Johnny Dioxin

Do you mean the default sim training lessons for the F-16?

Shouldn't this be in the "Chit Chat" section? because it looks to me like gossip composed mainly of assumptions. In fact, it actually looks more like baiting, but that's for others to decide...

edit - misread your post - these are full installs?

You must be using the open beta. I just bought it a few minutes ago - at the top it says "Requires DCS World version 2.5.6 or above! " so I thought okay, I'd buy it - but under the requirements it says "You need to have the "Open Beta" version DCS World 2.5 installed on your PC for this product.". Nothing to say. I guess I'll be waiting to try it.

There is another possibility. I have the Virpil T50 (18 months old) and last week I was flying the A-10C when suddenly two of my 4-way hats stopped doing anything in the sim. Everything else on the throttle worked as it should. I continued without using those two hats (all different views, map etc anyway). Just before ending the mission I checked and they were still not working. As soon as I finished flying I switched over to the windows game controller panel and found that everything was working just fine. Restarted DCS World and they were working again, and have done since. That occasion was the only time they haven't worked in any sim. So either a stumble in the DCS code or in the VPC software.

Am I the only person that has seen a huge improvement in VR performance? I must say first that I haven't installed this hotfix (yet) - but after updating my main hardware a couple of months ago I am getting fantastic performance compared to the horror show it was when 2.5 was released, which kept me from flying due to the poor performance and even far better than the usually solid 45fps I used to get before my upgrade. I now have 60fps absolutely solid, all the time - no mods, no special settings, just completely new installation, all the modules in and off I went and down dropped my jaw. The new rig isn't that special, either - i5 9600k with 4.3Ghz on the turbo, a GA Z390D mobo, 32GB DDR4 3200 (double my previous RAM) and a ZOTAC RTX2080Ti (which I kept from the previous build), using Windows on an M2 SATA SSD (the type you fit directly to the motherboard) and DCS World on a Corsair 1TB SSD with a million other games (okay, slight exaggeration, but you get the picture). Settings as per screenshot and I haven't even looked at the PD - so it's at whatever the default setting is.

You can always do resupply between ships (I remember the Courier mission and landing the Ka-50 on a frigate - that was interesting!) and there's always anti-ship stuff plus search & rescue (find the dinghy! Do we have a dinghy in DCSW? If not - why not?).

Yeah, thanks - we're working on it.

I'd prefer a Lynx Army or Navy - not bothered.

I'm guessing that's with the mission editor? Unfortunately, it's a few years since I last used that, as well, but nevertheless I may look at this again sometime. I would be quite happy to invest the time required as long as I was confident I could actually get the audio in-sim.

Pretty sure the codes are set in the mission editor, but that may have changed. Might not be the same for the 88.

The problem with YT videos is watching them while trying to learn an aircraft in VR. I would be very happy to make voiceovers for the tutorials and missions/campaigns for every module in DCS if given the chance. I looked at it before but couldn't find out how they had done it, so I'm guessing it isn't possible for a customer to do.

If you look at this page on my website, it shows the settings including the optimum trim for different payloads (step 14). https://sites.google.com/view/dcsworldguides/dcs-world-guidesite/f-5e-tiger-ii

2nd edit: I just went to the site and attempted a purchase to see if things were still running (hint: this is a good way to check companies if you're unsure - without, of course, buying anything) and got this: So you might like to try again or wait a bit.

These may help you with A/A combat: https://sites.google.com/view/dcsworldguides/dcs-world-guidesite/f-15c-eagle/weapons-control https://sites.google.com/view/dcsworldguides/dcs-world-guidesite/su-27-bvr Keyboard inputs are given in the manuals but easiest is use the guides above and look up the keys in the controller assignment UI - you can do that as you fly.

I just flew that mission - no problems at all with it. Okay, that's not quite true - after the initial talk by Wags with the info, I never heard him again and I guess that was a bug, but I had zero issues going on through WP2 and 3 and then with the landing - all the instruments behaved as they should. Good luck.

You need to make sure that you hit the IAF for landing - it's quite a way out, and when you fly through that, the HSI should change to the landing bearing and direct you to the airfield and runway. If you press 'next' or 'previous' on purpose or by accident, it will set the HSI to a different airfield, so it will seem totally wrong for the airfield you are at. Otherwise, these missions have not been updated for a long time and bugs are common. I'll see if I can fly it in the next few days and have a look.

Which headset? If using SteamVR, press the left controller system button and trigger at the same time. You get two screenshots - a single image and a side-by-side image, saved to the relevant Steam folder.

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Well said.

Do you work in Flight Simulation marketing? If not then your opinion is worth no more than any other person on the planet because we don't know what their particular market research has shown.

Marketing.

The Flying Legends airshow that was being promoted in ED's newsletter earlier this year has, unsurprisingly, now been officially cancelled. The IWM are offering refunds, but would prefer the money to be donated towards the museum costs. However, they are offering to transfer the tickets to future events, if preferred. They've offered us (my wife & I) entry to the Battle of Britain airshow which is due in September - but I somehow doubt even that will go ahead, and if it does I personally would not be able to attend as I have to do this shielding thing until a vaccine is available. So if anyone has bought a ticket and has not received an email from IWM - this is what is happening. I'd already read of these intentions having dug around and found them on the IWM website, but it's good to have them confirmed.

Just received this a couple of days ago and it is the best info I've read about not just D-day, but the whole run-up from Dunkirk through Op Neptune to the invasion itself. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1911276883/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Lots of interesting facts and info from a political level right down to Pte Bloggs manning the .30's of an LCT. Huge range of decent photographs, too, from many sources. Really learning a lot from it and highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.

When I started in VR in2016 I found a useful utility called Tridef. It had been around for some time with 3D monitors and TV and I believe had commercial contracts with some TV manufacturer(s). Tridef 3D was excellent and became very popular in VR for those of us prepared to tweak and experiment and we got many popular games running very nicely in 3D in our VR headsets. Then they decided to develop a new utility called Tridef VR. It wasn't perfect, but it showed a lot of promise and the devs got MSI to back them on development, though this meant early trials were confined to those owning MSI graphics cards. So things were looking really good for Tridef VR, even though it was effectively just Tridef 3D, without the need to actually tweak or configure any 2D games, it was effectively 3D plug & play. Then they announced the 'price'. It was to be a subscription model. The amount wasn't that large, though it was more than I was prepared to pay - but there was a huge uproar from the customers and potential customers. I was quite shocked at the level of slating the devs got on their own forums over this proposed subscription payment model. But it never came to pass, because within months the company went bankrupt. Whether MSI dropped their support, or due to the reaction of the Tridef customers or something else, I don't know. What I do know is that within a short time of announcing this highly unpopular payment model, a previously successful and popular dev team went down the pan.