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I have the same issue, using AMD RX5700 with latest drivers. I actually have another unrelated problem though it happens since we got the new clouds : I almost cannot see anything in the TGP/TPod , like no ground targets at all using modules that have it ( A10cII, Harrier, F18 ) , unless there are no clouds above the terrain. This second issue is far more serious because the black sprites are rare and only last maybe 2 or max 3 seconds for me whereas the second issue prevents me to use these modules online for ground attack unless i know the targets coordinates. Thank you for considering this, i did not know where to post the second issue despite searching for it but i rarely post unless i have a problem and this is quite a problem. All the best.

Still, even if the 2000c was not comparable to a Mirage 2000D for A2G (with cruise missiles Scalp, Apache, Laser targeting pod, capable of carrying all conventional bombs in the arsenal etc), from what I know it still had an air-to-ground radar mode which shows that perhaps it was not only just an interceptor in the mind of the designers. I would really like to see this ground radar function implemented in DCS at some point. Though to be fair, if Razbam would consider time better spent to make another Mirage version sold separately, like for a 2000-5 or 2000D, I would love that even more.

The loadout I talked about does not carry any Magic or S530D.. ;) 8 Beluga or Snake eyes + 2 Rocket pods + either a fuel tank or 2 GBU or 1 more Beluga/Mk82 on the center pylon. BTW I did not analyze anything :) I just said that compared to a dedicated A2G aircraft like the Viggen, the Mirage can carry more ordnance for A2G to sum it up in one sentence as even if the Viggen can carry many bombs if not more with a specific loadout, it cannot release them in pairs (which allows to strike at more different targets in different locations) The Viggen is indeed much better at what it has been designed to do (deep strikes), more accurate in delivery, clearly better range, guided missiles, higher survivability for doing tricky A2G missions since it can fly very low for a long time despite not having integrated chaffs/flares. I wasn't arguing that really, I was just saying that the Mirage is far from being incapable in that department ( as is usually stated in forums) and in the context of this game (lets face it, it is huge simplification of reality), the Mirage can consistently achieve more ground kills per sortie potentially (with a dedicated A2G loadout) which can make it "superior" in a different way, particularly when attacking areas that were cleared of SAMs beforehand and contain many soft targets that you can freely attack once you destroyed the hard targets with bombs. By the way, isn't the Mirage supposed to have an air-to-ground radar mode as well? somehow it is not the sim yet :)

Well with the Mirage I use only CCIP personally, it is much more accurate. This said I disagree that the Viggen (as much as I love it) is really superior to the Mirage in A2G. Look at it this way : In the Mirage I can carry 9 Beluga 66 And 2 Rocket pods (or 8 Beluga + 2 GBU). Plus i have my internal A2G canons which can cause a lot of damage and are super accurate and can destroy things with a micro burst of less than one second with the right angle... Believe it or not with this loadout I regularly destroy 10+ targets per sorties (and sometimes even a bit more like 15+ if i am very effective/accurate with rockets and canons and depending the type of targets), that is almost A10 Warthog territory. No way I can do that in a Viggen.. you've got a more limited amount of pylons and no internal guns. What the Viggen has over the Mirage is indeed a more accurate CCRP, guided missiles like Rb75(Mavericks) and a fantastic anti-ship capability (comparable to our Super Etendard with Exocet missiles) , but in terms of pure destructive power, the Mirage is actually better in A2G in my opinion. For the Harrier it makes sense since it was designed for A2G... but still with its absolutely terrible range/combat radius, unless you air refuel or fly at the stalling limit, you often need to waste 2 pylons for fuel tanks for any realistic mission so... Anyways, this is just my opinion. I agree that it would be really great if the Mirage gets more fixes for the issues mentioned above, CCRP accuracy and INS updates, would be great alongside an updated cockpit.

For having sat often in a real ULM, I can say for sure that the spotting implementation in DCS could be improved because IRL spotting is definitely easier than what it is in the game in certain conditions. For instance when zooming at max in DCS, I can see contacts better than how i can see them in real life against the sky from a distance ( but i see better IRL a white aircraft against the green grass fields) , however if i unzoom a bit, at some point they suddenly completely disappear in DCS instead of this being more progressive. This should not happen because in real, when you focus on something and clearly spot it, once you stop focusing on it, you still somewhat see it as your eyes/brain "know" it is there so you can still see that small detail or dot moving in the background. But I 've never been in a fast jet, I can imagine that trying to spot planes that have camouflage flying super fast or against the terrain must be very, very difficult even for a trained eye. ED had to balance things but if i can wish for an improvement , it would be the progressive aspect of spotting, the contacts should not totally disappear if you reduce your zoom once you've already spotted them, unless they suddenly go against the terrain and have camouflage or you get blinded by the sun or any other cause that would make sense for suddenly losing sight IMHO like light reflections or being disoriented or suddenly taking too many G's.

Is a dynamic campaign really priority if the AI standard is low and you can't even spot it properly (visibility) in WVR though? IMO the lack of dynamic campaign is not "game breaking" like visibility or too simplified AI flight models and super detection abilities can be. Vulkan could also improve performances for many people too, bringing potentially more customers as well, the kind of people who did not have a very powerful computer like most of us have to run DCS online smoothly.

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Hopefully the next Mig21 cockpit update comes out soon, I would really like to see this aircraft given more love in the updates.

For the keyboard binds, the fix that they provided works for me, i can now assign the keybinds i want on the keyboard. I am surprised that it does not work for some people. For the missiles selection, i don't think it is a bug. You have to press " PCA select" on your hotas, and then you can either select your Magic missile on the hotas, or select your S530d missiles. Magics or canons can only be selected on the Hotas. I think that it is a feature as it is apparently how it is done in the real version of the Mirage. There is a bug with the helmet visor. When you select Magic missiles, it puts your visor down which gives a darker view. I found that when you are on the ground, if you select the Magic missiles first (on the ground) and only then, ask the ground crew to setup your visor, the bug is fixed. For bombing, you must use special mode forward to go into CCIP mode. Honestly Murdock, the Mirage is perfectly playable at the moment, i spend most of the night flying it on GAW and it works well. The NVG work too, i could use them but I did not find how to increase or decrease the sensitivity of it. I don't know if they fixed the radar altimeter bug yet though (used to kill my fps near hills or populated areas) but since i changed my GPU and CPU, I did not encounter this bug somehow.

I would really like to see major improvemens to the AI too as a priority. The single player experience is the core of the sim and the AI quality should be brought to a higher standard. Their detection range should be seriously looked at (as well as their use of the laws of physics) because if one is being honest, that is the main weakness of DCS which is a fantastic simulation but negatively affected by the state of its AI.

There is a specific test of that on youtube, with 6 different contacts of varying sizes and the result is that the Mirage has exactly the same detection range as the simplified F15 radar of FC3 despite both radar being completely different and from different manufacturers. The difference of 1nm that he recorded is because it took him 1-2 seconds to look down and record when the Mirage spotted the aircraft, but basically it feels like "copy/paste" of range detection. Maybe the rest is different or something changed very recently I dont know. Maybe Razbam did not have access to such data initially which could explain why the detection range is identical as FC3's F15.

Mostly multiplayer though I like to fire up a campaign from time to time when it is well done or if i just got a new module. Also for night missions or testing purposes i use singe player but 80% of the time I go online as i find it a lot more fun to interact with real people. You don't have to go for PvP though, there are a couple of servers against the AI where you can learn and work/communicate with other (friendly) humans. I get shot down a lot too in PvP servers but that is the nature of DCS, it is like chess... if you are not ready to be checkmated by stronger players or GMs, then you cannot really play chess or really improve your game IMO but i respect your opinion.

Yes if you both have a similar speed it can probably fool the doppler radar.

Ah ok thanks Rudel, i've just read that doc so basically since i activated it yesterday I only have 9 left and when i change my cpu this week, i need to deactivate and reactivate and it will not screw me of one more activation. I really hope so. I really hate this kind of DRM, what is wrong with linking the module to your account, works fine really. Anyway, at least they say that there is an automatic activation every 31 days once i run out of activations (which will inevitably happen to me) so I should not have to buy again this module hopefully because that would have been unacceptable to me. Thanks for your help.

I just bought the A10c and plan to change cpu next week. Does that mean if i run out of activations at some point I will have to buy this module again ?!! Is the activation linked to the cpu or the motherboard or the SSD? Damn if i knew that I would have bought it steam

Thanks to Steam I could pre order the F16 Viper for only 35 euros instead of 55 euros (which is already a pre order discount, the full price will be 68-70ish when it is out) by using tokens that I did not even know I had on my account (until someone told me on reddit) due to having purchased previous games since a specific a period of time. So for me that was really nice to have the option to get it on steam. It is also how i learned that DCS even existed, I was browsing simulations on their store and discovered DCS... then asked on some forums how it was and ended up purchasing it. For some reasons DCS runs better for me on the ED install so since then I have transfered a few steam modules from Steam on the ED install and bought the rest of my modules from ED directly to support them. So yeah, I owe steam quite a bit and like Viper2097 said, it is a pretty good platform with a very secure payment method that does not add additional charges of currency conversion (good for expats like me). It is also the one platform that almost saved the PC gaming industry in the mid 2000 in my opinion. All my games are from Steam except DCS and IL-2 since 10+ years.

Nevermind it works now if switch off one of the 2 gyro switches, it didn't work in a specific mission for some reasons, sorry for the bother.

Hi, I am using the latest DCS open beta and i have a question. Is it normal that I cannot move the intercept angle knob? Do i need specific conditions before i can adjust it or is it a bug? I ask cause i have seen on a youtube video that it used to be functional but when i try in my version it does not want to move whether i use the mouse or bind it to keys. Thank you for your reply.

I am not an expert by any stretch, but from what i have read from youtube videos, 800002 does not work well and has this issue of always targeting the same ship as you experienced. A possible workaround is to use another code, 800001 seemed to work well for multi ships targeting though i did not test it lately and there is still a chance that they will hit the same target due to the random factor of the target selection by the missile in this mode. Another way could perhaps be to use STD mode ( single target or 800000) and shoot the missiles separately (shoot the first one then press Bx then 8, then slew the radar to another ship and press tv fix, then shoot) though it is kinda awkward. Maybe the bearing mode has potential as a workaround as well if you shoot them one by one? The best video i have found on the subject is by xxJohnxx though it is from 2 years ago :

Offline no, Online yes though it depends on the server and the amount of people/high res textures your system has to deal with. You can get away with 16gb most of the time but if you want a smooth experience at all times, 32 is required

Well you got robbed by Intel already so not really :) The point of the new Ryzen is to have a cpu as good as what you have or just slightly better at best but for 249$ instead of 500$+ and the additional money you probably had to spend for cooling that o/c cpu to 5ghz. It helps people who want to spend more on the gpu instead to see a real increase of performance in gaming overall, not just the cpu.

FC3 is not on par with HF modules if you are looking for a true simulator. There is a reason why High Fidelity Sukhoi or modern Mig modules don't exist yet. The FC3 versions are simplified for all the systems in these a/c and force you to keybind everything. My advice would be buy the Tomcat, Mirage or Hornet as your first module. Then see what you like better, Air2air or Air2ground. Then go on and buy other HF modules depending on your tastes and whether you prefer offline mostly or if you will play mainly online. If A2A is your thing, Tomcat, Hornet, Mirage,Mig21, F5 can fit the bill. If A2G is prefered, A10, Viggen, Hornet, Harrier etc . If you play mainly offline check if it comes with a campaign or not. If you will mostly play online, favour a more modern plane as they are far more popular online as most servers host them but very few serveers use older ones and are usually sparsely populated. Don't forget helicopters as well. IMO buy FC3 if you are a big fan of the F15 or the Su27 and dont mind having less realism. You can also purchase the FC3 planes separately. Just my opinion though.

Same here, it is really extremely annoying.. you take all this time to startup the plane, get airborne, get in a favourable position and.... poof... without any crash notification.. I don't crash with any other module. I really hope it is their number 1 priority right now because I am almost forced to not use it online at all now. For some reasons it works better on some servers than others. I get the crash really often on GAW but almost never on PGAW (only crashed once i think).

I get CTDs often since yesterday when playing online (5 times, the last one just now on GAW), it crashes without any notification. I don't know if it is linked to the latest update because i did not have these crashes before. I purged my dcs folder in "saved games" and created a new one but i still get them, typically when i put the f10 map but it could be another cause.

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