Since I can't seem to get either RC or PFE working in my new Windows 7 environment, I was wondering if there are any other alternatives out there besides VATSIM and the standard ATC that ships with FS9?

VOX ATC, if you like text-to-speech voices.

Did you try the standard ATC modified with editvoice pack?You can speed up the voices for the ATC and it adds new phraseology and airline call signs. Might be worth checking out if you havn't already.

Did you try the standard ATC modified with editvoice pack?You can speed up the voices for the ATC and it adds new phraseology and airline call signs. Might be worth checking out if you havn't already.

If you can't get either of the two top ATC programs to work on your setup I would evaluate what is going on with your setup as chances are nothing else will either...Just my .02 but I would do a root cause analysis first...-P

If you can't get either of the two top ATC programs to work on your setup I would evaluate what is going on with your setup as chances are nothing else will either...Just my .02 but I would do a root cause analysis first...-P

I agree with Paul -- there's something wrong there!

If you can't get either of the two top ATC programs to work on your setup I would evaluate what is going on with your setup as chances are nothing else will either...Just my .02 but I would do a root cause analysis first...-P

Ya I guess that would be number one is to figure out why they are not working. Then decide what you want to use. :(

I've been banging my head against a wall because of both of these apps. Logging doesn't tell me anything and I'm tired of wasting man hours on it if there is something else I could be using. I recently switched from XP to Windows 7 when everything stopped working (although at the moment all my AC add-ons ported over fine as did FSBuild and AS). The two things both PFE and RC4 have in common is their necessity to use wav files. Each product breaks at a certain point when sounds should be played, so I'm wondering if there's a bug in the sound driver or something.Unfortunately VoxATC is only FSX compatible according to their website, so that's out.

I hate Windows7 - it's the biggest public screw job since "cloud computing"!! It sounds like you've got some sort of User Account Control or network accessiblity issues - my Win7 installl is a beyotch with other programs/network computers in those areas. I would be looking in those directions, because as far as I know there's no other ATC programs out there, unless you want to fly VATSIM or something else like that.Sorry! Me? I'm sticking with XP 64 for flight sim for a good long time!

I dont really have many issues with win7, mind you im not a hardcore computer guy so maybe for my uses it seems to do a decent job.I suggest you look into editvoice pack, i really like the program and it is free.

For RC4 you should start it with a shortcut with advanced properties to run it as an admin. It needs this to get access to the FS folder. Be sure your FSUIPC and makerwys are up to date. Look at the RC forum here on AVSIM and check out the pinned topics at the forum head.

After considering where the break point was for each of the applications, I decided maybe an upgraded sound driver might be helpful. After reinstalling my Realtek sound driver, RC4 and PFE now work! Another mystery solved and now I can enjoy my new hardware! (I went from a p4 to an i-7 and 3G of memory to 16G. My GFX was updated from 256M AGP to 1G PCI-e) Needless to say, there's a massive improvement in smoothness over the older rig.

Is your RealTek chip on the motherboard? If possible go with a middle ground audio plug-in card with its own audio CPU and RAM. Even though you have an i7 processor offload audio processing and ram usage from your mobo. It makes also the RAM mapping more linear on the mobo.Although benchmarking was done with FSX, you'll be pleased to know that one journalist found that upgrading from VISTA to Win 7 increased FPS from 25% to 35% on his i7. This was attributed to Win 7 catching some complex calculation calls and passing it to the GPU instead of the CPU.