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    I have had multiple failures with each of the following SSDs. Buyer beware!! OCZ Vertex2 and Intel 520

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  1. "NOTAM: This is a P3D v4.2 fix ONLY." For those who remain at 4.1 and do not install this update, what does that mean for future updates and purchasing the -8?
  2. Simply stay with whatever flight sim you are happy with it is nothing but a personal choice. How many of you are still with sublogic and Apple II? I was totally happy to stay with Win7x64bit and FSXx32bit ... but ... putting lipstick on a 32bit flight sim ... well you know the rest ... My personal choice after my last system build (2013), was to limit expenditures on FSX and wait until a viable and supported 64bit flight sim surfaced. I have been watching P3D v1,2,3 over the years and simply said no. A 64bit flight sim is a game changer. I wait at least on revision cycle before I purchase most software. I purchased and P3D 4.1 after a little soak time and recently rebuilt my flight sim platform around Win10x64 and P3D v4.1. You CAN have both concurrently. Either on the same hard drive or ... In my case I installed Win10 in a dual boot config. I simply boot into Win7 and use FSX or I choose Win10 and use P3Dv4.1 I have P3Dv4.1 with Orbx global, North America and SAK, PANC Pro for P3Dv4, Active Sky v4, utLive, chase plane and of course PMDG products. I only install products that are v4 ready. I have never has a crash, never a chime for low VAS (no monitoring required), never an OOM. I fly and do not tweak and do not worry about ending a flight with a CTD. No Nvidia Inspector, no 3rd party tweakers and on and on. The cockpit sun/shadows are very impressive and immersive, the visuals are excellent. Things run very smooth despite my 25-30 fps with all of the above software piled on (my hardware is getting old but with modest settings and the gtx780 runs absolutely brilliant for my own personal needs). Orbx scenery is totally impressive, the clouds and weather with Active Sky are phenomenal (again my own personal opinion) not to mention the working Wx combination with PMDG. It appears to me that many many developers are going the P3Dv4 route. PMDG already mentioned that some features on the upcoming -8 will be P3Dv4 only. Since I fly mostly PMDG and PMDG is developing for P3Dv4 then not much choice and the writing is on the wall it seems. Since I installed P3Dv4.1, I have never gone back to fly in FSX once, in spite of the effort I put into the dual boot thing! After a little time and expense, I now have a flight sim platform with some headroom for the foreseeable short term and goodies like rain and EFB on the upcoming -8. <RANT ON> I must admit, there is one thing that needs to be mentioned. It is so brain dead and so ridiculous, it deserves an immediately firing of the people responsible ... Ok I'm over reacting (maybe ) ... Why would LM not have fixed the more than silly looking AI aircraft large and disproportionate nav and strobe lighting after so many releases. There is a 3rd party fix out there but it should be a no-brainer to correct in the core product without resorting to hacking in a fix! Also, we need a scenery config tool for v4 such as the one described in the PMDG introduction docs. One will surface sooner rather than later hopefully! 64bit means more can be loaded and therefore my load times are are longer than I like. <RANT OFF> Conclusion? Overall, it was worth the time and small expense (relatively). IMHO, it is a much better looking, rock solid stable platform. It runs extremely smooth, the GPU enhancements such as cockpit shadows, clouds, water, fog, hue, night lighting are super great. It has never crashed on me to date and I now have a sim platform that can absorb the goodies to come from PMDG and other devs. If you change over, you will not be disappointed! Good times for us old dogs that cut our teeth on subLogic and Apple II. (Go ahead you young folks, look it up on youTube and see how far we have come!!) Cheers, Scott
  3. Yes, but it costs a lot. See towards the end of this avsim report. http://forum.avsim.net/page/index.html/_/reviews/review-gtn-650-750-avionics-r2357
  4. Great aircraft. Been waiting for a while for this and it very well done. Handling is superb, GTN support, visually very pleasing. All RealAir products are top notch and I own both v2 Dukes and the legacy. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/smabmvtlop6of51/AAC1W52xyWCiJtmQJufaQDm8a?dl=0
  5. GTN750 no contest. (I have most of the RPX guages and the 530). See pics at link below. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/smabmvtlop6of51/AAC1W52xyWCiJtmQJufaQDm8a?dl=0
  6. 777-200F, sp1b, FTX-Southern Alaska, Anchorage X airport, Ultimate Traffic 2 at 100% traffic levels yielding 14 aircraft at and around terminal, cloudy & rainy with ASN, GSX running with main and aft cargo loaders doing their thing, LOD=4.5, textures=1024, healthy slider levels ..... This is a significant FSX load yet my remaining VAS is approx 500-600 Megs. This is a test scenario and reducing traffic down to reasonable levels my remaing VAS hovers around 800 megs. I have found that the reccomendations in the 777 introduction manual to use fs-sceditor (FS Scenery Configuration Editor) and remove unnecessary (unused for your planned flight) scenery is extremely worthwhile. Not only does it improve your remaining VAS levels but it speeds up loading/unloading FSX.
  7. Thanks PMDG. I can confirm that SDK SP1b works now. Thank you! I am sure that we are closer to having FS2Crew!!
  8. Very good debugging approach and I am sure it will be interesting to see what actually caused your problems. Making changes one at a time allows you to isolate the problem(s). I also use NickN guide and have been doing so for years. I have never had a problem. My testing shows that the 777F SP1 uses approx. 0.850 gig of VAS. I can easily induce OOMs by cranking up LOD and/or traffic or by using higher rez textures (I use 1024). But the times of "just loading everything to the max" are gone and one has to make some priority calls if we want to use these cutting edge and remarkable simulations put out by PMDG and others. When I fly low altitude in my other aircraft, I use "heavier" FSX settings. When I am flying the 777X, I am so busy concentrating on flying that "lighter" FSX settings go virtually unnoticed. Cheers, Scott
  9. Sorry for the multiple posts as Avsim was a bit slow when I tried to post the PDF. Perhaps someone can delete the two first posts since they are missing the PDF attachment. Thanks, Scott.
  10. For those who might be interested, I developed (and currently polishing) a little FSX application to do a couple of things I have always wanted to be able to do namely easy cockpit switch control and flight data logging with takeoff and landing charting. Please see attached PDF for more details if interested. Since I fly pretty much exclusively PMDG aircraft, the cockpit control part of this app work only with PMDG aircraft since I utilize their SDK (only NGX available at this point.) The flight data recording works with any FSX compliant aircraft. I was thinking about making it available for others if there is enough interest but that would required a couple of folks volunteering to do a bit "beta" testing first. If anyone is interested please PM me. I am hoping that PMDG does not mind me posting this here. Thanks!
  11. For those who might be interested, I developed (and currently polishing) a little FSX application to do a couple of things I have always wanted to be able to do namely easy cockpit switch control and flight data logging with takeoff and landing charting. Please see attached PDF for more details if interested. Since I fly pretty much exclusively PMDG aircraft, the cockpit control part of this app work only with PMDG aircraft since I utilize their SDK (only NGX available at this point.) The flight data recording works with any FSX compliant aircraft. I was thinking about making it available for others if there is enough interest but that would required a couple of folks volunteering to do a bit "beta" testing first. If anyone is interested please PM me. I am hoping that PMDG does not mind me posting this here. Thanks!
  12. For those who might be interested, I developed (and currently polishing) a little FSX application to do a couple of things I have always wanted to be able to do namely easy cockpit switch control and flight data logging with takeoff and landing charting. Please see attached PDF for more details if interested. Since I fly pretty much exclusively PMDG aircraft, the cockpit control part of this app work only with PMDG aircraft since I utilize their SDK (only NGX available at this point.) The flight data recording works with any FSX compliant aircraft. I was thinking about making it available for others if there is enough interest but that would required a couple of folks volunteering to do a bit "beta" testing first. If anyone is interested please PM me. I am hoping that PMDG does not mind me posting this here. Thanks!
  13. Can anyone else (I believe you Simon but 100M is hard to discern the way things vary) confirm the 100 VAS saving when disabling RAAS in the dll.xml (changing Disabled to True - 3rd line see below). If you disable this addon and you load a 777 livery that has the RAAS option enabled, what happens? <Launch.Addon> <Name>RAASPRO</Name> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Path>.\RAASPRO\RAASPRO.dll</Path> <DllStartName>module_init</DllStartName> <DllStopName>module_deinit</DllStopName> </Launch.Addon>
  14. F2?? [buttons.777X] 0=RY,21,C65966,0 ; Throttle 1 Thrust Reverser - Repeat throttle decr 1=UY,21,C65967,0 ; Throttle 1 Thrust Reverser - Cut 2=RY,22,C65971,0 ; Throttle 2 Thrust Reverser - Repeat throttle decr 3=UY,22,C65972,0 ;Throttle 2 Thrust Reverser - Cut
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