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[@grimreapers]

scorpac: Hey Cap, I've just watched a video from you, about DCS. I had the same issue as you, where TackView only generates 1kb files. Yesterday i managed to fix the problem and now everything works nicely. The Video was a bit older but you may give it a try if you didn't already fix it by yourself. Step 1: Uninstall Tacview Step 2: Go to Saved Games folder -> DCS -> Scripts -> Delete "Export.lua and TacviewGameExport.lua" Step 3: Reinstall Tacview Step 4: Start Tacview and set the settings for the ASCM files... The folder where it saves to Step 5: Start DCS and go to the Special Options and select whatever you want for Tacview Step 6: Do a quick offline mission and check if it will be saved.

[@mikcaelx]

Thanks !

[@gigas27]

There is also a setting to reload LUA's so you don't have to uninstall/reinstall. Your method is probably easiest for those not familiar with computers however...

[@MrMrcooldude1000]

at 3:15 when you said "let me know if you can see it" i felt like i was watching dora lol.

If you are having the same problem as me, like not finding the files, basically they are now located at Documents\Tacview folder or [C or D wherever you have]:\Users\[your user]\Documents\Tacview

[@AlfonzWarThunder]

Thank you. I was wondering where are those files

[@StevenCage]

thanks so much

[@Ur-Not-Safe]

Thank you!

[@amoslevit5973]

tnx man

[@dariotahiri7601]

Love these tutorials lately, keep it up!

[@Newry9]

Try this to resolve the 1K file, the Tacview export line in the Export.Lua file in your DCS saved games folder must be the very last line in the file, if you have exported MFD's or use Vaicom then these lines may have been put in after the tacview one and will give you the 1K file. Simply cut and paste to put it at the end and it should work fine, this corrected my problem immediately. If for some reason it stops again go back and check to see whether it is still at the last line e.g. after a DCS update. Hope this works for some of you

[@ziadalhussain3924]

Last line after commented lines? :D (--) is Comment in Lua.

[@prichardgs]

I would be lost without you Cap! Stay safe, please!

[@haroldweaver662]

Outstanding as usual. Cap & GR are tops in my book! 07

[@matk4731]

Its ok mate doesn't work on mine either. I don't even get the one KB file.

[@trikovich]

same

[@Bullet4MyEnemy]

Same here, did you ever find a fix?

[@matk4731]

Bullet4MyEnemy No sorry mate I haven’t even looked at it in donkeys ages.

[@Nanne118]

CAP, to your regard of the tacview file not populating. Ensure that you do not quit out of the server immidiately from flight, but return to the role select screen and give it some time to finish writing the data. Note that in your tacview settings there is an option called 'profiling period', default set to 10 minutes: if you thus quit out before this it causes all manner of weird stuff. You could try lowering it to a more frequent interval, see if that works for you. At 3:35 the seperate file for each client is really useful for when you are hosting a server. This lets everyone download their own flight file from the server later on, rather than expect everyone to download the entire server uptime file with dozens of clients. Similarly to the playback setting this can also be used to good extent to prevent people from using (real-time) data to cheat and intercept other players via the data export. Object Data is indeed the planes and the missiles, Sensor data is indeed the Radar and TGP stuff, but Client data is stuff about your own aircraft like the radio settings, AOA, roll, bank, etcetera. For good tacview operation you will want all 3 of them: if the field is blank or says 'Yes' your are good, it is only a problem if it says 'no' (strictly prohibited). 'Yes' obviously allows it, whilst '{blank}' refers to the default / user settings AFAIK. Overall a nice video detailing TacView and why it is so incredibly useful not only as a debrief FREE!! tool, but also to gradually better yourself as a pilot by reviewing your actions and learning from them! :)

[@grimreapers]

Rgr Thx

[@jsn7123]

Tacview not exporting data almost always is caused by a faulty Export.lua file (the one in the users home dir, Scripts folder). Either repair that yourself or simply reinstall Tavcview. When I switched to Tacview beta release for whatever reason Export.lua wasn't properly updated, resulting in empty acmi files. Oh, and obviously data export needs to be enabled in DCS und Tacview settings :-)

[@jengle02]

The TacView fix is pretty simple: 1. Look at your DCS log in C:\Users\{Username}\Saved Games\DCS\Logs 2. Search for (Replacing Username for your username ) "Can't execute Lua file" Note: You'll find something like a :35 at the end of that error which is the line number where the error is occurring. Whatever is at that line number (In the file C:\Users\{Username}\Saved Games\DCS\Scripts\Export.lua) is likely preventing the export script from running thus not exporting to TacView. 3. Open Export.lua, find the line mentioned in the error and remove it. Be sure to backup your Export.lua file first! Note: I found that the line "os.setlocale("ISO-8559-1", "numeric")" was causing my issue.

[@xz4ct801]

and what did you change it to? Guess if you just delete the line it will make it worse.

[@gofres]

Cap's folder /file organisation makes my OCD twitch. Another great vid though, thanks.

[@konatelassina5301]

Thank you! This vid was much needed!!!!

[@Federation42movies]

Cap you mentioned an issue with the time (@11:37). It looks like it's Zulu time. Is it possible that there's the mission time might be, say 16:26hr (at the operational area), but it's actually 11:26 Zulu (GMT)?

[@grimreapers]

Ah well done yup makes sense.

[@MingusCasey]

Can you please share your teams tacview logs? Hi there I love you guys. The F-117 is in DCS. Can you please do a night time CAP mission against an AI flight of F-117's, feel free to enable NVG's for all planes, and maybe add some B-2's. Varying flight profiles with unknown targets, would be counter force except there are no V-1's or V-2's in the WW2 pack yet. Have Saclos guided nuclear HAWK's. It'd be a bit of modding but awesome. Also, I'd join and learn heaps but my ping time is 350ms.

[@DaveFMillard]

I seem to have the same issue, unable to generate files... or at least ones that work. When I'm done flying I load the tac file and it's like 1 kb.. it does nothing. If I open someone else's file it works fine. I have the paid version. Any ideas?

[@ghostrider1827]

same damn issue Dave!!

[@pedrosura]

As a general rule, I have to make programs run with Administrator priviledges, otherwise, bad things happen

[@TH33QUALIZ3R]

Thanks for this Cap. I've been meaning to request you do a video on this as I've been finding the in-game replays very flaky and unreliable.

[@sanwarhussain4470]

This same issue is with mine too. Frustrated, uninstalled tacview.

[@stem2603]

Yeah, installing Tacview and getting it to run seems to be unnecessarily complicated.

[@Eduard_Kolesnikov]

Thank you for explaining this to me.

[@Sven2157]

That's a Date-Timestamp: 20190503-153748 = YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS in 24 hour format.

[@burtpilon1735]

Damn I just bought the stardard Version and it’s not working. Same with you cap 1K ... the file is there but not working... so frustrated !!!

[@RODEO-sn6du]

Have you thought about maybe it doesn't work for you because your game directory is on D drive and your saved games is on C drive? maybe that's why it's not populating and recording anything because your directories are two different places. I don't know I just popped into my head.... also another thought about the one KB. you said it's a 10-minute delay right? Well you didnt even fly around for one whole minutes. so with the 10-minute delay you didn't give it enough time to record anything maybe?

[@OperatorPuski]

So I did something in TacView that removed the plane icons and I can't seem to get them back. Would anyone know where I can find the setting to populate the little flying plane icons next to the labels?

[@harpoon_bakery162]

is it fixed yet? in a nut-shell, what is Tac-View used for in DCS? If you were to sum it up in one paragraph ?

[@grimreapers]

Fixed. For reviewing your fuck-ups.

[@harpoon_bakery162]

@@grimreapers Excellent, that's always want i wanted , to re-live my mistakes, lol.

[@julius_5050]

idk what is wrong but when i open the file it says "the file format is not supported" is there a fix for this?

[@patricksullivan1601]

If you play back the mission in DCS replay feature it should populate all the data you're missing. It creates the Tacview file when you run the replay. For longer replays, change the video settings and screen resolution to low and you should be able to run at high time compression without issue.

[@grimreapers]

Thanks

[@lisa-azrabroad4137]

Yeah, that didn't work for me. I just got another 1kb (621bytes) tacview file generated

[@macmusica]

Is your issue anything to do with Option in the DCS Settings to Not Allow Server to take screenshots of you? OR have you tried Leaving Server instead of just quitting to desktop?

[@grimreapers]

Fixed now thx

[@tomtaler1675]

Hi, did you solve you problem with tacview yet? I also found the file you mentioned. But I also found out that the actual tacview file was located in Documents/Tacview.

[@grimreapers]

Sorted thanks

[@NailBombEnjoyer]

thanks for this comment they were hidden there as well!

[@gordan79]

Have you tried disabling the compression?

[@grimreapers]

hmm not yet

[@Dave-ws9pt]

@@grimreapers Cap, I will re-post a solution that worked for me which you might not see. I had the same problem, after googling it I got it working using this link www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/5cif3x/tacview_woes_table_index_is_nil/ Basically the TacviewExportDCS.lua file is corrupted and needs replacing. All you need to do is copy the un-corrupted file from here: www.tacview.net/download/TacviewExportDCS.lua and paste it into your TacviewExportDCS.lua file which is in your C:\Users\'YOUR USERNAME'\Saved Games\DCS\Scripts folder. I replaced the text by opening in an editor and pasting it into the existing file. Hope that helps you out, and keep it up with the great content it is really helping me out.

[@Partsnotshown]

I downloaded and fallowed the steps but when you actually find you file to watch I can find any , that say tacview

[@swiftplus175]

Is there any comprehensive documentation in written form available anywhere? Or anyone knows what the options "Cockpit View", "Pilot View" and "Track IR view" are? Meaning what do you see on screen choosing each of those? Thanks !

[@grimreapers]

All I know is that Track IR view actually allows you to look around with your Track IR.

[@swiftplus175]

@@grimreapers Thanks ! I tought the "TIR view" screen shows where you were actually looking with TIR, to find spotting problem. Altough that would have a bit dizzying effect reviewing it on screen. And what's the difference between Cockpit view and Pilot view (it says for me I can't activate one of the two, because that needs upgrading TIR). Thanks !!!

[@rix3333]

Thanks again!

[@Youda00008]

Wait, the Tacview only works in multiplayer??? I did a single player Instant Action and no zip files were saved anywhere.

[@Youda00008]

Ah, it's in ..\Documents\Tacview, not ..\Games\DCS\Tracks

[@spikytomahawk2587]

@@Youda00008 thankiuu so much master youda!!!! This helps me a lot! A lot!!!! Wewwwww

[@moe109_]

thanks man

[@DR-jq9bg]

Hi Cap -- could you please do an update to this video? (put it in the queue?) -Zup

[@evgenn787]

Hello, full version of track view can show me the radar rays ? thnks

[@ViperStrike81]

I believe radar lock dashed lines are only functioning for FC3 aircraft piloted by the player at the moment and they are looking to rectify this in Tacview 2.0.

[@svmik]

I love Tacview, shame I am not learning from it as much as I would like to ;-)

[@Ryan-ed1lq]

Did you make sure that the file might have been in Documents? Sometimes it's stupid and it routes it there, that was my problem.

[@itamarshiponi8758]

You're name is Jonathan? (6:32)

[@grimreapers]

yes

[@Plydrms]

I have the usual problems playing back my DCS .track files. Can Tacview actually replay the video rather than the analyzer graphics? I was looking for a reliable video playback, not a recording. I wanted to be able to switch views during the playback like you can in the track file...thanks!

[@konatelassina5301]

I have the same problem with populating the file.

[@grimreapers]

weird

[@gilmargimi7881]

Your export.lua file is probably corrupted. Try to delete it and to reinstall the latest version of Tacview, this should fix your issue. Export.lua can usually be found in C:\Users\****\Saved Games\DCS\Scripts\Export.lua DCS.log can usually be found in C:\Users\****\Saved Games\DCS\Logs\dcs.log

[@gilmargimi7881]

I renamed my export.lua to export.old then uninstalled/reinstalled Tacview 1.7. Now is working :D

[@grimreapers]

wilco, thanks

[@alexanderbeck5998]

Thx for the vid 🤗

[@KevinS47]

I have the exact same issue, TacView just WONT WORK. I tried everything; it worked a couple of months back, but it decided not to work anymore. Trust me when I say I tried everything.. I spent hours and hours watching youtube videos, reading forums, contacting them, modifying lua files and folder locations.. I reinstalled it twice as well (once normally and the second time completely without leaving a trace of it before reinstalling it).. literally everything apart from reinstalling DCS (but hell no, that's more than 80GBs..).. So yes, I have the same issue whatever that is as you Grim Reapers.. On my PC it just doesn't work anymore (although it used to). It's so damn frustrating. argh..

[@KevinS47]

Right as I make this comment, after days of struggle, I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK. First thing first, I downloaded the new export lua file from the tacview webpage: www.tacview.net/download/TacviewExportDCS.lua Copy all of that text, and substitute it for the text in the original TacviewExportDCS.lua file located in "users\your_username\savedgames\DCS\Scripts. Now I don't know if this is what fixed the issue, because the next thing I did was to go through the whole damn DCS log file to find out that Tacview was exporting it's files to a different folder than the default one; it's under users\your_username\documents\Tacview (this folder doesn't exist by default, so you have to create it yourself, or tacview will automatically save the file in the documents folder); which explains why I could never find any recorder data or ACMI files... was searching in the wrong place. This program could certainly need some optimization huh.

[@grimreapers]

Thanks KS

[@leaky4230]

Its not able to read the trak format why?

[@lesliecalvo9464]

i need help i did the step in the video i can get any file play in the tavcew can any help, it is exactly what happens in the view

[@streakurt]

Guys can we use tacview in singleplayer or in single player custom missions ? Thank you !!

[@capnmwingeaglecompositesqu5580]

my multiplayer folder is empty do you know why?

[@grimreapers]

No idea sorry

[@fernandocarrillo4092]

Doesnt work for me😑😑😑😑

[@butterfliege885]

i reinstalled it and stuff but i dont know were the stuff is getting recorded to since i did but can't find the videos.

[@stephanefoutel9432]

Love these tutorials but i would enabled any 3d object in tacview do you have any process for that ?

[@akisakis7980]

I still don't know what is this in special options called "arm bending"

[@Nanne118]

It is a thing for the capto glove, which is a VR pointer device which replicates your hand pointing and your arm attached to the pilot's body. The setting is most likely for the amount of how likely or how much the arm representation is to bend

[@SiNNeR90737]

Does tacveiw work for single player flights too or strictly multiplayer?

[@jamieeast4974]

if you allow radar data, people could cheat when on the other side.

[@kennybrosh1697]

so nobody noticed that hernia removal document huh

[@grimreapers]

mmm love my hernia removal!

[@harvesthunt]

Just had your same problem Cap. See the following website to add just the ONE line to your export.lua www.tacview.net/documentation/dcs/en/ Scroll down to Q14. This fixed me right up brother

[@grimreapers]

Thx Billy

[@ianboys1000]

I assume you've solved the 1KB option. If not, let me know and I'll tell you how to fix it quickly.

[@grimreapers]

yeh thx

[@130sma4]

How do you fix it?

[@ianboys1000]

@@130sma4 Find your export.lua file, open it and make sure nothing else than tacview is using it.

[@sahinkurt2678]

Can i change aircraft name?

[@grimreapers]

neg

[@konatelassina5301]

How do you change your call sign from "new call sign"?

[@grimreapers]

In multiplayer? Go into the main multiplayer screen. You can click on your name at the top right of the screen and change.

[@konatelassina5301]

@@grimreapers SP

[@Nanne118]

@@konatelassina5301 Change the unit name when spawning it in the mission editor

[@dainsleif3122]

why are you posting something that is obviously wrong? as you said, the file is not populated..

[@deadly-41]

sir is that work on instan action or only in multiplayer?

[@grimreapers]

Multiplayer only for me

[@deadly-41]

@@grimreapers oke thanks :)

[@deadly-41]

@@grimreapers oh i forget what button too show crussor for click panel in cockpit? im new for this game

[@Dave-ws9pt]

Cap have you got this working yet? I had the same problem, after googling it I got it working using this link www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/5cif3x/tacview_woes_table_index_is_nil/ Basically the TacviewExportDCS.lua file is corrupted and needs replacing. All you need to do is copy the un-corrupted file from here: www.tacview.net/download/TacviewExportDCS.lua and paste it into your TacviewExportDCS.lua file which is in your C:\Users\'YOUR USERNAME'\Saved Games\DCS\Scripts folder. I replaced the text by opening in an editor and pasting it into the existing file. Hope that helps you out, and keep it up with the great content it is really helping me out.

[@grimreapers]

Sorted Dave thanks for checking. It was indeed the Export Lua.

[@texaco3254]

thanks for replie to the comments

[@matveycher7187]

Cпасибо!

[@m0rph3u5.]

The right path to the file in 2023 is C:\Users\?????\Documents\Tacview Where ???? is user name It it NOT under Saved

[@lisa-azrabroad4137]

I have exactly the same issue, I wonder if it is because it is the demo version. Is anyone using the demo version and getting it to work?

[@Dave-ws9pt]

You need to replace the TacviewExportDCS.lua script in your save games folder as explained here: www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/5cif3x/tacview_woes_table_index_is_nil/ and the file is available here: www.tacview.net/download/TacviewExportDCS.lua This solved it for me.

[@sambetts7958]

Is it free?

[@will-tav]

I am first