ErichVon

Did you setup your joystick and calibrate it through the Windows Utility? If Windows 7: ========= Mouse click the Start circle icon in the lower left corner of your desktop screen. Then input "game" in the Search input box. Click on "Set up USB game controllers" out of the list. Use the wizard.

Nice! That's my era. Long hair hippie-freaks. LOL! I couldn't understand the words, so here: http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/tab/amlor/chd_mlor-ltf.txt Don't know if the chords are the same key as the video clip. I didn't try it. It's easy enough to transpose it. Now, they have computer programs to do it for you. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3469 And a Wiki: (a lot of my generation are already gone, I was wondering who is left?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd http://www.pinkfloyd.com/ My Windows 7 I can put up one screen for the video clip and another to "Sing A-long With Mitch" . Found another one with words included as it plays: I like this one best: ============= Intrepid Aviation =========== http://www.pinkfloydfan.net/t1505-david-gilmour.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_Fly_%28Pink_Floyd_song%29 Thanks for the video.

I went into Multiplayer in the DCS: Warthog almost immediately last year. I usually fly by myself, but I did join a squad for awhile. Sad, though, for when I access Multiplayer in P-51D nobody has a server up and BS2 might have a couple not-locked ones open. BS1 in FC2 usually has more opportunity to fly online. I am currently learning Su-25T for FC2. I flew with some guys last week that asked me to join their squad. I like offline, too. Nice to have both.

What I do after I download a new update, I immediately defrag using the Windows 7 stock defrag utility which seems a lot better than what XP had. I usually run it twice. I ran your (.trk) file in Single Player, in Replay, offline, not in Mutiplayer. In cockpit I was getting 24 or higher frames per second. Outside external view 40 to 60. I have almost zero experience making a mission. Thanks for the track file. That will be fun to play again and again. I have not cold started the Black Shark in about a month and already forgot some of the memorized start-up sequence. I immediately took control. I did run your track file as a movie and I saw the slow frame rates you were experiencing. I don't know programming, so take my comments with a grain of salt. My experience, if a lot of gun rounds are being fired, each of those rounds is a big math problem for lack of the proper terminology. In max resolution there are a lot of math problems---algorithms that need to be calculated. Not just AA bullet streams, I have noticed especially with helicopters, the rotating blades are an issue and your track file has two wingmen right there. So, maybe drop the resolution. DCS I run my PC desktop in stock resolution if I am not running in 3D. I have a 3D monitor. BS1 is pretty cool in 3D and that runs at 120Hz. BS2 is not in 3D on my machine. I run the rest of DCS at 59Hz. What I do in the other sim, if I go tanking ground vehicles, I run my single monitor at stock resolution. The Aces High tanking is much better than World of Tanks as to my experience. To see the enemy, and no icons are used to find them, maximum resolution is necessary. If I dogfight, I drop the resolution because it supposedly does not use as much math operations to interpret what is going on. I kill enemy planes in Aces High much better at lower resolution. If I am in a B-17 or B-24 to kill enemy attacking me I drop my screen resolution even more. All I need is enough clarity to drop my bombs on target. After my bomb run, I go defensive, I climb to max altitude and drop all my graphics to minimum to ensure a faster/better kill of attacking enemy planes. DCS is not Aces High, though. I have two 512GB hard drives in a RAID0 setup. My graphics cards are two GT545 OEM in a dual SLI setup. But one of these days I will pick up a single GTX 580 graphics card once the price comes down some. My psu is 845 watts. That should be better for a couple of years. I find I forget I said some things before. I probably am an Alzheimer's candidate, my short term memory really sucks. Take care.

Right now those figures may be interesting from an engineering perspective, but until DCS_World gets other aircraft like the 109, to fight against whose own peculiarities at various altitudes will be different and it then will make a difference finding that sweet spot advantage. Currently we fight with the same aircraft, except fuel weight and its fuselage placement will make a difference, as also will how many .50 cal rounds a person carries as to Alt + ' and a pre-load. It would be nice to know the sweet spot altitude for fuel conservation going to target and egress RTB. Yes, it definetly does not perform the same as Aces High's P-51D. And watch it with a weapons load and angle of attack, even taking off with a full loadout heavy is quite a bit different than going to just dogfight unloaded. I love it. I have never flown a real aircraft so I have nothing to compare to real life.

One of the forum moderators does this with Windows 7-64 bit with his gaming files; as well as Aces High did when they went from Windows XP to Windows 7; and I did it for DCS: A10C Warthog; and a separate folder for DCS: Black Shark 1 and 2, as one big installation that covers both: Don't put the Black Shark initial setup and the consequent update patches in either C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86) , but create a separate folder, lets say, "GAMES" to stash the files. C:\GAMES\Ka-50-BLACK_SHARK (is what I title mine)\ then install under this for the Black Shark installation. The Black Shark program I use, uses BS1 and BS2 and it is not made the same way as the A-10C program looking at the 2 different installations under MY COMPUTER to C: . I can play BS1 with FC2, still and BS2 with the DCS: A10C . FC2 always has servers open to play in Multiplayer wee hours Eastern time zone (Zulu -5). Aces High uses C:\Hitech Creations\Aces High\(then the .exe Desktop shortcut startup and the mess of the necessary folders and files). Aces High found early on problems using the Program Files folder in Windows 7. Maybe that would help you. In MY DOCUMENTS I make folders for all my downloads for safe keeping and then no need to re-download them. Then I put the whole works on a big thumb drive as insurance.

I don't care. I don't strip down my processes so I figure the more the merrier, programs are going to run in the background. I am having no issues, I run great.

I use ALL my cores turned on without issues. My CPU is a i7-2600 (8MB cache) runs stock speed at 3.4GHz that will overclock to 3.9GHz as needed. Water cooled. Everybody's systems are different. Your mileage may vary. Alienware for a fee will fine tune a single game. My understanding is they will not charge you if they cannot improve on what you have. I do not know if they are specific to just Alienware products. I have not used this service, yet. I did turn something off in BIOS and disabled "EIST Intel Speed Step" as ED suggested in one of the forum Sticky(s) for BS2 this being on, supposedly causes stutter issues in BS2. It still stutters sometimes. I do not have the latest BIOS upgrades but what came with my December 2011 Alienware Aurora.

Remember the Internet days before iPhone and all the great music sites people put up before somebody said, "You can't do that." I started using the Internet using WebTV (the senior crowd) and great finds: Viet Nam Era (let taps play through first, mess of songs, not MIDI) =========================================== http://chu65nang67.us/nam/vietnam-StreamingAudio.html http://chu65nang67.us/nam/vietnam.html (Has to be played in Internet Explorer) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Bandstand Boogie" ============== http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pJzYvN5Wm0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are still some great Midi sites: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TheJazzPage ========= http://www.thejazzpage.de/index1.html Josef Huber's Midi Page ================ http://www.josefhuber.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=5 Good Morning VietNam ================ http://www.vietvet.org/audio/midipage.htm "Green Onions" (midi sequencer) Ctrl + F (enter green) =================================== http://www.eadcentral.com/go/1/1/0/http://www.snowhawk.com/music.html "Green Onions" The Blues Brothers Band (check out Paul Shaffer on organ) ============================================== "Green Onions" Booker T and The MGs ========================== http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsg08S7rP6I "Somewhere In Time" ============== http://www.angelfire.com/mt/jdhardball/images/piano.mid "Our Love Is Here To Stay" ================= http://www.wtv-zone.com/pbarikmo/piano3/here2.mid ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MIDI Search Engine ============== http://www.manythings.org/midi/search.html The Wayback Machine (input MIDI): ======================= http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=the+wayback+machine&fr=chr-frtr -+- that was fun looking up all that stuff...

Sounds to me something is out of whack concerning your controller(s) input setup.

According to my spreadsheet utility I found to the Lock On forum, for FC version 1.2.1 , this utility shows all the aircraft supported by FC. This utility shows each aircraft's unique keyboard assignments. forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=51912 by airtom , 04-01-2010, 10:10AM , Lock On / General Discussion / All aircrafts keyboard commands in one table (xls) and C:\LockOn Flaming Cliffs 2\Config\Input\Input_parser\ "There is a batch file "Input_to_TXT_eng.bat" which will export all commands layouts of all devices into TXT format." The 25T, according to this utility, is the only FC aircraft with this ability. In BS1 and BS2, there is a similar button's function to get the helicopter out of autopilot to hit the dirt and "serpentine, serpentine" (re: some movie, the actor Peter Falk's character, having been former CIA or similar, said to his underling to avoid enemy fire, maybe the movie, "The In-Laws").

Too bad P-51D does not have this, but it does trim out pretty good.

I know what you are talking about. How can you fly a plane without trim controllers? A person would sure get tired quickly constantly fighting the aircraft. This profile only works with CH Products gear. It takes seconds to download. Look at Crunch's .pdf mappings of the Fighterstick and Pro Throttle. I can cold start it, taxi it, takeoff, fly it, 1/2 azz navigate and got lost, climbed to the equivalent of 15,000 feet to get over the hump and landed it 1st time 200 km away to another air base probably enemy; without reading anything and flying it by my gut instincts. The auto pilot functions work as does the 3 axis trim. As far as doing combat with it? Ask me next year... http://www.ch-hangar.com/forum/showthread.php?7149-Lockon-Flaming-Cliffs-2!-PT-FS-PP This is why I never messed with FC2 was all the manual key inputs. But some guys know how to script .cms profiles in multiple modes. It is still a bear to learn. I've been learning Crunch's BS1 and BS2 profile for 3 months, still learning. I suggest learning this jet to FC2, it is then in 32 bit mode and FC2 is more stable. See my other thread, this forum, posted today for a training video set to incorporate in the FC2 training for the Su-25T. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=88575 Thanks to all you all's that have helped me.

I have almost zero experience with FC2 (Flaming Cliffs 2.0) yet the Platinum Edition 2 DVD set is how I found DCS Warthog and Black Shark and the P-51D. My FC2 disk set is installed, but I never messed with it. Yesterday I found a CH Products profile to CH Hangar for FC2 by the user here known as "Crunch". He told me his profile can be used in DCS World for the Su-25T and to FC2. FC2 has a training videos' set for the Su-25T. I do have the LockOn Flight Manual 2.0 included in my installation and I just remembered yesterday I did purchase a nice manual last year, I found to Amazon.com with a metal ring binder. Not satisfied with the FC2 Su-25 training videos, I went to the LockOn site and found this: http://lockon.co.uk/downloads/video/flaming_cliffs_2/su-25t It took over an hour to download on the USA FTP. I installed it into my FC2 installation from January 2011 through its install wizard and it put the files right where they needed to go, no problem. It just added the Su-25T training videos into what I already had for the Su-25. I now have both and the basic flight manual. Since I have a new profile to learn and I do not know the status of the Su-25T in the DCS World Beta 2, I will learn this aircraft to FC2. There are other CH Products profiles to CH Hangar for FC2 concerning this jet by other authors. I will probably spend awhile experimenting with the various scripted profiles guys have made to see which one will suit me best. Crunch's profile is good for all the aircraft to FC2. All I want to know is how to turn the (enter favorite cuss word here) IT-23M TV Display on. LOL! I mapped the throttle wrong and that drove me crazy for hours. All I had was full on throttle. It was just a simple fix. I almost PM'd you Crunch. Thanks for the profile Crunch.

That is exactly what I did. I keep getting mixed up my controllers' moves as to each aircraft's differences. I am still learning BS2. Well, I have the P-51 down good enough, just need to fine tune it a bit. I exploded a freighter with an 8 round rocket salvo on the 1st pass. LOL! Don't know if all 8 rockets actually hit it. A big fireball resulted and a message, "ship destroyed".

Economics 101 states "all products have a life span". Thus the need for a marketing specialist and a strategy to keep going. I think you guys need an advertising jingle and do a 30 second ad to The Military Channel and the other Countries' equivalent.

Nope. Want the Me-109 for the P-51. Want the F4U and Zero. Too bad no servers are up until Prime Time Eastern time zone. I definitely think there is a market for FC2, DCS, and DCS World. FC2 seems to be the most popular in Multiplayer.

I forget what I voted. Any F4U model, a tail-hook and a CV. And WWII era music, lots of it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm learning the Su-25 and 25T to FC2 as they have many more active servers on ALL the time, but I figure learn there, then transition back to DCS World. I have never done FC2. I downloaded and installed yesterday Crunch's CH profile for it. I can fire her up, takeoff, navigate and land. Cool how those drag chutes really drops the landing speed fast. This jet does not seem very stable except in a very narrow window of opportunity.

I was looking at their new submarine sim.

Here is a freebie (.pdf) for you made for the sim pilot. He used to fly WWII-On-Line and is based on that online sim. http://pilotpress.wordpress.com/in-pursuit/ I do not have his, "Book of Noob", yet. Think I will get it. http://pilotpress.wordpress.com/book-of-n00b/ The other book is by Shaw, "Fighter Combat". It is for real jet combat.

Most all the guys I have trained with in other sims, just want somebody for target shooting. Not for learning. I do not stay long for that. Some squads want me to be bait so the leaders can rack up more points for themselves. Ditto. I did join one squad to DCS, flying the A-10C last year and they were not like what I have described above in other sims, but they had done all the betas for it and were way ahead of me on the learning curve and they had no real training program from point A to point B to point C, etc. , like the military does. I know how the military trains, I was Navy for 8 years, though not a pilot, the learning is structured, much more efficient than high school or college was. I usually learn and fly by myself, but it is a slow process. I was flying with some experienced guys last week. They were good and better than me. But one guy told me I was no noob. I said, yep, I have died a lot over the years.

I have "In Pursuit" and Shaw's book. What I need is advanced training either by an interactive tutorial or a real tutor via one of the squads. The Rise Of Flight set of videos somebody suggested is a nice start. The 1st one was a good one. I do good enough. I think all WWII USA planes were considered boom and zoom. The P-51 is not really a turn fighter and it is in its element above 25,000 feet. I usually can cold start, takeoff, fart around some, I might get a kill, I definitely like to tree hop and see just how good my opponent is at it, I kill a lot of guys that way without firing a shot. I then go back and land. But I am missing a lot of fun, because I do not know the advanced moves.

I use Win 7 Pro, 64-bit. I do not use my TrackIR5, it slows it down. If you do, also set the Priority for it to High. It will improve. Found this info to the TrackIR forums. Try going to Task Manager, Win 7, 64-bit. Set priority for all DCS that shows up, to HIGH. Leave Task Manager up, but minimize it. I use the NVIDIA Control Manager set for DCS: Black Shark. I use the latest drivers. I went through each setting and customized it for High Performance wherever possible. That was a bit painful learning how to do that teaching myself trial and error. 2 OEM GT-545 in SLI, one monitor, 1TB, 2-500 GB hard drives in a RAID 0 setup. I sometimes get 60, usually between 30 and 40's. I run Medium settings except for Visibility. I turned a lot of the unnecessary stuff off. I am overclocked to 3.9, 2nd generation Intel i7 cpu. Water cooled Alienware Aurora.

I like the Panzertard server for P-51

#7 : Might want to discuss that with Chuck Yeager