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A question: is there a difference for when people have a trial active or have had trial -- i.e. if you have a trial running you have to be connected? I've never seen the above but there are enough people reporting zero grace period (even if they had been on the night before) that there seems to be 2 different conditions and that's the only thing I can think of. And I'd note that was before the server maintenance so not caused by that.

You shouldn't need the Apache. What are you seeing that makes you think you do?

Never say never, but apparently some of the Razbam devs have said there is no chance this is for DCS.

Have you looked in the SimAppPro settings? I believe you need to set it in there for whichever (supported) aircraft you want. I can't remember which all ones are supported, but it should be more than just F-18 IIRC.

Realistically, if you want to use DCS on Win 8.1 you'll likely need to use an older version. It may have worked in the summer, but eventually something was going to change that wasn't supported in W8.1 and it was going to break. I you made it this long after ED officially stopped supporting lower than W10 (which was at least a couple of years ago IIRC) you've done well. You can find instructions various places in the forums on how to roll back to an older version.

Known bug. Seems like it is facing that it works at about 350ish degrees approach but is frozen there and doesn't rotate with ship heading so may look like it's facing the wrong way or just not show up.

Did you properly align your HMD at startup? If you didn't it's going to be at least slightly off.

Maybe. There have been a lot of changes in AI behaviour and other core function since then, so depending on the aircraft and how simple the mission are it might be fine, might have some quirks or might be basically unplayable. Odds are probably higher that it'll be broken than working, but worth trying.

I think that's changed in a recent update . It used to be blank except on initial power up of the computer (when it lit everything) because on occasion when I forgot to launch SimAppPro I'd be confused why my UFC wasn't working in game. Maybe that's they why did it -- to give an in game indication that SimAppPro isn't connected? No idea. I can see how it could be annoying if you were VR or something and didn't need it. I assume you have tried the LCD BACKLIGHT setting and the LIGHTS OFF settings? Also go into the BACKLIGHT SETTING and set it to SETTINGS (rather than Sync with DCS etc).

I am optimistic for the Afghanistan updates based on what ED is saying, but in fairness, it was pictures like those that got me to by the whole thing as a pre-order only to be sorely disappointed on release.

Just in case you weren't aware, there is a bug currently with the F-16 and low speed with rudders. So don't be surprised if you need to tweak them back after (likely the next) update.

You're not the only one that had that mis-interpretation, but they worked with the Arctic Thunder creators so that they were ready shortly after map launch, but never actually said they were free or coming with the map.

They said when the new deck crew came out that ALL deck crew was being removed from the Stennis due to conflict with the new ones. They were hoping to be able to put something back on the Stennis at a later date.

Oops, I accidentally typed page 357 rather than 397 when I pulled it up so got the MAV page. Sorry, you are correct

Yes, but the OP is using the SLAM-ER not a MAV so FC isn't available to him. I looked wrong page. I am incorrect.

If you look at the changelog (relevant part is in the picture above) you'll see that they have disabled them in today's patch.

Pretty sure those files (most sound files) are encrypted and inaccessible to users these days. Happened quite a while ago due to piracy issues.

In this case, once I figured out the WHAT it worked no problem. It was just a case of I never bothered to turn if off and because it was a physical knob that synced already at 1/2 or whatever at game start the HUD was turned on so never triggered the changed state from off to on. So once I turned it down far enough to turn the HUD to OFF, then back ON it worked. Good general tip though!

Current issue with F-16 at low speed and any roll input. Happened in last patch.

On further testing, it seems if you have it bound to a physical knob and the "sync controls on start" option checked, you may need to turn the HUD brightness OFF, then back ON. Seems to cue on the HUD actually powering ON rather than specifically the knob.

It locks on contrast, so you may not have enough contrast with whatever specific point you're trying to hit for it to hit that. It's not really that level of precision weapon so you're not going to have MAV in force correlate mode accuracy likely.

I've had it turned off since after about the 1st time it ran.

See here:

One from mission 2: On the codewords kneeboard, the last entry (Felon I think) is a duplicate of one near the top of the page.

That doesn't work simply because at different zoom level's the unit moves in relation to the ring (if you zoom out it will likely get closer to the ring because the scale goes up so 4 nm away may be shown a directly on top). I can confirm both the behaviour and need to adjust zoom to allow selection. Likely a rendering order thing, and the fix might have equally problematic unintended consequences.