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Ed must of released it then ?, either deliberatly or they sent the wrong file to the game CD copiers and the manual then found its way onto the dvd. I paid for my manual and tbh, I dont mind if its out there released in pdf format as getting it printed like the way ed has done is gunna eat up tons of paper and ink and if you get it done for you its gunna cost about as much as it costs to buy from ed if not more. No harm in letting people have the proper manual as it really doesnt add anything new to the sim if you ask me so their is no big secret to the manual, its nice to have as an actual book but as a pdf manual I rate it as I rate the original and thats with a zero cuz I hate all pdf manuals simply because I like to play and access a manual at the same time without having to alt+tab in and out of game every 2 seconds :(

The extended paid for manual IS NOT in pdf format as far as I know and ED said they have no intention to do so. So I suspect that the spanish manual is just the same as every other pdf manual, if I recall their is 2 versions of the pdf manual, the first one was replaced by another version that was slightly more upto date if I recall correctly, maybe thats what they mean by extended manual ??? But ED have always denied that they would hand out the paid for binder manual in pdf format and I cant see the spanish version of dcs getting it and noone else, it isnt even on the dcs website as a free download, so I think the extended manual you speak of is the second version of the pdf manual that was made to clear up some errors and bring the manual slightly more upto date.

Ah, well that explains it then, I always did wonder why they chose to not have mp3 access. Looks like Wav and OGG will have to do.

SCRIPTING BROADCASTING RADIO STATION PROGRAMS. Can we get the game to support MP3 filetypes ? as converting a entire folder of music files for a radio station to play in OGG or WAV is just downright crazy. I have 20 songs in my radio station already and the size is about 600mb and thats cut down size from 44khz to 22khz and changed from mp3 to wav. The game REALLY does need mp3 if its to have something of a decent radio station playback capability.

I would prefer it if they released a huey vietnam model gunship or the blackhawk gunship that has cannon and miniguns pointing forward, but all I can really say is "SEND ME A HUEY" :megalol: DCS needs a fixed wing aircraft for it to become a true success and they need it NOW.

For problem number 3, are you sure you have placed the service units within 100metres squared of the FARP ? I presume you will have and it probably is a bug, but if they arent within 100m they wont work. I havent bothered with advanced map making as yet because I havent got the time to re-adjust everything 100 times to make sure they line up ingame as they are in the mission editor. I cant wait for ed to fix the map problems and add the sat view back

First, go into your windows control panel, then goto system icon then if you have vista or xp click on advanced system settings and then click on the advanced tab and at the bottom of that you will see startup and recovery, click on the settings button, in there under system failure untick automatically restart, so the next time you get the blue screen error, it wont auto reboot on you and you will be able to tell us what info is displayed in the error and that will help us narrow down the problem. Usually the info contained in the blue screen error will pinpoint what has caused the error in the first place, so next time it happens, write down what the error is and post it and usually it will put you on the right track to a fix. No point in speculating what the problem could be, as it could be a million things ranging from bad software to bad hardware, so I wont speculate until you post what the error says.

I support Ed with my Love, that should be enough to last them a lifetime :)

I get these vertial lines in blackshark also :( Thought they would of been fixed by the time BS was released, but I have grown used to them now.

I gotta agree that some flight videos on the net could of been so much better had they moderated the amount of music in them or even replaced the music entirely. Most of the flight vids that are on the net all seem to suffer from Heavy metal syndrome, where the video is infected with large and loud doses of heavy metal music, I personally cant stand them but thats just personal preference. Music does have its place in videos as the right type of music accompanying a video can turn a mediocre video into a great video, but most videos take it too far with the crazy loud music and basically spoil it, if I come across a loud heavy metal video of say lockon, 9 times out of 10 i will either mute it or have the volume uber low asto not hear the music. I am not saying their is anything wrong with having music in videos, far from it, but it has to be done right and thats where most video makers seem to fail.

I am glad it is now working for you :)

Do you have TIR5 hardware ? If so use the TIR5 software, because just the other day when I re-installed Lockon, I COULD NOT get centre view to work with trackir 5 hardware and trackir 4 software. I had to reinstall buggy trackir 5 beta software for centre view to work for me in lockon, maybe this is the same problem you are suffering from but in blackshark instead of lockon ? Also in vista make sure you run trackir and the game as admin, do it via right clicking on the shortcuts and selecting compatibilty and then select run as administrator. TBH, I think if you have trackir5 hardware, the reason you cant centre view is because you are using trackir4 software probably, as that was the reason that I couldnt centre view in lockon, I had to use trackir5 hardware with trackir 5 beta software in order for centre view to work properly in some games, however Blackshark was not one of them. Even if you dont have tir5 hardware, try using the tir5 software beta version and see if that helps, also reset the game to default controls so that your not having conflicts mapping buttons that are used ingame. BTW, page up and page down are used for throttle controls ingame, unless you have changed them manually in the game control section.

have you set the blackshark game profile to the same profile that you are using ? as by default, the game profile for blackshark is set to the "default" profile and that probably wont be what you need for ingame thus the correct profile wont load when the game starts. the profile that works outside of the game for you, set that profile so that it starts with blackshark in the profile list and also tick the exclusive box just to see if that works. Also if possible, take screenshots of ALL of the settings that you have in tir and also in the game profile list take a screenshot that includes the blackshark game profile so that we can see what settings you are using, which should make it much better for us to be able to help you.

Have you made sure that you are running trackir as administrator ? I had problems with Lockon just yesterday, I reinstalled it and for the love of me I couldnt get tir5 to centre view, it didnt work with tir5 and tir4 software, so I went back to buggy 5 and set it to run as administrator and it worked. that being said, centre view works perfect in dcs from the get go without needing to be set as admin, thats what I find and thats on vista 64.

I do this to centre my trackir. I remapped trackir to have keypad 5 as centre view, but ingame numlock must be enabled or tir5 doesnt pick up the command. And I have bound the keypad 5 button to the C button on my x52

lol :megalol:

hehe, I didnt see that other post before. cheers for pointing it out

I think that when he installed it that it got corrupted or corrupted something, or if he had other skins installed that it maybe clashed with them thus causing that problem. As Ed's xmas skin doesnt or shouldnt cause problems on its own unless when it was being installed corruption happened somewhere, personally I think it was a clash with another skin or mod he "might" of had installed, and only when adding ed's xmas skin did the problem show its face. If I was a betting man I would bet that ed's xmas skin is not the cause but another skin or mod is and only when they are combined does the problem arise. Then again I could be totally wrong :)

I cant get it to embed so here is direct link, but what a lovely RC helo, real nice. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=85a_1246854193

I dont think the ME will be fixed in the patch, as I recall reading that too much work is needed to get the ME exactly matching the game world, so I suspect that the earliest we will see a proper fix for object placement is when DCS comes out with the next addon, I really cant see it being fixed in the upcoming patch and however much that I pray that it will be, I just dont think it will due to lack of time.

Yup, some 3rd party skins cause you to kill yourself when you fire rockets, its solely a skin problem as everyone that I have read that had that problem also installed some skins and removing the skin/s ALWAYS fixed the problem.

Maybe detection range is roughly 60km and firing range is less than 30km ?

No problem Chizh, I guess skins can take a back seat compared to fault finding and fixing bugs when it comes to the patch, those new skins and the ones we have already are more than enough to keep us "all" happy for a few hours or so :)

Yea, or you can tweak the file I edited onto the end of my post so that you only have to use 1 button on your joystick to fire ANY weapon, much easier that way, whatever weapon you are currently using is the weapon that will be fired. Single trigger is the way to go I think, their is no clashes, all you do is change an option from false to true and save the file and thats it, then your fire button fires everything from cannon to missiles and bombs :D

Have you selected weapon stations ? i.e rockets or missiles ? have you flipped the Arm switch ? have you locked the target and are within 7KM, as if you are not roughly within 7KM the computer wont let you launch unless you flip the switch to manual, also is your laser armed and have you locked the target so that you are within Launch parameters ? Also, once you select weapons stations, i.e missiles or rockets, if you select missiles then a circle will appear on your hud, you have to bring that circle inline with the little target circle, so once the little circle is within the middle of the larger circle and you are within launch parameters then hold the fire button. Also, the cannon button IS NOT THE SAME as the launch Missile button, so if you have just got this game and if you are using a joystick, then your joystick fire button WILL NOT FIRE MISSILES OR ROCKETS, it will only fire cannon rounds. You will have to set it up so that you use another joystick button to fire missiles and rockets or if you mess about and tweak some of the game files, you can have a single trigger that will fire both Missiles and Rockets and also the Cannon, thats what I have done. To set the Trigger on your joystick to fire both cannon and missiles and rockets then do this; Open the following file: C:\WINDOWS\ProgramFiles (x86 if using vista 64 )\EagleDynamics\Ka-50\Scripts\Aircrafts\Ka-50\Cockpit\Devices_specs\WeaponSystem.lua The part in bold can be where you installed the game to, also if your using vista64 then the game will be installed into programfilesx86 Find the line, "use_single_trigger" and set it to "true". The 'Fire Gun' command ([sPACE] by default) will now also act as the 'Release Weapon' command ([LALT+SPACE] by default) That should be you good to fire all weapons from your joystick fire button instead of having to use 2 different buttons to fire the different weapons like the real helicopter has. Why an option for that isnt included in the ingame setup pages is crazy, that is an important feature if you ask me, as everyone just wants to use a single trigger, if not everyone I would take a guess and say the majority of people do.