SmukY

A-10C is not steamworks, it's just available from Steam for purchasing, downloading and playing. And that's all. It still has it's own dedicated/hosted servers, same as a Steam version of DCS: Black Shark.

I have one proposition for ED - Because the name on Steam of Warthog is now a fully named Digital Combat Simulator: A-10C Warthog, can you somehow rename the Black Shark on steam from DCS: Black Shark to Digital Combat Simulator: Black Shark, too? Perhaps with next DCS: A-10C compatibility patch or something alike. Yeah, I'm little of a perfectionist and it somehow bothers me that the DCS games are not together in Steam.

Hmm, yeah, it's very possible that's my PSU is a main cause of those reboots. When I was buying this rig 4 years ago, I bought one cheap LC Power PSU for 90 or 100€ too and it provides 550w for my rig. I'll have to borrow the other PSU from any friends, the problem is just that I don't believe if anyone of my friends actually invested more than 150€ in their PSU. :)

Well it does looks that the main cause of those reboots which occures only in the Black Shark remains unknown. Did ran a memtest, both rthdrbl and furmark tests, no errors/glitches or smth found. oritpro, I was playing with overclocking but that was some time ago, so I'm running default frequency of CPU like 1 year or so. Maybe it's just that my rig is becoming too old and can't run the game in the way I want. If I get a chance I will try the Black Shark on other video card, and about sound - I've disabled it and yet the rig still crashes. Well, thanks for you both for your effort. Maybe the formatting at one time will solve the problems, but this will not be that soon, because I don't have the time and mood for going all over this shit with installations of everything I need. Anyway, again thanks for your help and patience ...

64-bit. Maybe is that impossible, but that's what happened... it does look that the un-checking box for automatic restart actually fixed my Black Shark game. I've managed to complete the mission in which my rig rebooted like 3 times after half hour playing, as I described before. It took like one and half hours to complete and I didn't experienced any problems. EDIT: Well oritpro ... you were right. This didn't helped that much, because rig got rebooted again while playing BS. And also no .crash, error files were created, the minidump map is still empty, I can't find any memory.dmp file in windows map. Even with un-checked automatic restart option, the machine still just rebooted without showing any informations. Only blackscreen, BIOS load up and then it ask me how if I want normal start-up of windows or safe mode and etc. I will run the WinDBG ...

Nope, the minidump map is empty. But i'll uncheck this auto restart after system failure and i'll take a photo if it will display any informations. Thanks. I'll report ASAP. EDIT: Strange ... Until I unchecked this automatic restart I didn't experienced any reboots! I even managed to complete the Courier mission. I'll do this campaign mission where I spotted those reboots for first time again and I'll see if there will be same too. Otherwise, you'll be first to know.

Well I did the stress test with BurnIn Test 6.0. I've keep it running for two hours and no errors were found. And it was testing the CPU, 2D, 3D and all that other stuff simultaneously. I have to mention that there were 2 games which rebooted the computer: The Sims: Medieval and Crysis 2. But they kept rebooting only right after intro videos, not while playing. But that was like only 2 times, and after these reboots they were running normal, I've even completed the Crysis. No hear no see of any reboots ... until playing Black Shark once again after completing the Crysis 2. Dunno. :noexpression: EDIT1: I'll check the link you posted. EDIT2: Nope, nothing useful there. But thanks anyway ... I hope someone has any ideas about this or I'll just uninstall the game and won't run it again until I get the better rig ... like in 10 years.

... after some time in different missions and random times. First time was while I was flying towards Georgian border with 3 wingmen for first time (one of the missions in first BS campaign), and after half hour flying my computer just rebooted by itself. I thought it was overheating, so I've cleared it of dust and relaunched the mission. It rebooted again. Then I start the Courier mission - reboots after five minutes! I've thought that was a problem in mission or mods or something alike, so removed all 5 mods which I use from modman and I've put only my Ka-50 on a clean map. After take off I was flying around for 10 minutes. Well, same story happened. At least now I can only confirm that the problem doesn't exists in missions. Why are these reboots happening, I don't have any ideas. My computer spec is: C2D E6600 @2.40ghz GeForce 9800GT 1GB 4GB RAM 550w power supply The other problem is that when the rig reboots, the game doesn't creates any .crash files in Temp folder. Ever. I've checked Event Viewer and found this: Critical 13.4.2011 1:41:08 Kernel-Power 41 (63) ------------------------------------------------------------ The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. ------------------------------------------------------------ - System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power [ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4} EventID 41 Version 2 Level 1 Task 63 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x8000000000000002 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2011-04-12T23:41:08.345215600Z EventRecordID 99303 Correlation - Execution [ ProcessID] 4 [ ThreadID] 8 Channel System Computer SmukY-PC - Security [ UserID] S-1-5-18 - EventData BugcheckCode 0 BugcheckParameter1 0x0 BugcheckParameter2 0x0 BugcheckParameter3 0x0 BugcheckParameter4 0x0 SleepInProgress false PowerButtonTimestamp 0 I have the Steam version, and I'm using the Saitek X52 joystick, Simped rudder pedals and TrackIR 4: PRO. Hope any of that informations will help you to find the cause of my problems. :( If you have any questions just shoot 'em! DxDiag.txt Error.txt errors.txt

Any news about Steam release?

At controls setup page, open the Category tab and choose the Axis input or something on the top (i think it's labelled with red color). Hope this helps. :)

Half year ago I've bought Simped Rudder pedals, because the potentiometer of my X52 rudder/twist died. They weren't cheap, but they helluva improved my Ka-50 flying performance. And as a same for TrackIR I'm wondering how I managed to survive without them. if anyone wants more information about simped pedals: http://www.dhs-electronic.de/index2.php?id=100&lng=en Their speciality is that they're fitted with HALL sensors instead of potentiometres. HALL sensors are ensuring that the pedals will stay accurate for many years.

When can we expect the DCS: Warthog compatibility patch for DCS: Black Shark?

Well I didn't knew the .exe files on DCS main page were tutorials which you only install them in the Black Shark's directory. Some of the links were broken, but I managed to download all of them from different locations, installed them and now I have my training videos in the game. I overreacted a bit and I'm sorry if I did upset someone with my post.

Why was the removing training tracks from 1.0.2 good for? I can't find any (good) reason for it. I'm deaf and I can't understand any word from the movies on website and the reason why i prefer the training tracks is because they were subtitled. So now I don't know from where I can learn how to use ABRIS, datalink and else other. PS: I supported ED too much. Let's get start with it: - I bought the cheap version from the Russia - because it was out a long time before in Europe and I was too eager. - When it was released in Europe, I bought it too. The training tracks were still in game. - Yesterday I bought the Steam version because it doesn't have Starforce ... yes, just because of that. But it doesn't have any training tracks, just only (and no offence) stupid 'Download' link which leads to DCS mainpage with tutorial videos. I bought the game for 40€ and I think I'm fully legitimated to demand the Training tracks back in next patch!

nevermind

I'll be happy for any possible solution ...

Problem solved a long time ago and this topic can be deleted.