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I tried to get voice chat up and running on a server I set up for my son and I to run a mission. I run Voice Attack and Viacom Pro. I also hosted the server on my machine. After many hours of reading forum posts and playing with settings we got to the point where he could hear me but I could not hear him. Anyone have any ideas what I may be doing wrong? I've heard that if you are running the server on your machine that could be problematic. Also, in the voice chat instructions, it looks like there may be some issues with running voice recognition features? I'm not entirely sure what the situation is there as the forum post was not written very well.

Seemed overly complicated to set up and I could not get it to work. Very disappointing. I set up a server for my son and I to fly together. I was running the server on my machine and enabled Voice Chat. I helped him configure his voice chat too. We could not get it to work though. He could hear me but I could not hear him. I ran iRacing for many years and their voice chat system was very simple and always just worked. You guys should look at what they did. IRacing had voice chat from very early on in their product lifecycle. This should be a part of DCS. Seems logical considering that all of these airplanes have radios... we should be able to use the radios in-sim to communicate securely with each other on discrete channels in multiplayer situations just like we would be able to in real life.

thanks! I didn't see that. That's interesting because I was thinking that it needed to be more linear than what I was already using. I'll try it out tonight.

Slew Settings What are you guys using for Axis Tune Slew settings for this mod? I started out using the settings that Cap on the Grim Reapers recommended but it's not working out so great. Those are Curvature of 8 and Saturation of 36 but with no deadzone. The result is that there isn't enough movement of the cursor at small inputs and then when I increase the movement to get the cursor to move I overshoot my target. Cap isn't using this upgrade so it shouldn't surprise me that his settings don't work. I've messed around a bit with the settings but havnt found a good one yet.

The only thing in the Viamcom FAQ that looks remotely related is this one... "Q: I'm seeing blinking menus? A: This points to a faulty lua files install. Typically you can resolve this by using the Custom Path option, this forces the lua code to the right location." However, it doesn't apply to me as I am not using a custom Path installation of DCS. This computer has nothing on it except DCS, Voice Attack, and ViaCom pro and some drivers for controllers. I don't use any beta stuff either as I like to keep it simple as possible. So now I need to find out what the lua file is, where it is and how to fix it.

Hi guys... question. This is hard to explain so bear with me... The comms menu that appears in the upper right corner of the screen... you know the one that has the different communication options for the various other AIs in a session; appears and disappears for no apparent reason. For example, if want to re-arm.. I can (via voice attack) select F8, then in that menu request re-arm... and then the re-arm loadout menu panel appears. Then when I start to interact with the loadout menus the Comms menu will appear again and I will be disconnected from the Loadout sub-menu. This will cause all of the loadout submenus to disappear and I will be back at the top-level loadout panel. I think the amount of time is about 5 seconds. So I have five seconds to navigate to the loadout submenu and then select the weapon of choice. It's really hard to move that fast though some of the longer weapons lists! Has anyone seen this before or know how to fix it? For context, I am also using Voice Attack and Viacom Pro Simple Comms

I just received and installed mine. Did the calibration but have yet to try it out. During the install, I was realizing how crappy my eyesight has become in my old age. :-( Anyway... question... This comes with two fixing plates. One appears to have a smaller aperture than the other. The instructions say to install the one that you prefer. I'm guessing that the only difference between the two is that one will limit the amount of stick movement?

Hi folks. I'm new here. As my first plane I am learning the AT10C. I've gotten pretty decent at flying the thing and learning the various systems, still a long way to go through. Anyway... I'm flying various missions to learn this stuff and to make it more realistic I would like to turn off the red and blue tooltips that are out in the world (the ones that show you where various friends and foes are.) But if I turn them off how do I find the enemy? I realize that in some circumstances you have smoke that marked the target... or a laser pointer. In that case I get it. But if you don't have that what do you have? Sometimes I hear chatter from other AI pilots calling out distance and vectors to ground targets so my question would be... what is that based on? Is that always based on the bullseye?

I had the 8K, then upgraded to the 8K+. I was going to upgrade to the 8KX but seeing as it may not be widely available for a while I wasn't ready to wait indefinitely and I was really interested in seeing if I could get a clearer image for some of the smaller in-cockpit details. The 8K+ is a little better than the 8K, but not jaw dropping. It did come made from a more robust plastic and it now has the comfort kit as standard which was nice. I sold my 8K for like $400. It sold in like 10 min so maybe I should have sold it for more.

I have a Vive DAS on my Pimax 8K+ and its working great. I have a question for you guys... I'm having problems with getting the headphone audio to go through the headphones of the Pimax/Vive delux audio strap. Which Audio device do you guys use in settings? The Pimax 8K+ has the HDMI connector but it also has the USB connector. Is the headphone audio coming though the HDMI connection or is it coming through the USB connection?

I was wondering the same thing. I'm new to DCS so I thought I was missing something. I did a flight that lasted over an hour. When I left I tried to view the track. Unfortunately only the first 20 seconds of it was available.

Not sure if this will help but I find that sometimes in order to get the engines to start I need to push the throttles all the way forward and then all the way back two times. I also use a VR headset... but I don't use a Keyboard. I use a Thrustmaster HOTAS throttle. My hunch is that the first time you push the throttles forward you are syncing the virtual throttle position with the actual controller throttle position. And the second time you push the throttles forward you are actually starting the engine.

I'm trying to set up a PTT Voice Chat button in DCS Combined Arms but cant get it to work. My son and I were in a session together and we could not hear each other. One thing I noticed in my DCS audio settings was my Voice Chat audio devices are not being recognized. It only offers one choice (Default Device). However for the other audio settings, I am seeing all of the audio devices. I did some searching around and it looks like the voice chat in DCS doesn't work so great yet? I'm kind of surprised to hear that as iRacing has a pretty simple and stable voicechat system in place for many years. Anyone know of a good guide to help me get voice chat set up?

We've just gotten into DCS over here and I'm working my way through the A10. Spending most of my time installing and configuring settings right now and reading manuals. My son and I did have a pretty fun session in CA yesterday though. He was in an M1 Abrams on the ground and I was flying overhead in my A10. We were both taking out enemy targets. At one point I got shot down and I ejected. He saw me eject and was able to drive the tank over to me and stop right next to me. At that point I thought that I would be able to join him in the tank by changing my role and then going to the Map (F10) and selecting his tank and then maybe clicking the enter vehicle button. None of that worked though, so I just got into another A10. So my question is.. is it even possible to join another player in a vehicle? I thought one of us would drive and maybe the other would be the gunner or something to that effect? If so how would I do that? I haven't been able to find anything on that.

I figured this out... Turns out there is a known issues in the Extension which will cause the Audio devices to be mislabeled int he Redirect list. Instead of just selecting my headphones I went through the list trying all of the other audio devices and one of the other Audio devices... in this case a PCI sound card was the one I needed to pick. Which is weird because by picking the PCI sound card I can now get the audio to go through my headphones which are plugged into a USB port. (its part of the mis-labled known issues which is supposed to be fixed in an upcoming patch).

Thanks... but wouldn't that just make all of the sounds from the PC come through the headset? My goal is to only have the comms sounds coming through the headset and all of the other sounds come through the 5.1 surround sound system. Also... was this the right thread to ask this or is there another thread for this type of question? I wasn't sure.

Hi, My son's PC has a 512GB SSD Drive which is his C drive and a second 2TB HDD which we want to use for large games and media files. When I installed DCS on his machine instead of doing a default location installation (which would have put it on the 512 GB C drive) I put it on the larger 2TB HDD. The installation is now complete. Unfortunately now when I try to open DCS it appears to be looking for downloaded files and not finding them.. (a modal pops up with a progress bar that is moving and some text that says its "Looking for downloaded files" I let that run for a long time but it never found anything. There is a CANCEL button on that modal. I click it and it closes the modal but it also closes the action of opening DCS. Questions... 1.) Does it sound like I did something wrong related to the installation? If so what do you think? 2.) Is it possible to install DCS on a secondary drive like we have done? 3.) If so how do you get DCS to find the downloaded files (if any) or cancel the search without canceling opening DCS? Thanks for your help!

I just installed Viacom Pro as well as Chatter and AIRIO. It does a good job of recognizing my speech so no issues on the inputs... my problem is on the output. Specifically the radio squelch and the chatter audio. Both of those are coming out of my 5.1 speak system when they should be coming out of my headset. I noticed in the configurations that there are several places where you can choose audio devices in Viacom Pro, but I didn't see anything in the User Manual about where to begin, and before I began messing around with settings I thought I would check here first. Anyone have an idea as to where I should begin? I'm trying to get all of the environment sounds though my 5.1 system, but I want the comms sounds through my headset.

LOL! Setting up voice attack and ViacomPro were the next things on the list! I'm just not there yet. When you say another layer do you mean setting up a Mode 2?

So I just created my first Kneeboard page from scratch for the start-up procedures. I put it into the folder described in another thread and it all seems to work. I can bring it up and see it when I need to by pushing the default kneeboard keystrokes. However, I use a VR headset so my plan was to map some buttons on my Thrustmaster HOTAS and a button box to control the Kneeboard functions, however, DCS doest recognize anything other than keyboard keys for Kneeboard functions. Is it possible to use anything other than a keyboard?

Hi, I've been searching around this forum and others and I cant seem to find a good guide for how to set up a kneeboard. I'm specifically interested in setting up a kneeboard for the A10C Preflight procedures. I've found some threads but they are either really old or are more about troubleshooting. Do I have to buy a plugin? Make my own? Or are kneeboards for these procedures already in the sim?

Hi guys, to run butt-kickers with DCS do you need both Sim Shaker Wings as well as Sim Shaker Sound Module? Or do you only need one of those?