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I am about to upload a different set of VC textures. Should go nicely with any civilian Dakota : Cheers, Jan

Would you believe that in my quarter of a century flightsimming ( started with FSII on a Commodore64 back in the 80's...) i have never used a GPS... ? I have learned about flying and navigating thru the booklets that came with FSII which was an absolute joy because i didn't know anything about it. Later on i could get my dirty hands on original but outdated Jeppesen en route charts and terminal charts of just about the whole of Europe and US. Using these charts and using only VOR to VOR and NDB navigation has been the most interesting and rewarding virtual flight time for me, no matter if i'd be flying GA, a propliner or a jetliner. Certainly i learned how to use a GPS when it became available in FS and learned to program an FMC later on (several times even) just because i found it very interesting but i never liked using them for my virtual flights. I, for one, really don't see the fun in having computers take over the things i love to do and take care of myself during a virtual flight. Nothing as exiting as to watch those VOR and/or NDB needles come in to where you expect them when you're up there all alone in the murk... I do fly the wonderful PMDG 747 and 737 occasionally using only the absolute necessary FMC entries ( although very limited i still like to fly with default FSX ATC and flightplans ), no LNAV/VNAV for me, VOR/NDB is still my motto. Can you tell i have been waiting all these 3 years with baited breath for any news about the PMDG DC-6 ? Sure's a bummer that all of a sudden X-Plane is the word but i'm willing to buy it just to fly DC-6. ( i tried XP a couple times but never could get into it, rushed back to FS9/FSX before i could manage to dial in the VOR frequency because i couldn't find the keys to do it... :smile: ) XP, FSX, P3D or whatever, i'm ready ! :Praying: cheers, jan

You wish!! (me too!!) Let's all buy 10 copies of the 6 ! :rolleyes:

I just want the DC-6. Is that too much to ask for ?.. :rolleyes:

Well, basically, DTG did the exact opposite with MSTS(Kuju).... With their Railworks/Train Simulator franchise they seem to pretty much know what the're doing... Why not with MSFlight ?... Will they fall into the same trap that made a laughing stock out of MSFlight ? As we say here in Holland " a donkey never hurts itself on the same stone "... For me, being a pixel pilot for more than a quarter of century, the most wonderful and immersive virtual flying experience did not happen in FSX or FS9, nore in any FS itterations before that. It happend in MSFlight ! I, for one, can't wait to see what DTG will surprise us with regarding a second take-off of MSFlight. Knowing what they did with the Kuju TS i'd say we might have something to look forward too. ( basically Boeings and Airbuses are nothing but trains with wings, aren't they... ) cheers, jan

It's cold and lonely out here... no one can hear you scream..

I notice the topic here beneath, "Elite Dangerous" , didn't accumulate much replies so i don't have much hope for this one neither but one never knows what lurks outthere in space, isn't it.. @ rene_1st: thanks for givin it a try. B) I have tremendously enjoyed Elite on my Atari1024 stfm back then and i'm certainly thinking about buying this new generation. Love the videos and the fact that the developer seems to have kept the original feel of the game. I think with some practise i can get right back into it again. But now there's 'Star Citizen' too.... While 60 Euros for Elite Dangerous Beta is already not for the weak of portemonnee i really don't know what to think of the amount of money one seems to have to spend on Star Citizen. Holy Moly! I see prices there for a single spacecraft alone from $30 up to $325 ! 'Combo' packages from $1150 up to $15000 ! That's total outrageous madness, is it not ??.... When it comes to that the best choice seems to be to buy Elite Dangerous but it's also true that, from what i've seen in the abundage of available videos, Star Citizen looks absolutely amazing. Any active star citizens around here by any chance ?..... If affirm could you please give me some advice what package to buy for starters ? I'd be most interested in exploring stuff, not so much shoot things up. In all the videos i have seen i didn't actually see much exploring going on..... Is that not part of the beta gameplay just yet ? Thanks for any info!

You do know how to whistle, don't you ?... R.I.P

FTXGlobal OpenLC/FSGenesis Alps. Cheers, Jan

OpenLC is a Global add-on and works only with Global selected That's what it says, Bert, so if you have installed OpenLC and have FTX Europe and make that the active region in FTX Central you're going to see anomalies in textures placement. Would've been better if Orbx would've left out the 'Global' part with their OpenLC product. FTX Europe with FTX Europe OpenLC sounds a lot more viable. Btw, it IS rather hot here, isn't it... :Whew: Groeten, Jan

I'd certainly prefer that too ! But what exactly are we looking at here ? Thanks!

Hoi Bert, Have you actually read mine ? :rolleyes: ( particularly the red parts ? )

That's right, Carlito, but the 'complication' starts once you have installed Global OpenLC Europe. And that's what it's all about, isn't it.. From the Global OLC Europe manual, page 13 : Scenario 3: If you intend to spend some time in an Orbx FTX Region without leaving If you intend to spend some time flying within the boundaries of an Orbx FTX Region, for example Europe (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, etc.), then you can select to use Region Exclusive Mode To use Region Exclusive Mode, simply select the FTX Region (in this example, Europe), then press Apply. Note that openLC Europe is not the FTX Europe region and selecting it will cause anomalies in the scenery. openLC is a Global addon and works only with Global selected. Scenario 1, Scenario 2 or Scenario 4 are applicable where openLC is concerned. _________________________________________ Aka forget about Scenario 3.... Atleast that's what i'm reading... cheers,

Yup, that's what i said, " with FTX Europe selected " ... ( not FTX Global )

Aha,Ok. So you did buy OpenLC Europe and tried it with FTX/England/Wales/Scotland/N-Ireland with FTX Europe selected in your FTX Central, right ?.... Actually i don't think so because then you would've seen misplaced textures and other anomalies all over the place.... It is not called Global OpenLC Europe for nothing, you see. It will work with FTX Global only, not with FTX Europe. And frustrated i am not, my young padawan.

And not only that...... As it looks now you can also kiss your precious FTX England/Wales/Scotland goobye.... No word about that on the FTX OLC page. Was wondering about it because i have FTX England/Wales/Scotland/N-Ireland too ( and like 'em very much). Program is called ' FTX:Global OpenLC Europe', right. When i open up my FTX Central i have two buttons there : FTX Global and FTX Europe. Can only select one...... Obviously FTX Global OLC Europe will work with FTX Global but will it work with FTX Europe, i.e. England/Scotland/Wales/N-Ireland ? ..... Seems like the answer is no...... So now what..... Was on the verge of buying because i love what i see in the screenies but now i'm not so sure anymore. I don't want to loose my precious FTX/UK..... Remarkable, isn't, Both FTX add-ons have Europe in their name but you can't use them together... And there's another thing : what about if UK with FTX Global OLC Europe looks as good ( or maybe even better.... ) as FTX/England/Wales/Scotland/N-Ireland all together ??.... Then i can just throw away the latter 4 editions... :o Cheers, Dilemma Peel

From the OpenLC manual compatibility section : ___________________________________________ UTX Europe (UTX) FTX Global openLC competes with UTX since we replace landclass data contained in UTX. You have a lot of configuration options available using the UTX configuration tool and we recommend you take time to explore what works best when FTXG and openLC are combined. ____________________________________________ Furthermore a link is available to the FTX Compatibility forum but i don't see anything about OpenLC yet... +1 cheers,

System specs: i7-4960X @ 3.60GHz (no OC) on Asus Rampage IV Extreme. GTX 780 Ti3GB. 16GB DDR3-1600. Freshly installed FSX (plus Acceleration) in DX10 mode (+Steve's shader fix) on its own 480GB Crucial M500 SSD. Only Bojote tweaks sofar. All sliders Max, no road traffic. UT2 50% traffic. FSGenesis. UTX Europe. FTX England. 30" monitor at 2500x1600 res. W7/64 bit Situation: PMDG 737-800 at Rwy 9L default Heathrow ready for take-off. Clear weather, 16.00 hours,summer. Question : taken into account the above mentioned system specifications and situation, what would you think the framerate should be at this particular moment ? : Thanks very much for your participation ! Cheers,

Great advice, thanks Jazz ! I have zero experience with overclocking, actually it scares the hell out of me and i'd rather leave it alone all together. I did install FSX and P3Dv2 now that my new system is running again but only with base files. Not that much of a problem to uninstall again if i decide to go thru with OC. Frankly i'm quite appalled with the performance of P3D compared to FSX.First time trying to use it seriously. I found a good beginners OC tutorial for Asus Rampage IV Extreme. The section about voltage is enough to make me walk away with my tail between my legs...Brrrr! :Whew: I'll wait and see what these shop guys have to say first. Thanks again for the advice! cheers, jan

I guess you're right, Bert. Nothing but BSOD's during first FSX tests with my former pc, Alienware ALX, some 5 years ago. Dell did sent me a new vid card and memory right away. Now this.... Anyway, it's running again,( my new rig, that is.. B) ). I asked them to send me a new power supply instead of hauling that heavy monster around. Got it today. Only thing is when i started it up i got a "Overclock failed!" warning. We're going to try to fix that in the coming days. I just hope it'll keep on running now... :unsure:

Hi, I bought a new monster PC. Here are its specs: Cooler Master Cosmos II Corsair RM Series 1000W voeding Intel Core i7-4960X 3.6 GHz + Asus 2011 Rampage IV Extreme Nvidia GTX 780 TI 3GB Waterkoeling Corsair Hydro H80i Asus Xonar DG Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB DDR3-1600 2 x SSD Crucial M500 480GB 2000 GB Sata III Harde schijf DVD Brander Blu-Ray combo: Asus 1Gbit netwerkkaart Windows 7 Pro 64Bit NL Ja tune en overclock mijn pc 3 jaar VIP Garantie As expected, performance is FSX Heaven and Beyond, even without tweaks and still in DX9. The fun lasted only for 4 days however... I had just installed FSX Global and was checking it out. Put the monster on Stand By to make something to eat in the kitchen. When i came back i thought i noticed a vague 'short-circuit' smell. When i hit the space bar to wake up the monster nothing happend... Pushed the power button nothing happend... Changed to another power socket, same thing, dead as Dodo... Nothing unusual to see when i opened the case, nothing unusual to smell (anymore) neither. It just died on me while i was grabbing a bite to eat ! What do you guys think could've happend ? To me it looks like the power supply went to the dogs but isn't the Corsair RM series one of the best outthere ? How could this happen ? I must have had 7 or 8 computers over a quarter of a century , lots of problems, sure, but never anything wrong with the power supply. The died monster is going to be picked up by the shop, repaired and delivered back again but i'd be very interested to know what you guys think of this. A monster PC like this that gives up the ghost only after running for 4 days.... Thanks very much for any thoughts ! Cheers, Jan

'Dell boy' came round this morning and started installing a new video card..... I said don't you wanna see what the problem is first ?..... Of course this new vid card didn't change anything. He gave me new Alienware installation and drivers CD's and asked me to reinstall Windows..... Yeah, right.... :bad: Oh, well, my car is in the garage and my phone doesn't work anymore either. I guess it's the time of the year... Cheers, Jan

If only it was this easy, Paula... It's something way more serious than making changes in the FSX.cfg. It does not only affect FSX but also P3D for one thing... A Dell tech is going to look into the problem now. Going to be very interesting to know what caused the problem. Thanks for your help anyway! B) Btw, two persons trying to help me out here... Paul and Paula.... You don't happen to sing together, do you ?.... :smile: cheers, jan

I forgat to mention another item i noticed after the Dell Helpdesk tech changed things: Windows Update doesn't work anymore. Been looking for answers for this too. Tried a few things that didn't work, yesterday i found something that particularly interest me. It could have something to do with the HD drivers, particularly Intel Rapid Storage Technologie. Someone had the same problem and after installing the latest drivers for Intel RST he finally got rid of the problem. The Dell tech *did* install new BIOS drivers... For this to work i need to configure my SATA drives to RAID mode but i can't find anything about this in the BIOS config menu. I called Dell again and Monday next a Dell tech will visit me and hopefully get to the bottom of this. I'll let you now the result, Paul, thanks very much for your help ! cheers, Jan

Thanks very much for your input, Paul, much appreciated ! I have to stress again that the problem i am facing is NOT a regular fps/performance problem, i.e. average low fps together with continuous light stuttering which indeed might well be fixed by fsx.cfg tweaks, system upgrade, running Nvidia Inspector, etc. In fact, on my system, FSX has been running very nicely indeed in DX9 mode (with Bojote's tweaks) and butter sweet in DX10 ( with Steve's shader's fix).Let me give you an example: Taxiing around my default airport Aldergrove, summer 17.00 hours, Rex weather, all traffic (UT2) at 30% ( no road traffic ), most sliders full right. Frame rate unlimited. FTXGlobal plus FTX Northern Ireland. Default Maule DX9 : average 30 fps. Default Maule DX10 : average 50 fps. (tops 80/90) Flying around beautiful FTX Northern Ireland in one of my favs, A2A B-17, at 2000 feet AGL: DX9 average 30 fps but can get down to 12/15 over extremely dense Belfast. With DX10 i get an average of 50 fps. Who wouldn't be happy with that ?... ( i tried both these scenarios with my own fsx.cfg and yours, makes no difference.. ) It's just these totally uncommon HUGE PAUSES in DX10 mode, which i have NEVER encountered before, that spoil all the fun. I have been flying FS for about 25 years so i know all about low fps/performance and stuttering but this is quite something else which will not be fixed with cfg tweaks or running Nvidia Inspector. ( i so wish it would !! ) The only thing i can think of that will bring my beloved FSX in DX10 mode back to its sweet self is to reinstall Windows7. But i just did that 2 months ago ! :Whew: Anyway, thanks much again for your suggestions, Paul, i will install Nvidia Inspector, thanks for all the links, but i don't have much hope it will solve this 'out of the DX10 FSX world' problem i am facing. Any more suggestions extremely welcome ! :Praying: :smile: Thanks again!! Cheers, Jan