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I'll do but I don't know whether mission installed with the map come from ED or Heatblur. Who is responsible for the creation? Certanly putting that missing as first mission for F14 when you try/buy Afghanistan map is bad advertising for the moduel, in my opinion.

I definitely agree with you guys. I have been playing with some Moose .lua scripts to flood Kobuleti and Kandahar with some 100 planes and helicopters using Moose's RAT and RATMANAGER (BTW: Moose is a fantastic library) Actually the 2 maps (Caucasus and Afghanistan) behave in a similar way (and without going below 48fps so far, if I use Moose to put the airport to life). As I suspected the culprit is surely not the terrain but that specific F-14 Instant Action mission: F-14B-Cold Start Afghanistan. I know that 7680x1080 are a lot of pixels to render but using the additional 4th monitor above the central one of the triple screens offers a fantastic perspective when flying and doghfighting. I wouldn't be able to use a single monitor any more and even pure triple screen it's too narrow to enjoy a wide view even with TrackIR Better reduce the number of objects at the airport. If I were looking for fully operational airports, I would be better off looking at XPlane or MsFlightSIm. That IA mission is a pure school exercise to stress the system. Many thanks

Thanks. Are u using VR or 2D 1080 or what? What is you resolution? In the meantime I'm playing with some Moose .lua scripts to flood Kobuleti and Kandahar with some 100 planes and helicopters. Actually the 2 maps behave in a similar way. As I suspected the culprit is probably not the terrain but that specific F-14 Instant Action mission: F-14B-Cold Start Afghanistan

I respect your opinion but it would be nice if you can produce your rig specs, nVidia an DCS settings and mission details or track. I doubt that you can get 70 fps on that specific F14 Instant Action mission when parked at Kandahar. I'm going to uninstall it for now unless someone from ED can explain why I can get 90 fps as soon as airborne and get a low 27 fps on the ground than, IMHO, breaks immersion. Also is strange that i lose 10/15 fps if i turn my head at 3 or 9 o'clock on the parking slot. Dont' know... I'm not convinced. It's a terrain map but, unless I set terrain texture to LOW (which is a nonsense for a new map that I would expect be able to exploit new technologies and run better than maps that exist since a decade) is saturates 23GB RAM in my RTX4090. In any case, after reducing static objects and setting LOW terrain texture, I was able to taxi. Usual problem with ATC (but I've made a reason by now). I wait my wingman to allign at my "side" (lets say so). Full afterburner (forced to do so because Wingman rolls on the tarmac with FULL AB which he shouldn't 'cause F14 doesn't require to do so). I'll get back to what I was satisfactory doing before trying AF map and wait and see if there will be a trial period for Iraq. Cheers

I know. I've already a very optimized settings that guarantees optimal and stable performance in all situations even in the most complex missions of many campaigns. It's only that Cold and Dark F14 instant action mission at Kandahar airport that, according to me, deviates from the normal (513 static objects populate the airport!) Have you ever tried that, by chance? I'll take some time to install Moose an create a lua script to automatically saturate some other airports in Caucasus and check if the behave the same. Thanks a lot. Ciao

Ah, you are right! I didn't realize that. Thanks

Thanks for the suggestion. I've done it but it doesn't help so much. The only way has been to edit the mission and reduce those insane number of static objects. Now I'll take the time to activate Moose and write a lua script to put under stress many other airports in Caucasus by filling all ramps and parking slots so to check if the problem is exacerbated by Afghanistan map or is common to all maps. Ciao

Thanks, I appreciate your answer. Please let me make a puntalization because, maybe, what I wrote could be misunderstood! EA is a good thing. IMHO it is so especially for complex aircrafts and helos: it takes months to be proficient in mastering them and being able to start making practice in EA while you can complete the module can be very satisfactory. Also not having some advanced functionality at the beginning doesn't break immersion at all. I bought many EA aircrafts and I've always been very happy doing that also because you made a great job in the following months (thanks ED for you passion !) As to terrains and their impact on the FPS I'm a little skeptic though. I don't like very much having to tweak DCS settings depending on the mission. I would rather have a decent consistent configuration that can cope with all missions. Also, having maps that offers 27 fps at parking ramp, 35 when approaching runway for landing and 75 or even more when flying at 2.000/3.000 feet is not satisfactory. It breaks immersion a lot. I'd like that you could tackle fps performance at the new maps/airports with the greatest priority. Finally, when I said that "EA allows ED to increase revenues and available funds I meant to say that it is beneficial to all of us because I would like you to have plenty of money to finance the projects. In conclusion, tanks a lot ED for your great products, work and dedication. And long life to Eagle Dynamics.

You are right. In fact I never buy unfinished without testing before. I love all my modules (and I have about 70% of released products). It is difficult to judge the commercial policy of continuously releasing new Early Access products: on the one hand it allows ED to increase revenues and available funds but on the other it risks delaying the completion of the products already released. For now, overall, it has gone well. Let's hope for the future. For the moment I am slowing down the purchases also because before I become really good at managing A10, F14, F16, F18, Huey, Gazelle, AH-64D, Sabre and all the WWII birds I think years will pass.

Thanks for sharing your opinion. However I don't think that upgrading would fix and surely I'm not going to spend 1.500 euros every two year just to cope with new maps. In your case the upgrading from 4790k to 14900KS was worthing; 4790k was released 10 years ago and the gain in performance is about 70%. 5800X3D has been released in 2022 and I9-14900ks offers only +27% gaining. Also I can get steady 75 fps in any other complex missions (sometimes getting steady 100 fps) If you open that particular mission in ME will find out that there more than 500 static objects at the airport, which is insane. And after a minute or so from take-off I can reach steady 75 fps. Many thanks for your answer that I much appreciated Ciao

When flying high i don't have any issue. There are big issues when parked at Kandahar airport in some instant mission. For me it's not a trustable terrain so far. I downloaded the trial version but I'm not going to buying it. It's unfinished, with a few custom missions available and no campaigns. I've bought plenty of DCS modules. Most of them are very very good and a real fun to fly but from now on I will only buy completed and deeply tested modules. With so many Early Access modules I'm afraid that it will take decades to have the finished in time for me to run them. I'm 65 this year

I've also taken some time to provide some additional techical info. My DCS settings are the following (as per image attached): I launched F-14 Instant Action mission: F-14B-Cold Start Afghanistan Without doing anything in the cockpit I took 4 snapshots as follows: 1) in cockpit view (F1) locking at my 3 o'clock (see attach image DCS 2025-03-05 00-16-06): fps is 39 fps2) in cockpit view (F1) locking at my 9 o'clock (see attach image DCS 2025-03-05 00-17-48): fps is 27 fps Then I tried same view angle from outside cockpit (using F4): 1) locking at my 3 o'clock (see attach image DCS 2025-03-05 00-15-22): fps is 57 fps 2) locking at my 9 o'clock (see attach image DCS 2025-03-05 00-18-43 fps is 32 fps

have downloaded the trial version of Afghanistan and can confirm that I can easily get 75 and more fps after taking off. The fps drops to 27 when parked at Kandahar in F-14 Instant Action Cold and Dark (IMHO there are too many objects in that mission parked at Kandahar). My config is: Ryzen 7 5800X3D, MSI RTX 4090 24gb, 64GB DRAM, 2 x 1TB SSD, 5 Monitors 1920x1080p, Win11-Home The resolution is 7680x1080 to cope with my monitor setup (see image) where: 2 is the monitor dedicated to the left view 4 is for the center view 3 is for the right view 5 is for the view at the sky above the HUD at center view (very useful for dogfighting and for general immersion since I don't want to use VR) and monitor n. 1 is dedicated to Helios. Never got 27 fps in any other map/airport so far. It breaks immersion at all. i also have the 3 mini-monitors from WinWing for the MIP in F18 that would require to increase gloabal resolution but I've not tried them yet. I guess that the 27fps will decrease to a lower value. I'm not sure I'll buy Afghanistan for now. There's plenty to do and to learn elsewhere where things run definetly smooter.

Penecruz and the team at Discord have made available it at https://github.com/Penecruz/VAICOMPRO-Community Fantastic job as usual! Penecruz also wrote: Probably a typo!? I'm sure that none of us can even imagine flying DCS without VAICOMPRO! Note: this time it was very challenging for the team to update the program due to various changes implemented by ED in the new DCS release. I would like and appreciate ED to commit in the future to contributing to the maintenance of this little gem by helping the team with maximum transparency and cooperation.

Hi, could you elaborate you post a little further. I don't exactly understand what you mean and I'd be interested on this matter. Many thanks in advance. P.S.: apart from using reShade I've never been able to reach the parity in any aircraft (especially at night)

Great work. When they will be ready for sales? And what price?

Are you already using or did you ever try this DCS AH-64D Apache Voice Attack by Bailey? https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321355/

I think it is important to broaden the DCS user base by trying to attract pilots from Flight Simulator. This would certainly help to increase the company's cash flow and allow investments to cover the missing parts ( in particular: ATC, new scenarios, new airports). Do you think it is possible to enter into agreements with third parties to introduce the possibility of flying AWACS, aerial refueling aircraft, commercial aircraft flying routes in dangerous areas or training areas (thinking about Nellis and the near Las Vegas airport)? Over time the new arrivals may become interested in military flying too.

Thanks a lot. That fixes the issue. Currently the problem is due to VaicomPro that doesn't recognize many SC commands. If I press Shift-U, instead of using VaicomPro, it works properly. BTW: thanks for your great campaigns.

I made another attempt this evening. This time I arrived earlier (at 07:05) in the proximity of the carrier (I had to rush though ). Then I finished refuelling al 7:12 (it's difficult for me to be any faster ). I had the time to command a "2, go to tanker". This time my wingman copied and approached to basket. As soon as he touched the basket with the probe he immediately disconnected and rejoined. It was 07:15 at that time. Maybe the mission has a time frame within to complete the refuelling of both memers of the flight?

I'm using VaicomPro and proceed as demontrated in the YouTube video: I arrive in the poximity of the tanker at 07:17 (a little late). 1) I approach Texaco and press the spacebar to start the voiceovers with the dialogues between me and the tanker 2) Then I invoke "Approaching for refuel" in VaicomPro using the proper Radio button (for Tthe AN/ARC 182 V/UHF 2 Radio which has been properly set by RIO on channel 3) 3) I receive the answer from Texaco and then I invoke "Ready precontact" and receive "Clear Contact" from Texaco. 4) I refuel my F14 and then I move to the right to leave space to my wingman. 5) I invoke VaicomPro "2, Go to the Tanker" and he answers "Two, Affirm". I would expect him to catch the basket and get gas. Instead he doesn't do that and after a few seconds he says : "Two, rejoining" There is no way to have wingman perform air refuelling before pressing Spacebare to move on and contact Magic 1-1. What am I doing wrong? Many thanks

Hi, I installed DCS Update 2.9.10.3948 (December 4) and when I fly Mission 1 or 3 (probably also in subsequent missions) Takeoff check list doesn't start when I start rolling. In previous versione it did, instead. Is it me or something related to the newly introduced flight directors in the recent update?

Could you elaborate the answer a little further, please? I'm using VAICOM Prom and I don't understand how to contact ARCO and also have my wingman refuel on his turn. Many thanks in advance.

It's a matter of tactile sensitivity, especially when moving levers. The movement of the lever is also less shakY and the noise is way much better. Not just a question of solidity against potential damage. For knobs and other components is not so ncessary.

Not a question of functionality (apart from the two levers - tail hook and wings - that are too close togheter). The problem, IMO, is the overall quality which is certanly not the same as the previous PTO and the CRP which are really twp excellent metal panels. I would have bought PTO2 if wasn't for quality (even if it duplicates some functionalities of CRP, which is not an ideal choice). It seems too plastic to look at and use...