[Dedicated Server Performance Degraded on Virtual Machines?]

On 4/26/2025 at 7:48 PM, Actium said:

I'll adapt my benchmarking code to use .getRealTime(). Real-time sounded too much like wallclock time and therefore not monotonic.

It is monotonic. It gives the (fractional) number of real time seconds passed since the process start. Not affected by OS clock adjustments.

On 4/26/2025 at 7:48 PM, Actium said:

Any documentation available on the new API namespace?

The documentation needs a correction, indeed. Thanks for pointing this out.

On 4/26/2025 at 1:18 AM, Special K said:

Yeah, it still only has a resolution of a second. I am not sure, if I would rely on that for any benchmarking.

The resolution is at least 1 us (1 microsecond, 0.000001 sec).

[Dedicated Server Performance Degraded on Virtual Machines?]

4 hours ago, Special K said:

a) Are you sure that DCS.getModelTime() has a proper resolution to do frame counts?

The proper API is Sim.getRealTime() or DCS.getRealTime() (Sim. is the new API namespace, DCS. is its alias).

[Doppler audio shift - frequency rises momentarily before flyby]

Hi Bucic! Nice to see you!

Your report is sufficient enough, thanks!

DCS uses our own proprietary sound engine.

[Sound issue when flying at supersonic speed]

This is a drawback of a solution for another problem, caused by aliasing in listener (camera) position from the sound engine perspective.

[Doppler audio shift - frequency rises momentarily before flyby]

Most probably the virtual camera reports invalid veloicity value, which makes the sound engine to apply an unnecessary Doppler shift.

FYI we don't use WWISE.

[Rare audio problem solved (Not a bug)]

Thanks!

This is some weird Windows issue, because DCS sound engine explicitly asks for the device to be open in AUDCLNT_SHAREMODE_SHARED mode.

[Sound 5.1 yes or not, extrange behaviour]

DCS has 2 indepentent audio ouputs: one for World sounds, another one for Headphones. The latter always runs in stereo (2 channel) mode.

You can select 2 different output devices for them in the options, if you want.

[Incompatibility With Windows Spatial Sound]

On 7/29/2024 at 7:24 AM, British_Dragon_14 said:

Hi!

Is their any update on Windows Spatial audio support or Dolby Atmos?

 

You can try it with this line in the autoexec.cfg file:

sound.driver_name = "spatial"

 

EDIT: it's pretty taxing on CPU because Windows Spatial Sound requires rendering audio to 17 independent channels.
16 directional and 1 LFE.

[Game stuck at loading screen "Spawn Object"]

I think we've found the cause. The fix is being tested internally.

Many thanks to @Flappie for the dedication, methodical testing and very quick feedback!

[DCS Launcher error after latest update]

Dear guys, thank you for checking with Google's DNS servers.

 

It confirmed that the issue is with C-Ares library (a DNS resolver) which we used in this update. It turns out it has problems with some OS/firewall/ISP/router combinations.

We already disabled it in the internal version and the fix is going through our release pipeline (testing, merging to production, testing again ...)

[Version 2.8.3.37556 is not available]

.\bin\DCS_updater update 2.8.3

will update to the most recent 2.8.3.xxx version

[DCS World Updater Unattend a.k.a. Silent]

17 hours ago, NoDiff said:

I am trying to get this to run within a docker container. The problem is that, even with the --quiet switch, a progress bar window is presented. It would be preferable if there was also a --verbose option to output to the command-line (or pipe to a text file) instead of requiring the progress bar window.

 

That's possible to implement. Noted.

[Fresh install of beta to any drive but c:]

Hi! Sorry for the delay. We fixed the installer some time ago.

[DCS/2.8.2.35632 won't launch anymore]

We found out there was one more problem, apart from incompatibility with LG Screen Splitter and we solved it as well. Next openbeta should be ok.

[DCS/2.8.2.35632 won't launch anymore]

There's a more than one problem with the start. On of them is LG Screen Splitter software. We're working on a workaround atm.

All other problems seem to be already resolved in the internal builds.

[DCS/2.8.2.35632 won't launch anymore]

Do you guys use LG displays and the  Screen Splitter software?

[DCS/2.8.2.35632 won't launch anymore]

a quick update: we are testing another fix.

[DCS/2.8.2.35632 won't launch anymore]

Thank you for testing this idea out! It's a pity it doesn't help.

We are searching for the solution.

[DCS/2.8.2.35632 won't launch anymore]

Okay, can I just post a zip with the file?

Unpack into the install folder

DCS-exe-local-file-unzip-to-install-folder.zip

[DCS/2.8.2.35632 won't launch anymore]

The list of files reads 'DCS.exe.local    Text Document' - it means that the real file name is DCS.exe.local.txt - you need to remove the .txt part

[DCS/2.8.2.35632 won't launch anymore]

Please, create an empty file DCS.exe.local, for example in the Notepad (mind the extension when saving the file! it should be .local)

Run DCS.exe after that. Thanks.

[Dedicated server, Azure: "2022-10-03 18:19:29.235 ERROR NET: Failed to decode network.vault:" Any ideas how to fix?]

from the next update, DCS in the dedicated server mode won't use hardware ID for encypting the nerwork.vault file anymore.

This should solve the issue with cloud-based servers.

The only thing you have to do is to log in manually once.

[OPEN BETA SERVER HANGING IN LOADING SCREEN]

Looks like the same issue as here:

Please, try the workaround and report.

[DCS/2.8.2.35632 won't launch anymore]

Can you please, create an empty file DCS.exe.local in the bin folder right near DCS.exe and try to run - it should work (I hope).

[DCS client web installer failed to install Caucasus terrain (not serious)]

Thank you for the report. Installer fixed.

8 minutes ago, DerVulf said:

Falklands map is also corrupted and Deauthorized

 

Most probably this is a local issue. Please file a support ticket.