Spitfire lost power!

[saburo_cz]

Hi,

after today's patch Spitfire lost engine power.

 

I tried several different missions and always Spitfire did not fly and in the case "AIR Start" Spitfire lost speed.

Did not matter if i set 3000rpm/18lbs, 2850/9 or 2650/7 in all cases speed fell down..

 

When i tried take of from runway, i set full power and Spitfire did not move, brakes were set OFF, of course.

(btw. new steam from overheated engine is cool :thumbup: ).

[finch]

I don't have this problems, mine is working fine

[BIGNEWY]

Please remove any unofficial modifications ( if any )

 

and run a cleanup and repair

 

let us know if it helps

 

thanks

[Crowman]

Hi All

Unfortunately I can confirm this fault occurs as described, Spitfire now totally unusable. Will try suggestions and keep you posted.

[saburo_cz]

Hi,

i do not have any modifications, i restarted game (several times), repaired game and restarted my PC with no any effect.

I tried cold start, start from RWY and start in the air, always engine did not produce any thrust.

No idea what went wrong, my DCS 2.5 is new instalation after it was released.

I tried it on Normandy and Caucasus the same.

 

Tried Spit in 2.2 without any problem.

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks guys

 

we are looking into it.

[SUNTSAG]

The issue appears to be linked with the selection of the mirrors. As soon as you switch them on the engine starts to die. Keep mirrors off for the time being seems to be the best option.

[Esac_mirmidon]

Nice find.

 

Maybe double wrong binds on the stock input

[NineLine]

Yup, check all your bindings and see if there are any double bound keys. As some are not experiencing this.

[philstyle]

The issue appears to be linked with the selection of the mirrors. As soon as you switch them on the engine starts to die. Keep mirrors off for the time being seems to be the best option.

 

 

 

MIXTURE and MIRROR double key binding... maybe?

[saburo_cz]

Definitively not connected with mirrors, not my problem!

 

Unfortunately, the same power lose for Fw 190 and moreower, FW has always set L/G switch UP, does not matter what start i chose. When i switch ON battery on ground after spawn, plane goes down, because of landing gears go UP, the same for start from RWY...

 

109 has always set magnetos OFF!!! even i chose the Air Start, so engine quit.

 

no problem with P-51 so far

 

SORRY, but WWII planes look overbugged in this patch

 

p.s. please philstyle, instal it try it and then give us some recommendation...

[philstyle]

p.s. please philstyle, instal it try it and then give us some recommendation...

 

I will try as soon as I can.. but it might not be today :(

[SUNTSAG]

I maybe wrong here but it appears that in this update the keybind for Mixture Control IDLE CUT-OFF has been re-assigned to LShift + M. I know some other aircraft use that set of keys for toggling mirrors on and off, as I use voice attack for mirrors in which I had both sets of keypresses bound. I am presuming this is a keyboard re-assignment because this is the first time I have encountered this issue.

[BIGNEWY]

I have not been able to reproduce myself, working fine on my install

[NineLine]

No issues here in any of the 3 planes listed. Please make sure that if you have custom key assignments that they havent been changed, you may even be better off deleting all of them for these aircraft and starting from scratch. I use all default and see no issues.

[saburo_cz]

will try to delete all WWII planes and instal them again, and will see

thanks

[BIGNEWY]

will try to delete all WWII planes and instal them again, and will see

thanks

 

check your keybindings in saved games also, make a backup of your spitfire folder in inputs and redo them to test

 

let us know how you get on

[Esac_mirmidon]

Before that saburo, try this.

 

In the DCS folder inside users, make a backup of your config/input folder. Then delete de input folder to let the game create a new one. Try the default keybindings for the Spitfire and post the results.

 

PD: Sniped...¡¡

[NineLine]

will try to delete all WWII planes and instal them again, and will see

thanks

 

Deleting the modules wont delete keybindings I dont think, they need to be removed from your Saved Games folder.

[saburo_cz]

In my case it is not problem with "keybindings", i have my own setting for mirror and engine and both works.

I check it after all patches, and like nearly always no problem here (only problems i had was with "special setting" - rudder asist, not todays case).

 

It is not connected with "mixture" can not be.

Instruments in cockpit show 3000rpm and 18,3 lbs manifold pressure, the same shows game F2 view.

If I switch off mixture, engine will never run 3000rpm and manifold pressure falls too...

 

I tried cold starts (several times) as always i started engine without problems but when i increased power to any settings from IDLE to FULL power, plane just did not move, like there were no thrust from propeller.

 

For example: if i was on ground and set rudder trim to one side, set ON parking brakes, then increaseed power i could see that rudder moves (Right CTRL + Enter), because of air stream from propeller, but now it does not happen for Spitfire, Mustang is OK, it works.

[NineLine]

So now your Spitfire is working correctly?

[bart]

Same issue here too.

[Esac_mirmidon]

Working OK here.

 

On a side note i have my X-55 bindings directly on the DCS controls page, im not using any external profile or custom bindings.

[bart]

check your keybindings in saved games also, make a backup of your spitfire folder in inputs and redo them to test

 

let us know how you get on

 

I've just tried this and it didn't work.

 

Same issue, Spitfire for me is glued to the ground!

[saburo_cz]

So now your Spitfire is working correctly?

 

Unfortunately no

 

I will reinstal whole DCS World tomorrow, IMO problem is due to patch instalation.

I switched from torrent way to HTTP after approx. 30%