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Well, not so much like RL because in the past 3 or so wars A-10's have pretty much had free reign unopposed over the battlefield. No OPFOR fighters to worry about at all.

Checking it out. Had a chance to do some of the training last night. You can practice offline as much as you want then do your certifications online. The missions seem well done. I don't think you can blow through it too fast. The missions have airport charts and checklists that you can bring up in game. You don't need crappy gamespy to use the multiplayer component either they have their own client. The trainer aircraft I'm using is somewhere between FC3 and DCS level. Most stuff is clickable and has a working colimated HUD. They resemble some of the payware addons by their respective companies but have been altered to work with this (IE weapons) It's about a 16 GB download on top of FSX (that you already need to have installed). Haven't seen any issued or conflicts with addons either but I only have FSUIPC ,REX and some terrain installed. It looks like there's a lot to this but I'm reserving thumbs up or down until I can get past the newbie stuff into the meat of it. Of course this come the same day as TACPAK lol....

No. Maybe some day they will but with the limited info and comments from devs. I would expect a steep price for a p3D version. It's the only addon that has not worked for me with the FSXtoP3D tool so far. Pretty sure they intentionally did that but thats just speculation on my part. The other issue is that Boeing doesn't want info they give to developers to be used in a Lockheed Martin sim so therefore we will probably never see it. Same thing with PMDG stuff. Just don't mention it on either of there sites or you'll be skinned alive for asking...

He plays both sides of the fence. He reps DCS on other forums :P

Yep thats what I was talking about. Appears to be more about pilot training than actual combat. I doubt it could match DCS even remotely since it's based on FSX but it may be interesting for the Tomcat and carrier training ( which I suck at TBH ) Maybe the steep price and niche will keep the noobs out but too early to say how good it is. I did see pics of people dropping bombs but I'm more interested in the A2A.

Looks like release is in 5 days or so. Anyone going to drop $100.00 and get this? Still have yet to see any videos of actual A2A or A2G combat for this which worries me. Haven't seen any kind of preview on SimHQ either.... On the up side it looks like they will be using IRIS and RAZBAM aircraft ( maybe why the slow progress on the DCS side? so if it sucks you can still fly the planes in FSX.

I couldn't get it to work with Win8 either but that was beta a few months ago and there were no proper drivers. Did you try the beta drivers from naturalpoint and do you have run as admin checked in your shortcut for TIR?

Preload , cockpit shadows , tree shadows...maybe TSSAA? I think they also changed the water IIRC? Heck I don't even think they had the ground clutter/bushes implemented yet in 1.08 Turn it all off and then try testing again. Apples to Apples lots has been changed since then... People want more eye candy, then they give it to us then they complain when there is an FPS drop...

Just a word of advice , setting everything to low sometimes gives worse performance. Not sure why but I've seen it...

There are some default textures that look really bad. I made a mission with every skin lined up on the tarmac for the SU-33 and some were really bad. Most people just haven't taken notice because they are not often used skins. I haven't looked at the SU-27s yet though. Probably just WIP due to beta...

Not sure if this has been posted before but I finally got Air Display and Displaylink software working again. Since I upgraded to an Nvidia surround setup it was impossible to get either Displaylink software or Air Display working reliably....if I did manage to get the displays working it would only last until I rebooted.... Spent days tinkering with both ...neither would work. The solution I found was to disable Aero in Windows 7 (just go to appearance and select windows basic) Got air display working now and did a quick test with display link and it worked as well. Not sure if all 3 will work together but I will try soon.

What displaylink driver are you using? I hope not the one that come with it or the one from windows update. Lots of problems with older driver , suggest getting the latest drivers for that and also the TIR beta. I had similar problems as yours over a year ago with their older software. http://www.displaylink.com/ Driver download link at the top If you have TIR 4 hardware and TIR 5 software it glitches out like that sometimes. You have to go into windows task manager and kill the process then restart it. Sometimes there will be 3 or 4 instances of it , kill them all then restart. Go to the process tab and look for TrackIR5.exe*32 Another issue is with Nvidia graphics drivers not being cooperative with TIR AND displaylink. So should you update your graphics driver you should turn off trackIR and displaylink stuff to prevent problems. Same may be for ATI but haven't tested. This goes for configuring your displays too , do it with track IR turned off.

Just a guess but isn't server.lua included with missions? maybe the old one isn't compatible to DCSW and needs to be removed?

This is my first attempt at a skin, just uploaded and waiting approval in the users files section. Hope you guys like it. I know it's not perfect but I like it. This is what it is supposed to be: Any feedback welcome...

Bummer :/ On the upside I tried using DXT5 and it seems to be working ok. For some reason I can't get GIMP to export directly to this but if I first export to BMP, then open that copy I can export it to .dds fine.

This argument reminds me of hilarity ensued when the F-22 computers locked up, crashed and couldn't be restarted because they crossed the international dateline :P Anyways the F-22 is so 1990's , the new porkbarrel is the F-35. We shall see some real nice arguments once these klunkers start falling from the skys...

I can vouch for spending the extra for a 4GB card. 3 monitors at 1920 x 1080 maxes out a 2GB card unless you start turning stuff down. 2x2GB SLI is still only 2GB of usable memory so a 690 isn't worth it for DCS. Makes me wonder WTH Nvidia was even thinking with the 690, it should have had 6 or 8 GB....

Is there a way to add custom skins for FC3 aircraft like you can do for say the A-10 and P-51? Currently I just replace the first default skin in the appropriate zip file. It works but I would like to do it in a more user friendly way without moding game files that have to be reworked every time there is an update to the game.

Anyone have another picture of this aircraft? I'm working on a SU-33 paint job. The aircraft I was trying to make is Blue 59 I've only found one picture of this aircraft on the net, wondering if anyone else has any pics of this aircraft so I can get a look at the other side of her to finish the skin. Thanks

Mechwarrior Living Legends is way better. Aerospace, clan tech, elementals, tanks etc. Much more of a realistic battlefield scenario than MWO and sticks more to the MW pen and paper game. Anytime you mention any of those missing things over there it's like fighting words. That stuff will never get into MWO cause of all the crybabies and bad players who want to just have shootouts with their Atlas. The only tactic for that game is focus firing single targets with your team( unless you don't have a team , then your screwed) Waste of money and disappointing for me.

SU-33 Falls through the aircraft carrier onto the water Practicing landing the Su-33 onto the aircraft carrier and I fall through it. This is after the update as of today. Track waterlanding.trk

Same situation here. It mainly crashes when I use FC3 aircraft. If use Blackshark or A10 I don't get CTD or screen freezes very often. Single player I can fly for hours on everything....

Usually when you get that it's because you overflowed the keyboard buffer. Used to get that on my X-52 if i didn't do a macro right. Hotas profile is suspect.

Do a clear category then it will work.

Tried that too... guess Ill reinstall over the it again and maybe it will fix the uninstall issue.