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Anyway CoD is history and DCS are the only dev left to produce a decent ww2 sim

With the old AA systems hopefully ww2 based DCS servers can go over 32 players

Not really, because in-game machines don't need to emulate real life exactly. You can cheat. We couldn't 'cheat' with LEAVU, we had to transmit own aircraft data to everyone on the data-link. By comparison an A-10C in-game can just get the status of datalink of a buddy, and show him on your screen if criteria like line of sight and SNR is correct by using the coordinates sent to it by the server. So now you're instantly spared from sending the vector data twice.

Now, if you were to start having to do rapid updates of your sensors to others etc (in the case of A-10C this is a single point, ie. your SPI) with an A2A aircraft that may possibly detect multiple targets, as well as which ones you're designating, your systems status and possibly your RWR status, and so does everyone else in your 8-ship flight, things might start to look troublesome.

Now that's not as bad if you send it all say, once a second or once every couple of seconds, naturally, but then you're not simulating a high-bandwidth data-link.

I've already been on a Server that was around 28 players and is "P-51D only" with special missions for P-51Ds.

as soon as it gets FW-190, im sure it will be added to those missions.

I cant wait

There's no reason why you can't host 32 if you have a powerful enough machine and enough bandwidth ... as long as you're not hosting 10's of moving units or lots of units shooting at each other.

32 is essentially a carefully crafted mission with specific obectives in either a COOP or force-on-force scenario. I can't tell you how many units are acceptable given a number of clients (and it's important to know how many units are moving and/or fighting at any given time as well), but you probably don't want much more than 300 or 400.

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The Jedi Master

Is the topic DCS World v 1.2.3 update or who's cock of the hen house? I,m easily confused so if you would give me a little help here it would be much appreciated.

so 25-45 minutes...

Crap. I just assumed you had to redownload all the files and I already uninstalled DCS. Stupid me.

Oh well, 1 hour of downloading from the FTP links and I'll be back up flying!

Go stand at the back of the class and write out 100 times 'I must not uninstall DCS World"

I came close luckily i stumbled on the updater thread.

It's good to Have the latest ISO backedup/downloaded, Just In case you have to do a re-install for whatever reason.

Looks like the autoupdater is up. I could be wrong, as it's going slowly, so I don't know if I'll have 1.2.3 at the end of this.

Auto Update is ONLINE.

If it doesnt automatically Check for Updates when you boot DCSW,
START, ALL PROGRAMS, EAGLE DYNAMICS, DCS WORLD, UPDATE DCS WORLD

yep the auto-updater seems to be working....but seems to be overloaded at the moment

maybe it's a good thing im in office till 9PMEST then, i'll get on and zip through the downloads.

Auto update is working but very slow. To be expected with the amount of people updating.
At the current rate it looks like it's going to be a couple of hours.
At least it's here.