rob10

Practice, practice and practice. With a big sideorder of practice . AAR seems impossible until you manage to get some fuel the 1st time but it really does get easier. Carrier landings I'm still hit and miss.

I don't use Steam so I can't help you on that side. I know people using Steam seem to run into this semi-regularly. Check the Steam Support section on here and maybe it'll give you some ideas.

Almost for sure your authorization errors are anti-virus related. I'd start looking there. McAfee has likely decided another file is suspicious and quarantined it. McAfee has caused issues with DCS for many, many years now.

No, you don't need to delete from the old. You can reinstall from scratch without issues. It's possible (and allowed) to have DCS installed on multiple computers, you just can't use more than one copy at a time.

Check that you are actually ending up in MT. On the bottom right corner of the main screen is it showing MULTI-THREAD PREVIEW before the installed version number? If it's not, you're not launching MT for some reason. If it showing that, post your DCS logs because there's something different going on with your problem.

I've had that before. Check that the screenshot isn't actually there. IIRC it said that but it had actually saved it anyway.

It would have been useful to know you were using easy comms, but either way you really need to post a track of this occurring or we are literally blindly guessing what your problem is. You can save a track from the debrief window when you end the mission.

The map issue is a known issue with ST (and sounds like it may not be fixed). Is the GUI issue you seeing ST only as well or is a MT problem?

When it stops working I would check that your anti-virus isn't quarantining a file to two. It might get replaced by a repair and then get caught again after some time.

Thanks for coming back with the solution for your problem. You've likely helped someone else out down the road!

Check the user files section. Some of the older ones are likely broken by updates, but there are quite a number of good F-18 (and other aircraft) campaigns to be found there.

You both really should posts tracks of what you're seeing because it does not seem to be a common issue. The 1st thing to check is that you are using the proper keybind. The COMMUNICATION menu keybind will bring up the menu but only works to transmit if you're on the ground. In the air you need to use (F-18 example): COMM Switch - COMM 1 or COMM Switch - COMM 2. Also check that you have the correct radio frequency tuned in your radio.

That's one they've said in past that there is no obvious solution for so even though it's a long term issue there likely isn't a fix coming soon. I can't remember the details of the why, but it's a big fix (if they can even figure out a way to do it) and while I'm one of those affected, I get that it realistically only affects a small portion of users so spending the time required to fix it likely isn't high priority.

MT = multi-threading. It will say Multi-thread preview before the version # in the bottom right of the main menu screen. Easiest way to get it is to set a shortcut to launch the DCS.exe from the BIN-MT folder (rather than the BIN folder).

You can check if you're on MT at the bottom right of the main menu screen. It will say Multi-thread preview before the version #. Easiest way to make sure is to set a shortcut to launch the DCS.exe from the BIN-MT folder. If you're in MT and seeing the issue I would post in the thread referenced above for your best chance of getting an answer.

Short version is use MT as things are broken in ST. If you're in MT repair (or verify if Steam)

What version of DCS do you have installed? Not having a recent enough version installed is typically what causes this issue.

Any chance you purchased it in Steam and had changed it to be available in stand alone? That could explain why you were having problems before too (sometimes the linking get messed up and needs to be redone).

And realize that it will always be 5 digit, so technically it's 00201 (not 201).

Likely not as easy to do with a laptop as a desktop, but just blowing the dust off everything may also help improve your cooling since dust is a surprisingly good insulator.

You'll have to play around and see if they're the right ones, but try "Cockpit Camera Move Back" and "Cockpit Camera Move Forward" bindings in the F-18.

I'm in the camp of whichever you learn first will make the other hard to learn (because they are so different that you have to reprogram your brain going from one to the other). As for the above point, in the F-18, slew your targeting pod over the target, TDC depress, drop bomb. I'd call that pretty simple . If you want to record the point simply press the MK button.

It might look like it's restarting from scratch because it starts over a ZERO downloaded and ZERO % but if you look at the total to download it should be smaller than the previous time you've ran it. Confusing if you don't know this because it definitely does look like it's starting over from scratch.