mike_eddm

Yep - best thing is to check if the vendor / manufacturer of your laptop provides newer ones or check its user support forum (if it has one) if there are recommended newer drivers. I myself had a lot of pain with out-dated graphiccard drivers on laptops, too, because a lot of manufacturers use customized BIOS-ROMs for their graphics chips so one couldn't install the generell drivers provided by NVIDIA. I then changed my laptop and only use those kind of models that allow to install and use the original drivers directly provided by NVIDIA.

And is that the driver version you had running before you rebuild your system? If not then I would assume that your problems come from the NVIDIA driver you have installed lately. Maybe you should try uninstalling this version - a freeware utility called DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) helps totally removing the video drivers and let's you start from a fresh point with just the basic Windows VGA drivers. From there I would suggest trying the original drivers from your laptops manufacturer (or if there are updated versions provided by the manufacturer try those) and then check with the manufacturer if its possible to upgrade to the newest general NVIDIA versions - be careful: NVIDIA has for most of its chips different versions for mobile systems, the so called M-Versions.

What do you mean by "rebuild the laptop"?

It depends a lot how your laptop system is designed. May you share what type/model it is? General I would advice to set it to maximum performance when you play games and let it run on power line and not battery. Second thing that comes to my mind is wether your laptop vendor supports the general graphics driver provided by NVIDIA itself or restricts to his own adaption?

Just guessing, but maybe you should check the power safe functions of your laptop, because maybe those prevent it from running 3D graphics and games on the NVIDIA card instead of the iGPU.

^^Welcome back to "Second Life" ^^ To throw just another speculation: I have read through the past pages of discussion and besides some really good speculations did anyone ever thought that someone could have bought the complete franchise (FS- and TrainSim...) to just dump it to get rid of a real or potential competitor and to close the whole entertainment thing asap? And as MS has no more business interest in this, LM runs a quite different business and won't be affected from that at all, this could be a win-win situation for all of them? (as I am no native English speaker I hope it's understandable what I tryed to express)

signed as well ... let's see if there are still some guys at microsoft that know the history of some of their business

Hello, I assigned the Axis using FSUIPC together with my HOTAS WARTHOG/Saitek Combat Rudders: -> made Axis Assignment Aircraft specific -> then marked for each Axis "Send to FS as normal Axis" -> assigned the appropriate FSX "Axis ..." command (SimSamurai FSUIPC Tutorial is always a good start: http://fsuipc.simflight.com/beta/SIMSAMURAI+FSUIPC+TUTORIAL.pdf) Axis calibration or tuning could then be done with the Q400 setup Programm (maybe you have to reload the plane first ... had this issue when I assigned the spoiler axis to the tiller). Only thing I am now fiddling is the reverser setting ... have to try some different settings to tune this. Just did a short test flight (tried tutorial until airborne) and most things look very impressive so far Now I am just looking for a solution to access the CL Axis ... because the Hotas WT has no axis left ... anyone any idea - maybe via keyboard macro keys for the different CL status but I could not find appropriate key bindings so far. Regards Michael

Hi Folks, at least - success :rolleyes: I think there were 2 main problems regarding those frustrating issues that pretend to load XP-X on my PC hardware at all: 1) You have to use the brand new nvidia driver version: 306.23 (that solved the problems with TH2Go drivers, too) 2) don't update the demo (don't know if this causes problems with full version, too), because only after I did a complete new install for the demo the second loading issue (Open GL error) was gone So: the first big step for me to test XP-X is done. It works with my PC-hardware (within my iMac it did always - even with the joystick - but the lack of joystick support from Apple and the poor performance on my i5 iMac with ATI graphics card wasn't much fun... So I'll give XP-X now a try - but, sorry for XP-X enthusiasts: it remains second choice until I get a 737 like the NGX from PMDG and some other stuff I like within FSX (like ORBX scenery, ...) and maybe if Prepar3D Version 2 won't make a big step ahead it could become my preferred flight simulator Regards Michael

Hi, no I won't take it wrong. For someone that can use XP-X without any trouble and maybe has used XP since years there may be no special issues or even bugs. But for me the most frustrating thing are the driver incompatibilities. I tried today the most new Nvidia driver (306.23-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql) an still have the OpenGL error with following crash report on my 7900GTX-SLI-System (didn't try the new driver on my common gaming PC with 470GTX/260-2GTX/TH2Go so far but don't expect that it will work, too). But as I stated in my post above there are "lots of other more or less issues/bugs" that pretend me from using XP-X. - On my DualCore iMac - my only PC where it loads at all - flying doesn't make much fun because the only device that really works is a Logitech Extreme Stick - not at all comparable to my TM HOTAS Warthog/Saitek Combar Rudder system at my Windows-PC - and graphics have to be reduced to a minimum so there is much less graphical fun than I have with FSX and ORBX-Scenery etc. - with my PC Hardware it doesn't load at all until today! - ATC and AI Aircraft (AC) is a joke compared to what I could even have offline in FSX (plus some add-ons) - remark: I am not flying online (Vatsim or IVAO) so far. - plausible world is nice but very boring after a while and nothing compared to FSX with some good Scenery add-ons (ORBX, Germany VFR, UTX/GEX, US-Cities (!)...) - stability of AC depends very much on graphics settings and pc-performance (my experience from iMac) - not even the FPS go down but AC stutters and swings around like hell (I still use the built in default AC) and e.g. I never got the default C172 trimmed correct to fly straight and level - maybe issue with Logitech joystick or I am not skilled enough for that "highend flight simulation" , I don't know. So, at all these "facts" are enough to pretend me from doing more than testing from time to time - buying XP-X will not happen until I can load up a demoversion succesfully with all my hardware stuff that works fine with all other (!) games/sims - and I have lots of different flight sims on my pc-system. Maybe you could understand from my point of view that I see "lots of other more or less issues/bugs" with XP-X. Regards Michael

Hi, that's an old problem: there were several threads within this forum and outcome was that it has (must have) something to do with special hardware/drivers, e.g. TH2Go or other multimonitor setting, but not only. And no real solution so far as I know - you may try shutting down TH2Go software before loading XP-10... Very sad that even with the newest RC those bug(s) is (are) not fixed - I reported (ticketed) that fact very early (first Public Betas of XP10) to LR and never got any solution besides that they might will "look into it" - so as I will not give up my multimonitor setting its one of the big issues that pretend me from considering to buy XP-10 and give it a try as a possible future replacement for FSX :( Besides, with the latest RC 10.10 I now get an OpenGL error that pretends loading XP-10 on my single-monitor test PC, too. :( My conclusion: LR has some way to go if they want to get all this (and lots of other more or less issues/bugs) fixed. So I'll stay with FSX, considering P3D and go on testing new demo-versions of XP10 from time to time but will never buy into a full product until those basic issues will get fixed. Regards Michael

Hello Crum, thx - but were did you find v4.83?? I just can get v4.823 compared du Pete's FSUIPC-Forum (http://forum.simflight.com/topic/66139-updated-modules/) ... and that's the version I used when having the sudden LINDA shut down issues... Mike

I recognized same issue - tested Linda 1.11/FSUIPC 4.82 for the first time together with latest PMDG NFX Version (SP1c) and got the same result - linda works at the beginning perfectly (message in FSX window and plane-systems responding to buttons) but after a while it seems to stop functioning at all - I will give FSUIPC 4.80 a try in the next days but thought that this version had some other issues together with the NGX?!

Have a look over here: http://www.flyingbul...Douglas-DC-6-B/I think it's a really great attempt to do that nice oldie - I like the idea (despite that I just bought the NGX few days ago... ;), too, to get the RedBull Business DC-6 on my desktop. I was there at Salzburg about 10 years ago and could watch the stuff doing the refurbishment work; I may remember that Didi Mateschitz (austrian owner of Red Bull and the Flying Bulls, http://en.wikipedia....rich_Mateschitz) bought its plane in Namibia, too. I never got a personal contact (he dislikes press people, but it could be a good idea for PMDG to contact him as well - maybe he would like provide some kind of of sponsoring your work... ?!Regards Mike (from EDDM)

Hi,anyone, any information at this front? Even the newest Beta (10.03 Beta7) does not load on my actual system - hangs at "Weltdarstellung initialisieren" (don't know how the part is called in english)! Have sent ticket - but no response since then... :(-> On my old pc-system (AMD Athlon dualcore, 4 GB Ram, Dual 7900GTX SLI) it loads w/o any issuesGreez and happy New YearMichael