Gentlemen,

this told honestly and frankly, with all the due respect to all and each of those opinions of yours first of all:

• no other currently active simulation does have so many theaters or campaigns made as we are so lucky for having been let to get - and for free, this has to be remarked too;
• the most strategical areas all over the the world have been developed and enhaced several times, with that only more than evident exception for those making them could infringe these Forums’ main rules about political opportunity and behave;
• we have just started the challenging VR implementation path, and, about the future new terrains, the very best is still to come, “tested” (if I dare to say so) by us final users as well and developed further. New playground, then its rules.

So, my personal opinion on this topic is: might all the current ones really be not enough until 4.38 will be released?
I’m leaving to all and each of you the answer, as it’s more than fair.

With best regards to all.

Good morning, Gentlemen.

Here is the news: I managed to solve all my issues with TrackIR.

Thanks to the careful, patient assistance given by e-mail to a NaturalPoint technician in these last days, I had to wipe out literally any entries, one by one, of TIR in my PC/system, reinstall all the stuff from scratch, et voilà… the utility is back.
And it’s confirmed: the latest software/drivers released by NaturalPoint (5.4.2) is good in Windows 11 Pro too.

Hope no one can make my experience, but in that unfortunate case I am giving below the procedure that helped me to get out from almost a nightmare:

"1. Unplug the TrackIR from your computer.
2. Remove TrackIR from add/remove programs.
3. Remove NaturalPoint Drivers from add/remove programs (this is the device driver).
4. Delete NaturalPoint folder from Program Files x86.
5. Delete NaturalPoint folder from %APPDATA% location (APPData is a hidden folder). If you have tracking profiles you wish to keep, please back up this folder instead.

-C:\Users\[Your.Username]\AppData\Roaming\NaturalPoint.

6. Open regedit.exe as an administrator. Please be careful not to change other items than the ones listed below.
7. Search for and rename labeled as “NaturalPoint” to “NaturalPoint-00”. The default location for this is Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NaturalPoint
   IMPORTANT: I DELETED ALL OF THEM INSTEAD.
   The choice is yours here.
8. (If there are any other old references to NaturalPoint or TrackIR from the older version of the TrackIR within the registry, you may want to rename those as well.)
9. Reboot your PC/system.
10. Download the latest installer from NaturalPoint website.
    -The latest download will also have their latest USB Drivers.
11. Right-click and install as an administrator. At the beginning, you will be prompted to install the device driver. Make sure this gets installed. It is important that you get prompted for this.
12. Locate the Track IR 5 Icon on your desktop, right-click on it and select ‘Run as Administrator’. (This only needs to be done the first time.)"

And that’s all. At last!
(@MaxWaldorf : thanks a lot for having located my topic correctly here. Would you kindly sign it as “Solved”, now?)

Thank you all so much for your kind attention and hints, and with best regards.

Good evening, Gentlemen.
I revised all those custom missions I created for this theater.
After a proper time spent in testing them with good brothers drtbkj and Eddropper (thanks a lot for your great patience!), finally they are ready, if you like, to be downloaded and flown.
You can find them here, by courtesy of OFM: https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/lzbwinqdqcs6but/OFM_Panama_custom_TES.zip/file

We hope you all can enjoy and have fun “up there”.

Thanks for your kind attention and patience for waiting, and with best regards.

@Chuckles
You are always until too kind to me, I did almost nothing if compared to the whole hard work spent here by you and all the amazing team joined this time again.

To all of you, now, Gentlemen.
Nevada is not a drilling/exercise theater only, and you will realize that very soon.
We only wish for you it will happen not always at your own expenses. That was our purpose, at least.

Have great fun “up there”, most of all.

With best regards.

Ahem… ATC, we are jammed here, as seems, so be good and don’t ask what was our problem after

Why this chap has to be so difficult to be handled when in AAR, bah

With best regards.

@eddropper
It was missed this one too, Ed… my warmest congratulations to you and all the other dearest friends involved.

And I’m going to conceive some (a few) custom TEs of mine in return, hoping it’s appreciated.

With best regards to you and all.

Good morning, Gentlemen.

The day has come.
Here (link text) you can find and download from the first three custom TEs I updated for the current version of Taiwan.

Some advise before leaving you to the fun: I had to accept, and tolerate, some compromise to not waste the whole tactical assets and consequently the purposes of these missions. Well, I hope I succeeded in that. Besides, it could be interesting to test what happens if the tactical choices go wrong and you must fix the mess you made… a kind of trouble all of us experiment and struggle against in our real lives, I guess, no matter of what our respective jobs are.
Important. In “Domino” you can test if Vipers (but other planes as well) are really able to face the PRC last generation fighters.
Please consider to fly the missions each from the red side too, I think this could help you in refining your tactical skills. Or this was another goal I tried to accomplish, at least.
Be patient and good with me, and please forgive those errors I made - but please give me some feedback on those aniway, I would appreciate a lot.
Capito?
Ah, and there will be more others to come, only give me the time I need to (there will be a little talk for the theater devs. apart at the end of this job). Where are those blessed PRC and Taiwanese 'copters in the db, by the way? I need them. Bah.

Have always fun, and don’t try that at home. Ever.
Don’t positively want to hear any wifey’s (or the like) complain about.

With best regards.

@qawa said in BMS - Other cockpits:

@fjp Thank you … please… for sure send me when you want

do you remember this 2dpit from Aeyes ?!

as a bomber it was an incredible beast …but I think that in reality it was used for ECM mission … but I’m not sure…

Not quite effectively, dear bro… that one was the EF-111A “Raven”, this was instead one of the several versions of the “mother” of all the Western low-level, supersonic speed, deep strike, close air support (just like this one) and nuclear bombers (another good example for that is my beloved Tornado).
“A beast”, due to her huge payload, as you said.

And agreeded, Aeyes’ cockpits are still missed.

With best regards.

@AviationPlus said in Gibraltar Theatre for 4.37.5:

@Jackal Trying to look for where to upload that photo in MC

I managed to make it working by creating a “Gibraltar” subfolder in "Mission Commander\TerrainMap", saving that .jpg file (it’s 4096x4096, so it should be fit) there and finally loading it from there by pressing the “Browse Own Map” button.
For all the rest, MC is working really fine, even with Falcon’s latest release too, I mean.

Try that way I have suggested and good luck! I’m here if in need anyway.

With best regards.

May I dare to add some, about this?

Nevada and MidEast 128 sure work. I succeeded just a few moments ago.
With some (minor) flaws, of course - lack of opening screens, wrong coalition flags in the mission builder. But, oh well, you can’t get it all you want right away, can you? Let’s leave all the theater makers some free space to work once them too, I mean.

More to come, if interested.

With best regards.

@Yassy said in TrackIR 4/5 BMS Profile by Yassy:

Hello pilots,

Just a short check-in to check if people are still using my profile after all this time?

Hello, mate.

You can bet it! Flying properly without it is no longer possible since… years, literally.
And it’s not amazing if its’ working fine still, you made a great job with it and so come out the good results.

With best compliments and regards,

@drtbkj said in BMS Other Fighters Mafia (BMSOFM) Journal:

Hi, @Jackal . One of the specific things we had tested were your TE’s. I didn’t see any issues, either.

Well done this also, Fra’, and thanks a lot.
A confirm by the team was just what I needed to be even more sure. Presumption never pays, do you agree?

With best regards.

Good news then, Fra’.

So to yours I’m going to add mine: on v. 4.37.7.5 (test version) no issues of any kind with all of those custom TEs I created for OFM, Nevada and all the other theaters involved.
They seemed also running a little faster and smoother, so more enjoyable, if I dare to say.
I thought this can be of some interest.

With best regards to all.

@Seifer
Hello there, mate.
I have to definitively concur with Sobo’s comment just above: it runs flawlessly on my PC/system too, even a bit faster and smoother perhaps.
What is assured is that it passed five tests with some of my custom Nevada missions successfully. (note: they are very complex stuff and stressing for any PC/system, mine included!, as you for sure already know).
It’s a great go! for me.
With best compliments to all who are involved (you too included, of course), and with best regards.

@Seifer
My first short report and impressions.
First meet.
At first I had the sensation that the whole loading/launching process was more smooth and slightly faster, even if I use a last generation (partitioned) 4 Tb SSD. I don’t have a VR set at the moment, sorry.
Theater: KTO. TE: bad weather test.
That has been confirmed when launching the mission. On my system, with 32 Gb of RAM and a Nvidia 4090 (old but reliabIe), I got 190-192 bps on ground and 201-210 in flight.
Nothing bad to report at the moment.
We will see what happens testing it with some “bad” custom TEs of mine I created some time ago for some different theaters, Nevada in particular.
Conclusion
I saw something good and promising too coming out.

With best compliments and regards

@Seifer
Deeply sorry for bothering you again, dear mate, please believe me on that… but I’m stuck at the same useless point before, I’m afraid.
What should I… exorcists calling apart , I mean?
Update: I succeeded finally! But I had to put it in that Falcon main directory first - you already wrote that in your instructions and I missed that point, perhaps, who knows anyway.
One less to bother however, and that’s only count.
With best regards.

@Seifer
Good evening, mate.
Can you kindly help me, please?
I am to report not an issue with the new beta.
I have unfortunately have to report that I wasn’t either able to start to install it in spite of several attempts.
I downloaded a 55 Mb circa installer - is this size of it correct? - from Google, then tried to install it.
And it hanged out in return, leaving me surprised.
After having inspected all, realized soon that nothing blocked its process on my Windows 11 Pro system, Windows Defender was totally silent.
What possibly went wrong, I wonder?
Sorry for bothering you - I already know you’re particularly busy - but I still have no clue to understand what the issue is and how to solve it on my own this time.
Thanks a lot in advance and with best regards.

Good evening.

I acknowledge that from the downloadable files in addition to this theater, my campaign “DAESH”, erroneously defined as “Jackal TEs” and published in this form without my permission or having ever agreed to it, has been deleted, without a line of explanation.

I have been forced, for the first time in so many years of participation in this Community, to publish this clarification for the necessary clarity of the unfortunate event towards anyone here and those who had already downloaded it.

With best regards.

@dumba
Intriguing case you proposed, mate… thanks for sharing.
Well, let’s see what we have here this time… assuming you are on a Viper, on my little own I’d tend to think that the AWACS correctly wouldn’t ever assign you a tanker which you wouldn’t ever be able to refuel from.
It’s strictly logical, I guess.
It would be worse than tricky for you to come back to your home plate safe and sound, on the contrary case.
Couldn’t explain that behavior otherwise.
Consequently, the same decision (if I can define it so) must be assumed at a base of what happened when you tried to fly that custom TE you have created.

Just my little cent, nothing more or else, and with best regards.

@drtbkj
I had no doubt at all, Fra’, but you did well to check - always better to be safe than sorry.
One less to be worried, then.

Happy New Year and with best regards.