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I guess I was lucky, my FreeTrack works just fine after 1.2.6 Maybe look up the natural point of view website for the headtracker.dll file

I use FreeTrack, and it works just fine for me, 1.2.6 didn't break it at all. If you are still having issues I can PM you two ideas that may fix it.

You need to pull high G's to hear the G breathing effects too, not as easy to do in the A-10.

I would agree, while not perfect, FC3 is far superior to FC2.

Yes, the heat blur definitely looks different. I think ED must have adjusted anti aliasing and blurring because it looks better to me :D The wingtip vortices and G-breathing effects are tiny but magnificent, I am loving the superficial improvements. It is these tiny little things that add up to create a really realistic and cool flight sim. I am hoping multiplayer is more stable because I only do multiplayer.

MiG-29's are especially known for the smoke that their RD-33 powerplants generate. I think that the Wags demonstration video was actually very accurate, the amount of smoke shown in the video is what it normally looks like when in afterburners.

If you fly directly above a target, the Shkval will go outside it's gimbal limits and will lose track. As rangi suggested, fly high and keep your nose pointed down. Let off the throttle and perhaps use air brakes so you don't descend too quickly and you shouldn't have a problem lazing the target during the bomb's descent.

Thank you Teknetinium, do you know if any of those videos actually depict the N001 radar on the Su-27 or the radar on the 29? I watched the videos but couldn't really tell, I would think the first one did show the radar but I didn't see any actual radar contacts? Why was it continuously flashing? I also noticed it was the Su-27SM, would the actual Su-27S depicted in FC3 differ significantly from that video?

The other day I became so fed up with the ATC that I bombed the ATC tower. I am typing this forum post from military prison, awaiting my court martial and probable execution, but it was totally worth it.

Hopefully Java will go the way of the dinosaur as well.

DCS right now is buggy, server crashes left and right, hopefully this patch will fix it but it has been bad for a while now.

Does anyone have any photos or videos of Su-27 or MiG-29 radar's in operations? HUD views would be awesome but anything would be great. I'm just wondering how realistic the radar in FC3 is compared to how actual N001 and later Russian radars work.

What exactly are you talking about?

I am not sure what you mean. But good luck with EOS, it is buggy as hell.

Just don't enter a multiplayer and ask in all caps "HOW TO BLOW STUFF UP" :D Welcome on board, and prepare your ejection seat ;)

Yep exactly, EOS shows you their altitude not their distance on the HUD. So as a general rule, the higher your opponent is, the higher they will show up on your HUD.

I am very interested in hearing more details about the missile changes for the R-77 and ET, would someone be able to go in to more detail on what exactly is changed or if someone has a link for more detailed explanation? For "corrected the lock on range of IR missiles", has the range been lowered or raised? Right now I am lucky to get launch authorization on an ET at Rtr.

Does anyone know the details on these changes???

I don't have a source for that statement specifically, I am just saying making a 2.4 meter lens on a stealth satellite would be a LOT easier than developing a hypersonic scramjet aircraft to take the same photos. And the satellite could stay airborne for far longer.

I like FreeTrack IR a lot better. Built a freetrack setup for $20 in materials, and with my free track settings it works every bit as good as my track IR 4 pro worked, and works way better than facetrack noir.

As I said earlier, the computers that control the core reactions of nuclear power plants and refineries are not connected to the internet, because most of them have been operating since before the WWW internet protocol was even invented. Second, what you are discussing is not cyber warfare, it is much more difficult to pull off and requires actual HUMINT (human intelligence, having an inside source, which the Chinese have been far less successful at).

P Funk, when I say that it is extraordinarily difficult to hack in to something and cause physical damage, that is very true. You, and many people in government, seem to give China an almost omnipotent ability to take out any civilian or military system it pleases. However this isn't true. Most hacking would be limited to making a computer unable to boot. It would be extremely rare to actually find a way to cause difficult to repair physical damage. Most of the US' infrastructure is largely immune to a cyber attack because it's simple. For the most part, it's not connected to the internet. It uses a large variety of operating systems and versions. Attacking US infrastructure would be any hacker's nightmare. I do believe that our government is largely full of technologically illiterate buffoons, but by complete accident (and in some cases outright neglect) they have created/allowed infrastructure to be largely immune to hacking. Now with drones, they would not be very useful in a war against China anyways. In the specific case you mentioned, Iran did NOT actually steal the drone. The drone had crashed and Iran had reassembled it. It would be pretty difficult for any nation - let alone Iran - to hack in to and steal the drone. The drone communicates with satellites, and that communication is encrypted up the wazooh. While it is theoretically possible that they could hack in to computers that control the drones in a time of war, drones wouldn't be a very high value target. Now you can keep going on about how dangerous cyber warfare is - keep in mind that I do work in this very field - or you can throw out specific examples of vulnerabilities that the PRC could exploit.

You can say total war is unlikely, I just don't buy it. They said the same thing after WWI. I believe that we are living in an era very similar to the world just before WWI, many nations are experiencing economic unrest and I can think of a few scenarios that could easily trigger a catastrophic large scale war. It would not necessarily lead to a nuclear end game by the losing opponent, but the fact that it could end that way wouldn't necessarily stop anyone. After all, total war scenarios are usually unstoppable by the time anyone sees it coming. Just like before WWI, many nations today have signed treaties and alliances that could easily involve in to another full scale world war. I could easily see a China invading Taiwan, where the US would have to get involved. Or a conflict with Iran spilling over to Turkey and Israel engulfing the entire Middle East. I am not saying a total-war is inevitable or even very likely, but I do believe that the potential is grave enough to warrant the US in keeping as many fighter jets as we can. I think relying on 1-2,000 F-35's and F-22's would be an enormous mistake. We already know that China has stolen highly classified plans for the F-35. Do you really like the idea of basing your entire country's national defense on a compromised system like the F-35? Mostly what I wanted to comment on in your post P Funk are your comments on cyber warfare. I think the idea of "cyber warfare" is WAY overblown by authors like Tom Clancy, and government officials who want to scare congress in to giving them more money for ineffective cyber-defense sinkholes. The truth is that our critical infrastructure is NOT as vulnerable as some three letter government agency scare-mongers would have you believe. The computers used to control the actual reactor systems of nuclear power plants are completely unconnected to any outside networks (like the internet). The damage to America's electrical power systems that could be caused by a worst-case cyber attack would be minimal and could easily be repaired. The computers that control natural gas pipelines and refineries are similarly unconnected to any networks, and the ability to upload any sort of software to these computers through physical means like a USB drive is highly restricted. In fact, most computers in nuclear power plants and refineries don't actually have USB ports or run Windows. The only reason the US should be concerned over its electronic systems is espionage. Our governments stupendous inability to secure classified data networks is actually astounding. You would be stunned. Recently, the EDA (economic development agency) was alerted of a POSSIBLE malware infection on some of their computers. They responded by physically destroying $2.7 MILLION dollars of computer equipment, including mice and keyboards. The only reason that they didn't destroy more is because they ran out of money in their budget, and they planned on continuing the destruction next fiscal year. I honestly don't expect these Feds to be able to count the number of fingers on their right hands, much less defend the nation's classified material from China. The idea of giving these people billions of dollars to protect us from cyber warfare sounds to me like an an EPIC disaster in the making.

Honestly, this is why I will only ever buy ED products from their own website. If you are really intent on getting it working, I would just do a complete uninstall and remove all registry files, then use the money from the refund to buy it directly from ED's website (http://www.eagle.ru) and download all of the game files from the torrent they list on their website (first DCS world, then download and install A-10C after). Sorry you haven't gotten any response from ED, they are a small company. But when ED's products do work, I've had huge amounts of fun, so much so that I don't even have any other games installed on this computer. DCS is the only game/sim I use.

As Sobek says, probably something hogging CPU resources.