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Not very adventurous are you David?A very simple way to find out is just put the ##**// thing on and see.If it doesn't work you then have a decision to make. Hmmm shall I get rid of IR Tracker or ...should I get rid of CFS3. You can then come on the forum, and some kind soul will tell you what to do. You remind me of some of my students. :(

Because I replied to your post above, I will have to say that on the subject of this post I will agree with you 103%

Howdy Larry,I thought the VC was looking pretty good. I use the VC most of the time, as I fly in Stero. On my 19" monitor I had to redo the eyelevel, as I was sitting a bit high for me. I have to keep in mind though that this is a pretty big panel, reduced it to a zoom level of 75 percent, changed the eyelevel to suit me, (1.65), and it works pretty well. With IR tracker it is very realistic in my opinion. All in all I am fairly well satisfied with it. The VC looks better than the Commander did. Doesn't it?

I like to be able to drag the panels to a second monitor also, but it looks like all the keys or spaces for extra windows are already used up for the Seneca V. :DThanks FSD for the fine planes. The Seneca is exceptional too in my opinion. Only looking for the paint for Sidolis 95D.

Howdy Chris,Getting rid of the jaggies is what the AA, (anti-aliasing) is for. It does so at the expense of some fps though. Fist try 2x mode. Right click the empty space on the desktop, click PropertiesSettingsAdvancedGeForce4 TI4200Additional Properties|3D Antialiasing Settings click the Manually select the antialiasing mode, then click 2x. 2x is a suggestion to start, now see if this is what you want. Experiment with the other settings notice how it affects your graphics and especially notice the effects on your framerates. You should find a setting that is to your liking. Set your resolution a bit low to start, try a 1024x768 resolution for starters, then go up. Depending on your machine and amoont of memory you have as to how much resolution you can use. Be sure and click the antialising box in the flight sim itself. Keep in mind that you probably won't have antialiasing at a resolution of 1600x1200. The memory hit is too great. Personally I don't like the frame rate hit to run antialiasing on my machine. I run at 1280x960 resolution, and that satisfies me. I do most of my flying inside so a few jaggies don't bother me. We are all different though and some things I might love others would cry over. :D And Vice a Versa.

Email is on the way Eric, and no bother at all. That is the fun of these forums, If some way we can help a fellow simmer by some simple suggestion, then my week is made. I'm not a guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I sure do like to tinker. :)I have tried to email you by clicking the icons for email at the top of our postings, but have never been successful getting the mail out that way. I know that Dark Moment and others have mentioned that they have tried to email me but I haven't gotten the mail from them either. below is my email if any one wants or needs to mail me.wb5okj@cox.net

If that is the poster in that picture, she doesn't need a credit card!>:-)

Howdy Beloka,Yes I have a few suggestions, sorry for not responding sooner, have been out of touch for a while.The flickering is caused by too low a refresh rate. which is caused generally by too high a resolution for the monitor you are running. For instance on my Monitor a HP Paviloion v90, at 1600x1200 relolution I get a refresh rate of 75 hz, and a flickering picture. The lowest refresh rate I can get to have a nearly flicker free stero picture is 85 hz, thats a vertical frequency of 85 hz. The highest 4/3 ratio resolution I can get with this particular monitor is 1280x960 This gives me an 85 hz refresh rate which with my old eyes is tolerable for me. At 1152x864 the next 4/3 ratio resolution I get this monitor will give me a 100 hz refresh rate, which I cannot detect any flicker at all. With stero this picture is good enough for me as far as resolution goes. Without stero I must go to at least 1280x960 resolution to be satisfied.Having said all that, one may use third party application program to force a change of resolution on your monitor. Probably the best program for this is a shareware called PowerStrip http://www.entechtaiwan.com/Using this tool, or the one below, one may slowly change the monitor refresh rate, until you discover the maximum refresh rate for your monitor. Be careful, go slow. :D Here is a freeware tool called HZtool, it may do the job for you. http://hem.spray.se/doxx/With these tools I can force my 1280x960 resolution to about 99 hz, a 1152x864 resolution to abut 120, and 1024x768 to over 120 hz. I can tolerate a resolution of 1024x768 in stero and if you have young eyes, you may have to go to this resolution to get a flicker free presentation of SF2002 in stero. I am able to tolerate with my older eyse a resolutioon of 85, but even for me 100 or more hz is preferable.Let me suggest, stero works the best in virtual cockpit mode, which I am sure you have already discovered. :)Hope this sheds some light on the flickering, keep working at this 3D thing and we may overcome it yet. Actually this is the fun in it anyway, as all a flight sim is, is a benchmarking tool to see how our computers are really working. :D

For the virtual cockpit zoom, one may set it to what ever you like, and then save that flight as the default. The next time you open flight sim, the virtual panel will be at whatever zoom level you set. It will do the same for the 2D panel, however I have had the 2D panel to sometimes change itself on it own. Be aware that whatever you set the VC to, (I set mine at 75%), It will stay the same for other aircraft that you change to, however the changed aircraft may require a different setting than your default craft did, in order to look correct.

Have fun for us. The instructors will have a great time seeing you sweat it out. :D

If my FBO ever found out that you did a spin in one of their rental planes, i.e., you came back with all the gyro instruments messed up, THAT would be the last time you ever rented one of their planes!!I done all my spin classes in a C152 that was set up for spin class, all the gyro instruments disconnected.

You should see the virtual cockpit in steroscopic, holographic, 3D via the E-Dimensional glasses. In this mode the SM260 is truelyl an amazing work of art!!

Thanks Mike,I am a nut for canards. :D I'll download this thng as soon as it's upLOL (Am checking now, even as we speak).

Howdy Jerry,You didn't say what plane you are using, but many airspeed indicators will not show any speeds until you have attained at least 40 knots on the ground.

Howdy Mauro,When you set up your thunderstorms, make sure you set it up with heavy rain. The radar won't pick up just clouds if it is not raining, which I see you have done in your screenshot. Make sure though, that you set up a few storms 25 miles or so away from you. If you just set up your weather at your location only, the radar may not pickup the rain if it is right on top of you. Also make sure the weather you set up is in front of you or not over about 60 or 70 degrees to the side of you. You may have to fly and circle around until your radar antenna picks up the echos from the rain. Try clicking Local, in your weather setup rather than global. Sometimes this helps if you are creating the weather yourself. I don't use FS Meteo myself, so can't help in that direction. I know FSFliteMax works very well for me with the real weather download, or if I create my own weather. FliteMax always shows it for me.Go to the FliteMax forum they have a lot of information about using FS Meteo there. There are links to that forum in some of the other posts, so I will not repeat the link here.Hope this helps some, Good Luck

Gabriel,Here is a link on how to do different kinds of installs for any or all of the Windows operating systems.http://www.windowsreinstall.com/

I always turn on the panel lights, which help when in virtual cockpit mode. Also it helps to turn the gamma for your display up to about 1.30 To turn up the gamma, right click an empty spot on your desktop, click PropertiesSettingsAdvanced then click Color Correction.

Are the 3087 stero drivers any different than the 3082 stero drivers?I'm using the 3082 currently.

Actually I think it is a great idea. Most of the desktops show FS stuff except yours. :DSome of the AvSim staff are showing their stuff too. :)Do you own that Montana Gold? I am envious LOLI don't run Wall paper on my desktop, or anything else that might detract the CPU from its alloted function, churning out the fastest frame rates possible. That lets out screensavers and other whatnot as well. :D

I just make an overcast layer down to 1000 feet base, and 1 mile of visibility, or whatever limits I want. Save that flight as IFR Practice, or whatever, after setting the limits and it should be good to go.

I don't do every flight in stero, but working the pattern is a lot of fun. On final the illusion of height relly helps the feeling. Also turning from the runup area and swinging out onto the runway, I get that excited feeling of, "lets go". :d

Thought I would post a small steroscopic picture of Geof's Debonair virtual cockpit, that was done by James Eden.Thanks guys for a job well done.This picture is a page flipped steroscopic with about 15% stero seperation. It was done at 800x600x32 to keep it small, so will picture it here. If you have the Stero Drivers and the E-D glasses download the picture to your harddrive with a .jps extension. If you don't have the glasses you can view this by using the crosseyed method, simply look at the picture and cross you eyes until the VC comes into view as a steroscopic image. It takes a bit of practice, but move your head around while crossing your eyes and you will soon get the hang of it. :) The reason I kept the seperation at just 15% is so you don't have to pop your eyes out of your head to see it. :D

You don't say anythng about running dual monitors, but if you are and you have your panel on the second monitor, you will get a picture of whatever is on the second monitor right along side the picture on the primary monitor.If you are running dual monitors try disabling the second while you are taking the screen shot.

Hello Barry,I use a second monitor on a second older PCI video card,(a Vanta), and it works well. I don't know how it works using the second port, the DVI out port as I haven't tried to take advantage of the dual capabilities of this G4 card yet. Of course you only get Stero on the card that has the dongle for the glasses connected to it. You don't get Stero on the second monitor which is good.

Hello Mark,When I had the Geforce 2 64 Pro AGP card as primary I also had and still have a Vanta 32meg PCI card as secondary.With the GForce 2 I could not use the nVidia Stero Drivers at all, they just would not work, neither would the regular Wicked 3D ver 4.11 drivers. What did work with the GF2 was the Wicked 3D version 5.02 beta which you download from ED site, here is a link.http://www.edimensional.com/software_updates.htmlThe 5.02 drivers are the third ones down, and they worked very well with the GeForce 2 64Meg card. any version of the regular nVidia drivers would work I think I was using Denonaters 3 and then the Detonator 4 when they became available. For me the regular drivers have never made a difference at all.I only use the Vanta PCI card on the second monitor, and of course this card uses the same drivers as the G4 does or when I had the G2 card, I never had a problem with conflicts, and I never had to do anything unusual other than go into my computer bios and select the AGP option rather than the PCI option on startup. I have always used the original Stero Drivers, I don't remember the number, but they would not work with the GForce2 card. The drivers have never made any difference on my machine at all, neither good or bad, and I have tried out, not all, but a lot of different drivers. They all work about the same on my machine. LOL I have only now started using the 3082 Stero Drivers and the 3082 regular drivers because of the upgrade to the G4 card.Now having to use the 3082 drivers and 3082 Stero Drivers, they are a bit more cranky than the Wicked 3d ver 5.02 drivers were. The Wicked 3D drivers would always start up, no trouble at all, but the video was darker, and did not look quite as good as the 3082 Stero Drivers do now.Al ot of times to get the cranky 3082 Stero Drivers to work I will have to change resolution from what ever I startup with, to one resolution higher. i.e If I start in 1024x768 resolution I have to go to OptionsSettingsDisplayHardware and change to the next higher resolution or 1152x864. Occasionally I have to go the other way or to the next lower resolution. Its a bit of a pain, but that is the fun of computers is it not. The feeling of accomplishment when everything finally comes together, and the Stero, is to me at least, worth it. I find this steroscopic effect amazing. It is like looking in a mirror.By the way did you see the picture of the week on ED website, it is from FS2002, and a very nice picture in 3D looks like a real photograph almost.Hope this is of someuse and that I haven't just rambled on.