Patch discussion July 2024

[ThorBrasil]

9 minutes ago, Maberickxx88 said:

@BIGNEWY will the CEII get fixed someday?

CEII is not an ED module but rather a Magnitude 3 LLC module. So only they can answer.

What would be the problem with CEII? I have it, but I haven't flown with it for years.

[Gun Jam]

14 hours ago, Glide said:

Oh boy, even better on the new 'Stan map.

I fly Vr with G2. The new update seems to be working well for the most part but I did notice some apparent lag when flying over a cloud and looking at the edge of the cloud you can see it step forward many times a second. Not sure if its just on the afghan map or global. I dont recall seen this before. The new Afghan map is awesome looking by the way. I could see that being fantastic after a few updates. Lots of variety and good textures.

Also cool to see the sun and moon phase GUI I developed still working well

-Gun

[C3PO]

Superb changelog and great work from all the team!

PS: Next month can you add this:

FIXED: Razbam-Eagle Dynamics dispute

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

1 hour ago, Maddaawg said:

wasn't asking if it worked or not, but who is fixing it, ED or mbucchia?

Then I misunderstood. Apologies

 

I uninstalled OpenXR Toolkit as well but ran into the same problems I had earlier once DCS switched to OpenXR.

And yes this quad view is incredible. It gave me the headroom to enable TAA (which has much improved since it launched) and still have performance to spare

[draconus]

3 hours ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

The FC3 cockpits still have the same incorrect geometry in VR

Excuse me?

[ouky1991]

Another great patch and core updates! And Afganistan is absolutely awsome, one of the few maps that looks really good high up and down low.

[Hiob]

33 minutes ago, ouky1991 said:

…..and down low.

 …. to me, it looks more like a SA-situation currently. But I only took a very short look. Maybe I was in the wrong spot…..

[MAXsenna]

 …. to me, it looks more like a SA-situation currently. But I only took a very short look. Maybe I was in the wrong spot…..

I find that there's sort of a transition zone, where it looks a little strange. Both with altitude and distance. I'm sensing we see the first iteration of EDAI that will be used in the global sphere. It needs to be tought a few new tricks regarding shrubs and ground clutter on dry riverbeds. Hopefully we will get better options to control the ground clutter down the line. The way it pops in now looks really odd.

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[ouky1991]

14 minutes ago, Hiob said:

 …. to me, it looks more like a SA-situation currently. But I only took a very short look. Maybe I was in the wrong spot…..

Or maybe I was

I flew around Kandahar and it defnintely has a lot of detailed areas suitable for helicopters. While SA has basically no detailed "hardsplat" type of textures and looks great from higher altitude, Syria for example only looks good low. I'd say Afganistan is perfectly balanced in this regard

[MikeMS]

First time in many, many years of using ESET along with DCS, the antivirus prevented the game from updating complaining about suspicious files and deleting them...
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[71st_Mastiff]

43 minutes ago, MikeMS said:

First time in many, many years of using ESET along with DCS, the antivirus prevented the game from updating complaining about suspicious files and deleting them...
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yep the F14avionics is spying on you.. lol

 

 

Edited July 12, 2024 by 71st_Mastiff

[Crowman]

Hi All,

after updating a minimul version of DS World I am using to test the updates, I attempted to use it offline due to internet connection issues only to receive a message which goes something like this "Unable to activate offline mode error code 500" any suggestions???

[Moxica]

Combat landing is no landing.
Chinook never land. Just whizzing around indecisively.


 

CombatLanding.trk

[Art-J]

2 minutes ago, Crowman said:

Hi All,

after updating a minimul version of DS World I am using to test the updates, I attempted to use it offline due to internet connection issues only to receive a message which goes something like this "Unable to activate offline mode error code 500" any suggestions???

Does the game launch otherwise (in online mode that is)? Error 500 is usually computer time-and-date related, are they set properly on your PC?

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/255827-error-code-is-500/

 

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

1 hour ago, draconus said:

Excuse me?

Indeed: I stand corrected. Now that the FC3 authentication issues seem to be resolved (mostly anyway, my Module Manager is still confused) I was able to take a look and it seems that this patch finally rectified that! It was something that's been bugging me these past few years and I never got an answer when I asked ED about it.
In any case, case closed it seems!  

[Hiob]

1 hour ago, ouky1991 said:

Or maybe I was

I flew around Kandahar and it defnintely has a lot of detailed areas suitable for helicopters. While SA has basically no detailed "hardsplat" type of textures and looks great from higher altitude, Syria for example only looks good low. I'd say Afganistan is perfectly balanced in this regard

Hmm…. apart from the bonbon colours (which can be corrected) Syria is by far the best map in DCS. So far (apart from the colours) Afghanistan doesn’t change that for me. I will have a deeper look tonight.

[draconus]

28 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

I was able to take a look and it seems that this patch finally rectified that!

I flew FC3 for a few years now in VR and nobody reported wrong geometry. Whatever it was, was probably on your side, but good for you anyway

I confirm FC3 is authorized now correctly but still hangs as possible to be installed in Module Manager.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

1 hour ago, draconus said:

nobody reported wrong geometry

Others in my old squadrons did, even back in the 1.5 days.

 

1 hour ago, draconus said:

probably on your side

Apparently not.

Edited July 12, 2024 by Raven (Elysian Angel)

[rob10]

3 hours ago, MikeMS said:

First time in many, many years of using ESET along with DCS, the antivirus prevented the game from updating complaining about suspicious files and deleting them...

In that case you've been lucky.  ESET is one of the usual AV suspects (i.e. one of the most commonly implicated) when people have issues with authorization or missing DCS files.

[Kang]

22 hours ago, Kang said:

Reading this thread while an update is downloading is truly filling one with confidence...

Yea, don't get to enjoy all of the issues, mostly probably for not having had actual FC3 around, but my plan of flying some this afternoon was properly thwarted anyway.

DCS: CTD - Crash a legend!

[hairbear29]

22 hours ago, Slippa said:

Don't know if it's down to the beers I'm getting through but it seems to be improving the more I restart the bloody thing?

After I don't know how many tonight, restarts, as well as beers, it just asked me to install FC3 stuff. See how this goes. I'll open another one

Careful slippa when I do that I end up making adjustments and wake up in the morning having forgotten what adjustments I made!

[Glide]

5 hours ago, Gun Jam said:

I fly Vr with G2. The new update seems to be working well for the most part but I did notice some apparent lag when flying over a cloud and looking at the edge of the cloud you can see it step forward many times a second. Not sure if its just on the afghan map or global. I dont recall seen this before. The new Afghan map is awesome looking by the way. I could see that being fantastic after a few updates. Lots of variety and good textures.

Also cool to see the sun and moon phase GUI I developed still working well

-Gun

I highly recommend turning on all the eye candy now.  Clouds and water max, shadows high, sss, ssao, the works.  If that exceeds your VRAM limit, turn the resolution down until the mission fits.  I don't use clouds much myself, so I hope this helps.

[jackill]

On 7/11/2024 at 7:56 PM, jackill said:

Any details about new option in axis tuning - hardware AB detent? It was not mentioned in changelog. I fiddled with values but wasn’t able to see any effect.

 

Bump. Were you able to do anything with it? For me it looks like non functional at this moment.

[daemon1808]

Hi!

A Steam user using Pico 3 headset here.

After a couple of problems downloading the update because the antivirus (no big deal, I have to deal with IT security guys on my job every day ) and a restorarion of installed files on Steam, everything seems fine so far.

FC3 standalone modules working. No missed axes/bindings for now. No VR issues. No frame drops. OpenXR tools working as always...

Thanks ED

[MustangSally]

Absolutely no issues for me! Running perfectly!