blackburnn

With this.

Sorry for the late response, I had an exam week so I was distracted. I managed to solve my issue by uninstalling, cleaning registry and installing the game on a different drive. I think the issue was that I used a moved folder of an older version of DCS World and Steam did not fully recognize or update it as it should. I just joined a few servers almost instantly. I hope this will solve the problem for other players experiences this as well.

Strange, thing is though. I played DCS quite regurarly before the christmas holiday. Put together a new pc during that holiday and something clearly isn't working the way it's supposed to. Weird thing is, I have not had any issue with the bazillion games I've installed on this machine so far.

Thanks for your responses. First off, I'm not using any other firewall then windows. I'll try disabling and joining, ill also open up the other ports suggested. The thing you mentioned about web applications not being able to reach the ports and falsively reporting them close, I noticed that as well. I'll be going to fiddle with my firewall/ports and hopefully be able to play online once again.

I just redownloaded and installed the game again to no effect. Anyone have any idea what is causing this?

Hmm thanks for the reply, however I already opened it. I just used this tool whether to check if the port was open , apparently it is not. Update nr2: I just assigned my PC's host address to DMZ to circumvent the ports. Still getting the error. Update n3: Realised uPnP was off, turned it on, didn't help.

Ah guess that explains it.

Thing is, has there been a new version recently? From what I can tell on the forums is that there was a patch a few weeks ago.

SOLVED: Sorry for the late response, I had an exam week so I was distracted. I managed to solve my issue by uninstalling, cleaning registry and installing the game on a different drive. I think the issue was that I used a moved folder of an older version of DCS World and Steam did not fully recognize or update it as it should. I just joined a few servers almost instantly. I hope this will solve the problem for other players experiences this as well.

Thing is, I did not install the upgrade version, also selected the ''full international'' option while installing.

Not sure, as I used to play it when we needed black shark 1, I guess it would be the upgraded one. However during the installation I tried selecting the upgrade international but it said I needed black shark 1 installed. UPDATE: Just downloaded the old version of black shark 1 and installed it. Tried to install BS2 under upgrade but still didnt find it. Also when I browse the E-shop on the main website it says I dont have a key for the upgraded one, but do for the stand alone version of BS2. I am completely hopeless now.. Reinstalled DCS World, all the modules as well this morning to no avail. Just wont let me in the cockpit during missions in a KA-50 slot, whether its multiplayer or not. UPDATE: - Some things I realised is that whenever I run the repair option it downloads 1.8mb updates. Always. - Whenever I reinstall the module it automaticly fills in my key, even if I clean the registry for the bs2 key. I think the problem is somewhere in the activation, since I do not get the thingy to manually activate bs2 at any time. UPDATE: Error log when I try to activate or deactivate BS2 by the MI8 executable in the bin folder. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20477138/txt4B72.txt UPDATE: Tried this, both ways, didnt work. Still cannot enter cockpit, also checked my F1 keybind, its all in place. UPDATE: Tried several things I found on other posts, nothing worked, activation tries left to 3. Losing my mind now.. uninstalled every module, every trace of DCS world and the modules and reinstalled, still cant get inside the KA-50 cockpit. I also think it does not even spawn when I press fly, when cycling F2. UPDATE: Trying something radical, deleting mods/ka-50 and replacing it with an old version and letting the repair function update it. Might work. UPDATE: Doesn't work. Tried uninstalling instruction videos, didn't work. In my module manager it says ''KA-50 Black Shark'' not black shark 2, is this correct or? UPDATE: Currently installing the game on steam, since it has a different activation system it might work out. UPDATE: Installed steam version, works fine. No idea what the problem is with the website version.

Hello, Back in the day, I used to play black shark quite regurarly. Always installed using the old black shark 1 download, then used the black shark 2 thingy ontop of that. However I've had a break from DCS for a while and recently came back to toy around with the UH-1H etc. I tried to reinstall my BS2. Downloaded the standalone version of it, since my key says its NOT the upgraded version of the key, and it installs fine. (under international full key) But then surfaces the problem, whenever I try to join any game, single player, missions, multiplayer I cannot enter the KA-50 cockpit. It always shows other planes etc. Other modules work just fine, all of them. I've started to think that it might be an activation issue, but I tried to clean my reg, downloaded the module and reinstalled it numerous times, but to no avail. I've used reg cleaners, and tips from other posts I found. Nothing worked just yet. Do I have to download the old black shark 1? If so where can I do this, as I don't see it under modules any more? Anyone have any ideas? Been looking all day for a fix. Cheers, Blackburn PC: 64bit windows 7 gtx660TI AMD 4x