Kula66

Squadron Name: Lone kitten Teamspeak/Discord: Discord Contact person Discord ID: Kula#2989 Aircraft Selection. TBD (probably F-14) Pilots: England - Kula

Remember, at the time the decisions were being made the F-14A was in early service ... how many of those did they lose to engine issues?

Perhaps if you outlined what disappointed you? For me: * Model is fantastic, both visually and flight, especially feedback it gives * BFM its awesome - difficult, but great fun * CV landings/AAR/Nav - good * A2G - you need a RIO to use LGBs, but dumb bombs work fine - boring though due to limited weapons * BVR - without a RIO still nerfed, especially 1vMultiple - long awaited planned A-TWS will improve.

Thanks Ironhand ... I'll put that down to user error!.

Thats a very good question Ironhand! No, but I'm fairly sure that's not sometihng I've had to do in the past.

Yes, a couple of a couple of times ... :( My TEMP environment variable is set to /Temp/SysTemp and DCS creates files in there. Works fine in MP, files get created in Saved Games!

Other possible factors: * I always fly in VR * DCS is in c:\Games which maybe unusual * I always get a 'no debrief error' (I fly the Tomkitty) * I tried deleting my new Saved games folder ... didn't help * Tried flying with the F-15 and same thing ... LastMissionTrack.trk created in the System's temp directory, inside a DCS.openbeta folder, along with a load of txt & bin files * Repair doesn't find any issues * Same with stock instant action mission * Tacviews record ok * MP record ok and stored in tracks/multplayer dcs.log.txt LastMissionTrack.zip

Cheers, Yes, I assumed it was just me! :) Logs attached. dcs.log.txt dcs.log.old.txt

Lastest OB. Play an SP mission and no track gets created in the tracks directory. I've tried a repair. A LastSomthing.trk file is created in the Windows Temp directory. An MP track got created ok. Tried adding an autoexec.cfg file disable_write_track = true ... no difference. Any ideas? Thanks

Sounds plausible ... I don't AAR with the S-3 very often! Thanks Mav.

Anyone else having issues with AAR with the S-3 ... I just could not get it to connect, just kept going through the basket!

For info, I managed a flight in the F-14 ok last night - night over the PG, very nice, but the F-16 crashes every time when I look down. I've deleted the plane and entire game and reinstalled numerous times - same thing. Few of my existing scenarios work as most have triggers which seem to cause issues. Plus I get numerous odd crashes without any apparent reason. Haven't dared venture online with 2.5.6!

Cheers Bignewy - I know you guys will get there!

OK, thanks Bignewy ... would it be useful to you guys? I think this was the one ... I've now reverted to a backup of 2.5.5. dcs.log.txt

still crashes :( The only thing I copied over was the HOTAS configs. Deleted and re-installed from download - took a while. Renamed Saved Games folder, so it created a new one, copied over HOTAS config and created a new mission in the F-16. Hit start and bang, DCS exited before I could even get into the cockpit :( Logs attached - well I would have, but apparently its an invalid format, so, here is the tail: 2020-02-16 14:08:26.579 INFO VISUALIZER: Preload() finished 2020-02-16 14:08:26.624 INFO DCS: Screen: mission_offline 2020-02-16 14:08:26.625 INFO Dispatcher: precache units resources in slots 2020-02-16 14:08:26.746 INFO Lua: Lua CPU usage: metric: average mission loading: 1.2076 % 2020-02-16 14:08:26.746 INFO Dispatcher: loadMission Done: Сontrol passed to the player 2020-02-16 14:08:26.768 INFO GRAPHICSVISTA: Creating Resource "Unicode" of type 1 2020-02-16 14:08:30.656 INFO DCS: MissionSpawn:spawnLocalPlayer 1,F-16C_50 2020-02-16 14:08:31.038 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: texture 'F-16_Tank_370_NM' not found. Asked from 'GRAPHICSCORE' 2020-02-16 14:08:31.038 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: texture 'F-16_Tank_370_diff' not found. Asked from 'GRAPHICSCORE' 2020-02-16 14:08:31.038 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: texture 'F-16_Tank_370_diff_RoughMet' not found. Asked from 'GRAPHICSCORE' 2020-02-16 14:08:31.273 WARNING EDCORE: Source ./Mods/aircraft/F-16C/Cockpit/Scripts/../Shape is already mounted to the same mount /models/. 2020-02-16 14:08:31.381 INFO VISUALIZER: cockpit ILV loaded 2020-02-16 14:08:31.411 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: Can't load 'Fonts/font_general_RU.dds' in texture array ''. 2020-02-16 14:08:34.535 INFO COCKPITBASE: lua state still active DED, 26 (status undefined) 2020-02-16 14:08:34.535 INFO COCKPITBASE: lua state still active EHSI, 28 (status undefined) 2020-02-16 14:08:34.536 INFO COCKPITBASE: lua state still active UHF_RADIO, 36 2020-02-16 14:08:34.536 INFO COCKPITBASE: lua state still active VHF_RADIO, 38 2020-02-16 14:08:34.536 INFO COCKPITBASE: lua state still active INTERCOM, 39 (status undefined) 2020-02-16 14:08:34.537 INFO COCKPITBASE: lua state still active MACROS, 52 (status undefined) 2020-02-16 14:08:34.537 INFO COCKPITBASE: lua state still active TGP_INTERFACE, 58 (status undefined) 2020-02-16 14:08:34.603 INFO WORLDGENERAL: loaded from mission Scripts/World/birds.lua 2020-02-16 14:08:34.604 INFO DCS: dbox not found , skip 2020-02-16 14:08:34.726 INFO Lua: Lua CPU usage: metric: average mission execution: 49.4013 % 2020-02-16 14:08:34.733 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 312 squares 2020-02-16 14:08:34.737 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 314 squares 2020-02-16 14:08:34.737 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 11.212900 ms 2020-02-16 14:08:34.955 ERROR DX11BACKEND: Can't find precompiled shader enlight/raycursor.fx:DIRECTX11=true;MSAA=4;USE_DCS_DEFERRED=1;. 2020-02-16 14:08:34.955 INFO DX11BACKEND: Compile shader: enlight/raycursor.fx:DIRECTX11=true;MSAA=4;USE_DCS_DEFERRED=1; 2020-02-16 14:08:35.018 ALERT DX11BACKEND: Error: Can't find precompiled shader for effect enlight/raycursor.fx:DIRECTX11=true;MSAA=4;USE_DCS_DEFERRED=1;. Recompilation process will take some time, please wait (this situation should not occur on end user PC, if there is no manual shader editing) 2020-02-16 14:08:36.507 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: texture 'f16c-cpt-floor-01' not found. Asked from 'NGMODEL' 2020-02-16 14:08:39.586 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: texture 'f16c_cpt_switches' not found. Asked from 'NGMODEL' 2020-02-16 14:08:39.586 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: texture 'f16c_cpt_switches_nrm' not found. Asked from 'NGMODEL'

I personally find the current F-14 Jester menus too big, an immersion breaker and 'in your face' (literally) and much prefer the less intrusive DCS native radio menu system. And why only 8 options? When we use a 10 based number system? A right pain.

Perhaps by the number of degrees out of true the airframe is? ... I'm sure someone here will know.

Hi Mav, I may have a Rio joining me ... Frostbite

Almost every video/podcast of actual ex-F-14 pilots training ACM they comment on how they over-G the jet - every one! The last one said he got an award for a 12G guns kill in training! I think Oki mentioned 11G.

Me too, I love flying the F-14, (a) because its an awesome plane, (b) because its a challenge to fly and © because HB have done such a fantastic job with it. I fly it it almost exclusively. But, at the moment, there are some not insignificant issues, some within HB's control and some with ED. I've been playing since LO days and I am 100% sure both will continue to improve the product - like all things in DCS, it takes a loooong time!

IMHO, HBs F-14 is a fantastic plane to fly in SP, however: * I haven't noticed Jester improve much since release. * In BFM: Ignore Jester, his calls are either delayed or just wrong most of the time - I wish I could figure out what plane of reference he is using! * In BVR: hard work - you have to either try and manage the radar via theJester wheel or via VoiceComms, both of which are too slow in a multi-target environment, even SP. Iv1 BVR is great, except that Jester will invariably lose lock at around 20 miles - a critical distance :( * In AAR switch him off! Hopefully, TWS-Auto will improve the BVR multi-target use sometime 'soon'. You really need a good human RIO to get the most from the F-14 and they are as rare as the Tomcat 21!

Cheers plaiskool, I'll give that a go.

Will do Snappy, and thanks.

If you hear creaking, ease off :)

Thanks Snappy ... yes, I've flown on those for a while. Excellent servers, but the guns only area can get chaotic at times. I know there are 1v1 areas too (got destroyed by Angry-Farmer on there yesterday). The TAW servers have 1v1 areas, but seem rarely to have players. Are these the only ones?