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I re-installed AIG's Traffic Controller recently (latest version). When I tried to run the Traffic Controller, I got a message that it wanted to do an update. When I said OK, it said that it couldn't do the update if I had started Traffic Controller from P3D and asked me to shut it down. I ended up in a loop. I finally did so by disabling the Add-On menu item for the traffic controller. When I did the reinstall and update, my anti-virus reached out and grabbed an item named update.bat but otherwise seemed OK. When I sent back to the Add-Ons in P3D, AIG Traffic Controller was there but its menu item had been changed to c:\Windows\System 32. I could select it but not change it and when I went back to it, the selection was turned off. What am I doing wrong? Is it something that the update.bat does? Thanks, Steve

I have AIG traffic running on my P3D v5.4 Where can I download the AIG Ai Companion referenced in Ray Proudfoot's posts above? I find no reference to it on the AIG download or software section of their web page. Thanks, Stephen

Thanks to those who replied to this topic. I tried to proceed with your guidance and suggestions and hit an unexpected snag. When I used the media creation tool to download Windows 11 onto a USB drive and then tried to do the upgrade to Windows 11, I was not given the choice for saving my files and/or apps. This is a known problem but with many possible and, to me at least, obscure reasons/fixes and no guarantees that any of them will actually work. It did give me a message that it was going to wipe out everything and a box to verify that I understood that for which I am grateful. At the moment I am trying to decide whether to try to fix this snag or just bite the bullet and clean install. Have any of you encountered and overcome this problem? Thanks, Stephen

I would be perfectly happy to stick with Windows 10 but am starting to feel pressured to go to Windows 11. I know that a clean reinstall is the preferred approach but I have a lot of P3DV5 compatible planes, scenery, traffic, etc. as well as graphics, photography and other applications. With the help of contributors to this forum, I have working installations of many of the RealAir simulations planes. Also have AIG traffic, ActiveSky for P3D, PMDG 777 and 737's, and Majestic Q400. Have any of you done an upgrade to Windows 11 using the option that preserves your apps and data? Did your flight sim apps and data make it through without massive collateral damage? I would, of course, make sure I have complete backups of everything before proceeding. Thanks, Steve Steve

Have had several 32 bit Eaglesoft planes in the past and have been hoping that you would finally get into the 64 bit arena with a quality corporate jet. I say welcome back and hope that your beta testing will be quick and smooth so that those of us who aren't so concerned about updating our navigation data frequently will finally have an Eaglesoft jet to fly again in 64 bit LM P3D. Steve

Hi Dan and Michael, Based on your helpful responses, it appears that my expectation that every descent would begin right on path was not realistic and that "normal" would include descents already in need of some intervention. Thanks for convincing me that I haven't been doing something wrong and encouraging me to and helping me develop my piloting skills Stephen Bickford

Hi Dan, Thanks for your suggestions on managing 777 descents and what to look for and do when a descent is going off the planned path. However, my question is whether I can predict/avoid descents that are immediately too high right from the beginning of the descent sequence at TOD. For example, does changing the descent speed (I assume on the VNAV Descent page before TOD) help the descent begin and stay right on track? Thanks, Steve Bickford

On many flights, the descent via VNAV PTH from TOD starts right on the mark and follows the FMC flight plan with no issues. However, on some flights, the descent begins with the 777 well above the path and, without an altitude intervention, will stay well above the planned path for the entire descent. I have read the introduction, tutorial, and looked in the detailed manuals but have not found anything that I can identify as obviously wrong. Is this something I'm doing wrong in my flight planning for the flights where I have the problem, or just part of flying the 777? Thanks, Stephen Bickford

Steve, Thanks again for your explanations and advice on how to test. Probably going to stick with 8x Anti-Aliasing and 16x Anisotropic filtering as those look good to me and look elsewhere (e.g. Water Effects, Traffic, and Scenery Autogen settings) for performance and oom relief when I need it. Steve

Hi Steve, Re: 8x CSAA versus 8x Just to make sure I understand - 8x CSAA will look better when I'm flying in clouds but at the expense of some performance (frames, micro-stuttering, etc.). The VC will also have somewhat better quality. If I drop back to 8x, clouds and the VC will look somewhat worse but performance will be somewhat better. This is consistent with what I see as the Flight Sim Labs focus on insuring that A320 customers get good performance and avoid oom problems. Although I am interested in that I also want to get the best performance (= best graphics I can get without losing smoothness) across all my other add-ons. BTW - Does TriLinear versus Anisotropic filtering have any effect on or require different settings in DX10 Preview or is it just a graphics quality versus performance tradeoff? Thanks, Steve

Hi Steve, Yes - this helps a lot although I had no idea how complicated the story of DX10 Preview is. I have installed the .nip and .dfp profiles that Flight Sim Labs provided in their OOM and Performance Issues thread on the A320. Having the AA setting in DX10 Preview plus the .nip setting of other parameters makes a big difference in the legibility of all my cockpits. Question: Regarding the .dfp profile, I didn't back up your installer's My Settings profile before I loaded it. In looking at what they did, are the settings in your User Manual your My Settings recommendations? Question: I have a 680 and the FSL .dfp uses 8x. What would I look for in the sim to see if 8x CSAA might be more appropriate? Thanks again for all your help, Steve

Steve, Setting 737 NGX makes perfect sense Really liking what I'm seeing from the Fixer - esp the fog. It happens that the first flight I tried was into Nantucket which was partially fogged in this morning. Haven't ever seen anything that realistic in FSX before. Another question - In the Fixer there is a setting for DX10 Anti-Aliasing. Is this advisory or does something actually get set? It looks like that In order for this to do something I have to go into Profile part of Nvidia Inspector and put the setting in my Microsoft Flight Simulator 10 profile. It also appears (e.g. Flight Sim Labs 320 forum) that folks are making .nip profiles and making them available. Thanks, Steve

Hi Steve, When installing the Fixer, there are choices for Add-ons. I have just upgraded to Active Sky 16 from Active Sky Next. Assuming I want to select Active Sky Next ? Also, have PMDG 737 NGX installed so selecting this. Does this also cover the PMDG 777? Thanks, Steve

Hi Steve, Got it. I'm posting one installation question that might be of general interest. Thanks, Steve

Hi Steve, You have posted that DX10 Scenery Fixer version 3 is now available at The Flight Sim Store. In a thread you have closed, several folks have reported that it is and downloaded it. However, when I go the The Flight Sim Store, I cannot find it. For example, a search for DX10 Scenery Fixer doesn't find it. Nor does DX10SceneryFixer. I can't find anything resembling Steve'sFX in the list of publishers/developers. What search terms/path get me to your product? Am I in the right store? Very frustrating! Can you help please me find your product Thx Steve

Hi Steve, Thanks for your quick reply. How did the free patches installer mark the copies it created? My ShadersHLSL\General folder has a file General10.fx.orig in it but there are no other files in ShadersHLSL that I can identify as backup copies. I didn't do any deletions other than whatever your free patch installer did when I responded to its question about deleting with yes I also installed Steam Edition on my laptop just to see how it ran so I can also just delete the whole ShadersHLSL folder from my desktop and copy the whole Shaders folder from the laptop in. Are all the original shaders sources in that one folder? Thanks, Steve

Hi Steve, Back when I moved to FSX:SE only I followed the tweaking instructions provided by Shuttle099 which included using DX10 Preview. The use of your 3.2.3 version shaders (freeware) was recommended and I got them from AVSIM and installed per instructions including removing the original ones. I have updated to Windows 10 via upgrade rather than clean install and things look wonderful and are running with no sign of stuttering. I was recently looking for a fix to a problem with display of an A2A C172 tail beacon light and one of their forum posts said that using your DX10 Scenery Fixer after installation of the C172 would solve the problem. However, this post was several years old and I also found references to fixing ORBX lighting problems which I don't believe that I ever had since I have only started using their scenery relatively recently. Your discussion of the prerequisites for software mentions FSX:SE as per Gold edition which I am assuming includes the original shaders. My questions are: (1) Will I benefit from version 3 (e.g. the A2A C172 beacon problem) (2) Do you know if this might mess up my ORBX sceneries and what I should avoid doing if I get Scenery Fixer? Thanks, Steve

I have downloaded, tried, and purchased FSTramp 5.0. I'm running on Windows 7 Professional (x64), Direct X 11 with an Nvidia GTX 680. As Helge Schroeder clearly documents, it ran perfectly for me in windowed mode but not in full screen mode. As do several others who have previously replied, I would suggest that you base your purchase decision on what FSTramp already does not on what it doesn't do (e.g. full screen mode). Steve Bickford

Hi Fouad,Works great when you follow all the instructions.....I had messed up the flap and slat retract sequence during takeoff and had the automatics kick off due to low speed. I thought all was restored but I guess not.Anyway, now have several successful flights.Thanks,Steve

I'm new to the MD-11 and having one issue in trying the tutorial flights.I have reset the FCP altitude in advance of the T/D point but descent is not beginning then. As near as I can tell, I didn't push or pull the Alt control knob in the process.I have had to hit the PROF key to get descent to begin.As far as I can tell, the PROF ascent to cruise worked properly.What am I doing wrong or do I need to check?Thanks,Steve B

I have a PC with 120GB hard drive which is dedicated to FS and has both FS2004 and FSX on it already. About 20 GB atill available - definitely not enough space left for X-Plane.Can I put in a second hard drive and install and run X-Plane from it or will that cause performance or other problems?Thanks,Steve

I recently downloaded and installed the SP1 upgrade to the JS4100. The first time I tried to fly it, I got a request for activation. When I supplied the activation from my purchase confirmation (copy and paste), it said that activation failed and that the aircraft would not perform as expected. However, it seems to be OK and it hasn't asked for activation again. Is my installation OK or do I have to reinstall?Steve Bickford

Jim,Sorry - I left out the word DOCUMENTATION in both the title and text of my message. I didn't mean the programs themselves.

The link to these seems to have been removed from your Support - Downloads page.Would you please give me a link or tell me where I can find the files in my installed system.Also, what is the latest build on these?Once I upgrade to a more powerful PC, I'm looking forward to getting the FSX version of these graet programs. For the present, I'm still enjoying them with FS9.Thanks,

I got FSX as a Christmas present. However, I had this FSX crash problem within minutes into my first flight after installing FSX:"The instruction at "0x7c809783" memory at "0x15db2fe4". The memory could not be "written". Click on ok to terminate the program."This happened whenever I tried to display the GPS and frequently when I tried to load an aircraft other than the default ultralight.Assuming that something was wrong with my system, I tried lots of things based on forum searches and suggestions from community members. However, they never solved the problem.What did solve it for me earlier this week was un-installing FSX and re-installing it while running under a safe boot procedure to avoid corruption by some helpful but unidentified program of mine.Instructions:(1) Go to http://support.microsoft.com/ph/11941(2) Look at the item "The game stops responding or closes unexpectedly when you start or play a Microsoft Game" under Latest News(3) Go to Method 3.(4) Make sure that you use the procedure described in the KB 331796 to enter a Safe Mode before the reinstall i.e. Run msconfig, choose selective startup, clear Process System.ini, clear Process Win.ini, clear Load Startup items, etc. BTW - This was the first time that I had encountered this "flavor" of safe mode.I hope that this may help others who have been as frustrated by this problem as I was.