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Has anyone tested this? Are we back to square one or some middle ground?

Just a little, eh? :P On the level of Vesuv in 79 AD. xD Random freezes, random and very frequent CTDs... I would go back to 1.2, but sadly my connection is too slow to make it sensible, so I'm holding on and hoping for fixes before New Years.

Wow, this thread has certainly taken on a life of it's own. :) In regards to MP servers... yeah, the deathmatch is a big problem. A problem though that I think could be in big part fixed with this simple script: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=110837&page=2 Not just that, it would give incentive/motivation/reason for people to even fly choppers and incentive to PROTECT those choppers... which would mean more teamwork than now. So, would help prevent deathmatch on two fronts. Lose all choppers = lose the game. This script would maybe temporarily fix the issues stemming from the missile-issues until they get fixed (if they get fixed?). Btw., 51st guys, any idea when your server is going 1.5?

Thanks for the reply! Do I have to follow the old instructions on deactivation or is it enough if I go into the module manager and click the checkmarks/boxes to disable module? 619

Thanks for the help, guys! I'll just leave it at 16gb, I think that should be enough. :D

Good to know, thanks!562

Thanks for your efforts, derelor! Hopefully this'll get fixed in one of the coming updates, cause that switch needs to be clickable. :) 556

If I understand the new system correctly, when you log into the 1.5 game it connects with your database on the website, checks which modules you own and registers/installs them automatically. Cause when I updated to 1.5 and entered the game, the game itself asked me if I want to download L-39 which I bought in August without me ever trying to do that before. Then it downloaded the module and then did automatic activation, without me having to do anything, not even type in the cd-key. Anyway, I just got my new hardware (cpu, mobo, ram) and will be formatting C: and reinstalling windows because of it. Do I, in view of this new automatic activation, still need to deactivate the modules I have installed? Is there still the system of limited number of activations going? Or are all activations and module registrations now handled by the in-game system? Thanks for help! 530

Thanks, quick reply much appreciated! That's just a patch and a very expensive one (not everyone will spend 500 eur for a gaming accessory, some of us come from poor countries :P ). Thankfully the team now know about it and will fix it. :thumbup: 532

My thanks as well! Words can not express what being able to fly in this skin means to me. Though that number on the fin interferes with the star... ;-) Thanks!

The ugly windows mouse cursor seems to override the DCS yellow cross, both for clickable-cockpit planes and FC3 planes. 413

Latest update Firefox, PC, Win7, no sig. Two possibilities come to mind: 1. virus 2. Firefox issue I definitely didn't have it a few weeks ago when I was still using ancient version of FF. Tnx! 391

It's not clickable in cockpit and it's "forbidden" to bind it to a keyboard shortcut. 374

Okay, this is interesting. Apparently I'm not the only one. There are numbers at the end of your posts too. Or am I suddenly like that kid from X-Files who saw hidden binary messages in the static screen on TV? :lol: In that case they could very well be messages, Tone. Maybe I'll decode some top secret communications if I dedicate myself to this problem. :D 39

I've been having REALLY weird issue lately. Whenever I post a post there are suddenly some random numbers at the end of it that I didn't put there. They seem to appear during the posting process. What do they mean and how do I get rid of them? Thanks! 63

Ordered the 4670k bundle. Thanks for your input everyone! 53

Right now I have 2x4gb of 1333mhz, noname RAMs. I'm getting some new hardware, among which will be 2x8gb g.skill at 1600mhz. My question is, if I put all of the ram into my new mobo, thus have 24gb, will they be hampered by 1/3 running at only 1333mhz instead of 1600? Will that force the 1600mhz RAMs to work at 1333mhz? Is it possible I'll get less performance than if I have only 16gb, but that running at 1600mhz? RAM has never been my strong side, so I have no clue. Thanks for help. 46

Haven't yet. However, as soon as I check out the file structure I'll be enabling Starway's. 210

Very nice performance increase noticed here as well, but am I the only one who feels the graphics look a bit washed out? As in very bright, not a lot of contrast and so on? Or is it because I am used to Starway's excellent texture mod that looked so much better than stock textures, plus Sweetfx? I've put my graphics to mid-to-high on 1080p, but I'm getting far from the effects that were shown on Wags videos. :( PS: and what's with these random numbers showing up at the end of my message sometimes? 135

Soooo.... any chance TWS2 gets fixed this year so it doesn't give lock/launch warnings?

Mi-28. /discussion :D 369

I'm in. Hopefully not too late.365

This: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Bundle-Intel-Core-i5-4670K-16GB-PC1600-G-Skill-Asrock-Fatal1ty-Z87-Killer/360886510483?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33493%26meid%3D9c8d7f3336d9424ab386c8ee98ed58f4%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D380867566050 or this: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Bundle-Intel-Core-i5-6500-4x3-60GHz-Gigabyte-GA-H170-HD3-8GB-DDR4-PC2133-RAM-/381390756818?hash=item58cca91bd2 While 4670K is much older, it's UNLOCKED, plus it's got 16gb and a good mobo (if oldish tech). On the other hand the 6500 is brand new, mobo (of the brand that I loathe to death) will be (hopefully) able to support future CPUs. But, according to cpu comparison websites, 6500 not much more powerful than the 4670K (CPUboss comparison 4670vs4690 not much difference and 4690 vs 6500 not much difference either) and can't be OC-ed (which I always end up doing). Talk about dilemma... Tnx!

They already are, just check the statistics on the Situational Awareness. They will be even more so if we don't get a modern Red fighter. One of the tactics Harrier pilots used and that caught the Argentinians by surprise is Harrier's ability to fly at extremely slow speed and hover. They used that to get the enemy to overshoot and then send a missile up their six. In a modified way that's exctly the ability thrust vectoring gives Su-30. I agree, but modify that to 2000's, not the 80's. We already have plenty enough and too many frames from the 80's, now we need something modern and up-to-date. Don't forget that one of it's enemies will be one of the newest and best fighters in the world, the Eurofighter. Which makes me wonder, isn't it classified? How could the developers get enough documentation for a module? Why can't a Su-35 or a MiG-35 be made then? IIRC there already some British planes announced, Vulcan, Vampyre and so on? If the market was big enough, the size of MSFS, then it would've been a commercial unsuccess. The thing is that the community is so small and the offerings so few and far between (and many players seem quite affluent) it's quite possible that almost any module gets grabbed up just to be able to fly something new for a change, especially during sales. Even if that person never cared for that plane or will even fly it longer than a few weeks the more affluent player will still buy the module. Thus it's simply impossible to foretell how the module will fare commercially. The Indians have Su-30s, plus plenty of other countries and the Americans and the British have had plenty of chance to see them up close, study them and see their worth in air combat against own planes. I have no doubt the various intelligence agencies have produced thousands of pages of reports on this plane and what it's capable of. And I'm pretty sure they're objective in their assesment. Thus, not only is it being exported and thus it's secretiveness is in question and documentation not necessarily being out-of-reach, but it's also quite realistic that enough data (and REAL data, not Red-bashing, Blue-glorifying propaganda) is available in the West to serve as development documentation. Either publicly accessible or through FoIA. Or LNS could just ask any of the other air forces that fly them, their pilots would probably help. I'm not very familiar with the plane, but what is so good about MiG-23 that quite a few people want it? From the little I know it's old and not really competitive nowadays. I've been ill for the entire past week which also means unending splitting headaches and just a few minutes ago someone elsewhere riled me up, so please forgive me if I'm suffering a sense of humor failure and responded a bit too sharply. I tried to edit it after several readings, but I'm still feeling my brain throb in agony when I move even for a mm. :beer: Well I don't have any appreciation for a plane I never cared about and am not gonna apologise for it. We're also not getting these planes for free and they're actually quite expensive. Each plane is the price of a full game and to operate them properly you need peripherals that cost pretty penny as well. I know too many people who can't afford these modules even on 70% sale. The problem is not the plane itself, it's the bigger picture. It's the tactical imbalance in the game that will become horrific when all the modules we talk about get released. Just think of the Eurofighter which IS a super-duper plane. I'm not talking about deathmatch competitiveness. I'm one of the players who flies for enjoyment and not stats, but when you get killed again and again without being able to mount a good resistance because the enemy has such good kit it simply overwhelms you with it (especially if they're good pilots to begin with and also have numbers on their side) it takes all the enjoyment out of the game for me. It's one of the reasons I stopped flying on 104. It just wasn't fun anymore. There are already too few planes in development and ALL OF THEM are known to be Western kit. And then there is this one unknown... it could be either. Thus this one plane is crucial, it's significance is bigger than it is itself. It can either help restore balance at least a little or it will further the "unfairness" of the situation. It will either make it still sensible to fly Red in the face of all the modern opposition or it will help convince players to abandon the red side. As you know, Red side has 3 fighters younger than 40 years and, against the flood of Western kit coming, it doesn't look this situation will change for at least the next 2 years. At least I didn't see any Red fighter on the module timeline thread. True, Blue has only 1 fighter atm, BUT that one plane dominates all of the Red planes through it's superior avionics and missiles. I don't think anyone serious would dispute that AMRAAM has no equal opponent on the Red side. 2 of those planes still have SFM, only 1 has PFM. Then again, that PFM is so bad the plane borders on unflyable, so maybe SFM is a blessing in disguise. 1 of these planes still has 2D cockpit, no 6dof (witch to land on short runways) and a simple exterior model (hopefully to change with 1.5). None of the 3 has clickable cockpit or high fidelity. All of these planes have systems from the 80's. And none can go equally against the Eagle in a fair and equal fight. Statistics and mp server experiences prove one-sidedness. The Eagle will also be joined by a large line-up of planes with high fidelity, clickable cockpits, some of them planes that make Russian defence strategists highly worried in real life. Sadly the only plane that will be usable for people doing role-playing of Red pilots will be the Tomcat because it's used by one of the 3 main Red countries in real world: Iran. Don't misunderstand the "sadly" part, the plane is awesome by itself and I can only suspect politics, corruption and backroom deals are responsible for why it was phased out by the USN in favour of the Bug as it was still damn good for it's mission and superior in the fighter-part compared to the Bug. I will maybe even buy it, dunno yet. But it's still not really a Red plane. In genuity regarding Red heritage it's like a BMW 316 whose owner glued the M sticker on to fool people he's got the M and not the cheapest model (and it happens more times than you think lol) or a Fiat Uno sporting the Ferrari stallion (seen those as well). :D Anyway, I hope I explained my position as politely as possible given the explained situation.

Don't worry, I've seen enough apologists to know it's useless trying to convince you even when you can see yourself that that plane has issues and not just in LEVEL flight at any alt, but also in dives, pulling out of dives, etc. It's lauded as one of the best fighters in the world, so why are people stopping flying it in DCS? As that old saying goes "there are none so blind as those who will not see". So, I'm done.