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I started thinking about that as soon as I replied, visualising a nice big monitor on the wall with the desk pulled back. Currently my monitors are all set at eye level which means I've lost quite a bit of desk space, especially from my main monitor in front of me. The LG 45in UltraGear or the 49in UltraGear would make nice additions, still keep one of my 27in either wall mounted or to the side of the desk as I need a second screen for work stuff I had considered before dual resolution, some of the Alienware have dual mode so 4K for gaming then switch to FHD for work but it was a little low for my liking would have preferred native 4K/2K. I've never have my desks flush against the wall, currently got about 18in gap as it allows for airflow, being able to get to the back of the base unit without moving the desk, which is 7ft long so a pain and easy to get stuff back I drop down the back

My nephews got one of them, really nice they are. His is wall mounted though as he uses it for PC and PS5. It's a bit big for me as I use desk mounts due to multi monitor setup although suppose I could ditch the multi setup, wall mount then pull the desk away from the wall

If you were thinking of going to 32in, 4K then the Dell Alienware AW3225QF is really nice but bit pricey compared to others, you can buy it from Dell direct. This is the specs, it's the UK site so can just change to where you are: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/alienware-32-4k-qd-oled-gaming-monitor-aw3225qf/apd/210-bllv/monitors-monitor-accessories Couple of decent 1440p monitors are the 32in Corsair Xeneon 32QHD165 and the 34in Philips Evnia 8000 34M2C8600 which are a lot cheaper than the Dell. Corsair Xeneon 32QHD165 https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/p/monitors/cm-9020007-pe/corsair-xeneon-315qhd165-32-inch-ips-gaming-monitor-qhd-2560-x-1440-165hz-1ms-hdr-ready-1-07-billion-colors-pe-cm-9020007-pe Philips Evnia 8000 34M2C8600 https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/34M2C8600_00/evnia-curved-gaming-monitor-qd-oled-gaming-monitor

Yeah the charge ports are charge only so no data transfer. It's handy if you have things that require a power source for operating or you just want to keep things on charge. It still gives you the 7 x USB 3.0 ports or if you are only interested in expanding the ports they do the 10 port version, as you say without any charging ports. The Anker A7515 is very similar and a little cheaper but hasn't got the individual switches which are quite handy. Both have the same power ratings, that's being said USB ports have limits, people think it's powered so just plug whatever in thinking everything will be fine. So say you got a 16 port hub then plugged in something a bit more power hungry like a USB 3 portable drive to all 16 in then you will have issues. Most manuals that come with the hubs or specs on the websites give recommendations. Personally I think the Sabrent has a slight edge on the Anker hub with the on/off buttons but then the Anker is more pleasant to look at if you aren't bothered about switches. Both units are almost identical specs wise. You can look the Anker up either by product code or just use 'Anker 10 Port 60W Data Hub with 7 USB 3.0 Ports and 3 PowerIQ'

Boeing state the maximum ceiling for the Chinook is 20,000ft, although there have been a couple of cases where it's been pushed 10% higher than that. In the UK the RAF operate with 15,000ft maximum density altitude based on there operations. So 9,000ft sounds a little low unless you were fully loaded with fuel and cargo, which in your case you weren't as you only had fuel. Guess flight characteristics aren't fully implemented yet.

Anker, Sabrent and StarTech all do decent powered USB hubs, Anker quite often come out in the number one spot for the hubs especially the USB 3.0 powered. TP-Link and Belkin do some decent ones but you don't get as many ports so probably not much use for upgrading. StarTech can be a bit pricey but is decent. I have stuff by Anker, Belkin, TP-Link, StarTech and Sabrent and it's all decent bits of kit, when it comes to power banks I only use Anker and Belkin and some are still going strong and holding charge after 5+ years of extensive use, bit off topic I've used all the brands above and never had any issues with any of them, supplied well over a 1000 different bits of kit from these brands over the years and don't remember having to return anything in all that time. Been using StarTech and Belkin since the late 80's, Sabrent and TP-Link probably 20 years and Anker for maybe 9 or 10 years. I would never buy anything off Ali Express for a computer, well actually anything at all

I know the F-22A is, no longer got A2G missiles on the latest version and I used to like doing A2A and A2G in the same mission. Not noticed much difference with the Eurofigther though compared to the old.

About 75% of the VSN aircraft have been updated by the mod creators themselves, not that long after the issue arose. Can download them off the test server. https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZgx6gZWe5YWYUN63mIhQOYf9iAi8TzeMPX Spino did an update to the F-15EX Strike Eagle that works fine, just a minor problem with HUD size being fractionally too large. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3340119/ CubanAce has released an updated version of the Su-57 Felon with a standalone cockpit that requires no external FC3 files. His latest version includes and drone and few extras. The CubanAce discussion and updates are on There's only really a handful of VSN that still need to be updated and the odd couple of mods like the MQ-9 Predator drone that would need the fix as that's not been updated since 2021. If you plan on using the old versions of the mods it's handy to use the fix but will likely break all the updated ones, although if you got the latest you wouldn't need the fix

Yeah does seem a bit odd, although for me I've not got any axis assigned just the Numeric keys. Will have a look later but sure my none of my axis are used, I cleared them all to set up from scratch after messing with the settings when stuff wouldn't work.

This is the pack that contains the RAF Desert Storm (Desert Pink) livery. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3325610/ Unzip the tornado_gr4.7z file that's downloaded to a temp folder and it gives you a folder called tornado gr4 which contains two folders RAF Camo and RAF Desert Storm. Just drag the entire RAF Desert Storm folder into your Saved Games\DCS\Mods\aircraft\Tornado\Liveries\VSN_TornadoGR4 folder then select RAF Desert Storm as your livery in the loadout screen as normal. I've renamed my folder to Tornado so ignore that and just pick the folder that you installed the mod under. Apart from my folder being called Tornado the rest of it will be the same for you. You can make sure you got the correct Saved Game folder, which the mod should be in be using %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games then selecting DCS.

Use the Numeric / and * keys to zoom in and out to see if anything changes and the hud displays correctly. Also when you installed did you overwrite the files, ideally it needs to be a fresh install so better off removing the F-22A folder completely. If you just dragged across and the files were over written try doing a fresh install of the F-22A v3.0 using only the files within that, only thing you can save if you got any is Liveries.

Yeah that's the one I found, downloaded and looked at the files. I think the actual Desert Pink I saw was in the forums itself which is why I can't find it in the User Files section. If I get chance later will have a proper look. Forgot to add as well the aircraft is the AJS-37 Viggen

No problem, I think it was in the User Files area I saw it but can't find it, unless it was part of a livery pack.

First check your AV hasn't quarantined the dcs.exe file, if it hasn't run DCS Repair, you have to do it from the command line so this link shows you how. Hopefully that should download the missing DCS.exe file. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/709/

To be fair both BFR and MAXsenna both mentioned it before me, I was just saying about previous posts over the years that 99% of the time it was a 'time' issue. Don't really bother me if I was first to reply and someone else got the credit, long as the issue gets sorted. There are times when I've done very long, detailed replies which has solved a problem and the person can't even be bother to say thanks, does make me wonder why I bother sometimes

If you go into the Date and Time Settings through the Control Panel (not Settings) and click on Internet Time then Change Settings you can make sure it's set to synchronise on a regular basis. It's a shame now you only get two time servers to choose from, in the old days there was several. Saying that though mines set to synchronise on a regular basis and was still wrong

Bkav Pro, Cylance, Cynet and Gridinsoft tend to be unreliable as they repeatedly report things incorrectly, even known good files so I tend not to take any notice of them. As for Malwarebytes that's been producing false positives for the last three updates, at one point if removed every single Flaming Cliffs aircraft as it removed a single DLL file out or each aircraft bin folder. In fact pretty much every DCS module has been affected over the last few months by Malwarebytes. The bizarre thing was with the FC aircraft was the day of the patch is just removed the F-15C and A-10A, whitelisted the files the following day then added them back to the blacklist the day after that, along with the rest of the aircraft and it stayed that way for about a week until they were all added back to the whitelist. Normally that happens because end users submit files for manual examination rather than automated scans. As for McAfee that did the same but not so many aircraft but recently it's been flagging all kinds of stuff. As for Microsoft that does from time to time but been more regular recently but they normally whitelist pretty quick. I would never recommend turning a AV off completely, I wouldn't even recommend white listing entire DCS directories but I have whitelisted individual files before but then monitored it and checked to see if they get whitelisted. What you could do is submit the file for manual inspection through your AV, some reply, some don't and just whitelist the file after inspection. Failing that, if people are suspicious it might be tampered with I generally recommend deleting the file and running verify so it downloads again from the server. As for Razbam, with the dispute at the moment they have ceased all support on their modules.

There's been quite a few posts over the last couple of years regarding this, almost all have come back to the time issue. I checked my time the other day as something I was working on was giving the wrong time stamps compared to my watch, checked and Windows was 3 minutes out of sync with the actual time. So as suggested, I would check that first as it's likely the response you will get from support. As for the AV problem it's become more apparent over the last three updates, the worst offenders being Malwarebytes and McAfee but Windows Defender has started to quarantine files as well, latest is the AV-8B Harrier I think, it's generally just a single DLL file out the aircraft bin folder. I think it was 2 patches ago that Malwarebyes removed every single Flaming Cliffs aircraft by removing that single DLL file.

I've seen the Desert Pink scheme but can't remember where, or even if it was just being worked on so can't help there. Generally when you install mods and liveries they go into the Saved Games folder, there is some stuff from time to time where it has to be added to the main DCS folder. You can get to the Saved Games in Windows Explorer, click on your user name at the top left of the page under where is says Desktop and will be like this: Saved Games\DCS\ or you can just type %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games in to the search box in Windows and open it from there. Lot of the mods already have the livery folder within the mod folder, if it has you can just copy the new livery folder straight across to it. Most of the VSN have the livery folder within the mod folder so it's pretty easy. In the case of the Tornado it's already in there and you got: Saved Games\DCS\Mods\aircraft\Tornado\Liveries and within that folder there’s 4 sub folders. VSN_TornadoGR4 and VSN_TornadoIDS are the ones you want so just drag a copy of the livery you are installing into both, unless like me you only use the GR4 then you only need to copy the livery into that one folder. The folder structure looks like this: For mods that don't have the folder the easiest way is just to create a folder yourself within the Saved Games DCS folder, so it would look like this. Saved Games\DCS\Liveries\ You can then put your liveries inside that, each aircraft has it's own folder and the livery for that aircraft goes in that specific folder but then need to be named correctly. So for example my ED F/A-18 I've installed the Top Gun liveries so the folder structure looks like this: Saved Games\DCS\Liveries\FA-18C_Hornet Within that folder there are 5 others with different liveries and the those folders can be named anything but in my case they are named Maverick, Goose, Rooster, Hangman and Phoenix.

I haven't used the Nightstorm mod but unless it's had a recent update there's a chance it's outdated and the recent changes to both DCS and the F-22A might cause a few issues, looks that was as it works okay if you use it alone. I did the same as you, I always start fresh with a new version unless it's just an update patch. I've saved all my profiles as well for the controllers so if there is an issue I can just load them back rather than re-adding them. I notice that as well it's only A2A now, like you I miss loading up on A2G as I normally have a play about in some test missions and start off with the ground attack then have a couple of A2A on board for any aircraft coming my way.

Not at home at the moment but I downloaded V3 the day it was released and had problems with he pitch as well, I tried clearing the bindings and re-adding but still had no pitch as such. I solved it by using the normal pitch settings when assigning the axis, rather than the F-22 ones that where previously used. I think the graphic image on the website has been updated now, several former F-22 bindings now require the normal DCS ones to work correctly, when I downloaded originally it still had everything saying you had to use dedicated F-22 settings. Also what's the enhancement you installed? The F-22A V3 should really be installed fresh, not overwriting anything so I just removed the original folder and replaced it with the V3 folder. Some people where making the mistake of installing V3 then adding the few lines of code from the original fix by SkateZilla which broke it as it's been re-coded.

They solved some of the issues by rewriting some of the code, there are new downloads for over 20 of the VSN aircraft, so you can just use the aircraft without any issues. They are in testing at the moment but been 2 weeks and so far and I personally haven't found any issues. This is the original post I did a couple of weeks ago, forgot to add it in here

XnConvert and ImageMagick both do batch file conversion of DDS. ImageMagick https://imagemagick.org/ XnConvert https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/

Suppose any of these would make a nice addon as helicopters have been mentioned Westland Wessex HAS.1 (or HAS.3/HU.5 for the Falklands) Westland Sea King HC.4 or HAS.5 for the Falklands Westland Scout AH.1 (Falklands) Westland Wasp HAS.1 (Falklands) Westland Lynx AH.1 (or HAS.2/HAS.3 for the Falklands)

To be fair, even before all this many of the mods where just using default cockpit's so they were wearing dresses long before this. The mod creators have gone to a lot of trouble to sort this out, I can't see them changing it back again. Also the code you are referencing, people were still having problems with it and non functioning things other issues. If it was as simple as just adding a few lines of code I doubt very much if half the modding community would have spent a considerable amount of time fixing their mods or coming away from FC aircraft all together. As ED staff have pointed out before, it's not their job to fix everyone elses mods and if it was just a cut and paste job of a few lines of code for five aircraft why didn't they bother in all the updates since the initial problem. Some creators are already moving towards complete standalone so they don't have this issue in the future, that's their choice and people can either use the mod or not.