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I have 2 accounts, it does it on both. I have map and plane purchased on my account. Both accounts show this promotion every time.

Hi, This pops up everytime I open DCS, how do I stop it? Mates copy only did it once then nothing since... Thanks

Tried this last night for the first time (bought F14 after a trial a month ago). Previously I used the lantern mod and it worked great, but Jester is still early days, I hope... - When searching for targets he misses blatantly obvious units and goes for ones outside of the window - When select eyeball mode and selecting something 20-25m ahead the camera just looks into the body of the plane, when doing it manually with the mod you can zoom to the area and select a target fine - When you have a target selected, for example a moving convoy, and you want to select the lead tank, its difficult because sometimes looking up doesn't move the lantern up, it kind of does nothing or moves about in the same spot a bit - Using the lantern mod in combination with jester (to address its shortcomings) jester overrides anything you put in. Not realistic I know but at the moment using jester is a bit of a pain at times and it would be good to disable him so you can manually take over when needed - Sometimes I have to fly over a target 2 or 3 times to get jester to select the target I want to destroy, which is frustrating when each time you line up for the target its perfectly visible to you, but he selects a different target and by the time you have either selected next target, select next target, select next target etc or messed around with the head tracking trying to move the pod your over the target already and have to go around again, being able to zoom from a distance would buy you some more time to lock the target you want - Having some key bindings to select next target etc would be useful. I tried mapping key 4 o 5 (I think or was it 6) and sometimes it works, sometimes it does nothing.

Nice, thanks for the info guys. I managed to get some time to test last night and @IronMikethe issue was left click vs right click, all working correctly now. Thanks for the info.

It sounds like what you said, right clicking not left clicking. TBH I had no idea you had a choice of left or right, I don't recall it being said in any tutorials I watched... I will test this tonight. Thanks for the video as well, I have never seen someone steering on landing using the stick instead of rudders, I will also test this tonight.

I leave it in TO mode tbh, it gives the heading in the hud, but i can try changing it. I am wondering however if its overly sensitive to my landings. Me and my mate tested it last night, both landing together and he was fine, once he had stopped he enabled NWS and it was fine, me, didn't work, so I did a repair and it worked again. We landed at roughly the same speeds so not sure. Regarding the lever I click it as soon as the wheels leave the ground, it works fine when pressing the key just clicking the lever doesn't, same speeds etc when testing. Err not a clue, still learning. I will do some googling to find it and check tonight when on. I click it with the mouse and I noticed the lever goes up but rotates when it goes up. It doesn't rotate but stay down.

When taxiing for take off the NWS works and I can see the light on, but when landing and slowing down on the runway NWS doesn't work and no light is shown. I am basically stuck on the runway. When clicking on the gear lever it moves up, but the wheels stay down. I have seen loads of videos and the wheels go up after clicking the lever and it goes up, so not sure what I am doing wrong? I will be flying with a mate tonight who has also just got the F14 so I will see if he has the same issues as me.

But if I am clicking the lever in cockpit you don’t need a button bound for it? Unless you mean the NWS? For that I have a button bound and it works fine when taxiing to take off, just not landing. I used the button to lower the gear, toggle gear, unless that is the emergency one? I tried to engage it whilst rolling to a stop, and also once stopped but didn’t come on.

Hi, Just started flying the F14, watched the takeoff and landing tutorials but they don't seem to cover the issue I am having. 1 - When taking off from a runway using hot start I use the gear up lever but the wheels don't come up. If I use the gear toggle button they do come up? I also noticed a red light next to the lever is on when using the key but not the lever. Am I missing a step somewhere? I have tried on mil power and afterburner and no difference, I have tried the lever as soon as the wheels leave the ground, or after flying for a bit keeping speed low, but nothing. Also disabling NWS before takeoff, no difference. Also if I use the lever and then the toggle key after it doesn't work, it only works if I use the key only and leave the lever alone. 2 - When landing NWS doesnt engage so I can't steer once the speed drops and the rudders no longer work, how do I get this enabled again as im pressing the key but nothing? Thanks

Nope, any mission I am doing will do it. Doing a bit more testing I think this is related to using A2G or A2A mode whilst on the ground, either after landing/respawn only, but is fine when first starting the mission. For example when rearming my process is. Land and park up in a taxi way or on the run way, then press F9, which I have mapped for the rearm shortcut, select my loadout, for example JDAMs, once they are loaded I select A2G mode to bring up the stores menu then select the bomb so it can start aligning, then I start taxiing off to take off, I noticed once going full throttle it comes out of A2G mode and I have to select it again. This seems to be a trigger for this issue, but again not always. My mate is going to trial the 18 shortly so will be interesting to see if he gets the same issue.

Thanks for this, saved me some serious pain

Actually this might not be an issue anymore. I uninstalled 2.5.6 to try another clean install but now I can't download 2.5.6 as its been removed from the previous versions list.... So no more DCS.

Guys, Does anyone know how I can download 2.5.6, checking the previous versions tab it only goes back to 2.7 now...? I can't use 2.7 as its not compaitible with my GPU, and I only use this for mission building. Thanks

Thanks for the reply, but that folder doesn’t exist. When I installed 2.5.6 again it was a clean install, all previous folders where deleted.

No idea if anything come of this but still having issues where the hud goes. For example last night I didn’t even respawn, just landed, rearmed and took off again but no hud when doing air to air. Also seen the same for air to ground where you cant see ccip line and have to use tpod to see it. Also the NVG didn’t work, it just made things greener. Sometimes it works but not last night after landing and rearming. I have noticed if you take off and do the mission in one go it all works fine, but if you land to rearm or crash and have to respawn issues happen more often than not.

Hi, I have 2 PCs that I use for DCS, my gaming PC and a laptop I use for building missions. I updated to 2.7 but my laptop isn’t compatible (it doesnt like the gpu) So I have reinstalled 2.5.6, however since installing again the Persian Gulf map no longer appears in my download section to download. I also have the FA18 which I have downloaded and SU33, but the map doesn’t appear. If i find the map to select it says I need to purchase it. I am using the same account on both PCs, and never had an issue before updating to 2.7. I have plenty of free space to download/install the map. Any idea guys? Thanks

Hi, At present me and a bunch of mates fly multiplayer missions that I create for us each week using Briefing Room then going in and manually tweaking all our planes, load outs, ai tasking, tweaking the f10 support and adding and removing AI that are part of the mission itself, this is all very time consuming. I don't mind tweaking the mission stuff as its fun, but repeating the same player flights and f10 flights mission after mission is repetitive, so what I am looking for is someway to automate the basics. I have tried static templates and group templates but neither gives me what I am looking for. Is there anything scripting wise that will do this for me? Thanks

That is my thread, nothing of use in that one as its covered in this one, and the standard advice has been followed. I can only assume the devs changed something in 2.7 restricting iGPUs or something?

Mine is a Lenovo ThinkPad. Not found a fix yet... Please read my first post, it covers what I have done already.

Hi, track file attached. I selected instant action > start on ramp hot Once in the plane I added some bombs Then turned on HMD Selected A2G mode Selected loadout settings for CCIP/Auto, fuze, bomb quantity etc Selected a target just to check the aiming ring worked (which was a man standing next to a hummer to the right of me) Taxi'd to the runway I noticed as I went full throttle to take off A2G mode disabled, so enabled it again Once in the air I selected another ground target using HMD Check bombs etc were ok, banked round and dropped the bombs on the target (close enough, was a little left) This all worked fine so I then crashed into the ground, whilst watching my plane in a fireball I selected Briefing > Fly Once back in my plane again I repeated the above step again as before, but this time once in the air and when I went to select another ground target after take off with the HMD the aiming circle wasn't there this time and no CCIP line in the HUD, tried a few times, tried switching to Auto and back to CCIP but didn't show up. Any questions please let me know. Thanks Example.trk

Thanks, I will have a play around and replicate the issue and upload the track file.

Err, what’s a track file? You mean recording me playing and then uploading it somewhere? If so, any recommendations on recording software in VR? Thanks

Doing some more digging and I think this is the issue? # -------------- 20210527-164106 -------------- DCS/2.7.1.6709 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.19041) C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\igd10iumd64.dll # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at B0793E95 00:00000000 SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.;C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta;C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;SRV*C:\websymbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;', symOptions: 528, UserName: 'dsada' OS-Version: 10.0.19041 () 0x300-0x1 0x00000000001B3E95 (igd10iumd64): OpenAdapter10_2 + 0x1A5055 0x00000000001B562A (igd10iumd64): OpenAdapter10_2 + 0x1A67EA 0x0000000000062150 (ntdll): TpAllocPool + 0xA60 0x000000000005315A (ntdll): TpReleaseCleanupGroupMembers + 0xADA 0x0000000000017034 (KERNEL32): BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x14 0x0000000000052651 (ntdll): RtlUserThreadStart + 0x21 The ACCESS VIOLATION is for igd10iumd64.dll which is for Intel Graphics, looking around it says to upgrade the driver, but I can't on mine, its got the latest one. Do you know if anything was change between 2.5.1 and 2.7 to stop working with lower spec cards? Mine is an Intel HD Graphics Family. I don't fly on this PC, just use it for building missions in Mission Editor. Failing fixing this I will just have to put 2.5.6 back on, but that is a pain as I can't tweak the weather as it changed for 2.7, and once I save a mission on 2.7 I can no longer use it on 2.5.6. Thanks

Thanks, I have added AV exceptions and also disabled real time to be sure, same issue. I have re-zipped the logs and attached. dcs.20210527-153838.dmp.zip dcs.log-20210527-153838.zip dcs.zip

Hi, When playing a mission (single player or multi) in the FA18 and I get shot down, after the 1st respawn sometimes things don't work right in the HMD, HUD or MFDs. Sometimes things work after the 1st respawn but then the 2nd or 3rd respawn things disappear. I am still learning so crashing and respawning a lot haha... For example the CCIP line when bombing doesn't show up in the HUD, or when locking a ground target with the HMD the aiming circle is missing, or the CCIP line is missing from the TGP Litening MFD (I normally use the right MFD for this). There are other things that go missing but I can't recall at the moment. I use a Rift CV1 running v2.7.1. How I respawn is I select Briefing, then Fly, to get back into my plane, whether this is related? If you have any questions or want some testing of different scenarios done or logs captured let me know. Thanks