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Took a bit to get visual settings tweaked but much smoother transition than I thought it would be. Looks great! My favorite so far is landing on the back of the deck on the Tarawa, looking over my shoulders and seeing the rolling waves coming off the ship when its moving. Just friggin awesome!!

I placed some Harriers in an offline mission as objects in the parking area of a runway. The main landing gear do not appear, only the nose wheel and the outrigger gear. Does not affect flyable Harrier.

Had to get in on the action, but it would only let me load one photo

Payment problem here as well. Tried to purchase Harrier module and used my $6 bonus dollars during the purchase. Supposedly having an issue with purchases involving bonus dollars at the moment. Tech support said I could have that order cancelled and pay full price or wait until the issue is fixed. I responded that I would like to have order cancelled and would pay full price for the module. Its been almost 48 hours and the issue has still not been resolved. Not sure why its taking so long to cancel an order. Meanwhile, I get to watch everyone else flying the Harrier...

It is the mission itself, not the update. It was removed from the weapons list by accident...

I just jumped on 104th Server and found no cluster bombs available for the Mirage. Were they removed after last update?

Ok, so I do sort of like the new FM. Its definitely different than before. Ive noticed the roll changes when pulling or dropping collective, but it seems a bit too exaggerated. The biggest thing for me now is when I am coming in for a landing and transitioning to hover, I have to keep the aircraft banked to the right so it doesnt drift to the left. Ive watched numerous videos on YouTube and have yet to see a Gazelle leaning right during landing unless it was an intentional maneuver. Money

So yesterday I flew the Huey in 2.1.xxx, my version is updated to the latest. 3/4 fuel, flare dispensers, 2 M134 gunners and IR suppressor. Took off and landed at a different area at Nellis. When I was lifting off, the helicopter started jumping up and down. Torque meter bouncing all over the place. I was able to land. Then it stopped. So I took off without incident and landed at another location near Nellis on what appeared to be a concrete parking lot. Same thing happened. Put on autopilot and stabilized at about 85 kts. When I resumed manual control, the Huey took a nose dive. I pulled full rear cyclic, dropped collective and tried to recover by adding collective. It just kept nose diving till I hit the ground. Restarted computer and DCS 2.1.xxx and tried a different mission. Same thing. Also, whenever I land somewhere thats not an airfield, the aircraft leans back like I parked up hill. Went back to 1.5.7 to verify that it wasnt a controller issue and had no problems at all. 104th_Money

@rge75, Yes more or less what I meant, although you did it on an elevated platform and missed the opportunity to drop down into ground effect until you were over the platform. Being in ground effect while in steep bank does nothing and you dont get to VRS in a bank since the rotor wont sink into its own air. But as you reduce bank angle and speed, you can start settling and being in ground effect helps to not settle too fast and enter VRS. @Viktor UHPK Does this look a gently flown Mi-8 and not like an agile attack helicopter to you? :) @Flamin Squirrel Engine RPM in a helicopter is not constant, but the design tries to keep the RPM as consistent as possible within the acceptable range. You are not adding lots of power, you are increasing the pitch of the blades. Under certain circumstances it is quite possible to increase the pitch of the blade so rapidly that the RPM decreases due to the increased torque and the engine cant maintain RPM. The blade is still biting heavily at the air but now since the rotor is slowing down the lift decreases, the RPM keeps dropping, the lift decreases more and by now you have warning lights and buzzers going off and you have started descending. You either reduce the collective/pitch of the blade and let the RPM increase then try to fly it out or you keep descending. This can happen in hover or forward flight at high weights and is not VRS, although in hover or close to hover this condition can turn into VRS. More akin to settling with power and the recovery is more or less the same at low speeds/hover.

When I am flying the Mi-8 on the 104th server, its combat flying...I dont like being a sitting duck on a one mile approach waiting for the thing to come down nice and slow. If landing at a FARP, I come in low and fast...as I overfly my landing spot...hard left turn 360 while dumping collective and using cyclic and slight collective adjustment to control descent rate, trying to get low into ground effect altitude by the 180...by the time I am at the 270 I am usually sitting pretty as I increase collective and level out into hover. Then I inch it down the last few feet. Using TM Warthog stick and throttle, no extensions no curves.

Tomorrow will do, lol. Pretty Please!!!!!

I want this version

Ok, So I thought it would be fun to have an offline Mistral vs Mistral battle in 1.5.6 so I made a mission in a city and hit fly... Parked behind a building and kept reticle on target. AI fired on me long before I could get a tone... Figured maybe since I was hovering and AI was doing 200km that my heat source might be bigger while the fast moving AI heat source was dissipated... Tried again head on 200km and AI still shot long before I got a tone. Missile reached me and hit me, no tone before getting dead... Any clues whats up with this?

@cichlidfan Could you give me the exact procedure in detail? The extra effort to do so would be well worth the headache and still allow me to use 2.0 in the meantime. Kind of an in between time for me as I just upgraded from a GTX 1080 to a 1080ti and have been loving how far I can push 2.0 at 1440p. I just want to be able to enjoy it while dealing with 2.1 separately. My 2.1 installation has already been reverted to 2.0.x. I had to repair after the revert to get it working.

Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way to install 2.1 as a stand alone version. I'm having major issues with 2.1 not working. I'll download it, it takes so many hours...try the fixes, it doesn't work...have to use command line to get back to previous version...takes forever to download...repair previous version to get it to work. Original 2.1 download, trying fixes, previous version download took all friggin day on my one day off... Since I already have separate 1.5/2.0 installations I would rather just have a dedicated 2.1 install so that I can keep using 2.0 while the 2.1 problems are worked out. I don't mind using another activation or using up HD space for it.

I don't believe it is. I just checked specs and it doesn't mention anything about it. The model I have is the Asus VA32QA. Was the cheapy model for $319+tx. It's not quite as nice as the 4K tv was but after playing in 4K I just couldn't go back to a 32" 1080p screen...

UPDATE: I can finally see the card starting to spike up to 90% once in a while, other than that GPU usage averages about 65-70%. Memory Load never passes 70%. Using EVGA Precision X to control the 3 fans, running them on a pretty high curve since I had to remove my intake fan to fit the card in. So far DCS 2.0.5 settings are: Textures - High Terrain Textures - High Civ. Traffic - High Water - Low Visib Range - Extreme Heat Blur - Off Shadows - Flat Only Resolution - 2560x1440 Aspect Ratio - 1.777777777778 Monitors - 1 Screen Res. of Cockpit Displays - 1024 MSAA - 16x Depth of Field - Off Lens Effect - None HDR - Off Clutter/Grass - 1500 Trees Visibility - 15910 Preload Radius - 80500 Anistropic Filtering - 16x Terrain Objects Shadows - Off Disable Aero Interface - Unchecked Vsync - Checked Full Screen - Checked. For me the $770 for the card was well worth the visual effects. The extreme visible distance and steady 60fps just makes 2.0 look awesome. And all this without even overclocking the card yet!

Ok so quick update. After returning the 4k tv and going with an ASUS 32" 1440p monitor, the 1080 FE seemed like it struggled just a bit to keep up. So I bit the bullet and got an EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW3. In 1.5, the difference was minimal, slightly better frame rates. Bumped the MSAA from 8x to 16x and the fps held steady. Still get the tiniest bit of micro stuttering and if im surrounded by trees while looking sideways I see the fps drop into the low 50s briefly. Other than that its pretty smooth sailing. In 2.0.5 its a huge difference. Switched MSAA from 8x to 16x and bumped up the vis range to high and its holding 60fps with vsync on no matter what. The biggest difference is that the 1080ti is not maxing out nearly like the 1080 did. At MSAA 8x and vis range medium the 1080 was hitting 90-95% gpu usage and memory load was 95-100%. Now with MSAA 16x and vis range high GPU usage and memory load are holding steady at about 62%. Going to keep pushing up the settings little by little. Tried downloading 2.1 but it took hours only to crash before I could start a mission. Hopefully they get it sorted soon so I can take advantage of my new card!!

@borchi_2b No problem, I will stop further attempts. Don't want to cause problems. Hope to hear some new news soon!!

Gotcha! Didnt even notice the topic, lol. Just frustrated today...

2.1 loads to main menu, lets me select mission, click start then thats it. It hangs after that, unable to fly so far. Put deferred to off and made sure all other settings remained the same. Only mods I have at the moment are for the Gazelle, english cockpit mod and clear glass mod. Going to remove mods completely and see what happens

@borchi_2b Thanks for giving some input on this. Let me just say up front that if you thought it has a credible possibility to cause an issue for you or any other developer with current or future licensing, then I for one would not attempt to do this. In my opinion though, removing the doors would not necessarily be "modding", the fact is many helicopters have their doors removed depending on their needs. There are numerous photos of Gazelles flying with no doors on online. I happen to think it looks very cool. It would not entail changing the shape of any of the base models or adding a functionality or capability that did not exist prior to removing the doors. All that being said, if you wish me not to continue this effort please just state it clearly and I would gladly respect your request and stop further attempts. Btw, since we are on this subject...Could you update the status and expected availability of the sniper team version that was in the works? Money

Ive been trying to add transparency to cockpit doors but have been unsuccessful. I cant imagine they would terminate your user license for making one with no doors. It would be the same as offering an english cockpit or clean glass mod, both of which are available through DCS user files...

Aceviper, I used the MSI Afterburner utility to turn max temp down to 70 degrees celsius and put gpu fan to 100%. didnt make a difference for me.

BitMaster, water at low, but I like the civilian traffic alot! Adds to the immersion factor when you are on final and look out the window to see cars and trucks passing by. Especially good when flying the Gazelle over Vegas at night. Looks frigging awesome