Anyone know if mission are able to come over from 1.2?

Friday evening, I had the problem and put in the ticket. Saturday morning first reply. Saturday after lunch, second reply. Sunday I still had problem and asked for more help. An hour later... sorted.

Don't judge, write a ticket and don't forget to say please and thank you. I'm just saying...

I gotta say, my first impressions after having played 1.5 open beta since it's release, is I am just blown away. It is gorgeous, and the performance on my rig is awesome. Way better than 1.2, in fact don't think I could go back to flying 1.2 any more.

It is so nice to have a flight sim, that utilizes the GPU I have. I was astonished at how much better the performance was for me in 1.5.

is it me or any plane that is controlled by the player (and AIs wingman) are not casting shadows on ground?

Same thing here. I can now run the sim at 60FPS capped and it's totally smooth, even with a full battle raging around me. And this with an old GTX580

So yeah, v1.5 is indeed a substantial improvement on all counts. Kudos, ED, for a job well done.

Video of New Clouds in 1.5 beta

Seems to kill the FPS boost, but interesting to see and hopefully will be optimized for performance by 2.0.

I'm still getting used to having a steady 60fps when landing my Huey. It's glorious not to have to pick an approach based on which angle gives the best frame rate.

Has anyone else had their track ir stop working sometimes or had problems with the sim crashing after debrief?

I had one instance where the sim locked up as I tried to exit a mission, i.e. clicked exit and it got stuck on dialogue box. I ended up using task manager to force it to close.

On restart, my TIR was not behaving correctly, became very jerky and lagged head movement, which was fixed by closing down and restarting TIR software. I've not had a repeat of either since.

I've had it that once I've started track ir and the started dcs, once the sim loads up then I get no movement from the TIR but the lights are still on. I've had that maybe three times now.

Nope it's not just you. I'm missing shadows too

Uncheck Terrain Flat shadows, known bug.

Tried some DACT Su27 missions that I have created by editing original FC2 F-15 DACT missions and "Cover Peacekeepers" (edited to start from closer airbase). All seems to work OK at first glance, cant say though, if all triggers work.

Missions in 1.2 can be saved and used in 1.5. Not backward compatible, though.

WC

Regarding that, I've had some issues playing older missions in 1.5. Seems especially when triggers are used to spawn vehicles, the game tends to crash. Not entirely sure though, missions weren't made by me. Is that something you could weigh in on?

There is a new Mist for DCS 1.5.
DCS Forums Mist

Try replacing the missions Mist with this latest... If Mist and Lua scripts are not involved then report over at DCS World 1.5 Beta


WC

thx, it worked!

I have used a lot of quick start missions in 1.2 to make new missions. i.e. I have a used the DF mission in Mig-15 and replace the opponents. I can use the Uh-1 Firing Range mission for the Black Shark, stuff like that. Just simple missions that take 5 minutes to make. I will port them to my 1.5
Last night my TiR started jumping around for a bit. It nearly made me sick it was a violent shake. I had to restart the game and I was annoyed.
There is a MiG-15 single mission in 1.5 where you are supposed to excort the Su-25s to the target. But they never go to the target. They just keep going in circles around the base. What is up with that?
Also I could not open the canopy the Mig-15. And I could not start the engine. Can anyone confirm these?

Thanks all.

On that note, is there a list of known bugs?

After seeing that most experiences have been positive I decided to dive in. Very big improvement thus far! I build a simple insurgent attack mission using a single Huey. With 1.2 this mission runs well enough with texture LOW, visibility MED, water LOW, etc. Basically low-medium on a 4yo iMac running at 2500x1400. With 1.5 I made Vis HIGH (or FAR), Terrain Visibility FAR, HDR on, water MED and Tree Shadows ON. I ran the same mission but with some clouds and light fog to see how Edge looks. It looked fantastic and ran very smooth. There was a tiny amount of frame-rate drop when I attacked. The new rocket smoke is amazing! I then flew a 109 v p-51 at medium altitude. Again, it looked amazing and ran smooth. (I lost the fight )