Terminator357 Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 In case it matters: i7 CPU @ 4.2Ghz, 32 GB Ram, Nvidia 1070 GPU. Running latest version of DCS 'Stable' with the A10cII. Standalone, not Steam. I'm new to DCS but not new to flight sims and mission editors in general. I can't get trains to show up in my custom missions. It's basically the same problem with trains noted elsewhere in this forum...except it's not. Here's what's going on: I have a custom mission I use to practice A/G stuff. I recently placed a train on it (Caucasus map) and noticed that in-game the train never appears. Did my homework (mostly here) and discovered I needed to add cars to it thru the 'Wagons' tab in the Mission Editor...That's where the problem comes in: I cannot use that tab. Take a look at the screen cap I posted...You'll notice the Wagon tab, along with the Loadout, Waypoints, and others, is way down at the bottom right corner of the ME UI. This isn't a huge problem for the other tabs, but it makes the Wagons tab useless. As the pic shows the only 'Wagons' button the UI lets me see is [Delete]. There should be [Add] and [Edit] buttons available along with a drop-down menu to select train car types. I'm sure they're there, it's just that the UI layout is so wonky they're hidden and unclickable. There are no options or tools to expand this window or scroll down the page to view the rest of the Wagon Tab buttons. Now look at the main UI buttons running along the left hand side: Notice how in the upper left corner of the pic the three buttons in the "MAP" menu are sitting in their own column next to the rest of the buttons. After looking at a lot of screen caps from other users I think these buttons should be in the same column that the others are. So, there's something weird going on with the ME UI and it prevents me from using Trains. I'm totally baffled by it. Here's what I've tried so far: - Close and restart the ME, same with DCS. Reboot the pc - Make new missions (using different regions and units) - Click on every possible part of the UI trying to find a way to scroll the Wagon Tab down or expand the window it's in, up. - every available monitor resolution setting - every available in-game resolution setting - change every ME option and setting Regardless of what I do, the UI won't let me get to those buttons. Everything else about the ME seems to work fine. I can create missions, then fly them and blow up tanks, trucks, and SAMs all day long, but I'd kinda like to practice some GAU runs on trains. Any thoughts or suggestions from the ME veterans around here? Thanks!
dark_wood Posted February 25, 2022 Posted February 25, 2022 Try to disable the Historic filter - the clock icon at the bottom right
Terminator357 Posted February 25, 2022 Author Posted February 25, 2022 Disabled it, restarted the app, still no joy. Thanks for the suggestion tho
cfrag Posted February 25, 2022 Posted February 25, 2022 It indeed looks like you've run out of screen space (the stacked icons may be indicative of that). What is your screen size, and what are your screen settings in DCS? Note: I'm purely guessing here, never have seen this before
dark_wood Posted February 25, 2022 Posted February 25, 2022 Question: you are in full screen? Cause @cfrag spotted correctly, it seems like a screen size/resolution issue.
Terminator357 Posted February 25, 2022 Author Posted February 25, 2022 Yeah, I'm tracking right with you guys. Totally thinking it's a resolution/screen space thing but no amount of changing it via the pc or DCS seems to matter. @cfragMonitor is 32", plenty big enuf. Game is currently set at 1366x768, same resolution as my monitor's default setting. @dark_wood Yes, full screen. I tried making the game window bigger/smaller via monitor settings to see if the buttons would uncover themselves, but they didn't. Appreciate the feedback....Maybe if I try another monitor(?) I dunno, this thing is really bugging me : )
Solution cfrag Posted February 25, 2022 Solution Posted February 25, 2022 2 minutes ago, Terminator357 said: Game is currently set at 1366x768 Can you try with a vertical resolution of 1200? 768 seems awfully small.
Terminator357 Posted February 25, 2022 Author Posted February 25, 2022 @cfragDude!!!! That was it! I don't have a 1200p vertical setting available but I do have 1080. Switched the monitor and game both to 1920x1080 and the buttons appeared. The one thing I hadn't done yet was switch PC and game both to a 1080 res setting....Doh! [slaps forehead] Ok, there's one for the Trains knowledge base: User error does indeed cause them to stop working : ) Mucho Gracias, cfrag 1
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