Helios 1.6 - Official Thread

[GaryR]

Follow up as this was solved by derammo on his Discord Helios Support channel. So simple yet no idea where it may be documented, so in case you have this issue -

 

"In the Interface dialog called "DCS Monitor Setup", click on the "plane and helicopter" on each of the extra monitors to turn them from "blue" i.e. included in the view of the sky to not blue"

 

Works perfectly now, no idea when or how I clicked those to "blue" backgrounds but there it is!

[sharkfin61]

Good to hear!

Now, have a lot of fun with DCS.

 

Edited January 13 by sharkfin61

[GaryR]

Lol, I started with Falcon 3! Still like BMS better as I play MP Campaigns but time will tell! Thanks for all your help, much appreciated! 

[Scaley]

Is anyone having a problem with the Helios update rate since the export code was changed (1.6.3424.0)?  Ever since then the apparent framerate of my Helios has become really variable.  Sometimes (mostly when DCS is under very little load from mission objects) it's ok.  Most of the time however it seems to be updating about 2-4 times per seconds at best.  It's set to 15 updates per second in the profile editor, but changing this setting has no effect.  Manually editing lines 44, 47 and 51 in HeliosExport16.lua also has no effect.  I've tried disabling every other program running to see if there is a conflict but nothing makes a difference, and nothing changed other than the Helios update to cause the problem.  Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Here's a video of what it looks like (OBS capture, but looks the same with OBS not running)

 

 

 

[Scaley]

So Ammo found the solution - fixed by undoing this update:

 

https://github.com/HeliosVirtualCockpit/Helios/commit/ec25571b37360789d16656ff9c4c5937e3d5b279#diff-2a9b6d391f12d142e3ccafeefa6e27a061a673dab6351a729219ed1d7d9cbe54

Edited January 17 by Scaley

[GaryR]

I assume this was fixed in Helios.1.6.3425.0, no? The section of HeliosExport16.lua I have with the latest version is: 

 

 

[Scaley]

Nope, the fix that worked for me is to UNDO that update.  Remove line 342 (non-blocking) and replace it with the way the code is on line 345 (short blocking time).  I hope that makes sense.  

[ak22]

Is it possible to get the MFD at the bottom corners on my mointor? (same screen i am playing on) to save me looking down and zooming in always.

[GaryR]

18 hours ago, ak22 said:

Is it possible to get the MFD at the bottom corners on my mointor? (same screen i am playing on) to save me looking down and zooming in always.

 

You can position the MFDs to any addressable area on any monitor seen by Windows, so I would say yes, no problem.

[goofball]

how do you do it? i've tried but the mfds appear to be transparent..

[GaryR]

12 hours ago, goofball said:

how do you do it? i've tried but the mfds appear to be transparent..

 

Not 100% clear but if you are seeing the DCS screen as the background in the MFDs? Try this - "In the Helios Interface dialog called "DCS Monitor Setup", click on the "plane and helicopter" on each of the extra monitors to turn them from "blue" i.e. included in the view of the sky to not blue"