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I got to do some basic road running now. but how do you save the adapted (player can drive enabled) Mission Planner, and where is it saved, and named to what? (I have my Saved Games files with the diff.lua scriptfiles not on my windows boot Saved Games, but on a specific games hard-disk partition.)

Thnx all, it becomes more interesting to me, almost gave it up LoL.

I had that on, but i will check it ... and yep, it was off again, and i got it to move, now for setting up axis controllers ...

in CA general options there's a Automatic Transmission activation setting. T (for Trouble) supposed to be Cruise Control? C for autopilot does nothing, although it shows in the left low corner of my monitor screen on play mode.

I am a bit used to TC (IL2). Was planning on doing some road running on the Normandy 2.0 map, as tourist. AA would be a great help here, i tried getting my throttle the way i am used to in IL2 Tank Crew ... PS although my warthog set seems present on the Controllers page for CA they don't seem to work. Only some Keyboard commands do, and i got the gun to move with my joystick, but nothing engine power related with either keys or Throttle. Is this typical for DCS; selling unfinished business?

I am able to aim and shoot the gun now, figuring out how to get it moving

What am i doing wrong in starting the Watch and Wait - DAC Channel default mission? Controllers work fine with planes ...

Now 10 years later LoL. Set and adapted some button and keys and axis controllers to get the DAC (?) tank moving. Nothing happens,nothing moves ... even the engine won't start. Any tips how to get it going? Pressing pause, movement starts, but then an error message Unable to enter vehicle: vehicle control is not available

The view from the cockpt while passing planes, latter seem real stretchy:

With the Christen Eagle TRIM_HAT Nose UP or Down trim does not work in Flight Control Options; Game Flight Mode is off.

Just found that Game flight mode should be off in general options, and you need to also retune axis curvature up to 40 . But still the spit tends to roll to the left. A p51 is much easier to tune BTW

Art_J posted: switch off Game Flight Mode in general Options. In my Warthog/Saitek setup i needed to tune the combo axis set with some curvature around 40 and dead-zone of about 5. With the Christen Eagle TRIM_HAT Nose UP or Down trim does not work in Flight Control Options; Game Flight Mode is off. ADDED Tuning the Spitfire and P47 is still not easy, P51 is f.i. so i think i'll turn game flight mode on again.

You are right, the axis needs tuning now, and i appear less drunk ... just tuned the Spitfire a wee bit .... Thanks for the tip.

So i'll vote for Game Flight Mode only then ... i thought politics here were not allowed?

Me = dumbo, i don't get what i am voting for anyway ..

TARGET, i tried it years ago, must try that again after giving it up ... got used to NOT using it LoL. I have a Saitek pedal set added now, no problems then?

I just bought it, but it seems quite difficult to get the controls right without some extra hardware .... sooo many functions. With a warthog stick i f.i. i tried to figure out how to drop bombs all at once, now how can you do that? And then tuning the engine right as i keep loosing power and air speed.

Never heard of it .. it was on, now off, feels like i now have to tune all my axis curvatures .... now get the feeling i'm drunk.

PS Saitek pedals work OK, tested game controllers app in windows. Definitely with all planes the Trim functions via keyboard in pu don't work it seems. but when addressed via my joystick's hat button they do. It seems the Spitfire does not have an aileron trimmer?

Thnx I tried that and set it to 1.25. Ii am trying 1.75 again now; it seems only the game interface (pop ups with letters etc seem affected, not the gameplay view. Am i right? Makes a huge difference. ADDED seems quite better now!

Well, i darkened my room, and it works reasonably well now .. ADDED may 29: Opentrack v 3.2 software is out; and addressed the stray-light problems and it's far better now. ADDED dec 2023: had a new windows installation and it did not work with other sim software than DCS. Got it working there as i manually put the npclient and freetrackclient dll drivers in system32 and the 64 versions in sysWOW64 ....

The pic says it all, no squid, special version downloadable via trackhat: https://www.trackhat.org/trackhat-opentrack

Hi. Finally got the Trackhat Opentrack (3.1 version) sensor v2 working, but what ever setting i tried the game reacts very jumpy, tried adjusting smoothing and various Mapping options darkening the background. Face in Opentack App Cameraview seems to move smoothly, but in DCS it's just too jumpy to wotk with. Tips welcome. ADDED; just tested IL2 with the same settings, works OK, so it must be some DCS setting specific thing?

Right, i saw the Light ..

PS i like videos, but getting to just that point probably mentioned once briefly in a long vid manual is a thing for me, especially when you're quite deaf LoL. But i just found it, switch off 2 mags on the dash.