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Thank you, that seems to have done the trick!

Let me guess -- did your Windows 10 recently update to version 1903? I wasn't having any issues with SSA until this update, and now following standard advice here is no longer working. Has anyone else had any issues getting SSA to install and/or start up recently? We can't be the only ones.

Awesome! Looking forward to it.

Thank you Chuck! Awesome work as usual. I can finally rationalize putting real time into the Tomcat even though I bought it the first day!

Got my new F/A-18 grip today! True, I should’ve phrased it differently: although it’s the same number of buttons, the loss of a full hat created a bit of work for me to reconfigure my setup, as I could no longer group four related commands onto that lost hat.

Got my new F/A-18 grip today! Mine arrived last Friday, replacing the Warthog grip on a slightly modded Warthog base (years ago I pulled out the main large spring in the base and rely on just the four small springs, placed on top of the gimbal, which now give me perfectly equal stick forces in every direction). To be honest, I simply didn’t like the way the Hornet stick felt at first. I also hadn’t quite realized that we’d be losing an entire hat worth of buttons. As mentioned above, the pinky button seems too far away and I can’t get the leverage required to press it unless I move my hand down from the main resting position; and the brake paddle seems too short. Resisting the urge to send it back, I left it attached over the weekend and it’s now grown on me. I adjusted my setup to accommodate the fewer buttons and less reliance on needing the pinky button. Having tried the VirPil T-50 before, I still think that stick just feels better ergonomically, but the TM Hornet stock definitely feels closer to the ‘weighty replica’ feel of the Warthog than the plasticky T-50 did, and I think with some more hours with it, I’ll start to prefer it over my Warthog stick.

EDIT: ALL SOLD I bought these new last year for a triple-screen setup, but I no longer need them. All three in perfect condition with no problems. I even have the original boxes. As I'm in northern Virginia, really hoping to find somebody in the DC/MD/VA area who can do a local pickup; but if shipping is a must, I'll be happy to get an estimate for you ahead of time. Pricing is $325 each, $600 for two, or $850 for all three. https://viotek.com/computer-monitors/curved-gaming-monitor-gn32q/ Apologies for the upside-down pictures ... no matter what I do, I cannot get this forum to ever display my pictures correctly.

I just preordered one and the total cost, with the cheapest shipping option, for those of us in the US is currently $203.

Yeah, this guide is an excellent resource, thanks so much for putting the time into it and sharing with the community.

Got you beat by five days, so yeah, I'd support that. :)

EDIT: SOLD I'm selling my Buttkicker Sim Kit; I had it attached to the base of my flight sim chair. Goes for $220 new (actually $176 after the 20% discount they currently have): https://thebuttkicker.com/bk-sk/ Although I forgot to show them in the attached picture, I do have the 6 rubber isolators shown on the website. Price is $110 which includes shipping within the U.S. I don't know why the picture is attached upside down, but I can't figure out how to fix it.

EDIT: SOLD I'm selling my second track IR unit as I don't ever use it. It's in perfect condition, no problems at all. $90 includes shipping cost within the US.

I dunno: start to lose consciousness and then become aware of the Matrix? Makes perfect sense to me.

It has certainly been frustrating to watch other companies come present their new controllers that look so great but then supply issues make it very difficult to actually purchase anything. Your work looks outstanding so far, so if you can manage to make these things actually available to buyers within a reasonable amount of time, you may quickly jump ahead of all the other competitors. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

One thing I noticed immediately is that the HUD symbology is very misleading if you look at it from the perspective of modern HUDs with their dynamic flight path markers. At first I was treating the bore sight line as an FPM and I couldn't figure out why I couldn't maintain level flight. It was then that I realized that putting that dot at 0 pitch angle almost never actually results in level flight. Instead you need to get comfortable looking at the vertical velocity ladder on the left and constantly trimming to zero it out.

EDIT: FLT-1 and P1 sold I'm downsizing my cockpit a bit and selling my CH Throttle Quadrant: http://www.chproducts.com/Throttle-Quadrant-v13-p-180.html The CHTQ averages about $125 online. I've kept it in perfect condiiton and it doesn't have any problems, so I think asking $85 for it is reasonable. Shipping will be free within CONUS but for overseas I'll have to ask you to cover the cost.

Problem solved! I'm kicking myself now, but it seems that I never did a simple Google search on the cause of losing a mouse in a full-screen game. Instead I have been focusing just on DCS. Well it turns out that using mouse pointer trails in Windows causes this problem, and as soon as I turned it off, my mouse now works just fine in full screen.

Right, it appears that there's no difference in performance, so that wouldn't be reason enough to be concerned about getting full screen working. The reason I would prefer full screen is because I'm tired of Windows allowing other things to pop up over my DCS window when I'm in game. I also remain suspicious about why I'm not seeing any higher frame rate when I go full-screen, as I thought even up to now people generally see performance improvements. I have tried to shut down all other apps outside of Windows itself that could possibly take over focus from DCS, but that hasn't fixed the problem either.

For some time now, I've had an issue where selecting 'Full Screen' in the DCS option menu makes the mouse cursor invisible when I next start up DCS and Full Screen kicks in. My only recourse is to alt-tab out after it starts up, then click on the DCS window (i.e entering borderless fullscreen mode or whatever Win10 calls it). If I then go into the cockpit and hit alt-enter to go true fullscreen again, once again the yellow plus sign disappears. The mouse is still working in the sense that I can see things being highlighted momentarily as I move the mouse around; but I cannot see the actual cursor. Alt-enter again restores the mouse cursor. I should also note that toggling between fullscreen and not-fullscreen seems to have zero effect on FPS, which goes against what seems to be the conventional wisdom with DCS that FPS usually jumps with alt-enter -- but I've read that maybe ED changed this a while back such that the FPS difference isn't as pronounced anymore. And it's not just a DCS thing; I get the exact same issue in Assetto Corsa, which I also run fullscreen. I feel like I've exhaustively researched the issue and have tried every suggestion I've come across both on this forum and the wider internet: - Move the taskbar from the top of the screen over to the right side - Disable Windows' 'full screen optimization' - Disable Windows' Game DVR - Try apps like 'Cursor Lock' to force the mouse cursor to not leave the screen And what feels like a hundred other things. Absolutely none of them have any effect whatsoever on the problem. No matter what I do, fullscreen results in the mouse disappearing. I run Windows 10 build 1803; a 4K 60Hz monitor; and a GeForce 1080Ti. Has anyone else had this problem?

Ah! Good to know it's Ch1. Eventually I just said screw the tower I'm starting up anyway!

SturmovikPilot, you actually can already do this by selecting the 'Scale UI' option, have you tried that?

Yup, happens to me all the time too, presumed it was a known bug.

This is something that I've been asking for for literally years now. I use 11 controllers in DCS and it's incredibly frustrating -- when every aircraft requires significant time spent setting up controls -- to have to scroll up, down, left and right constantly because the controls GUI seems to be hardcoded to a certain resolution and only fills up about a third of my 4K screen.

I started using a curved 55" Samsung model about two months ago and since I sit about three feet away from it, the curve actually does help keep the edges of the screen from appearing skewed. But if you're considering a smaller screen or you sit further away, I'm not sure the price premium would be worth it.

I use several of Derek Speare's button boxes and they couldn't be easier to use in DCS. In the picture below (not sure why it's rotated 180 degrees but I can't figure out how to fix it, sorry) you can see five of them; from left to right they're the ones with red buttons: TrackZilla, FLT-1, then three P2s. I then make my own overlays specific to each aircraft to keep the button assignments clear.