Patch notes discussion April 2025

[Bealdor]

13 hours ago, avgyst said:

With this update, as soon as the game is launched there are uniform statters, FPS jumps, which last about eight seconds, then everything stabilizes. Has anyone encountered this?

Could be shader compilation, maybe?

[dutchili]

Would this be AI or Map related?

 

Area H FRG 51.

Could not set 'on road' in this area althoug there are visible roads. The units drove past the bridge, through the water and then....well..you can see what happened.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

15 hours ago, Mr_sukebe said:

just longer than normal load times

Odd: load times om my end have DEcreased quite dramatically

[joker62]

After the last update (april 17th) the loading times of DCS and missions have improved slightly. On the other hand the saving times of the existing missions have increased a lot (from 15 to 20 seconds and more). Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? Thanks. (I've only installed official MODs)

[Mr_sukebe]

1 hour ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

Odd: load times om my end have DEcreased quite dramatically

 

Just to clarify, by longer times, I wasn't referring to DCS generally, rather the load time for the Germany map when compared to most of the other maps.

 

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

7 minutes ago, Mr_sukebe said:

 

Just to clarify, by longer times, I wasn't referring to DCS generally, rather the load time for the Germany map when compared to most of the other maps.

 

Ah, my mistake

[v2tec]

Would be great to have an Tech & Terrain Channel for the German Cold War Map on this forum.

Yes, it's early access and first launch, but I would like to get rid of my experiences, detected map faults, improvement suggestions

btw thanks for the map.

Edited Monday at 01:35 AM by v2tec

[rob10]

1 hour ago, v2tec said:

Would be great to have an Tech & Terrain Channel for the German Cold War Map on this forum.

Yes, it's early access and first launch, but I would like to get rid of my experiences, detected map faults, improvement suggestions

btw thanks for the map.

It already exists.  And please don't spam the same message across multiple channels in the forums.

https://forum.dcs.world/forum/1315-dcs-cold-war-germany/

[BIGNEWY]

Release Version

Current version number: DCS 2.9.15.9408

Next planned update: Fix patch 21st April 2025

[BIGNEWY]

DCS: Data Transfer Cartridge (DTC) by Eagle Dynamics

• Fixed: DTC Crash if in track restart mission, then take control and restart again.
• Fixed: DTC Windows Export/Import are displayed after a unit is destroyed in some cases.
• Fixed: DTC button in Briefing is available on dynamic spawned aircraft in MP.

DCS: F/A-18C by Eagle Dynamics

• Fixed: Crash FA18C.dll.
• Fixed: Crash cockpit UHF ARC-210.

DCS: F-16C Viper by Eaglе Dynamics

•  Fixed: Radar RWS TDC bumping range and azimuth settings no longer work.

DCS: AH-64D by Eagle Dynamics

• Fixed: LASER power button is not functioning.

DCS: F-5E  by Eagle Dynamics

• Fixed: Crash when launching missiles AIM-9B at an airplane that uses flares.
• Fixed: Left Wingtip (Pylon 1) missile determines if the AIM-9 provides tone or not.

DCS: F-4E by Heatblur

• Fixed JESTER failing to Align the INS on start-up.

DCS: Kola map by Orbx

• New: ENAT - Alta airport
• New: ENEV - Evenes airport
• New: EFET - Enontekiö arctic airport
• New: EFSO - Sodankylä airfield
• New: Airstrip Road 924 near Hosio
• New: Populated areas around Kuusamo airport
• New: Populated areas around Kallax airport
• New: Added missing charts for Civilian airports
• Fixed: A disconnected road near Borjelsbyn
• Fixed: Removed trees blocking aircraft taxi path from E08 parking to runway Vidsel
• Fixed: Added a missing bridge near Ruka
• Fixed: Updated runway numbers on Kittila airport
• Fixed: Missing PAPI added to ESPA
• Fixed: Changed map date for winter to start on the 15th November instead of 1st December
• Fixed: Optimisation first pass
• Fixed: Fixed model causing FPS drops at Rovaniemi

[Roy35150]

Fixed: Radar RWS TDC bumping range and azimuth settings no longer work.

Thx Devs.

[schurem]

Whoa, a patch on the 2nd day of Easter. That is a bit above and beyond, we could have waited a couple days

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

It's a shame the hotfix for HeatBlur (Jester AI) is not included. Is there an ETA for that, or will we have to wait until the next major patch before we can cold-start the F-4E again?

 

*edit*
Also, is there a version number for this patch/build?

 

Edited Monday at 04:03 PM by Raven (Elysian Angel)

[fjacobsen]

Has the patch been released yet - still on 9408

[BIGNEWY]

will be live very soon 

 

[Derbysieger]

9 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

before we can cold-start the F-4E again?

Hop in the back seat and set the INS knob to align when the red light is off (indicating that the system is warmed up), then once the green light is flashing you can set it to nav. Jester still starts the warm-up for the INS, you just have to initiate the alignment and set it into nav mode once it's finished

[BIGNEWY]

Im just confirming with heatblur about jester, and if I need to we can get it added to the logs.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

7 minutes ago, Derbysieger said:

Hop in the back seat and set the INS knob to align when the red light is off (indicating that the system is warmed up), then once the green light is flashing you can set it to nav. Jester still starts the warm-up for the INS, you just have to initiate the alignment and set it into nav mode once it's finished

I am aware of the work-around  

7 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

Im just confirming with heatblur about jester, and if I need to we can get it added to the logs.

Thank you! 

[gulredrel]

I DON'T own Kola map but own F-4 and the patch size is about 10 GB download for me  Looks like there are some things missing in the changelog?

[Tarres]

38gb here with Kola (8.5gb downloaded, 38gb final after installation)

 

[Derbysieger]

18 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

I am aware of the work-around  

Ah, the way you formulated that made me think that you didn't

[Hog_driver]

Jester seems to be fixed, testing it now.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Is it me, or did ED forget to feed the server hamsters this holiday weekend? Download speed started fine but fell to 16.4KB/s 

[Tarres]

From 96MB/s down to 27MB/s here and now 0.0

Edited Monday at 04:42 PM by Tarres

[Derbysieger]

Yeah, it downloaded 25GB with 1Gbit/s and now it's jumping between a few kB/s and 10MB/s