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Hi all, I would like to share an experience which might help some people with low fps during combat. Don't know if it's been posted yet. 1. when shkval is on with wide view fps drops significantly, on my pc it's up to 20%. 2. when you only use narrow view it's only up to 10% because the pc doesn't have to calculate so much grafic input. So if you fly around in combat, if you need the shkval, just use narrow view unless you really need wide view for searching. In wide view you have to zoom into the shkval anyway to see anything at all - this zooming in increases the fps again because the scenery does not need to be calculated. Worst fps for me is in cockpit max-zoomed out - shkval on and in wide view. Hope that helps some people :)

Hi, I get several times error-messages with .lua entries listed during the dialog, mission selection etc. when I install the FPS-Tweak-Mod. When I ignore these messages I can fly with but they are anoying, maybe some features are not installed. Before I changed the computer-format to english, because I had the same kind of messages after Patch-Installation when I went to the Options-screen, but this was more severe because I couldn't change the my control-settings. Reason was that I had a German machine and an english game download version. Somebody has an idea?

propably having the same problem, vista 64 bit, english version on a german macine. How do I change the format?

Great mod. some questions: Do you use photos of "real" KA50 cockpits for the "major" changes like the reset button on the LWR top left? There is a quite visible horizontal line in the leather-thing under the hud. Is this "eine Delle" (don't know the english word) Where do you live in NRW? I live in Kaarst near Düsseldorf.

really great work, thanks a lot for this piece of art. One thing: I noticed while rearming and running up the system the instrument lights went on - don't know if that's because of the mod?

thanks, will try it, actually i didn't take out the bridge, because of a message to preceed to waypoint 2 ...:cry:

thanks again for your great series uhoh. They are very well made - better than the stock IMO. I still have a problem with ORKHVI. Last message I get is contact from group NN in the village and that in about 5 km there is the enemy but there is none when I follow the valley. I fly along the valley, but the enemy collumn only shows up after I return from the lake or the enemy FARP with the mi-helicopter

@uhoh: is that possible without editing the story line? Is there a list where I can delete the enemy helos somewhere?

Hi, thank's a lot for this great series. One big wish: I found out that helos are very hardware-demanding. can you perhaps tune down the hardware-demands (and also the demands for the player) somehow or can you tell me, how i can easily do it myself: making a light version of the series with less (enemy) helos and/or ground vehicles.

thanks mates. So firewall isn't eating performance ? I have Vista home basic 64bit with 2 Gig Ram (not more possible I'm afraid due to mainboard restrictions) and yes- I use the affinity check. Which swapfile size should I use? The fps drop is about 20-30% sometimes.

Hi all, I bought vista mainly for DCS-BS but often I don't get too much fps - gain because of some underground-vista-processes that eat up to 4-7 % CPU every 10 seconds or so (sometimes less, sometimes it goes back to zero - then the fps in DCS-BS rise). I deactivated Antivirus and Firewall. Can you recommend a tool (in WinXP I used enditall but this doesn't seem to work in vista) to shut down these processes? Thanks

Another trick: You have to be in wide view mode on the shkval-screen, with the narrow view it won't work. Took me a while to figure that out:smilewink:

thanks for the answers. Just one question: Does the heli stabilize to zero speed automaticaly also when slightly moving while pressing and releasing the trim button and in auto-hover in your experience or do i have to have always exactly zero speed to get to auto hover?

I tried different ways to use the trim: I know that after the release the trim is set. So if I have it near 0 speed i release trim and the stick but it's still moving while in autohover. Do you get a stabilization over the square with 10 - 15 kph? Perhaps I'm not fast enough with releasing the stick after releasing trim?

Hello all, I read the posts and the FAQ for autohover but I still can't get it to a real autohover - sorry. Perhaps somebody could help me: It seems that autohover only works when i managed to bring the helo into a zero movement hover myself and then press autohover. I manage to bring it to around 3 kph (i have all 3 autopilot buttons on) , often sidemovements and/or backwards, holding down trim-button and / or not holding down - that's not the problem. In any trim-condition (pushed and not pushed): when I press auto-hover it is still moving very slowly backwards/sidewards. Also when i hit the trimmer after the auto-hover, this has the only effect that the square is repositioned in the center and then it still wanders off the center (very slowly). Is there something that I've overlooked? If not, how can decrease side movements to zero quickly? Do I have to turn into the wind perhaps to make it more stable? Thanks for some tipps.

well, I have a cyborg force stick (without evo) ;-) which is an older one.

Has anybody experience with the saitek cyborg force stick?

Hi all, thanks for the answers. Still got questions: 1. how do you fly with 4 or 5 buttons on the stick (your recommendated sticks don't have more than my Saitek Cyborg which works fine with all sims up to now) allthough you need much more? What's your setup or do you use special software? 2. Which forces are emulated on the stick in BS? - like in MS-FS you "feel" wind gusts, airframe stress and so on...

Thanks for the replies. I have some more questions: Hajduk Veljko: is the effect really so bad, that you would better fly without FFB and What other effects are transmitted via a FFB Stick, like vibration of the aircraft, hits, weapon, airframe stress and so on. Are these effects feelable on the stick? And: are 4 buttons and a pinkie 8 way switch and a trigger enough?

Hi all, How good are the FFB effects? I have a saitek X45 with throttle where I could use 2 4-directional pinkie-head-switches and 2 buttons, in addition I have cougar force-feedback Joystick with only 4 buttons, one trigger and 1 4-head-pinkie head switch. I wonder if that's sufficient or if I it's worth it to get a force-feedback-joystick with more buttons. What's your recomendation? What is a good ffb-joystick for this sim, or is a non ffb-stick like the X45 good enough? Thanks for your replies.

will there be a discount for owners of black-shark when buying warthog? What's the status: months or years till it's finished?

Hi all, I'm planning to purchase this game pretty soon. Some question: There are no radar guided missiles in the KA50 - are there radar guided SAMs and can I avoid them somehow because I have no radar warning receiver? What time period is covered with this sim?