BobbyC101st

I am confused a little...Why, when flying along and looking for targets would you want to try and lock a burnt out wreck of a vehicle? Oh yes... only because the game hides a live one inside it of course...silly me. On the waypoints thing...the final waypoint was not set inside a bunker but the following vehicles in the convoy coincided with the location of the bunker. I take your point that a workaround for this problem is to reroute the convoy to avoid buildings and bunkers...many thanks. Any idea why vehicles and tents don't recognise the FARP as a hard surface?

Solid objects ignored I have noticed 2 abnormallities which definitely did not occur prior to installing the 1.0.1 patch. First...after creating a new mission in the mission editor after patch 1.0.1 I placed a FARP on level ground and put the tents and vehicles on the FARP. When I run the game, my helicopter sits on the surface of the FARP but the tents and vehicles are half buried. same applies if a convoy comes in...it drives through the hard aircraft bunkers...disappearing as it does so. If the convoy stops with one of the vehicles hidden in the hard aircraft bunker, when I fly nearby, the vehicle shoots at me but I only see the bunker. Secondly, when a convoy of 8 vehicles stops at it's final waypoint, I shoot and kill vehicle number 4. It burns then the flames die to show a wreck. I shoot vehicle number 1 and kill it and all the convoy moves up one position. Now vehicle number 5 is in the same position as the wreck of vehicle 4....here is the sucker punch....you only see the wreck...not the live vehicle 5 in the place of the wreck. You can lock on the wreck but not at night after using up all your LLU's. Mission does not end because a vehicle is buried in a hard aircraft bunker or hidden in the position of a wrecked vehicle. Any idea when the patch is coming out to fix this 1.0.1 patch ?:cry:

No I don't know how to fire them. I can also load AGM-65k, AGM-65D or AGM-65E on all pods but they will not fire. If you have succeeded in firing..please let me know. Regards, BobbyC

I agree 100%, on a private, passworded server with pilots who have the same mod / advantage as me when flying missions yes. But I wouldn't dream of turning up on a public server with my air to air combat loadout or even my 32 vikhrs....8 on each pod....just not cricket old boy!

Hmm, 1 week later and still Second Lieutenant with over 412 flying hours. Has anyone reached Colonel in DCS Black Shark?

:thumbup: I can't wait.....all these fixes will make new missions much better. Will the "End mission" option close the mission in multiplayer and send clients back to the GUI.....that would be great!

Ha Ha Yes! I would like to have seen that happen. I can sympathise.:lol:

I have played DCS Black Shark regularly since before Christmas in UK. I have flown multiplayer and single player...I have achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and suddenly in the middle of the last campaign, I ended a mission with 75% and on closing was shown a screen:- " Congratulations...You have been promoted to Second Lieutenant". I have lots of medals and hours but now hold a lower rank. Any one else had this problem?:book:

Many thanks to hitman_214th and to Mustang for their help. I was already using Quaity instead of performance setting but when in the game I changed to use the advice: "sounds like the common problem that occur in the latest nV drivers with Full Shadows. Try knocking that setting down one to Full Planar and see if it corrects this." The white edges are gone and also no more ripple effect on the skin of my aircraft. Brilliant....enjoying my flying again....many thanks. BobbyC101st :thumbup:

I am usung the 175.19 drivers 32 bit XP Pro and I have 2 9800GTX cards in SLI. Much better frame rate in Armed Assault but unfortuneately still have the abhorations on the side of my aircraft skin and white edges to my airframe in Lock On Flaming Cliffs. I notice the antialiasing does not work at all in performance mode but works well in 16XSLI mode which disengages the SLI performance mode. Running all settings at maximum 1280 X1024 frame rate 65 -130 vertical synch forced off.. Any fix for these moving ripples on the skins? BobbyC101st

ok....sorted...unplug usb joystick and plug it in again. Now works in ARMA and Lock on... BobbyC101st

:( microsoft sidewinder 2 joystick is not recognised...do I have to prod it with a stick somewhere or something even worse? joystick works in armed assault Thanks in advance, BobbyC101st

Ground illumination back on I have pinned the problem down to a corrupt file in the config folder so after a clean install and setting up my joystick I have illumination on the ground from my aircraft lights and also from flares. Good to go, BobbyC101st out :thumbup:

No landing lights on runway but lights are on All my graphic settings are unchanged and my graphic options set to high except water at basic and I have a Geforce 6600gt graphics card. Lock-on has behaved itself for months and just today I am landing and taking off in the dark...any ideas? BobbyC101st