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We are the backbone of DCS. The pilots, the builders, the mission makers, the modders. We commit hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars into keeping this sim alive. But it’s time to speak the sore truth: Eagle Dynamics is failing us where it matters most. 1. The Update Nightmare Installing DCS is not “immersive.” It’s punishment. 17+ hours to download, 13+ hours to unpack. One router hiccup, and the whole download dies — no resume. While downloading, you can’t play. The almighty update.exe locks you out completely. Every other game in existence supports resumable downloads, background updating, or play-while-downloading. DCS? Still acts like a relic from the 90s. 2. The SSD Chokehold DCS doesn’t just waste your time, it hijacks your hardware. It downloads and unpacks at the same time, hammering your SSD at 100%. Other games on the same drive? Forget it — they stutter, lag, or won’t even launch. SSD lifespan chewed up for no reason but bad design. We bought NVMe drives for speed, not to watch them suffer under an outdated updater. 3. The Storage Trap DCS already eats 400GB+ just for the base game and CoreModules containing tens of gigabytes of Liveries for modules one probably never try. 30+GB of Liveries just 'sits' on your drive in hope that you pay for the module so you can 'enjoy' them! But here’s the catch: If you tweak files or experiment with mods, you need an extensive backup — meaning another tens of GB gone. Try a trial map on a smaller SSD? You’ll download until the very end, then get “Not enough hard drive space.” The solution? Buy a new SSD. 2TB, 4TB, whatever it takes. This isn’t a simulator anymore. It’s a storage treadmill. Every new map and module aren’t just money — it’s another hardware tax. 4. The GPU & Hardware Treadmill Why do we need 4096x4096 textures when most players fly at 1440p? Why is VR still lagging and inaccurate in something as basic as button-pushing? The truth: Instead of optimizing, ED piles on “eye candy” that only a 4090 can fake. Players are pushed to buy bigger GPUs, more RAM, faster drives — just to keep up. Meanwhile, core fidelity (ATC, AI, mission flow, basic usability) is left behind. HOTAS costs a fortune, yet ED would rather you drop another $1,200 on a GPU and DDR5 than improve the sim’s fundamentals. 5. The Community Carries the Sim And here’s the biggest insult: the best parts of DCS don’t come from ED. They come from the modders. VoiceAttack + VIACOM: Realistic comms with AI. CurrentHill’s packs: Free assets, now repackaged into another 10GB+ “official update.” Community scripts & mods: Texture optimizers, quality-of-life fixes, immersion tools. Extensive tutorials by players: Every module requires hours of community-made guides and videos just to perform at bare minimum. ED ships “study-level aircraft” but leaves the actual studying to unpaid players. ED survives because of us — the unpaid developers, teachers, and testers filling the gaps. Yet instead of listening, they bury us under ‘wishes’. Our Truth We don’t need more unoptimized textures. We don’t need bigger SSDs or pricier GPUs. We don’t need 13-hour installs that hang on a dropped connection. We don’t need unpaid players to write manuals for every module. What we need is respect for the player base. Respect for our time, our hardware, our commitment. Until then, let it be known: the “greatest sim on earth” survives not because of ED, but in spite of them — carried on the backs of the very community they neglect.

Hi everyone, as shown in the picture below the clocks in the Geman map are not synced with the game time. null

Loving the map! Just wondering if anyone else has been seeing this issue? I'm on a Pimax Crystal OG. It feels like Early morning, evening the lighting is way too dark for the terrain and makes it extremely hard to spot anything on the ground. I've tried messing with the gamma settings in game and it only seems to make the sky, and in cockpit really bright while doing little to make the ground any lighter. Anyone else experiencing this?

So After Latest update. Aim 9M seems useless against helicopters. Before it could hit Helicopters even if they dropped flares If I launched at least 2 Aim9s. now it couldn't. Recorded the test: https://youtu.be/JW_4o2COuwc

So i've had quite a few issues even getting started in this campaign, Yesterday i tried to fly the second mission. I input the code given to me at the end of the first mission and a briefing picture is displayed, great. so i continue on the mission fly over the point it tells me to and it says wait for AWACS to contact you and i do. it tells me i need to authenticate a code to progress through the mission. it gives me the code Charlie-Delta-Alpha so i go into the AWACS menu to authenticate the code the menu has a bunch of phonetic code ex Sierra Lima Zulu etc. but the menu is completely missing multiple letters. Alpha, Charlie, Juliet, Mike, Romeo, and Uniform are ALL missing. i have no idea what im supposed to do to progress when the code im supposed to input is not even in the menu for me to do so. here's a link to see what im talking about here https://medal.tv/games/dcs-world/clips/jY6iJUvCYUR9oXoTn?invite=cr-MSxTVm0sMjg1Mzg1NDU3

Hi @Hollywood_315First say that thankyou for updating the Vaicom program Is well appreciated! Ok here we go. I am making the spanish conversion of the latest commands and I found this issues. Have to say that the language is not a problem here as it recogizes the instructions and command them. I have used spanish version for a long time. 1. This is not lantirn one, but If I command Jester to be silent, he won't. I think this is important for our peacefull flights!. He continue giving "nails" rwr callouts. 2. The Kneeboard Extension don't recognizes the Clear notes. Of course the end of dictation is commanded before trying to clean everything. 3. Lantirn Laser: Don't know if Latch is activate or deactivate Laser (languaje barrier) but it seems to activate it. When I want to toggle the laser with laser toggle command, Jester stops firing the laser, but in 2 seconds or so he arms the laser and starts again to fire it (the L appears blinking). Don't want to burn my laser! Please help! 4. Track QHUD and Snow plow don't work. If I select a steerpoint with QDES and the Lantirn goes to that point, then after I command Snow Plow or Boresight, it jumps to the bore or snow, but quickly returns to the last area that was selected in QDES. Undesignating the lantirn don't work for this. 5.selecting other point (home point, inicial point, fix point) the lantirn becomes crazy, jumps to the point and then returns to the QDES one and then try to return to the selected not steerpoint one. 6. Selecting any target (surface, tanks, ships, etc...) the lantirn don't turns into point track.. just area track, so if the target moves then the point will be in place not following the target. This are the first bugs/Issues I found. Of course they can be my fault, so for that reason it would be great if someone could test them. Thanks!

The Su-27 Datalink no longer shows target aspect and speed. In my track there is a bomber coming towards me at 12.000m and mach 1.5. On datalink, it shows as a hovering UFO at 12.000m, that is drifting towards me at a 90 degree angle. SU27_DL_bugged.trk

Found weirdness. Didn't want to clutter the "Bugs and problems" forum. A sticky to collect all DCS manual "problems"? Page 24. Both rudders? Aileron stick travel is asymmetrical and identical with elevator stick travel?

JF-17_can_not_be_notched.trk Target is at the slowest possible speed and practically 0 closure speed relative to the ground. No ground clutter or loss of contact. Bug happens within 7-8 nautical miles.

JF-17_infinite track range.trk Tracking a cold target at 100+ nm in TWS, in lookdown mode.

Ok, since mission 3 is too long to for me to be played in one session I decided to use the save-game feature implemented into the campaign: when I reach the Exxon tanker I get the "game is saved" message and then I exit the mission clicking "end-mission" button at the debrief page. However, when I re-enter the campaign I found that the progress is moved to mission 4... Same occurs if I skip the first part within the first minute. Do I did something wrong?

I would add later this day a video of this. The basic idea is: - 80% of the time the missile won't show on RWR and you would just die. - The time it does show on RWR it usually shows about 0.5 seconds before impact and very rarely it will show 3-4 second before impact. - Also a F-14 will not show on the RWR when it locks you for most of the time, it will maybe blip in RWR twice or a bit more but that's it. (Tests have been done on the Viper [F-16] but a Hornet [F-18] player that i fly with also confirmed that the Phoenix doesn't show on RWR). *I would try to add a video of this happening when im home, around 6-4 hours from when this is posted*

I'm just testing this module to see if I'd like to purchase but I don't see how anyone can enjoy it. The way it feels and the bugs, and Jester, why? It flies like bucket of bolts made of lead. The RIO Tutorial is missing the console buttons you have to press during the Tutorial? This is not a finished product, and puts shame to the F14, makes me cry inside a little as this is my ultimate favourite fighter aircraft IRL. Is anyone else having the same issues or shares the same views?

Title says it. I can not zoom in and out and change my heads position. The standard setting is way different from the Su-27 one too, not allowing me to see my airbrake and generally anything in the rear hemisphere. J-11_cockpit_broken.trk Another bug that i have been wanting to report for a while is that when you speed up the simulation in a singleplayer mission, while flying a J-11A, you can not slow it down again. Forcing you to restart the mission or finish it at 2x,4x,8x,16x etc. speed. This bug has been in DCS for a while. I cant show this with a track, just speed up the simulation speed in a singleplayer mission and try to decrease it to normal again while flying J-11A.

Hi there, When playing dcs world, i decided id go back to the aircraft i started in, the f15, to have some fun. Flew it for a half an hour or so before closing the game to run errands. However, when i came back and tried to play it, the f15 wont recognize my HOTAS inputs. What's weird is that it can recognize the button presses on the hotas, but not the axis inputs. So for example i can press my dispense chaff, flare, or any other button on my t16000m hotas setup, but it wont recognize the pitch, roll, or throttle axis at all. Also, it flew fine when i flew it before running errands, and i didn't end the game in any way that could harm the pc or its data. (quit to desktop, wait a few min, and then hit shutdown) i've tried deleting and reinstalling the f15, then the entire game, and still no avail. I thought it could be a hotas bug so i flew the f18 and su25t, but ran in to no problems at all. Throttle and stick both worked perfectly fine on the f18 and su25t, but still just wont work for the f15 only. i've tried remapping keys, clearing the axis and reassigning, but nothing works. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

not only that, but no matter how many times I've voice trained a word successfully, it comes back as unrecognized after the training completes. Help! VoiceAttackFault.txt VAICOMPRO.log

If there are players on catapult 1 and 3, when the third player hooks the bar on catapult 2 he will not be fixed. The player will be able to move along the catapult with a jagged animation. Also he will not be able to leave the catapult, as the game will first let him move away from it and then "pull" him back When I get a chance to do it in multiplayer again, I'll try to drop off the track. I will also attach a screenshot of an example of how the animation hangs. (The plane in the screenshot is not the one attached to the catapult)

Even thoe the Pilot had APU and rotorbrake off after startup it showed me as cpg that the their on

Some bugs may be known but I would like re-report 1---- You cannot get the Gunner . does not switch to gunner view, but if you click on the left mouse button after pressing the 4 key,The gun fires but the camera doesn't change. 2---- Animations are not sync while carrying cargo. 3---- Cargo camera not working I will post other problems.

Ive tried what seems like everything there is to install this game! I have played DCS for 4-5 years and never had an issue downloading this bad. Everytime I try it says that Server capacity may be limited at the moment. Please, try again later. I have tried for multiple days now. I have completely deleted and reinstalled as well as run the cleanup and repair apps. I have disabled all antivirus including defender and have reset PC multiple times. I have run as Admin and tried installing the stable version as well. Nothing will work, if it doesn't have this error then it downloads for about a minute and then comes back with this error or the curl 6 error. No clue what the issue is. autoupdate_log.txt

I'm new to DCS. I believe it's an outstanding flight sim. But my perspective on the game took a major hit when I loaded up a REPLAY track and discovered to my horror that the replay does not reflect my actual gameplay (i.e. I crashed in the replay when I did not in the original playthrough). For a game like DCS with its relatively high price points, the lack of a fully functional replay track is an embarrassment. After conducting a due diligence, I was surprised to learn that this replay bug has been around for years, not months or even days, but years. In light of this, I cannot recommend this game to my friends or colleagues in good conscience. The devs should know better. The devs should be better. Do your customers and community better and fix the broken replay system once and for all. Thank you.

I bought a Leap Motion hand tracking device, and tried it out in DCS VR. The experience was not very great. Even though the tracking works fine in the Leap Motion App, my hands are all kinds of crooked in VR. My Fingers do weird stuff in DCS, even though they show up correctly in Leap Motion. And even worse is the pointing in DCS. The cursor doesn't go where your finger points, it is very awkwardly positioned, I had to twist my hand way left, and way down, so the cursor went somewhat in the right position. It seems to point from the middle of your hand, not the finger, which is very annoying. And it wiggles around so much, it is almost impossible to hit buttons precisely. Additionally, my hands disappear regularly in VR, without moving them. I have to move around my hands to get them to be tracked again. All of these Problems are non-existent in the Leap Motion Control Panel I also tried the "Fingers" app, that is supposed to emulate a mouse cursor by pointing your finger, but it also tracks your whole hand, not your finger, so I have to move my hand around in a very awkward manner to point where I want. I tried different tracking modes in leap motion, desktop, screen mounted and headset mounted, but nothing seems to improve the tracking. I am very disappointed with the implementation of Leap Motion in DCS. The Leap Motion Tracking itself is very good, but in DCS it is very very bad. Which is a shame, since finger pointing in DCS would be VERY beneficial for VR.

Super excited that the F15-E Strike Eagle is finally here. Thank You Razbam & ED for your work. So, I went into DCS and it downloaded the latest update (2.8.6.41363) Then I did a DCS Repair. Then went into DCS MT, application loaded fine. Then into Module Manager and then attempted the install process. The DCS Updater (version 2.16.3.18) starts to run briefly then it stops and says "Latest available version 2.8.6.41363 requires Windows 8.1 or higher. Press OK to pick the latest compatible version - So I click on OK and this is then followed by Version 2.8.6.41363 is not available. Consider updating - Which of course I have checked already, this is then followed by an autoupdatelog (attached to this report, along with DCS errors) Yet in a bizarre twist of event I tried the same procedure in DCS (non MT) version and it downloaded and installed with no issue.. Have exited DCS Non M-T and gone back into DCS M-T and the module loads and fly's and looks lovely but thought it was worth reporting in case it is an issue. autoupdate_templog.txt

No crash file was made. Was repeatable and happened in several multiplayer severs. Through_The_Inferno_PG_v3.0.8-20230623-221050.trk

using the APACHE NEVADA RWAY TAKEOFF mission dcs.log shadows are in pieces and strange bars is that the SSS? or else? dcs.log