DCS World Patch Notes Discussion Thread

I asked, he gave, I checked, it's all good, he was right about the numbers. No problem here

Perhaps next time before biting your fellow pilots hand, you will check their facts.

The irony here is that it does seem the "Developer Defenders" are more sensitive and compulsive than the ("Whiners/Complainers"). He has every right to be upset, even if he has no BASIS to be upset (And in this case, has that too). This is an extreme case, even ED seems to be admitting they are dropping the ball so can we please stop turning on each other?

Now..

Does, anyone have a timeframe or a summery on what to expect? I really could use some gossip on the FPS issue. So far all I hear is some F18 work has been done., which I as an F-18 owner could careless about since the base sim is in the pooper.

Even unreliable gossip will do for me. :smilewink:

Thanks for the feedback, we are doing our best to keep you informed to the best of our abilities, everything is very fluid and dynamic, and we cannot always give you a hard answer when we would like to. The Team is just returning from holidays in Russia, although many of them worked through it. When we have better info, we will share it. We also hope to have some updates this week in our newsletter.

 

Thanks

Thanks for the heads-up. To be honest, I didn't even know about the holidays in Russia. If I had known, I hadn't said a thing about the silence because the reason would have been obvious :)

I guess holidays should be announced just so that people will hold back a bit ... I'm kinda too busy right now to do DCS ... even tho I have some important beta tests on queue coming up just can't do everything at once!

Hang in there people ... try use the process hacker thread-cpu affinity separation workaround from one of my recent perf threads about "too much threading", I think i've seen it help in many other cases not just the one example in the thread (like JF-17 ground radar) ... and make sure you get the latest nightly version which has multi-select for thread affinity changes now supported per my request https://github.com/processhacker/processhacker/issues/583 that should make it much easier and faster doing the workaround as opposed to doing every thread one by one manually.

You don´t have to, but it´s important to load the non-clipped wing Spitfire before selecting the clipped wing one, and also select the older P-51D before the newer on (I have forgotten which versin is new and which one is older) for each DCS session.

 

Otherwise the controller profile doesn´t get loaded.

 

You can do this by having a mission with the older versions as player aircraft, load that mission, quit and then select the mission with the newer version.

 

This is just one more bug that has been around for a long time and never has been fixed.

No need to do any of that if you manually create separate input folders for clipped Spit and D-30 Pony (comprising files copied form "normal" ones). So in the end, the folder names should be:

P-51D

P-51D-30-NA

SpitfireLFMkIX

SpitfireLFMkIXCW

Now, back to the patch notes....

Its because MP is a fairly small proportion of the DCS community - which is overwhelmingly SP

Sorry, but were the numbers quoted not 60/40?

bignewy-

forgive me if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but ive polishid off half a bottle of whiskey this evening..i understand 2.5.6 isnt ready for stable, but is there a metric you guys have as a target for updating stable? is it fewer complaints? a higher aggregate FPS? Specific MP issues being corrected? Supercarrier being ready to go?

Im currently working thru MI8 content, so not worried about having the latest and greatest. i own but honestly dont care about f18,f16, the jeff, et cetera(although, being a rotorhead, id really like to see the new ka50 pit, and new PG lighting), but there are others on stable who do care- it would be nice to know what standards ED aims to attain before stable release can get some love. perhaps the ambiguity is worse than anything: knowing your standards give us a metric to figure how far we are from receiving the past 4+ months of tweaks and updates

Sorry, but were the numbers quoted not 60/40?

50% more SP than MP. the word "overwhelmingly" can mean different things to different people

You mispelled June.

 

Hey! I'm tryin' to be funny here! Gimme a break!

Don't tempt fate!! lol :megalol:

...now I hear them talking: "... the community doesn't want the next OB until June - so we have more time now ..... what a first class community! ...." and that is your fault now, = Mac =. Thanks for that!!! :lol::music_whistling::megalol:

just kiddin - @ ED, keep on rockin, and it's ready, when it's ready. :pilotfly:

Next update.

Got the feeling the update is going to be substantial. :gun_smilie:

Got the feeling the update is going to be substantial. :gun_smilie:

Mind bending??

It will be all about WW2 theatre

Brain melting

Got the feeling the update is going to be substantial. :gun_smilie:

You must be new here.

Just kidding mate, but my guess is that there will be:

- no new clouds

- no ground radar

- no performance optimizations

But I am open for surprises.

Open Beta and Stable concerning modules

I have both the OB and Stable on my PC (I realize I may not need to do this). I play on the OB and the have recently purchased more modules, but they have only loaded to OB (which I was on when I purchased them). When I get on to Stable I do not see the recently added modules.

I am not a development team member or help with the debugging process so I probably do not need OB (I have recently found out).

My question(s) is this:

1. (And I think I know the answer) I can download these purchased modules that I currently have on OB from the DCS module manager to the Stable at no charge because I purchased them, right?

2. Or could I simply uninstall OB while still maintaining the modules I have (meaning I do not lose the progress I have made in them)?

I have an internal 420 GB SSD that is filling up and another internal 2 TB SSD that has plenty of room. Having both OB and Stable on my PC is pretty silly and just taking up space. I need to make better use of the drive space I have. I just want to know what is the most efficient and painless way to remove OB.

My question(s) is this:

1. (And I think I know the answer) I can download these purchased modules that I currently have on OB from the DCS module manager to the Stable at no charge because I purchased them, right?

Yep, absolutely, you can switch to Stable at no extra cost, you won't need to purchase anything new. You will however lose JF-17 compatibility, which will be the case until stable gets an update. Which I'm hoping will be at the end of May.

2. Or could I simply uninstall OB while still maintaining the modules I have (meaning I do not lose the progress I have made in them)?

Not sure what you mean, unless you mean campaigns? If so, just go to Saved Games -> DCS -> Missions and make a backup of it, it should be compatible with Stable, but not sure. Regardless, if you back it up, you'll have it if you switch back.

I just want to know what is the most efficient and painless way to remove OB.

Either uninstall the OB (but keep a backup of your saved games folder) and install stable or use Skatezilla's tool: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=160053

There's also a command line command to install the stable over the OB

... My question(s) is this:

1. (And I think I know the answer) I can download these purchased modules that I currently have on OB from the DCS module manager to the Stable at no charge because I purchased them, right?

Yes, in fact the next time you run the Stable it should prompt you to install the new purchases (except items not available on Stable yet, like the JF-17).

2. Or could I simply uninstall OB while still maintaining the modules I have (meaning I do not lose the progress I have made in them)?

Be careful there .. your Campaign progress is not saved alongside the modules .. it is stored on the file logbook.lua that is on your Saved Games folder .. most likely you have now two of these files, one for Openbeta and another for Stable.

... I just want to know what is the most efficient and painless way to remove OB.

If you have the space, I would keep both versions for the time being ... this way you can run the newer Modules (like Supercarrier or the P-47) as soon as they appear on the Openbeta, rather than wait a long time for them to appear on Stable.

Best regards

Has anyone noticed a difference

Reducing the CPU load when pathfinding a group of infantry.

Can we expect a meaningful patch this week?

Any info appreciated, thanks

Thank you.

I don't think we will see a patch this week, I believe the goal is next week now. Thanks.

Is it gonna be a verylarge patch with many changes?

After 30 days without patches it should be :P

@wizay you are confusing is and ought. The patch could very well be substantial, but the fact that it could, does not logically imply that it should.

Don't expect anything big or new this week, just expecting to repair the FPS drop in F-18 because of SA. Why should we wait the next week or two weeks. I don't count on anything new, I just want them to fix what we already have. Are these such great desires? Small steps forward, it's important to do them. :)