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Ok, I have uploaded the Buccaneer Nato Open Gate programme.
those who want it pm me.
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Oh ok, if they are all up on youtube, click on A.S sig, then I have no need to upload the fighter/test/combat series, unless somone wants a copy to keep ont here harddrive ?
I will however upload the Buccaneer one as its missing I think from A.S youtube page.
and another I have, bbc horizon, air crash the wrong stuff, another oldie.
plus a Tornado DVD that details the tornado from manufacturing to flight.
I have about 70+ gig of flying stuff, war, sea, military etc etc, so if there is anythign anyone wants I will put a list up and will upload whatever anyone needs.
EDIT:
Great Youtube page A.S ;)
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I have in my collection the Old BBC TV series of Fighter, Test and Combat Pilot and also the Buccaneer NATO OpenGate Programme from the BBC also, they are from the 70s/80s/90s.
The total size is roughly 7 n half gig for all of them
If I upload to my server, would there be any interest ?
let me know what you think and if there is enough interest I will upload.
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The gear beong able to retract whilst on the ground like the pic above is a feature, its the same in the real aircraft as ED have already said when FC first came out a few years ago.
In the manual it states that if you are skidding off the runway and cant control the direction of the plane and notice that you will leave the runway and end up on the grass, the correct procedure is to retract the gear so that you skid on your belly and open the canopy whilst doing an emergency shutdown of the engines.
But the gear being able to retract whilst stationary on the ground is a feature of the real plane.
Its as it is in RL..
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Option 2, as I cant laminate here and I would love to get a pre-laminated map.
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in the localizer.lua file you need to change RU to EN, but that was before the patch, not sure if that still exists ?
Its been moved to here
Ka-50\Scripts\Aircrafts\_Common\Cockpit\localizer.lue then change the top line to EN from RU or the other way about.
country = "EN"
if LockOn_Options.cockpit_language == "russian" then
country = "EN"
end
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I Think that alot of people are missing the point of who the actual blame lies with, BP HIRED a drilling rig, which was controlled by the Hired peoples company ( an american company ), an accident happened because of faulty equipment on said rig, yet because BP hired them, they are somehow blamed ?
If you hire a car and the car is faulty and causes you to crash, are you at fault or the company that you hired said car from ?
Ok, dont get me wrong, BP should be doing EVERYTHING it can do to clean this shit up and as quickly as possible, but personally I think because BP is british and the Rig owners are American, then BP automatically gets the majority of the blame, even though the rig wasnt theirs and the faulty equipment wasnt theirs and the men operating the rig wasnt theirs either, yet they are the ones being raped by the american media and gov.
I hope that it gets fixed and fixed asap, but I would like to see the blaming of BP in the media and everywhere else stopped, because with everything that has been released about the accident, it was Deepwater Horizon's fault for hiring out faulty equipment to another company and using deepwaters men to run it, but they somehow blame BP because they hired said faulty rig, I wonder if DWH told BP the rig was faulty before they hired it if BP would of still hired the thing ? Probably not.
Anyway, here's hoping that the cap works today.
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The software is on saiteks website as I downloaded it 2 days ago.
The SST I downloaded is version 6.6.6.9
The actual joystick driver is version 9.9.9.9
What I would do if I was you would be to uninstall the software, and then also check your USER folder to see if any remaining saitek software is embedded in there, if so delete it and then reinstall the whole lot again but with admin authority.
I run the same OS as you and I think I installed as admin and it works ok for me, hopefully thats all you need to do ?
Also, there is 64bit and 32bit versions, you never by any chance downloaded the 32bit version for your 64bit OS ?
Uninstall everything and then re-download the 64 bit drivers and sst and then install as admin and see if that helps.
If you want I can upload my set of software for you to download if you want ?
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Well considering that the real life F-15's kill to death ratio is 104-0, no, your feelings are NOT justified. I have spent all my time mastering the A-10A and F-15C in FC2. The F-15 is an extremely capable aircraft. The radar is extremely simple, especially considering the fact that FC2 is not a clickable cockpit therefor the radar is very easy to use.
Oh and by the way, the real life F-15 holds the fastest time to climb record in the world, so if anything it climbs like a "homesick angel"
The streak eagle did hold it but a test at thunder city in 2006 broke the record, the f15 streak eagle probably still holds some records, but the ones below were broken;
New Time-to-Altitude Record for Thunder City
Two new South African records have been set by one of Thunder City’s English Electric Lightnings, registration ZU-BEX. The first record achieved by Thunder City test pilot Dave Stock and Steve Quirk was 70 seconds from a standing start to an altitude of 6000m (just over 19 000ft). This was performed at the Overberg air show near Bredasdorp.
A week later Dave Stock and well known British businessman John Caudwell set another record; this time from a standing start to 9,000m (just over 29,000 ft) at the Ysterplaats air show in Cape Town. Despite being robbed of considerable power when one of the afterburners went out early in the attempt, the Lightning nevertheless reached the 6 km high target in 102 seconds after releasing its brakes.
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Jim, the link in your post at the top of this page doesnt work properly, no picture is shown, just a line of text.
I dont know about the D2D version, but LOFC2 install fine on my pc which has windows 7 64 ultimate.
It installs perfectly either in the program files x86 folder or my LOFC2 folder which is in the main directory i.e C:/LOFC2
I made sure that I ran the install as admin, and it worked ok, however I did have problems trying to install normal lockon, in order for me to install that I had to install as admin and set compatibility mode as XP SP2 or SP3.
If you are having problems installing FC2, maybe you can install in C:/LOFC2 and not the program files folder and also set it to install as admin and if that doesnt work then set compatibility mode as XP SP2 or SP3 and see what happens.
BUT, if D2D has corrupt files up for download then nothing you can do about it will help, hopefully D2D will sort the problem ASAP.
Also disable any and all AntiVirus and other security programs during the install process as they can block things from install properly, so disable them before you install.
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1, 98% of the time the lights work fine, 1-2% of the time the lights will extended and they look like they are working, in both near and far modes, but they wont light up the ground. Near and Far both affected when this happens.
2, no other Units were on the map, It was a quick mission I setup and flew to test a new JS profile and since the missile fired went past my pit on the right and under my wing, it actually made me think I had fired a missile, because the smoke it left looked like it would if I had fired.
3, I havent played BS since I installed win7, but your answer explains alot and is obviously correct :)
4, It could be the case that the ministick is conflicting, like above, I would say this happens roughly 5% of the time, everything will be fine and then all of a sudden the external view stutters like something is trying to control it one way and something else the other way, so the external view is moving quickly left and right. It can happen anytime during a mission.
Just to add, I have deleted every single joystick control in the control pages, except the axis controls and zoom, the rest are mapped via sst and ministick isnt mapped to anything.
I have deleted all of the mouse modes except horizontal and vertical and zoom views, which are needed for external view control.
And I have deleted every TIR5 Control except the 3 that I need, I dont use tir for zoom, I use my X52 slider for that, so only 3 TIR and 3 Mouse and 4 joystick axis and 1 zoom control are mapped to the controls, everything else is deleted.
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Not sure if this has been mentioned, I did search but never found anything.
The 25t, its wingtip landing lights work, but sometimes they extend and the lights look like they are shinning, but they dont actually light anything up, thus if you happen to do a night mission and the bug strikes, then you wont be able to taxi as you cant see sheeit. The nav lights work ok, its just the landing lights that seem to be affected by this bug, sometimes they work perfectly and other times they seem to be working but dont actually brighten anything up, and it makes taxiing at night basically impossible.
Also, not sure if this is a bug or a conflict, but sometimes out of nowhere, my external view of the plane wont work, its like something else is trying to control it, I think its a fight betwen trackir and my mouse, but tir isnt setup to control external views.
I am not sure if its a problem/conflict with TIR5 or not, but I have deleted all of the TIR5 entries ingame except the ones needed to control cockpit view, up, down and roll, just 3 tir entries ingame, I also deleted all the mouse ones except horizontal view and vertical and zoom views and I also deleted every single joystick entry ingame, so I doubt its a conflict as everything is deleted and the litte amount of entries that I do have are mapped singly and dont have anything else mapped to that command, whether it be joystick, mouse or tir5, just one accessory for one command.
Also, a Vulcan fired 2 stingers at me, not sure if its meant to do that in FC2, but I sheeeeeit myself, I was coming in about 100 feet or so off the deck, I had the vulcan locked up and all of a sudden I see smoke, like you would if you fired a missile, for a second I thought I actually fired, but I hadnt and I only realised it was a missile when a second one exploded behind me taking out my right hand engine, I immediately pushed f6 to see WTF was happening and lo and behold the first stinger that missed me was still airborne, then I realised that this vulcan was not only firing bullets, but shooting missiles aswell.
The only things that were on the map were 1xVulcan and 3xM1 Abrams, there was no SAM threat that I know about present.
That only happened once and it was during the weekend, saturday I think, or possibly friday night.
Also one more, when contacting tower with the F6 command, the list of commands that show up after you push F6 to contact the tower, the F3 command is missing, it jumps from F2 F4 and there is a blank space where the F3 command should be.
I have installed the game 3 times, checked the hashes on the downloaded game files to make sure they were ok, which they were as the hashes matched, all 3 installs suffer from the light bug, the crazy external views that I think has something to do with TIR more than anything else, its sporadic, but I am sure TIR is causing it, and the missing F3 command.
All 3 installs suffer from the same problems, although the vulcan only fired missiles at me once and was probably a glitch more than anything.
Using win7 64, installed lockon as admin and in xp sp2 compat mode or it wouldnt install due to a dll file, then installed lofc2 plus its patch as admin.
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Push F7 and that will cycle external views of ground units.
I am Not sure if the icons are hidden on the f10/map view if F7 still works or not though, I would presume it would.
But until I test for myself I cant say for sure.
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WE NEED PICS!!!!
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System settings:
Default install + Patch 1.2.1.
Mods - Squad Skin and 3GO Flanker/A-10/F-15 new models.
12 x AA (4x Edge Detect)
16 x AF
Units: Ural 375/BMP-2
6 Nautical Miles:
5 Nautical Miles:
3 Nautical Miles:
1.5 Nautical Miles:
Danger Close:
As said - Don't go Blaming LockOn 2.0 :)
You say dont go blaming Lockon ?
In those pics you are flying fully zoomed in = hardly realisitc now is it ?
How many pilots in real life do you know that can zoom their eyes in ?
The scale is waaay off, ok armour has camo in real life and in game to make them harder to spot, but they are still far too small, I dont care what anyone says, because you can see them doesnt mean to say that the game isnt to blame.
I have a 1440x900 monitor and larger ones also and with 16xAF and 8xAA I find it hugely difficult to find ground targets, depending on what they are and their location on the map.
These settings maybe ok for BS since we are moving slower and closer to the ground, but in LOFC2 they simply need adjusting to something a little more realistic, after all everyone here craves realism and I can tell you that the settings in lockon are not realistic when it comes to view distance for ground targets. I fly every 2 weeks IRL and can see things better in real life without needing to zoom in than I can fully zoomed in with FC2.
But, its just my opinion in the end, nothing more, for me I wish they were slightly adjusted to make them ever so slightly more visible, nothign too drastic, just something that would make them stand out when you get within a certain distance.
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I don't see anything left... I was looking at it long time.
Is there any unit still alive?
Yes, on the edge of the 5 degree right bank angle line, a truck is there.
I only saw it after I saved the picture and then used windows picture viewer to zoom in big time.
Ingame I would of NEVER of saw that, well not in a hurry anyway.
Personally I find that targets are too hard to find in FC2, some people will say realism etc, but IMHO I think they are a tad on the small side.
I think it needs to be slightly adjusted so that they are just a touch easier to spot, but thats just me.
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Only aircraft in the game that in real life has a terrain following capability is the Tornado, otherwise....false statement.
Why is it, when you lock up the Tornado on A2A radar, the IFF says IDS GR3. There was never a IDS GR3 version???
And the B1 and the F111 and the TU-160 and the CH53 and the ......... :pilotfly:
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^^^!!!!!!
Press and HOLD the trigger button UNTIL the missiles is off the rail... there is a big difference in the way FC2 simulates weapon release... there is no longer an arcade style of release like FC1!
This issue seems to be one major, "why isnt it working?" silly question on these boards, for those who havent read the manual... :music_whistling:
I take it that you missed the part where I link to Page 72 or page 84 if you use the Adobe page search function of the FC 2 MANUAL, you think I only use the manual to look at the purrty pictures ?
Yes I RTFM, I have been flying FC1 since the day it came out and lockon for a few years before that, thus I knew something was up when doing the same thing in FC2 didnt fire the Vihkrs, even with the LA showing and the laser turned on and the Override enabled and the trigger HELD down, it still wouldnt fire unless I went into salvo mode.
But regardless, the problem was fixed with a reinstall, and so was my other problems fixed, one being that my taskbar would constantly try to force its way onto the game Menu GUI and the ingame sound is now fixed, before it would go all high pitched when changing views and only by quickly jumping back into the cockpit view would the sound return to normal.
So as far as I can tell, everything is now as it should be.
Thanks to those who tried to help figure it out, mucho gracias.
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I will make a track after I go have some f00d.
I did start to make one when the bloody sun started makin my TIR go nuts, so I had to jump out of game, plus food is nearly ready, I wont be long.
To answer a question before I go, the trigger is held down, not just pinged on and off, the thing that is getting me is that I can fire all the other missiles no problem, even laser guided ones and from the same plane/25t, its just the vikhrs that I am having problems with as they aint firing unless I go salvo mode for some reason, even when over ride is enabled, it makes the LA appear on screen, but still they dont fire.
Ok, something drastically could of changed from vanilla FC to FC2 in regards to firing vihkrs, but I am doing the exact same thing I did in FC with the exception that I am now firing them with the X52 trigger button, whereas in FC I had missiles and bombs mapped to the Fire button with the flip up cover.
Once I eat my Marks n Spencers sweet chilli chicken and fries I will get back to making a track, hopefully by that time the sun will have moved its butt away from my window.
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yup, laser is turned on, I have it mapped to stick and it produces a LR when enabled, target is locked, gate size is 10, target circle is within larger circle, exactly like the picture above, I can fly holding the circles in the middle of the hud right down til I am kissing the target and even tho LA is given to me, unless I push LCtrl+V I just cannot fire the vihkrs for some strange reason.
I am gunna take a wild guess and say that this isnt the way that its meant to be, so it looks like my install went awry somewhere along the lines.
I did have problems with lockon installing, as it didnt like win7 64 and it gave me a MSXML.DLL not registered/unregistered error, so I had to set it to install in xp sp2 compat mode and as admin to get around that problem, and I also installed FC2 as admin just incase.
But I guess something went wrong somewhere, ahwell not to worry, I will go reinstall and see what happens this time.
Cheers.
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I have EVERYTHING in your picture except the boxed 4.
No matter what I do, I cannot get the 4 to be "Weapon Ready" on its own.
I can ONLY get Vihkrs to fire when there are boxes around the 4 and 8, and thats by having to push LCtrl+V, without pushing Lctrl+V vihkrs just wont fire.
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Cheers Viper ;) much appreaciated.
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Quick Question,
I have just bought lockon FC2, now when I lockup a target in the 25t, I do it as I would in lockon FC 1.1.
I would lock the ground up and then set the gate size to the required size and then slew the cursor over to the target and hopefully first time it would stick, I would then engage the laser and then get within missile range, wait for LA to appear and then fire.
I know that FC2 only has one trigger for cannons and other munitons, compared to two triggers previously, so I know that SPACE is for firing ALL weapons in russian planes.
Now here comes the weird part, I can fire every weapon there is apart from the Vihkrs, I have locked the target up, I have the laser turned on and I get the LA symbol, but no matter what I do I cannot fire the vihkr, however, that being said, if I push Lctrl+V for SALVO, on the HUD both Vihkr stations will get the weapon ready BOX symbol around their respective pylons and I can then proceed to fire a salvo of vihkrs.
If I dont push Lctrl+V, both vihkr stations wont have weapon ready boxes around them on the hud, thus I cant fire the missiles at all.
Its only vihkrs that are a problem, all other munitions fire perfectly well, its just that in the manual on the page that has 72 printed at the bottom of it, or page 84 if you jump straight to it in adobe using adobes page search function, on that diagram, I cant get just 1 station to be weapons ready like in the diagram at the top of that page, it has to be both or no cigar on releasing vihkrs and I think something might be messed up with my install ?
So, in FC2, does one HAVE to push Lctrl+V before they can fire vihkrs, or is my game borked ?
Is this a bug or is it the way FC2 is, or is it a dodgy install I have ?
Cheers for any help that anyone might be able to give regarding the above question.
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^^ have you noticed the first post in this thread :smilewink:
No, I totally missed it :megalol:
I lost my single player icon
in Bugs and Problems
Posted · Edited by bumfire
if you are using windows 7 or vista it will be in C:/program files x86/Eagle Dynamics or DCS/ka-50/bin/x86/stable/launcher.exe its something like that.
you are looking for launcher.exe . on that right click your mouse and then select send to then desktop ( create shortcut )
once you have done that, goto your desktop and then find the icon and then right click on it and select properties.
and in the shortcut tab, in the target box, you should have this.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Eagle Dynamics\KA-50\bin\x86\stable\launcher.exe --console
or is it
C:\Program Files (x86)\DCS\KA50\bin\x86\stable\launcher.exe --console
I think you Might ? need to add --console yourself if your shortcut you made doesnt automatically have it, leave a space between exe and -- console.
I have my game installed somewhere else, but I suspect the links above are somewhat correct and after you make your own shortcut you will find out which one is the correct one, I just think you will have to add --console at the end of it, but you should have no problem making the shortcut with the directions above.