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  1. Solved now Hi Panzertard, I ended up installing the new drivers, 4.1.0.37 and it started working again, without changing profiles or anything else, don't know why the 4.1.0.36 drivers stopped functioning (only in DCS:BS), but all going great again now, thanks for your replies everyone.
  2. Hi majapahit, yes it shows in options but not in game Got some new ver 5 drivers just now, will install them tomorow, this did work as needed previously, and I thought I must be missing a key or something, there's that many to remember, and not much detail about TrackIR in my manual. will keep trying. Thanks for your help.
  3. TrackIR Troubles Hi guys, Got a slight problem here, have flown BS for a while, then had video problems, and now trying to get back to where I was previously, going OK, but can't get TrackIR 4 to work in the sim. It works perfect in IL2, and have the corect version for this, it shows in the axis controls in options, but not in game. Am I missing a key to hit or something, have searched my manual, also the pdf's that came with the game, but no luck. Tried LCtrl + F1, LWin + F1, etc Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
  4. I had heaps of trouble when I got this, it turned out to be a Catalyst driiver issue, at the time I changed to 9.6, and all was solved, now on 10.2 and it still works.
  5. OK thanks Starbird, will have to look again later. Edit: Oh, that light! Thought I was missing out on something. .
  6. I can't see any button above HUD for autopilot, or is it the "game" mode? Any pictures in manual? Thanks.
  7. Don't know if this will help with your project, http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/49310655/m/7201027043/p/4 but a lot of work was done for iL2 in this area. Basically, you can get all your gauges etc onto another computer on your network. I found it a great help in that game, would work just as well in DCS BS.
  8. Just go to Ka-50\blackshark\data\scripts\logbook and you'll see "Players" which is a lua file, save it where you like and just replace when needed. It's also editable, so you can do a Lazarus" when you die to keep track of your hard earned hours and medals. You could also use to combine two pilots hours into one, because apparently you need a second if you play as USA aligned, else you get friendly kills awarded against you. Hope they fix that in patch 1.01 Hope this helps.
  9. Have a look for active pilot - .... where it has "new Pilot" change that to the pilot you want to use, think you must include the quote marks, IE Active Pilot - "bill Brown". Something like that anyway, not on the other computer at the moment, hope this helps.
  10. Vip3rs desert terrain Anyone have alink for this, can't find with search function. Thanks for your help.
  11. Solved most issues now, but also found a strange occurence as well, as in this thread. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=714250&posted=1#post714250
  12. Hi Sharkster64, just got your response. I had already done a few things in past few days, as outlined below. I have now got all your (and others) skins going, and they are great skins. Thanks for your efforts. My update on above: Uninstalled, then reinstalled to C:\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50. Reinstalled Modman to D:\Modman, as suggested by a poster in problems bugs pages. Uninstalled it first. Went to run game before doing ANY mods, only got Launcher.exe error AGAIN. Tried a reboot to see if that fixed it (NO, stll error). Then thought I'd just try reinstalling Catalyst 9.6 drivers without removing old ones first, and lo and behold, it worked. Then installed some skins, including the problem ones (for me), and all went OK. Installed other mods and the rest of the skins, and got launcher.exe error again, so reloaded Catalyst 9.6 drivers again, and all OK again, but some skins weren't showing in the DCSMax skin select portion, that had shown before. To cut a long story short, I noticed that the Austrian skin was marked yellow, all others were green, so I uninstalled Austria, and the others showed again. this last part only applied to the skins that were sharing the Slovakian skin. My game is now running fine, just been promoted to 1st looie, (saved my profile before uninstall). Only thing still to do is find out about the skins/ mods that get the "MrConverted" treatment, 'cause I'm not touching anything else till I know what happens first. Don't know if this might solve some issues with problems I, and others I've seen here, but at least it's a starting point. Heard that Catalyst 9.7 drivers are out, but I'll leave them for others to try out first. Hope this long winded spiel helps someone out of trouble, now back to the game. _________________________________________________________________ PS Since writing the above have now discovered on 2 seperate reboots on different days that I need to do the reinstall trick with Catalyst 9.6 over the old version, if I just try to start it I get Launcher.exe error. It then works OK , all day with no problems. Don't know what's causing this, but it's easy to just run 9.6 install. __________________________________________________________
  13. I was getting an error message ".../Scripts/Database/db_countries.lua/48: unexpected symbol near ',' Found that CanadaTRN 1.4, CANADIAN_OLIVE_GREY 1.0 BY sHARKSTER64 AND cANADIAN fORCES sTANDARD fICTIONAL 2.1 by CrazyD, possibly some others that I didn't try, all would crash showing this message when launching, yet Austrian Army Color scheme 1.0 by Chriz would work even though it relied on shared files (marked with yellow, not green when it installed). While searching on the forums to find fixes for the above issues, found the best way to install skins mods etc as in the following method: _________________________ When installing skins, it's best to use Modman 7.1.1.0 (or higher) Make sure you install "Ka-50_For_all_Countries 1.1" first (Uninstall all other Mods first). Then next install "ModMan7_skin_sample - Slovakian Airforce" as some skins use that skins' files to work. _________________________ At the moment I did this but something is ammiss, as I don't see the skins that aren't part of the program, only the Slovakian skin, but I think it was when I uninstalled "ALL" at one time got a message about something or other and now CanadaTRN etc load the game without the message "....", but skins don't show. Now I want to reinstall DCS: Black Shark from scratch into root directory this time, and start over again. Does this muck up the activation, or best to deactivate first, or when it offers to uninstall, will it offer to repair the current install (as some games do)? What's best way to go about this without mucking everything up? Still have no idea what to do with "Converted" file types, have only found one instance of "MrConverted" during my search, and it didn't help my problems. I am not knocking these skins in any way, just that I am having trouble sorting them out. I appreciate the effort that modders go to in helping their community. It would be very appreciated if I could get some answers to these issues. Thanks for your help.
  14. Have a look here it might help. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=43092
  15. Nate--IRL, have you tried the Cat 9.6 drivers, I was having nightmares in this game and iL2 1946 as well, 9.6 fixed every one of them. hope this helps.
  16. Hi mate, I have 4 controllers, and when I first looked into setting the axis, all 4 were selected. So see if you have others with the axis selected, and if so delete the others, leaving your CH pro pedals selected only. I don't think you need to delete the keyboard ones though. Same with other controllers, you only need one for x, y, z and collective (I had an old Thrustmaster Afterburner, the throttle works, but the joystick was stuffed, so I use that as collective) Hope this gets you out of trouble.
  17. Think I found the culprit.... Testing skins, I found that sharkster64's "Canadian TRN" skin was causing the above error, it was also the one that required the Slovakian skin to work (which I had installed), Uninstalled "Canadian TRN" and it all worked again. Thanks for your help.
  18. Different problem now Hi Skypat, I get an error message ".../Scripts/Database/db_countries.lua/48: unexpected symbol near ',' This happened last night too, so I uninstalled all the mods, and was going to contact you about it, but I couldn't remember the message so I reinstalled the "external cockpit lights" mod, and tried running it to get the error message, but it ran fine. This happens when launching with Modman, DCSmax and the desktop icon. So I reinstalled some more of the skins one by one, and tested to see if game launched OK, which they did. Then this morning installed 2 more skins and the error has reappeared. Searched site for similar problems, but none found. Will try uninstalling again later and see if it corrects itself again or not. Is this a bug? How to fix it. Modman is installed to c:\Modman, and DCS BS is installed to ...C:\program files (x86)\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\ Thanks for your help.
  19. Great program Skypat, but I need small help. I have added 5 new skins including the sample one, as well as External cockpit lights, and they all installed in modman, haven't looked in game yet, but one skin was converted, that being the ny2009 skin from ED. That converted file, do you just get the new file in \converted\ and copy it over the one in addons_dcs, or isn't it useable. I forgot I had put that skin in the game while I was sorting out other problems I was having, and hope I haven't messed up everything because of one skin. Thanks for your help.
  20. Hi Inrptrn, yes I knew about Vista and \Program files\, had already installed to \Program files (x86)\, and it's now working, so will now have to learn where everything goes, only trying skin files at the moment, will try the bigger stuff later, as I'm still learning to fly this terrific sim. Thanks for your help.
  21. That worked Connos, got the right directory on 2nd try, IE program files (x86)\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\, and it now works. Thanks for your help.
  22. New to this sim, and need guidance please. Installed Modman 7.1.1.0 atried running it, but got message to "Show me the way to DCS series ROOT folder !". So I tried pointing to the various folders where BS is installed, but on each try, I just got "Mod manager will close". Which folder/Directory is it looking for? Have tried Eagle Dynamics, Ka-50, stable, blackshark etc but no joy yet. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
  23. Nate-IRL thanks mate, got this going, it was a Catalyst driver problem, all is fine now, and DCSMax is great.
  24. Solved, hadn't copied over to HD properly. Sorry for my nincompoopedness.
  25. The videos that came with the dvd version of DCS: Black Shark all worked perfectly, except the one named "ABRIS Advanced Moving Map System.wmv", which windows media player refused to play. Any idea why not, or if I need some special codec, and where I might get it? These videos have cleared the fog of learning this sim so much easier. Thanks for any help.
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