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This is a Nemesis for decades - Works fine a week then CTD. Played a lot this spring - A 10 and F-16 Syria map. Then flying MSFS . Last week I wanted to pull out F-14b from the hangar. A couple of hours update download and reactivate F14. WOW!!!! Flying Instant action Nevada cold start. Loading time close to instant. DCS much much better than ever. I could even see Nascar race cars on Vegas Raceway. Flying around on Nevada map. Even replay worked perfectly with F14 , was very buggy earlier.... Never been happier with DCS..... Then disaster when I tried Instant action cold start Syria. CTD while loading aircraft. Got a Windows warning on cache on E (My SSD with DCS). I removed old World - free space on E is now 484GB. Restarted PC Still CTD when loading aircraft - even loading on vanilla Caucasus. No CTD with low setting - CTD at Medium. Worked fine with default High after update last week..

MY PC is slightly over recommended spec - SSD - Win10 - NVidia. Card. Saiek x52. Nothing tempered with - or overclocked Similar PCs must have been tested thousand of times in W2.7 - flawless. Installed only Syria map and F-16. No map editor - just C&D straight from instant play. And it runs perfectly. Quick install . High framerate - no stutter . Then loading a new mission, the PC freeze with 96% memory used. Have no idea of where or how to start troubleshooting with this simple basic setup, and not encountered during pre release tests.

Added just Syria map and F-16. to 2.7 for instant action test. - First flight is quick loading with no issues. PC freeeze after loading second mission. Memory use: 96% 2.7 looks great. No doubt DCS will fix this..

Solved. Bug in C\ Saved Games ME folder.

Thanks.. Solved. Quick fix - deleting ME in Saved Games folder.

After moving complete DCS to a new SSD, the Mission Editor is corrupted.. Waypoints do not show on map - the waypoint counter do count them, when adding new ones Previous created mission got the same bug too. There is a saved DCS ME files still on C\ . Not sure if this the problem. Any way .. Question: Do the DCS World repair by installing on top of old installation? Or do the hard way - deactivate all modules, uninstall World , then a clean install. (a weekend job to set everything up again - sigh) Thanks...

Opened old home made missions Waypoint does not show... But again, it do adding WP. Ref Waypoint counter increase when clicking around. Something went wrong when moved to a new SSD last week. There is an old saved game mission editor on C\ DCS Maybe this corrupt DCS? install World again - does it repair? (Just delete ME files first) Or must I deactivate uninstall complete SCS first, for a clean install?

Thanks. Tried that button.... Have noticed that it really add waypoints. Ref waypoint counter. It increases with every click on map. But they does not show. Will check map settings Tried both Syria and Nevada.

Conclusion on this thread, Topic is not about quality on potentiometers, sliders and buttons. - But the number of them. Do you want to pay extra? (mini stick mouse and sliders) Consider: 1. Saitek manual is not good. You getting started, but does not help you to the finish line. 2. Youtube videos do help, but not 100% 3. There is a learning curve. 4. Once mastered, it is still time consuming to map in SST (Saitek programming). 5. Play with different profiles - new - saved. Important: Do a quick check first: Map Esc button to joystick trigger. Start DCS aircraft. Press trigger. If End Mission shows up , you are OK, and know how to program Saitek. Flying only simple aircraft (WWII) - you may consider less buttons, and use basic DCS mapping, with pinkie switch modifier if necessary. - In other threads, it is mentioned that mod 1- 2 - 3 does not work. There are grid menu, and drop down menus for different modes. Have not tried them yet, but my guess is it will work OK. Finally.. Thank you all for help in this thread.

Agree- Make sense. That is the way I do it. And F-16 profile is safe. What confused me was step one in this thread. To make it work: You have to delete all mapping in DCS (F-16) Control Saitek first - This is a mandatory step. (And it did work for me)

Well..... I am able to map keyboard/joystick outside DCS now, using SST program tool only Using a htlm print out map for F-16 to find keyboard combinations. What worries me - the day I want to map F-14 in a similar way, I will ruin my finished F-16 mapping in the process.

Exactly. Had no problem with this before. Created a few simple missions myself. You can click wildly all over map creating waypoints with white lines connecting. Guess the problem is related to the aircraft . In your example red/white icon. My icon is now a tiny little scale replica of the aircraft.

Sorry if I am unclear. I am talking about DCS Options menu. Selecting Controls - you can pick aircraft such as - F-16 - F-14 - F-14 RIO . Probably the most used menu in DCS. Just now I am mapping F-16. When finished - I hope to start fresh with F14 by deleting Saitek category, and not ruin my F-16 mapping in the process.

1. Selecting aircraft (F16) 2. Place it on an airbase (Icon is a small F16 - old version is generic F icon) 3. Select starting from ramp 4. Select load. 5. Select - use as Player. 6. Everything looks normal. From here I am not able add waypoints. (Worked OK before. Is it an update bug)?

Thanks. Normally you can select a different aircraft from top menu. No other selections needed to change profile. Hope it works that way with SST too.

Thanks for all help, Almost there.. I copied html to work with. As a test - I designated Esc to switch. Started up and ........ pressing the joystick button , and ----- End Mission!!!! :_) Final - can I do the same with other aircraft? Delete all and continue on the same SST save. Or must I create a new SST for each aircraft?

Thanks. I tried for hours to figure this. Example: I was able to save ministick down as dms down - Alt . (Ref f-16 control menu) I saved profile as test. Will DCS f-16 use "test" as default when everything is deleted in joystick category? The example in SST manual refers FSX - much simpler. Again... what puzzles me is DCS save/load profile is .ual files. But if DCS use my test profile clean as default it may work.

Agree - Sometimes it is not even enough ram left for cntrl/alt/del - PC goes black. But if it starts - it runs without a problem..

A new problem to me. Now my F16 (Syria) icon is "realistic" (takeoff from ramp).. How to get back to the old larger generic icon, and enable waypoints add/edit?

Thank you guys... I will check your advice. Certainly not "plug and play" this Saitek.

Thanks. Do know if it starts with a saved Saitek profile with your procedure? Example: The mini stick default is mouse. I disable it to work as a 4 way button with a save as.... Going to DCS it still work as a mouse. It is impossible to export (replace) the saved Saitek profile to the DCS files. It is different programming language. I can of of course walk around with pinky button as modifier to get needed mapping - as I did with my old Logitech . But I paid extra for sliders and mini stick , along with 3 modes, that is not compatible with DCS.

Waisted hours to figure out how to use Saitek 52 pro programs in DCS. There is no connection between Saitek programming and DCS. Maybe you can work from htlm sheet , and spend hours enter bindings. But I doubt you can save it to DCS. ......... Finally.. As a basic joystick Saitek 52 pro is excellent. Binding basic commands is quick and easy in Manager menu.

Please make this easy. I am giving up programming my Saitek 52 pro. There is no connection between Saitek and DCS Getting out of fullscreen and run Saitek programming simultaneously is impossible.