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Latest Beta, just a simple mission on the Caucasus map, 1 aircraft flying along (any aircraft, it makes no difference), nothing else. I have a decent machine, 500GB SSD, Nvidia GTX 1080, 32 GB Ram, i7-6850K CPU. Windows 10, ALL drivers up to date, I even tried rolling the GTX back to see if it made any difference, it did not.

Vanilla game, no mods, just the game. Caucasus map can take up to 3 minutes to load what is just a simple mission of 1 aircraft, the Channel map with the same aircraft loads up almost instantly, as do the Persian Gulf and NTTR maps. There is something amiss with the Caucasus map, nothing in the log file to tell me what it might be. For the record I have removed the game from my PC, installed a fresh copy, run repairs at least 8 times and I still have to reduce my Gama settings from 2.2 to 1.7 to make the game viewable/playable without eye strain.

The Channel, or as we know it in the UK, The English Channel, goes all the way from The Western Approaches to The North Sea, so this map isn't actually a Channel Map. It covers the sea area known as The Strait of Dover, so you could correctly call it the Strait of Dover Map if you wish to give it a nautical name. That said I am reminded this is just a game, so it worries me not. You may call it whatever you like, no blood will be spilt on it and I'm sure we can still enjoy it, warts and all. :pirate: Late Edit: See next post down: I support dis80786's view, it could be astounding.

I lived in the SE in the 1950's - 60's living in Bexhill and Margate, and I spent time in the military at Deal. I also worked at Dover port in the 1980's. I bought the map assuming it would be reasonably accurate historically, and I have to say I would be hard pressed to say it was a map of Kent in the war years. It's more like the Kent I remember in the 1980's. That said it's a damn sight better than Normandy, in many respects, so I can live with the errors. Its only a game after all, not real life !

I am getting the same issues, with the same time scales. Getting from there to flying a single aircraft over a completely empty map, no mods, can take up to another 4 minutes, it seems to be sticking at 88% most of the time on the loading screen and 'please wait' when loading a mission. I have a high end machine running Windows 10, everything is up to date, drivers etc etc. Tried removing the game and reinstalling - same issues persist.

Vanilla game, no mods, with the latest update on a high end PC. From hitting the exe to getting a simple mission of 1 aircraft on the Caucasus map to actually fly took just short of 7 minutes, that has been the worst time frame tested over the last 2 day, sometimes its been a little less, but not by much. Tried it again with all my Mods added, no difference. Not unplayable, but unacceptable.

All the WW2 stuff is encrypted now, if you can find it, and open it, do tell us, we would all love to know how you did it. As Harker said, even if you do manage to change it, it will fail the security regime they have created and the boat will not appear in the game. That's my understanding of the current situation with WW2 stuff.

Apex - the first thing you need to do is learn how to set up JSGME in your game, so that you can edit the lua's. You have to do it this way because every time the game updates the lau's that you changed will be restored to their original state. To avoid that JSGME allows you to instal your changes, then uninstall them before they game updates, then reinstal them again when the update is completed. Do this first, then I'll tell you how to make your mods to make them carrier capable. Start here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=98607 PM me when you have cracked this ... its a good learning curve to get you started.

You can still edit the Mig and Su25 lua's, make them carrier capable. No hook, but they do take off and land on carriers. I suspect that will change soon, but you can for now.

Not so long ago we could fly these of that carrier, and land again, just by a simple mod to the lua. Now its not possible to change the lua because it is encrypted but it would be great to have that facility restored. The mod options are endless, I even had a few 'pretend' Sea Fury's that were great fun to have in missions.

I have to agree with that, some guys spent a lot of time creating Japanese Zero skins for the Fw190-A8 and added carrier capability in the lua, which was then encoded and can no longer be adjusted. Thats a great shame because being able to edit the lua, and I only mean the lua, was a considerable asset to the game. I'm not sure what you achieve by encoding just some of the WW2 lua's and not all of them, or is that the intention in the long term ?

Under the Southern Cross they stand, ball and chain in their hand, symbol of the promised land, Australia. :laugh: Don't be offended, its just a laugh, we Brits love all you colonials to bits, you beat us at ever sport we play AND you have all the best looking women. :beer:

Thanks Cougar_DK, that seems to have worked, much appreciated.

That didnt help, same issue persists. Sadly its now 9 out of 10 times is fails to get past the first screen.

That's worth a try, cheers mate.

Most times I try to run the game my screen gets stuck on the DCS version page, the first page you normally see, and I have to shut it down with Task Manager. Out of 10 attempts to run the game it happened 8 times, to give you some idea of the frequency of the error. HOWEVER, when I take a screen shot of that first page, I dont get an image of that first page, I get an image of this page instead, but obviously I cannot see that on my screen so I have to crash out of the game and try again. [ATTACH] Anyone have any ideas as to how to fix this.

Buildings do it too, put a red building on a blue airfield, or even near it, and the same issue applies. That issue has been raised countless times in the past with no response from ED.

Get on this thread boys and make your point, the more people that speak out the better chance we can get this decision reversed. Be polite, and keep it short, every post will help. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=274099

'Noise' gets heard, silence gets ignored. As a long time modder who has been around this game since the prehistoric Falcon days I would love to be able to mod CoreMod lua's in the Saved Games folder. I accept its your game to do with as you please but I do not think this an unreasonable request. We love your game - please try to remember we are on your side when you consider these requests.

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Just tried to download the main mod and it's still showing "google drive" - "file is in owner's trash" The other 2 work okay.

Frequently unable to log in, get stuck on login page, or gets stuck on authorisation page, or gets stuck on the next page, and wont let me into task manager to shut it down. Every time I exit Mission Editor the game freezes, 90% of the time it stays frozen, 10% it eventually shuts down after long delays. Basically unplayable for now.

There was no psd file with the original, sorry. I doctored the original to create the blank files that are there. Depending on what graphics prog you use you might be able to extract some of the lines but my old software was not up to it.

That's not the missile I have in my shapes folder, I have that horrible thing in the first post, and only that.

There is only 1 x edm in the world/shapes folder for the R-3s missile, so thats what you will see nomatter the distance, its not a lods issue as such. A solution is swap the R-3C missile above it on the list for the R-3s, just change the name.