All 3 of you are right, thanks for responding which caused me to examine a lense holder I had installed after fixing a break in the restraining ring..... I had fitted the lens back to front.... doh!!!
Thank you for coming back so soon, appreciated 🙂
A Three hour 3 Division carrier op trackfile might just drive you crazy unless I had time stamps for you.
On sleeping on the problem I note no one else so far has come up with the black mouse cursor so it seems local. Will do the usual cache clear-outs and driver updates to see if it can be resolved.
The Tanker 'enfield 1' responses I now realise is an ED ai incomplete BUG issue that has been present for a long time. The voice ai returns from field atc and tankers were not modified to allow for the full range of callsigns now available to the F18 in the ME. We often run 3-4 division carrier ops and in accordance with WAGs set up of the new F18 datalink features and recently I assigned HAWK, SNAKE, JOKER & DEVIL in the mission editor to each Division all configured correctly as DATALINK Members / Groups to actually make the datalink work as designed - which it does superbly! Downside, no one told the ai for the tankers ad field ATC.... Hence 'enfield 1-1' to every thing - Bummer! (I did read somewhere there is no sound file to support this anyway?)
The ai issues on attempting to hook and launch carrier aircraft in MP are a total constant total pain in MP and well known. Launching multiple aircraft is problematic to say the least and as often we are 12 - 16 A/C we limit 2 on the cats at any one time and no movement of other AC until they are launched else the dreaded repeating HOLD POSITION bug drives everyone mental. Not great.
If the MFD non functioning buttons reoccur in a small length session I will fire up the track file.
p.s. Would a bottle of BLACKBUSH SINGLE MALT help move the carrier a.i. up from stagnation to the front of the queue 🙂 just send me an address - worth a punt.....
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