Mission 8 driving me nuts.

[Aronis]

FIWOS Mission 8.....driving me nuts. I have flown it several times. I know where the targets are at this point. I flew it with immortal and unlimitted weapons on, as I target a Fire Can radar, it CANNOT be seen until I get within a min distance (did not note the distance but about 4 NM.) then it just appears, even thought I can see the other weapons such as the AAguns at greater distances. SO I lock on, align the maverick, fire, cannot destroy it. Swong around 5 times, fired both Mavericks on it, no dice. Same with the SA 11 site. Does Immortal for the Player also make the enemy Immortal?????

Thanks,

 

Mike.

 

 

[Pyrocumulous]

Have you tried cycling between black hot / white / tv? Some of those radars are practically invisible in IR in the targeting pod, as currently implemented in DCS. When I flew Mission 8 yesterday, I found the SA-11 site, but could only pick out the Command Post for whatever reason (I assume the others weren't running their engine,  so no heat). Fortunately, it let me drop a GBU-31 on it while only waking up long enough to pucker me up but not long enough to give rotor an opportunity for a HARM.

Another potential issue is that this is a super high CPU load mission. My 7950X3D CPU was heavily taxed once I entered Sierra, and it kept framerate down at sub-50fps (in VR anyway). Looking at GPU Wait, it was at 18 ms or so for that entire period, while CPU Wait was around 0.17 ms (millisecond), meaning that the GPU was always waiting on the CPU and for a really long time every single frame because there was so much work to do. All that to say, you could potentially be seeing a performance issue depending on your hardware, as this is a particularly taxing mission. (I find that DCS World in VR is essentially always CPU limited in VR with my RTX 4090, this mission is just particularly so)

Spoiler

of note, you definitely don't need to take out any Fire Cans to pass this mission. I only disabled the SA-11, a couple of SA-6s, and took out an assortment of TELs at a SA-8 site near the second pilot but missed the radar and still got 100 as the extraction occurred safely.

 

[Aronis]

Running same CPU, all M.2 drives, 4070ti, 128 gig RAM,  have not seen any frame rate issues, at least not that made me not like the visuals.

I found out from Chillng that the enemy sites are different every time you run the mission.    And  the radar for the fire can is not easy to see with either of the settings.  It's more like it was not drawn yet.  Not sure.

It's still fun.

 

Mike