janar737

Hi Ident, I cannot tell you wether W11 will allow it or not, but I can tell you what I did in a comparable situation more then 10 years ago in my FS9 setup (on WXP) with a separate captain seat and FO seat. I used 2 USB switches, one for the yokes and one for the pedals. BUT be aware that you cannot use the standard USB switch that for example connects one printer to 2 PC's, you need one that connect two devices to 1 PC. Therefore you need a USB switch with 1x USB B female en 2x USB A female connectors, see for example : https://www.delock.com/produkt/87760/merkmale.html See you, Jan

1. Some more info on the system : -The system is 5 years old, roughly 10,000 hrs of use - A hardware overview and physical setup picture can be found on my FSX page : http://home.wxs.nl/~jarkest/fsx/fsx.html -Relevant hardware components Case Antec P183, PSU Antec CP-850 Mobo Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD5, RAM 8GB DDR3 Corsair XMS3 1600Mhz CPU i7 860 2.8GHz, Cooler Scythe Mugen Rev 2 B Graphical cards Sapphire HD5870 1GB and Sapphire HD5770 1GB 2 SSD"s en 1 HDD 2. Yesterday evening, after playing with the flight simulator for half an hour I stopped and quit FSX and left the PC alone. Five minutes later, while the PC still was 'free-wheeling' the graphical card stop working This and earlier experience let me think it is most probably not an heat or powersupply issue . . . See you, Jan

Thanks to all for your input. Before the problem started both CPU and GPU clocks were at their default setting, GPU clock and fanspeed controlled by the driver. The fan is not the problem, it is very silent at low speeds and becomes audible from ~2000rpm. In my opnion the case has adequate ventilation: While flightsimming the CPU stays below 60 degr Celsius and the motherboard temp does not rise above 42 degr Celsius. I did a lot of additional testing and in one of these tests the graphical card stopped working while all its temperature sensors showed values below 48 degr Celsius. For the time being I use a work around by UNDERclocking the graphical card. The GPU clock has been limited in the driver to 750MHz (default 850) and the GPU Memory clock to 1000 MHz (default 1200) and the fanspeed is fixed at 35%/2000rpm. With these settings the graphical card keeps working, while the temperature after 10-15 min stabalize around 67 degr Celsius See yo, Jan

Hi All, I have an AMD 5870HD graphical card that have served me well for several years, but recently it started to give problems, especially while using FSX. Five to ten minutes after starting Flight Simulator X the screen goes black and the graphical card fan goes to 100%. I checked the graphical cards temps with GPU-Z and it came out that the graphical card stops working as soon as the temperature rises above 62 ! ! ! degree Celsius. Cleaning of the card with canned air did not help. Any suggestions how this card can be saved ? See you, Jan http://home.wxs.nl/~jarkest/fsx/fsx.html

Hi Dough, You are welcome. You should be aware that you cannot use the vc on monitors connected to different graphical cards. As shown in the pictures on my website, I use one graphical card for the (single/streched) outside view and one to show the 2d panel. Also your PC/processor should be powerful enough to produce all those pixels at an acceptable framerate If I use the iFly 737NG with Austria pro + Innsbruck it goes down to 10-15 fps while on take-off. See you, Jan

Hi Doug Worked for me. For more info on my setup see http://home.wxs.nl/~jarkest/fsx/fsx.html See you, Jan

Hallo All To view some pictures of my FSX setup have a look at : http://home.wxs.nl/~jarkest/fsx/fsx.html See you, Jan

This is really great ! ! !Many thanks to the 9Dragon Team for making this scenery available.Can you imagine how impressive this looks on my WideView setup with five 19'' (CRT) monitors on a row for outside views . . .Searching the net I stumbled over another approach for RWY 13, the so-called 'CC NDB13' approach, see NDB 13 link under Charts on http://www.simtours.net/kaitak.php for more in formation. Because you probably hardly can see the runway at the start of the 95 degr turn, it maybe even more challenging then the IGS13 approach. So, if you have mastered the IGS13 approach, you can give the NDB13 a try :-)See you, Jan

Hallo all,Bought FSX a few days ago and installed it on my notebook and activated it without any problem.Main notebook specs : Acer Aspire 9500 with Intel Pentium M 760, 1 GB RAM and Ati Mobilty Radeon X700 PCIe with 256 MB VRAMI have connected to this notebook a second monitor (15", 1024x768) using an USB2VGA convertor (Sitecom CN-105).I have set the display/scenery sliders such that if I start FSX with the Cessna 172 in 2D and full screen on the primary monitor without undocking any panel, that I reach most of the time the set upperlimt of 20 fps. So far, so good. BUT, if I undock the 2D main instrument panel and move it to my second monitor, the framerate drops to 2-3 fps.I did the same test with the B737-800 with the same result. It does not make any difference wich 2d panel I undock and move to the second monitor and the framerate drop looks like directly related to the part of the second monitor screen that is occupiedAs I have also FS9 installed on this notebook I could do the same test with the previous version.In that case, only using the primary monitor I get the set upperlimit of 40 fps AND it keeps at 40 if I undock and move 2d panel(s) to the second monitor.!!!Can anybody tell if the above result with FSX means that you need also high-end 3d videocards for undocked 2d panels on a second monitor or did I miss to adapt a certain setting. If you indeed need a high-end videocard for 2d panels, please give a short explanation.Thanks in advance for any reply.See you, Jan Arkesteijn

Hallo all,Bought FSX a few days ago and installed it on my notebook and activated it without any problem.Main notebook specs : Acer Aspire 9500 with Intel Pentium M 760, 1 GB RAM and Ati Mobilty Radeon X700 PCIe with 256 MB VRAMI have connected to this notebook a second monitor (15", 1024x768) using an USB2VGA convertor (Sitecom CN-105).I have set the display/scenery sliders such that if I start FSX with the Cessna 172 in 2D and full screen on the primary monitor without undocking any panel, that I reach most of the time the set upperlimt of 20 fps. So far, so good. BUT, if I undock the 2D panel and move it to my second monitor, the framerate drops to 2-3 fps.I did the same test with the B737-800 with the same result. It does not make any difference wich 2d panel I undock and move to the second monitor and the framerate drop looks like directly related to the part of the second monitor screen that is occupied As I have also FS9 installed on this notebook I could do the same test with the previous version.In that case, only using the primary monitor I get the set upperlimit of 40 fps AND it keeps at 40 if I undock and move 2d panel(s) to the second monitor.!!! Can anybody tell if the above result with FSX means that you need also high-end 3d videocards for undocked 2d panels on a second monitor or did I miss to adapt a certain setting. If you indeed need a high-end videocard for 2d panels, please give a short explanation. Thanks in advance for any reply. See you, Jan Arkesteijn

Hi Gerard,Sounds all very impressive, but still another questionDid or can the service of FS-GS also include networking aspects, especilally in relation to the smooth running of Wideview server and clients ???See you, Jan

Hi AllCan anybody point me to a good tutorial flight with the Wilco fleet A400M?? I searched the net but could not find anything sofarSee you, Jan

Did some further investigation in my struggle with the low framerates after undocking and enlarging panels to extra monitors and found something I want to share and hopefully get some answers to the questions that came up.After starting FS I load the PMDG744 and start loading and undocking a number of panels. As I have a very small main FS window of only about 320x80 pixels, also the undocked panels are at the beginning rather small. In this situation with a main FS window and 7 undocked very small panels I still have a framerate of 19.9 (limit set to 20).Can I conlude from this the the load from the gauges itself is not the problem?The 'trouble' starts when I go enlarging these panels. It looks like there is a direct relation between the total screen area these panels use and the framerate drop. If I enlarge one panel to a full screen area of 1280x1024 the fps goes to about 16, After filling up 3 monitors (almost independent of the panels I use for that) it is down to 10-12 fps and, as mentioned earlier in this thread, if I fill-up all my 5 panel monitors I get only 6 fpsI tried the same this morning with the PMDG 737NG, F1 ATR72 and PSS A320 and none of these show this drop of framerate while enlarging panels to fill my monitors, they all keep the framerate very near (0.1 or 0.2) to the set limit of 20 fpsCan anybody explain why the panel dimension have such a large influence on the load with the PMDG744, while it does not matter much with most other planes? And of course I would be much happier if anybody had a solution, not only for me but for all other multiple monitor users having the same kind of problem.That brings also up my last questeion, are there multiple monitor users that NOT encounter this kind of problem with the PMDG744. If so please come in and tell us how you managed.See you, JanSystem spec A8N-SLI, AMD3500+, 1 GB RAM, 2PCI-Express video cards XFX Nvidia 6800GT and Matros Parhelia APVeFor more details see http://home.wxs.nl/~jarkest/home.html

Still strugglig with the low framerates after undocking some panels to other monitors.In that respect can anybody give advice on the following:I do not use/need the exterior views with its hundreds of moving parts.Therefore the question is it possible to load the PMDG 744 (panels, sound, model.cfg etc) without the files ralated to the exterior views and if so will it improve the framerates ?Thanks in advance for any replySee you, Jan

Hi JanI have the boxed version of the Queen and I can confirm that it has two manuals, a general one and one about the FMCIn addition I advise you to download the 'Smith tutorial' from http://smithplanet.com/fs2004/pmdg/index.htm . This will help you to get started from cold and dark and being in the air very quickly.See you, Jan