Trespasser

Still happening. I'm seeing a lot of threads on this. Doesn't happen with other maps. Syria issue?? dcs.log

Hmm, never seen this before, but it's happening to me as of today. I zoom in on F-10 to get accurate grid coordinates for an object and the screen/game just freezes and I get notified by windows that the program is no longer responding. It's on a multiplayer server, but it's done it now 3 times in a row and very easy to duplicate. Anyone know if this error was ever tracked down and solved? dcs.log

just starting up.. That's fun. I use VA and said "weapons" and Petro responded with voice.. That's a new one. least it wasn't doing that yesterday EDIT: 10 mins later... Woohoo! Shturms firing ok and Petro seems very happy about it too. "YEEEAAAHH! Good effects on target." NICE. I will say I'm not sure if its working quite properly. The first time I tried to fire Petro responded with basically "Too Far, Get me closer" which was fine as I was about 12km out lol. However, I tried again at 9km just to hear him say the same thing and he actually fired the damn thing. I thought the limit was about 3-5km for the shturm?

Fingers crossed. Just getting back in the cockpit to test again after the beta update. Thanks for the many responses. We'll see what happens. I should have been a bit more clear. I'm attempting to shoot from the pilot seat, not the CPG. So I'm using Petro AI to order him to shoot using the big red button on my Gunfighter Pro labeled "Press me to kill people". It's bound to - "Designate Target" or "Open Fire" command to gunner - @unknown thanks for that heads up. was not aware of that rather significant bug till u posted it. Cheers all Trespasser.

Pretty sure I've tried all those, but thank you. All of the vids I've watched so far have had petro in NON-free fire mode, (beige reticle). So that's how I set mine up. Honestly I'm not fussed if I have to tell him to fire or he fires the missile himself. I'm much more interested in the missile coming off the rail in the first place lol. In free-fire(green reticle), he does nothing. In non-free fire(beige reticle) he does nothing. He selects a target, I line-up my reticle, I get tone, I get within range and order him to fire and nada. Just cant figure what I'm not doing correctly. But I at least thank you for confirming the target IDs are in red font because that's how my simple mission was set up.

Bought the Hind when it dropped, but just getting around to using it now. Unfortunately, the vids, tutorials, docs seem to all be somewhat out of date, but I've done my best setting up the controls for the HOTAS. Seems to be working. I'm fine with the rockets and guns, but Petrovich refuses to fire the missiles. All vids and docs I've seen are over a year old, can someone confirm the current font colour for the target list he comes up with lol? Is it supposed to be red or white? All vids/docs show it as being white. When he gives me the list the font is red. I'm just trying to determine if maybe the font has changed to red and that it's working as normal as such, or there's something I'm missing, it's supposed to be white and that's why he's not firing. I've set up my hotas properly, I've watch/read all the vids/doc. I slew my head to the target area, I press up-short he picks up targets after a few secs, he displays the list of targets to choose from (in red font). My reticle is beige. I fly toward to the target, I line up my reticle with his, I get tone All switches lights I think are in the green (based of the year old vids) I click right-short on the ai menu but the list disappears... annnnd then I fly over teh target with nothing happening 'cept me taking fire lol. Or I hit fire/designate and the menu flashes off and then on but no firing 2 pics, 1st just showing the red font(normal?) 2nd pic, can anyone see anything I've missed in the cockpit. I mean there's not that much to set up to get these of the rail..or so I thought Is there something obvious here I've missed? It's happened before. Thanks for any enlightenment. Trespasser

Was this fixed? .... it's been a hot minute lol

Well that’s good to know. I much prefer hearing I’m doing sumpin’ wrong as opposed to sumpin’ not workin’ lol. so you can see your Squawk in object properties of yer jet in LotATC if you set it up in the left panel of the F-16? I only see it ifI use the overlay. Weird. I’ll keep trying. cheers

Hmm, well I set it up using the left panel as depicted in Diesel’s pic, but I see no evidence that LotATC is picking it up in that program’s object properties for my jet. Are Viper pilots just stuck using the SRS overlay?

ohh, k gotcha. Thanks for confirming.. use the left panel, not the icp/ded. Thanks!

Heya Viper Masters, recently on some MP servers the GCI's and Tower controllers have been asking for us to enter squawk codes based on our mission type more often. it makes their life easier. I've been using the SRS overlay which works great for those GCIs using LotATC. I'd like to enter it using the ICP/DED. I thought there was a way to enter it through the ICP/DED in the Viper, but have yet to get it to work. I've looked at Chucks guide (PART 13: Datalink & IFF) and it seems like you can using LIST and RCL, but based on my exp, whatever I do isn't working. Can someone fill me in or is it something we can't do in the 16. Chucks does have that notation in red on p615,618,619 that IFF codes are already inputted and not changeable so if I'm stuck just using the SRS overlay, thats fine. It blows lol, but its fine. Seems like hornet drivers are able to. hopefully it's something silly I'm missing. Based on my limited knowledge I think its the Mode 3 A/C the GCIs are looking for and using the left panel backup wouldn't be the correct way under normal circumstances if I'm right. Not even sure if that works either. Thanks in advance for any insight.

Is there an update on this issue? It appears to be happening to a ton of ppl and it goes back years based on a quick Google search. I myself have started to experience it in the last six weeks both when starting up DCS and, if I get that far, sometimes it happens whilst joining a server. I see many ppl attaching their DCS logs as requested, but I've read through many of these threads and I've yet to see what exactly is causing it and what the fix is. Did I miss it somewhere?

I've had this issue on numerous occasions including in the last hour on the Hoggit training server. It's pretty dangerous in an MP environment. "PAVEWAY"...Ahhh! ....and also MAD DOG!!!":lol: Unfortunately, I just reinstalled DCS fresh (for other issues). So I have a brand new copy, buuuut my Tacview does not appear to be recording so in addition to all the other things I'm setting up, I need to turn it on in the main menu I guess. If it happens again, I'll tack on a .trk Cheers Trespasser

Heh, I am/was using N++, but I thought closing the proggy saved it automatically:doh:. When i opened up N++ I still had all my UNsaved luas as tabs so obviously no changes had been saved. D'oh!

Oh noice, great tip! thank you. I had know idea, but will def use in the future Regards Trespasser

YES! The good news: Got them to work finally. The Bad news: I'm just a dumb ass. Yes, i had them in the right spot with the right pathing. Yes, I think was correct in that I needed to change the line at the end of the lua to make sure it included USA as most servers have that as blufor. Buuut it turns out the when I made the changes to the lua it did not save and I hadn't noticed. Soo I ASSUME (hate assuming) if you have say a fictional French, or Canadian or whatever and the server doesn't have that in their Blufor list, it doesn't show up in the rearm/refuel window?? Regards Trespasser

I checked, they all seem fine. it's bizarre. Silver, yes my path is the same as yours, cept I've never had a DCS.openbeta folder. Maybe because I did the CMD line change from stable release as opposed to a direct download? ... or perhaps the DCS.openbeta folder is from a while back? I only installed DCS last April

Sorry guys, I've read many posts re: this and I still don't get why I can't see any of the skins I've downloaded for the A-10C As far as I know They're supposed to be in: C:\Users\xone3\Saved Games\DCS\Liveries\A-10C I mean that's MY saved games liveries folder, but they never show up in multiplayer or instant action. I've even changed the last line of the lua so that all countries can use the skins. Can anyone advise as to the critical piece of info I'm missing? I even put them in D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Bazar\Liveries\A-10C but nothing ever shows up. My f-16 skins are all in C:\Users\xone3\Saved Games\DCS\Liveries\F-16C_50 and they show up just fine. If I had hair I'd have pulled it all out by now! Best Regards Trespasser

So it truly is a malfunction from the new update? Thank you for confirming. This is pretty awful; as it's somewhat important.

Hmm, this is strange, but Since today my Radar elev CW/CCW no longer works in the f-16 at all. It's mapped accordingly to my TM coolie as it's always been. It's always worked before. In the controls section when I toggle it up or down the correct button mapping is highlighted (button 5 and 3)..it just doesn't do anything in the cockpit. Is there something obvious and silly I'm missing..it's usually the case. EDIT: I somewhat misspoke. The blue elevation indicator on the left side of the MFD does move up and down when I toggle the button, but the elevation parameters do not change in the slewable cursor. cheers Trespasser

Hey oh, Still confused. I've read some modules can but they have to be (keyless) and I've also read ALL modules can except the mirage 2000. I assume I'm missing something. I just bought the Huey on Steam and then bound my accounts but I dont see it. I guess it's too old, Is it one that can not be transferred?? EDIT: Disregard, it worked! I don't use the Steam version, so I just installed it, but had not run it yet. After I ran the Steam version once the Huey got 'registered' in both Steam DCS and then the license thingy showed up in my ED profile page. I was gonna buy it through ED during the sale, but just kept forgetting lol. Thanks ED for letting us do this!

Yer the best! Thank you!

Hey all, I have several of the modules including FC3, but I hadn't actually looked at any of the air frames in FC3 as I wanted to learn the F-16C, A10C, F/A 18C first to a decent level. I decide to set up binds for the F-15 and go fer a whirl today and it was all good until the "right engine fire, right engine fire, right engine fire, right engine fire" and so on lol. Sooo, I shut down the right engine (go figure) and headed back toward Khasab, but is there any way to shut the "Bitching Betty" up?? I just crashed into the Straight of Hormuz rather than fly all the way back to the the base with her yelling at me for the duration.

I should stop taking screenies in an active warzone.

Short answer YES! (I have no curves or dead zones set in game for the 16 or through the vkb software) Long answer YES-ish Personally, I received my GF III pro a cpl o' weeks ago. I was a long time F4 player 10yrs + ago (still have the disc+manual etc). I've always had crap sticks that aren't accurate. Was never able to AAR in F4 and was not able to AAR in DCS before my GF III (was using a Tflight 4 I purchased for Elite Dangerous on the PS4). I'm very new to DCS (5 weeks).The stick has got me 80% of the way to consistent AARs. I'm new to head tracking too. I'm finding that a less than perfect head track, poor vision and crap ergonomics (my stuff sits on the desktop currently) are my current issues. In short, the problem before was the stick AND me, but the Tflight was so bad for fine adjustments I just didn't notice the me part lol. I'm just starting to RTFM for the 18 so I have a long way to go in that frame, but in some very preliminary flights, I've noticed the 18's FM "seems" a bit more controllable for finer adjustments. That coupled with the fact u can see what yer doing whilst refueling might be making it easier. more testing required.