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Some USB devices get very tetchy about which port they work with. Manufacturers are very creative about the virtual USB devices that they create in device manager to enable all sorts of features and emulations. The Cougar for instance, to allow chaining the throttle, created virtual hubs and ports which could be clearly seen in device manager under the USB section. Not sure about the hog as I am at work but the normal “plug and play” capability of USB that we all expect is compromised significantly when the driver started doing all this kind of USB tomfoolery. My cougar was a right pain in the arse in this department. If I so much as pulled the USB cable out and put it back in the same port I had to re-flash the firmware. Moving to another port necessitated an un-install /reinstall of the drivers. So for those with vanishing throttles, etc. Drill down to the USB device and uninstall any TM created ones, reboot and re-attach the devices. You will know if it’s working as you will hear the Windows “bing-bong” USB noise as it finds devices. Good luck.

Not sure about foreign laws, but in the UK you have statutory 1 year vendors warranty on all electrical goods so if anything goes wrong with mine, its back to Amazon, not farting arouind trying to get sense out of TM.

I tend to use radar alt when down in the weeds / terrain masking. I dont want to trust my arse to someones map drawing skills, or my own fumble fingered baro pressure settings. Mind you, i've never had a radar alt failure yet. I may get some seaweed in the cockpit.

Set location/keyboard to US till TARGET is patched. works fine dont need it right now though DCS A-10 works out of the box! first flightsim since F-19 on the amiga that didnt need a weeks fannying about to get right! :joystick: :thumbup:

You begin contemplating creating a beta changelog to "keep track of things"

As a test i recently installed win7 32 bit onto an old animation machine, (P4 era dual Xeon w/hyperthreading). This monster cost £££££££ back in the day and came with XP. I installed win7 and it ran faster than with a clean xp install! Windows xperiance score of 5.5. not bad for an old warhorse. good for an office desktop for another 2 years. Conclusion Win7 has far better multicore and memory managememt yiedling smoother operations overall. Think about it. when xp came out 2+ cores and >1gb Ram were unheard of outside the server market. oh, and it fixes all vistas bugs I disagree. KILL XP! With the new NVIDIA drivers, Falcon AF & FF play fine with Win7 x64

If you ever intend to install >3.5gb or RAM, then x64 is the only way.

With every goon carring a MANPAD at least, every damn mission is a SEAD mission! I need to find a nice field full of cows to go strafe :pilotfly:

I set CTRL+F12 in the track IR menu. I dont have a HOTAS setup for that. You mean like a FOXY "shift" don't you? That will be TARGET. You should already have your keyobard set to US so it should work for you. I havent touched it yet to be honest.

A few of the guys have mentioned that its in the controls page of DCS bottom left, "modifiers" i use the pinky lever remember if you use S3, then thats your nosewheel and laser buggered

Me too. Its like coming into a bar and hearing the last bit of your favourite tune playing and you think "cool, worth the walk", then the jukebox cuts out, the bar closes and you realise that you really did leave the house wearing only a hat. ..oops, wrong forum ;) anyway, CG scared the troll away so I guess we had better start talking about the beta again. ..... so, when's the nextSLAP

Well, when someone says I do something “blindly” I don’t take that lying down. To say those of us who have pre-bought the Beta are “blind” then you need to back that kind of talk up. We have bought because we have “seen” the potential of the new DCS and have “experienced” the quality of the past ED products. That is faith, yes, but not “blind” faith as it has evidence and experience to back it up. That IMO is “justified” faith. Whole different matter. As for all the,”it’s too expensive” and “my computers too slow”, those arguments are completely pointless as the former are driven by the worldwide markets which ED don’t control and the latter are a by-product of your working conditions which again, ED don’t control, (unless you are an ED employee ;)) So you can have a go about there not being a demo, (which has already been answered), but please leave others “faith”, the pro’s and con’s of worldwide capitalism and your own personal financial situation out of it. Cheers Stevie Wonder

Doubt its the WH as its fine in Windows. WIP issue

The space shuttle cockpit looks amazing. I wonder if it can handle high altitude JDAM delivery? You would have a significant standoff range advantage as well as being out of all SAM engagement envelopes :lol:

It sure does.

Well, when I pull onto the target I am always a little to one side to the other when entering the dive. I don’t have time to roll and pull /push to move the pipper to correct the horizontal error, so the rudder helps to make very small corrections, very quickly. I am not talking about spraying rounds around like a garden sprinkler. It does decrease accuracy, no doubt, but against soft to medium armoured targets it helps. T-80's are another matter however as very tight groupings are the only way with them apparently, (although I’ve never got one yet with the gun). Since IL-2, the “don’t use the rudder” posts have been the same. Whatever floats your boat. I bought the pedals to use, and for very small gun run corrections they work for me.

You have to watch out for those holographic aircraft carriers!

Wow. And again...WOW. :thumbup: These should be in the ED manual mate. Like they were in.....that 'other' games manual :smilewink: I saw that you and a few other guys were working up charts etc, a few weeks ago. Can you get BWAZE to link to them in the "user submitted docs" section of his sticky thread as they should be readily accessible from the front page IMO.

I am trying to wean myself off “easy communications” and have figured the radio settings to communicate with JTAC. On the “instant action” missions in the ME, my co-pilot has the settings; BORT# ‘11’ and COMM (ticked) ‘251’ (my plane is down as BORT 10 and 251) Now I assume the tick means comms are possible and the 251 is the UHF frequency on the AN/ARC-164 . What does BORT mean and which other settings on the radios do I need to enable wingman comms? (my wingie is silent). shouLd the reciever be set to "BOTH" OR "MAIN"? **EDIT** i think "BORT" means "Tail #" as i am "610" and my wingie is "611" Are Tower comms possible yet and if so, how do we get those frequencies? I appreciate that the comms systems is still WIP but would like to know which bits are working and which bits are just me being thick ;)

You are in for a very very pleasant surprise. :thumbup:

Worrying about procedure whilst diving towards heavily armed enemies at -30 degrees would seem a little silly. If it works, puts rounds on target and keeps you out of danger, then do it. I use the rudder to make small adjustments after I roll in. As long as you engage the PAC (1st stage trigger) after the rudder, it wont fight it. If i get home and the base commander chews me up for using rudder against proper procedure i will show him the new T-80's being painted on the side of my cockpit and the lack of bulletholes in the fuselage. That should shut the old guy up!

Should be mapped by defailt mate but it wont do nowt is you have your CMS on 'Auto'

Go on! Cheers Dan. Saved me fannying around. Now i can drop LGB's on a gnats pube from 15k, I am going to revisit these quick missions and this time deal out some serious precision pain! :thumbup: Parachute dumb bombs my arse! They are for runways!

My "Mixed kebab starter, lamb Vindaloo, Keema Naan & mushroom Pilau rice”, equivalent quality test is how long the learning experience remains fun and rewarding, and more than that, the “big-grin” moments when new discoveries take place and pieces of disparate information crystalise into tactics and procedures. On month in and I have just figured out how to accurately employ LBS’s. A golden moment when the frustration of past failures washes away in a glorious TGP IR thunderflash. Last week’s revelation was Beta#2 mavericks fix and improved JTAC implementation. This SIM just keeps on giving. The learning curve is almost the whole point, after all, when you stop learning, you die. :thumbup:

Is there a way to edit the default load-outs in the “instant action” sorties? MK-82 AIR bombs are as much fun as soggy toast.:helpsmilie: