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Try this - it works in my FSX system SimObjects Misc Jets MILsound Military Props Rotocraft Russian Jets A300 GE RD etc Example: A310-300 GE soundai - this is a regulart sound folder for an Airbus A310 I downloaded from our site. AI - all my AI aircraft are in this folder separated by developer. DJC Airbus A319-100 CFM DJC soundai - this folder (and many like it) is in each aircraft-type's directory. It contains the alias pointing to the AI sounds in the Misc\Traffic_Sounds\Jets\A320 CFM RD\soundai sound folder This statement is in the aisound folder - aisound.cfg in the spelcific aircraft's folder [FLTSIM] alias=..AI Sounds Pack\SimObjects\Misc\Traffic_Sounds\Jets\A320 CFM RD\soundai NOTE: You do not need an assosciated alias in the specific aircraft's folder. The "sound=" takes care of that. fb

Which BK is everyone using - direct wire or wireless. I was going to purchase one or the other but have not made up my mind. What do you guys think? Frank

Now that we have Global from ORBX, I think the next step is to slap on some fantastic mesh on top. I was wondering what the community thinks about putting FTX Global with FSGenesis NEXTMap (9.6 m mesh) terrain mesh. Right now NEXTMap does not cover the whole world but I'm quite sure Justin is going to see about what is left. So, what do you think? Is this the way to go? Frank

Shaun, You are not imagnining the lack of download links. It looks like the Download page is missing the links. I have been using these links for a while now so I know they were there. I'll send them an e-mail to see if there is a problem. Frank

UAL 5403, I'm glad you posted this issue with the mouse pointer. My system has the very same problem. The displayed cursor goes crazy - blinking many times per second. The mouse actions still work but it makes you think something is wrong with the PMDG panel. Frank

Responding as a member of that "silent majority." Message to PMDG - PLEASE, PLEASE don't change a thing. One of the things that makes PMDG the outstanding developer it is - is they only release products WHEN THEY ARE READY - and not before. Personally, I don't give a damn if PMDG ever shows pics of upcoming releases. Just give me that "super-duper" real thing (sorry, that's coming from a really old man). When you purchase a PMDG product, it is nearly PERFECT. Is that clear - morons. Frank

Hey, better late than never. :-) Yup, I got that one too. Thus far, everything is working as it should. I've been able to add a couple of aircraft without incedent so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for your input. Frank

Yes, it was SP1 for the SDK. Thanks everyone for your responses. I'm so glad to be back..... Frank

Oh Joy. Problem solved. I searched the forums to find posts associated with the "black screen." After reading more than 30 posts I found an entry about using the installation disk "repair" functions. While I was doubtful this would fix the problem I did it anyway (desparation). After all, this was a brand new installation. Wishful thoughts. At any rate, the repaire fixed the black screen problem. Now all I have to do is reload all my software. Yikes! Frank

It never fails - FSX is such a lovely piece of software - NOT. I've been having some kind of trouble getting FSX to run. The program immediately crashed after attempting to start the app. Nothing I did fixed the problem - isolating user files, removing executables, and the like. So, once again (for the 1000th time), I accessed the PMDG instructions for removing and re-installing FSX and proceeded to do it all over again. After installing all the various pieces of FSX I now had a fresh version loaded on my system (base plus Accel plus SDK plus sp1). No problem, right? Wrong. The main user access screens display properly except the aircraft presentation box in the "Free Flight" menu. Nothing there but black. I checked several aircraft (default) but none of the aircraft displayed. I tried "flying" a number of the default aircraft buy even in the windows mode, no aircraft - just black screens. I tried replacing the default fsx.cfg file with one that I had been using on a previous installed version - still no aircraft. The only other thing that has changed on my system is that I installed all the Windows 7 updates. Prevous to this time, I was using an original (disk) installation with no changes. I thought perhaps these updates would fix the display problem. I was apparently wrong. I also updated my graphics card device driver in case that was the problem - Nope. Can someone please help. Thanks. Frank Current System: ASUS P6X58D Premium mobo; Intel i7-980 Extreme CPU (liq cooled); Corsair DDR3 12GB RAM; AMD Eyefinity 6 card, AMD 7900 cards - 2; ASUS HD monitors (6); 19" touch screen monitor; Windows7 Pro 64-bit; Ultra X4 1000wat PSU; and numerous USB aircraft joysticks and switches. FSX Accel +; fsuipc (payware); Vipre Internet Security; no overclock.

I thought of something else. Since my system is telling me that the setup.exe file has an error, would it be possible to download the original package to see if my files are corrupted. I don't know how to do this since my product download has expired. Would this help? Frank

I ran ccleaner and registry repair and it did not fix the problem. Note: All of my computer files - especially FSX - are backed up on other disk drives. Is there some other solution? Will uninstalling FSX and re-installing it get rid of the setup.exe error and allow me to re-install the B738? Frank

I don't know what happened to my system but FSX suddenly stopped working. Nothing I tried seemed to help. I instituted a restore to a previous system installation. It didn't fix the problem. The restore point was back to a point where I had uninstalled the PMDG B738-9 - except there was still an entry in the Windows 7 "Programs and Features" list. I tried to uninstall the program from there but I received and error that indicated that setup.exe had failed. I also tried to re-install the aircraft and a message displayed indicating that I had a previous installation of the program so the install program terminated. At present, I have no PMDG folders in my SimObjects/Airplane or FSX main folders, I can't uninstall the aircraft and I can't re-install it. I thought perhaps I could manually edit my Windows registry to fix the problem. I removed one folder index and that didn't fix the problem. There were no other registry entries associated with PMDG. Can someone please help? I'd like to get back to flying. Frank Bass Current System: ASUS P6X58D Premium mobo; Intel i7-980 Extreme CPU (liq cooled); Corsair DDR3 12GB RAM; AMD Eyefinity 6 card, AMD 7900 cards - 2; ASUS HD monitors (6); 19" touch screen monitor; Windows7 Pro 64-bit; Ultra X4 1000wat PSU; and numerous USB aircraft joysticks and switches. FSX Accel +; fsuipc (payware); Vipre Internet Security; no overclock.

I'll go away now - back under my flightsim rock. :-)

Tom, The Web site condition I described in my previous post happened again this morning. The whole site, with regard to the forums, was impossible to read because of all the revealed code. No other site I link to has this problem so I don't think this issue originates from my end. It appears the problem has been solved or it went away by itself because the forums are clear right now. If you'd like I'll stop reporting this issue but I thought you would like to know. Frank