ouky1991

NineLine's answer on reddit today:

Good to hear it's working. Are you by any chance using Nvidia DSR? I was wondering if that's the cause of that, because I have it on.

I have the same thing. Try to click on the desktop after you boot up the game before it loads to the screen. I haven't tested it enough times, but so far it works for me.

It seems that each time you trigger spawn, you will get the smoke. I have it in my own editor missions where I know the location of trigers that spawn enemy AI. It might be tied to EW radar, I'm not sure if it happens exactly at the moment of the spawn or when you get EW sound (both in f-14 and f-18.)

Not sure if it helps but pausing in RIO seat encreases the fps back to normal.

I have this too from time to time. The problem is the kneel. sometimes it just isn't comlpetely down, so while still hooked to catapult I simply lift the nose a bit and then kneel down, and make sure to keep the switch down at least for 5 seconds. Once completely down you will notice the plane sort of locks itself with the deck (kind of like when you shut down engines on the deck and the planes snaps together with the ship). Then the catapult kicks in, so I would recommend to keep it at the mill power before you do that.

In external view when launching from carrier, there are sparks behind the front wheel all the way to the end of the deck. Is this a bug? I noticed it doesn't hapen to AI hornets when taking off. Retracting the launch bar doesn't help