes sense, but zooming in to see a tank on the ground from 12,000 feet may be questionable. I just found that the 'realism' is affected by extreme zoom. I am trying to concentrate on using the instrumentation rather than visual zoom. Of course the F10 map is another 'cheat' LOL. When you are using the radar to tag another plane that is miles away, and have a green box around it, you then can actually see the plane at great distances without a zoom. I have a 32 inch 4k monitor so certainly higher resolution helps. But finding that plane at that same distance without the radar help is a different thing. So a little help with zoom makes sense. But zooming in to see the plane's weapon load and eye color of the pilot may be a bit of cheating. LOL. The huge 4 k screen setup I think compensates more for the user's actual vision than for the simulation vision as the pixels are bigger but at a greater viewing distance the image represented on that huge monitor vs a smaller 4k monitor closer to you is the same. A huge 8k monitor certainly would effect this and your wallet. Mike

LOL. true. but flying the sim at that speed is not necessarily cheating, you'll just break the plane, zooming your eyes will cause one to fall out. Mike

I have been watching videos of various pilots and find that using the Zoom is VERY helpful but isn't that kinda Cheating??? We can't zoom in real life... Mike

RESHADE is AWESOME...... Mike IMG_3256.mov

Got it running, I just finished first mission, I did not die. I was lost on the issue with the F10....."Other" Menu, but got help on Discord. So far great Campaign. Mike (Xeralto)

Yes. I did rearm and refuel. Got the menu. Selected my load out. Got just fuel tanks. “Refuel complete, Rearm complete.” Tried several times. Flew guns only. Did SRS communication with other player. He said same thing. Guns only. Then said it’s gun only now. So I’ll look again. But it’s a pure script server so since installing voice attack and Viacom I cannot log on that particular server. It’s a me problem.

I had Monitorium installed and that was only able to work with two of the three MDF's unless you buy it. It's max brightness was not quite enough. I just tried ScreenBright and my prior increased brightness settings for Monitorium were still active (despite uninstalling monitorium) and I was able to match up the third monitor. But it still is not bright enough. I have to learn more about Reshade. Mike

I've been back since and it's still just guns..... Mike

Shagrat, I was on their website reading, looks legit but I am always wary of "free software" like this. If I get a virus, I'll just cry Mike

Ohhhhh nice.....on it.... Mike

Even better, I replaced my mother board and now all of windows is running better including SimApp Pro and the monitor positions. LOL. My dying motherboard was creating all my issues all along. Even TrackIR now remembers my last settings. Mike

VIACOM, fantastic program, excellent work, love to see enthusiasts making such a program for the love of it. Imagine if Epic did not cost our hospital $200,000,000. (that's 200 million USD) and suck so bad. Mike

Just Sharing, work in progress, adapted from "Joystick Diagrams" all credit given to them..... Template for Center MDF.pdf Template for MDF.pdf and this, again credit to "Joystick Diagrams" PTO 2 Panel of Take Off Template.pdf

Just sharing.... Mike X56 Template.pdf

thanks

Minor request. The SimApp works great and it's quite well done, but the UI is huge. And it's locked to some large size (unless I am really missing something.) I like to have it open on my second monitor along with SRS, Voice Attack and the VAICOM panel, SRS Radio Channel list, and TrackIR display. Even on my 4k monitor the SimApp app takes up most of the screen so on the second monitor (1080p) it's the entire screen. Thank you, Mike

Rig all up and running with 'new' motherboard. Works normally LOL. And.....after doing an update on SRS, got SRS working with Voice Attack. (opted for separate PTT buttons for real voice). Now have to fine tune Windows speech recognition and learn the proper commands. Mike

yes, I hear you. I had built two very similar systems for my kids about 7 years ago? Starting with my own rig that I gave to them to use as they shift from Xbox to PC gaming. I built the second one with the same MB, etc.. They got new Lap Tops two years ago which were better for gaming. So after a while I took my system back, installed a 4070ti video card and ended up reinstalling Win 11 on m.2 drive and put a second m.2 drive in for games. Each 2 TB. That system was always a bit off, slow booting, I just thought it was a bad drive, it ran but would take 20 minutes to boot. After the 'rebuild' it was very fast and worked great. Recently as I got in to flying with DCS I started having odd behavior. So it's problem has to be some bad piece of hardware, good luck figure out which? CPU? Memory? MB? Guessing MB. Interestingly enough..TrackIR would NOT remember my chosen settings....I thought it simply did not, so had to reset every time...... So today as I TRIED finalized the settings in VAICOM, I could not get the thing to boot, unplugged everything, tried the Win 11 Thumb drive, fail, finally it booted after several resets but was just not working right. So I removed the M.2 drives, plugged in a spinning drive and attempted a fresh install of Win 11 on that drive, no soap. would not load the installation stuff. Nothing.... Out of desperation I grabbed the other unused tower from the kids and moved the M.2 drives to it (left the old 1060 video card LOL) and the thing booted. Minor issue with MICROSUCK, had to connect to internet to 'retrieve my pin' etc. Fired up Track IR and the MF thing remember my settings. Fired up Voice Attack and then DCS, the the <profanity> hit the fan......could not log into my DCS Account. Changed the password, swore a lot, I mean really a lot, saw the error code, looked on forum, For ()*&)(*&N SAKE the time on that PC was WRONG. The MF thing has been an issue for years, my son told me and I did not look into it. Could not for the life of me figure out why it refuses to correct its time....so fixed that setting and SOAB it worked. Fired up everything. VAICOM saw the plane type, and then I ran into the other snag.....the front HeadJack input on this machine apparently never worked, the head phone yes, microphone no......so after screwing around with that I gave up. I could not test the VAICOM because my mic would not work. SO frustrating. LOL Tomorrow, I tear both down, and build one good one, hoping the Front IO works after I move that mother board.....other box has much better power supply, and is a much nicer case. so moving MB. I'll get a new MB at some point with a faster processor, but I was having no issue with this Ryzen 5000 I have with DCS as the Graphics card does the heavy lifting. This just takes all the fun out of trying to have some fun....better off just staying at work. Mike zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz passed my bedtime......

You have got to be (*)&)*(^)^&*()B kidding me. I spent an hour trying to figure this out..... Clock on windows machine was wrong, set to AutoAdjust, and it's NEVER right. I *)(&(*&)( hate Microsoft. Mike

oh....I'll look again. One of those tabs I looked but not closely enough. Dealing with hardware issues. Great using my little free time to do some DCS flying and have nothing but issues with the friggen computer. Typing this on my MacBook. Having WINDoWS issues, I must have a hardware issue, maybe the Boot drive m2. SSD. is bad. Don't know. Can't get the system to boot. Going to pull video card, pull both SSD's and reinstall windows on a Spinning drive. Pain in the ()&(*)&(* windows. Mike