Reticuli

Yes, the button toggle lighting is reversed on the right, not working on the left, and dials don't light correctly.

When I update to 2.5, are my key and controller maps currently in use in 1.5 going to port seamlessly over automatically?

Disable all trees would be a nice option, as I can fly through them, they don't seem to disrupt missiles, and I doubt they even provide any sensor cover.

It's very nuanced. I can't tell you specifically how it handles compared to the real aircraft, but it's not a dumbed-down, simplified flight model. At the very least, it has high "truthiness". Sometimes I suspect the shark's a little too squirrely overall, but my biggest nitpick is probably the VRS in the sim, IMO, allows too much static-collective roll/pitch authority, and horizontal velocity (caused by roll/pitch obviously) seems to have less effect preventing or alleviating (get out of) VRS than it should. I don't see much of any stick authority reduction in VRS, nor increase in such authority by further dropping the collective. Basically, very big stick input or some counter-intuitive dropping of the collective and less-needed stick input should get you out of it. And seems like VRS happens with a little too much such horizontal helo movement currently. It's sort of nitpicking, though. We're blessed with a sim that has VRS at all and nuance and full aerobatics, while not feeling like a lightweight RC aircraft.

High settings and severe slowdown from 60fps to like 2fps when firing rockets.

The option to hide control stick doesn't appear to be working in DCS.

Intended for capturing still frames and movies, not for actually using the sim. The less efficient bokeh setting is more like real optics.

I finally figured out a solution. I searched the DCS main folder for every Saitek and PPJoy file I could find, deleted all of them, and then in combination with renaming that other folder it finally created new default mappings. I tried a repair again in there somewhere, but I'm not sure that did anything. I can't get the zoom axis working yet and I haven't mapped A-10, Su-25, or the old prop aircraft included (that was the last thing I'd done last year before uploading the big thing onto AVSIM and no longer wanting to bother updating), but at least the long process of re-mapping appears to be working. I am getting some goofy behavior where the cockpit disappear button works very rapidly continuously, but I can't say that's DCS' fault.

Renaming it did not result in a new folder being created. It did break the install to the point now that DCS doesn't even start. Repair only results in it saying something about installing runtimes but doesn't actually improve or change matters that I can tell. I guess I'll just have to either uninstall/reinstall, or perhaps wait for the next update and see if that fixes it.

I'd rather not uninstall/reinstall anything. I have solid state drives. I don't even like letting stuff update, which is why I hadn't done it for DCS in over a year. The keys for collective work fine. I'll try renaming that folder as you suggest some time. Thanks.

In what folder will these control files be so I can delete them?

Not game mode. Nothing seems to help. It shows up under tune just fine. X65f throttle can be mapped to any other axis and works in-sim. No other physical axis will work as collective, either. BS1 worked fine and BS2 worked fine before the update. And like I said, I just created this new map because of the new format DCS is apparently and annoyingly using now.

Yeah, I'd already checked all that. Should work, just doesn't for some reason. Doesn't matter what axis I map to collective, it doesn't work in the sim. And the throttle can be mapped to any other axis, and it will work within the sim.

Unless you're using some expensive pole cyclic contraption or a forcefeedback stick, I highly recommend trying PPJoy and GlovePIE instead of manually hitting the trimmer.

I figured that helmet sight would be fixed by now in 3D. It would be really great if that and the HUD were actually way out in the distance as infinite focus, too, but just not having the HMS jump around would be nice.

Is that my problem? Did the new update which I stupidly allowed to be installed leave out the collective in the DCS mapping system? Do I need to manually add it to an LUA?

Shows up fine under the controls screen. I can assign it any axis I want, but it does nothing in the sim itself. Is there some collective lock I need to disengage, now? Hover and altitude hold are not on. I can even show the Enter-Ctrl red square and that doesn't move no matter what I do with the physical axis.

That's a pain in the ass.

Thank you.

MSI GTX 580 OC Twin Frozr 2 1.5GB

Is there a standalone version of BS 2? If so, is it in addition to BS 1 or does it replace it? If it replaces it, is there a framerate hit? I already have Blackshark 2 as part of DCS World.

HUD and Labels distance to infinity. HMS not flickering and fluttering... and possibly only on one eye. Thanks.

Some of them seem inordinately difficult to kill compared to a few updates back. In particular, gun shots aren't doing much.

My rear throttle detent is a nice spot for when they first come on intermittently. The slightest amount backed off that and they never light up. Is that over torque or about to over torque at the detent with these intermittent? Are the warning lights triggered by over torque or by reaching safe limit?

Except Janes FA-18. :D