Sopwith Camel with over-rev throttling?

[SeaW0lf]

I was just flying at Jasta 5 Flugpark (multiplayer) and noticed that my Camel was throttling back automatically whenever it went past 2500 rpm (IIRC when it normally seizes). It was working like a blip switch (intermittently), turning off the engine for a split second (indicated in the HUD) and the rpm needle would jump back. If the dive was too steep, the engine would shut off and restart after I came out the dive and the rpm dropped.

 

Is this a bug or a server feature? I don't recall when it started, but I was changing the FFB values at the startup.cfg file (having multiplayer stutter with Windows 10 just in BOX).

Edited January 31, 2019 by SeaW0lf

[BMA_Hellbender]

Sounds like "Throttle auto limit" is on. Strange. Actually, now that you mention it, I had something similar happen this Sunday while diving very steeply with the Pfalz. I'll ask if we can get this disabled.

 

By the way, did you manage to fix the stutters?

 

 

[SeaW0lf]

12 minutes ago, Hellbender said:

Sounds like "Throttle auto limit" is on. Strange. Actually, now that you mention it, I had something similar happen this Sunday while diving very steeply with the Pfalz. I'll ask if we can get this disabled.

 

By the way, did you manage to fix the stutters?

 

Yeah, might be a server setting, because BOX dserver (or something like it) gives much more options to set the mission. But in single player I did not find anything similar. You can set to invulnerability, but the rpm will keep rising until your wings break. It does not start to throttling.

 

I'm still tweaking my FFB. It was at 10.000000 at the startup, when all other values had 5 zeroes. I erased one zero and it looks better, but I have to test in furballs, when to me it looks like a stop motion movie (it was butter smooth with Windows 7 and my old i7-3770K). But with 5.00000 it was also stuttering. Do you know where the thread with your settings is?

 

My current rig is in the signature.

[BMA_Hellbender]

Definitely nothing wrong with your rig, this is a problem with the FFB polling and TrackIR.

 

For me to get rid of stutter, I need to do the following things:

 

• Disable "Fullscreen mode" in the launcher (this launches the game in windowed fullscreen instead)
   
• Have "Camera smoothness" on 100 and "Noise filter" on 0
   
• Change startup.cfg "update_freq = 5.000000" (1.000000 is even smoother, but then I get delays on force feedback)

 

Here is the thread and my post in particular:

 

 

[JGr2/J5_Baeumer]

2 hours ago, Hellbender said:

Sounds like "Throttle auto limit" is on.

 

For the time being, the throttle limit has been temporarily activated at the request of several newer pilots using the server frequently.  Jasta 5 is committed to being supportive  and responsive to the stated needs of newer pilots joining the community of online WWI flight. 

 

P.S.   Be assured Jasta 5 RoF events will continue"full real" and the FC server settings may revert back to full real sometime soon as we try to assess how many regular users of the server find this setting helpful.

 

[SeaW0lf]

30 minutes ago, J5_Baeumer said:

 

For the time being, the throttle limit has been temporarily activated at the request of several newer pilots using the server frequently.  Jasta 5 is committed to being supportive  and responsive to the stated needs of newer pilots joining the community of online WWI flight. 

 

P.S.   Be assured Jasta 5 RoF events will continue"full real" and the FC server settings may revert back to full real sometime soon as we try to assess how many regular users of the server find this setting helpful.

 

 

Cool, good to know! For a moment I thought that the ROF bug was ported to BOX and I acidentally enabled (or disabled) some feature.

 

Thanks, and tanks for keeping the server up. It is good to be able to check it at barans. I've been held back by my last update to Windows 10 (always a hassle), but I expect to get back to business with Flying Circus.

 

Cheers,

[BMA_Hellbender]

17 hours ago, J5_Baeumer said:

 

For the time being, the throttle limit has been temporarily activated at the request of several newer pilots using the server frequently.  Jasta 5 is committed to being supportive  and responsive to the stated needs of newer pilots joining the community of online WWI flight. 

 

P.S.   Be assured Jasta 5 RoF events will continue"full real" and the FC server settings may revert back to full real sometime soon as we try to assess how many regular users of the server find this setting helpful.

 

 

Thanks for the clarification, Baeumer! If it helps getting new pilots over the threshold, I'm all for it. Besides, the Camel is VERY easy to overrev in a fight if you don't pay attention, worse even than the pre-2014 RoF Camel.

 

 

As for the server, I'm really pleased to see Jasta 5 taking the lead here by being one of the most easily accessible places to fly. (And I'm not just saying that because I'm J5 now)

 

It's also plain old fun, even when there's no one around.

 

 

You can do some barnstorming:

 

 

 

 

Or boop an AI Camel (they don't mind):

 

Edited January 31, 2019 by Hellbender