The "DCS: Black Shark 2" upgrade

[Bee_Sting]

what kind of upgrade is this? what about patch 1.0.2 or 1.0.1c? can someone shed some light on this?

[Nate--IRL--]

All the info about BS2 is here...

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=80906

 

Nate

[Bee_Sting]

nice! can i keep my patch 1.02 or 1.01c? do i have to do a clean install. i know patch 1.01c allows multicore and 1.02 lets my play with lockon players. does this upgrade keep these features?

[Nate--IRL--]

nice! can i keep my patch 1.02 or 1.01c? do i have to do a clean install. i know patch 1.01c allows multicore and 1.02 lets my play with lockon players. does this upgrade keep these features?

 

1.01c allows multicore? That particular tweak was built into v1.02 so it does it automatically. No need for 1.01c at all.

 

BS2 will install to a completely separate folder, leaving BS1 untouched.

 

BS1 will still be compatible with FC2, BS2 will be compatible with A-10 and FC3, when that is released.

 

This may be of interest ---> http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=81591

 

Nate

[EtherealN]

I would suspect that the "allows multicore" he means is that the "affinity trick" is no longer needed. (If you recall the special loaders that were made to assign core affinities to the process.)

 

If that is what he means, then it is the same thing in 1.0.2 and all later products, including FC2, A-10C and BS2.

[Bee_Sting]

i guess i said wrong on the cores thang but i was told you don't have to use dsmax to change the cores and that 1.0.1c fixes that.

[Nate--IRL--]

i guess i said wrong on the cores thang but i was told you don't have to use dsmax to change the cores and that 1.0.1c fixes that.

 

DCSMAX is long obsolete as DCS automatically applies the affinity trick DCSMAX did with v1.02.

 

Nate

[EtherealN]

i guess i said wrong on the cores thang but i was told you don't have to use dsmax to change the cores and that 1.0.1c fixes that.

 

And this fix was retained in all ED products after that - including 1.02, BS2, FC2, A-10C etcetera. ;)

[Bee_Sting]

REALLY! now that is great someone was thinking on this on! now all i have to do is waite for FC3

[Rodney]

Nice upgrade for only $20. Thanks ED :thumbup:

[Rodney]

Hey guys one thing I missed was the Starforce activation scheme. Is BC2 using the activation scheme of A-10C where we'll get back activations if we run out or is it using the scheme from BC1?

 

So my copy of BC1 will be untouched if I install the upgrade version of BC2? I only ask this because i'm unsure if my lowly E8500 with an ATI 6870 will be able to run BC2. :)

[ALDEGA]

BS2 is installed and activated separately. Original BS1 data and activation remains untouched. Not sure if this answers your question. If you run out of activations (for either BS) then you should be able to get more activations by creating a support ticket.

[krazybiskit]

And this fix was retained in all ED products after that - including 1.02, BS2, FC2, A-10C etcetera.

 

 

Really? where is it in A-10C? a second core used for sound. whoopity doo. have to use a 64 bit os to get the performance out of the sim, and it cant support 4 core!!

[Nate--IRL--]

Processor affinity is no longer restricted to one core - not multi core.

 

Nate