We use Second Copy on our PCs, it's real flexible.  🙂

18 minutes ago, Buffy Foster said:

We use Second Copy on our PCs, it's real flexible.  🙂

Thank you so much.  I can even copy it to a network, I have a Raid 6 network server so I'm super pumped to export the image onto that system. I assume I can select all my hard drives on my sim pc to be exported out?

 

 

Yeah by folder, it's real nice.  Dad's PC has the RAID on it and we have a Drobo and a Synology NAS too, it works good copyingn to all of them. Ez to restore too. 🙂

3 hours ago, franjoflyer said:

May I ask what image software people use to backup the p3d install?  I mean I'm almost to the point where I have everything perfectly installed, wouldn't mind have a system image of all this.

I use Acronis True Image, great program.

I just installed the 1805 on top of 1803 and it gives me a black screen with the circle spinning all the time.

Tried uninstalling latest drivers via DDU (which hang and will not boot) 

Not the first time i can read on the internet but i seems to cant get rid of it. 

How do i quick disable any updates in w10 64 bit?

 

Thanks

Michael Moe

I use macrium reflect pro

26 minutes ago, Michael Moe said:

How do i quick disable any updates in w10 64 bit?

If you are on wifi, go to the properties of that wifi, and then select the switch to on position as metered connection, in the past that worked for me.

Thanks. There is a 1805 update that brakes my 397.31 which may have caused this. I see now there is a new 397.XX driver released. 

I manage to safe boot via power button description and use DDU but with out network. With network problems again. Took me 3 hours yesterday. Time for a system image 

Thanks Michael Moe 

Edited May 10, 20188 yr by Michael Moe

On 5/9/2018 at 8:53 AM, Buffy Foster said:

The only problem I had is that Windows 10 arrogantly over-writes your GPU drivers.  Nvidia has an early access driver update that solves this problem.  I've applied it to my PCs and it does the trick.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1051755/geforce-drivers/announcing-geforce-hotfix-driver-397-55/

This!

Just my two cents here... I didn't realize this was "The Big April Update", so I was a little shocked when the update took longer than usual. When my computer booted back up, everything felt sluggish and P3Dv4 worked at about 4s/frames. No, I'm not confused - it was actually 4 seconds per frame. Some quick searching resulted in a post describing a similar problem back with the Fall Creators update, and it that case it turned out the update had overwritten or uninstalled Nvidia's drivers. I simply downloaded whatever was available from their website (normal release no early access), and reinstalled that, and everything was fine afterwards.

Long story short: if you have any performance problems after the update, I'd recommend making sure your Nvidia drivers still exist. If not, just reinstall and it ought to be fine.

Wow, sounds like you were flying in Powerpoint... 😄

Yup, that hotfix one is now the release one as of this morning. \o/

Edited May 11, 20188 yr by Buffy Foster
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2 minutes ago, Buffy Foster said:

Wow, sounds like you were flying in Powerpoint... 😄

Yup, that hotfix one is now the release one as of this morning. \o/

That makes sense! Thanks for the clarification.

Curious you have to advise all went well in the first place...(Im still a happy W7/64 user).

5 minutes ago, Boomer said:

Curious you have to advise all went well in the first place...(Im still a happy W7/64 user).

IKR?  :'(

On 5/9/2018 at 5:53 AM, Buffy Foster said:

The only problem I had is that Windows 10 arrogantly over-writes your GPU drivers.  Nvidia has an early access driver update that solves this problem.  I've applied it to my PCs and it does the trick.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1051755/geforce-drivers/announcing-geforce-hotfix-driver-397-55/

I updated and noticed my silky smooth sim was stuttering a bit. I immediately suspected the update had either overwritten or corrupted my current Nvidia drivers. Went to safe mode, used DDU to uninstall the drivers, rebooted, and installed the drivers as administrator. So far, so good.                                

***Edit*** The update appears to cause erratic/inconsistent FPS behavior in my system, resulting in nasty stutters. I have a high end system and with the Leonardo Maddogx at Flightbeams KDEN, which is an easy consistent 60FPS for me, I was getting FPS fluctuating between 34-73 FPS. Stutter city. I found no other reason than the update, since the update represented the only recent changes to my system. Rolled back driver and *Boom* everything is back to normal. Not saying the update is bugged, but it doesn’t play well on my system. 

Edited May 19, 20188 yr by davidzill
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