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I don't know if this will work for everyone but after months of CTD's on exit of FSX using 737NGX I stumbled on a post about a throttle issue I was having with a different plane. It said to try reloading a current version FSUIPC$4. I have now been flying for weeks now with no CTD on exit. After months and months of CTD's as far as I can tell the problem is now fixed. I have gone back and rerun the tutorials and everything seems fine. I didn't remove or check to see which version of FSUPIC I did have and just ran the FSUIPC4 right after download. It may help no one but at least it is something thats easy to try and as far as I can tell doesn't hurt anything.

Thanks! it makes the popup window a perfect size.

To date I'm really enjoying the F33A except for one small problem.When I use the popup window for the GPS it will resize left and right but not vertically. On my 1920x1200 24inch the GPS popup is a bit small.Is this a setting that I can correct?

I haven't followed your saga with Vista but FWIW let me give you my 2 cents worth of experience. I've probably built 20 or so computers in the last few years and have only had windows installation issues twice. Both times I went on long wild goose chases blaming MS and the world, along with crappy addons, bad drivers, and well you get the picture. To make a long story short both issues were my own fault. One was fixed by raising memory voltage and the other by proper (as in what works) memory timings. Both of those computers flat out refused to install windows properly. When I finally got widows installed they both had problems with some games and/or flying FSX.Before you even think about loading windows, whatever flavor, do yourself a favor and be sure that memtest is running clean. I usually run it overnight for at least 10 hours. Had I done this with both of those computers I could have saved myself a lot of trouble and frustation. I always run memtest for at least 2 hours when I build a computer and both of those computers passed no problem. It was only after running overnight that I saw memory errors the following morining. I was under the mistaken assumption that memtest ran clean. After correcting the problem I reloaded windows on them and then double checked using prime and/or orthos that they were actually fault free. If your absolutely sure that memtest is running clean on your computer than my hat is off to you for perservering and good luck!

I may be the only one with this anomaly but it is a little distracting.From the outside view, at any airport, all my terminal buildings disappear together if I tilt my view up. If I look parallel to the ground they all reappear. They also reappear if I zoom out and get a bigger view.From the VC I can look out and tilt up or down but the buildings are always there. I have the effects slider to the right and have tried various setting changes but nothing so far has helped. It's a pretty minor annoyance but after looking through the old posts I haven't seen this happen to anyone else.I have FSX on its own drive and am running with VISTA64. I have a 8800GTX running at 1920x1200. I'm not sure when this showed up but am pretty sure I did not have this problem until a few months ago. I now have GEX, UTX, and Megascenery, along with several add on planes.If you tilt up enough the terminal buildings reappear and panning right to left does not seem to make a difference. I have tried complex airports with many buildings and simple ones with just a few but complexity doesn't seem to matter.Has anyone else had this problem?

Have you tried running with the DX10 preview on.I run a 8800GTX at 1920x1200 and had the same problem until I turned the preview on. It has now been several months with many flights and, for me, the problem seems solved.

I've given up. 6 months ago I redid my computer by putting FSX on its own drive and installing Vista64. I've been a UT user for many years but under my current setup I run under SP2 only. When UT released the teaser I thought great. Little did I know 6 months later I would still be flying with default traffic. If anyone has a replacement that uses real airline names please let me know.

I read about 1/2 the review on the DCS blackshark yesterday the 19th. When I came back to finish the review today it was gone.I don't see it in the commercial review index either.Did I miss something? I was really interested in buying this from F1.BTW I am very disappointed in the Abacus title flight deck 5. I bought that for 17$ without a review.This time for 50$ I'm reading some reviews.Thanks, your forums are great!Mike Ninov

Try running with DX10 preview on. I had the same problem as OP until I turned it on. You have to live with flashing taxiway lines etc. but for me it's worth it.M. Ninov

Hey nobody forces you to buy their product. If it is too expensive then don't buy.Trashing them for charging too much is based on your subjective terms. Other people may think the price is alright.In the end market forces will determine if it was priced too high.The whole state of Ca. is too expensive for me but I like their So. Cal. for FSX

It may very well be a video issue but have you run orthos and memtest to ensure that your memory/cpu are not the cause of your crashes?I've been fooled in the past thinking I had video issues only to find that I had memory issues and getting clean memtest runs resolved my FSX crashes.I would highly recommend making sure your memory runs clean before going down any other path.

The 180.43 worked fine except I lost fan control on my 8800GTX. It is there but greyed out. Reverted to the last WHQL and got my fan control using Ntune back.

Which drive did you get? Just wondering because I'm going to do the same. The 300G raptor is $240 and the Samsung is $100. I was hoping either would be an improvement over my current raid setup with FSX on the default C: drive.

I'll second that Sunbeam. It is an amazing cooler that is only $30 dollars shipped from NewEgg. I just put in on a 125W X2 and the idle went from 42C to 20C - not a misprint. Load temps are even better. And thats with fan on low.Watch your fingers. The fins are very sharp. I used a stubby needle nose to put the clip on. Also make sure that you have at least 155mm from the top of the cpu to the side of your case. And no finned memory. This cooler pretty much covers the first slot.

To NickN or the AVSIM moderator. The links in NickN's post don't work. Could you relink or post new jpg's. My next system is going to use DDR3 and I would really like to see the above results.Also, to NickN, corsair 4G DDR2-1066 dominator costs $78. The 4G DDR3-1600 is $400. In terms of, FSX flying, is there really a 320 dollar return on investemt? What if you unraided your MB and bought a $240 dollar raptor instead. Would that be money better spent?The budget is limited but the wants arn't. My goal isn't the most expensive or fastest but I'd like my FSX experience to be the best I can afford. It is always interesting reading what you guys say about cutting edge. Thanks for the info!