Greetings!
First of all I apologize if I post this on the wrong thread, since I’m myself in doubt, which is the right one.
Anyway, long story short – quite a few years ago, when IL-2 was “the thing”, I started “flying” online and spent a lot of wonderful years within the community. Sadly, as things do happen, life got in the way and I had to leave.
But a couple of months ago I started feeling the return of that strange itch that can only be scratched away by going online and bombing something :pilotfly:
Since I have time once again, took some advice and decided to try out DCS. I downloaded 2.5 and installed everything, fiddled a bit with the settings. In the end I have to say DCS is an extremely formidable sim! But a few questions arose along the way:
My computer basically fulfills the minimum system requirements (like I said – it’s been a while) and everything seems to run ok-ish, mind the horrendous loading times. This of course prevents me from joining multiplayer. I’ve read that I’m not the only one with such a problem, but since 2.5 is still in beta are there any improvements to be expected or should I start piling up the cash for a new PC?
I have also noticed something strange about the loading times – yesterday for some reason the DCS Launcher couldn’t get online, so I couldn’t log in and DCS started in “offline” mode. To my total amazement loading times went down dramatically – missions, interface, basically everything. It’s probably something known, but could there be a conflict with something else on my computer?
And one last question – I see that there is an “observer mode” in multiplayer but I found conflicting information about it. Is using it allowed, or is it unwanted behavior?
