Zorropisa

Thanks Dan! rgds Krister Renard

Hi, I have all PMDG FS9 aircraft installed. As I have now bought iFly 737 and am going to buy iFly 747-400 v2 I would like to uninstall my PMDG B737 for fs9 and PMDG B740-400 for fs9. Is there any risk that my PMDG MD-11 will stop working (because some shared file will be removed during the uninstall process)? I have a vague memory that something like this could happen. But maybe that was a long time ago? I have searched for this and was not able to find the answer there. rgds Krister Renard Uppsala, Sweden

Thanks RJ for the xml-files! I will test them asap. Happy flying guys! Krister R 2d rules!

To RJ, Yes please. Thanks! I would be very intested in looking at that code. bst rgds Krister R

I downloaded the Flusifix freeware program according to one of the suggestions under the link I got. It solved my problem, at least partly. The only drawback is that you have to use the numerical keyboard (it does not work with the hat switch on the yoke). I will try to program my hat switch as ordinary buttons. This should work. The function is not exactly what I wanted (to change view in steps 45 dgs for each hat switch press). But it will still be an improvement. Thanks guys! rgds Krister R

Hi again, Luis Miguel: The pan_in_cockpit_mode=1 did not do what I wanted it to do. This command makes the whole instrument panel pan, i.e. when looking 90 dgs to the right you still have the panel i front of you. This is rather confusing during a landing, as the plane is not moving in the same direction as the panel is pointing. You would rather soon loose your sense of direction during the busy landing phase. But thanks for trying to help out. RJ: I will try the tips you link to, they look promising. Thanks. Krister R

Yes you are right, I am talking about 2d view. I will follow your instructions. Thanks a lot! rgds Krister R

Hello guys Before I bought fs9 I used to fly Fly! and Fly2. And I still sometimes fly Falcon 4.0. In those sims you use the hat switch in a different way than in fs9. If you look forward and then click once to the right on the hat switch, the view is changed 45 degrees to the right (to right-forward view) and stays there even after you release the hat switch. Next click to the right moves the view another 45 dgs to the right etc (to 90 dgs right view). If you want to go back to forward view you must now press the hat switch to the left twice. The advantage of this is that when you e.g. are in a right turn on the final, you just press the hat switch once to the right, and you will stay in the right forward view and see the runway without having to keep the hat switch pressed all the time. I have tried to set this up in fs9, but not succeeded. Is there any way to do this in fs9? Or perhaps with the help of Active Camera or FSUIPC? Or maybe there is a prgram that could solve my problem. Any help is appreciated. I have searched some forums and used Google without finding anything that could help me. Thanks! rgds Krister R

Ok. Thanks John! rgds Krister R

I have the same problem. When I opened Avsim page today Norton said; "A high risk attack by aparkechon.dyndns.org was blocked". I use Firefox and a couple of weeks ago I told Firefox to warn me if a website tries to redirect me to other sites. Everytime when I go to Avsim (I still have the url avsim.com as bookmark) I now get a Firefox warning that I am redirected to avsim.net. Is that correct or is something fishy here? When I clicked on the link "Contact us" (bottom of left frame) a mail window was opened (as it should) but there was no mail address filled in (as it should). Is this just a bug or is avsim.net a malicous copy of avsim.com? Krister R

Hello,I have about 100 hours flight time in the PMDG MD-11 in FS9 (I very seldom fly FSX although I have it on my computer). I am very satisfied. Like you I prefer 2d cockpits with separate side views (not the vc). But this is not possible here. However the good news are that the vc is very fps friendly, so changing view from front view to side view is almost stutter free (I have a very powerful computer though). I have locked frame rates to 50 fps, and even at complex airports I get this frame rate.I enjoy flying the PMDG MD-11 immensely. It feels very realistic. I doubt that a simulation on a home PC could be more realistic than this.May I recommend that you buy the dvd "Swiss MD-11" from Just Planes (you follow a long-haul flight Zuerich-Sao Paolo-Buenos Aires and back). You will get more feeling when flying MD-11 after seeing this video. I think this video is one of the absolutely best cockpit videos on the market.Merry ChristmasKrister Renard

I too agree. Thanks guys at the Avsim staff, who by hard work and great skill were able to save most of the files and get the site going again! The flight sim community wouldn't have been the same without Avsim.com. When Avsim was down I fully came to understand how much Avsim means to us flight simmers.Zorropisa :( Sweden

Hi folks,and thanks for helping.I have now tried flying Ibiza-ESSA 5 times with different settings (different seasons, different planes) but still CTD. But not only because of "out of memory". The last time was during descent for ESSA and the cause was weather.dll. I have spent hours reading at different forums and have got some ideas.Today I tried Ibiza-ESSA once again (sixth time). And behold -- with success! I disabled some sceneries (Mega-Frankfurt and German Landmarks -- my route passed very close to Frankfurt and I have had some problem before with that scenery). But I do not think this was the culprit.I think the problem this time is/was related to AES (Aerosoft's very good litte addon to enhance the airport realism). There was something at Aerosoft's homepage about that the latest version (1.93) had some problems and there was an upgrade to download, which I did. That could have been the solution to my problem. But I do not think so, although I think the problem is related to AES and that is has with memory allocation to do (as mgh suggested -- thanks!).What I think solved my problem was that after starting fs9, I placed my plane at ESSA (point of arrival) and made a panoramic sweep around the airport from external view. Then I moved the plane to Ibiza and started the flight. With "place" I mean that I use the fs9 main meny "Select location". And then I moved the plane from there by loading the flight plan via the flight planner and saying yes to the question "Do you want flight planner (or whatever) to move your aircraft....". I have already used this solution a lot of times when I get problems with terrain.dll and g3d.dll and g2d.dll. For instance when I try to fly to Dussedorf (EDDL) I always get a CTD when approaching the airport, caused by terrain.dll or the other two dll:s mentioned above. I have never been able to find which file is causing this. But if I first move the plane to EDDL and then to my airport of departure (according to my description above), I can always land without problems at EDDL. The same with some other airports. But this was the first time that an "out of memory" problem was related to this (I have had very few of this type -- they have probably been related to my experimenting with virtual memory settings). I have never been able to find an explanation before why the method I use works, but problem with memory allocation seems reasonable (I also got a hint of this at Aerosoft's forum).One theory at Aerosof's forum was that if you fly from an airport with AES installed to an airport without AES installed there might be problems with just memory allocation. In my case it was the opposite, I flew from Ibiza, with AES installed to ESSA without AES (you can only install AES at certain airports -- and no Swedish airport has this option so far, as this demands a certain degree of cooperation from the manufacturer of an airport scenery and Swedflight, which has made the, in my opinion, best ESSA scenery, seems to have ceased operations -- their homepage was updated last time about a year ago -- which is a pity).So according to my experience, many problems of this type can be solved by first moving the plane to the airport of arrival and then to the departure airport. So far all problems with terrain.dll etc when en route of approaching an airport have been solved by this method. Not the ideal solution, but better than nothing.As I say, even en route this works. When I fly from Vadso in Northern Norway to Tromso I always get a terrain.dll related CTD about 15 nm from Alta (ENAT) -- about 2/3 of the way between Vadso and Tromso. If I first move my plane to Alta and pan around there and then move the plane to Vadso, there is no CTD when passing Alta.So maybe all these problems with terrain.dll etc, etc are related to memory allocation problems, caused by bad coding/Zorropisa

Hi again,Some more information. I tried flying Ibiza-ESSA a fourth time. My first flights were made with Maddog 2006. Now I flew PIC 737 to eliminate that there was a problem with the plane. I also used another Airac cycle to eliminate that course. This time I started early so I should land during daylight in Stockholm. About halfway the same thing happened again (only 73 percent RAM was used). Out of memory etc. But this time I saw that there was another error message after that (I translate from Swedish as I have a Swedish XP):"Instructions at 0x2077660c referring to memory at 0x07635a4c. Was not able to perform a memory task. Following error returned: The memory could not be written."It seems that there is no out of memory but something else wrong. Anyone else who has experienced this?/Zorropisa

Hello,Twice now, while making the same flight with Leonardo's Maddog 2006 from Ibiza to ESSA (Stockholm), fs9 hung and I got a message saying the Windows was out of memory and was going to end fs9. The first time was while landing at dusk at Arlanda. I tried the same flight the day after and with the same result, but this time only about halfway to ESSA (also at dusk). As I had upgraded to Nvidia drivers 169.21 I switched back to older drivers, to exclude that the problem was caused by the drivers.The third time I tried the same flight, I kept the memory status under constant surveillance through my Logitech keyboard (which has a small LCD-display, which you can set to show how much RAM is used and and how much CPU capacity is used). During most of the flight between 55 and 58 percent of the RAM was used. When turning towards the final about 60 percent RAM was used. And then -- "boink" (the windows warning sound) -- and fs9 frooze. After alt-tab to the desktop, there was this dreaded message waiting, telling me that Windows had run out of memory etc. I looked at the Cacheman info in the taskbar and this showed that more than 800 Mb RAM was free (i.e. giving the same info as the Logitech LCD).Really strange! Why does Windows believe that no RAM is left, when 800 Mb is free?I have two paging files (I have three hard disks -- and have the paging files on the non fs9 hd:s), one on C:, set to a small size, and another where Windows decides the size. I will test once more and let Cacheman take care of the paging file size.It was several years ago the last time I had this out of memory ctd./ZorropisaWindows XP Professional, AMD FX-57 CPU, Nvidia 8800 Ultra, 2 Gb Corsair RAM, 2 x 250 Gb and one 500 Gb hard disks. I use Auto Start to end unneeded services and programs.

Hello,I just want you to know, that your decision to make the MD-11 compatible with fs9 as well as with fsx, made me very happy. I have no plans to switch to fsx within the next one och two years (for obvious reasons), so this was very good news. Thanks!!!Krister RenardUppsala, Sweden

Thanks for reply!I understand from what you say that the sound card (whether integrated on the motherboard or a separate sound card) is no factor at all regarding usb sound. Which means that the usb sound is software accelerated. According to DirectX Diagnostic Tool the usb sound is accelerated and drivers are usbaudio.sys. But if so, the usb sound must steal power from the CPU?! Which means that usb sound is a bad solution for gamers.My present system is high end (AMD FX-57 CPU, Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB, 2 Gb Corsair RAM, XFX GForce 7950 GX2 graphics card, 3 250 Gb SATA2 harddisks) so that shouldn't be an issue. I have installed all the latest official drivers for MB and also the latest bios for my MB. I have tried to turn the usb sound acceleration down in steps but the problem remains.I have read a lot of bad stuff about the Realtek integrated sound circuits but that could not be the explanation for my sound problem if the Realtek circuits are not used for the usb sound (on my former computer which was less powerful I had no problems at all with the usb sound).I wonder if it would help if I bought an usb sound card? Or should I buy a powerful sound card and buy a non usb headset to attach to that card?best regardsKrister R

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Hello,I am contemplating buying a sound card. Right now I use the sound card integrated on my motherboard (A8N32 SLI Deluxe with Realtek integrated audio). Normally I use my Labtec USB headset and not speakers. My question is, does my usb headset use the integrated sound card or is the usb sound software accelerated via the usbaudio.sys? I.e. is the usb sound "produced" in the sound card and then just distributed through usb or is the sound card not involved at all in the usb sound? I have searched several forums but have not been able to find the answer to this question.The reason for wanting a separate sound card is that the sound stutters for a short while when I change cockpit view etc which is quite irritating. I also hope to improve fps when using a separate sound card.Thanks for advice about this and also about which sound card to buy.Best regardsKrister R

Hello,I noticed that several .dll files in my FS9 folder also are found in the System32 folder. The files in duplicate are (in my case anyhow):mfc70.dll, msvcp70.dll, msvcr70.dll, msxml4.dll, msxml4r.dll, oleacc.dll and riched20.dll.I don't know if these files are installed together with some planes och sceneries I bought. But, my question is, shouldn't it be enough with just one of them (in the System32 folder)? Can performance be affected in a negative way because of these duplicates? Or is this the way it is supposed to be. When I took them away I think I got a substantial increase in performance (but it was quite late so I was too tired for some real testing), but on the other hand one of the sceneries did not work after that./Krister RUppsala, Sweden