Missing GUI buttons + cant update

[markturner1960]

Hi, have installed 1.5, when I start it, I get some swirling clouds and can open the setting from the button, however, there is no "apply" or "OK" button to accept them on the window....

 

Also, it wants to update when I start, but everytime, it says the server is busy and wont. I have tried this multiple times ate various times of day, same result...

 

Any help to sort this? Thanks,

[weeb]

Mark

 

Hang in there m8. I was trying since Friday night. I kept getting the same issue and when I was downloading A10-C for my development machine, kept getting 1.5 update and A10-c update failures. It did flag up one message on my firewall rule (Zone alarm) and I certified the update exe. 1600hrs today uk, it just flew in. Eagle dynamics servers do work well. I have a 200 meg pipe into the house and I was getting 130. I had the same issue, it just hung and the game would not start until I had completed the partial download which had failed.

 

 

Try round about 1600hrs our time.

 

Weeb

[markturner1960]

Cheers, so managed to update, but still have the issue with the screen sized too large so I cant click on the OK button to accept any changes in the GUI....please help!!!

[weeb]

Mark have you managed to sort this yet?

 

weeb

[markturner1960]

Hi weebs, partly...as stated above managed to update, but still have the issue whereby the accept buttons of the gui are off screen of my monitor, or not showing, so I cant confirm any changes in settings.....

[awjudge]

Have a look in c:\users\*username*\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config\options.lua

 

In there, you'll find a section called 'Graphics'. Change the Height and Width settings to the native resolution of your monitor.

[sslechta]

Sounds like your screen resolution may be set so that the buttons are off to the side.

 

You could try setting the resolution lower/higher in the following file:

 

C:\Users\[WinUserName]\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config\options.lua

[sslechta]

Nice awjudge.... Posted right before me.

[markturner1960]

Thanks guys, I dont have that file structure... My game is installed as follows C/Eagle dynamics/DCS World open beta

 

I did find the file mentioned by searching my machine though, the resolution was set correctly there, at 3840 x 2160

 

I noticed occulus rift was set to true ( set to false in my normal dcs world install), so changed to false, but still no joy....

 

This is very frustrating. The resolution in the GUI is actually set correctly as well, I guess it picked that up automatically when it installed, but I can see from the size of the gui compared to the GUI on the non beta version, that it is not displaying at that resolution, its all much bigger, maybe 2160 x 1600........

[ENO]

I'm working through this issue as well. I have been out of the loop for awhile so getting back into this is frustrating. This is a really, really stupid problem.

 

I have exactly the same issue- I try to go in and change resolutions but can't reach any "apply" button. I've gone through the proposed file structure above but the only .lua there is the network vault one.

 

Sorry it's such a ridiculous question... but really? ugh.

[ENO]

Okay.

 

So I've tried a couple of things.

 

I tried deleting the saved games folder in hopes that it would rewrite with the options.lua mentioned above. Nothing- still only have the network.vault.

 

I tried importing my 1.2x options into the config folder and that made it worse.

 

The options.lua must be somewhere... did it move?

 

Where is DCS getting its monitor settings from? My NVIDIA control panel is set to fit my monitor... is it getting info from my windows desktop settings and then the NCP is switching it halfway? (nevermind- checked windows settings and they were the same as NCP)

 

This is what I worried about trying to get back into it after so long- I remember all the messing around a person needs to do just to lift it off if ANYTHING is out of stock just a smidge.

 

 

 

EDIT: Solved.

 

Okay... so I went and had a little cry and then wiped away the tears and went back at it.

 

I don't recall where I saw it but there was something mentioned in another thread about going into the properties of a shortcut, into "compatibility" and then into "disable display scaling on high DPI settings." I tried to find that last night but must not have been looking close enough. I went back in there today and found it... clicked it and now the game loads fine at the proper resolution that allows for me to see the OK button in settings.

 

That appeared to be the key I was missing. I had it in windowed mode as well- but it looks fine in full screen mode.

 

Hope this helps someone out along the way.

Edited November 28, 2015 by ENO

[sslechta]

Nice find Eno. Hopefully that will help Mark.