Scott Miller

Thanks, Tony! Unchecking the environmental box did indeed solve the problem!Scott

G'Day Roger!I did indeed have the environment box checked! Thanks for the help! BTW, is there a way to reduce the size of the instrument panel in Fly!? The instruments in Fly! are so big I can't see out the window and the instruments at the same time. This isn't a problem while crusing on autopilot at 35,000 feet but definitely not a good thing while only a couple of thousand feet above ground on Final!Scott

Hi AllenHeat is certainly a possible suspect (now that you mention it, I do recall hearing that AMD cpus run hotter than Intel cpus) but I don't think this is the case here. According to PCAlert, my AMD cpu is running at about 105 degrees F, which is well below the max safe temp of 166 (according to PCAlert). Even during last summer the hottest it got was around 115 degrees. I haven't had problems with lockups while using any other software, just FS. I've also experienced random lockups with FS2000 (but not with any previous version) though with far less frequency than with FS2002. I did try putting in a case fan in my system a while back but the slight drop in temperature I got with it (less than 5 degrees) wasn't enough to justify putting up with the noise it produced! While I won't rule out heat completely I think insufficient ram or and out dated video card driver might be more likely...Scott

I got the original Fly! and Wilco's 737 for Fly! ages ago but never bothered to look at it until recently. When I did I was dismayed to discover that in exterior view one side of the aircraft (regarless of livery) appears to be covered in a spider's web from nose to tail (more or less) anchored on the wing. Needless to say, this completely spoils the view! Because of this I haven't actually tried to fly the 737 so I don't know if this defect(?) in Wilco's 737 for Fly! has any effect on how it handles in the air (or even if the effect persists once airborn). In any case, has anyone else seen this? Regardless of whether this is a flaw in Wilco's 737 for Fly! or not, is there a patch to fix it? Even though I've since obtained Fly!II, I'd still like fix this so I can get my money's worth out of Fly (and Wilco's 737 for Fly!)!--Scott Miller

I'm trying to use it with FS2002 but I'm having some troubles. I think my troubles have more to do with the way FS2002 runs (or doesn't run) on my system. In a nutshell, when I try to fly FS2002 with pretty much any aircraft, FS2002 locks up constantly on me! It's completely random, but seems to occur when a lot is going on (opening or closing windows, switching views quickly or numerous times, sudden increases in scenery detail, or operating aircraft controls (gear, flaps, etc) or a combination of the above. It doesn't seem to matter which plane I'm flying at the time, but seems to happen more frequently with bigger or more complex aircraft (such Dream Wings Embraer 170). I tried changing realism settings and display settings to low and this seemed to help some but the problem persists. As things stand, FS2002 is pretty much unusable as I'm lucky if I can get off the ground before a lockup occurs! My system uses a MSI KT4 Ultra 333 motherboard, an AMD Athlon 1800+ (1.53 G) CPU with 512k ram. I'm using an ATI Radeon 7200/Radeon VE AGP video card with 64 mb ram. Is this sufficient for FS2002 or I need more ram (at least another 512K?) or a better video card perhaps? Is there anything else I can do with FS2002 (other than what I've already tried) to get it to run better on my system in it's current state!?--Scott Miller