All player controlled aircraft are stuck when starting missions

[reschke]

Hello there fellow IL-2 folks. I am just returning to flight sims after a very long absence. So I will get to the crux of the matter.

I installed the GOG version today. I have subsequently tweaked the config to allow me to use my Gsync monitor in its full 2560x1440 glory and I just found a mod on the Special Air Service site that will boost the start time of the game.

So I spent probably 2 hours searching for errors that would pop up and had some solutions all ready to go when I started trying to start the game today. So I get into my screen first and finally get my mouse to work. Problem #20 solved...next.

So I create a pilot and load up a US Navy mission to start. I let my three AI compatriots take off and I go to throttle up and the plane just sits there and the engine overheats. I didn't move a millimeter. So I start checking control options and then pop back in and I am pushing on the rudders and brakes trying to get moving. Nothing happened until some Jap B5N smoked me with a bomb while I was sitting on the deck. Drop out of game and refly. This time I let the autopilot do the take off and it works. I try to fly right off the deck and I crash...wash. rinse and repeat 3-5 more times. Anyway still getting autopilot to do take offs and now I can fly once my speed gets up. But my ACM is WAY RUSTY! I get smoked 6-10 more times by A6M AI pilots...realized I didn't have my trackIR setup....no situational awareness and unable to really judge gunnery distances right now also.

So I step out of that and decide to try a Russian mission...same thing. Plane starts up and all control surfaces work but the plane just sits there on the runway and doesn't move. Even with autopilot engaged.

So I create a third pilot for a German mission....I can get the Bf-109F to move but only incrementally; after 30-40 seconds of full left with the rudder and jamming throttle to full power and then pulling back to idle. I finally get enough speed up for take off and the I nose over and damage the propeller and flip the plane. Next time it takes the same game of chance to get unstuck from the starting spot. So I go back to Russian and attempt the same thing and it works. I go back to USN and it does not work at all on the carrier. 

Any ideas for an ancient flight sim guy who does know how to setup a control config for his Warthog HOTAS and TPR pedals....if anyone has any good TARGET profiles they would like to share I'd love to see them.

[DD_FT-]

On the deck of the carrier, you need to release the chocks to be able to start moving.

 

Nosing over and trouble speeding up on the runways: Check what's assigned to the brakes axis, sounds like there's something bound to it that gives you sticky brakes?

 

Good Luck, Have Fun!

[reschke]

Yeah I tried that and it's not the chocks setting. As for the wheel brakes it's possible as I am still getting my controls setup after not doing this for a long time. I'm still baffled as to the stuck aspect of Russian and German aircraft but I haven't been on concrete runways yet. 

[Sita]

20 hours ago, DD_FT- said:

On the deck of the carrier, you need to release the chocks to be able to start moving.

 

Nosing over and trouble speeding up on the runways: Check what's assigned to the brakes axis, sounds like there's something bound to it that gives you sticky brakes?

 

Good Luck, Have Fun!

+1 ... sound like you assigned brake on TPR axis  and your brakes permament pushed  ... try to invert assignment of  brake axis ... in Il2 1946 it makes  just by reassignment of axis ...   

 

or  just to check at first ..  try to take off with pushed brakes..