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That or "Early As + B updated cockpit + new fx like vapor over wings and afterburner" sssssssss ahh.....hard to chose. oh man, imagine if it is the new effects and the early As + B cockpit. 2025 the year of the Tomcat.

Just checked. DCS is working fine again without the error on boot while auto login is active. Likely without the Authorization Expired error as well after a while in game. Edit: soon I'll fly again and update this post if the Authorization Expired error doesn't appear in a full dcs session of mine. Edit 2: The error "login expired" and the "Error 502" has not appeared ever since.

This is beyond my knowledge, but through several times before resetting the log in through login out I had a 100% rate of receiving the error. Upon logging out and back in, the error went away and I could finish 2 missions later. Their side or not, DCS came back working again.

The problem disappeared after a log out and log in refresh. No need to ditch the launcher from my end.

...but...but those cool clips, tho. I understand the preference, but the quick graphics setting changes without booting up DCS has been handy in a little while.

This fixed my issue. No more 502... so far.

I never had such issues ever in DCS since its debut early 2010s. I just got booted out of a mission 5 to 10 minutes in after receiving the failed authorization data error code: 502 on DCS boot. Possible fix: From the launcher, log out and log back in using your password. No error message on DCS launch.

It is a 'trees' issue, that's maybe why. Iraq has the same issue with shadows on 'default'. Something on the implementation of shadowmaps in DCS seems a bit funky. Not a fan.

Star Trek Type 9 Shuttlecraft. Even the numbers line up

opposite here. Shadows to 'flat' maybe? Because the DCS shadowmaps are horrid in performance and the forest cast a lot of them.

Yep, I know. Still heavily needed for the Corsair and Hellcat.

Over Guam Island where there is urbanization on the modern version. Much lower GPU usage, akin to what I see on other maps such as Syria. Idk much else because I lock my frames. I just saw good numbers. Lots of trees too, but I guess the buildings autogen are heavy in DCS. (something for the devs to look into one day, idk)

Great first impressions, but it desperately needs the Japanese WWII fighters in the sim even if it is AI only. Ironically, it is currently more fitting to Vietnam scenarios than WWII atm.

The Corsair, Mustangs and Jugs are in need of Zeros and company to play with. Terrific looking map so far. huh... I found it to be the opposite. How come?

I guess more data is needed to receive proper attention. Yes, it is like work. Low data posts are like: 'Here, I feel like this. Go figure how to test for an issue that's affecting how I feel". Some numbers to be cross checked can be helpful as well as unclassified documents.

WWII carrier ops is enough life for a while.

What the hell is that? Don't beat yourself on that one. It means your values over the digital product lies deeper within hours spent rather than the initial novelty. I can't think of any module I've purchased that I have a slight remorse over. The Mirage 2000C perhaps was the only one on its early years as it was rough, nowadays after the massive updates, it is right along the rest of my beloved jets. (current dispute subject excluded). The Mustang is the only WWII bird I own so far, perhaps that's a factor.

Have a track?

Contrails are not heavy on neither CPU or GPU. You can have dozens of aircraft 'contrailing' in a scene easily. Missile smoke and others are already affected by wind, perhaps there is an easy fix from an oversight for aircraft contrails. One of the weakest parts of this sim. Weather. Hopefully a revamp is near.

+1

Is there really any need to everything being Garmin glass? Also, no radar? What's the purpose?

I'd probably am an outlier in DCS. My time in DCS has been nearly 100% been in Briefing Room 3rd party application for mission generation with random parameters. Something done quick with minimal predictability to keep the memory going on my modules. I voted 'critical' because of that application. If it wasn't for Briefing Room, I'd vote for 'none' or 'minimal' for those Playground like scenarios on User Files and I used to spent all the time in scenarios I have made for myself with mission editor. Community made liveries are also nice and if it wasn't for them, some modules would feel incomplete. F-14A from HB doesn't have Jolly Rogers skin from the 70s as an example.

It is perfect for 1080p now. I hope ED makes options around HMDs symbology instead hopping around settings that are always incompatible with someone's system/preferences. The last patch fix was to fix this issue bellow (shot taken 19th of May 2025, before patch): Worked as intended and this issue ^^^^ for the whole HMD display is no more on 1080p. Please ED, testers, CMs, forward for the team to make options of symbology thickness or something related to the resolution of these displays as people are having issues instead of rolling back an returning to the degraded status for 1080p. The HMD was not like this prior to 2025. Placebo perhaps. The HUD it is just as sharp as before. Shot taken 22nd of May 2025 (after patch)

Words from community managers are in this thread + others talking about it.