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Doveman, I may add one thing : I play in Windowed Maximized (1 screen out of 2) Auto Disable Aero The only thing i have, is when i'm in view mode (mouse controlling view) if i press briefing, then back or fly, my mouse turn back in view mode (invisible) but i can't look around. View mode is stuck. Alt-C call my mouse back on screen though. The only solution to resolve this is to call briefing without view mode activated. (mouse already visible) Maybe it will help you. Otherwise, i use TrackIR, and taking a look at the briefing while flying, is a thing a rarely do.

You're right, i'm just clicking it too, only for the fun :) Anyway, unlike Falcon 4 which had a IFF recognizer or something (EtherealN explained it well elsewhere), in DCS we have the F10 fog of war. (which is absoluteley too powerful and unreal imo) About your mouse problem, i tried briefing, esc, alt-c, fly, in every combinations, everything possible. my cursor is always here when i'm calling it. I have really no clue how to help you right now. Don't get me wrong, i do not wish this bug on our machines, but if no-one (maybe JG now) has it, how could ED resolve it ? that's the main problem.

- IFF on black shark is not implemented. And will not be in near future Link So, don't worry about this glitch. Anyway, the switch still works for me. - Zaelu is right. the general light does modify PVI800 illumination. Imho, this is a minor glitch too. - SAI accumulates errors very fast. I saw that from the beginning, that would be great if someone confirm this thing, because, i must admit i rely on it only first minute of flight. - Zebra Light : Roger that Alpha. - Still has no mouse problem doveman :huh: (and i won't complain)

I've upgraded from a 4890 to 7870. same FPS. CPU bottleneck, 4x Xeon E51xx @3.3Ghz Monitoring Gpu-Z activity while playing WILL tell you if your GPU is the bottleneck or not.

You guys, had hi-jacked this thread magistrally ! I love you ! My Xeons supports 64 bit, my kernel support 32 bits, i can't install MacOs 10.8 cuz it needs 64 bits support, I can install Windows 7 64 bits without troubles. who am I ? ;)

Alpha, weird or not, i was thinking about it yesterday. and Then you came, confirming my thoughts. :) It's somehow a poor feature, fuel stealers love that, don't they ? hehe ! Flanker, no, i do not forgot you. Need some investigations first.

Not very clever I know, this has been discussed elsewhere. Anyway, it works, for for a limited time. you can take off and land vertically. i'm not complaining about how the hell i can RTB with one engine. :)

My tactic is to shut off EEG, and manage very carefully collective, with max Engine power. much better compression, and able to hover. but if you're doing it wrong, say goodbye to your last engine ;)

definitively CPU. My 670 is about 80% load in cockpit and 100% external view. (everything maxed out) spec i7 3770k@4Ghz my 2006 Xeons @2.66 got a 7870 this week, and still same FPS than my 4890. (ie : pretty low) GPU load at about 20-30%

BTW Datalink in SP is more than important. Today, Step two has a partial answer in the bug thread. Very appreciable! Hope it's only the start of Black Shark era again ;)

And Thank YOU for taking time to answer ! In fact, I did know some of your argumentation. I just wanted to minimize the post length. You've provided good infos and a very good argmentation. I like it :love: The fact is, if i destroy my engines (now i can understand the insta 100 to 0% power) why can i restart them in air without trouble ? Don't worry though, i don't play with this a lot, and usually, when i shut off EEG, if i play it wrong, i'll have vibration and permanent engine failure. Sooner or later I will sort those kind of old-school glitches which are not either "prioritized" nor "ruining game experience". Thus making important bugs more visible. When you'll have access to the game, test my track and tell me what you think about it. For sure, a real pilot doing this IRL deserve martial court. :)

you may try to go somewhere in your control panel => pads and check if Windows didn't put the joystick in auto-power save mode. Moreover, can i ask you, the average FPS you are experiencing when this bug occurs? Before my upgrade, i had some issue with my X52P when passing by a heavy dynamic weather, or more generally at about 14FPS and below. It can be almost anything, from usb plug to a random driver. :-s

Thanks, ddin't had time to test from farp though

No, this was the first bug i've seen in 1.2.3 yesterday ;) Start from ramp only works from airports now. Oh, and that kills my first campaign mission too. \o/

That thread made me smile, there's hope ! I've seen great improvements at each patch(for DCS in general), i'm just hoping every patch doesn't come with old nasty bugs. I think "We" understand why you, ED, prefer to track a single bug report than a full resuming thread. But admit at least for us, your method often comes with N+1 threads about one single bug, thing that i've seen quite often before here, and still hapenning in other sim sections. Personnally, i've done that one or 2 times, and then dropped it, because sometime solution is at hand, but you need to dig in every threads in 3 sections and 20 pages how to do it right. Anyway, thanks for 1.2.3 (apart maybe for datalink!), and thank for all of you which support BlackShark, this wonderful experience.

Hello Folks ! Yes i've updated this thread, but... do you know the feeling i had when you spend 2-3h editing a readable thread, then pushing a button and then poof ! Sometimes i miss pen and paper. :smartass: Attention, long post, no TLDR at the end. Ok so i've just installed 1.2.3 today, tested some things, here my results : -Boat missiles should be ok now -Drift on boat : Same as before. not stable. -Bullet perforation sound : OK for me at least for AK guns, I'll wait for more returns. -Load time : Still super-fast everything maxed out -Mission editor : won't launch some old missions, won't prepare mission after coming back from a previous prepare mission. Won't fly mission sometimes if i don't quit ME first. In fact, it's kinda messed completely. -AI Datalink, please, can someone confirm this thing is completely broken again? All they've learnt is strafe/strafe/strafe. I am hopeless. -Added magnetic heading / Gearbox Light / HUD bug and some others. But, you should take in consideration that i have no really friends in DCS, so MultiPlayer is not my cup of tea (yet?). If a bug happens there, then... it may also be a multiplayer bug, not specially black shark. (example : you can't spawn A10 on boat, so we don't know if it happens too. About FC3, it's not a real sim anyway, everything is possible) So basically, you have new red lines, new green lines and switched orange lines :) Yes i look (not always though) in other threads, even in russian one. don't forget i often add link to OP at the end of my lines. But it's sometimes difficult to decide what to do, i can't (and won't) add everything. If you feel it's very important, please notify me via PM. About ED's support, as you can see, Druid is the only ED Testers Team involved at some point in this discussion. I can assure you not any ED sent me PMs about aknowledging/denying/flaming me or any bugs. My goal IS NOT to become an official ED tester, i just wanted to have an updated history about glitches in BS, because this sim is under-evaluated / under-played. And, god it's been almost 2 years i'm working on a freaking scripted SP campaign, but at every patch, i loose motivation. My goals are not to kill and land peacefully. (And now i understand Vergeev group) I also bought A10 last year, i've done tuto missions(and forgot them), but... you know... A combat chopper sim... come on ! I first thought i would post a thread like this in DCS WORLD bugs section, but, and i'm sure you had noticed that too : - Those sections has thousands posts per day, bugs, not bugs... I let ED sort with this. - There are specifics sections, not so specific, combined with my previous statement, it would become impossible to update/follow manually. - Black Shark pilots are specials, we can't be merged with CA or Dynamic campaign whiners (ok i'm joking there ;) don't flame me down) - I always click in BS section first when landing on dcs forums, because i'm a BS pilot dreamer. and this section remains pretty ordered for some years now. Now the good things : Somewhere, i'm sure ED's little hamsters are looking sometimes here, because red lines becomes green, without notification elsewhere (like tomahawk, crash on deck...) I just hope they can easily read my OP and track bugs. Everyone can check and compare at anytime all of my edits. (click on "last edited by xxx"). Powerful spy, and even helps me sometimes with history change. I won't be worried if, one day, Nate, Druid, EtheralN or any other put a big red cross in front of each tracked/validated lines. But maybe i'm dreaming too much. More about 1.2.3 bugs : Yes, unfortunately, without ED support here, we will need to retests the vast majority of active/resolved bugs. Adding new ones and old ones not yet seen. It will take quite some time :cry: Anyway, you can't imagine how glad i am seeing more than 1k views in less than a month, and you guys saying there is a dedicated thread on BS bugs everywhere. Although some people like doveman (and cockpit mouse pb) should be sorry to have this kind of bugs not really seen by others. But my priority is to keep my OP simple and clear.

Pas forcément plus simple, mais vous enregistrez un bout de track dans une mission au hasard. - allez ensuite dans l'editeur de mission - replay track - quitter le replay, et vous devriez vous retrouver avec la mission ouverte dans l'editeur. reste plus qu'a sauvegarder et investiguer. :)

Yes, but don't count on 1.2.3 to resolve nasty bugs too. I am working 16h/day recently, i don't have time to run BS2 :( I should update this thread monday. Still, My loading time is quite fast, just installed on default location. Everything maxed out. But the loading process in DCS seems to be something not understandable. As DCS access your RAMquite often, it's not advised to make a RamDisk. (sill better than HDD but...) There we go, i'm late. Hold fast !

1 - It's just a setup ;) setting a ingress point could save your mission, via some kind of "tactic". Being all packed will be deadly if a new SAM pops (scripting engine :D ). 2 - The few times my Wingmen did not engaged (said : yes boss, then returned) were when my datalink targets were wrong. (example : "other" DTL point on a vehicle) 3 - Sure ! it's in the manual :book: 4 - Yes, that removes a lot of tactic unfortunately. But it was not present in 1.1.1.1. As requested by codename in PM, i will supply this post with my mission and my track in a few days. (hope i answered you about the bug too (2)) And of course, thank you all :)

Couple weeks ago, i was "listenning" prime time news here in France, then suddently, i heard a familiar sound (altitude tone in Black-Shark) I thought you could be interested in watching a combat pilot report, engaged actually in Operation Serval, in Mali. Don't forget to enable captions, i've them made entirely to FOR YOU. Unfortunately, it's not a true 720p, as i missed the first broadcast in 1080i. Cheers

Actually, it's a flaw in DCS titles. either you can cheat to death and knows what exactly coming at you, or you can't see anything and explode because you never found this sam manpad the direction and range you've been told. From what i've read somewhere else, Ground forces un-hide all units they see with CA. Fog of war is way too powerful But your abris should show only air threat range from sam capable units. as it's said, hide sam units and show nothing on map should help to force a recon.

Also, more than 16 characters crashed my system (BSOD) just after plugging the joy in sometimes. For corrupted displays, just switch to mode 2, and back to 1 should be good. Also beware, the stock PS-2 cable is a true junk (even if it looks brand new). you should get a better cable if you plan to use it more than often. I've got some serious issues because of it. Fortunately, thanks to internet i was not alone.

Yes the testing phases take a lot of time. I don't have any mod atm, and even with that, sometimes bugs come from my system. That's why I installed 1.2.1, 1.2.0 and 1.1 (be happy, 1.2.2 is an incredible advancement from 1.1 :))

A quick update, as i said to JG_Smil, i'm not a true heading/magnetic expert, so i will need more time investigating this. LWS self test button is working like the manual descibes it (30s hemisphere + some lights LWR and master caution.) I've just tested ark lua for the first time, and, without messing Ark.lua, the predefined airports ADF worked like a charm. Landed in pure haze with hsi needle. Anapa preset 4 : outer=>inner=> landed. In the manual, it says you must edit lua yourself sometimes. My magnetic compass has about 3-4° difference from my true heading. but the magnetic deviation knob does not work. I didn't tested the map/3D world differences I really can't reproduce the mouse bug described by doveman at all. Am i doing something wrong?

That's very strange, i've tested multiples times, and my mouse cursor always shown off... As no one seems to have your problems (along with your radio/success problem too), it could be a corrupted installation issue or something else but ED's vinci code. The only true mouse bug DCS had, was the "delay" (or until it passes over a switch) before re-appearance (in 1.2.1) But, ED took care of this "glitch" quite fast. I modestly think we will need to wait other reports before having a chance of a aknoledgement and resolution :noexpression: Did you tried alt tab while in fullscreen mode? i'm coming short of ideas, but there might be a conflict...