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Depending on what trick you are refering to. I just tested DCS World 2.0 OpenAlpha (That's what it says on the desktop shortcut at least. I thought it was 2.1 beta or something, but I might misremember). Anyway, the pedal setup post I wrote earlier still works. Perhaps its different from DCS World 2.0 (not OpenAlpha)? Off-topic :D I haven't really used DCS for years, except a couple of tests with Oculus Rift DK2 some three years ago. I never really got far in it anyway (start, take off and land A-10C :) ), and while I bought Nevada last year I gave up on it because of draconian download system and limited SSD space. Got a shiny new rig, HTC Vive and an SSD with a slightly better space and so I figured I try this again. First flight was pretty fun, awesome random weather turned out to be a thunderstorm with lightning! Mission went fubar ofc, and I kind of even managed to land (forgot to set up wheel brakes lol).

Same here, got 4 in a row an hour ago.

Figures! Just got my DK2 (struggling to get it to work, it seems to have a mind of its own.. but for the moment it works). Haven't touched DCS in a long time, and I just had to try this.. but ofc... The actual mouse pointer seems to be in the middle of the pointer as seen with the left eye and the right eye through the Rift. The same 2D pointer I think (it just being one display). Hopeless to hit swithces with.

That's great! But don't thank me, thank Eagle Dynamics and their awesome controller setup! :) Btw (about my second post above), I'm still a bit fuzzy on the details of the inverted axis output mapping, perhaps just the display that's not updated. I think it would help a bit if the output indicator could be on the Y axis in the graph also (It't actually a while since I've been using this now, so maybe I'm wrong).

I was thinking the same thing :P I wasn't aware of that, I'll have to test that sometime. Soldering up three IR LEDs shouldn't be that much trouble (Making it look good, be comfortable and wireless is perhaps something else). Just realised, kinda old thread. But no matter.

Yup, I got them activated. I was about to post something like that too. So all is well :)

Thanks for the reply. Yes, thats the window/dialogue that showed up, first for CA, tried retry some times, then BS2, then P-51D and then UH-H1. Same with these (except P-51D, I just skipped it for now). They show up both when trying DCS multiplayer, and in normal/singleplayer DCS when trying to start a mission in one of them. I only tried the Huey and BS2 now, they start but I cannot get into the cockpit view in single-player. I assume it thinks it is un-activated, which is kind of true as I have not activated them, only installed via Module Manager. In multiplayer I get to the log-in screen after all the failed activations. I didn't log in, just exited afterwards. Btw I had them activated before, I have recently reinstalled my OS some four-five days ago.

I had DCS World with A-10C installed from my harddrive, then updated it and found I could no longer install the other titles (the installs were deemed incompatible). So I used the Module Manager and got them installed yesterday, no problem. However I didn't try them until just now. For once I thought I should check out some online servers to see what was available, and was greeted with inputting the serial numbers (even if they are visible in Module Manager, and installed). And activation fails (I turned off windows firewall just in case). I tried to activate CA, BS2 and the Huey (I also got P-51D), all fails. Can I assume there is some problem with an activation server or is there some other issue at hand? (Especially as they are visible in Module Manager with my serial numbers - why activate again?)

I was thinking, maybe the (BIOS) battery in your motherboard is bad? Causing it to loose settings. About your pause key I have really no idea. Faulty keyboard? Btw I'm with you on dreading those complete reinstalls of everything. I also turn off all automatic updating (except antivirus) when things work the way I want. (But, as it is a good 3 years and two motherboards since my last install, and I got me a new SSD - first one btw - I thought it was about time and so I did all that anyway.. I have some issues ofc but I hope I will get it fixed soon-ish.. DCS stutters unfortunately).

Does it also de-activates the modules? Or do you have to start the a10_protect.exe (depending on which module) in the module folders? Or click the delete button in module manager? Sorry, probably stupid questions but I'm not clear on these things. Also, I've -finally- got myself a SSD :) And about to reinstall the hole shebang. For now I went with deactivating via the _protect.exe's (Btw shift-click didn't seem to matter, but no biggie as there is a deactivation link in the window that pops up).

Great, thank you!

Just bought the UH-1H, and btw also recently got me a TM HOTAS Warthog stick :) I mapped my right throttle to collective (so other way around than you imply). But how do I map the other throttle to throttle? It doesn't seem to be an option atm?

I know what you mean, me too. Btw, xkcd had a joke about that :P

Hehe. Nah, the trailing aircraft doesn't count :P

Always puzzled me while waiting for DCS A-10C and those loading images.. TrackIR centered, display (TV) on/off button below is in the center. Also, keeping the stick right in front of it, in the center. Same with the brake pedal below on the floor (since I happen to have a wheel. Not that I use it in this sim, except ofc for the pedals, for rudder and brakes). But.. the awesome A-10C loading images are off center? I wasn't actually sure. But a quick cap into Paint.net proved it. One image is about 6 pixels displaced to the right, and the other, being a bit closer, is a bit more. Probably the least important thing to "complain" about with this awesome sim :P Still a bit puzzled by that though.

Ok, thanks for answering.

I was just wondering.. sometimes I forgot to activate the four internal fuel pumps lol. However, the left engine starts up fine, but not the right (causing me to realize the error). But - why do the left engine start at all, shouldn't that one also not start with the fuel pumps disengaged?

Same here, well, except the missing cockpit. Did a full system scan for once, with Avira a few days ago. I still got the "old" Avira from 2012, version 12.1.9.1236, but updated the definitions file ofc. I haven't really checked more than this, and I am inclined to believe this is a false positive. Especially since I have this installed :P Also, since i got this from the official site, and no more detections related to this was found. Also, I don't have to disable the AV while running the sim.

Or is it? I was playing a bit with manual reversion switches and so on, and found that the "Elevator Emergency Disengage switch" didn't really disengage the elevators (they both seemed to move in sync). The Aileron Emergency Disengage switch worked as advertised though. As did the Manual Reversion switch, I think. Using DCS World and A-10C version 1.2.3.

Great, thanks! After a long break from the sim, I had the same problem as the OP. Perhaps they should put up a link to the updated training missions on the download page?

Rodney1111: Thanks for that! I tried a few combinations in regedit with a folder (or "key") named "dcs", "Dcs" or "DCS" with the expandable string or just regular string named "Link1", ctrl-F7 to save 3D settings, etc, getting nowhere. Unticking the "Full screen" setting worked! It was still full screen though (thankfully), so I'm not sure why it is named that. Using the latest nVidia at this time too (nVidia driver 310.90), Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

EtherealN So that's what happened. Thanks for clearing that up! Also, I was wondering about how the 30-day wait for an added activation-thing works. If there is such a thing. It was just something I read in a post. I couldn't find anything about that from the "help" link in the actication dialogue that popped up. Not that it's likely I will run out of activations any time soon (years, if ever, under normal circumstances).

After a long-ish pause, I recently updated DCS:World with A-10C and BS2 to 1.2.2. I completely forgot about (de)activations, and thus lost one for A-10C and BS2 (9 activations remaining). And I did not change any hardware (unless getting a new joystick counts :P). So how does the activation thing work actually? If I wait 30 days, do I get back an activation (in my case back to 10 left again), or is that only if you have zero activations left? As it happens, I'm also planning a little hardware upgrade soon; new motherboard and CPU. The rest I will keep and most likely reinstall OS. Judging from this thread I should first "de-activate" both modules I got for DCS:World, then HW upgrade and reinstall etc my computer. And then I won't loose more activations?

Hi there! Thanks for the suggestions! Haven't tried it yet but I'm about to. No, it's not that I want to sit low, just be able to duck a little lower. Anyway, I don't think this is a big issue. I'll keep it in mind for later, thanks! I'm not really that advanced yet with the sim, not sure if I ever will be that. Also, I don't have any cockpit setup, but I do have dual monitors on my GTX 470. But I only use one monitor when gaming. I don't think that will help as the movement is restricted more in BS2 than BS1, or so it seems for me at least. And cheating by seeing that tank 10 km away with a "built-in" super-zoom-vision wasn't my aim either.. But, I will try out the "slow zoom" thing and see what I can see! True. On a similar note, I noticed that a few virtual helmet-like displays are beginning to pop up, which I think is a very exciting thing! Imagine that combined with a 1:1 headtracking... :) But, their FOV is really limited for now, compared to the human >180 ish deg horizontal FOV. And when they improve on that, it won't be cheap, I'm sure. For now I guess it's kind of like having tunnel vision. Btw here's a few I found so far. I haven't really looked lately, but it's a couple of links I have on the subject atm. http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?searchResultsViewBean=com.sony.sonystyle.search.beans.SYEndecaSearchResultsViewBean%40381058&Nty=1&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&identifier=S_Personal_3DViewer&langId=-1&Ntt=Personal+3D+Viewer&Ntk=Product&searchType=search&Nrt=&in_dim_search=&Nrr=&Nrm=&Nrk=&productFilter=&catalogId=10551&contentType=PRODUCT&storeId=10151#overview/theater http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_wrap_1200vr.html http://www.i-glassesstore.com/i-3d.html That was interesting info, thanks!

Title says most of it. While trackir works great for the most part, it seems the "headspace" is quite a bit more limited in moving about inside the cockpit. I can no longer be close to switches and meters to study them. Neither can I lean backwards in the cockpit as far as before (to look at the rigth-hand side and right-back wall switches/meters - Later edit: forget it, it's not the problem). Any way to fix that? Some lua code somewhere maybe? But I'd prefer an official solution sometime. May be relevant, I have not yet tried any DCS World stuff, I guess that's what the 1.1.2.1 pathces are for? (the "KA-50 module for DCS: World" and "A-10C module for DCS: World") On a similar issue, I'd want to be able to go just a bit lower inside the A-10C pit as well. I don't really know whats realistic or not as for view positions inside a real cockpit, but as I'm pretty new to this sim I'd like to be able to study the meters in more detail (perhaps I should look into snap views btw.. just a thought just now - but I'd prefer a headtrack solution). This basically came up after I went on a little shopping spree this night. Even thought I have BS1 on steam (as well as A-10C), I decided to buy the full BS2 :) Partly because of some doubt about the upgrade patch and steam compatibility, but also to eventually just move all DCS games out of Steam. The Steam overlay don't work anyway, except in BS1 (Not that I don't like Steam btw. But with DCS World and all I guess it makes sense to have DCS games elsewhere. And with my own install files). So atm I have both BS1 and BS2 (and A-10C). Also, I was pleasantly surprised that the nVidia 3D worked again (I could not get it to work at all in BS1, but after a registry edit it worked in A-10C, which I assume also did it for BS2 since it uses the same graphics engine). Heh, I'm not even sure why I bought it lol, for the moment I'm having too much fun learning to -start- the A-10C! Almost got it (and flying/landing a bit). Not even got to navigation or done any "real" (well... virtual) missions yet, and as for BS1/2 I have barely touched it. But I do have managed to start it (barely, and of course after watching the training video). Edit: Perhaps attach a couple of pictures is better... (to try to explain what I mean by smaller head space, not sure what the terminology would be for that. In short that you can't move your head as much inside BS2 as in BS1. There, should have said it like that in the first place! :P ) Bw I also want to add than nVidia 3D suddenly worked in BS1 also (it didn't do that for me earlier, but I've read it usually does for others but not BS2, not the other way around). Maybe I should also add that I don't use any camera zoom for trackIR Z axis, just the longitudinal shift. Like this: Then a couple of comparison shots. Just to clarify; this is as close as I can get to the panels, in BS1 and BS2 respectively. EDIT: I messed up (again), sorry for the small picture sizes, but at least it's a visible difference.. And my point is that I'd like to be able to move about inside the BS2 cockpit more like BS1, of course.