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To this day I am shocked that nobody has done any of the Challenger variants (601, 604, 605). Essentially all they are is a shortened fuselage version of the older CRJ variants (e.g. CRJ 200). Hugely popular biz jet, and I would love to have one in FS.

Good Day Gentleman,I don't believe I have posted in the HiFi forum for several years. AS5, 6 and 6.5 transformed my FS2004 world many years ago, and to this day I can't thank you enough for the positive aspects they added to it.I've been using FSX for a couple of years now, but not in the hardcore manner that I used FS2004 before that. A few months ago I purchased AS Evolution, and it has on the whole been excellent. But I do have a couple of issues.1. MASSIVE frame rate hit during weather update.2. Despite setting weather update to every 30 minutes, it always updates after 15.My system is fairly reasonable - i7 930, 8GB RAM, Twin 1GB GTX460's in SLI, and FSX runs OK, but AS Evolution cripples it during the weather update.Is this normal? Are there any particular settings I should adjust in order to try and remedy it?Any help most appreciated.Thanks!Regards,Al.

I appreciate you replying, thank you.It was Aerosoft's Kos, and Larnaca sceneries where the issue is predominant for me - so this sounds like it will solve my problems.Thank you again!Regards,Al.

Good Day All,There doesn't seem to be a support forum over at the WOAI website, so thought I would pick some brains here.I have a minor problem with AI visibility, and it is not something I have seen with WOAI packages before. Basically at a couple of airports that I have downloaded all the visiting airline packages for, I can hear ATC talking to the aircraft, but they aren't visible. The AI labels are visible, if I turn on that feature in Display options, and sometimes the aircraft lights - but no textures or even aircraft model. I don't believe its the airports in question that are an issue, as at certain times of the day there are visible AI movements, so it must be an individual package issue.Would anyone know what might be causing this?Any input most appreciated!Thank you.Regards,Al.

Greetings everyone,I've been away from FS for about 2.5 years now, having in the past been an experienced user of FS2004. I recently reinstalled FSX, and have spent a couple of weeks tweaking and buying a couple of addons. Am very happy with how it looks now, and have been doing some casual simming. However, I have a rather bizarre problem, can't work out whether its just me, or something I've accidently set without realising it.Basically, despite having realism set to as realistic as possible, I am shocked by the lack of momentum during control movements. Every aircraft I have seems to be behaving like an aerobatic aircraft, not in terms of movement rate, but in terms of momentum. If I initiate a turn, climb, descent, then return the stick to neutral, the result is an imediate halt in the movement - obviously in light aircraft this wouldn't be suprising, but I would expect to see continuation of the movement when flying larger aircraft, that may even require control movement in the opposite sense in order to slow the rate of movement from the original direction.I don't believe I'm doing a very good job of describing the problem, so I must apologise - but hopefully someone knows what I mean!My old MS Sidewinder 2 forcefeedback is USB1, so can't use it anymore, and bought a cheaper joystick, which is sadly spring loaded at the base. I'm not sure if this could be affecting the momentum, but am not sure how.Of course it could just be me!Any thoughts on this problem most appreciated!Regards,Al.

Many thanks for the advice guys.I get the feeling its as you are suggesting, and a file permissions type problem with Vista.I'll see if I can get to the bottom of it!Al.

Morning all.Fresh FS2004 install, and despite adding the 'old modules' bit into FS9.cfg, upon loading, FS is still moaning that I have fssound.dll and that it will be disabled.As always, any help appreciated. I should mention that my new FS2004 install is on Vista 64 Ultimate.Regards,Al.

That is the OSS Dornier. Presumably someone from OSS, or affiliated with them, took over the project. Excellent to see that it may still be completed.Al.

The most notable payware Dornier 228 in development was by OSS (Online Simulation Solutions), but they closed, and thus the project would have been abandoned.A great shame as the visual model was absolutely stunning.Al.

As usual, with a little perseverance I have actually solved the problem!Al.

Hello all.Have been using FSX on my new system for a couple of months, but enjoyable as it is, it can't match FS9 with all my old addons, so am migrating back! FS9 should run like a dream on my new system, so I got the process underway last night...HOWEVER. Already I have run into Vista headaches. Am running Vista Ultimate 64. UAC is disabled, and I am listed as 'Administrator' under user accounts, but despite this, I can't get into 'application data' in documents and settings to get to my cfg file, and carry out the customary editing of terrain vertex, adding fssound.dll info etc...In the three months since I got my new system, I had been thinking to myself that all the bother Vista has given people since its release was obviously blowing over my head, but now that I've hit this problem I am going mental! :-)Despite some extensive searching online, I can't find a definitive answer. Hard to beleive, as this must have affected other people!Help most appreciated!Best regards,Al.

Hi Nigel.Unfortunately I don't know the technical in's and out's of why multi-card setups can be a hinderance rather than a help.The magazine article was very detailed, but sadly I don't have it to hand, as its at work. But I'll bring it home with me this evening and post some details from the relevant part, as they definately had 9800's in the test.Al.P.S. Shouldn't have to wait until this evening actually - I am sure I can find the time to post later this morning whilst at work.

Again, thanks for all these replies guys.Sadly I posted from the comfort of my bed last night, and am now off to work, but will have a go at all these suggestions this evening.I didn't try selecting menu in windowed mode Peter, so will definately give that a go.Al.

Current games do not take advantage of quad core processors. The gamers choice at the moment is dual core.As for graphics cards in SLI and Crossfire, this is a VERY touchy subject for gamers. A recent test in a PC magazine that I read last month, put a vast array of nVidia and ATI cards against each other in SLI/Crossfire mode...the result was shocking. Only one of the cards (and it wasn't a 9800 from what I recall) showed any kind of overall performance gain. The tests were very varied, at different resolutions, different tasks/games etc, but all in all, I was shocked by the results.Sadly the lastest and greatest (on paper) hardware setup doesn't guarentee good results, in any game/sim.Regards,Al.

Many thanks for the replies.I have nhancer installed, so will set up a profile and see how far that goes to sorting the problem.Nice to know that its not just me, and I'm sure with some investigation and following of advice, that the problem can be rectified.Al.