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@Reflected I am one if those who reported that I missed further instructions when reaching PIUTE. This report was in no way meant as critisism of the Campaign, but only a way seeking help on what I might have done wrong or what to expect. I don't now which situation actually will trigger the next instruction, and God thanks for that, cause that would be an immersion killer. I only flew this mission (Familisation mission 1) once and certainly will have to repeat this serveral times inorder to learn it indepth, so I only asked for help to get it right the next time. This Campaign is exactly what I have been looking for and so far I'm really pleased with what I have seen and learned - it is really immersive, educational and immersive at the same time - so kudos to Your work. But when I feel that I get stucked I also want to seek help from either You or the community without it bring taken down as critisism, cause it really isn't. I'm fully aware that You cannot safeguard the mission events for all deviations the player might make. So once again.... Thank You Reflected for this really great Campaign, giving us the oportunity to learn real life procedures. For what I have ween, this will definitly not be the last Campaign from You, that I will buy - lookimg forward to those available and those to come

@Reflected I did check out after doing those Eggs, and then was told to descend to 14.000 ft. I´m 90% sure that I reached CESAR, but maybe i missed PIUTE. With: "Those who don't hear anything at PIUTE, it's not a bug." do You mean that we shouldn´t expect to get further instructions, but has to execute the rest of the approach ti Indian Springs on our own ? - Just to know how to proceed, cause some backround knowledge about procedures must be known.

Do You unpin the FCR ? After selecting the FCR on one of the MFD's, You will get the Pie shaped FCR screen. Then presss the UTIL button ontop of the MFD. Unpin the Mastmounted Radar - pressing the right side MFD button (Cannot remember which of the right buttons). Press the left side button for Bypassing the Bit test (Cannot remeber the exact naming or the button). Unselect UTIL on the upper MFD button in order to return to the FCR "Pie" screen. Now select the FCR as Sight and do your sca (Single or contiously)

Yeah when returning from the exercise I got no instructions when reaching waypoint PIUTE. Last altitude I was aksed to maintain was 14.000 ft and wasked if I was aware of Indiana Springs noise abandment procedures. I also ended up running out of fuel right over the Airbase,(and thus altitude and speed), but I probably shouldn´t have done 3 x 360° substained turns and 3 Eggs in full burner. So a small tip - look after Your fuel gauge ! Otherwise is it a very great Campaign so far - very immersive - so THX

I use the Quest 3 with both the Oculus link app and the headset on V69 with no problems.

I really thought it would be available with the last update. Looking forward to it - really. Sometime I wonder about ED's priorities.

Maybe the fix would be to have the option in the special menu for the Ch-47F to select reduced textures. This way the nice high res textures can be used in pancake mode for those with beefy systems, and the lower res used by low-mid level, as well as VR users. All being taken care of - all happy.

Maybe because they use different flight procedures . I don´t know, maybe it´s just because we don´t have the pants in the seat feedback You would get in a real helicopter when flying in a desktop sim. I was developer on a UH-1D for FSX many years ago, and as expert advisor, we had this German colonel, who had flown UH-1D's and NH90's. It´s not a critisism of the DCS Helicopter flight models, just a note from me, that VRS might be a tad too common, than what You would see IRL. RL Helicopter pilots are welcome to chime in here, I have no trouble to accept when I am wrong.

I´m not saying that it doesn´t happen, I´m just saying that it is harder to get into, than what we experience in DCS. Especially the Mi-8 is very prone to got into VRS. The German colonel just told me that it isn´t something that happens very often, because it´s hard to get into using normal helicopter flight procedures.

If You delete You fx/metaschaders2 cache files, then the artifacts will appear. It will look right until then, but only until the next DCS patch where the shaders are deleted during the install.

I did so, but not without artifacts, like missing text for the parking brake and air vents handles, missing yellow stripes arounf the Fire extinguisher hndles and so on. I guess we need someone like Taz or Devrim to properly resize the textures, since my way (simply cutting the size down to half the size) doesn´t work very well. I cannot understand why developers make such choises. There isn´t really a need for such big texture sizes when the Simultaor engines isn´t better optimised as it is now. Why keep people on mid levels PC systems from having a good experience, just for being able to make some great static screenshots. I even consider my system to be above mid level, but still have issues - at least in VR.

With the massive Cockpit texture size, You GPU will run out of VRAM, especially in VR, and then it will start using system RAM, which are much slower, thus the bad FPS. Try to lower Textures to Medium, cause that will almost half Your VRAM usage with little graphics quality loss - in VR more or less unrecognizable.

Yes exactly these. For me they become Black. I will PM You.

I think that only the Mid hook works for now, so set the Hook selector to Mid and the Cargo Hook MSTR Switch to arm. Then open the Hook release Guard on the stick and press The Hook Release Button on the stick. Be sure to have lowered the Cargo down on the ground.

Thats exactly what I did, but f.ex the text for the Parking brake and vents is now black. I guess Your filesize became appr. 0.49GB or so.

It will clear the Master warning light, but not the WCA.

Setting Textures to Medium fixes it for me with very low impact on graphics fidelity, but having 4 or 8K textures in the cargo compartment is overkill and totally unnecessary. Look how gorgeously the F-4E looks and that with almost have the texture size and in two cockpits (WSO & Pilot)

Could You please tell me how You reduced the textures ? With my reduction methos, there are quite some artifacts. Solution for me until further is to set "Textures=Medium" (Not Terrain textures !!), seems to cut down VRAM usage quite alot with only minor Cockpit texture quality loss.

I have reduced the texture sizes for all the ,argest textures and bought the cimplete packed size down to 0.5GB and performance is now good. I have very few artifacts with these reduced textures, so I will try to be a bit more conservative by only reducing the cargo compartment textures and see what that brings. Stay tuned.....

Cockpit texture sizes are insane.

Unpacked the CH-47F Cockpit textures are 4.86 GB - thats quite insane. Even the Heatblur F-4E combined WSO and Pilot Cockpit textures does not surpas 2.9 GB.

For me the CH-47F runs like crap on my Quest 3. No problem with the F-4E 80 FPS (The chosen Oculus refresh rate). Also the AH-64D runs great. Maybe the Cockipt textures for the CH-47F are too large. The AH-64D Cockpit textures are 1.3 GB while the CH-47F are 3.5 GB !!

It isn´t the first time that a patch comes late in the afternoon central european time

VRS is mostly overdone in DCS - probably for gameplay reasons. I once talked with a German army UH-1D instructor, who told that You would not enter VRS without purpose, and it needs to be heavy and either in hot or high conditions.

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