MNissen Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) I'm new to DCS World, and Windows 8.1, having read other posts in this forum, I'm at a loss. I cannot for the life of me, get the FPS to display whilst flying, in cockpit or external view, or at all. I've tried to use LCtrl + pause and RCtrl + pause, I've remapped the command, in options to LCtrl + Z. Can't see it. The only things I can see as an overlay, on the screen, are the pinkish, "Game Radar" circle in upper right and there is a display bar at the bottom of the screen showing various things like heading, flaps angle and date and time, but no FPS. DCS 2.5.6 Open Beta, Windows 8.1. Is there a setting somewhere that needs to be enabled. to show any overlays on the screen? Edited March 31, 2021 by MNissen Mac Pro 5,1 (Early 2009) - 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon - 48 GB RAM - Radeon RX 590 Mac OS X 10.15 - Bootcamp - Windows 10 - 2 x SSD 1TB - T16000M HOTAS - DCS World & Open Beta - Operator still a newbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution draconus Posted April 1, 2021 Solution Share Posted April 1, 2021 Game radar indicates you have a game mode or game avionics turned on. Lctrl+Z is default for time accel - it might be a keybind conflict. 1 Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M HOTAS FC3, F-14A/B, F-15E CA SC NTTR, PG, Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNissen Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) Thank you very much. Yes that was it, I turned off Game mode and Game Avionics and it works well. RCtrl pause is working, though I have a keyboard that needs a function modifier key pressed, when pause is accessed so it's actually RCtrl and Func + pause for me. I used to play F/A-18 Hornet back in the days when it came on a floppy disk, 3.5" So I find myself with time on my hands and I've watched DCS World, from afar over the years. I can't afford a big rig PC, but I did happen to have a powerful Mac, from when I was in prepress, so I put Windows 8.1 inside bootcamp on the Mac and DCS World is looking like it'll run very well. Not at the highest of high settings, but I'm at about mid level, at the moment and happy with what I'm seeing. Edited April 1, 2021 by MNissen 1 Mac Pro 5,1 (Early 2009) - 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon - 48 GB RAM - Radeon RX 590 Mac OS X 10.15 - Bootcamp - Windows 10 - 2 x SSD 1TB - T16000M HOTAS - DCS World & Open Beta - Operator still a newbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foka Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 1 hour ago, MNissen said: I can't afford a big rig PC, but I did happen to have a powerful Mac, from when I was in prepress, so I put Windows 8.1 inside bootcamp on the Mac and DCS World is looking like it'll run very well. Not at the highest of high settings, but I'm at about mid level, at the moment and happy with what I'm seeing. Have fun till you can. DCS 2.7 is supposed to go live in a week, and it's not Win 8.1 compatible, only Win 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, Foka said: Have fun till you can. DCS 2.7 is supposed to go live in a week, and it's not Win 8.1 compatible, only Win 10. I only heard about end of support for Windows 7. 2 Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M HOTAS FC3, F-14A/B, F-15E CA SC NTTR, PG, Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foka Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Ok, maybe I messed up something, I thought only Win10, but I might be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon1-1 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 10 is a service pack/UI overhaul for 8.1 Not much changed between the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNissen Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 10 hours ago, Foka said: Have fun till you can. DCS 2.7 is supposed to go live in a week, and it's not Win 8.1 compatible, only Win 10. Ahh well. I guess I'll be learning all about upgrading to Win 10, shouldn't be too hard, I've had Win 10 in the past in bootcamp... Or I'll be finding how well 2.7 works on Win 8.1 Mac Pro 5,1 (Early 2009) - 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon - 48 GB RAM - Radeon RX 590 Mac OS X 10.15 - Bootcamp - Windows 10 - 2 x SSD 1TB - T16000M HOTAS - DCS World & Open Beta - Operator still a newbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudel_chw Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 2 hours ago, MNissen said: Or I'll be finding how well 2.7 works on Win 8.1 It should work .. DCS not supporting the older Windows does not mean that the Sim won't run, only means that ED will not be able to provide support if you need it. 2 For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600X - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia GTX1070ti - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar - Oculus Rift CV1 Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuchara Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 En 1/4/2021 a las 12:07, Foka dijo: Have fun till you can. DCS 2.7 is supposed to go live in a week, and it's not Win 8.1 compatible, only Win 10. jajjajajaaaaajaja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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