Interactive kneeboard not working

[MAThrasher]

I did flight simming hardcore a few years ago.  With interest in getting back started since the advent of VR, I have spent the past few weeks getting VR headset, hotas, etc.  I finally have the complete system and ready to fly.  The one last thing I wanted was voice commands.  In the past, I used TeamSpeak.

It seems that most people are going the Vaicom Pro route, so I bought it the other night.  I got the entire bundle that includes Chatter, kneeboard, etc.  Doing the install, I followed the manual with as much detail as possible.  I installed the latest version of VoiceAttack and the Vaicom Pro plugin.  I modified all of the settings as listed in the manual.  

 

I made sure to run everything as administrator.  I started VoiceAttack and Vaicom and then DCS.  I selected an F-18 mission and saw that the cockpit was nothing but a few pieces of scrap metal from the nose of the jet.  There is no cockpit.  I had this happen a few weeks ago and I fixed it by reinstalling the module for F-18.  

 

With the newly installed mod, I started a free flight and pressed right-shift+k to pull up the kneeboard.  The opening page is just a transparent rectangle.  It is not the bookmarked page that the Vaicom manual shows.  I tried the A-10 jet and the same thing (transparent rectangle).  I tried the Su-25 and the Vaicom kneeboard does show as it is supposed to.  The problem seems to only appear for purchased mods.

 

I removed Vaicom Pro and reinstalled it...kneeboard again has the transparent page showing.  The other pages of the kneeboard show up fine.  As a last straw, I completely removed VoiceAttack and Vaicom and did a reinstall.  Same issue is still there for the transparent page.  I don't have any idea of what to try next.

 

One last thing.  I decided to try my kneeboard builder app and see what would happen when I opened the kneeboard in the F-18.  When I started the mission, the garbled up scrap metal for a cockpit was there again.  Something is clobbering my cockpit graphics and I don't know what.  I removed and reinstalled the F-18 mod again and it fixed the cockpit.

 

I need some advice because I don't have a clue as to what is going wrong here.  The only other mod I am using is OpenXR...not Steam.  My OS is Windows 11.  My DCS install is vanilla with the exception of OpenXR.  

 

Any ideas as to what is happening with my setiup??

 

Thanks for any feedback.

[sthompson]

Have you checked the kneeboard transparency slider in the VAICOM settings pages? (This affects the VAICOM kneeboard page only.) Do other kneeboard pages look OK?

[MAThrasher]

The transparency slider I checked is in the "EX" tab...it is called "knee".  I changed it from dim all the way to bright.  It didn't seem to have any effect.  All of the other kneeboard pages look perfectly normal.  What really baffles me is the problem only exists for purchased modules.  I saw a couple of posts where the person said they found their problem to be a "key binding" issue.  I'm not sure what was meant by that.  Any ideas about key binding?