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Thanks again. The 3.0.10.rc1 version fixed it. I would have liked to use the Navigraph FMS but it isn't available for FSXSE afaik. Like others on this board and elsewhere, I'm amazed by, and grateful for, LNM in equal measure. ⭐ Howard

Thank you for your speedy reply. I followed the instructions as best I could several times. I hope I copied them to the right place on the network computer - the same as their source in the flying PC. Each time, I get the exception message below. This is followed by a Runtime error.

I am running FSX/LNM/LNconnect in W10 on a network with LNM using W7. The flying PC connects with LNM on the networked machine - I checked that the GS changes. Problem is that I cannot load the scenery library - LNM shows that I am using XP11. I'd be grateful for advice.

EDIT Apologies the card has 16GB, not 4GB as in my OP. I am worried about my RX 6950 XT. I bought it secondhand on eBay in its original box. There was a return option. For a while it seemed to run quite well but when running P3Dv5.4 I began to get stuttering and pausing. At times the sim would not load. Even with FSX the output stutters with a lot of shimmering and jagged lines. I never had this with a GTX 1070 Ti. Maybe my old NEC 1920x1200 60 GHz just can't handle this AMD card - like putting a Ferrari engine in a lawnmower... Unfortunately for a simple chap like me, there doesn't seem to be a Radeon equivalent to Nvidia Inspector. I am sure I do not have the best settings. I ran a GPU-Z test. Not being any kind of expert, I am not sure what is going on, but it doesn't look good! .☹️ Advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much for all this, Bob. I've a mind to do a small upgrade - graphics card and monitor only to start with. In the past, I ran two PCs - one for FS9 and FS2002, and the other for FSX and XP9 or was it 8? I used a KVM switch to switch monitor, mouse, keyboard between the two PCs. I still have the switches but the wiring was clumsy and took up a lot of space. I am not planning to use it again. I will see how the upgrade goes, but I will have to do something about the C drive - more than two-thirds used. Maybe in the future I will use the upgrade for FSX and storage, and buy/build a new PC for P3D/Xplane. Monitor I noted your two desktop setups. I wondered about the curved screen and edge distortion - is this not an issue nowadays or do you get what you pay for?! Also, I like to have a second mon for navigation etc. I wouldn't have space for an ultrawide main screen. Given the huge variation in price, is there anything I should look out for as essential - quality is more important than ultrafast responses - I am not a gamer! Is it best to have a G-Sync monitor, given that i might use this same monitor for a new build? Graphics card I spotted this on a UK site I used many times: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 Ultra Gaming 10GB GDDR6 Refurbished Graphics Card. (approx £550 - say 700 USD). Again, I could pay twice as much for what seems to be almost the same thing! But I would rather spend extra on the monitor to future-proof it a bit. Sorry for all the questions!

I fly P3D v5.4, FSX (SE) and XP12. The machine is dual boot: Windows 10 with Linux for XP12. Current spec is: ASUS Rog Strix Z370-F gaming; AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 4GB; i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70 GHz 64 GB RAM; NEC Multisync EA243WM -LED 1920x1200 at 60 Hz (made in 2012). Storage: C drive is 500 GB SSD; G drive (P3Dv5) is 4TB SSD. Also, two other large HDDs with FSX (SE) and XP12. In truth, the system is a mongrel, formed by the accumulation of bits and pieces from previous machines. Thoughts: W10 support will disappear in a year's time. My C drive is nearing capacity even after clearing out redundant files. I would like to run P3D v5 and XP 12+ in years to come. I will not buy v6. I am not sure if this current PC has enough in it to warrant spending money on upgrading. The graphics card is pretty awful with P3Dv5 - stutters, pauses. even with 64GB! My monitor is poor by today's standards for current sims. I'd be grateful for advice - upgrade or new build?

I fly old birds a lot, DC3, Milton Shupe's masterpieces like the DC7, the Argonaut, Handley Page Hermes, Ford Trimotor, Junkers types, etc. With the help of an old pal (may he RIP) we equipped the Argonaut and Hermes with INS. It was a faff to initialise before departure, but very rewarding when used successfully in a flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delco_Carousel These were all FSX aircraft and a few FS9. Same goes for sceneries - some FSX sceneries have never been re-worked for P3D, including my favourite small airfields in France, Germany, Austria, many of them freeware. I just noticed, trawling through CIVA articles, that the Delco Carousel is available as a plugin for P3Dv4 (Simufly.com) but I've no info about v5. A version of Delco Carousel has been available for XP11 - I don't know about XP12.

Thanks to all you guys/gals. Yes, my PC is a mess. It grew like Topsy. I have an FS9 disk with hundreds of scenery addons, aircraft, nav programs etc. I still run it because it runs so smoothly in W10 with my i7, 3.70 GHz, 64GB 2133 RAM, Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB. I have couple of drives for backups - I prefer local backups to Cloud. I have another for music which I use with a Sonos system. The PC also has XP12 installed on a Linux partition - in fact I can run it in two different distros because Linux being what it is, some kernels run it better than another - some days. 😬 I held this all back in my OP as I knew it would muddy the waters. The acute problem I had was a C drive which was nearing capacity. I think I have found a way out of this, thanks to advice on this thread. I take on board the advice about one or two drives only. I can't do that for the reasons stated - maybe two (W11 and Linux) with another for back ups. If/when I take the plunge and upgrade to a new PC (I always built my own, but next time I'll get a custom build), I will limit the number of drives as you guys all suggest. Would that mean I could run FSX(SE), P3Dv5, and maybe v6 off the same 4TB SSD? Would there not be all sorts of conflicts?

My machine is now W11 ready. In their usual kindly way, MS force the issue by stopping support for W10 in just over a year's time.

I said in my OP that I'd been away from flight sim for a long time. I wrote that I had P3Dv5 on a HDD. I checked and found it was on a partition on a rather decent 4TB SSD. 🙄 First pic. Looking back, I bought this thinking that I might install 'the other sim' on a second partition, but I never did. At 75+ things get in the way sometimes. So, I want to extend the G: partition to include the entire 4TB, or as near as is possible. I attempted to do this using the W10 disk management utility. The second pic shows that the option to expand into M: was not available. I'm not sure where to go from here. As for the C drive, I have managed to clean out some large files and will do more with the Add-ons, one by one via usb drive. The good news is that my oldish PC is now W11 ready - I had to enable the TPM thing.

I notice you are running W11. I am still on W10. If I am going to invest in a large SSD would this not be the time to upgrade? Cloning wouldn't be appropriate after that. Do you think the Add-ons might still be transferable?

Thanks for this. I wondered about cloning to a larger SSD. Problem is I once cloned an FS9 install. I can't remember which backup program I used but it was payware. It seemed to clone but the clone was a series of weirdly named files which I never understood and which I could not use. I still have the cloned disk sitting somewhere. If I clone my current boot drive (C:) to a 3TB SSD, and then disconnect that original, will my PC boot and run just as before? Will there not be problems with the registry?

That's a good idea! Thanks! I'd have to move the Add-ons to the usb drive rather than copy them - if I understand you right.

I haven't flown for a very long time. Coming back, I see my C drive W10 boot SSD is nearing capacity - largely because of P3Dv5 and v4.5 Add-ons. I have P3Dv5 on a 2TB HDD. If I move the Add-ons to the P3Dv5 drive, will the sim still recognise them, or will they all have to be re-installed? If it did I could free up a lot space on the C drive. It might even mean I could avoid a W10 reinstall. I'd be grateful for advice.

Sounds like smoke and mirrors stuff to me, A32xx, but thanks all the same. I drove a couple of those 'Beetles' back in 1970s. Never could find a right hand drive version of Harald's with the split rear screen. Pricey jobs, even then. Then I married a wife and moved over to Citroen 2CVs which is a whole other story. Best regards!