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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.

Hi For now, we have 2 choices, metric or imperial but here in Europe, in the real life ( yes i'm piloting too in the real life ) we use feet for altitude, nautic miles for distance, knots for speed but hPa for atmospheric pressure and not mmHg or inchesHg. so and hybrid system would be welcome.

OK I've forgotten to tick the parameter inertial central set at launch of mission. Problem over !

Hi On M2000, the heading shown on HSI and on the top of the HUD is totally wrong. Is the 2.5 version added a ground set of this parameter ?

It was so evident. It's a better solution than trigger by trigger but I would think an action like " (des)activate all groups in the zone" But your solution is a good manner too

Hi I've found, I don't remember where, some missions with the Virpil Airfield equipment, putting plenty of different groups and objects on some Caucasus airfields. Could it be possible with the ME to activate or desactivate all these groups and objects just when the player is in (or out) a trigger zone, just with a few triggers number ? I know how to do, object by object with a long....long....long list of triggers but all together, I don't know how or even if it's possible. If you know how ?.....Thanks !

Hi I just care about that, a few minutes ago and I was just about to post a thread about that but I can see I'm not the only one and the problem is already reported. Just on NTTR in 2.5 OB. Not on 2.2. For now, I havn't noticed anything like that on Caucasus map 2.5 Thanks !

Hi With the fabulous version 2.5, I repeat what I would wish in DCS: -More parking slots on KLAS for heavy -Moving Police cars in mission editor -Moving civilian characters in mission editor -Paratroopers jumping from AI transport troopers planes As it was in some previous version of DCS: End of the fact that an AI plane rolling on the taxiway involves an interrupted approach for an AI plane in final approach. I know that 2.5 version is a beta version but too much mountains are "cut with chalk" yet on the Caucasus map. It's really better than before but you have many work yet about that.

So I've tested a few and you've really made a good work guys ! Congratulations ! It's very fluid even with high settings ( without MSAA but pixels X2 in VR) and it's a great step. The little bugs I've noticed : The F11 view needs some seconds to load on some airfields. You see the water and suddenly the good view is here. The mission editor is very long sometimes to load. In VR, smokes shot down the FPS ( not before) on very heavy missions. Don't forget to work for ending with the DRM and after, you will have the perfect simulator.

With 2.2 and wanting to keep the 2.2 version for now, 58 Go copied from my 2.2 and 15 Go to download. 17 % for now. I've read on the french forum that we must delete the file: options.lua but just in the "saved game\ DCS (for 2.5 ) I suppose. Not for the OA version or 1.5.8 version I think ?

HI I make a Huey mission and I need to ear a radio transmission on 119,9 with a sound .wav that I recorded with audacity. In the same mission, I use the condition "parameter cockpit equal to" and the parameter "UHF_FREQ" set to 255 Mhz and that's running perfectly. So I believed that for earing a radio transmission on 119,9, the condition "parameter cockpit equal to" and parameter "VHF_FREQ" was OK. But not at all ! the parameter "VHF_FREQ" is not good. So what's the good parameter to write to ear a transmission on the VHF tuner of the Huey ? Thanks !

End of problem ! Someone gave me the 0.8 version and I've removed the item causing problem in the mission. thanks !

Ok I'll try. It's a mission based on a mission found on the "users files " section but i've modified the voices and adapted to the new versions of DCS 2 No impossible to send, a text saying " a security token is missing" appears ! The mission size is > 11Mo and the max .miz file size is 9Mo

Hi I've took many time to make a mission using the old version of VPC airfield equipment ( version 1.2) on NTTR. I've updated with the Virpil files released this last Week-end and I've stupidly deleted the older versions from my archives and now, my mission doesn't run anymore, asking me the "main module". I have it but that doesn't run. I had the same problem in an other mission on 1.5 and I don't know how, and I don't remenber what I've made by hazard but this one runs again with the new mod but for the mission in 2.2: impossible to run or to load in the mission editor ! What can I do ?

Hi I havn't all understood : On which frequency can we hear VHF mission ? I've tried 125.7, but it's just North LV frequency and I don't hear missions on it. I've pressed F10 and selected F1 after.

Hi I keep an watchfull eye on this WIP and I'm think I'm not alone. I don't forget the announcement around Christmas day, saying that we'll have an unlimited offline mode if we have a connection crashdown.

Happy to see your turn back to better solutions. The flight simulation isn't "Call of Duty" and address less people than a blockbuster playable on video consoles by people from seven to ninety old. Just to say that people using the flight simulation are not a majority and the risk to see your work pirated is absolutly minimal. With the DRM, I feel like if I had thrown my money in a well. If, as you say, you allow a single mode like the offline steam mode, all is OK for me. Now, i stay careful until seeing in real the materialization of your decision. I will not miss to do the test, when it will be effective, by unplugging my internet cable. And I wish to ED team and all users, a merry Christmas.