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Ah ok. Thanks.

@Harker Like others have said.. It's nice to see people stepping up and helping others when there is so much finger pointing lately, that this is a pleasant change. I copied the (materials.lua ) over to C:\DCS\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Cockpit\Scripts\ and overwrote the file. ( After backing it up ) The plane loaded correctly, but when the Sun hits the DDI it still kind of washes out the screen with reflections. Is this MOD only for the HUD, or is there a different file for the DDI's? I think it does provide some help over the stock version. Otherwise the HUD looks much brighter So thanks for that. I'm running current beta 2.5.6.50793 I also run Kegetys VR Shaders mod. Thanks. Dave

Ah ok. That's right! It's been a while since I've flown these and it was the mission 2. Thank you.

Finally thanks to ED, I can finally play this mission. I also added another 16 gigs of RAM so now I have a full 32 gigs @ 3200 Mhz. The only lag I found was when the bombers ( F10 Less units ) dropped their bombs. But it was much improved from before. Well before it was not playable. No fault of the Miz developer. So Happy I can finally fly this. The only issues I ran across was two triggers which normally activate some call outs. I had switched to Ch. C like in the Briefing. When I got to the FLAK area, no one called out "Look out for the FLAK!" This was there in the past. The other change was I never heard the warning of Aircraft leaving some airfield in France. "group of 109's leaving ...." I seem to remember hearing this in the past. Maybe some of the triggers got messed up with the updates. However, this was flown on DCS V2.5.6.50321 not the most current. V.2.5.6.50726, where I read there were some updates done to this mission. So maybe it was fixed for the current beta. I also noticed that regardless of ch I was tuned to, I could not reach the TWR and never got landing clearance. Maybe the airport freqs got messed up in the updates. That happens to the little missions I make for myself. And last, the other units ware landing the wrong way. The winds were 280 at 8-10 kts. So they should land from Right to Left, on that runway, which looks like it could be runway 26 or something close. But instead they were landing with a tail wind. How does the AI pick their landing runway? Anyway, thanks for a fun mission. Dave.

Very good info. I didn't know you could set the sweep zone. Cool. Thanks to you all. Dave

Ah ok. So i should maybe wait a few seconds before aborting the scan. I thought maybe it would be instantaneous. Thank you for the help. I'll try again.

So i set up a quick JTAC miz. Using the T-Pod to find the laser. I press the LSS button and the tgt pod goes to a dark screen and doesn't appear to be scanning anything. Maybe the steps have changed?. Master arm was on and all pod switches were on. Maybe there is a new step to take before turning on / boxing lss? Thanks, Dave

I tried with the latest Mod. Thanks for putting this together. I can't imagine how much work goes into this. Anyway, I still had the water reflections in the Pimax Headset. But that could be SteamVr. Turning the water textures to LOW fixes it. No more reflections, but also don't have any white caps. But I'm fine with that. It gave a slight performance boost. : ) I can now sit on the new SC with SteamVr at 100% PD 1.1 and runs smooth. Also @speed-of-heat Great work. Your screen shots of settings also helped. Dave.

Maybe just a fresh install of PiTool will work. I updated Pitool to 255 and no longer have the options to select my FOV. Strange change. DCS require a IT degree

Cool. Thank you.

Thank you for the suggestion! Regarding the links in your Signature you have two relating to the VR Mod. ( Shaders MOD for VR and / Shaders MOD for VR with IC pass and clear water ) Being this is a water issue, and I don't care about IC since I mainly play single player, which if not all the links should I download? One of the options says clear water, so is that the one i need to try out? Thanks. Dave

the water reflections are stuck to my head movements. They appear, and only reflect off the water, but will not go away. I am flying the Hornet off of the SC. I DL the most current MOD for VR. Only increases FPS by 5 for me. So I will place the orig shaders back for now. I know there needs to be a new shader built for this current MOD. Just letting you know what I encountered. I'm also using the Pimax 5K XR, with SteamVr. Not sure if SteamVr is causing this or not, since not many others are saying they are encountering this issue. I will try again, once a new MOD has been released. Or maybe some water MOD might fix this? IDK. But anyway, it's just DCS stuff right lol. Dave.

I have a Pimax 5K XR, using steamVr. I have MSAA turned on in nvidia ctrl panel but if i raise steamVr settings or try to add in game msaa then i too get the flickering of black flashes, where the eye piece cuts out. I have to think its a steamVr thing. So things are a little jagged lines. Still great fun.

I want to report some findings. I do have a recording of this. Last night after the 156 latest update i attempted again this mission (#3) in VR. I noticed the frames were still around 25 fps. So I lowered some settings, which only got me to 32 on VR. So I was like this is a gamble, but I flew it anyway. And like before when the bomber formations (F10= Less ) appeared my frames went to teens. Then once they dropped the bombs, It was a complete slide show. I just quit. Today, I was determined to complete this mission #3. So today i started the mission with only my monitor, no VR at all. On the ground, my FPS was like 130 FPS. I'm like cool, I can do this. Using Track IR, and we're off. A couple of Hiccups, like my wing-man rear ended me and we blew up. Then when I finally got airborne I was joining up on Meyers right wing and another unit crashed into me. I re-started again. Finally got on my way across the ch, with a steady FPS of 80 or so. Then the bombers appeared. Cut my FPS to the 20's again. When they started dropping bombs, again, a slide show, with only 10 FPS. With the bombs and explosions on the ground, and burning fires this mission is absolutely unplayable. I had a steady 8 - 10 FPS after the bombing, and when the enemy fighters spawned in, it got even worse. Again, this is a desktop computer, just using a 4k monitor, a gaming MD, I7-9700 Processor ( 8- Cores ), and a GTX1080. I would think, this is a more powerful computer than a laptop. I have no idea how you can go from 130 FPS to 10 on a monitor. It's like the game is slowly taking away performance as it goes. At first I blamed the VR setup with Steam VR and just poor performance in VR. But with a monitor too. Yeah, there is a serious issue with how many objects you allow in. Not you, the DEV, I mean DCS as a hole. It's like this, If I was the only aircraft in the mission. and while flying for say two hours. I feel the FPS would gradually decrease as time continues. That's just my impression. So until something is done, even those with high end computers, and I feel mine is pretty high end, with the exception of a GTX 1080 and not having a GTN 2080 TI,. It's just weird. Again, I don't not feel this is the problem with the campaine developer, I think it's the Games OS's crapping out. Also the sounds in the Mustang are still messed up. The 190 had sound updates, but nothing was done to improve the Mustang. The background noises are still present. Again, not the fault of the mission builder. just DCS things. Heck, I also have the Hornet, and when I landed on the carrier, grabbed the 2 wire, and something broke, causing the plane to burst into flames. lol. I think I'll take a break from DCS for a while lol. Enough stress in the world as it is lol. Anyway, I hope people still buy your missions. They are well done and fun, and will be playable sometime in the future I'm sure. I will try again later. : )

It's all campaigns i think. I purchased the P51 Mustang and with bomber formations it turns into a slide show. I'll just continue to make my own missions. Till performance gets better.

Ok. Thank you.

So anyone else expierence landing on the carrier and end up in a ball of fire?. I caught the 1 or 2 wire, i went full burn like your supposed to, and it's like the wire broke, snapped back and ripped off my wing. Spun the plane around and caught on fire. This was my 1st landing. Since the current beta update. I'll try again tomorrow. Hopefully it was only an isolated occurence. Dave

Thank you for that. I had no idea there was such a drop in performance. I think ED will push a new update soon, so I'll just wait to continue the campaign until then. Besides I also know there are a ton of sound issues right now with the Mustang. Might as well wait to get a better experience. Thanks. Dave.

This was very helpful. Thank you!. I understand the copyright, makes sense I can not save changes. But as long as I can reduce the numbers then fly from the ME start button, then that should be good enough for me. I did try earlier to do just this. But when I saw I could not save, I just assumed no way to fly. But yes, I playing directly through the ME should work perfect. And really not that much of a hassle to reduce the numbers, and understand about the client multiplayer part too. Thanks, Dave

Hello. I'm really enjoying your work my friend. I just flew the 3rd sortie. Even with the F10 menu option to reduce the formation it's still a slide show. That's only because of the fact i use the Pimax Vr headset with steam vr and these things are a performance killer. So for anyone who's looking to play this on a monitor your in good shape. So my question is this. I'm fairly comfortable with the ME as I've been making missions for a long time. However not to your level of competence. So my idea is to copy the 3rd mission and rename it to something else and then edit the units to heavily subtract the amount of bombers. One thing i noticed last night is when they dropped the bombs it was like adding 100's of new objects into the game and that made the expierence into slide show. Dog fighting wasn't possible. I know that by deleting groups can damage a missions triggers. So I'm only looking to reduce the numbers within the groups. But keep the groups intact. Will that work okay?. Or do you have other suggestions?. Because outside the 1st two missions its unplayable with a pimax headset. Thanks. Dave.

Thank you. .

Does anyone else hear a strange muffled loss of hearing sound when in a dive or going very fast?. Kind of like shellshock when i bomb or loud crack happens and you temporarily lose your full hearing. I'm guess another sound bug like the crackle pop sounds at atart up. Very nice work. I'm enjoying flying and re-learning this AC.

Thank you. Two to 3 hours is good for me. I don't like to accelerate tine. I can always hit the pause key to take a break. Thank you. I will be picking this up. Dave

I'm thinking about buying your Blue Nosed campaign. - Has the mission been upgraded?. - 2nd question. How much time should i set aside to conduct a single mission?. two hours?

I have not, But I will try them. Thanks for the suggestion. Dave.