Digitalvole

How does the Chinook compare now to the Apache/Kiowa in VR? I’ve wanted to buy it since launch but the talk of a big hit in performance has put me off.

Ok chaps, it’s with egg on my face that I can confirm it was the headset itself not having been updated for a year that was the problem. It hadn’t connected to my Wi-Fi automatically for some reason, but it should have been one of the first things I checked. Sorry for wasting your time, I’m both a numpty and and a baffoon. In an unexpected plot twist I think I prefer quad views without the eye tracking for a couple of reasons that I shan’t bore you with. Thanks very much for taking the time to help this simpleton, I promise to try harder in future. I had. Thank you for taking the time to help me. Yeah I was mucking about with various things, including turning on OpenXR toolkit to see if it had any effect. As for the bin-mt folder, that must be the .exe extension from before it was only mt(?) (I can feel myself getting my out of my depth here.) Again, thank you for taking the time to help me. Now I’m off to bother the mission makers with my incompetence, I need to learn how to make a dynamic WW2 mission.

Feeling a bit stumped, I've tried the suggestions in this thread but to no avail. I also used the OpenXR layer manager but that seems pretty normal from what i can tell. The quad views log says "no data received from eye tracker" despite having eye tracking on in the oculus desktop app, phone app and the headset. I've re calibrated the eye tracking in the headset and that all works fine. Turbo mode seems to be ok now, its just the eye tracking that wont work. I've attached pics of the quad views log and OpenXR layer manager and what i think is my DCS log file. Its all very odd and I'm all out of ideas at this point, so any further help or suggestions would be very much appreciated. Edit: Just noticed my headset software needs updating, I'm still on v73 by the looks of it. Perhaps this is the problem.... dcs.log

Thank you both, I’ve got a couple of things to try from the other thread I found, but if that doesn’t work the above link will be most useful

Thanks for the help chaps, very much appreciated. I’ve made some progress, it seems there’s something afoot with quad views. I turned off turbo mode and hey presto! I can see! Problem is, Turbo mode really helps smooth things out and I kinda need it. Also the Eye tracking isn’t working. There’s something fishy going on with quad views, but at least now I have a starting point for further investigations. Any known issues with quad views that have cropped up over the last year? hmm, could this affect quad views? Thank you, but I’m not sure how to do that. I could of course Google it, but I seem to have narrowed down the culprit. Thanks Edit: I’ve found a thread from earlier in the year that may yield some results, fingers crossed.

That’s a jolly good idea, I hadn’t done that yet. It’s been a while and I’m clearly forgetting the basics!

Thanks, I’ll take a look when the kids are in bed

TLDR: Quest pro (quad views installed, using a link cable) has sound and tracking but no visuals (just spinning hour glass) when DCS loads in after updating DCS. I turned DCS on for the first time in over a year the other day (having finally got through the worst two years of my life, haha) and it all worked fine. So I updated DCS (and windows, the PC hadn’t been turned on since I last played DCS, and now I get sound, tracking (can see on the monitor that head tracking is working) but no visuals. I have quad views installed and OpenXR (though i noticed the eye tracking wasn’t working even before I updated DCS. Apologies if this seems lazy, but it’s been a while and I’m not sure where to start. I’m hoping there’s something obvious that I’m missing due to my absence from DCS for so long. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks. (Quest Pro (link cable), Quad views, OpenXR, 4090, 5900x 64gb Ram)

I came here to ask if the fps has improved, alas it seems not. I’d love to get the chinook and Afghan map, not yet I guess.

I thought so. The randomisation of time/weather would add a fair amount of dynamism to the most simple of mission, especially with the new fog. At the moment I’m adjusting the time in the mission editor, and that works fine. But hopefully We’ll get this, at face value it seems like a pretty obvious improvement. I need to look into this, . Live vid feed would be sick. Maybe one day? Hunting for targets with the mms and seeing how far you can get a APKWS rocket to go is a lot of fun. If only it were a little faster. I have a couple more questions if you don’t mind? Id like to use the OH 6 mod for CSAR, I think I’ve found the CSAR config in the triggers but I don’t know what to put in there so that it recognises the OH6 for troop pickup. Where is the best place to start in learning how to creat a dynamic mission like expansion? I recently find my self with the time and the will, but not the knowledge. I’d really like to make a dynamic WWII mission with persistence, and any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for this though, great fun.

Thank you, that did the trick. I’d done that for the file but not the directory, doh! Though I can’t spend my ill gotten gains in the Kiowa, if I hop over to the Huey the f10 option works again. Huzzah! Is it possible to randomise the time of day when the mission starts? Alternatively, if I change the .miz mission start time would it cause issues with triggers and/or persistence? Some night time ops would be fun. Ive only just got persistence working (thanks @MAXsenna) so only taken the two nearest power plant objectives, but so far it’s felt like things are going on. As a sp player it’s great to have a mission that feels alive, and it’s a good size for helicopters. Please allow me a further Huzzah! Getting persistence to work I’ve flown my little Kiowa around a relatively small area, only the nearest power plants, but quite a few times. It’s different every time, I’ve watched Mig 23s (I think) zooming around at low level shooting down Cobras right in front of me (I fled like the wind). I’ve been murdered by Jeffs on some attempts, and on others completely ignored. It’s great! Many thanks for this. A bigger one of this on Syria would be sick, but I’d love to see a dynamic mission like this for WW2. Is it possible?

Aha, thank you, sounds promising! Apart from the Spitfire, the Kiowa is pretty much all I fly now, I love it!

Has todays update helped at all?

First off, thank you for making this mission, it seems like just what me and my Kiowa were after. I’ve talked to my eldest daughter about changing her name to Cfrag, she doesn’t seem too keen I’m afraid. I’m trying to run this mission on a dedicated server on a spare laptop to help with performance (just me playing.) But Ive run into a couple of issues: I can’t get persistence to work, I’ve edited the mission scripting file (on the D/S install folder) but I can’t save it (it says I don’t have permission). Also I don’t get the option in the F10 menu to spend my funds when parked up at the airbase. (could these issues be related perhaps?) One other thing I’ve noticed, my Kiowa speed readings are inaccurate. It says I’m doing 8 knots when I’m parked up (after returning to base). Not a big issue, and perhaps nothing to do with this mission, I’ve just not seen that happen before. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

My copy of Low Level Hell arrived yesterday, so I’m off to the pub tonight to give that a good read. Then I’ll be downloading this first thing tomorrow morning, woop woop! I’ve become a bit obsessed with the helos in DCS recently, haven’t been in the spitfire or hornet in ages. I’m going through one of the worst periods of my life right now, and DCS + Helicopters is really helping me out, so thank you.