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Lol, you're choice of that film wouldn't have anything to do with it opening with footage of 320 Sqn Mitchells now would it FT...?

This is more to do with poor implementation of legacy USB 1.1 drivers in USB 3.0 equipped motherboards and am having similar issues FT - however, I've been trying when loading games to keep the stick as close to neutral as I can and keeping it that way through into mission loading and it seems to be helping... watch this space....

Blimey Mel, looks like you're going to need to swap your drinking arm when DCS F/A-18 finally arrives...

Nice Post Chris. Some further elaboration here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ly7BAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR255&lpg=PR255&dq=CESCOTTI+PEASE&source=bl&ots=zV2p4ZmIgK&sig=P-ntRnrfuAr24JZMSAwF_XonVdE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh9LGK9J7ZAhUEasAKHX0lAZIQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=CESCOTTI PEASE&f=false

Hi chaps Bought the Epsom Campaign for DCS: Spitfire IX & DCS: Normandy in 2.1 but given my old hardware at the time it was a bit of a grind. However, with the new rig and the latest update it's running like a sewing machine and looks magnificent! Thought you might like a preview in case you were considering adding it to your own DCS collection (which if you have the Spitty and Normandy, I can heartily recommend!).

Part 2: Investigating the aileron & rudder behaviour

Got Friday and Saturday as special dispensation! Tried to swing Sunday but apparently as it's our anniversary I should want to spend it with the lady I love.

So... Thanks to a facebook post by ED we can be confident to expect the Open Beta of 2.5 to land on the 31st of January. Wh00t! However, this does not necessarily mean you will be able to access it! The 31st Update will only update the 1.5.8 Open Beta install to 2.5 Open Beta. If you have a release version of 1.5.8 - which I suspect is most of you - then you will have to wait until the open beta version of 2.5 is proved bug free (or non-critical bugs) and then it will update your 1.5.8 version automatically to 2.5 release as and when it is made available. This could be at minimum a week, probably longer. The update path is described here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=200340 The upshot of this is if you want to access 2.5 Open Beta on the 31st you will have to have installed the 1.5.8 Open Beta. There are two ways to accomplish this: 1. Download and install the Open Beta version found here: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/beta/ It should not take long as it will copy all of the files from your release version. You can then copy the inputs folder from your C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\DCS into the parallel DCSOpenBeta folder. The bad with this is that (i) you will require the HD space to run this as a second instance of DCS and given that predictions are putting the total size of the DCS 2.5 Open Beta install at ~100GB, that's no insignificant amount of space, particularly if you installed to a 128GB SSD and already have 80 odd GB of DCS 1.5.8 release installed! (ii) you will have to activate your modules again within the Open Beta. 2. You can force the updater to update your 1.5.8 release install and turn it into a 1.5.8 Open Beta - see instructions here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030 Positives are that it saves on disk space and there's no need to transfer across control input settings or reactivate modules. However, as outlined in the above post it requires experience using the command prompt and careful following of the syntax described, with a serious risk of kiboshing your DCS install if it goes wrong. Also if it goes ok you will only be able to multiplayer with others using the same version as the Open Beta - sometimes both the Release and Open Beta are on the same version, which is great. Much of the time, however, the Beta tends to be a version ahead so you woould not be able to host or join servers with other DDz who are on the Release version. Some of you might feel it best waiting it out and if I'm honest it would save some hassle. If I do it I have to take Option 1 as my new rig only has 2.2 Open Alpha installed currently. Those of you with 2.2 Open Alpha, I quote Riks here: "this branch is no longer supported. If user have only 2.2.0 Open Alpha, updater will suggest to download 2.5 installer - it will install 2.5 release and remove 2.2.0 Open Alpha" Again this means that 2.2 Open Alpha will have to await the Release version of 2.5. If you wish to access 2.5 Open Beta and do not have a 1.5.8 Open Beta version, then Option 1 is your only choice. Clear as mud?

Hello chaps and chapesses. I'm making a series of DCS Spitfire videos to highlight some of the quirks, nuances and idiosynchrasies of operating the Spitfire in an effort to help operaters refine their technique and get the most out of the old girl. In the first we look at one of the most fundamental control surfaces - the elevator. Your feedback is most apperciated chums. Let me know if my efforts have been of any assistance.

Need I say more? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42561169 Sufficed to say I just ordered my new PC... with an Intel chipset. Fuuuuuuuu......dge.

LoL, you're not alone there Mel!

Happy New Year all! Wanna see more of the upcoming re-engineered Caucasus map? What about the F/A-18? Well, volia! and:

Sold! I'm in arjen. Mainly seems to be breather fighter action there but happy to wing up and take the fight to the wily Hun!

Hi chaps! Am planning a day of DCS for Friday the 29th December, all day event. Turn up at your leisure and any agenda you have we'll look at. Look forward to seeing some of you online. Till then, a very Merry Christmas to you!

Some have traced blame for launch failure to their Anti-Virus software Snack... might be worth investigating that route.

2 weeks... The last comment by Wags 10 days ago was " coming weeks" - which has been interpreted about every which way possible. I was hoping pre-christmas but my pragmatic side thinks perhaps early next year.

New rendition of the default caucasus map coming free to all with the imminent merge to 2.5:

It's like you read my mind Mick. My tinfoil hat must be slipping!