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I can't remember doing anything particular to make it work again. I basically opened the case, probably tried top reset a few ribbon cables, checked the ground cable. 3 years later, my warthog is still doing well. Never had any problem since. good luck

Thank you for the information. Does it work for Steam users as well ?

ED has failed to deliver a dynamic campaign through the last 10 yrs or so. There are reasons for this, good and bad. Retribution is the best thing that happened to DCS and actually the closest thing we had to a proper DC. I'm gutted it's no longer working. Looking at a screenshot contest waiting for "optimization" is a bitter consolation. DCS has never felt so beautiful and... empty. All my squadron is considering rolling back to 2.9.5, alpha testing is definitely not our thing. I believe there is a command line for the updater.exe, but I'm not sure if Steam allows it. Who has some experience rolling back steam clients and dedicated servers ?

I am not sure "optimizations and improvments" are the words we were expecting at this point. In my world, you cannot optimize or improve something that is utterly broken. Whether something can be fixed or not. Maybe it's time to have an honest talk and think about a proper roll back procedure. That's not ideal, but the MP community might consider rolling back to 2.9.5 and stay there as long as needed. If ED cannot fix its own sim, because it's a mess built upon layers of old code. So be it. 2.9.5 might be the end of the road... I'm not venting, I'm simply trying to assess my options to keep on flying with my squadron mates.

I'm glad the dev team is actively looking into it. The performance hit seems to be so widespread for people who are running complex mission files, I reckon everyone is impacted. I might be wrong and biased. Do you mean some ppl can still run a .miz with lots of ground and air objects without noticing the radical FPS drop ? I understand that after each and every update some ppl complain about a performance while a large silent minority is fine if not better, but it seems to me that the latest update are killing most of the big servers.

BMS is really promising, right now it's ugly as f*** with those repetitive terrain tiles, but once 4.38 is out, I might go for it. have seen some screenshot previews, that will be a game changer.

When ED took the decision to merge stable and open beta, that was the kind of mess I was expecting. It's actually open beta for everyone, and all ED has to offer now is a broken sim. It will, hopefully, get fixed in a not so distant future. Then, there will be another update... Rinse and repeat.

So who's this third party ? Who has this kind of leverage ?

I can't see why 2 companies depicting the same region with their own interpretation of geodatas in 2 distincts products could become a legal issue. I smell BS.

Thx for your answer. Actually I have already VD, but can't decide wether to use it or not. My router is fast and I can't perceive any latency. What bothers me is the fact VD presets don't mention the resolution. I believe the god preset has the full resolution of the Quest 2 but it is unplayable for me. I need to make some further investigations

I have VD and a Quest 2, FPS wise, Is there any benefit using VD rather than Link at the same resolution ? Are the performance better with VD ? I understand the added values are the codex quality and the ease of use. Am I correct ? Wireless is irrelevant to me because the battery wouldn't last long enough for my flying session.

thx too !

That's concerning

i think there is an option in the release note to kill this improved spotting, you have to modify (or create ) a line in the config file. I haven't tried yet, but I'm not sure this modification is effective

BTW : Any cheap and half decent desktop PC with 16GB of RAM should be fine running a dedicated DCS server. FWIW : I'm running a Dell optiplex 7040, i7 6th gen and 32GB of RAM you can find them refurbished for quite cheap. It used to be i5/16GB before some late upgrade and it was perfectly up to the task running a MP Liberation campaign with 5 of my squadron mates.