Tacview 1.2.8 does not record flights

[Hoggorm]

Hi,

 

I just installed Tacview 1.2.8. It shows a small DCS icon in the lower right corner. After flying a multiplayer mission that I know have been recorded in earlier versions of Tacview I flew one of the single player instant missions.

 

Neither was recorded by Tacview. At least I could not find them in /User/Library/Documents/Tacview

 

Any ideas?

[Hansolo]

I had similar problem with Tacview 1.2.6. I eventually deleted then entire saved games dcs folder :-(

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=127013

 

When I get home from work I can send you my export file if you like

 

cheers

Hans

[Hoggorm]

I was able to solve the problem by deleting the Export.lua and TacviewExportDCS.lua in the Saved games/DCS/Scripts folder.

 

The two files was recreated after starting Tacview and reselecting DCS World as recording source.

[Hansolo]

Excellent :thumbup:

 

cheers

Hans

[pdmarsh]

I have been having issues with 1.2.8 as well. On my main flight sim PC, it stopped recording altogether. On my laptop it won't record Ka-50 flights, but it did record AI F-15s in that flight and it recorded an Su-27 flight I did as test. I will try deleting the lua files mentioned above and see what happens.

 

Thanks,

Paul

 

Update -- I just tested Tacview on the laptop after deleting the lua files first. In a mulitplayer mission, it recorded the AI F-15s, but not the Ka-50 I was flying. In a single player mission with just me flying a Ka-50, the flight was recorded and showed the Ka-50.

 

Just to clarify, I have read that on-line multiplayer missions cannot be recorded without playing back the mission first. However, I was flying a multiplayer mission offline and Tacview successfully recorded these missions in the past.

 

Update -- OK, I'm learning. I suppose this is documented somewhere, but if I fly a multiplayer mission off-line but as a "Client," Tacview will not record that flight. If I fly the same multiplayer mission off-line, but set my flight to "Player," Tacview will record my flight. So, not I need to see if I can get Tacview to simply create ACMI files on the other PC.

 

Final Update (I think) -- Deleting the lua files noted above resolved the issue on the PC that was not recording and not creating ACMI files. Thanks for that tip. Regarding the other issues, I just had to learn about the multiplayer aspect of all this.

Edited November 8, 2014 by pdmarsh