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When I start DCS it comes up with the following: DCS Update 2.16.2.18 Latest available version 2.9.443707 requires Windows 8.1 or higher. Press OK to pick the latest compatible version. I am running Windows 11 and my DCS version is 2.9.4.53707. Any suggestions as to what and where the fault it?

I have re-jigged my Helios set up, after which, none of the electronic displays will appear. The remainder of the panel itself (controls, ASI, Altimeter, etc) all appear and run as expected, and supplementary panels pop up when requested. Can some kind soul direct me to where I should be looking to make the MFCD’s etc appear? I should add that this system has operated for the past 5 years or more, but during that period my aging brain has steadily lagged behind the technology.

Thanks to all who offered advice. In the end I submitted a ticket to DCS, and got the reply within an hour. I appear to have clicked an option to run Windows 8, which was located within the DCS intro. Problem solved and thanks to Mike at DCS.

Yes, I definitely have Windows 11 (and ONLY Windows 11) installed. Other members of my group are having various unexplained anomalies with Win 11, but not as bad as I.

Thanks Draconus. Unfortunately, DCS, when it starts to update, says that I have an early version of Windows, which will not run the current edition of DCS. It claims that my Windows is earlier than 8.1. Thus it insists on installing Version 2.5.6 of DCS. What I don’t know is where the fault is and how to correct it. I am reluctant to re-install Windows from scratch.

My apologies - I find that I am running DCS Open-Beta version 2.5.6.61527. This would seem to indicate that DCS has selected this version as the most recent that will run under Win 8.1, as indicated by the warning displayed during DCS start-up. However, the PC was bought new around 8 months ago with Windows 11 installed, and it is most definitely running V.11 That prompts the question: how does DCS check the Windows version which is running, and how do I correct it?

The anomaly is that DCS seems to think I am running a version of Windows before Version 8.1. DCS version numbers are OK.

I've been having various problems with DCS OB and Helios, and so decide to re-install a fresh DCS-open beta. (I am using Windows 11). DCS seems to have installed OK but, during initial start-up, I get a notice saying: "DCS Updater 2.16.2.17 Latest available version 2.8.1.34667.2 requires Windows 8.1 or higher Press OK to pick the latest compatible version." When I continue I get a second message: "Version 2.8.134667.2 is not available - Consider updating." Following these odd (and incorrect notices), the system continues to load DCS 2.8.1.34667.2 without any obvious problems. Has anyone experienced anything similar, or is able to suggest a cause (and/or cure)

A straight-in landing is a bit of a rush. However, the runway is not that narrow and at least it is nice and long. As for staying in the runway, as you round out, pick a cloud formation or terrain on the nose and use that for direction. All you then need to do is be aware of the edges of the runway on left and right. You might want to zoom back and get a wider picture during the last 200 ft or so.

Same again. I get the invitation to join, but when I click on it I get a statement that the address is invalid. I am using an I-pad - I don’t know if that is anything to do with it.

A few inputs before this one, Derammo gave 2 discord links to Capt Zeen’s and Derramo’s discord sites. I have never found discord easy to use, and I have had no more success using the 2 addresses given. I get an invitation to join, but when I click on it, I am told that the addresses are invalid. Can anyone help me?

Scaley, thanks - I’ll give that a try.

I have just stumbled across the continuation of this topic - it appears to have been hidden from me for some time, presumably because I very rarely sign in. Having re-found it I shall spend some time trawling through it for advice - I have never got on with Discord. But I am rambling again! I have been using Helios for some years, normally with Capt Zeen's (praised be his name) excellent profiles usually modified to suit my fancy. Unfortunately, over the years, my brain has not kept pace and I find myself having to seek advice. Basically I have screwed up my system by re-arranging my three monitors. But, Helios has rapped me over knuckles and has demanded that I re-realign my monitors. I seem to recall that, in the past, it was possible to do this by entering the required co-ordinates and sizes of the monitors directly, but I can no longer find how to do this. I have tried to correct my set-up by sliding the miniscule monitors in the currently provide Monitor layout, but this has proved unsuccessful. To come, finally, to the point, can anyone tell me how to align monitors with each other by typing in the know sizes and required positions of each of them? At the moment one is 2 pixels out of place and the other 11 pixels! Thanks for listening.

As a general rule of thumb, I close the throttle as the nose comes down through the horizon. Unfortunately, in the Spit this doesn’t usually happen cleanly.

A hammerhead is not the same s a stall-turn. As I understand it, a hammerhead is where, from the vertical, the ac pitches forward - all the hammerheads that I have done have been due to my incompetence, when trying to do a stall turn. In a stall-turn the aircraft should ‘cart-wheel’ to the chosen side, that is it yaws. In real life, you will normally need to apply a little forward stick pressure to stay in the vertical. The trick is to apply rudder shortly before the aircraft stops moving upwards so as to start it in the direction that you want to turn, and then use ailerons, in the natural sense, to stop the ‘high’ wing, which will be going faster that the other wing, from rolling the aircraft. As to being able to do them well in a Spitfire, I share your frustration. I have never done what I think to be a satisfactory one, in any DCS aircraft, despite many years of doing them for real in Chipmunk and the Jet Provost training aircraft. I suspect this is partly the lack of real feedback both to the body and from the controls. For example in real life, you need to keep a tight hold of both the stick and the rudder, to prevent any tail-slide from forcing any of the controls onto their stops.