Radio Chatter Text, solved

[Jomastah]

Hi there,

sorry if this was already a topic, but I couldn't find it and the only thing close was about 6 years old and not exactly what I'm looking for. 

Is there a way to turn off the text of the radio chatter?

I know I can turn off the whole HUD by pressing H and in Flying Circus or with planes I'm very familiar with, that's what I do.

 

But when I fly a plane that's new to me, or one just don't fly that often, I like to have the engine mode, prop pich, flaps info, etc. turned on, so I don't ruin the engine by accident or something. But the radio chatter text takes so much space of the screen and sometimes gets stuck and doesn't disappear again. 

The best I came up with was to crank up the transparency of the HUD, wich is OK-ish, but I'd rather turn it off completely. The fact, that turning down the transparency doesn't affect the engine, flap stuff on the right seems to show, that those parts of the HUD are handled independently by the game, so maybe there's a mod or something? Or a way to mod it myself? (Or best case I'm just blind and there is an option in game)

In the long run I want to get rid off the whole HUD in all planes anyway, but reducing it to the one part that is interesting to me, would be a good start. 

And if you can't turn the radio text off, does anybody know how to fix the "text getting stuck and cluttering up the whole screen" part? Don't know if others have this problem as well, but this is the main reason, why I'm so annoyed by the text in the first place. (And since I speak two of the three languages in the game, I really only "need" subtitles in Russian planes, and even there after a while you know what they are saying anyway)

Greetings and thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[Charon]

1 hour ago, Jomastah said:

"text getting stuck and cluttering up the whole screen

I believe this happens if the game is paused while the radio chatter is on screen, but I'm not sure if there's a way to fix it once it sticks.

[Jomastah]

Hm, thank you. 

Is there a way to start the game unpaused?

Yesterday I flew a mission (with PWCG on the Normandie map) and it loaded with stuck text of AI asking for permission to start.

Since it starts paused it's plausible that that's the reason.

EDIT:

Indeed, you are correct. I made some tests and could force the text getting stuck by pausing the game. Not every time, but multiple times,  in a PWCG mission as well as in a stock mission. (I was worried for a second, that it's a problem with PWCG, since I tried a quick mission at first and could not force it there, but yea it "works" in stock missions) 
So that's good to know indeed. 

 

I think for now I either restart the mission when it loads with stuck text or turn off the HUD and write the manifold pressure, RPM limits and stuff for the plane down, so I don't need the engine mode labels as bad. 

But still if any one knows a way to turn the text messages off completely, it would be very much appreciated


 

Edited March 24, 2023 by Jomastah

[LukeFF]

2 hours ago, Jomastah said:

But still if any one knows a way to turn the text messages off completely, it would be very much appreciated

 

No, there isn't a way to turn it off, outside of hiding the HUD completely.

[Jomastah]

ok, thanks. 

[IckyATLAS]

13 hours ago, LukeFF said:

 

No, there isn't a way to turn it off, outside of hiding the HUD completely.

 

I would also ask if there is a way to switch off the radio chatter I mean the sound this time. As I have designed my own radio chatter related to the mission, sometimes the game standard radio chatter overlaps with mine, so I would like to have it completely off. Any way to do this without modding?

[Jaegermeister]

7 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

 

I would also ask if there is a way to switch off the radio chatter I mean the sound this time. As I have designed my own radio chatter related to the mission, sometimes the game standard radio chatter overlaps with mine, so I would like to have it completely off. Any way to do this without modding?

 

Turn the in game radio volume down to 0. You can map keys to radio volume.

[IckyATLAS]

1 hour ago, Jaegermeister said:

Turn the in game radio volume down to 0. You can map keys to radio volume.

 

I was always looking to find that radio volume in the sound settings but there is only a volume which is general. Looked at the config file maybe but no. And finally found the two keys that allow for in game setting L-Alt Numpad + and -. And it works!! Nice!

[BlitzPig_EL]

I have it mapped to a rotary on my VKB stick.  Very handy, especially when I fly Luftwaffe and have that over caffeinated storm trooper screaming at me all the time.