I just posted my problem this morning thinking it was a TrackIR problem. Looks like I was wrong, I tried another take-off from Male Rwy18 in the tutorial. This time I was only at 2000 feet and climbing, did not get to turn on the auto-pilot because the attitude indicator was spinning, the airspeed indicator was unreadable bouncing all over, up and down, same with the altitude indicator. A couple of previous flights I was able to turn on the auto-pilot before this happened. It's kind of disappointing as I was looking forward to flying the PMDG 777 after a week of learning how to program the FMC.

I should have mentioned that the ND display out of commission the same time as the PFD, spinning 360's, 180's,and turning back and forth the same as the PFD, and unreadable. The both went haywire at the same time. Anybody think PMDG 777 and FSX Gold needs to be re-installed? I hope that is not the problem. I've only installed them both in the last couple of weeks. Actually did a reinstall of FSX Gold to my second 1TB HD, because I wanted a clean HD with only sims, no OS or anti-virus. I did follow FSX clean re-install instructions.

http://support.precisionmanuals.com/Main/Default.aspx

 

Already covered here, happened to me on 1 occasion.

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/437693-mayday-mayday-all-instrument-malfunction/

Already covered here, happened to me on 1 occasion.

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/437693-mayday-mayday-all-instrument-malfunction/

 

Thanks for the reply, but I saw your post, and my problem is not this. I did hear from the PMDG technical staff and they gave me four links to  Microsoft. The first one was for Microsoft DirectX runtimes full installer, and the other three were for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 runtimes:, and 2008 SP1 runtimes:, and 2010SP! runtimes:

 

I installed them all, the first one in a temp. file on my E drive as I'm running a separate drive for MSFX. The other three went on my C drive automatically as these files do not give any choice where you want to put them.

 

I tried another flight from Male with the PMDG 777 and thought these fixes might be working, but they weren't. About a minute after I engaged the Auto Pilot the PFD and ND went crazy again, as I've previously described. I'm waiting for a response from the PMDG staff as what to do next. I posted on this forum to possibly find a solution a bit quicker.

 

Thanks,

Brian

 

 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=8109

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5638

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5582

 

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328

Thanks for the reply, but I saw your post, and my problem is not this. I did hear from the PMDG technical staff and they gave me four links to  Microsoft. The first one was for Microsoft DirectX runtimes full installer, and the other three were for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 runtimes:, and 2008 SP1 runtimes:, and 2010SP! runtimes:

 

I installed them all, the first one in a temp. file on my E drive as I'm running a separate drive for MSFX. The other three went on my C drive automatically as these files do not give any choice where you want to put them.

 

I tried another flight from Male with the PMDG 777 and thought these fixes might be working, but they weren't. About a minute after I engaged the Auto Pilot the PFD and ND went crazy again, as I've previously described. I'm waiting for a response from the PMDG staff as what to do next. I posted on this forum to possibly find a solution a bit quicker.

 

Thanks,

Brian

 

 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=8109

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5638

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5582

 

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328

 

Sorry to hear that! My issue went away after a reload of the flight, again PMDG will issue a resolution for sure, its just trial and error to see what the problem is, for me a I reversed a sound mod and it worked, not been an ongoing issue, but im sure the PMDG staff will sort it, may take some time to figure out the issue.

There are some resolutions posted at the end of the thread 1)CMOS battery 2)C++ Runtimes listed above try them, seem to be installing the c++ runtimes, but what I did to a totally unrelated problem to a different game, is get rid of old c++ runtimes, THEN install any new ones...who knows might fix the problem...

Thanks for the reply, I fixed the problem with a bit of help from PMDG. Actually PMDG did give me three links to C++ run times, but the first link is to a DirectX run time installer, so PMDG  trying to fix my DirectX got me thinking. I'm using DirectX9, have read there are less problems with it then DirectX10.

 

I decided to research DirectX9, and it looked like a later version DirectX9c came out in 2010, which is later date then the last copy of MSFX Gold I installed  on my HD with DirectX on it. I downloaded DirectX9c, and installed, then downloaded again the DirectX run time installer, the first link of the four PMDG gave me, ran it's program and the problem is fixed. Did the newer version DirectX9c fix the problem, not sure, but I'd guess yes. But did the DirectX run time installer fix any problems with DirectX9c? No way of knowing, at least it did not do any harm.