Hi there,
I'm new here :)
I thought these times are good to come back to flight simming after about 15 years of absence.
Back then I spent quite some time with the various incarnations of Falcon 4.0 and the PMDG 737 in FS-X.
So I got myself a i9-9900k, 64GB RAM, a Radeon Rx 5700 Xt (8GB) and a coulple Samsung EVO 970 SSDs. Added a TrackIR5 and a TM Warthog. Rudder is still my good old TM RCS plugded into the base of my old Cougar until I get something modern with toebrakes.
Got DCS World 2.5.5 and bought a couple of the discounted modules and currently "learning to fly" again, mostly in the P-51D Mustang module over Normandy.
So far so good. That rig runs DCS with most graphics options on 2560x1440 close to 60fps most of the time.
Two things bother me though and I have a hard time understanding/debugging them:
When I run DCS in windowed mode all is good. I see the mouse pointer and it changes to these green icons when I point at something clickable in the cockpit. Clicking with the mouse turns switched, rotates knobs. All good.
As soon as I run DCS in full-screen mode (which seems to have slightly better fps), I still see the mouse pointer, but it doesn't change into these green icons anymore when I hoover over a switch. And clicking the mouse doesn't turn any switches anymore.
I tried ALT-Enter to get out and back into full-screen. Doesn't work.
I'm using the latest Radeon drivers.
Has anyone seen something like this before?
I've researched old threads here and there seem to be many users with issues in full screen mode. I saw some who don't have any mouspointer at all. But none with mousepointer, but a useless one.
Oh, and the second issue:
I can't remember how many times I have setup the controls for the P-51 in DCS to my Warthog. Sometimes they stick, sometimes they are gone with the next start of DCS.
Here I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong, but I cannot figure it out.
How are you guys setting up your Warthogs? Only in DCS or do you use TM Target software to make the Warthog send only keyboard commands?
Any suggestions or thoughts would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Emacs
