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I dropped an entire storage tray of programs for a run once and the operator had a heart attack. I told him that it was too much to sort so I ran the puncher for everything again. $$$ but it was a multi-billion dollar corp, so... That was on an NCR Criterion (six drives for 200 MB disk packs with heads in the pack), Cobol. Key to disk for data but cards for programs. Go figure. IBM 360, 370, 4341, Cobol, Fortran (not used, but I taught it at university) , Assembler (16 bit instruction set??? I forget) and RPGIII. CICS, JCL... lots of forgotten memories... I never was exposed to PL1. Basic (several versions), various 8 bit processor assemblers, a COBOL (!) compiler for a TRS-80, RPG II & III, Pascal and C/C+ and C++ were not invented yet. Oh, and LISP. There's another one I coded in but I forget because it was not very popular. Sorry for the distraction. You all please continue.

As I see it (as an ex-IT guy), the ED coding staff is too small, improperly managed, and QA is missing (which dumps QA on us.) I was a developer back when the IBM 360/370 was THE thing. Nothing I ever released had coding flaws in it. A customer would want more things added but that usually brought about a weekend addition followed by a six week QA check. There was no such thing (back then) as a Beta release. All of it was a finished thing. If we said that "it" did something, and it didn't or created a problem, the company's name was mud and died off. Coders, Docs, System Analyists, DP managers, and company owners/operators rarely made it back into the "known" IT world. Sometimes, good ones ended up at university, changed careers, or retired. Idiots would work until burn-out and quit. I got burned out and tried several years lecturing at colleges and university, and quit anyway. ED is the ONLY mil-sim able to give us what we all want. ED is seriously flawed. We all just have to live with it and enjoy the miracles ED produces in the manner in which they produce.

I think the hardware from Winwing is awesome. But the Chinese idea of computer programming has got to be the perfect example of idiotic mumbles and incoherent yammer.

The problem is that Winwing requires that DCS is in windowed mode, not full screen mode. Windowed mode fixes everything. (Well, almost everything. Now the F-10 map is half off the screen while the Menu bar is correct. THAT's weird.)

I just bought and installed Winwing (3) MFDs and (finally!) got all screens plus the main game screen (3840x2160) in the right places and all working great. (MFDs are a bit dim but I'm told that's a DCS thing.) However!!! Keep in mind that all four screens are in the right place. Now, the Mission Editor map is off center (to the left) and, (very, very strange) the F-10 map is off center, also. What makes it even more strange, the menus for the Mission Editor and F-10 map ARE in the right place. Just the maps, themselves, are off. Also, things get very weird if in full screen mode but things get back to normal in windowed mode. I did a (very long, slow) DCS repair but the maps are still off. I suspect it is the winwing software that has done something to a running DCS that winwing puts all screens in the right places BUT misses some key x,y setting that makes the maps show incorrect. Any idea how to track this down to correct it? I'm pretty sure this is not a DCS problem but I don't want to bother winwing due to their lack of English and competence in computer programming. What files in DCS need to be edited or.... sorry... any idea how to fix the winwing setup?

I disabled (Shadow Play) which still did nothing. I suspect the LUA file is changed and the MFDs still just show the desktops and taskbars. If I use the "GREEN" sliders, all the monitors show they are in the correct place. I turn the sliders back off. DCS Notes that the bezels are there (I correctly mapped all three) and work flawlessly. JUst the 3 monitors remain showing the desktops with no input from DCS

Same issue. Win11Pro, Intel Core i9-14900K @6.315 GHz watercooled stable 96GB, on ROG Strix Z790-A, using RTX 4090 with seperate watercooling, accessing 4x 4TB m.2 dcs.log Launched Multiplayer DCS (single thread b/c MT crashes regularly on this CPU), ran long enough to record AWACS and tankers on NTTR map, exited successfully. Ran Replay and crashed. Never got past loading screen.

I will never pre-purchase again. However, the MINUTE I can download and fly this helo, I'll buy no matter the asking price. I've wanted to fly this monster ever since I watch the Replen Ops in the highlands of SEA. Aside from the (civvie) Cessna 310r, there is NO other aircraft that I've been as hungry for than the Hook.

Six people have already tried to login and reported they could not. I tried and could not. I suspect the login server crashed. So, don't worry. It's not you.

Just some idle time, off hours from vVMFA-251.

I'm not the greatest at aerobatics but I do enjoy a good sky-dance or two!

YouTube video I made in DCS Hornet.

I put eight 500 lb JDAMs on one single (Pyotr) battle cruiser. All eight hit and exploded. I paused the sim and, F10, looked at the battle cruiser. No damage. Performed repetitively, no damage to the battle cruiser. (Life bar entirely green) I didn't check the life bar after 4 bunker busters (fuse delay) but all four hit. Still alive. Realistic???

I crashed (and in another flight landed) in the Instant Action Solo flight around Batumi. I saw an AI CE2 flying so I clicked on the F10 map and Alt-J to try to fly it myself. DCS froze solid. (Didn't CTD.) Tried twice. Both times, froze. Second issue, when I was doing loops, there were some digital readouts in (reddish?) printing (and I think a duplicate above in blackish??) that was rolling around inside the cockpit. Disappeared while in level, upright flight. (Same, I think, in inverted flight. Not sure: I was too busy flying.) Finally, the CE2 feels a lot better somehow. Snap, aileron, and barrel rolls feel about right. Haven't tried the zero-speed dynamics yet (tail slide, lomcevak, etc.) Glad the CE2 is getting some attention!!!! Thank you.

With altitude, the grass reduces the flowing, which is awesome! When landing (Huey) the flowing is crazy. Awesome, also! However, when the collective is zeroed out, the flowing should be reduced a lot. Not a bug, per se; just a suggestion.

Read the brief carefully. Cold start, no weapons. And, yes, I'm Canadian. Dead Reckoning.miz

When the Christen Eagle first came out in DCS, I could easily do a Lomcovak. Today, the physics of low IAS is certainly not realistic and, thus, the Lomcovak cannot be performed. (This is defined as reverse airflow over the tail while climbing or level flight... not falling as in a tail slide. Basically, it's a tumble with flying backward briefly.) The P-51 can no longer perform a Lomcovak, either. Edit: Even jets can do a Lomcovak:

This seems to be a problem of the release team having no idea what planet they are on.

Can't launch DCS still. Big Newy said that there was a fix put in (yada yada point 1) which I downloaded and updated. Still cannot get authorization. "What we have here is a FAILURE to communicate." -- Cool Hand Luke

Has anybody flown it in DCS yet? Beta testers, whoever? How's the flight dynamics?

SA-5 will intercept a HARM.

I flew a Colorado River Run in the Hornet and decided to do one in the P-51 also. Not perfect but it was fun to fly. The gamma was set wrong; that's just one of my mistakes! I don't know why the "ground camera" failed to record audio. I suspect it was the GeForce graphics card recording, not DCS or DaVinci Resolve. I have a bad habit of climbing in a turn. I'll practice to get rid of that climb.

I thought you were sleeping.