Northstar

There is a kneeboard you can download... https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315708/

Great mod for those of us locked out of 2.7. ED has shown great planning by raising the required spec and ending support for Windows 7. During a global hardware shortage... Well done ED, well done. (slow hand clap)

Im not being nasty. Affording isnt the problem... Getting ripped off £600+ for a £300 gfx card is.. Ive seen a GTX1080 for sale at £900!!!!! Cant buy a new card is a problem... Wont buy used again, too many knackered cards or flashed to look like a good card out there. My current system has been running everything I throw at it acceptably, So I didnt bother looking at upgrades, whats the point in an upgrade if the current PC fulfills the need? That fact that I only play online.. I learn new modules online.. Is a problem. ED's decision to not make their product scalable and back compatible is their doing. Despite selling their early access modules as Win7 compatible. So I wont see the module finished. Offline is boring AF I'd sooner not play. IL2 in all its variants play fine in Win7 Elite Dangerous plays fine too. Xplane

I have the most recent BIOS update from ASUS for my Extreme III motherboard.. Im not just looking to buy a GFX card... I was being a lazy typist... I know I need a rebuild... Ive known this for a while but its been working well for me until now. A rebuild will also need a GFX card... I can get everything else, cannot buy a new GFX card to complete the build..Is that better???.. Theres still no point in rebuilding without it, as I'd still not reach the min spec. I also hate typing in pointless forums. Id sooner play the game than talk about it.... Hence Ive been here for years and have very few posts. This will also be my final post so have fun with it... I probably wont be back.

i7-950. Asus x58 motherboard 24gig ram GTX970 I can run DCS at low/medium settings and get 40+ fps online. I never play offline, DCS offline is boring, I'd sooner not play When I try to 'upgrade' to Win10... It gives me a BSoD during the install and the Win10 install cannot continue, it just loops blue screens. To get Win 10 to install I have to disable both the onboard sound and network cards in the bios... Win10 needs a net connection and I need drivers etc. After the install. If I enable either card Win10 gives a BSoD during booting. So no in this case... My Win7 PC cannot work with Win10. Im well aware that its old but its been running well so Ive left it.... If its not broke, dont fix it..... Now I cant fix it because most notably, the world wide shortage of gfx cards.

Im not happy about it... but Im not the one who chose to end win 7 support at short notice, during a world wide shortage of hardware. So those of us that have been managing on old hardware and win7 suddenly now cannot buy the upgrades we need. Thanks ED. I only play online... DCS offline bores the pants off me. So on the 2.7 release... I might download it just to see how far down the v10 spyware rabbit hole they have gone... I can and do play a fair few Win8.1 game already on my poor old Win7 potato. If it runs it will run bad, but then again its 1.5 core DCS it runs bad on most peoples PC's. As for win7 being insecure..Please. 95% of people that get hacked have their passwords stolen from other sites data breaches or are simply watched as they type their PW in. Not because they are running an outdated OS.. The hackers are no longer interested in win7 anyway. |They are all going for win10.

I tried.... Couldnt install it without is giving a BSoD... Because it BSoD during install it also trashed my Win7 install. It also BSoD on a clean install. It would install if I disabled both my onboard sound and network cards in the BIOS,, But then it sulked because it couldnt call home. When I enabled either the sound or the network... It gave a BSoD during booting Please note... The only reason why Bloatware 10 is so popular is... THEY HAD TO GIVE IT AWAY

The oh just update to w10 in my case isnt a simple just update.... It needs a motherboard, cpu, memory and gfx card level rebuild... Great... Except at the current time I cannot even buy what I need. ITS NOT THAT I DONT WANT TO SWITCH..... I CANNOT SWITCH..... Ive noticed that people seem to defend whole heatedly the mighty Win10 and bash the old OS ... Ewwww its old... 10 years old yadda yadda yadda..... Bored now of hearing it. If I could have ran it or even installed it... Dont you think I would have simply and blindly followed the sheep and 'upgraded' to shiteware v10? Win10 is not a good OS... Its in the same league as ME and Vista... Win10 uptake is only so high because... They gave it away! I have a long standing history of cutting my own head off to spite my face... Even tho Ive spent a stupid amount of cash on modules... Im not beyond just walking away on principle.. Maybe in a few years... If I mange to get hold of what I need to rebuild (not at scalp prices) I might return. Until then I'll happily uninstall and gain 250+gig of HDD space and play something else and support the devs that go out of their way to support old Win7

However .. The early access module that we all purchased in good faith, that stated WINDOWS 7 compatibility will never be enjoyed in a finished state by Windows 7 users... And that sucks that they moved the goal posts.... Its almost like buying an old house in the woods only to find that the building code changed and you now have to remove your old house and buy a new house just so you can continue watching the woods mature.

I know the feeling... Ive spent $1017 on modules over the years. Even tho we are not being excluded from DCS because we either cannot run/install or refuse to install MicroSuck Bloatware v10 Those early access modules that we paid for, that as it stated at the time of purchase 'Compatible with Windows 7'... We Windows 7 users will not see our modules finished. That sucks big time that ED moved the goal posts. Fortunately not all devs have this closed view. CCP have even older software (Eve-online...from 2003) that is still updated to this day and remains Windows 7 compatible. Rise of flight is another sim of similar age to DCS that is still updated and remains loyal to Windows 7 ... There are plenty of other devs that still support Windows 7 too. I will gladly spend my money with those instead. I wonder how these devs dont find Windows 7 holding them back? As someone said... Only 3% of users still use Win 7 Whats business in the current climate can afford to turn away 3% of their potential customers?

You have unfortunately just lost an activation life. You need to re activate the module again. (Im not reactivating my mig21 for a few more weeks.) This wouldnt have been a problem if ED had of sent out a the warning in the changelog.

Why wasnt there a warning in the changelog for the DCS 1.5.6.3690 Update 1 that we needed to deactivate the Mig21 module before applying the update. Thanks Ive just had to needlessly loose an activation.

Leaving it late for a December 2015 release. Its December 24th Your running out of December Are you sure you it going to be December 2015?

I have this problem too Just hangs when any exiting any mission, doesnt matter what mission ive been playing.

This could have been written my myself except: I have FC3, Sabre, MIG-15bis and P-51D ... (started with DCS Blackshark v1 hence my profile is old) Im soo noob in DCS World ive not even setup the FC3 controls yet. I can fly the MIG-15 and P-51 reasonably well, use the weapons and can usually walk away from the landings :-) Target wise I do like to ground pound. Im based in the UK. Thanks