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It's worst that I thought. I thought that the DRM 3 days countdown began the first time we launch DCS with a connection down ( customer's connection fail or ED servers down ) But No. It depends from the last time we used DCS with connection. That means that if I return from more than 3 days outside my home and ED servers are down at this time, I can't even launch DCS. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Around last Christmas, Wags made an announcement about end of DRM. What about this announcement ?

Hi Since the last updates, flying in altitude with the Huey is impossible. Perhaps it's the truth in real life but now, as soon as the EGT is over the green zone, the engine burns. On the user manual, that speaks about 30 minutes allowed in the caution zone, between 610°C and 625°C. But I've just tried a mission where I was forced to stay just some minutes in this warning zone, to climb to 8000 ft and my engine burned out very quickly even if I'd never reach the 625°C. So I think the Elbrus rescue mission is now, impossible to do.

About the DRM time allowed without connection: It's not even 2 days 23 hours... It's 2 days 10 hours.. It's not even the three days, It's less .......:furious::furious::furious::furious::furious:

Same in France Servers are down. So I have the DRM message: 2d,23h.... :bomb: I suppose the problem will be fixed widely before the fatal date !

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Sorry but when I speak about tourism, it's with airplanes or helicopters having a realistic flight model. AFS2, alone in the sky without ATC and with unlimited fuel: not for me. I use P3D with some ORBX add-ons. Ok ,on the airports, it's more alive ( so this topic) with the famous ORBX characters but the regions are less elaborated than this one. Just compares ORBX trees and these ones. I absolutly prefer these ones.

Excuse me but I don't think that ED are sponsors. Even if the base of DCS is free with 2 planes, they havn't just made it for our pleasure. They have, as all people, family to feed and the basic DCS is just here to win money with paying modules. I don't blame them, it's quite normal. I have a point of angry with ED and they know which but it's not the subject on this post and I think that helicopters lovers could be more attracted by more effects and animations. I understand that F-15 or SU-27 inconditionnals pilots could not be interested. I pilot these planes too in DCS but not often for military fights. An other point: The mission editor is very powerful and I take a great pleasure too by building elaborated missions for myself. But often, I feel quite frustrated to not have other objects to include in them. For exemple, I've done a mission with an elaborated heliport on the shore of the nicest place of DCS 2.5 for me: On the shore of the lake situated at 39 Kilometers ( 22 nm) of Kutaisi, heading 64°. I'm quite frustrated to not have the possibility to put animated sailing ships or fishing small boats on the water of this lake, bathing people and umbrellas near a camping full of tents and caravans near the lake. Some rescue medical missions with Huey or MI-8 could be very interesting. It's just an exemple but it illustrates very well what I mean.

Because you think that all users are flying like you, in a Sabre at 30.000 ft ? Some of us are flying on low altitude and speed with helicopters. My wishs seem to be reasonable, not like birds in the trees. In fact I want dogs too but with the animated fleas in their fur too. Waterfalls are visible even from a plane cockpit and cable cars too. But other people available in the ME in infantry animated items would be welcome, like civilians people ( stewardess, generics civilian people) and airports moving equipments, sailing or motor ships for rivers and lakes. all these stuff allowing to give more natural life to DCS. DCS has so magnified the Caucasus that I'm surely not only the one having tourism as the main activity in DCS even if it's a military simulator. And even with a military simulator, you can do pacific missions. I can even going more far in my imagination and why not ? As the forest and woods of Caucasus are dense, why not having a fantastic bestiary in the ME editor, to make missions like bigfoot or werewolves hunting with helicopters? Please, don't laugh too loud, but don't forget that surely some of us are SF lovers.

No, for me, all is quite perfect.........in 2.2 I took care to not erase the 2.2, when I have installed the 2.5 bêta. But honestly, since the big graphic firework of the Caucasus in 2.5 b, it's very unusual when I want to fly above the sands of las Vegas.

That's why I can't add the lines in the dbcountries.lua for having the F-4 found on user files, in the US planes. And surely that's why our friend Upuaut needs more time to making the mod for this new version. He surely have to put all in saved games\.....

I've just done a mission with this mod just before the yesterday update and it doesn't works after the update. Each time we must wait that you could have time to update your fabulous mod. Effectively ED should recognize the quality of your work and integrate it in their update.

Since you are moderator, why not putting my post in the right thread ? You can do it I presume.

HI When you ask to an AI helicopter to land somewhere, it lands but keeps its engine running. How can I do to force it to cut the engine off ? I've tried to load it with minimum fuel needed to join the landing point, from its origin position and it cuts the engine off and I thought that I've found how, but after some minutes, it starts again, sometimes just to take-off and landing just after because the fuel reserve is near empty.

HI I've noticed too that some places on some lakes or rivers are a little bit tilted. For water skiing perhaps ? An exemple: On the Tkibuli reservoir, near Kutaisi, the water is tilted near the bridge on the south of Akhaisopeli and in a turn of the river between Tblissi and Dzergvi.

Hi I really enjoy 2.5 but some animations in 2.5 would be welcome: Waterfalls Cable car Chair lift Skier lift I think that after Olympic winter games in 2014, we could find many of cable cars and chair lift near Soschi.

To all Oculus Owners Hi Today, there is a big problem with Oculus. It doesn't run anymore. The problem is due to a out of date certificate of VR runtimes. It's not your Oculus or your computer. We must wait a fix and Oculus team ask us to be patient. But on their own forum, many people find that they had been patient enough, since 11 hours ago that the problem is appeared and I must confess that I become a little bit nervous against them too.

yesterday I've done a fabulous flight from Nalchik, through the Caucase, to rejoin Sukhumi with the Huey on low AGL altidude on a summer afternoon. I went thought the valley just at the foot of Mt Elrus ( Bylym, Tyrnyaouz, Elbrus, Baydaevo) After Terskoi I went to the south, passing a mountain pass then I followed the litlle river going towards the lower altitude. At the end, the river became a lake and in fact it was the Inguri lake with the only dam of DCS. After, I went to Sukhumi by following the mountains border, flying above Reshkhi, I was absolutly amazing. Before I've done many flights from Myneralvoldye to Batumi with the Mirage 2000, passing near Elbrus mount and Inguri lake but it's not at all the same thing. It's really two different worlds.

I've done the flight. I havn't noticed that mountains near Gudauta were so craggy. I've discovered a nice little lake too, near Kutaisi that I havn't noticed yet: Kibuli reservoir. Thanks. I've done it with a Su-27 but I had to refuel at Nalchik. As Nalchik hadn't refueling capacity, I had to go out the mission to translate my plane from Anapa to Nalckik and set the hour I've landed at Nalchik with the ME and took-off for the continuing of the mission.

I've already discovered the new looks of oil rigs near Sotchi, some days ago.

Thanks Downloaded and I'll try it later today.

There is a place in the world that I love in real, it's the Reunion Island. And often, mountain landscapes seen in DCS 2.5 ( in summer time of course ) are reminding me the landscapes of Reunion island ( except the palms of course).

Hi ! For being honest the Caucasus 2.5 is an amazing punch in our faces. And if flying above with planes is a real pleasure, flying with helicopters is absolutly fabulous to appreciate ED team's work. So for you what are the best places of this map for do some tourism ? For me, and for what I've seen for now, the most beautiful is the place where the player takes-off for the Huey mission made by ED: Elbrus rescue. For these who havn't bought the Huey, this mission starts near the Elbrus village in the valley and the landscape around here is absolutly fabulous.

We must be agree. These settings are available for VR only. In VR only, you needn't a good AA because you duplicate pixels with Oculus Tray tool or in game. I've disallowed the FXAA to be sure that the MFAA works. I think that it can't work if FXAA is detected. To be sure, you can enable the FXAA indicator by enabling the line "toggle FXAA indicator on or off". If you see a green square on your monitor ( top left) FXAA is running so MFAA can't run. Now, I'm not a professional. I've just done plenty of tries on the same flights and these settings are really working good for me. I make these tries above Batumi, then above Moutains behind Batumi and I end by the strip of Las Vegas. All with L-39 on low altitude. The worst FPS I get ( head turned to the right to see display moving from left to right with all hotels of the strip, and flying on low altitude over the strip from KLAS towards the stratosfear tower ) is 22 fps for the more critic situation for fps that we can meet on DCS. (Flying above the strip of Las Vegas with plenty of AI planes i've added taking-off from Nellis or heavy civilian planes moving and taking off from KLAS). In this situation, I think 22 fps is a good result. Now, above Batumi or mountains behind with high loaded forest, I have between 30 to 25 fps and all is very fluid and I havn't stutters. That's why I share my settings on the forum.

I'm absolutly totally satisfied with these settings in VR with pixels X 1.8 and ASW auto in Oculus Tray Tool:

Not only trees but all objects on airfields. It's weird to see Ilyuchins or Mi-8 on US coalition fields in Caucasus. The same for the generic company of heavy planes on the airport of Las-Vegas.