GeneralDynamics

Hey folks, I hope everyone has been well! I am not, unfortunately, so here I am:-) I run the Winwing MIP panels and displays and they had been working flawlessly under Windows 11 23H2, right up until I finally gave in to Microsoft's incessant nagging and installed Windows 11 24H2. After the 24H2 install, the following occurs: 1. Simapppro comes up fine and sets all the displays to my defined configuration. 2. I start DCS (latest version), it logs me in and initialization begins. 3. When it is time for the DCS menu panel to be displayed, the screens all flash multiple times, DCS minimizes to the task bar, and my multi-monitor configuration reverts back to the default config with all the Winwing displays set back to landscape orientation. I keep daily image backups, so it is easy for me to revert back to 23H2, and when I do so, everything is perfectly fine again. I've gone through this exercise several times now, and each time, 23H2 GOOD, 24H2 BAD. Sigh. Errors: From Event Viewer - I see 6 critical errors in all, with 3 of these for device WINWING USB 3.0 Display 1: And 3 of these for device DisplayLink USB Device: From the DCS log: 2025-02-24 01:13:14.294 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): ChangeDisplaySettings failed! Result is -2 2025-02-24 01:13:14.342 INFO EDCORE (Main): (dDispatcher)enterToState_:1 2025-02-24 01:13:15.311 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): resize main window to [0, 0] 2025-02-24 01:13:16.056 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): ChangeDisplaySettings failed! Result is -2 2025-02-24 01:13:16.068 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): resize main window to [5376, 2160] 2025-02-24 01:13:16.157 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): resize main window to [0, 0] 2025-02-24 01:13:16.355 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): ChangeDisplaySettings failed! Result is -2 2025-02-24 01:13:16.377 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): resize main window to [5376, 2160] 2025-02-24 01:13:16.559 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): resize main window to [0, 0] 2025-02-24 01:13:16.739 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): ChangeDisplaySettings failed! Result is -2 2025-02-24 01:13:16.753 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): resize main window to [5376, 2160] 2025-02-24 01:13:16.850 INFO UIBASERENDERER (Main): Cannot load font [C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\dxgui\skins\fonts\]! 2025-02-24 01:13:16.850 INFO UIBASERENDERER (Main): Cannot create font [C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\dxgui\skins\fonts\] size 0! 2025-02-24 01:13:17.166 INFO DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): resize main window to [0, 0] Microsoft's suggestion: Contact the device manufacturer for further assistance. Doesn't sound like a very good option for Winwing, Synaptic or DisplayLink based upon what I'm seeing in their support tickets I've reviewed, none of which are an exact match of this issue that I'm experiencing. So, this is where I am at this point, and 23H2 hits end of service on Nov 11th of this year. I do have some time to get this resolved, and I will try to open support tickets with Winwing and DisplayLink/Synaptic in the meantime. Since this issue started, I've tried the following: 1. Installed the latest available Displaylink drivers from Synaptic. 2. Reinstalled 24H2 via the Windows Update option that allows this to be done while keeping installed apps. May try a clean install from scratch later, but that's going to be a ton of work that will likely not resolve the issue. 3. Upgraded to the latest BIOS release for my Asus Maximus Z690 Hero. 4. Ran CHKDSK, Dism and SFC scannow commands to verify file and image integrity in 24H2 - all good. 5. Spent many hours online searching for any other occurrences of this issue, no luck. All that being said, what I'm asking of the community is if anyone else has experienced this issue? I went through the first 8 pages of DCS topics returned searching on "DisplayLink 24H2" and did not see a similar problem discussed. Many thanks in advance if anyone has experienced this and has a solution. I will set a Group Policy to block 24H2 from installing without my permission until I can get this resolved. Best wishes to all!

I admit there was a time when track files were notoriously unreliable, with the aircraft inexplicably veering off course and crashing mid-way through a replay, but have you tried creating a track file with the current version lately? Those issues seem to have been fixed with the latest versions, and I've been able to fly hour long missions with replays performing flawlessly from beginning to end. I've yet to have a replay failure in recent months:-) Thank you, sthompson and Dangerzone, for your input. I'll create a post in feature requests and echo your suggestions. Cheers! GD

Welp, just doing my part to keep this topic alive. I understand that the solution is likely to be "complicated", however, I sincerely hope that ED will consider officially integrating VAICOM into the sim someday. The reason replays are important to me at least, is that often I'll have company come over to visit and they see the sim setup in my man cave. They WANT to experience it, but they're intimidated by all the buttons, switches, knobs, displays, head tracking gear, etc. The way that I can overcome their fear is to put them in the cockpit and let them simply ride along during a replay where they don't have to actually fly the aircraft, but rather just get to enjoy the experience. I've been unable to do this for supercarrier missions due to the wheel chocks not being removed during replay, and the carrier operations are something I would love for "first timers" to experience. The only way to remove the wheel chocks that I'm aware of is via VAICOM radio communications, and I'm not inclined to add the comms menus back in just for this as I use VAICOM extensively. It works flawlessly and tremendously enhances the immersion aspect of the sim, and I want to personally thank the VAICOM team for the excellent work they do! Please, please, ED folks, consider officially integrating VAICOM into the sim at some point. However, might you consider an easier workaround for the time being? Like a keyboard command for removing the wheel chocks like we currently have for the "Salute" command? Would that perhaps be possible? Please accept my apologies in advance if there is already a workaround in place that I'm not aware of. Thank you! GD

Thought y'all might get a kick out this, so I'll share... Was there some event in your life that may have provided an early interest in flight simulation? Something that may have imperceptibly sparked your imagination at a young age and grew over time? For me, I think this may have been it: Christmas eve, 1963 in rural Arkansas. My dad on the left, me on the right at 5 years of age in my jammies, sitting in front of my brand spanking new Jimmy Jet flight "simulator" by Deluxe Reading Toys, available at "food markets only". This may very well have been my most favorite toy that I had ever received. My dad ran a little general store in the farming community of Scott, Arkansas, about 15 miles southeast of Little Rock, and he was the biggest kid at Christmas there ever was. The store was built in 1912 and dad was the third-generation proprietor, following my grandparents and my great uncle before them. We weren't well off, but dad always somehow found a way to make Christmas special since he had grown up during the post-depression era. He kept long hours at the store because it was somewhat of a community hub, and he often did not get home until 11 PM or 12 AM after opening at 6 AM seven days a week, trying to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. If you notice the clock on top of the old Admiral 21 inch black and white TV, it's about 12:10 AM, so he had gotten home probably around 11 PM this Christmas eve I'm guessing, and he could never wait for Christmas morning. He'd say, "Well, do you want to go ahead and open gifts now?" Why, yes dad, I think that's a wonderful idea! And I was introduced to my Jimmy Jet: I lost my father February 10th of last year at 88 years of age. Rest in peace, dad - I will always love you and will never forget you! So now, with that out of the way, I'm curious... Did any of you, ahem, "more mature" members of the community ever have the pleasure of flying a Jimmy Jet when you were young? I looked into trying to get my hands on one but working models rare and apparently now sell for around $600 to $800+. That Christmas, I could never have conceived of a modern-day flight simulator like DCS, but perhaps this was where my interest began! Hope I didn't bore everyone to death with this - thanks for having a look!

Thanks Gryzor, good to know. After further consideration of the log files I sent, I'm not sure if they captured the problem because I was doing some other things with gathering screenshots at the time. My apologies. This log file is of a plain vanilla session, all peripherals disconnected, all supporting software turned off, no viewports, etc, just the main screen. Started Cold and Dark mission, reflections show up and then disappear. Backed out to the primary menu, started Cold and Dark mission again, reflections remain in place. dcs.log

I'm not sure when this problem started for me personally, perhaps with the introduction of ver 2.9.4, but I can't be certain as I took a hiatus from flying while upgrading my sim pit. Example: 1. Start Caucuses Cold and Dark mission. 2. White "ghost" canopy reflections can briefly be seen on both sides of the lower forward canopy, but they disappear a second or so after the mission starts. After a second or so: 3. I can start one or two Cold and Dark missions where the reflections disappear shortly after mission start, but after that, the ghost reflections remain for the duration of every new mission. At this point, the only way to get rid of them is to restart DCS, and then the entire sequence starts over again. 4. The same reflections stay with the aircraft on both sides of the canopy whether on the ground or in the air, regardless of aircraft orientation, until DCS is restarted: Things I've tried: 1. Set canopy reflections from "static" to "none". Edit: It's possible that I did this in an earlier version. I'm on the latest now. 2. Turned off Reshade effects. 3. Deleted fxo and metashaders2 directories. 4. Uninstalled Reshade. 5. Performed a "check all files" repair. 6. Installed latest GPU drivers. 7. Backed off to earlier GPU drivers. The problem persists unchanged. Interesting to note, that I went back to the canopy reflections setting to ensure it was still set to "none", and the "static" option no longer appeared. The only option available was "none" which I thought was odd. DxDiag.txt dcs.log dcs.log.old Two questions: 1. Is this the same or a related issue to the already reported canopy reflection problems, or is this something different? 2. Would it be worthwhile to perform a clean install at this point, or should I just wait for the existing canopy reflection issues to be addressed? I'd hate to do the reinstall and spend hours of work getting everything set back up only to find that it fixed nothing. But, if you guys think it's worth a shot then I'll give it a go. I don't know what else to do at this point. Thank you!! Forgot to mention, the Caucuses Cold and Dark mission was just an example - the same problem occurs in other maps/missions as well.

That is one clean, nice looking build, Hawke! We'll done!

Well, this is my upgrade from plywood, popsicle sticks and chewing gum - it's nothing NEAR what some of you guys are able to accomplish, but it's definitely a major upgrade for me. Took me a while to build it and it turned out pretty clean so I thought I'd share... This started out as a Trak Racer racing frame, and I adapted it to be used for DCS flight simulation with the WinWing MIP, Thrustmaster Warthog throttle and FA-18C stick, Crosswind combat pedals, Virpil stick base and button panels, a miscellaneous X-Keys button panel I had and an Earthquake Sound shaker unit. The frame is high enough that my eye position is level with the center of the 55 inch LG OLED, and the casters allow me to simply unplug everything and roll the entire unit off to the side when I'm using the PC and display for gaming or other things. I roll it right up to the desk when in use. Please forgive the mess, still cleaning up... I purchased a metal cable raceway and that really kept things neat and tidy, except for the birds nest where I plugged all the USBs into the powered hubs. I'll go back and clean that up later... I made the USB labels out of plain printed paper and scotch tape - worked surprisingly well. I have a good friend who is a retired machinist, and he made the pedal plate for me per my drawings with six inches of pedal adjustment in one inch increments. Here you can also see a front view of the cable raceway. I pretty much ditched the mounting instructions for the MIP panel and used heavy duty gussets to mount the MIP and stick base. It's really solid, no flex or movement whatsoever. You can see the Earthquake shaker mounted to the frame at the rear. Found this metal power strip that was easy to mount to the profile for powering the USB hubs and whatever else I might need later. Final result - still working on choosing what all I want to map to the button panels, but it's flyable now! This will work in the interim until I can fulfill my dream of building a full sim pit after I retire - that's definitely a bucket list item! Thanks for having a look!

Just want to mention one thing regarding the CH-46D video that makes it all the more impressive - a Marine commented that the ship is probably travelling at around 18 KTs, so not only is the pilot swinging around and hovering to pick up the load, but he is also matching the speed of the ship at the same time! He said they watched those pilots do that all day long during Desert Storm. The F-22 video speaks for itself... as usual:-)

I just updated open beta to 2.8.2.35682, but I don't know if that's when this issue started. I noticed that when flying the Caucases Free Flight mission just to test the update, and while in the F4 view, there are evenly spaced lines all across the wing that change in spacing and angle as the orientation of the aircraft changes. I've marked some of them in red in the screenshot below. In this orientation flying straight and level after setting the AP to Heading and allowing the aircraft to change course and settle out they extend from the front to the rear of the wing as shown. Also in this specific orientation, they creep slightly to the right every few seconds. Track file attached. Thank you! FA-18C Caucuses Free Flight F4 view.trk

Moderators - I'm not sure why this thread was at some point moved to "General Bugs" as the original question was simply a curiosity, nothing more. Please feel free to move it to a more suitable home in the forums if you like. Thanks!

Well folks, for all it's worth, are solar eclipses modeled in DCS? The answer appears to be YES! I opened this thread back in August of 2019, and at the time the general consensus based upon other posts was that solar eclipses were almost certainly not modeled, so I took that a face value and went on about my life because I didn't have the slightest idea how to use the mission editor at the time. I decided to revisit this question now, years later, since I've been dabbling with creating my own missions. Researching past and future solar eclipses visible from Las Vegas, Nevada, I found a partial eclipse that would be visible from Las Vegas at its maximum on Oct 14th, 2023, at around 9:26 am. Here is what the eclipse should look like: I set up a mission with a single FA-18C sitting on the ramp at Nellis facing east at the specified time. Loaded the mission, hopped in the aircraft, looked up into the eastern sky above the open canopy and here's what I saw: The position isn't perfect, but I'm not going to split hairs over this - I'm just impressed that the eclipse is visible at all. Now, would a total solar eclipse actually darken the landscape as if it were nighttime? I have no idea, and I suspect that would depend entirely upon how the light source from the sun is modeled, i.e. is it a point source actually emanating from the sun, etc.. Anyway, just my small contribution to put this question to rest. Cheers everyone!

This screenshot was begging for a meme, so I gave it one.

Hey MAXsenna, after reading your suggestion I pulled up speech settings and saw that speech recognition wasn't turned on. I started it and followed the prompts to the end, and that resolved the issue. This did indeed occur after a clean reinstall of Windows. Thank you!

Hi all, I need to do keyword training, but pulling up the Editor page in the control panel and clicking on the microphone icon does not start the little MS voice recognition window with the blue microphone button. Instead, it starts this: I've already been here and set up my mic, and I have no idea why starting keyword training pulls up this window again instead of the MS voice recognition window. Windows 10: Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044 VAICOM: 2.5.26.4 Any help would be appreciated, because I absolutely CANNOT make the speech engine recognize "Kutaisi" otherwise. Thank you!