Snacko

Giving this another try today. The only problem that I am having is that at some point the window appears 'off-screen'. I have a 5120x1440 over a 1920x1080 monitor setup in a T shape. I think it is getting confused and using coordinates that are off to the left and right of the bottom screen. Right now it is off to the left. And when I click on the MM's taskbar button, it slide in from that bottom left towards the center of the top screen, but does not appear at all. Here is the Users config.xml. You can see that is far left at 0, but below my top monitor's vertical resolution of 1440. <?xml version="1.0"?> <Open_Mod_Manager_Main> <icon_size pixels="16" /> <legacy_support enable="1" /> <warn_overlaps enable="0" /> <warn_extra_inst enable="1" /> <warn_miss_dpnd enable="1" /> <warn_extra_unin enable="1" /> <quiet_batches enable="1" /> <window left="0" top="1597" right="774" bottom="1937" foot="170" /> <recent_list> <path>K:\Documents\+ My Game MODS\Farthest Frontier\Farthest Frontier.omc</path> <path>K:\Documents\+ My Game MODS\DCS OpenBeta.omc</path> </recent_list> <start_list enable="1"> <file>K:\Documents\+ My Game MODS\DCS OpenBeta.omc</file> </start_list> </Open_Mod_Manager_Main> Here is what it saved after I close it via the taskbar button when it was 'invisible'. <window left="0" top="0" right="505" bottom="340" foot="170" /> I opened it again, and moved it to about left="3700" top="300" on the top monitor. And this is what it saved after I closed it <window left="0" top="300" right="505" bottom="912" foot="170" /> BTW, what is that 'foot' attribute? Thanks!

Yes, I changed it to Ctrl+CapsLock, and that works fine, but it doesn't work in DCS. Strange how my Scroll Lock works in DCS. But this doesn't..

Thanks for the reply. But yes, I looked for any key command combination in DCS; General; UI Layer; and the aircraft's commands. I also selected the Keyboard column and pressed Ctrl+PrintScreen/SysRQ, which should jump me straight to the DCS command using that combo.. There is nothing assigned to that combo. And I do not have the FullScreen option selected in the Options. And I just did the Make HTML as you suggested, and that key combo is not used in any of the categories I listed above.

I've been having problems since the last update or around that time with taking Screenshots with an app that I use called ShareX. I noticed about a week or so ago that it had stopped taking Screenshots with Ctrl+PrintScreen (on my Logitech keyboard) in DCS. ShareX worked fine in other games, but no more in DCS. DCS DOES take a screenshot since it recognizes the PrintScreen key (SysRQ). But it should first look at the key 'combination'. If it sees a Key Combination pressed, and it doesn't match any game commands, it should pass it through to the OS, right? That's what it does with my TrackIR Center command. I have that assigned to Scroll Lock, and that key is not used in the game, so it passes it through/doesn't capture it and stop. I can reproduce this issue anytime I press Ctrl+PrintScreen. I first noticed this in the Hornet and was about to post this in that forum.. But upon testing other aircraft (MC2000; F14; A10c II), I realized it was not specific to an aircraft. A track/video wouldn't show anything except a momentary pause as DCS took it's screenshot. This appears to be an issue only with the Screenshot key command. ** I noticed that in the Hornet, the SysRQ key assignment is MISSING from it's Screenshot command. And it's disabled so we cannot assign it. HOWEVER, it does take a screenshot. Makes me wonder if work was done on this command recently? Thanks, Snacko Logs & dxdiag.7z

Thanks, I didn't know that affected the throttle too.. I have a WinWing Throttle/Startup panel that syncs, so I turned that Sync off because every time I jumped in the Hornet there was some physical switch in the wrong position and it drove me knuts!

Does this still work? I keep getting an error after selecting my savegames options.lua file. It's a Denied Access error, and then the app says "It looks like you did not select the correct file."

I have a simple mission on the Marianas map with just one FA18c Player starting in the air.. I only have WP 0 & 1. Both are set to 250kts. My throttle is pushed forward only about 30%. But when I spawn in the game's cockpit throttle is at about 80%. I have to move my throttle to get the game to adjust it in the cockpit. I think I understand that the game doesn't know where my throttle is, until I move it. Ok, that's fine. But why is the game's throttle at 80% when the first waypoint is only 250kts??? Seems to me that the sim should check the waypoint speed before it starts and adjust the throttle for that aircraft accordingly.

Just wondering if there are any updates on this? I have everything flashed and updated and setup but I see no improvement. I've seen on other games that they had an option within the game to enable Rebar. I don't remember which game. But maybe there is something in DCS that excludes ReBar?

Awesome!! Thanks Floyd, that did it!

I'm trying to customize my 6DOF and Zoom In/Out levels. I've copied the View Settings from the Apache's views.lua into my Server.lua in my Saved Games folder /Config/Views. I have several other aircraft that I've done this for, and that is all working. But this isn't. I think the Name/ID is wrong. Does anybody know what it is supposed to be? I've tried several variations, and searched through all of the .lua files but found nothing.

Thanks for the reply & info. I mentioned to him about that 60 days thing in his email last fall, and he said he was going to fix it. That is very confusing when you are new and sign up..

Is your signature 'shipping up to' date correct. I'm just checking back in on my order placed last fall, and I thought that's about where you were then. Thanks!

Stuck at 80% @ 0.8 MB/s...

Built-in to DCS on the Options panel is 'Depth of Field'. The two options are Bokeh and Normal (and Off). I did find one that worked for Reshade. It's in the qUINT pack and called qUINT_dof.fx. But I need a tutorial on how to separate the near from the far blur. I've tried: ADOF [qUNIT_dof.fx] Can't blur Far only. Docs say this focus is at a point; Far and Near will be out of focus. CinamaticDOF [CinamaticDOF.fx] - same as ADOF FocalDOF [FocalDOF.fx] - Too simple. Only 3 settings. I don't know of any other Shaders that do DOF.. Arggg..

I'm trying to find Reshade Shader for DOF, to make the distant mountains a bit blurry.. I don't see any good ones in the Reshade shader downloads. Unless it's included in some other FX? I know DCS has the two DoF options, but I find them too blurry to be realistic. So I'm thinking a Reshade DoF would have more settings to adjust to tweak it.

Only for the APU light to work, and your panel lights to sync with the Cockpit's Console lights knob in the FA-18 from what I've tested. In SimAppPro has a setting 'Sync DCS', which lets the cockpit knob adjust not only the game's cockpit light brightness, but also your device panel's brightness. You need SAP running for this to sync from my testing.. To set it up you go into SimAppPro and on the Devices tab click on your WinWing Panel device. Then, on the right side of the picture there are sliders and buttons to adjust the lights. You can 'Sync DCS' then the FA18 Console light knob will adjust your panel light. I'm also syncing my WW Throttle and startup panel. The slider seems to adjust how bright they should be if SimAppPro is 'not' running. But it didn't work right away for me. I had to reboot after setting it up.

Just a note for anyone with a Tobii Eye Tracker 5. When I uninstalled it, it left a Tobii folder in C:\ProgramData. You have to remove that manually. It wouldn't let me just delete it. But if I pressed Shift+Del it did permanently delete the folder. Worse, there was a leftover 'HeadTracker.dll' in the DCS\bin folder that kept putting a non-existant controller in the DCS Controls settings. Tobii told me that it was something that DCS gave for Tobii to install. From Tobii Support:

Hey, thanks. where did I post as a cadet? It must have been a while ago? For the lights to Sync, you do need to have SimAppPro running. You go into SimAppPro and on the Devices tab click on your Combat Panel. Then, on the right side of the picture there are sliders and buttons to adjust the lights. You can 'Sync DCS' then the FA18 Console light knob will adjust your panel light. I'm also syncing my WW Throttle and startup panel. The slider seems to adjust how bright they should be if SimAppPro is 'not' running. But it didn't work right away for me. I had to reboot after setting it up. For key binding do this. The CTR, LI, RI, LO, RO are for your pylons. You select which pylons you want to Jettison, then hit the jettison button. Center, Left Inside, Left Outside, ect.. That's in a YT tutorial and the manual.

FYI, I finally found it. There is a HeadTracker.dll in the DCS/bin folder. I'm not sure if DCS or Tobii put it there yet. DCS might have put it there in support of the Tobii device but didn't remove it for some reason. Or Tobii didn't uninstall it. IDK, but I'm waiting on an answer from Tobii..

Ok, that makes sense. If I flew the F14 I would have been bummed if it didn't have 3 positions. LoL.. Thanks!

Have you heard of this HeadTracker device before?

Tobii Support helped me remove their two leftover services. And I've rebooted, and this HeadTracker thing is still there. It's not listed in the Windows Game Controllers window. Although TrackIR is. The DCS Log file only says this about it. No more info to help me track it down. Could HeadTracker be part of my Reverb G2 VR? I just don't remember seeing this before..

Thanks, I could not find any Tobii anywhere until I looked in Services. There are two there. There is no Tobii in the Apps & Features. I'm submitting a ticket to them now to see what's up. Thanks for the reply.

Just getting back into DCS and have a new Combat Panel. What do we need the SimApp pro running for besides the APU light? (which I don't understand why? If it can turn off AA and AG lights when I click in the cockpit? It sends a signal without SAP running?) Also, maybe this is something new in DCS? What is the HeadTracker device? (I tried out the Tobii Eye Tracker 5 a few weeks ago, but sent it back.) Is this HeadTracker device something within DCS?? I don't see any devices with that name on my system. My TrackIR is working fine. But it's weird that this device is called HeadTracker and the TrackIR is controlling the Head Tracker game Axis??

Thanks. I did get the lighting for those buttons to sync finally. I had my VKB upper trigger lever set to Master Arm also, and I think that was causing the problem. I have it working now. The LST/NFLR switch ahs the same issue.. I feel tempted to buy the correct switches for this panel and fix it myself. I think that I assumed this was supposed to be an F/A-18 specific type panel. But I see on their website that it says nothing about the F/A-18. Maybe I'll just get used to it..