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Last post... The path to my Saved Games wasn't corrupt but it was pointing to D drive where in my gaming desktop I have a second SSD to house DCS and MSFS. When I cloned the Windows SSD, I debated whether to create two partitions in my laptop SSD or have everything in one. That decision is where things went south in regard to Model Viewer. At any case, with the huge increase in sizes of DCS and MSFS (300G and 600G respectively for me), we are all adding second or third SSDs and "moving" our Saved Games folder to new location. If we ever need to restore the Saved Games path, we need to have this little batch file handy (I am saving it for future for sure.)

Problem has been solved! When I did a fresh install of DCS, and went to Mission Editor, it pointed to my "Document\My Games" folder instead of Saved Games - which I know is default. This was certainly peculiar, but since my "DCS Updater GUI Utility" already had a folder under Saved Games and was working fine (able to clear and re-add paths to DCS and Saved Games folder many times over), I did not suspect it much. Out of desperation, I tried to understand why DCS would not pick that folder, so I searched for default location of Windows 11 Saved Games folder and came across this article (https://www.elevenforum.com/t/move-or-restore-default-location-of-saved-games-folder-in-windows-11.8717/). When I typed shell:SavedGames in file Explorer, it did not do anything! Only after downloading the batch file and running it (which opened up my Saved Games folder with "DCS Updater GUI Utility" in it) that I was able to run Model Viewer without crashing! Model Viewer then came up and I was able to load a model without any issue. I then moved DCS's user folder to the same Saved Games and it loaded my config and liveries, etc. This shows that somehow the Saved Games path in the Windows registry must have been corrupted or otherwise become unusable, which resulted to Model Viewer to ill behave and crash. Obviously, in my opinion Model Viewer should handle this more gracefully and in case it does not find a path to the Saved Games folder, it should print a clear message and terminate.

I am struggling to find the root cause of Model Viewer crashing upon start. I installed the latest DCS (Openbeta 2.9.2.49940) on my non-gaming laptop so I can do some livery development while I'm on extended travel. Installation was fine and Model Viewer started and worked without any issues until I decided I needed more storage space. I cloned my laptop's Windows 11 Pro on a 1TB SSD. While Windows and apps worked just fine, but the Windows admin tools were failing with a weird error message! Not being able to resolve the complex issue, this time, I cloned my Windows 11 Home from my DCS gaming desktop and updated all device drivers on laptop afterwards. Everything went well (including Windows, DCS, Photoshop, all my various programs) with the exception of the Model Viewer, which is crashing upon startup immediately after clicking on it! I have tried the following without any success: repairing, clean-up, brand new reinstall of basic DCS (without any mods), running program in Admin mode, deleting the edModelViewer folder in Saved Games (which came from desktop after cloning), downgrading Intel's graphics driver to two different older versions and upgrading back to the latest one (released just days ago in Jan 2024), deleting temp files related to Model Viewer on AppData/Local folder, resizing screen's resolution, trying the standard non-MT version. Nothing has worked! Right now there is no edModelViewer folder under Saved Games and hence no logs to examine. Windows Event Viewer, however, registers application crashing with the following detail (see below). There is also a crash dump file about 12MB after each incident (attached.) Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening? I don't believe its the program and must be related to the laptop itself, but can't find the culprit. Everything is up-to-date but it keeps crashing. DCS on the other hand, is running smoothly! Any more troubleshooting ideas to try? Thanks! Faulting application name: ModelViewer2.exe, version: 2.9.2.49940, time stamp: 0x657c5d81 Faulting module name: ModelViewer2.exe, version: 2.9.2.49940, time stamp: 0x657c5d81 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000000000003a2f7 Faulting process id: 0x0x3230 Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA52339B7AC305 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin-mt\ModelViewer2.exe Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin-mt\ModelViewer2.exe Report Id: 6a3c6f9d-bc70-45bf-a97e-a7f4ee639dfe Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: Fault bucket 1377261530066649997, type 4 Event Name: APPCRASH Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: ModelViewer2.exe P2: 2.9.2.49940 P3: 657c5d81 P4: ModelViewer2.exe P5: 2.9.2.49940 P6: 657c5d81 P7: c0000005 P8: 000000000003a2f7 P9: P10: Analysis symbol: Rechecking for solution: 0 Report Id: 6a3c6f9d-bc70-45bf-a97e-a7f4ee639dfe Report Status: 268435456 Hashed 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This was a major source of frustration for me for a long time. Changing the suggested values as part of default.lua file had not affect for me. What did work, however, was to reduce the time that the commands were applied when they were input from Hotas. I have a Logitech X52 and I do all my mappings outside DCS using it's programming tool. Instead of applying the keyboard inputs for "-" and "=" set as Buttons, I set up Advanced Commands (which controls how long various key inputs are applied when certain buttons/controls are pressed on the Hotas.) After reducing the time delay all the way down to 0.01msec that I was able to have a fine control over the elevation of antenna. Problem solved. So, if your Hotas allows you to control the time duration applied for a keybinding, then this maybe a more effective solution.

In that case, I am happy with the outcome. Thanks for clarifying this.

Thank you both for commenting. I just tried this and it worked. However, this is news to me! For the past several years, I have been turning the smoke on and off by pressing the weapon release button while having the Selective Jettison on Off position. This was obviously easier since we all have the weapon release button mapped to our HOTAS but not everyone has the Jettison button mapped. If in the real world, pushing the Jettison button controls the smoke, then let it be and I am fine with that, otherwise I would rather see the procedure revert to how it was. Edit: How come this change of behavior was never documented in the change logs of the releases in the first place?

It appears generating smokes in 2.9 release no longer works! I tried with master arm on, wingtip stores selected, jettison position in off position, and nothing happens when I press the drop weapon button.

Thanks, that worked. I was away for a couple of months. Once I returned, I upgraded DCS to 2.9.1.x and loaded a saved mission with Su-30 doing AAR and all I got was silence! No problem, the more realistic the better.

I am trying to air-to-air refuel post 2.9 release and tanker no longer responds! I am fairly sure this all worked prior to that release. Could someone please confirm this? Thanks!

Appreciate all the work yourself and others are putting into this. If I had any experience in mod development, I would have thrown my hat in the ring long time ago. For now, I'll be patient until the EFM model along with other improvements are ready to be released in a future update. Thanks!

May I ask how far in the development are you before you release the next version? It's already been many months since the current version came out. If it is too far out, is it possible to get an interim release sooner with some of the smaller improvements such as moving canards, conformance to other modules for left/right mouse click operation, etc.? We can then get the main flight model improvement in a follow on release. Thanks.

I did look at this page more than once but missed the link in that post! Thank you so very much. It saved me a ton of time.

Found the older B version under "VSN_F4 v2.7.10.02 FC3 F4 EFM" which does not have the updated rivets and markings as the newly released C/D version. So question stands!

Hi, I am trying to make a skin for VSN's F-4B/C Mod but all I can find under Textures directory of the mod are the DDS files. I can't seem to find where the layered Photoshop version of the main file 'VSN_F4E_1' is! I have looked at VSN's download site and searched this forum as well as under ED's User Files but no luck. Any links or pointers are appreciated.

I did spend sometime and removed the pylon prints and it came out okay. It should do until such time that HB will update their texture files for 95-GR.