Ff you could have one thing in the next update it would be…
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I have yet to do any extensive flying with 4.34, but reading the manual on expanded radio communication has me thinking. Here is a typical flight communication sequence described in the manual:
- #2, #3, #4 for communicating with the home airbase as you fly out
- #5, #6 for communicating in flight on the tactical net with AWACS for instance (with #13 if doing an AAR)
- #4, #3, #2 for communicating with the home airbase ATC upon your return.
That’s a lot of frequency preset switching. I understand that it’s for realism, but we now have to do MORE work than the real pilots do. First it’s necessary to change to the right frequency, and then navigate the pop-up menus for ground/tower/departure/approach communications. A real pilot can just use his voice. I wonder if we could consider an option (disable/enable through config) where the correct UHF channel is selected automatically when choosing a menu command.
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Use a voice command software.
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That’s a lot of frequency preset switching. I understand that it’s for realism, but we now have to do MORE work than the real pilots do. First it’s necessary to change to the right frequency, and then navigate the pop-up menus for ground/tower/departure/approach communications. A real pilot can just use his voice. I wonder if we could consider an option (disable/enable through config) where the correct UHF channel is selected automatically when choosing a menu command.
Even though I very much like the split comms, I have to agree that without VAC or similar software (which not everyone can or wants to buy, set up correctly, or have it work properly for whatever reason(s) they may have), it isn’t easy to find the correct page and select an item, while I’m also busy doing other things.
E.g. Actually speaking the phraseo for my fellow human pilots requires both hands (one hand on stick to fly properly, other on throttle to push UHF/VHF transmit and control speed; I don’t have a third to touch the keyboard),
Standard cockpit manipulation,
Flying an instrument dep/arr to the numbers,
Turning short final from downwind leg in a relatively steep descending turn, close to the ground near stall speed,
…All of this, I’ve only done in a fully working jet so far. Damage could increase workload tenfold, so the adage of “aviate, navigate, communicate” definitely comes to mind, but it seems as if not communicating the right steps could result in more issues for BMS (as an environment simulator) than before, especially in busy situations with high-load traffic flows.
Granted, the comm menu navigation will probably improve once I get more familiar with the layout, but it would be nice if BMS could simplify it somewhat. I’d suggest the other way around of zerg’s suggestion, personally. BMS should be able to detect the frequency you’re on, and then shift the menus so that the page linked to that ground station (which is the one you’ll most likely need) is the first one to come up.
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That’s a lot of frequency preset switching. I understand that it’s for realism, but we now have to do MORE work than the real pilots do
It’s not more work, it’s the exact same amount of work.
the difference is that pilot don’t use a mouse and a keyboard.
With a button box for your ICP and a VAC profile, the experience is very close to real world flying where you do push a lot of different frequencies…There is no doubt in my mind that the futher BMS progresses, the further our tools and our ways to interact with the sim must progress as well
In this case, I never used VAC before with any version of BMS, but 4.34 requires it. IMHO
default profiles are supplied in the \Docs\01 Input Devices\04 VAC & TIR folder -
Only downside with VAC, to my knowledge, is the absence of DX control on activation, which can be achieved in VA - as in pushing DX VHF on HOTAS to talk to flight members. If there ever is a VA profile made by someone who absolutely needs to make, and would share it, or if there is any way to convert between vap and xml, I’d definitely be a taker (I’m not such a user that I personally need to do it though).
EDIT: worked it around simply by attributing a key rather than DX on VHF. Now, to be honest, until I realize what I’m doing wrong, VAC is terrible at recognizing me
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The ability to fly helicopters.
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agreed, DX VAc would be even better, but with TM ptogramming capabilities, you can have the UHF PTT and the VAC listen key to the same button
Not ideal, but works in the interim -
Only downside with VAC, to my knowledge, is the absence of DX control on activation, which can be achieved in VA - as in pushing DX VHF on HOTAS to talk to flight members. If there ever is a VA profile made by someone who absolutely needs to make, and would share it, or if there is any way to convert between vap and xml, I’d definitely be a taker (I’m not such a user that I personally need to do it though).
Voice Activated Commands, Voice Attack, Livrot’s tool, etc etc; it’s all the same really as they all use Windows voice recognition afaik, only the User Interface is different. A VAC Profile is included just because that’s what I use, based on Dee-Jay’s 4.32 VAC Profile from way back when. We can easily add similar profiles for other tools, or just share them on this forum.
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Is it my impression or fps got better?
I was on multisampling 2 and now on 3 and looks awesome.Στάλθηκε από το MI 5 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
Unfortunatelly not in my case, but I have to conduct more tests. But I was kinda dissapointed seeing 40-something FPS in dogfight without enemy with clouds set to “fair”.*
OK, I have maxed out everything.
OK, my rig is not a high-end (i5 [email protected], 16GB RAM, GTX1070)but I have (almost) constant 60FPS in any single player mission in F-14, also maxed out.
But as I said - I have to make more tests.
*great feature!
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@Red:
agreed, DX VAc would be even better, but with TM ptogramming capabilities, you can have the UHF PTT and the VAC listen key to the same button
Not ideal, but works in the interimThis, and whilst I’m an advocate of using DX whenever possible, sometimes you have to use keystrokes here and there. Thankfully, you’re not typically pressing many other keys whilst chatting on the radio, and any that you are on your HOTAS should be dx anyway.
It is sooo easy to bind multiple keys to one physical dx button using foxy
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Only downside with VAC, to my knowledge, is the absence of DX control on activation, which can be achieved in VA - as in pushing DX VHF on HOTAS to talk to flight members. If there ever is a VA profile made by someone who absolutely needs to make, and would share it, or if there is any way to convert between vap and xml, I’d definitely be a taker (I’m not such a user that I personally need to do it though).
EDIT: worked it around simply by attributing a key rather than DX on VHF. Now, to be honest, until I realize what I’m doing wrong, VAC is terrible at recognizing me
You can assign the dx AND keystroke to the vhf button; no need to remove the dx function.
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Unfortunatelly not in my case, but I have to conduct more tests. But I was kinda dissapointed seeing 40-something FPS in dogfight without enemy with clouds set to “fair”.*
OK, I have maxed out everything.
OK, my rig is not a high-end (i5 [email protected], 16GB RAM, GTX1070)but I have (almost) constant 60FPS in any single player mission in F-14, also maxed out.
But as I said - I have to make more tests.
*great feature!
Try to set “set g_bExportRTTTextures 0” in your config file, you could save some fps
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Afaik, enabled or disabled (rttexport) doesn’t affect fps in 4.34, as it did in 4.33
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Aknowledged, yes I edited my post to reflect the change, which works well to enable, in my case, VHF with the END key. I’m really surprised how VAC barely recognize what I’m saying while VA does it perfectly though, as, AFAIK, they’re supposed to use the same engine. Or I missed something.
EDIT: PlaneHazza, having both in TARGET, one disables the other (last one in script is key bind, takes over). But just key bind is good to me, anyway.
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Afaik, enabled or disabled (rttexport) doesn’t affect fps in 4.34, as it did in 4.33
Correct.
Part of the performance tuning in 4.34 includes migration from Direct3D9 (XPDM) to Direct3D9Ex (WDDM) - this is why Windows 7 SP1 requires the “platform update” (KB2670838) to be installed. RTT export to shared memory now uses the Direct3D9Ex “Texture Creation in System Memory” feature, which increases FPS with “RTT export” enabled significantly.
If “RTT export” is enabled (set g_bExportRTTTextures 1), but it is not being used to display exported textures anywhere, FPS will be the same as if “RTT export” was disabled.
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Use a voice command software.
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It’s just a practical consideration. I prefer when my gf does not hear my robotic voice commands. I did setup a VAC app today though and it is working very well. It adds a new dimension to the experience.
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Is it my impression or fps got better?
I was on multisampling 2 and now on 3 and looks awesome.Στάλθηκε από το MI 5 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
Not only yours, my friend… same here, so if are two seeing the same, it must be so.
With best regards.
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Unfortunatelly not in my case, but I have to conduct more tests. But I was kinda dissapointed seeing 40-something FPS in dogfight without enemy with clouds set to “fair”.*
OK, I have maxed out everything.
OK, my rig is not a high-end (i5 [email protected], 16GB RAM, GTX1070)but I have (almost) constant 60FPS in any single player mission in F-14, also maxed out.
But as I said - I have to make more tests.
*great feature!
UPDATE: I have compared BMS 4.33 with 4.34. In the same enviromenment I am getting 50 FPS in 4.33 and 55 in 4.34. So 10% FPS boost in 4.34!
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“If you could have one thing in the next update it would be…”
Definitely the corrected font on MFDs for the Mirage 2000D, as I have been flying this plane for more than 15 years in BMS. All along the different versions and updates I saw the correction occured within many cockpits but still not on “my” plane. Last one was on mirage 2000-5. Lucky guys.
I have to admit that a C135 with a basket for probe and drogue refuel would be great as well. -
Relax Guys give some 3-4 original weeks free time …. more will come even better …… Read the manuals and enjoy the BMS 4.34