silverdevil

welcome back my labels are always changing. likely because some missions i download have them forced disabled or forced enabled. not really sure. although i have not made changes to my system, there are some other options in DCS nowadays that are meant to improve the spotting. Options > Gameplay null

this is what real carriers do. if there is a 10 knot wind, that means the landing or take off speed is reduced. the carrier is also quite fast it can make more than 30 knots. so in this equation the take off speed is reduced by 40 knots. this is to maximize airflow across the deck. land aircraft will use the best runway to head into the wind too. many large airports have multi directional runways to allow this.

my system has that service enabled. i do however use the default windows ultimate power plan. the power plan has to be specially enabled. i do not have or ever had stutters. my system is an i9 11 series cpu and a 3090 gfx card.

hello i found a post with a reference to the "dcs render time exceeded allowed slice" error. the post also states an f14 livery may be the cause. your log 2025-11-20 16:13:43.154 ERROR EDCORE (11576): Drivers errors while mounting coremods/aircraft/f14/liveries/f-14a-135-gr-early/.gitkeep: 2025-11-20 16:13:43.154 ERROR EDCORE (11576): ZipDriver: Failed to open zip archive coremods/aircraft/f14/liveries/f-14a-135-gr-early/.gitkeep. 2025-11-20 16:13:43.154 ERROR EDCORE (11576): Drivers errors while mounting coremods/aircraft/f14/liveries/f-14a-95-gr/.gitkeep: 2025-11-20 16:13:43.154 ERROR EDCORE (11576): ZipDriver: Failed to open zip archive coremods/aircraft/f14/liveries/f-14a-95-gr/.gitkeep. also this post just a quick test for you would be to change out that livery. i can also try it on my system. when does the mission hang? do you ever get the mission start?

as @AndyJWest stated, this issue has been around for a long time. here is one topic from years ago that i jokingly posted in.

i have some limited flight background. i have never seen a UH-1 preflight checklist. but i would guess, just like AC i am familiar with, there has to be something making one check controls are centered or whatever. imagine if the throttle for any AC was full on and the engine starts. or even minimally. an enthusiast remote control vehicle. don't turn on power prior to centering controls. you piqued my interest and found this https://www.facebook.com/groups/61123668011/posts/10163451232143012/ 17. Test Cyclic then center 18. Test Collective then lower 19. Test anti-torque pedals then center (they spelled pedals "petals"; stupid AI)

@Reflected and @Slippa - do you have hotplug in options disabled? please share your DCS.log. these disconnects will be recorded in there. also i found that setting my windows power profile to ultimate will nip the sleepy devices in the bud. kind of like a dog and sheep

hello. i saw this question earlier in the thread and was not in a position to check. the profiles are found here. %appdata%\NaturalPoint\TrackIR 5\Profiles just paste this into file explorer or into run box.

hello. do you happen to have a lot of light in the room? sometimes too much light will affect trackIR. what does the the trackIR outside of DCS do? i found that i had to configure the curves too. this was very important. i cannot claim i have had any problems with trackIR once i got it straight. DCS updates had no relevance to trackIR.

my pdf explains how to go through and rename the old lua files to the new lua files. null

@F1Rocket666 one never has to reinstall DCS. a repair will always fix what is corrupted. i do not see where you renamed the DCS folder in Saved Games. you can try this. rename the folder to DCS.BAK. when you restart DCS a new clean folder will be created. you can either redo all your controls or copy them over from the BAK folder. also i made a PDF long time ago that explains the controls moving from another computer to a new one or another one. maybe this will help. https://pcwiseman.com/downloads_files/DCS_New_Computer.pdf

hello. can you share a track or the mission?

i see in the log a few lines that are likely connected to your issue 2025-11-10 21:24:25.084 ERROR ASYNCNET (Main): Failed to decode network.vault: either hardware ID or OS username are different. Saved login data will be reset. 2025-11-10 21:24:27.828 INFO ASYNCNET (360): Got auth data. 2025-11-10 21:24:28.147 INFO APP (Main): Successfully got Steam authorization data. 2025-11-10 21:25:35.732 INFO ASYNCNET (Main): login was cancelled. since you are on steam, you are authorizing the modules through steam. the dcs login is not being used. some people do the standalone DCS and connect / bind their accounts. on the flip side, i doubt performance would be affected. but DCS is definitely strange sometimes. i do see your computer specs are straddling the line of compatibility. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/stable/ minimum requirements at top of page. AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Quad-Core Processor 32GB RAM (increase your pagefile to 32GB) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (Video Card: Discrete NVIDIA/AMD with 6GB VRAM)

i do agree with you though that the lighting in DCS is whacked. it is only a suspicion, and probably irrelevant, but it seems like they forgot that germany does not have daylight savings time. there have been other anomalies over the years with weirdness in the lighting at sunup and sundown.