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The latest official 2.6.12.52 version of the updater also hangs at the end. The latest official 2.6.12.52 version of the updater also hangs at the end. Here's the log (attached), before/after I killed it (it hasn't changed when killed). autoupdate_log.zip

I will attempt to reproduce it and provide the log.

I have the exact issue ever since I installed 1.5.x. All 1.5.x versions of the updater get stuck on shutting down torrents after the download is complete - I simply kill them from the Task Manager and the game seems to work ok. For those who have a problem restarting the update: Remove all content of the %TEMP%\DCS* folders, and restart the DCS World, e.g.: Open the Command Prompt with "Run as Administrator" option and type in: rmdir /S /Q %TEMP%\DCS rmdir /S /Q %TEMP%\DCS.openbeta

Re-downloaded *23 and now it activated. Thanks. What I meant by saying "Legitimate ...." is that this should never have happened in the first place for those who pay. Testing, testing and more testing, should have been done, before release. The amount of activation issues reported is way too high. Regards.

I'm having this issue now. Just installed DCS World today (downloaded yesterday), and can't activate it with error message: "The system requires the correct Serial Number of the application to perform this operation. The Serial Number entered is wrong or mistyped. Enter a valid Serial Number and try again.". Yet again, legitimate customers are being punished for wasting their money. Yesterday, before I decided to update to DCS World, I had all of them working, A10C, BS2, FC2. Now can't get BS2 to run.

Well, "we hope to be able to" means virtually nothing, as if it wasn't there for me. As to the BS, yes I think it was abandoned, as it needs a solid patch to fix outstanding issues. Crashes when playing tracks, training missions unavailable (yes there's a quick fix but it's not a proper fix from ED), memory leaks, gfx corruptions, and more. There's no indication that ED is working on a patch for BS, so as long as it's not patched, it's abandoned to me. I just bought A-10 anyway though. Got disappointed with menu still not being part of the game. Everything else looks good for now though.

Thanks for reply. Is there any official thread that would confirm this? I'd gladly pay for A-10, because I like it, but I like BS more, and any upgrade to it, especially mission generator, etc. would be most welcome.

Hi, I was thinking about buying it for me a my friend, but I'm not sure. Considering the fact how BS was abandoned, I'm not sure whether I should wait maybe another year before doing that. Any thoughts ?

I'm actually hoping for Mission Generator and maybe even Commander Mode as in A-10. Mission Generator (in place of Dynamic Campaign) is something that was sort of promised by ED long time ago.

Hope you're not trying to play both games with TrackIR at the same time ? It's a no no, you know!

I'd suggest a good bank to get a mortgage. :D

You can also select JOY_Z axis, which correspondents to collective IIRC.

I just played that mission, (Deployment campaign - 3rd mission) and it happend to me exactly in the same way. We were coming back to back, on the final leg to landing, when he suddenly stopped, started to repeat Two: Rejoin over and over again. I landed fine, though I couldn't get any response from Tower after my initial "Inbound" request. Then Wingman crashed.

Mac is not for games, even Applosoft don't care at all. I hope no one is gonna waste time for this, especially that it would require a considerable time from Dev team, to write it up in Obective-C - which by the way is a big piece of crap. Mac is for Posh. Posh don't have time for stuff we Windoze/Linux users got used tom and Posh don't play games. :pilotfly:

Guys, next version will have support for core per task splitting and delayed set, all configurable from the same config file. So one will be able to run additional apps when dcs.exe is starting up, assigning with some delay same/different core to it at the same time. All that in the same library though not launched under dcs.exe process. Cheers Btw. it's perfectly possible to use this library for other apps than dcs, by just making them to load it.

Thanks for testing, I'm glad to hear it's working fine with 64-bit Windows. As you're saying, most of the development time can be spent on proper error handling and reporting, sometimes it's a nightmare. But I believe, that in this case it was the compiler that was responsible for the whole issue. hmmm, needs more investigating. I tested the library with my test app on Windows 7 x64 on VMWare with all positive results, so it should be working fine. I still suggest to use version from the original thread on 32bit operating systems and the new one for 64 bit only, until I find definitive answer to that compiler issue. Again, thanks for tests, I'm hoping to have new release ready in few days, which would allow for more options (e.g. custom application launching). I suppose DCS was installed in "Program Files" folder which is supposed to be read only folder. In order to get around access problem, run Notepad using right mouse click, and option "Run as Administrator" (or something similiar), and then File->Open-> (browse to DCS folders and select graphics.cfg). You may need to change to "All files" first as Notepad filters "Text Documents (*.txt)" by default. Cheers

Although I'm using INI extension for configuration, I'm not using standard API for parsing config file. I wrote my own handler for that, which allows me for more flexibility. :) It's an exploit of plugin functionality in dcs. :D Initially I was trying to figure out the plugin model, though I abandoned that very quickly as I noticed that dcs doesn't check whether plugin is legitimate or not. So, instead of writing something that would communicate with dcs, I exploited the fact that it has to call LoadLibrary in order to dynamically load any DLL first, and used that to set affinity. Incoming version is also using similiar mechanism, though it runs a separate thread that will set affinity from the "outside", that will terminate itself after affinity has been set properly. Cheers.

Hi, Sorry for delay, I have quite busy period now. I've managed to do many many tests on 64-bit machines (Windows XP 64bit + Vista 64bit) but couldn't reproduce those errors. Basically affinity was always set properly. So, I've developed a backup way of setting affinity, which I am testing now, and soon will post on these forums - it uses standard windows tool to set affinity on dcs for maximum compatibility. Also, I've made a test version with newer compiler for 64-bit systems, that is available from the following location: http://www.cheekysheep.com/files/dcs/test/MultiCoreExtension.zip (MD5SUM: 121fa32c3a6c0c0d1bda494faa617c4d) http://www.cheekysheep.com/files/dcs/test/MultiCoreExtension.md5 Please test it if you can, and let me know if there's any problem. Basically, all the code is now catching exceptions and in such case you'll get a message on the screen. If the game crashes and there's no message, it means that MCE is not the cause of this crash (you could post stack report generated by DCS (Ka-50\Temp\ directory on your dcs installation path). Thanks in advance.

Hi, sorry for delay. I've uploaded new version with configurable logging. Please re-download, run DCS and generate logs, then you can post them here or send them directly to me. Thanks in advance. Cheers PS> It seems that there's some problem on 64-bit systems, when game works in emulation mode, though I need to investigate it further. Workaround for that is coming. I'm wondering if anyone running 32-bit Windows (XP/Vista/W7) have issue with that? I tested it on few 32-bit machines with Intel and AMD on Windows XP and Vista. I have Windows 7 RC on VMWare hosted by Linux, so I'll check it later too.

Hi, sorry to hear it didn't work for you. Can I ask you for some details about your CPU, Operating system, and where are MuliCoreExtension.dll/ini files placed, please ? That would help me evaluate possible causes. Also, could you try to set SetMaxAffinity option to 1 (SetMaxAffinity=1), which would set maximum affinity for dcs exactly as reported by oper. system? And one more thing, could you check if affinity mask is set properly at the beginning, but changed to default later, and if the whole thing happens in single player mode too? Thanks in advance. Edit: One more :D... Did you get rid of [PROCESS] and ProcessName=dcs.exe properties from ini file ? Cheers

Great, thanks for giving it a chance. Cheers and fly safe.

Hi, I've created a library that can easily be attached to DCS application and will allow you to set/manipulate affinity mask automatically with every DCS load, without the need to set it manually every time. It saves me time and makes my game more fun, as I don't have to care about affinity mask anymore. Also, it's possible to change configuration between DCS sessions, even when BS' launcher is running, and new setup will be applied with next mission launch. Please, have a look at it, it's freeware: UPDATED to 0.2 (16 june 2009)! 1. here's a readme http://www.cheekysheep.com/files/dcs/readme.txt 2. this is the whole package (library, configuration file, readme) http://www.cheekysheep.com/files/dcs/MultiCoreExtension.zip ( MD5SUM: 7d12c18f3f2eaa495f04341084c8d628 ) http://www.cheekysheep.com/files/dcs/MultiCoreExtension.md5 I hope you'll find it useful. Cheers galatei (TF) PS> It's doesn't modify game in any way, and it doesn't affect activation, nor gameplay, apart from increase in performance. Source code is also available in case if you would ever need to modify it or re-build. Please find it @ http://www.cheekysheep.com/files/dcs/MultiCoreExtension_src.zip ( MD5SUM: 8b3c690666cb427db63c57fb27d3d9a8 ) http://www.cheekysheep.com/files/dcs/MultiCoreExtension_src.md5

Thanks guys for clearing it up for me. I'm big fan of ED's games since the release of Flanker. I bought DCS for myself and for my friend already, as we are both simulation fans. I hope we'll see at least semi dynamic campaign at some point (I don't ever dare to dream of campaign as i played in Falcon 4). I'll be awaiting the patch then and I hope A10 will be released this year. Cheers

Hi, Just wanted to know what's the latest/official decision in that subject. Initially, before DCS was released, even in Russian language version, there was some info about that from ED, and I think they even said that it will make it at some point to DCS. But recently I can't find any information about that, and dunno if it's gonna be added or not. It's a real need for DCS to have dynamically generated campaign. Cheers

Thanks for your advice, I think I'll settle for the Groove's suggestion. Cheers, Tomasz PS> Have a happy new year.