Strange graphics & tone during flight.

[AvgWhiteGuy]

I was flying the A-10C in the 'Hand of God' by EasyEB the other night and several times while at altitude, I saw a DCS logo on a black background appear for just a flash while looking out from the cockpit to the left side at around 8 to 11 o'clock. There may have been more occasions but it could have been missed by a blink of the eye, I only saw it 3 times in about 20 minutes.

 

Then there was a tone I've never heard before, a constant sound that did not appear to be a warning alarm. It sounded like a tone generated during a hearing test or the broadcast termination tone at the end of a day on old (real old) US TV channels back before cable (for those that old like me).

 

I looked all through the cockpit and there was no negative influences in the cockpit controls, flight surfaces, Warning Panel....no indication anywhere. It sounded during consistent level flight at about 220-250 knots. I tried the L/G Warn Silence to no avail.

 

I turned off all my radios and kept turning things off until it stopped. No help there trying to determine the source. I restarted everything again and it was all quiet for several minutes before sounding again. Then it was a 'on for a while / off for a while tone' until I finally landed without incident. The tone was not sounding during the post-flight taxi, cool down and shutdown procedure. The aircraft performed perfectly and I could not determine the cause of this tone.

 

Has anyone experienced either of these? My DCS system is fully updated to the latest release within the last 10 days (Oct21016) and my rig far exceeds any minimum requirements.

 

Feedback, answers, suggestions...............?

[Pocket Sized]

I get the DCS logo thing during particularly big lag spikes, sometimes triggered by staying in one view for a while hen suddenly zooming/looking around while the game frantically tries to load the requested textures.

 

The only thing I can associate the tone with is the avionics inverter... but that's (supposed to be) always on.

[Tic-Tac]

was the tone like the one you get when you tune a radio to an invalid frequency ?

[AvgWhiteGuy]

@PocketSized...I didn't notice any spiking at all during the session and I certainly hope I wouldn't get lag considering my I'm running Win10 machine with 32G RAM, a brand new GTX1070 (8G) graphics card and the game is running on a 340G SSD.

 

As for the tone....it's very similar to what TicTac mentioned BUT it was solid and still sounding when I turned all radios off. In fact I turned off everything that I could during flight (except Battery, Inverter, AC Generators) and it was still on.

 

The only thing that has changed in my system is that I activated my Win10Pro 64 OS with a new license.

 

Now I wonder whether I should try the The DCS Updater GUI Utility that Skatezilla has offered. Other than that the next step would be reinstall DCS.

 

Comments, Suggestions?