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I like my solution to this; in the Saitek software I made the pinkie-slider work on bands, 0-10% zoom in, 90-100% zoom out, 10-90% nothing. So, the slider does nothing with no pinkie, but when I pull the pinkie in, then move the slider to either end, it zooms. Mapping the slider, or the rotaries, would be GREAT if DCS would ignore small variations in the zoom input, like <2% ?? it's too touchy.

If you're not having troubles with your current version, no reason to upgrade. There's one thing your version might not have had; the ability to map the right-shift (where previous version mapped "shift" and did not have a right/left potential). That's why I upgraded to the previous beta version. I'm hoping this will solve the problem where the editor would crash unless I click the save button between every modification. Resize the columns, crash. Use mouse-wheel to scroll up and down, crash. For at least some of us the prior beta version was not stable at all, so far this new one seems better.

several of my successful evasions have been where I am hovering at a good distance, I pull collective and gain altitude, and hit some flares (in that order since it takes a moment to start getting upward movement). I figured the flares are going down, I want to be away from them so I should go up. First time I was being lazy, didn't really think it would work, but I've gotten away with it consistently. No need to run and freak out... military equipment works well when used in a laid-back, relaxed fashion? i don't know...

Noticed an odd thing; was looking via F2 and how close the blades get on the one side... then I looked via F2 at my wingie, who's following meters behind me at the same speed et al, and the rotor disks are quite parallel. Is it that they are flying differently or that their airframe is not as accurately simulated? If they are flying differently, what's their trick?

things are looking pretty good for me, fps is consistently over 25, normally around 35, sometimes up in the 70's. 9500, driver 7.15.11.7813. Using nHancer, still playing with options but i've left most things pretty low and geared toward performance rather than pretty. DSC is quite the CPU focused animal, so it really shouldn't be a burden on your 9800. As for FSX, SP2 really helps if you have multi-core CPU, but the option to use DirectX 10 preview is known to be a bummer in various ways, turn that off and that might fix the clouds. But I'd add, 2 7600's in FSX might give you a better picture than a single 9800.

Dear PE Tigar ... with respect to your working with PC's for years, I must disagree and display my shock that you would encourage people to not use antivirus software... If you do not browse the web, never download anything, and never get email, and are not hooked up to a network where any of those things happen, then sure, you don't need antivirus. BUT the simple act of hitting a web site that tells you to install a codec is enough to get infected. You don't have to do something stupid to get infected. And there are so many types of virus; ones that steal your information, ones that use your computer to perform attacks, ones that try to destroy your system ... you might be infected and not even know it... and it's more about the world of virus ... if everyone had anti-virus programs that were regularly updated, then these massive infections we all see every few months would not happen. That is why anti-virus companies are glad to give free software to home users, so they can reduce the potential of infections spreading. In short, using a computer that is connected to the internet and not using anti-virus is pretty similar to having sex without a condom with whoever shows up in the truck-stop bathroom. Not only are you putting yourself at risk, but you are increasing the risk for the rest of us. I used to use AVG but now I have been using Avast! for the past few weeks and it seems effective, seems pretty fast and does not get in the way. Both have free versions for home users. And btw, I personally feel that Norton Anti-Virus (which is possibly what you have in your "centrally managed" system at your work) is more like a virus than an anti-virus. Norton is not symbolic of the rest of the anti-virus world.

great pointers all around. If you are still having trouble I recommend trying the "HUD Only" view (LAlt + F1). With that you can SEE the ground come up to you.

Hey guys... guessing you're new around here. The game was developed in Russian. The existing voice-overs were done by the good russian folk who helped to test and develop the game. There is a conversation somewhere else in this forum to have users develop the various voice-overs for the existing missions, but it would have to be a user-driven thing. The voice-overs are just audio files that get played, so it's not very hard...

if you say you shouldn't use the trim-reset, then you don't understand what trim does in a helo. a self-centering stick is nothing close to appropriate when representing how trim works. Trim-reset is completely necessary in that my stick (and yours too probably) will not give you any indication of where the trim has it, where you can SEE and FEEL where the stick is pointing in the condition of trim in a real helo. (yes yes, you can see it with ctrl-ent but you cannot feel it.) if you trim, trim, trim, trim, trim, then the stick is so far away from center that you have no idea where you are pointing (particularly if you have AP on). I trim and trim here and there, but when I want to stop and hover, I reset. boom, i am slowing down, coming to a nice hover and everything is peaceful (except for the battlefield)

not an authority here, but someone wrote in another thread that except for very slow speed, they don't use the rudder at all, just bank. Tried it out and turns are a lot better. Rudder is really to spin you around a point, much different than when used with coordinated turns in fixed wing. Far as I can tell, the only thing that's the same about fixed wing and roto is they both get you up in the air. after that, it's apples & oranges. The AP ... yea, the commander set your flight path and a good Russian soldier would follow the path exactly, right? Seems generally you are supposed to do what the AP tells you, unless you turn it off. I have all 4 AP buttons programmed to my HOTAS, when I am turning I turn off heading AP, when I'm pointed where I want to be, turn it back on...

I have seen a small number of instances where Shkval lock persisted on a killed target. I bet the game is modeling that contrast thing pretty well. If a plume of smoke appears between you and the target, you loose lock. if your nice square box-like target turns into a mound of rubble, you loose lock. In the few times that I have seen lock held, the target was just dead, not beaten.

These friends of yours with better FPS, are they running XP or Vista?

Are you using the Saitek software to program your rudder or doing it via the in-game options? If you're using in-game, are you using the axis controls or the other controls?

I am interested in Win7 because, from what I read, Microsoft has finally figured out that the operating system is supposed to be just that, the OS, and not everything to everyone. Reviews are saying that it runs faster in just about every area of testing. So, I'm guessing that the benefits one gets in Vista (for multi-core) will be the same or better with Win7. And if it's going to be released mid-2009, i'd rather just get Win7 over buying Vista (which I have avoided up to now for various small reasons) and then upgrading to the "better" Win7 later this year. Specs... dunno, MS says their intention with Win7 is that anything that would run Vista can also do Win7... I mean, my box isn't very slow, I think I just need a better operating system to ease some of the problems?

I'm not clear on the legality of the beta release of Win7, and i am NOT asking anyone to break any law. Far as I can tell, MS released it with some sort of timed license so eventually you'd have to purchase the full release, but in that idea, I don't know that the license for the beta of Win7 has any restrictions about relaying it to other people... I'd figure if I was in charge of the beta test that I'd want it in as many computers as possible, both for good testing and also for ensuring that all those computers would eventually have to purchase the full release. As for "how would you run Windows 7 on your box?" um ... i'd install it? My gaming computer is just that, fun and games and I don't really care if I blow it up temporarially...

Hello all, My system is a P4 3GHz (which seems to have 2 cores, but somewhere I got the impression it was divided into "virtual cores"), 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (old AGP style), and I'm running Win XP Pro SP3. I've got DCS with all of the graphic settings at the lowest (and oh my, I am jealous of the screen shots I see everyone posting!) and I get OK FPS. Flying over the big air base it drops to single-digits, and over open/empty spaces i've seen 40 but normally it's around 25. So, when I get into battle every once in a while things just stop for a flash (normally followed immediately by an missle explosion filling my veiw). So, I've got two questions for the community; 1) I think I am maxing the CPU and not even bothering the GPU. What graphic settings in the program are CPU or GPU related? What can I turn up without increasing the CPU load? ex, I expect distance and detail are CPU, water, heat shimmer are GPU ... ?? 2) I understand that the program affinity doesn't help much with XP. I guess I'll believe you all, that XP doesn't give much bonus with this setting, but without it one of my cores is maxed out. Anyway, from what I read about Windows 7, it is going to run circles around Vista. I'd kiss a pig if it could give me a beta build of Win7 but it seems patience and luck are the only things that can really make that possible. So, anyone able to post a clean copy of the Win7 ISO? Anyone here using Win7 with DCS???

Ease up Rhino, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game)

reinstalling manufacturer's drivers was the fix, full screen works fine now.

Exactly what I needed. Thnx. I'll post if I find a clear solution.

if I change my screen resolution to the maximum that my monitor will support, or if I turn on the option for "full screen", when I click OK, the program closes (like it is supposed to) and then never reopens. I get a windows error instead, illegal operation of some sort. Everything works fine when the resolution is at least 1 step smaller than my full monitor... After the problem has started the only way I can get the program to work again is to completely reinstall it. I am running a P4 3 GHz dual core, 2BM ram Win XP SP3 GeForce 7600 GS (ABP 8x) 256 MB i have two questions; 1) is the a file or folder that I can backup, and then if I have this same problem I can just restore that folder instead of having to reinstall the whole program again? 2) any clue what is happening?