Couple of basic questions

[OJDee]

Hi, just got the sim, loving it so far!

 

These may well have been answered in the months since Russian launch but I couldn't find any reference in my search.

 

Should I have a pilot in my cockpit view? There seems to be one in the Producer notes, but in game I never see one.

 

When I request a re-arm / change payload from my maintenance crew, they reply but then nothing seems to happen - is there a certain time I must wait, a certain place I need to be in airfield?

 

What is the reason for the majority of the campaigns being unavailable with Vista? Given that affinity tweak in Vista allows much greater performance on dual and quad core machines, I'd have thought that meant it was the preferred platform for this sim?

 

Hopefully these are simple and quick to answer, thanks if you can help.

Oli

Edited April 18, 2009 by OJDee
Additional question

[glottis]

The pilot can be turned on with a keypress - from memory I think it's RSHIFT and P

[EtherealN]

On re-armament, I've never actually tried anything else but I've always assumed that I have to be at the parking area to get rearmed and refueled while on an aerodrome.

 

Are they responding with "Copy"?

 

No missions are unavailable in Vista. There was a problem in beta with a method Vista has for handling memory that caused issues in big missions, but it appears Microsoft solved it since the overwhelming majority has had no issues at all with them, including me. Upcoming patch removes that notice. (Did you try them? Then you'd have seen they weren't "unavailable".)

[Mugenjin]

if the maintenance crew replied to you, everything's fine and you just have to wait for a short amount of time. afaik you can re-arm anywhere on the airfiueld.

[OJDee]

....(Did you try them? Then you'd have seen they weren't "unavailable".)

 

No I didn't try them, just saw the warning and thought better of crashing my machine, but if its a remnant of beta that's all good, thanks!

 

Found keyswitch, thanks glottis.

 

Mmm, as far as re-arming in concerned, it seems a bit hit and miss, sometimes they say copy and sometimes they don't, have also had them say copy and not change payload.. weird, will have to give it a bit more time and see if I can reproduce.

 

Thanks all

Oli

[EtherealN]

If you have the door closed, you do switch the radio knob to Ground Crew, right?

[SSneg]

For rearming, if ground crew confirms, you just wait about a minute. Can use time-warp function if you want.

 

Rearming is possible while completely still on ground in the airport space (not necessary parking, just 150m from the center point).

 

To communicate with the ground crew you have to either:

- open the door, turn off ALL engines, stop the rotor and use the radio commands (which work as "shouting" in this case)

- switch the radio to ground crew channel (НОП on УКВ-2) and use the radio commands (which work as communicating over a headphone cable attached to the helicopter). The fun part is to try to lift off when you are in this mode, the ground crew dispatcher starts yelling "wtf you're doing man!" , because you are trying to lift him off by the headphone cable :)))

Edited April 18, 2009 by SSneg

[sobek]

What is the reason for the majority of the campaigns being unavailable with Vista? Given that affinity tweak in Vista allows much greater performance on dual and quad core machines, I'd have thought that meant it was the preferred platform for this sim?

 

I've played the first and parts of the second oil war campaign and they worked fine.

 

I think ED had concerns due to some major issues that arose during beta testing but have not occurred in the final product, so just try them out, they will most likely work fine, although they are resource hungry because of many units being present.