matta757

Hi guys, I am having an issue with scenery at some of my addon airports and I cannot seem to figure out just what is going on. Here is a picture of the problem: This was taken during landing at Seattle (KSEA). As you can see, the area in front of the aircraft for some reason is letting textures other than the FlyTampa textures show through. I am assuming these are default textures. This area of show through contiues once I taxi off the runway and to the gate. It only seems to happen when flying TO Seattle, not when flying FROM Seattle. Additionally, this evening, I taxied way on the South end of the airport to my gate at the S terminal. This time, at some point during my taxi, the texture problem ceased and everything looked normal. I have tried removing the user addon to add the 3rd runway, this didn't seem to help. I have turned off my Manhattan scenery because I know it can conflict, but that didn't help either. This also happened at Manchester Intl, which is made by UK2000. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this problem? Thanks for any advice. Matt

Question for you with this setup then... BRILLIANT idea, since MSFS does have progressive/taxi instructions. But the problem I ran into when trying your idea is that MSFS ATC wouldn't respond because everytime I hit a button (1,2,3, etc), RC interpreted that as an input. Is there a way to get RC to ignore your inputs when you're trying to speak to MSFS? I tried closing the RC window, but then when I pressed a button it would make the "beep beep" phone call noise and reopen the RC window, and there would be no response from MSFS.Any help would be appreciated!Thanks,MattP.S.- I think RC is terrific and I completely understand why this feature isn't available!

nope... just aismooth

Hi,I am having this same error. I have read through this topic and the other two you linked to and have not been able to solve it. I am NOT running WideFS, just the normal FSUIPC. Everyone else who seems to have this problem is on a Wide machine. I am not sure what to do and I am getting increasingly frustrated. I know it's just a game, but when it finally stops erroring and ATC comes back and they scold me for "being off course" when I'm actually not and it's because this error prevents the game from seeing me hit the waypoint, it makes me want to put my fist through the screen!I am currently flying... this error has appeared twice during this flight... after repeatedly clicking OK on the error message I have been lucky that RC has come back. I will create a log file next time I fly and hope it happens again. Otherwise is there anything I can do in the meantime?Thank you, Matt

Hi Mark,How would I go about checking the log? Where do I find it?I called Jetline. They had me try a program called Passmark to check the performance. I didn't do it with them on the phone, but I just did it now and EVERYTHING passed with flying colors, including the video card and CPU. So I am hoping it is a heat issue. I know there is a switch for a cooling fan. I just check it, it was on Medium so I bumped it up for High and will try some flights and see what happens.Thank you everyone for your input, I hope to not have to come back for more answers!Matt

Here are my system specs:Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition SP3 (32-Bit) Motherboard: Nvidia nForce 750i FTW SLI, PCEe X16 2.0, 1333MHz FSB Processor: 2.83GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, 1333MHz FSB, 12MB CacheCPU Cooling: Jetline Premium CPU Air Cooler System Memory: 4GB (2 x 2GB) Corsair XMS Low-Latency DDR2, 800MHz Graphics Processor: 896MB Nvidia GeForce GTX 260, GDDR3, PCIe System Power: 950 Watt Jetline Approved Multi-GPU Power Supply Sound Card: 7.1 High Definition Integrated Audio Primary Hard Drive: 300GB VelociRaptor 10,000RPM SATA 16MB CacheSecondary Hard Drive: 500GB WD Black Edition 7200RPM SATA 32MB CacheMedia Drives: 20x DVD Dual-Layer Burner w/ LightScribe (Primary)I clean the PC on a regular basis, including after the second time this happened. I bought the comp in December 2008, so I will be quite frustrated if the video card is giving out, but I might give a call to the company just to be safe.Matt

Hi all,So I have got a somewhat puzzling issue on my hands. The last few times I have flown on FS, it has crashed on me and I am not sure why. At first I thought maybe it was a one time glitch, but it has now happened 4 times. Here's my description of what happens:Playing FS as normal when all of a sudden the screen goes to a single color (like a mix of all the colors on the screen) and the audio makes a funny, repetitive noise. There is NOTHING I can do to resolve the glitch except to restart the computer. No keyboard commands work, it's like the computer has completely frozen.Now, the first time it happened I had just taken off from KSFO. Now I thought maybe it was an issue with San Francisco, but the second time it happened, I was on approach into KMSP, so I assumed it was an issue not just with SFO.The third and fourth times it happened, I was at KSFO again, taxiing to the runway and both times it happened as I was changing the view using my hat switch. I cannot remember if I was cycling views when it happened the first time.Extra background info would be that I am running Radar Contact v4 and AISmooth.Does anyone have any idea what is going on and how to resolve it? Obviously I am thinking a complete reinstall might help, but clearly I don't want to go through all that.Best regards,Matt

Thanks guys. That all makes perfect sense but I was still just a little confused why it works for some planes but not for others, so that's why I asked. Basically you are saying there is no cure (besides flying closer to the normal rate) for this issue?Regards,Matt

Hey all,I was just wondering if maybe there is a remedy to this situation. When I do flights, especially long flights, I tend to use an increased rate of simulation. Anywhere from 2x-8x is usually what I like to do. Using 2x always works without any adverse effects. Using 4x usually works, but every once and a while the aircraft will randomly and erratically spin out of control until I return to normal sim, where I have to re-establish my routing. When I use 8x, it works for some aircraft but not for others. Examples; my PSS 777's work just fine at 8x (thankfully since transpacific flights take forever) but my PSS 757's do not. When I do 8x on the 757, it starts out fine, but then the altitude starts to fluctuate. It's mild at first; one hundred feet up and a hundred feet down from set cruise altitude. But it gets worse and soon the fluctuations can be a thousand feet above and below, at which point I clearly need to reduce the simulation rate.Does anyone know what is causing these fluctuations? I have adjusted some weather options using FSUIPC so that winds don't gust aloft and the rate of change isn't dramatic, thinking that maybe the winds were causing the issue, but it persists. Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated!Regards,Matt

Bob,THANK YOU soooo much! I have finally figured out how to access the .WAV files and couldn't have done it without yours or Dai's help. Thank you so much to the both of you. I am sorry to have started such a commotion over legal issues with this thread, I didn't realize that by modifying aircraft that I have purchased legally for my own personal use (and no redistribution) could be such a major issue.Regards,Matt

I never intended to redistribute them, I just wanted to change the audio that is built into the GPWS of one of my aircraft. I didn't realize that it's not legal to even just edit them for personal use, but again I had no intention of redistributing.Thanks to everyone else for all the help as well!

thanks!

Hi,I was just wondering if anyone knows of a way to export all customized keyboard/yoke assignments? My yoke for some reason was cleared of all assignments randomly so I had to re-do all of them, was just hoping there is a way to save them in case it happens again!Thanks,Matt

So then how are gauges developed for panels?

Does anyone know of a program that can open and edit gauge (.gau) files? I am trying to edit some gauges but cannot open them. Any help is greatly appreciated!Thanks,Matt