Waldo_II

I made music a pretty big part of , but I think you'll enjoy the method which I did so. [/shameless plug]

Alright, a while back before I even installed DCS: Black Shark, I went through all of the producers notes so I wouldn't have to wait a million years before I could fly the Ka-50. As I was watching these, I was always thinking "Man, these videos are reaally long, and there is like no enthusiasm in this guy's voice." Sorry, Mr. Wagner. I mean, the videos certainly have a lot of information in them, perhaps even too much information for a lot of the users (Like explaning the page in the ABRIS that details satellite locations and their effect on accuracy.) There certainly are some people who will use that information, but I can imagine that those people are a smaller minority. So, when it came time to play the game, I couldn't remember much at all from the producer's notes. Not all information had stuck with me. I decided to make my own series of tutorials, sacrificing the amount of information for less time and a much, much more casual tone. I figure that if I take a much more casual tone and focus more in the key elements, then people will benefit more from it because it will keep their attention better. Now, I am not an expert with the Ka-50, I probably made some mistakes. I am always up for re-making these videos. They seriously took me like fifteen minutes each. If you spot an error in any of my videos, please point them out to me. I can at least make a comment within the video itself, if I don't remake the video entirely. Some videos may have some language in them, possibly deeming them NSFW if you have speakers. Again, I stress that I took a very casual feel to them. Autopilot Tutorial - I plan to remake this one later, it is too long at nine minutes, and I stutter and say "uhhhh" too much. And my voice pales in loudness compared to the engines. kmstMX8BldI How to Hover Tutorial zazolLemVds How to Learn the Start-Up Procedure j99-kO1N_3A Countermeasures Tutorial - This one I might remake, I've remade it like three times so far. It still is too long. 5gq1MF3Pl9M And a shameless plug for my "tutorial" of how to emergency land. This isn't a tutorial as much as it is a video just for laughs. EQqllUGbOt8 Any feedback is appreciated. These are not meant for anybody but the casual, inexperienced user. Experienced pilots won't take much more away from this at all.

Can you see the aircraft carrier in this picture? Setting up scenarios like this really helped me improve my landing skills. If you can master landing on a moving aircraft carrier in the night in the rain with wind and turbulance, you will have no problem landing on runways.

For landing practice, I tried landing on every russian ship in the game. Every ship. While moving. I learned that most ships will move at a max speed of 35kp/h, the submarine at 25. Some ships were harder than others. I took advantage of the collision meshes on a lot of the ships. The boat's model looks different than the collision model. I never quite landed on the submarine. I did for a second, but I fell off.

I found the "pause/break" key soon after posting. I seem to have half-fixed the problem. I changed all of the settings back to the factory settings and it works perfectly. I changed settings one-by-one and I have concluded that the reason for the failure was the fullscreen option. I have no clue as to why that was causing the failure; I'm baffled. And no, it never actually crashed. It just froze up. Thanks for responding, though. I'll come back if I experience any more problems.

Today I finally received my English boxed copy of DCS: Black Shark. I installed it just fine, and started it up. The first thing I did was change the video settings to "High," to display fullscreen, and set to a resolution of 1440x900. Nothing unusual. (see edit at the bottom of the post for first start) I then went to the "training" menu, selected the familiarization course, and hit the start button. What happens next is what happens every time I do anything related to loading the game, whether I am going into "Instant Action," any training course, whatever. First, after I click on the start button/Instant Action button, the DCS window disappears. I see my desktop and all other windows if I have any windows up (usually the task manager or Windows Explorer). Then a small screen pops up in the middle of my screen, an image of a pilot walking towards a KA-50 in a field. I assume this is what is supposed to happen. After a few seconds, the screen disappears. In the bottom right corner of the screen it says "Version 1.00" Next, a fullscreen window pops up, I assume this is the loading screen. A blue DCS: Black Shark logo stripe in the center, with two stripes of black on the top and the bottom. At the very bottom there is the grey loading bar. The loading bar moves quickly at first, going through stuff like loading ground objects, I can't remember all of them, except that the final thing I see is "Initializing effects." The bar then resets to the left, then progresses about 25% of the way to the right with the text "Please wait..." The screen disappears, and I see my desktop. Any windows that are up in the background have no content on them (All black or grey or light grey). The grey loading bar remains at the bottom for the most part, the windows Start menu button is visible along with the system tray icons and time. I have waited as long as ~15 minutes before getting so frustrated that I end it via the task manager. When I alt-tab to the task manager, I see DCS.exe*32 using plenty of memory (~400,000 kilobytes of memory), and it is using nearly 100% of the first CPU core. Windows XP Proffessional x64 4096 MB of DDR2 RAM nVidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB RAM AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU (Dual core Windsor @ 3.0GHz) Xtreme Gamer soundcard English box version of DCS: Black Shark. Please help me run this game. I have been looking forward to playing this for a very long time. I have searched through your forums and I have not found anything relating to my problem (if a situation such as mine as been brought to you before and answered, I apologize). I have seen the "long load times" thread, but the only solution found in there (using Cacheman) doesn't work, and in their case they can get the game running, whearas I cannot. Thank you, Waldo. Edit:The very first time I tried to load up training, I was able to get into it. However, I got a "Hit Pause to continue" message (or something of the sort), and I quit that session to look at the controls. I tried again, and this is where the problem first came up.