MadDog-IC

Don't fly any DCS missions until you get help, or have you already flown another mission since the issue ???? Only hope may be to get the TEMP created last mission flown file, if you had actually run that faulty mission at some point. Located in the Windows default temp directory (Replace the DCS.openbeta with which ever version you are using): C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbeta\LastMissionTrack.trk. Copy the LastMissionTrack.trk to a couple of new files such as RescuedMission.miz or the such into your saved games area and try loading into Mission Editor and see if you can use it. Regards, Ian.

I was trying a quick test with the AI flying it last night, but it has checks on the players own cockpit instrument for rotor angle being set to 0.1, so it knows when you land, but they don't trigger with an AI. I have tested and looked at the other replies, and yes you are flying to the wrong LZ, the farm house LZ has a single farp pad, not like the 4 pad farp at Lenoriski which is where you landed, the angles for flying to the outposts is out a bit also. RGE75's screenshot is showing the correct LZ location and where you actually landed (Lenoriski). When you come to the final outpost you will probably need to land as far north as you can before going into the forest, as the units have been moved from that forest and moved slightly south, but the trigger zone for detecting landing there haven't been moved to encompass the men and house there. I have edited mission and moved some trigger zones and units and put it in for any update. Regards, Ian.

Was fixing this mission for other reasons a little while back, I checked your problem just now, and the farp height is at 775m when you land on it and the trigger is set to be less than 775, so if you land any where but on the farp it might trigger ok. Will see to getting it fixed. Cheers.

I have reported it internally to ED and supplied fixed campaign files if they see fit to use them. All language translations are not actually supplied as they haven't been translated yet, I changed it so the ones not having native languages would display english and the default english would display english and not spanish or chezh as was happening. Regards, Ian

No problems with making snow on ground. Quick note already here. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3549182&postcount=10 To get snow on ground in missions is to make date of mission in month of December, or January, lower the temperature under weather to -5 or -10 or lower. Regards, Ian.

Training missions were are separate download as stated by someone else. Been a while, but I think the missing buttons is is related to the screen resolution you use, being an older title, it doesn't scale correctly to higher resolutions such as HD 1080p ( 1920x1080 ), it has to be run in its original intended resolution ( 1024x768 ) or something close to that for all of the buttons to be visible in the menu, the Mission Editor will also be missing all of the buttons on the left hand side for inputing units and the like. The campaigns will always say inactive, until you can actually click on the "start a campaign" button that is currently missing. Regards, Ian.

It is quite natural to be peeved as it is ED's responsibility, but due to modern updates to maps, lighting systems, weather systems and other improvements it has and will create mission wide issues that affect just about every mission ever made in some way. It would be very difficult and is time consuming to fix all of those missions that come with past and present modules (several thousand missions all up), so it is a logistics issue, get more people to help, or stop all current production and just fix all the old stuff themselves. Short answer is these and many other missions have already been corrected and are in game or in the pipeline to be added to the game, or are still being actively corrected, but it isn't going to happen overnight. To edit missions yourself: Open Mission Editor from DCS main page and click on big button: "Load Mission" Navigate to the correct directory for the aircrafts missions: Bf-109K-4 -> Single -> City River Run.miz and click "OK". To change mission "Time" and "Date" click on the first button on the Left side panel that looks like a piece of paper, just under the word MIS. Navigate to the panel on the right, that has the Date and Time fields available, and advance the "Time" by 30, 45 minutes on average, some times as much as 75 - 90 minutes for early morning and do the reverse for late night (Dusk). If you want to change the season set month: Winter = December to February Spring = Mid March to Mid June Summer = June to August Autumn (Fall) = Mid September to Mid October To save changes, click on "FILE" from top Menu and then "Save As" and point to folder you want to save the edit mission into, if you overwrite the original, it will be replaced with the old version every time you do a DCS update, so put it in MY missions folder. As I have already done these corrections, here they are. https://www.dropbox.com/s/pkx9yave4vj8ghj/DCSW%20-%20BF-109K-4%20Single%20Missions%20%28Patch%20To%20Game%29%20%28v2.5x%29.zip?dl=0 Regards, Ian.

Issues already corrected and coming in a patch some time in future are: Issues: 1,2 corrected Issues: 3 is kind of an issue but probably not, can be damaged and land as you say for helo, but can be destroyed totally, but not always. Issues: 4 isn't an issue just environmental fluff. The Cleansweep mission also had a bit of a make over. Regards, Ian. FC3-F-15C-No Fly Zone.miz FC3-F-15C-Clean Sweep.miz

Folder to install into: C:\Users\Yourname\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Missions\Campaigns\en\ To play it goto: Main DCS login window -> Campaigns -> My Campaigns -> Name of your downloaded campaign -> OK button. If it is a campaign, make sure the ??????.cmp file is in with the ?????.miz mission files. It might not work properly if they are in a subdirectory, just put all the files into the directory mentioned above. Regards, Ian.

All praise greatly accepted, thanks guys.

AAAArrrrrrggggghhh, will take a look when I can. Don't they drop bombs on runway, or don't they go anywhere near the runway ??? Cheers, Ian.

I can't see why you can't, so long as you: Update the campaigns .cmp file with the new mission and sequences and don't change any of the originally played missions sequence or filenames. You would have to replay the last mission again to get a score that would move you on to the next new mission though, maybe having a dummy last mission at the end of each of update which just has the aircraft in mission so you can get in cockpit and gives you a result of 50 as soon as you jump into the mission / plane, should allow you to play from that same mission number when you finally replace it with and updated full mission I could be wrong, but would be fairly easy to test. Regards, Ian.

Yes, but not at the expensive of not being able to use my other gear due to no drivers for win 10, and people with windows 10 have just as many issues also. Cheers, Ian.

Best I can explain it, is the SCORING is an intrinsic reward for shooting any plane or unit in the mission that is determined by the DCS game engine itself (You don't specificallly set it on a mission by mission basis). The RESULT is more of a how much of the mission plan you actually followed and achieved (Primary and Secondary targets) as designed by the mission creator. ie: Mission priorities are: PRIMARY - Take out a flight of (4) planes and bomb a bridge SECONDARY - Strafe any ground targets (5) that present themselves RESULTS POINTS set by author: 50 for joining the fight. 20 for taking out flight of 4 planes 20 for destruction of bridge 10 for damaging some ground vehicles. Total RESULT of 100 for completion of missions designed priorities. DCS default SCORE for killing units (Not sure on actual): Taking out flight of 4 planes (4 x 5 points) = 20 Bombing bridge (None as not classed as a unit) = 0 Strafing ground targets (1 or 2 points each) = 5 to 10 Total SCORE of 25 to 30 Regards, Ian.

Happy they work for you and others. Wishing I could use these drivers, they seem quick and smoother at windows and web browsing, but they don't support sleep mode of windows correctly, they corrupt the video and crash GPU driver after coming back from a sleep event, the only fix is to reboot computer. Because of this issue I didn't even try to run DCS on them. I have tried 3 times now after the 388.71 drivers to install any new drivers and they all fail on the same level. Installed all known window 8.1 system updates. Modified the "TDR" time from 2 seconds to 8. Disabled Hibernate mode with "powercfg -h off". Uninstalled Nvidia drivers and all support programs. Used DDU cleaner to delete registery entries, directories, temp directories and all things nvidia in system. Tried installing multiple 39x.xx series drivers. Boot up system, put into sleep mode, press key to wake system, get to windows desktop and GPU driver crashing, freezing and recovering and totally unusable. Nothing fixed my problem. Regards, Ian.

ART-J gave you the answer, to fix you usually advance the morning times about 30, 45 or 60 minutes forward of current setting, for evening times, retard the time by a similar amount, the adjustment time varies based on whether it being summer, winter, autumn, spring season in mission. The issue is that in DCS v1.2 you could set a season to winter that equates to (Dec-Feb), but have a date that was in summer that equates to (June-August) for the caucusas region, so it would use the season setting of winter showing snow on ground and have lighting that staying darker later in the morning and earlier in the evening. With DCS v1.5 and 2.5 now, the same mission would use just the date to set the season (June-August) will equate to (summer) brighter conditions, getting lighter earlier and darker later in the evening. So the end result is with the missions you may or may not have to change the season by changing: the actual month to force it into the correct season, and / or modify the time to get the same lighting. Regards, Ian.

No worries, sorry if I sounded a bit terse. Link to most informative previous discussion: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=162111&highlight=f-15c+bear+trap+campaign My specific contribution and updated mission files for F-15c bear trap, DCS v2.5 specific: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3431344&postcount=21 Cheers, Ian.

Problem has been talked about for months in other forum posts, suggest you do searches. It is an issue that has been addressed but is not fixed in game as yet. Nothing you can do, it is a bug with weapons in that and other missions. Regards, Ian.

You would be correct, a lot of missions suffered this problem when DCS was patched from 1.216 to the new 1.5 and now 2.5 version, the time of day is quite different and has made it pitch black dark, when the original mission was actually in daylight, this affects missions with times of around early morning and late afternoon / evening. A good example of this is "The city river run mission" at 5:30am in the morning it is pitch black, I would say impossible to fly through gates at 30m off the deck with 90 degree bends in river at quick successions. These type of missions have to have their time of day or Season adjusted to get the same lighting conditions they were designed with originally. Regards, Ian.

Look into graphics card drivers, try and update or reload the existing version, error below indicates that the graphics card is physically disappearing from the directx system whilst gaming, meaning no graphics card and no rendering possible. (Usually caused by faulty install of GPU drivers, and/ or the windows system is taking to long to respond to the request from the game engine) Best to use DDU to remove all traces of Nvidia drivers before reload or update. Loads of this in log: 2018-05-23 15:04:48.196 ERROR DX11BACKEND: failed to create index buffer. Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED Don't worry about the missing key on PG map, it uses the new security system and doesn't use keys, as do most newer DLC compaigns and a few aircraft modules. Regards, Ian.

Just got hit with the problem, downloaded other DCS updates last night fine usually at 5MB/s, but today now only at 155KB/s, using the new downloading and applying deltas updater, what ever that means, either way it is shockingly slow. Regards, Ian.

Quick note, fixes are in the pipeline, but need extra translations. So you can use this early draft if you wish to download it, there are few forums with this issue been discussed. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3431344&postcount=21

Looking at your log, I would say a mod is your most likely problem, the Ranger Pack is giving lua errors and probably invoking the copy protection that is preventing the F-15 from loading up. Would suggest a dcs_updater.exe clean and repair, but you commented you already have done that (But then how can the Ranger pack be mentioned specifically in the log). The issue may be some config in your "Saved Games" DCS folder, try backing that up somewhere and let DCS recreate a fresh one, just to test if that resolves issue, if it does you can put your old controls and other files back in one at a time to see what breaks it, if it doesn't resolve it, just put you backup back to the original spot and try something else. Errors showen: Regards, Ian.

No worries, enjoy, I got mixed up with missions, sorry, is the same.

Just in the middle of fixing this mission, yes there are issues, the runway strike doesn't even have a command to bomb the runway, so it just flys over and back home doing nothing, The SEAD seems to do its job fine, as does the strike on the airfield infrastructure, but a lot of the flights had incorrect waypoint heights and there might be some timing issues with what flights get there first, hence why you have to take care of the defensive F-16's. This and indeed most of the Su-27 single player missions have been updated and checked and will be patched in the game in due time, until then, here is my rough drafts of them if you want to give them a burl. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bsx2yhw8rs7v02/DCSW%20-%20FC-3%20Single%20Missions%20%28Patch%20To%20Game%29%20%28v2.5x%29.zip?dl=0 Regards, Ian.