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Maybe I'm too romantic about this, but I would wish, that DCS would acknowledge the importance of a persisting world and the role playing aspect of the sim more. By persisting world and role playing I especially mean the aircraft and its connection to your virtual pilot. What I mean by that is, that you could individualize your aircraft in a variety of ways; #1 persistent weapon profiles #2 persistent Display settings #3 persistent avioncs/radio settings #4 not that important, but an easy/ad hoc way to write your name on the canopy or change the tail number would also be nice. #5 (which would be really awesome) you could have a couple persistent aircraft from the same aircraft type. Like the aircraft from A2A simulations https://a2asimulations.com/ it would "remember" everything you do to it and how long it had been operated(without maintenance). If you treat your aircraft well, it will fight and fly well. The thing is, you would really have to keep your eyes on the gauges, or something you do to your aircraft today could kill you tomorrow. You would not only have to keep an eye on the gauges whilst you are flying your aircraft, you would also have to keep it properly maintained. Engines have to be overhauled and tires and brakes have to be replaced, etc... PS: I hate it when virtual aircraft are used like they are a throw away product. Not because I'm irrationally attached to a soulless virtual machine, but because I don't only want to know how to fly an aircraft, or operate its weapon systems and its avionics, I also want to know how it feels to be a (fighter-)pilot and this aircraft I'm in is actually worth millions and I fly it since months or even years. Or in other terms. I want the stakes to be as high as possible when I'm going on a mission. The most important thing is ofc that I don't die, the second most important thing is, that I bring the aircraft back home to the base and only the third most important thing would be to achieve all the mission goals.

Since there is stil no mission cartridge-system*** is there at least some kind of workaround, third party tool, or a way to manipulate the aircraft files directly, so I could save an aircraft in a very specific avionics state and with customized display and weapons profiles? ***(neither a more indepth one for individual modules nor a more generalized one for all modules. For example as part of the editor) PS: Imho, such an option through the regular GUI would elevate the entire sim much more than "just another aircraft". It could be as immersive as a virtual data cartridge system, or as basic (but still very functional) as being able to save a mission at any point, especially after the aircraft is perfectly configured. I mean something that even decades old flight sims already managed. Or is there actually a way to save a mission/flight at any given time and I just missed it? I'm still quite new to the DCS world.

As stated above, my specs are a Radeon RX 6600 Mech 2X and a i5-11600k. Additionally I have only 16 GB of RAM and a SSD but only for the OS. DCS is running on a conventional HDD. My problem is that #1, I think my fps are lower than they are supposed to be. Without lAlt+Enter its constant 30fps even without the Maverick's(A-10C II) image on, and even below that when I switch it on. With lAlt+Enter its 60fps with or without the TGP on, but below that with the Maverick's image on one of the displays, even when the TGP is off. Usually its around 40fps when I switch the Maverick's image on. And #2, especially when I haven't pressed lAlt+Enter the game stutters and stops like crazy, especially when I'm starting to bank, or pulling Gs. And sometimes there are times when everything runs just smoothly at almost a solid 60fps, even with the TGP and the Maverick's image switched on on both displays. I usually don't switch that much around in either the game's graphics menu or the AMD control panel. It's really like I'm at the mercy of either my PC, or DCS and the mood they are in at a particular day. At some days I'm able to just fly around and have fun and on another day I'm only tweaking and adjusting for hours. Only little adjustments and tweaks, but many times I have to reboot the game etc. And after three hours of pure frustration I can finally enjoy DCS for an hour. Just to dread the next time I'll be firing up the game. I have some images attached, so maybe someone can help my to achieve just a solid 60fps in this game. Thanks in advance

I also wrote and send the above to the DCS-support. But thanks for your quick reply. PS: There has to be a pre DCS-World 2.7. file on some server somewhere on this planet.

I have a big problem. I own the boxed versions of four of your products -of which I could only register two of, because I bought them 2nd hand and the other two were already activated by my predecessors. Long story short: #1 I have to run 4 seperate installations(one for each product) because there is no "legacy-version" of DCS-World out there anymore that I could find and download. And for several reasons I can't run the most recent version (2.7). #2 and also because of that I can't really update any of the modules. (I found the A-10C patch 1.1.1.1 on the net, but that's about it) So my question is, is there any way to get an older version of DCS-World, that i can run on a Win 7 system, or at least the latest patches for the standalone versions of the KA-50, A-10C, P-51D and UH-1H? PS: Please don't tell me that I'm running a far outdated OS etc. I'm very aware of that, but I also have my reasons for that, please respect that. I just wanted to ask the question above. Thank you people in advance.