Please Help! F Keys Gone!

[Trek64Trek64]

I thought I should post my terrible problem here too.  I wasn't sure the best place to post.  My F keys are no longer functional in game.  Nothing wrong with my keyboard. I switched keyboards twice and experience the same thing--a total blackout of my F keys.  Basically,  since I did the 4.0002 update a couple of days ago the external views no longer, neither the single F keys nor any key combination requiring an F key in the default setup.  It doesn't work to re-program the external views to a different non-F key--it still doesn't work. What do I do?  Without the external views I am not enjoying this sim at all.  I have Windows 7 and have enjoyed IL2 Great Battles for over a year with no problem and after every update--until this last one.  Alternative camera views seem to be zapped.  Gone.  I am not a techie.  I turn on my computer, double-click the game icon, and play. My setup is "Custom" which is how I've always played.  I am not in "Expert"  or "Normal" mode.  I don't go into folders because I wouldn't know how. 

 

PLEASE HELP.

[SYN_Skydance]

Do they work if you select “normal” or “expert”?

 

just wondering if there is a setting in “custom” that has them turned off?

[Trek64Trek64]

Good news!  I found the solution.  Apparently, I have to check "Allow Spectators" or all external views are turned off.  So weird!   What does one have to do with the other?  Anyway, I'm happy again. 

[THERION]

47 minutes ago, Trek64Trek64 said:

I thought I should post my terrible problem here too.  I wasn't sure the best place to post.  My F keys are no longer functional in game.  Nothing wrong with my keyboard. I switched keyboards twice and experience the same thing--a total blackout of my F keys.  Basically,  since I did the 4.0002 update a couple of days ago the external views no longer, neither the single F keys nor any key combination requiring an F key in the default setup.  It doesn't work to re-program the external views to a different non-F key--it still doesn't work. What do I do?  Without the external views I am not enjoying this sim at all.  I have Windows 7 and have enjoyed IL2 Great Battles for over a year with no problem and after every update--until this last one.  Alternative camera views seem to be zapped.  Gone.  I am not a techie.  I turn on my computer, double-click the game icon, and play. My setup is "Custom" which is how I've always played.  I am not in "Expert"  or "Normal" mode.  I don't go into folders because I wouldn't know how. 

 

PLEASE HELP.

 

So maybe you should check your setup "custom" again - if the option "allow spectators" is not checked, then the F-keys won't work. Like this:

 

Edited December 2, 2019 by -=-THERION