sluggy

Hi everyone Got a strange one. Whilst flying a MD11F last night the plane could no longer maintain airspeed after a couple of hours cruise. Decided to restart FS9 and now the displays are always black without any X's across them, so it's not a validation problem I think. Reinstalled the MD11 anyways (yes, it's a legal copy) but still nothing. The PMDG 747's displays are also playing up. All other addons are fine. Using Win 10 x64, FS9.1, latest MD11 installer. Any ideas? Cheers, Chris Dalgarno Bit more info; the PMDG 744 is fine after all, but the VC on the MD11 is also missing. Tried another full reinstall, but no good. Cheers, Chris Dalgarno Another update; I deleted the FS9.cfg file and let it rebuild itself and now the gauges are working. Bizarre. Hopefully this might help someone else some day. Cheers, Chris

No problems here, but as you can see above some people have. Only you can decide whether Win 10 is for you or not. If you're happy with what you've got there's no real reason to change. I was happy with Win 7 but after 6 or so years I was ready for a change plus I wanted DX12. As I am pretty PC savvy (not an expert mind, but more betterer than the average bear ) I was aware off the potential pitfalls and confident enough that I could work through any problems. Plus I have nightly backups onto a home server in case the apocalypse visits my PC, so I dived straight in. Cheers, SLuggy

Sweet, what was the issue in the end? Glad it's working now. Cheers, SLuggy

These are my NI settings : Antialiasing AA - behaviour flags : none AA - setting : 8xS (combined: 1x2 SS + 4x MS) Texture Filtering Anisotropic filtering setting : 16x Texture Filtering - Negative LOD bias : Clamp Texture filtering - Quality : High Quality I removed all AA using Inspector and FS9 descended into jaggy hell, put it back and FS9 got all pretty again, so my NI is working. Using 1.9.7.3 with the folder on my desktop. Cheers, SLuggy ps - downloading driver 355.60 now.

I did have to reset my NI settings, but no problems with AA here. When I have some time this arvo (around 2 or so hours) if you're around, I'll try to work through things with you. Starting to feel like I'm one of the lucky ones here. Cheers, SLuggy

If it helps, FS9 is on it's own SSD in my case, and I too have UAC turned all the way down. The only drama I had was for some reason FS9 re-enabled it's joystick (making everything uncontrollable since I use FSUIPC for my controllers), a quick change and all was back to normal. What happens if you rename the FS9.cfg file and let FS9 build a new one? I think Win 10 is even more protective of it's own directories than Win 7, have you tried to install in, say, C;\FS9? Actually, if the UAC change you try is not allowed, it would indicate to me that your user account may not have sufficent priviliges to install new programs. Maybe check your account settings? Cheers, SLuggy

Sorry, here's my hardware and settings : i7-3770K @4.3 GTX980 Strix Running dual monitors windowed @ 1080p FS9.cfg (relevant bit) [DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980.0] Mode=1920x1080x32 PanelAsTexture=0 TextureAGP=0 TriLinear=1 MipBias=6 driver 353.62 using NickN's Inspector settings. FS9 is running well at 60 frames locked with dips in heavy clouds (REX)

And so does ASE, RC4.3, FSCommander, FSBuild, FSNav, GEPro, PMDG MD11 and most everything else I have.

Windows Home Server 2011 has had no dramas backing up a 4x SSD, 1 HDD Win10 Pro x64 each night. I love my server. :wub: Cheers, SLuggy

The only drama I had with a maxed out FS9 was for some reason FS9's internal joystick selection re-enabled itself (I use FSUIPC for my peripherals). Disabled it and all good. So no dramas with GEPro, ASE, RC4.3, REX, PMDG MD-11, TOPCAT, FSBuild, FSCommander and FSNav. Haven't tried everything yet, but early indications seem to all be positive. No black helicopters have landed on the front lawn so I figure I'm OK. Cheers, SLuggy

Not for EVERY aircraft, but if you google TOPCAT there will be happiness. Cheers, SLuggy

Well, arrived safe and well in chilly Anchorage, and can confirm that ON MY SYSTEM FS9 does seem to be running in SLI mode. Whereas before I had frames locked at 30, this flight just completed I locked frames to 60 FPS and had little stuttering. To tell you the truth, FS9 looked fantastic, with very little blurries as well, mostly when flying at 8x time compression (which is fair enough, I guess). Pretty pleased with myself. I'm not going to shout from the rooftops that SLI works in FS9 now, but it does seem to be working on my system. A few others would need to test it before I'd be game to make that conclusion! Cheers, SLuggy

Hi everybody I recently updated my Nvidia graphics driver to 344.48 and Inspector to 1.9.7.3, and after trying DSR (which didn't really do much for me sadly) I went back to Inspector to reset my FS9 settings and found the SLI section (never noticed it before but maybe it was always there?). Since I've got 2 660ti's in my rig, I thought I'd play around with this 'new' section (under the FS9 profile). I set the first line to 'AA_MODE_SELECTOR_SLIAA_ENABLED' Second line 'SLI_GPU_COUNT_TWO' Fourth line 'SLI_PREDEFINED_GPU_COUNT_TWO' Sixth line 'SLI_PREDEFINED_MODE_FORCE_AFR2' I then started FS9 (windowed) and looking at the Inspector graph display both my GPUs had woken up and were operating at their usual speed (a little above 1GHz) and both had around 40% load on them, and I distinctly remember only one ever showing any life whilst running FS9 previously. I'm just about to do a test flight (PMDG MD11F, KMEM (Blueprint) - PANC (Aerosoft) over UT Canada and UT USA with ASE doing the weather, hopefully should find some nice thick clouds on the way to test this config, would be interested if anyone else using SLI tries these settings and sees if SLI does REALLY work for good old FS9. Maybe the new drivers have taken pity on our ancient FS9? Just for info, Win 7 x64 Prof. Cheers, SLuggy

I too grab some bargains at Steam sales, but remember before some of these big titles go on sale, they were vastly more expensive (take a look at new release games on Steam, many $90+ games there) and sold a hell of a lot more than an airport addon depicting an airport in, say, Trinidad ever will. I have felt that prices have climbed a bit this year, but it seems the evidence doesn't show it. I must be getting tighter with my money! With FS9 we've had a long run with a stable platform that ran very well on the PCs available for years now. First time for me that I can remember not having to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade hardware chasing that 5 or 6 extra FPS, maybe add some AA, etc etc. Money saved on hardware then got spent on addon software in enough volume that addon companies kept (and in many cases still keep) churming out more and more addons. Maybe the dwindling number of users of FS9 will make more addons unprofitable to make, and think of the money we'll save. But I bet most of us will finally move to FSX or P3D, and the cycle will start all over again... Cheers, SLuggy

Same here, ASE FS9. Cheers, SLuggy update - appears to be happy after a ASE restart. At least no error messages this time.

Santa used to have his sleigh pulled by 'six white boomers, snow white boomers' (kangaroos) whist on his delivery run in Australia, but recent events in the UK may require a rethink of motive power. Cheers, SLuggy

If you have an old PC lying around, Windows Home Server 2011 ($60 last time I looked) will automatically do a full backup of your PCs every night. I wouldn't be without it. Cheers, SLuggy

NZAA (Auckland) would be nice. Or somewhere in Moscow. Cheers, SLuggy

I had to redownload the installer after a couple of years to reinstall GEPro, perhaps F1 updated the installer? Cheers, SLuggy

All sorted, helped being from the same manufacturer (Gigabyte) and chipset (Z77), and having a home server (WHS2011). Seems a reinstall of DX did the trick. Really wasn't looking forward to spending a couple of weeks reinstalling a 10 yo FS9 install. :lol: Cheers, Chris D

Hi everybody I've replaced the motherboard in my PC, all other components the same. Now, FS9 is freezing with the 'FS9 has stopped working' message, but no more info is forthcoming. My FS9 is pretty pimped out, with all the usual heavy metal addons (PMDG, LDS, etc) and a couple hundred payware sceneries, plus a bunch of payware GA addons that I really don't want to reinstall if I can manage it. But I'm guessing I'm going to have to reinstall the lot, aren't I? I had to ring MS to re-activate Win7, and I've got a horrible feeling some of the payware isn't happy now, either. :Nail Biting: Anyone got any advice before 'The Great Rebuild of 2014' commences? Cheers, Chris D

Hi everybody Since I managed to snare an unused G1 Sniper 3 MB for A$80 (!), I thought I'd give SLI a go, and have got another 660ti on it's way to me. I run 2 monitors for FS9 (hey, I like it, ok? ), do I hook up a monitor to each card, or leave both on the card already fitted? I use the second monitor for FMCs, etc. Thanks in advance, Chris

IMHO, the PMDG MD11 is the pinnacle for FS9 heavy metal. She's a good 'un! Cheers, SLuggy

I still remember my trusty C64's opening screen telling me it had 38911 bytes of RAM! Followed by 'Load *,8' to get the mighty 1541 disk drive loading. My first flightsim was Solo Flight, on a cassette. Pretty good for it's time, actually. Cheers, SLuggy

FS II on the Commodore 64. I remember it had one of the best instruction books ever. Cheers, SLuggy