Eshark Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Hello ALL I have recently bought the game ,and am having some problems starting the left engine in particular,I have followed the training start up procedure,and taken advice from freinds with the sim to no availe I have set the throttles to idle,and off.But the engine will not start the apu is reaching the 100% mark and settles but when the left engine button is used nothing the the engine reading will not rise but a couple of notches,and far from the 25% fan reading,now the right engine does start but sometimes I experience the same problem with this engine to. I treid the automatic start procedure and the same thing the apu goes to 100% steadys but will not start the engine and after some time will close down automatically.Does anyone have any Ideas please os win7 64 bit gpu nvidia 560ti 1gb ram 8 gig hard drive 1trb
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted March 4, 2012 ED Team Posted March 4, 2012 What hotas / joystick are you using ? Double check your throttle's in windows to make sure its not spiking. Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
sobek Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Please be so kind to post a track. It will make things so much easier and faster analysing what's wrong with your startup. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Frostiken Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Try moving your throttle(s) all the way forward and then back to off... if you have an XBox controller plugged in, unplug it (or delete all the bindings to it). [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Eshark Posted March 4, 2012 Author Posted March 4, 2012 Iam using a thrustmaster warthog hotas,I have already tried to throttle solution moving them up and down .I really am new to this game how would I create a track to and how do you post it on here for you guys to see ?
sobek Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Iam using a thrustmaster warthog hotas,I have already tried to throttle solution moving them up and down .I really am new to this game how would I create a track to and how do you post it on here for you guys to see ? After you are done illustrating the problem in the sim, stop the mission and on the debriefing screen, press "save track". This will create a .trk file that contains all the input you made in that mission, so it will allow a person replaying that track to see exactly what steps you took during startup, hopefully revealing what step is missing. This .trk file you can then attach to your next post in this thread by pressing "go advanced" under the text box, and then pressing "manage attachments", then point the dialogue to the file you want to attach, voila. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Frostiken Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Make sure you aren't trying to use the TARGET software because the plug-and-play functionality of the TMW goes out the window with that. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Eshark Posted March 4, 2012 Author Posted March 4, 2012 ok guys thanks for the info will try your suggestions cheers. As for the track will also try to do once again thanks ,after 13years+ of flying il2 this is a real challange nooob all over again
badger66 Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Im using a X52pro , and Ive had that happen to me only once , again on engine #2 ..... checked my joystick profile , unplugged and rebooted the PC , and everything seems as advertized now .
Eshark Posted March 4, 2012 Author Posted March 4, 2012 A-10C START UP TRACK Free Flight - Black Sea - Air Start.miz
HawkMedic126 Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Have you turned on the APU Gen after waiting for the APU to settle at 100%? Also, check that you've turned on all four Fuel Boost Pump switches (Left and Right for both Wing and Main tanks). System Specs: Intel i5 2500k OC to 4.3Ghz 16GB RAM Asus 1.5GB GTX580 H80 Liquid Cooler Vizio 37" HDTV Compaq 21.5" Touchscreen TM Warthog Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals TrackIR5 Logitech G13
sobek Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 Sorry, but you must have mixed up the files, the one you uploaded is a mission file where you start in the air. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Eshark Posted March 4, 2012 Author Posted March 4, 2012 o sorry sobek in which case the tracks are not being saved there are three tracks in the mission folder one is the ramp start black sea but I saved it under a different name,so thses must be a default track in the missions folder am I wrong ?
Eshark Posted March 4, 2012 Author Posted March 4, 2012 here is the one I found if the engine starts then its the wrong oneFree Flight - Black Sea - Ramp Start.miz
sobek Posted March 4, 2012 Posted March 4, 2012 You are posting the mission files, not the track files. Track files have the extension .trk, not .miz. You have to note where you saved the track. There you will find the .trk file. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Eshark Posted March 5, 2012 Author Posted March 5, 2012 Start Up Track Ok sorry there you goNew Track.trk
159th_Viper Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 You are motoring the Engine on the ground with your throttles at off. Leave the IGN switch at NORM and start the engine by moving the throttle from Off to Idle with RAlt + Home (left engine) and RCtrl + Home (right engine). Novice or Veteran looking for an alternative MP career? Click me to commence your Journey of Pillage and Plunder! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] '....And when I get to Heaven, to St Peter I will tell.... One more Soldier reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell......'
HawkMedic126 Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) Looks like you've started to motor your engine but never hit the starter. You can continue to hit the L ENG OPER switch to motor as you've been doing but once it gets to about 30% you should engage the L ENG STARTER by moving the left throttle from the OFF position (fully aft) to the IDLE position (over the hump). Wait for #1 engine to settle then repeat the process for #2. Also, you can skip the motoring and go straight to starting the engine if you want. I'm sure there's a situation where motoring would be warranted, but that's a topic for another thread. EDIT: ARRGH!!! Sniped! Edited March 5, 2012 by HawkMedic126 sniped 1 System Specs: Intel i5 2500k OC to 4.3Ghz 16GB RAM Asus 1.5GB GTX580 H80 Liquid Cooler Vizio 37" HDTV Compaq 21.5" Touchscreen TM Warthog Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals TrackIR5 Logitech G13
sobek Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 No reason to apologize. I see what's going on now. You just activated the starter but never introduced fuel and ignition to the engine. There are two possible ways to fix that: Either you use the automatic engine start that is built in to the A-10, where you just have to move the throttle over the idle detent (right alt+home, IIRC) or you continue to use the manual starter controls. In case of the latter, at the point where you were in the track you still would have had to take the throttle over the idle detent (again, right alt+home, the right throttle should be right ctrl+home) and after doing so put the eng oper switch back to norm. The engine will then light off and spool up to idle. Just be careful not to advance the throttle during spool up or it will disrupt the start procedure. Edit: Double sniped. Shortcuts corrected. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Eshark Posted March 5, 2012 Author Posted March 5, 2012 Ok Guys Well followed your instruction and still got the problem with the left engine,the right engine fired up without a problem.There must be something else going on here when I did the original installe from the disc I had no problems but since using 1.1.1.1 version this has started.I have uninstalled and reinstalled three times now.
159th_Viper Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 Could we see the track with the right engine starting and the left failing? Novice or Veteran looking for an alternative MP career? Click me to commence your Journey of Pillage and Plunder! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] '....And when I get to Heaven, to St Peter I will tell.... One more Soldier reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell......'
badger66 Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 I had it happen to me again last night , L/H was fine , R/H failed to get above 25% .
mnrty Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) I had it happen to me again last night , L/H was fine , R/H failed to get above 25% . Did you turn on your boost pumps? sounds like your engine is not getting fuel, try to idle the right engine, let it settle and turn boost pumps on, and try to start it again!:) Edited March 5, 2012 by mnrty
badger66 Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 Did you turn on your boost pumps? sounds like your engine is not getting fuel, try to idle the right engine, let it settle and turn boost pumps on, and try to start it again!:) Tried to run up the L/H engine , which worked , the R/H didnt move . exited back to spectator , and then all was well again . Yep , boost pumps are all on , APU was at 100% , didnt try to start until APU was at 100% . I can live with it . Just passing on info as I saw this thread . Cot a yellow rectangle box warning on both MFD'S on start up . Cleared it with OSB-16 and all was ok . Just wonderin why ?
Eshark Posted March 5, 2012 Author Posted March 5, 2012 Ok Viper There you go,now to start I have been using R alt-home for left,and R-alt-home,also used the left right cockpit dash buttons for engine start nothing this time the right engine did not start either.I did noticew that the esc key was not working or out side views f2 infact none of the f keys were working ,left and right engine start.trk
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