TheCabal

How much RAM you got? Support told me that 16GB will get full fast so that only 200MB is left for the system. I was flying on Growling Sidewinders Server.

Hello guys, another problem and I don't know if this is resulting from me having 16GB RAM (planning to upgrade these to 32GB). Symptoms. It's happening on Growling Sidewinders server, I'm located in Poland with fiber-optic inet; ping is between 110-125; before I had clean crashes to desktop (Support confirmed: Out of memory); after lowering the graphics and upping the page file I could fly. Framerates were never a problem. Regardless, symptoms ingame: - Other planes run me over on ground as if they don't see me, get visibly damaged but they behave normally like... undamaged. - Firing off missiles aren't registered by the server. I checked the TacView file from the server and it shows ONLY ME without any action except of flying 3 Flankers... and that I fire no missiles while actually having fired several and getting two kills from my perspective. - An admin showed me some TacView screensots that at one time I was at an altitude of -2000 and said that something strange is happening on my end. Any ideas what might be causing this? Greetings, Cabal

Hey Dustoff, where exactly is this option located? I'm suffering from it as well & extreme slowdowns while it happens.

End of story (even if nobody tried to help...): Alex from support helped out a bit more to understand these crashes. -> Low amount of RAM for such a heavy loader like Growling Sidewinders server. My system was literally sucked dry. Also, found a reddit discussion in which people already stated three years ago, that 32GB are mandatory for years to get a good MP experience. End of story: I'm gonna get me some new RAMs (2x 16GB Kingston Fury CL15) for my laptop.

Have 16GB. After coming back from half a year of a break I updated everything and now suffer a lot of crashes everytime I play on multiplayer. Have increased the pagefile and lowered the graphics: didn't help. Created a thread

Hello folks, since coming back to DCS Open Beta after a pause of half a year, I'm getting regular crashes all the time on multiplayer. I'm located in Poland and fly on Growling Sidewinders Open Conflict server (located in Canada....). What I tried: - Repair (Quick & Slow) - Incr. Page file to 32GB on my C SSD-drive (Game is installed on M2 E:) - Reduced graphics settings like shadows incl. secondary & flat blur etc., preload radius (though it always runs smooth enough for me on high) - Deleted unnecessary mods (except of new Polish Air Force skins). Increasing the page file & lowering graphics at the same time made the game load even !extremly! slower and it crashed 2 minutes after takeoff. Need to test it again later. It all runs very fluently before the crash. Sometimes I'm getting only as far as the border on this server.. if I'm lucky I get to fight another guy. Support hinted the consideration to buy more RAM bc 16GB is not enough for comfortable multiplayer.... I get that. Aren't there any other options left? Are 32GB the cure to play with high graphic settings on a full server? My rig: GE73 Raider RGB 8RF (16GB; GTX 1070); Windows 11, everything updated. Lot's of question marks... Attachments: The zip is from yesterday and the log from right after the recent crash. There wasn't even any question to create & send a report. Crash characteristics: Picture suddenly comes to a hold or there is 1 massive stutter before crash while the sound progresses normally and then I'm back to desktop, many times without a crash-report window. What can I do? Am I really out of options? I'm clueless and frustrated. Greetings, Cabal dcs.log-20230506-212126.zip dcs.log

Is there something I (hopefully) missed after a few years reg. a F-16A or at least a F-16A mod?

The F-16A in a cold war environment and doing what it was build for with the old cockpit... a dream. Is everyone pretending to have not watched Iron Eagle, played Falcon AT-3.0? Seems we F-16A guys are a niche within a niche.

Hey there folks, it's been a while. Any news... changes reg. the suggestions here? Greetings, Cabal

Hi Mike! Hmm your mission is ATO A.03.3 while I start the campaign with ATO A.03.4? I restarted it and got the ATO A.03.4 again. Totally confused. Besides: this mission "ATO A.03.4" is strange as well.. overflying the enemy which asks for being shot down.

I bought FC3... and have to "buy all the single ones" to make them show up seperately? Eh... never saw how the background pics, icons and theme music were like. Guess I will never find out.

Hello, this bothered me since quite some time. Is this possible? I bought a bundle back then which added the Flanker and thought... that I'd like to see more background themes instead of that ugly blue F-15 of FC3. Greetings, Cabal

Hello folks, I'm trying the SU-25T campaign as in the title and have problems making out where the enemy is in the first campaign mission. I'm totally clueless. The briefing only shows the frontline... no info on where these waypoints are located and what exactly to do. Flying between WP5 and WP6 (to recon) is pure suicide. When watching a few vids on YT, I saw that WP4 triggered green smoke and red smoke to mark friendly & enemy positions. This, somehow, didn't happen here. Just got DCS installed and updated (Stable) as usual. Am I missing something here? Jesus... first time touching the SU-25T and then this. Greetings, Cabal

Why Poland Passed on F-16s for New FA-50 Fighter Jets - 19FortyFive Maybe there is an answer.

Still alive after 2 decades of holding my breath. I'm persistent

I don't really fly this sim? Who told you that? I'm in since the early days and into flight sims since the late 80s. You are just pissed about someone saying that your beloved DCS is amongst the most boring combat flight sims in the history of sims while having so much potential and so much time not even considering the old fun aspects of flight sims. Consider these rants a passionate art of caring reg. flight sims, especially DCS, the only one, the worthy, holding the scepter right now which still can't surpass DOS sims. ***** set the standard of modern flight sims with the most important feature made by mostly one guy incl. older technology: a dynamic campaign and we are talking community missions as if everything evolved backwards towards trial & error missions to repeat (even worse: cold starting the aircraft on the ramp every time you need to repeat a mission... which was annoying in the Flanker campaign of FC3, wasting so much time approaching the enemy again and again to get it right)? Can't this get any more dislodged than it already is? Most of us had some sort of experience back in the days with other sims. These times were the golden age for flight sims to show how technology has evolved before it became a niche. Have you forgotten all that? DCS is full of potential, it's the only thing out there for flight simmers thus people put lots of hopes into it. I'm one of them hoping for decades for a dynamic campaign which connects everything together and provides more fun. I can't believe that the last news are so old. Didn't you have any experience with sims from the past? Don't you remember the fun you had with these because many are just dumping this aspect as if all this was not necessary anymore? Matt Wagners top sim of the past is ***** (******). If you'd fire it up, you would know why. Take ***** and *** features into consideration and compare these ancient titles to DCS in terms of fun. I apologize if I unintentionally hit any foot too hard, I'm just disappointed, don't feel offended, don't mock/troll me and especially don't make this forum a North Korea because there are such opinions as mine. People get mad if something doesn't get fixed asap and others get mad after waiting for a feature for decades. This is my opinion reg. a feature I consider very important to make sims "alive". Short: I really hope that the devs add some fun gameplay content into it. DCS needs a dynamic progressing and changing environment for these modules.

The only titles which were feeling like empty/boring are **************. They were the most unfun sims for me, completely sterile, boring and literally empty. DCS got worse because everything seems so mixed up in terms of eras, dislodged. Compare flying DCS F-14 with ******** gets everything right in terms of atmosphere, the right era, right foe, right equipment. ******* as well. Something very essential is missing here which other sims (a lot of them) delivered in the past and were a foundation, especially for good memories. Now everyone here acts as if nothing was missing and go nuts reg. modules coming out. I always wanted a ******, it's coming. My friend goes nuts about this aircraft as well. But there is nothing to do with it. I dislike the editor... creating missions for myself and act surprised about bandits. Or flying the ***** in some modern maps in (year 20xx) and not in some 70s/80s maps. The whole concept doesn't work for me. That's why I never could have much fun with like I had with almost any other simulator in the past. It's just sandbox. Why is it so hard to add some fun elements to the game? I don't think that this dynamic campaign will surpass ****** with it's "out of cockpit" experience, 2D maps with recent actions happening over Korea, comms running etc. ... why must simulations be so sterile? No news, nothing to share. =\

This pretty much sums up what to expect from the dynamic campaign. I've stopped looking for news reg. that and I can't get over myself starting DCS any longer. This, incl. Enemy Lock On and Flanker 1.x/2.x were the only sims I had the most unfun moments compared to any other sim I owned because it always felt absolutely dead, boring. The mission editors were an insult, very lazy. I expect DCS to create something like this: A bare bones UI like dead skeleton. None of all the fun stuff happening outside of the cockpit in Falcon 4.0 (which had lots of fun stuff from Falcon 3.0 too with Pilots incl. different skills and the need for rest). It's hopeless. More maps, more mixing up eras via modules, everything feels so dislogded and mixed up. It's nice to have DCS F-14 and soon DCS Tornado... but Fleet Defender and Digital Integrations Tornado is still superior in terms of the overall content for "cold war gone hot". You fly against the right foes at the right time with the right equipment.... I must just let go of this. Better if I could sell my account but that is not allowed............

Any updates reg. a possible F-16A? Or do we still only have Falcon 3.0 and Strike Fighters?

Hello folks, any news reg. the still interesting topic? Any developments? (had a huge break because I can't get myself to start DCS any longer without a dynamic campaign) Greetings, Cabal

Hi, the only profiles I found are with an additional throttle..... I only have the 16000M stick. Looks like I won't fly in DCS for months

Hello folks, I deactivated my HOTAS Cougar since flying with it makes no fun, the rudder is extremly jerky, got some middle play with the Cougar stick and it all feels too sloopy and out of control. The only thing I have left is the 16000M 3D stick (no extra throttle and rudder) which sucks... but it makes more fun to "be in control" and fly with it. Are there any 16000 "Stick only" profiles? I had used the CTS tool by "Home Fries" previously and no I'm standing in front of some serious mountain to overcome with all the fun being on the other side. I feel like completely left behind in the dark with dozens of modules and no plan how to setup all modules with just the 16000M stick. Greetings, Cabal

Are there more crazy/funny stories when "taking it real" ends like a goofy comedy show thanks to the AI?

There is too much talk about maps like Korea (don't we have enough of it a little bit after two decades of Falcon 4.0 (now BMS)?) and other possible maps which I can't connect to any well known wars in the past. People come up with lot's of strange stuff..... but anyway: A NATO vs. Soviet Union in Europe (West Germany/DDR/Poland) could be a fine thing. The 70s/80s are ignored too much. Especially old school guys should be drawn towards that era...

You know dude, that if we knew it, we won't have asked such question or made a comment here about it in first place, right?