need track replay TGP Blank after Timing Out

[drspankle]

I've had this a few times now playing solo and online.  When I power up the TGP it powers up ok but then goes blank after it times out.  The buttons on that MFD don't work after this point.  I've flown the exact same mission and sometimes this happens and sometimes it works as it should.  My cockpit setup involves switching FCR on the left MFD for TGP, and setting HSD on the bottom centre OSB on the right MFD.  If there's a way to record the fault log somehow I can do this (if someone tells me how ...).

I've also had the INV button dissapear from the SMS page (but I didn't get a picture of this).  It seems to happen when I have a mixed A-G loadout such as HARM and JSOW.  I fire the HARMs then try to switch to the JSOW to mop up the rest of the SAM site but when I try to cycle through the A-G weapons I get the SMS page without the INV button and can't change to the JSOW.  I've tried cycling into A-A and then back to A-G, tried DGFT and MRM overide modes then back to A-G and I get the same thing: the SMS page but no INV button.

Maybe I'm being a goof but it doesn't happen every time, and I'm fairly sure I'm doing the same thing each time and have a pretty good grasp of the avionics.  Your help would be most appreciated ...

Cheers,

Dr Spankle

[Tholozor]

The pod is in the standby/stowed position (STBY on the top left OSB). Switch it to AA or AG to unstow it.

[drspankle]

Nope that doesn't work - I did try that.  If I press that the whole screen changes to a blank screen with STBY in contrast invert in the bottom right of the MFD.

Dr Spankle

 

[Tholozor]

And it doesn't have A-A in the top left and A-G in the top right? (Ignore the green, I'm using a color mod)

[Frederf]

That's the menu where you pick which mode. If STBY is shown next to the OSB1 label (OSB are 1-20 increasing clockwise from the top row, left side) then that's the mode the pod is currently in. To change mode you would press:

• OSB 1 (STBY) to enter the selection menu <as in picture above>
• OSB 6 A-G to enter A-G mode

[drspankle]

Thanks everyone I'll try that - in the meantime all the threat rings have disappeared from the HSD!  Any ideas where I'm being dumb here  Same theatre as before (Spudknocker's Server Syria) and it's very busy down there!  Similarly, none of the threats appeared on the HAD. I swear I did exactly the same on this mission as I did on the previous one!

Dr Spankle

[_SteelFalcon_]

did the rings go away or were they never there to begin with?

if they weren't there at all, maybe check that the INS alignment is done properly prior to taxi

[drspankle]

Hi everyone and thank you all, as usual, for your help.  I've narrowed down the issues to them all happening after landing and re-arm/refuel in Multiplayer.  So far I've had the issues I mentioned above, and now this morning I had the TGP cursor moving in the opposite direction to the input, and the HAD showing only search radars despite an SA2  and 3 showing on the RHWR (and firing on me!).  The first mission I fired a HARM and then a JSOW at a SAM site and everything worked as it should.  I landed, refueled and re-armed and went back to repeat the process and it was very buggy.  When the TGP cursor was moving the wrong way on the HSD, the pod picture was moving in the correct orientation.  Now, this was directly ahead of me so this is clearly wrong.  As a bit of background I'm ex Air Force, now a commercial pilot and I regularly use a turret camera as part of my job, so I understand the vagaries of its use, and this was just plain wrong.  All that said, I'm more than happy to admit if I'm doing something wrong, but it seems odd that after a quick turnaround on the ground I lose the ability to repeat a process I managed some 20 mins previously ...

There does seem to be a bit of chatter on here about similar issues post turnaround.  Is there anything I can do to g some sort of file of the mission?

Dr Spankle

17 hours ago, _SteelFalcon_ said:

did the rings go away or were they never there to begin with?

if they weren't there at all, maybe check that the INS alignment is done properly prior to taxi

Yes there on the first mission, not there after re-arming and launching again to the same targets.  

Dr Spankle

Edited February 28, 2022 by drspankle

[BIGNEWY]

Please include a short track replay example of the issue

thanks

[drspankle]

Just tried again except this time I jumped into another Viper from cold start at the same airbase, rather than land and re-arm.  Exactly the same issues, or at least some of them (no threat rings or SAM indications on the HAD). INS alignment all fine.  Looks like it's something to do with the second sortie, or perhaps just that server?

Dr Spankle

1 minute ago, BIGNEWY said:

Please include a short track replay example of the issue

thanks

No probs - how do I do that please?

[BIGNEWY]

when you exit the mission during the debrief screen you can save the track. Please use the smallest and quickest mission possible to show the problem

if it is in multiplayer you will find the track replay in your saved games dcs track replay multiplayer folder

 

thanks

[drspankle]

Ok - I think this is it.  If it's 3 x WCMD from Rabat David then that's the last one I flew.  The HUD pitch ladders went way off to the left (and I hand't accidentally hit the Drift C/O switch) and the threat rings all disappeared.  How do I upload it - it's 38MB?

Dr Spankle

Edited February 28, 2022 by drspankle