MichaelTurner

You might also like to consider 'IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover' available on Steam for about £10 for authentic WW2 aircraft and airfields

They also can be found on eBay eg: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3D-Photographic-Scenery-Guernsey-Channel-Isles-Vol-13-For-Microsofts-FSX-New-/112014451953?hash=item1a1494e4f1:g:AXIAAOSwp5JWYLRF

One of the more interesting features is that we implemented a "head shake" to replace the seat of the pants sensation you would get in certain instances, such as leaving your cowl flaps set too far open in high speed flight. If you do this in the real airplane, you get a very ominous, low frequency rumble and vibration through the airframe If you have a Buttkicker installed, you'll be able to feel ithe vibration as well - assuming that the low frequency rumble is replicated. A real seat of the pants sensation. http://www.thebuttkicker.com/

I recently replaced my faulty Hazro IPS 27" monitor with a Dell S271DG G-Sync which is a very competent piece of equipment. It is a TN screen and therefore has some disadvantages compared to an IPS screen (restricted viewing angles, less rich and true colours) and some advantages (much faster response times). So its suitability depends on what you will be using it for aside from FSX. For a more comprehensive review of what is available, I would suggest visiting the following sites: https://pcmonitors.info/ http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews.htm

Here's the ES Installer v 2.4. as referred to in the guide. It might be of some use: http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/WrAZY7lv/file.html Good luck!

You might find some useful information in this thread http://www.avsim.com/topic/460430-installation-of-earth-simulations-isle-of-man-boxed-edition/ and in this guide produced by Flightstore https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12271908/ESI%20Installer%20Help.pdf The crucial element is to disconnect from the Internet during installation I managed to reinstall all my ES scenery (some from disks, some from saved downloads) by following the guide and some trial and error. You could also try copying the disks to an HDD and running from that to solve the the problem with the disks.

I use IObit's Driver booster 3 which works very well . I've also seen 'Driver Talent' strongly recommended. There seem to be many similar free programs but be aware that with all of them after installaion you will receive frequent popups inviting you to purchase the 'pro' version. Also be careful where you download them from and what you tick (or leave pre ticked) when installing or you might end up with a lot of bloatware/adware/malware.

That shouldn't be a problem. During the first six months, DTG issued several updates to fix problems that had come to light (particularly the 'terrain.dll' crashes) but have now stated that they do not intend to issue any more updates for FSX SE and are concentrating on developing their own flight sim.

It could be due to a conflict with other scenery packages eg UTX, ORBX. Do you have any of these installed? Or it could be that the VFR scenery didn't install properly. I have experienced this with Horizon scenery when large areas of water appeared where there should have been none. The solution was simply to reinstall the scenery software

And try AVAST Free instead. It performs well in comparative tests and has never caused me any problems. In fact I've never found it necessary to disable it when installing or running any programs.

I've no wish to start another FSX v X Plane debate but if you are starting from scratch again I would suggest taking a serious look at X plane I'm a long time user of FS starting with FS2002 but was tempted to buy XPlane by the recent steam 50% reduction sale and am very impressed with the vanilla Xplane compared to the vanilla FSX. Add the free scenery mesh, free object libraries and free EZdok equivalent camera plugin and and it starts to look very good. Quality aircraft, airport, weather and scenery addons are still thin on the ground but starting to appear It is of course 64bit so forget about OOMs (VAS readings per ProcessExplorer have reached 13GB plus) and difficult installations. Everything drops into a simple folder structure - not into every nook and cranny in Windows FSX and the 500GBs of add ons that I have will remain my sytem of choice but I will be keeping a close eye on X Plane developments

The sequence for the version that I have (Vol 1-3 bundle pack 2010) is Select options; "Autogen Trees – Installed by default Hi-Res Textures – Installed by default ( uncheck this option if not required) UK2000 airport compatibility files – Not installed by default –( check this item if you own UK2000 airports only)" NB nothing about tree colour Select the installation location for Treescapes Treescapes unpacks the data and installs it to the chosen location Treescapes extracts the data to the location of the Photoscenery after showing the locations of the Photoscenery volumes and allowing these to be changed if necessary If you still have problems, a fresh installation of the Photoscenery and Treescapes might be the best option. Or you could ask Flightstore for assistance.

I think you have two options 1) Reinstall treescapes and at Stage 2 verify that the location that is shown for the Photoscenry is correct. If it isn't, browse to it using the box presented by the installer 2) Manually transfer the Treescape files to the current location of the Photoscenery Both these processes are described in the Manual Alternatively, you could reinstall the Photoscenery and then install Treescapes which might result in a cleaner file structure

The 'verify path' instruction is I presume asking you to verify the path to the Photographic scenery for the United Kingdom (Horizon Generation X or Justflight VFR Real). These volumes MUST be installed before Treescapes can be installed. Perhaps you could check that they have been properly installed by examining the Scenery library and scenery.cfg

I had the same problem after switching to FSX SE. Fortunately v 1.17 works perfectly with FSX SE so I've switched back to that for the time being.

Are you sure it needs activating online? I've just reinstalled FSX SE and all addons including the box version of Treescapes 1-3. All that was required was to enter the serial number included in the box. Other ES products that use their ESI installer are a little different. It is necessary disconnect from the internet to prevent the installer trying to call a now non existant website and it will then use the DVD's installation procedure instead. The Flightstore website has produced guidance on this. Incidentally I found that when installing from multiple DVDs (eg the superb Isle of Man scenery) it is much easier if the content of the DVDs is first copied to a single folder on an HDD (or preferably SSD) and installed from that. Perhaps you could try copying Treescapes to an HDD and see if that works

There's no reason why it shouldn't work as long as the disk isn't damaged but I've found that with some older add ons the Autorun can cause problems. It is sometimes necessary to by pass this by clicking on 'Open' on the disk icon then right click on 'Setup' and 'run as Administrator'. Alternatively if you have FSX SE you can buy a new copy via Steam and it will install automatically.

I had this problem recently and the solution was to delete 'Terrain.cfg' and then run Verify Cache which reinstalled a fresh and uncorrupted version of the Terrain.cfg file.

This thread will probably help http://forum.avsim.net/topic/458665-a-couple-of-tips-for-fsxse-users/page-3

I won't be switching just yet. The elimination of the terrain.dll crashes that I was getting with every flight is hugely encouraging but I am now worried the the next update might just be the first of many with ensuing confusion and non functioning addons. I think I will wait another six months or so until the situation settles down and then perhaps do a complete FSX SE only reinstall following the promised free Windows10 upgrade As it is I have the box version plus 400GB of addons working very nicely with the only problem being OOMs when pushing the system to its limit by flying from say Earth Simulations Guernsey via London VFR over Horizon photoscenery to ES Isle of Man.

Two questions occur to me:- How does this compare to sales of the boxed versions? I don't think MS have ever released sales figures though I've seen an unsubstantiated figure of 250k quoted elsewhere How many purchases already own a box version and how many are newcomers? I doubt that that question will ever be answered.

The JF Professional is reviewed in this month's PC Pilot where it receives the top 'Platinum' rating. "JF has taken an already excellent package and created a magnificent homage to the Tristar with virtually a whole new aircraft ...pushes the aircraft well into the high end bracket .... high level of systems fidelity that was missing from the original"

Thank you for the quick reply. I have done as suggested and started a flight at ES Gurnsey with just the 27" monitor switched on flying in a Majestic Dash8 with Photoscenery, ORBX, ASN, Texture Direct etc. I flew for 3 hours the length and breadth of GB and Ireland without a hitch and so decided to see what would happen if I switched on the second monitor and put the FMC pop up on that Again largely problem free for 90 minutes apart from some grey patches in the sky and the textures around the intrument panels not loading for a few minutes. I ended the flight at Earth Simulations Isle of Man in heavy cloud so it was not surprising when VAS reached 4.05 and FSX eventually froze. But there were no black screens at all. I was wondering if the problem has been with the monitor - HAZRO HZ27WC - which is a bit quirky not supporting upscaling, having only a DVI input and which many users (myself included) have found does not display the BIOS sequence when booting, only lighting up once Windows is launched. (The BIOS sequence appears on my second monitor) I'll continue to experiment with just one monitor and see how it goes

After many years of DX9 I though it was time to move up toDX10 with the help of the Fixer which I bought and installed yesterday It was everything I had expected - no more flashing markings or OOMS as I fly into ES Isle of Man - except that I have yet to complete a flight without the screen turning black as FSX continues in the background. A message then pops up saying that the 'Display Driver stopped responding and has restarted' The Event viewer reports a LiveKernelEvent. I have never experienced this with DX9. My PC was recently upgraded to an i7 5820 (ocd to 3.8), Geforce GTX780, 16GB DDR4. All software is on SSDs. I have 2 monitors - 27" for the main display and 24" for Navigraph, ASN , Process explorer etc. Flights have been with default scenery and also with (amongst other addons) VFR Photoscenery, UK2000 and ES Airports and Scenery, ORBX scenery, ASN, REX 4Texture, FSPA and the Majestic Dash8 The system does not seem to be overloaded - FPS 20 -30, VAS 2.6 to 3.6 depending on location, GPU and CPU temps in lower 50s, GPU load 25% to 35%. HT is on and AM set to release Core 0 The latest GPU drivers are installed AA is set to 4x and Bloom is off as I found this to be a major FPS killer. I usually run in Windowed mode. I have set NV inspector as per the manual and guide There is no obvious trigger - sometimes it occurs when I have a window open, other times when just the Pilot View or External view is displayed. The crashes have happened most frequently after an hour or so but sometimes after 15 minutes or two hours. I appreciate that there are many variables that might be contributiing to this problem but I would appreciate any assistance in pointing me in the direction of where a solution might be found

I would suggest installing SE and giving it a thorough test (ie long flights) in its vanilla state. Any issues with terrain.dll freezes will probably show up at this stage. If all goes well start instaling the addons in stages. If problems arise, uninstall it, revert to the boxed version and wait for the updates/fixes (as I am doing).