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  1. Okay. That seems simple enough. Thank you very much for your time and assistance. I'll give it try. Have a great day. PS> I will reply with my results as soon as I get it done and can confirm success.
  2. I appreciate the replies. However, I am still a bit confused. I can understand that Updates and Repairs may well eliminate custom files and I would like to avoid that but for example, the Christen Eagle II does not even have a folder in Bazaar/Liveries. I could only find it in "mods/aircraft". That said, I like the idea of my custom skins being in Saved Games however, there is No Folder called Liveries in my Saved Games Folder. Do I create a Liveries Folder there ? And are each of the folders you show in your attached image, all custom liveries OR did you copy each of the DCS Bazaar/Liveries folders to put in Saved Games and only added custom skins to those modules you want when you want ? I apologize is that is a bit confusing they way I wrote it.
  3. Hello y'all. I have been away from DCS for almost 4 full years and only now getting back into it. I had several Custom Skins for the P-51, TF-51 and the Christen Eagle II. I recall saving Custom Skins or Liveries in Bazaar/Liveries/ "Specific Aircraft" however I did not see the CE-2 there. I found it in Mods/Aircraft/Christen Eagle II which has it's own Liveries and Textures Folders. In fact, Mods/Aircraft has folders for each of the Aircraft Modules. SO now I'm confused whether I am supposed to put the Custom Skins/Liveries in DCS Open Beta Bazaar/Liveries OR in Mods/Aircraft/Liveries or wherever ? Maybe Both Locations ? Can someone please straiten me out on this matter. I'd greatly appreciate it especially if I can get a fast, accurate reply while I can still find the Custom Skin Folders that I seem to have hidden on a backup drive (new computer). Please Help ! Thanks in Advance
  4. Excellent Thread. This is the information I wanted to see. A consensus in this case in favor of Win11 (fresh install). This is great news because I'm going to Click "PAY" on a pile of components to build a new PC and was having great difficulty trying to decide whether to stick with Win10 or bite the bullet and install Win11. I'd hate to miss out on potential future Video Enhancements that are only available with Win11 especially when the video card is by far the biggest expense of this new PC build. But it's all got to work. As long as it looks, feels and works like Win10 (and Win7) I'll be happy with it. Of course, I'll want all my stuff to work well there's never any guarantees of that.
  5. Thanks for the reply. I couldn't help but to think that the 4080 has to be faster regardless of price, I just wasn't sure what the other post was saying. That said, the specific card I'm looking at is just over $3k Canadian and is Not Water Cooled. That amounts to half of the price I'm paying for top-end PC Parts to build my new machine (specifically for DCS which I have not even clicked on in over 3 years now). MSI Gaming (MSI) GeForce RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Video Card RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G Looks like a great card and should work well with my HP Reverb G2 which I just received yesterday. I plan on getting the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X - 12-Core 4.7 GHz - Socket AM5 - 170W Desktop Processor (100-100000589WOF) WATER COOLED and > GIGABYTE B650E AORUS MASTER AM5 LGA 1718 AMD B650 ATX Motherboard DDR5, Quad M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB 3.2 Gen2X2 Type-C, AMD WiFi 6E, Intel 2.5GbE LAN, Q-Flash Plus, EZ-Latch Plus with 64 gb RAM Among other things including a better refresh rate Monitor and a new Chair and some goodies for mounting my VKB Gunfighter MkII and Warthog Throttle. I just have to make sure everything matches up to each other and confirm it'll perform as needed. If any of you folks see anything in this list that makes you scratch your head or where you think I can do better (quality ... price isn't really an issue ... for the first time in my life), please speak up. I do prefer AMD over Intel although I have no idea if the Processor has the New architecture or not. I am currently using the Ryzen 7 - 7200 and have had Zero issues with it or anything else on my system but it is not good enough with a 1060 video card and it's all about 7 years old. Time for a new (and likely my last) smokin' flying machine.
  6. Sorry ... I'm late to the discussion but interested in purchasing a new GPU along with Everything Else within the next couple weeks (max). I will be shopping on Newegg.ca I just purchased the HP Reverb G2 headset and want to get the best bang for my $$. I'm just trying to discern whether you are saying that the 3080 is better than the 4080 or visa versa ? Thanks in Advance. PS> Does anyone use Water Cooled GPU's ?
  7. I'm impressed with ED's interest in this forum thread. We have a new site with tons of issues (i.e. Painfully Slow Loading Pages, Email Notifications for Every Single Post, Email Notifications of Posts in threads I am NOT SUBSCRIBED to, Seemingly Difficult to Navigate the new layout etc). It's super annoying that these issues have not yet been addressed. But then if no one from ED even looks at this Forum Thread that deals with "Forum and Site Issues" then why even have this thread ?
  8. Ever since this Forum has been changed I am continuously receiving Notification Emails from Topics/Threads I have NOT Subscribed to and I cannot find how to Unsubscribe from Topics/Threads that I'm Not Subscribed to. Can someone Please inform me how I might stop these emails from coming (without stopping notifications from Topics/Threads that I am subscribed to) ? I have viewed my list of subscriptions and of course, none of those I'm not subscribed to show up so the link at the bottom of the notification emails is Useless ! .. Unless I'm missing something ?
  9. Not only do I dislike this new Forum layout, it just took me an HOUR just to figure out how to post (because I couldn't see whether or not I was Logged in, nor could I see HOW to Login). The thing I dislike the most (now that I found the Login and How to Post) is the Constant Email Notifications to Groups/Topics that I have Never been Subscribed to. And the Link (in the emails) that is supposed to take you to a page to deal with Notifications and/or Subscriptions doesn't seem to do anything (but then I wasn't auto-logged in to begin with). Ultimately, I preferred the Old Forum. At least I could navigate it.
  10. I noticed it a few days ago myself. The alarm would sound when there is a missile launch but I never saw any aircraft or SA's or anything on the RWR. Only the BB.
  11. Okay ... It looks like I'm back in business. I should also note that I also updated Tacview which was out of date and mentioned in one of the Log files. I also turned a bunch of other Modules back ON that I previously turned off trying to diagnose this problem. This had no further adverse effect. So thank you to everyone who replied (and didn't rip my head off). @Chump - Thank you kindly. It appears the advice you gave was the info I needed to get this working again. I am truly grateful. Thanks for everything. And thanks again to everyone to offered help.
  12. I'll check things out to see how and if they are working after I get some coffee in me. In the mean time, I thought I would add the following in response to a couple suggestions. First of all, I don't use Sleep or Hybernate or Screen Savers .... EVER. I do have a 3 platter drives for Data Only and an SSD that I did have DCS installed on for about 1 year (no issues). This current installation of Win10 and DCS is on a new, 1TB M2 Drive that is only 1 year old at most. I'll let you know how it's working by Noon Today (EST).
  13. Hi Chump A while ago I deleted the F-18, ran a repair and tried again ... same thing. I reinstalled the F-18 and tried again ... same thing. I also noticed that my Tacview was out-of-date, so I updated that as well. Still not improvement. However, I deleted the precise files you suggested, ran a Repair and WAS ABLE to get into a Server. Being almost 3am here, I didn't actually try flying. I will give it a shot in a couple different MP Servers in the morning and follow up with an Update. But so far it looks like this nightmare might well be resolved. I'm certainly further along now that I was yesterday so that's a really good thing. SO thank you kindly for that. I'll let you know in the morning if the matter is permanently resolved. Until then ... merci.
  14. I'm up for that BUT ... can you please inform me which Files and/or Folders to Delete and where I can find them ? Alternately, should I try uninstalling the F-18 (somehow) ?
  15. Why ? Does it appear the problems are (at least in part) coming from the F-18 ? I have yet to sit in the F-18 or F-16. I'll gladly uninstall or delete whatever I have to ... as long as we aren't talking about a complete reinstall yet. That takes DAYS for me to do where I am.
  16. I'm sorry to say I don't know what a HEX Editor is. But I'd sure love to figure out how to resolve this and at least a couple of you seem to be on the right track (at least able to identify some of the issues). I've been with DCS for years but have never gotten into the coding and script stuff. It's out of my league of experience. But if someone can provide simple, easy to understand instructions I'll do whatever I have to do. In the meantime, I agree that continuing to Repair without changing something is likely doomed to fail .. again. However, if there is a file or files and/or a Folder that I should try deleting to see if a Repair might clean it up with proper files, I'm willing to give it a go. Any advice and help at this point is greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
  17. Unfortunately, I have booted and rebooted my PC and started and restarted DCS and run multiple Repairs. Most often I have a Green Shield until I get into a Server. Other times it's Red right from the get-go.
  18. Pure Client Required ERROR >> Log File Attached I don't know if it will help anyone here to diagnose my problem but I'll attach my LOG file here. dcs.log
  19. UPDATE: I have checked to make sure my Antivirus (AVG) is not interfering and in fact is "ignoring" anything to do with DCS. I do NOT have ANY Mods. It is a clean install of DCS on a clean install of Win10. I have run Repair after each Update and several times since trying to resolve this issue. Even after ensuring AVG ignores DCS, the problem remains in MP. The files removed were the FXO folder and metashaders and one other. Then Repair was run. That enabled me to get to the point where you select the aircraft you want to fly (in a MP Server) until SRS starts then I'd be kicked to DCS GUI. I have no experience with Log Files.
  20. Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I have already done that ... a few times. Of all that I have done (deleting specific files/folders and run Repair), it gets rid of the Red Integrity Check Shield turning it Green .... until I get into the server then when SRS starts I get dumped back to DCS Server List either with the same error (and Red Shield) or I get the error on the very next attempt to get back into the server again.
  21. It has been a LONG time since I flew DCS. I had Win10 completely reinstalled in December and have since installed DCS World Open Beta and kept it up to date with Updates. However, I have not flown since reinstalling it (9 months). I jumped in today to start getting things set up again and I cannot join any servers. I have deleted fxo and a couple other folders which helped for a minute but then when getting into a Server, SRS starts up and then I get booted from the Server back to DCS GUI. Then if I go back into the server without SRS I get the same Error again "Pure Client Required". Then it tells me a different set of files aren't compatible OR something like that. It seems like a silly issue to get from a Complete Fresh Install with ALL Updates and having run Repair Multiple Times. There has to be a reasonable solution to prevent this issue. I do NOT have any Mods. Only Stock DCS OB with Updates. PLEASE ... Someone tell me how to resolve this issue once and for all.
  22. Hello Sprool While I haven't flown in DCS in almost a full year now (and now have problems with my PC making it impossible to do so) I was informed that sometimes when Mission Authors save their missions (for multiplayer) that they are inadvertently also saving THEIR Snap Views or Default Views which take precedence over your settings when in those missions. Every time you start in a new cockpit in those missions, you have to reset or resave your own settings ... only to lose them again the next time you spawn. It is truly annoying and frustrating. It is just one of the many things that ultimately made me leave DCS when I did. Of course I have no idea if this is the case for you but you may wish to try creating your own simple mission and see if the problem remains. I'm not sure that will help any but it might help identify the source of the problem. On the other hand, this also happened following MANY updates and had nothing to do with missions, as I discovered while flying in my own missions.
  23. chrisgrind > The icons don't return and that's it. They continue to move up/down up/down up/down up/down up/down up/down ... do you get it now ? It goes on continuously when DCS is open. If I manage to minimize DCS (no easy task on a good day), I can see the icons moving up/down up/down up/down up/down. And because this continues when DCS is open, even though I cannot see them moving, I know they are because at the same frequency, the mouse cursor is jumping back to the center of the screen (or in this case DCS GUI). I have to be extremely fast and accurate to click on ANYTHING without the F'ing cursor bouncing back to center point. And if I'm really lucky, I'll have clicked on what I was aiming for. BitMaster - Thanks for the suggestion but I think I'll just wait until I can afford a reliably skilled technician to locate the issue. I have ZERO Desire to create Users. That is IMO one of the WORST things you can do with your computer but I won't get into why ... just know that I have experience with that. I haven't flown DCS in MANY MONTHS and really don't care any more whether I ever do even though I wasted more money to get the F-16 while it was on sale. I know if I wait another 5 years, chances are it'll still be Fubar. THANKS FOR ALL THE REPLIES AND SUGGESTIONS I think this is an issue with something to do with my System Setup as opposed to DCS or Steam .. but who knows. I have operated, built, repaired and cleaned (system) PC's since 1990 and this one is just simply beyond my skills. Whatever it is, is anything but obvious. I simply haven't had any interest in keeping up with developments in the PC World of Technology and tired of fixing everyone else's broken and corrupted systems over the decades. I'll find a good technician like I had over recent years until he decided to up and retire :(
  24. I dealt with the "stick movement" by adjusting the Saturation. Everyone keeps comparing the Gazelles Cyclic with other helicopters and in my opinion that is mistake. Not all helicopters require 8" to 12" of stick deflection. I recommend that people interested in the Gazelle should watch the series called "Flying Soldiers" about British Soldiers learning to fly the Gazelle (in the real world). Episodes 2 and 3 especially show a lot of footage during which you can see the deflection of the stick rarely ever exceeds or even gets close to an Inch from Center Point. In fact, it's likely closer to half that for normal flight. It is a very fine-controlled Cyclic. There is no need to throw the stick all over the place even during erratic flight. The implementation of the Gazelle in DCS may well not be that realistic with regards to the flight model, but please take a look at episodes 2 and 3 of Flying Soldiers and you will see that the Cyclic barely moves during most flight. It's Not a Huey.
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