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Finally I've come across some footage of my issue and as I haven't been able to screenshot it myself (probably a facebook - since it's not Oculus anymore - problem, or just an Win 10 Early Access issue as usual), I'll just drop it in here from Mover's YouTube vids on the A-10C II which does have the exact same issue. Check the comments with time codes below (also in the Tube comments, somewhere deep down probably). And I do stand with my original thread title that has been redacted (and totally does not even remotely reflect my post at all, it should be like "TGP contrasts blanking/blacking out after weapon impacts", my original one was a bit too harsh I admit): With that issue, the TGP is close to unusable for me. BTW I've never seen this on pancake, but it does happen in VR everytime. 12:23 Finally I see someone else having that issue with the TGP going black after an impact. Having this in DCS for a while now, seen in both F-16 and A-10C II, but others weren't able to reproduce it yet. Also, looking at the general area where the impact happened, the contrasts are very lacking when the TGP does show something at all, and it's extremely washed out, as seen at 13:12 when you zoom the thing in and at 17:54 when you zoom out and then in again. 18:34 has the black screen again, followed by the washed out image. I agree it looks cool to some extennt, but usually it makes seeing things impossible the way it is right now. 24:58 does show it as well. This is a massive issue for me ATM and it only happens in VR. All this does not happen at all in pancake mode. 4:08 Again that issue... (I'll write that down here so it can be tracked as I'm gonna report this) 5:28 as well, 17:35 on the Mav screen also, as well as 18:42 I do hope that clarifies a bit what I intended to show up initially where I totally sucked at.

Now I've seen it... It's not under "The final list of features that are planned to be delivered in 2020 for DCS: F/A-18C Hornet:" though, didn't look above the picture though...

I can totally agree after 10+ years of guitar for at least half an hour every day and still totally sucking at it. You can only be even remotely good at something if you literally stop doing everything else. But most probably devs do have families...

Have I missed something? I still can't see the page numbers there...

Totally BTW: Who else keeps reading into the signatures constantly because they're not separated by any means? Needs to be fixed as well...

Also, don't forget to turn it up at daytime as it's not maxed out initially.

Well, I just checked the Hornet Roadmap. And doing so very much gives me that impression as well. To be fair, all the things planned for the 2020 out of Early Access thing are things I realistically expect to be done not anywhere before mid-late 2022. And we've been lived though that before. IIRC the EDGE was first announced to come in 2013. It entered Open Beta in 2018. But as always, things take time and if there's one single rule in life: Plan never goes. And if there'd be a second: See rule #1. 10 years ago, when I still had job interviews I also thought it'd be just around the corner. Now, 10 years later without anyone having employed me and people that started to keep telling me it's because of "teh röyna", I've grown wisdom and knowledge. But let's not get into 1.7 / politics here, that just was and still is a glaring example for me how life in this world realistically goes, and everyone should expect just that and be happy about anything more they actually get. Thing is, things are going on and may be subject to change, which means it usually might take longer as expected. Regardless of that, what we do get, is quality. At least after the longer patch cycles have been introduced. And even just before that, an Open Blpha on ED made a Release Version on Microsoft look like an early Pre-Alpha. Every month I'm concerned if my OS might not boot up anymore or it might just have swept my files because it can - but I'm not concerned about DCS not running anymore on patch day.

Is there any particular reason the data cartridge options item has been removed from the roadmap list?

+1, also on the option to remove that has been promised to us prior to the SC release already.

Confirm, it runs at like 10 frames a minute at best. No problem in pancake though.

The actual solution was fixing the software, that was just a workaround. And I'm seeing that in my Rift as well. One problem with DCS also, as introduced in some 2.5.6 version, is that the framerate consecutively drops while moving the head around and it jumps back up when holding it still. I also notice this won't happen when I tab out and turn my head with the HMD in "dev mode" (= on my forehead) while watching the pancake mirror. So the problems seem to be interlinked to each other.

I guess vBulletin themselves literally still run a 3.8.14 for a reason...

It is not okay, but just unacceptable. It is possible to detect the display device type well enough my multiple parameters and then use a dedicated stylesheet for each of those if required. It was already possible ~20 years ago when I first dived into that stuff. Not making use of that which nowadays is stone age tech, is cleary just cheaping on out. And vB is a paid proprietary software, so that makes it even more unacceptable. And if things nowadays simply are just aimed at mobile usage, it's just a bloody shame, no more no less. And I haven't even touched accessibility here... Also, I checked how the forum looks on my N9. It's literally like reading a newspaper through a telescope whereas it was like reading a package insert for your pills with 20/100 vision before. Neither was or is good. BTW, when posting, having that automagical "here, look at the post you've just dropped" scrolling thing is just nervous and unnecessary. Especially since we simply can't tab out the reply window anymore. I've seen better GUI programming than this in DOS times. Simply don't shackle the user up and pull him across the floor. Just do not do it.

Just noticed another inconvenience. When going to page 2+ on any forum that has stickies, the stickies will be listed there on every page, cluttering the page. Not 100% sure if that was the case before, but I think the regular thread count visible was bigger, like 20 or even 30 instead of just 10. Anyway it would be preferrable to hide the stickies from consecutive pages. It's good enough to have them on the first one.

Sorry, couldn't resist, I just had to

Totally agree that it was long overdue, especially since the old version probably had some security issues that you wanted to have fixed which is something users normally don't think of when these updates happen. Just looks like we have to go through making the experience as close to the old one as possible together. Guess the first step is making the things work again that got broken, then the next one would be to change or customize the CSS to make the look more eye-friendly and after that comes the nice-to-have things. And we'll probably have to live with some things like being unable to middle click reply buttons to open them in separate tabs. BTW you're the only one so far I've seen with a working signature picture. You moderators sure are some lucky gits at the moment. BTW, while we're at it (I hope it's not too OT), I'd suggest changing a part of the rules to more modern terms: My point to make is the size limits do come from an era where people still were browsing the web on 56k with 800x600 or even lower screens. Any chance to have that revisited to fit more modern standards? I guess twice the sig height (or at least 150px) and twice the avatar size (especially considering the current layout around it having more than enough space for that) should be quite possible without cluttering up the visuals at all. Also, (haven't checked here yet), the old board had a pic size limit on the photo albums of 800x600 IIRC. I tried to put some settings screenshots in there (so I could always say "check my profile" instead of posting the same stuff over and over again), but that limit made it almost impossible to read off the things so I never actually did that. Being able to put screenshots of our graphics settings as well as graphics card settings and maybe even a dxdiag file somewhere sure would help bughunting. Would totally appreciate if you could consider changing this to more modern standards.

While trying to read stuff here, suddenly popping up out of nowhere: Yeah. Seems legit. But:

I do miss the thread page links where you could go directly to a specific page next to the thread titles BTW. Now you can only click the thing and go to page one or click a tiny thing next to the user's name and go straight to the latest post where you'd have to scroll up first which is just cumbersome. Also, the date line on top of a post is just way too small, the font is very much thinned out and almost impossible to read. And I won't change my opinion on the design until mankind finds a way to repair opticus nerves and I'll quote Nick Grey on this: The new default design "sucks balls" (that applies to any design that lacks colours) and sadly, the dark theme is utterly broken at this point and doesn't really look nice even though it feels better to the eyes. The old colour scheme with the blues and reds just was [CORRECT AS WAS]. And now somehow I feel my pastance pun on [CORRECT AS IS] doesn't work quite well... ​Also, I'm constantly getting When switching pages while reading a thread. The thing just seems to timeout at some point and with my impaired vision, I'm one of the slowest readers on earth. I always have to MiG28 the page before I can open up the next page. This whole scripety script interface is just pain in the plot nowadays. Why can't we just have simple, good old GET requests with parameters loading a new page anymore? It was sooo much faster with the old board version. ED having bought/licensed this for hard earned money must now feel like a customer of a former 3rd party they had ​​ And trying to edit this once again showed how cumbersome it is when middle clicks on vital functions don't work anymore...

Was guessing next week, but well. Always just expect it like the next job: never. Best way to stay safe of expectations that might not be met.

Well, it's still there on the dark theme, but I don't see the Like anywhere One thing that could be better though: When trying to link images, there's an option called "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" which is ticked by default, everytime. That makes the forum get the image and upload it on their webspace instead of hotlinking them. Might bloat up the thing after a short while. I'd set that to off by default if I could. Another thing that is bothering me is that we can't open up reply tabs to specific posts anymore, somehow the thing is kept in a single tab with middle clicking links not working anymore, probably because it's triggering javascript trash instead of being actual links. Absolutely not great in wholesome conversations when you want to reply to multiple things with a single post. Well, I guess it's the times where everything has to work on a cell phone nowadays. Only real advantage of that is that the letters are big enough for me to read because their sheer size. Still the contrasts, allegiant to the absolutely horrible Metro Design that Microsoft (Google and others alike) force upon us, consisting exclusively of 50 shades of light grey. Kinda funny how one of the big players pushes a new design scheme and literally everyone else is "parroting" that time and again...

I do have an e-mail address that I solely use at the broo and for job applications, nothing else. That one has the most breaches on sites I never even visited even once in my life. That exact e-mail address also was the first one I've ever gotten spam to and I had another one for a few years before that that was spam free even a few years later. Tells it all. And I'll stop writing about mankind and economy now before it might get too political, but that's the closest hint I can share And nowadays people complain about "the Zucc" selling their data...

I preferred the old one as well, and the new one lacks contrasts a lot, it's literally hurting in the eyes to read. The only upside is that there is a dark mode which makes it better at that point, but the overall layout still lacks for the reasons given already by others. If the design is being worked on (=customized), it might get better though. Anyone noticed the reputation thing is back in some form? Oh, and the vertical alignment of smileys (= images) is weird, they're not aligned to the bottomline of the text properly Edit: That's just in the editor frame apparently.

Thanks, wasn't aware of this. I'm a centerline guy. I can imagine, especially with gun runs that it happens when you have the thing on the left side, do a gun pass, where the TGP is aligned slightly to the right, then pull up steep enough that it begins ro roll up on the right sight until it hits the limit. Now if you happen to do a left hand turn, it will be locked up there trying to get to the other side. So basically, a GIMBAL ROLL> message means, you've got to turn right, not just roll. You need to get the target into the right hemisphere of your airframe so the TGP head can unwind there. And yes, the arrow is definately there, I've seen it after the beginning of this discussion.

Any reason for just taking one? I mean you still carry the whole dual rack... My favourite loadout, when applicable is: 1. - 11.: Fuel: max. 50%, if at all I mean, why carry all those draggy stores when you have the party cannon? They're all just nice-to-have addons, but certainly not needed Just too bad the thing tops out at meh-ish 345 canots on the deck. Published numbers are about 10% above that... (381 is the one I've seen most) even more so a reason to keep it as clean as possible. But if the mission requires, I mostly take APKWS, TGP + white smoke rockets as counter weight (they might come in handy at times), 65D or H (for FC), CBU-97/105 or just GBU-12. I try to avoid multi racks whereever possible as they drag up the thing excessively (that's a general DCS issue, just try out the Tomcat with 4 TALDS and 2x2 Zuni, it will be outrun by a clean A-10 even after shooting off everything, unless you kick in the burners, or try single rack Sparrows or AMRAAMs on the Hornet's wing pylons... literally becomes a bus with those) and you can't even get rid of them on the Hog.

Looks like the label masking stopped working, at least with the A-10C II, when that got released... is this something that needs work for each module by chance? Have yet to check with other modules though. Only other graphics mod is Mustang's shaders with Tonemap.fx removed in order to make this one work at all.