paulthorn

I have used 3 23" Dell monitors at one time with the GTX 970 card. Biggest problem I had was that if I opened another window in FSX and now also with P3D it would put a real hurting on the frame rate. With FS2004, it had no problems with frame rate. I love the Dell S2340M Monitor because it has a glass front which I like. I also think they are the sharpest screen I've ever seen. They are cheap to buy now too. I don't use this setup anymore, still use two of the Dell's with a BenQ 32'' monitor in the middle. Just remember that if you want to spread the image across all three screens, I would do this in FS2004, and fly a Mooney...was like life size cockpit to me, you need to buy three of the same monitors. No mixing. I've always used Nvidia cards and they have a program that sets up the three for you, not sure if AMD does. I just bought myself the Trackir 5 setup for use with P3D, and love it. Wear any baseball cap with a TrackClip they give you and your ready to go. Mine set its self up and worked first time out of the box. No need for 3 monitors anymore, I look left with my head and view shows out left side of plane. Look up, see top of ceiling in plane. Flying a twin Cessna 340 tonight if I wanted to get a better look forward, I stood up out of my chair and could see down the slope of the nose at the ground below. It works for race simulation, shoot um up games, etc., cost about $149 on Amazon.com You might spend your money better with just on 32" monitor like I bought, using the Trackir 5. The GTX 970 card supports the BenQ 32" monitor with a display port outlet that you need to get the full 2560x1440 resolution out it. Paul

I've been using a MSI Nvidia GTX970 with P3D and love it. It comes with a great MSI Overclock program that I use everytime I fly P3D. Can max out most all scenery settings, using Active Sky, as long as I'm not around LA, NYC, etc. Seems to me that in P3D AI traffic puts a real hurting on frame rates, so I keep that turned way down. Paul

I've been using a BenQ PT3200 for a few months now and didn't know until I hooked it up that in order to get 2560x1440 resolution you have to have a display port on your video card. I was fortunate in that I have a GTX 970 card that had that port and works fine. BenQ seems to keep that info pretty low keyed when I was shopping for a large monitor. Never heard of pilot software, what is it? Paul

Hi, Bought the Carenado C-340II for P3D, installed it, works and flys great, but light dimmer sliders for panel lights don't move or respond to my mouse. Any ideas out there why? Paul

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I have just bought the Alabeo C404 Titan Cessna and downloaded it. Has anyone else gotten this plane for P3D? And if so, did you get the pdf files with it when you downloaded it. Seems like a nice flying plane, kinda like the C421 I used in FS2004. Paul

Answered my own question. Other areas unzip fine, so I must have a couple of bad mesh zips. Paul

Has anybody had trouble downloading the FreeMesh X mesh scenery. I download it, but when I go to unzip it with 7zip it won't unzip. Looks like it downloaded the full mesh. Paul

Same here. I have about 380 hrs in the FSD Navajo Panther in FSX and love it. Going to Carenado now to see whats up. Paul

Although so many people say that the CPU is most important in running FS9 or FSX, I have always noticed that the bigger and more powerful the video card, the better the frame rate. I speak from about 27 years experience of running MSFS.I now run FSX and FS9 on a Intel i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz using a nvidia GTX 660Ti card. Both run fine with just about everything maxed out, however when I went to a 3 monitor setup, FS9 only loses a few FPS with all three windows operating. However my big disappointment is that FSX with 3 windows kills the frame rate, so I'm assuming FSX is more dependant on CPU than FS9. Even cutting way back on the sliders did'nt really help. Only problem I run into with the 660Ti card is that with three monitors up and running in FS9, the GPU temperture will go into the red unless I turn all fans up to max, then it it runs about 104F just in the green zone. Paul

Hi ALCAN I use a GTX660TI video card but still had to go to FS9 Cfg. and make some changes to terrain data, etc. and have pretty much eliminated the blurries and lags. I think what you want to solve is not so much dependent on the video card but on your settings in FS9.cfg file. Put in a search about blurries, and you'll come up with some settings that might help you. Paul

Does anyone out there know of a gauge for FSX called Clear Vu. In FS9 when switched on you could look out of your plane you are flying, and not see any part of the airplane, wings, tail, etc. I've looked everywhere I can think of and can not come up with it. I've tried the one from FS9, but does'nt do anything in FSX. Paul '

I know that at high elevation airports, the mixture control must be leaner or else the engine-or engines will run too rich and quit. No matter where I put the mixture control, the engine in my C210 and C421 quits on the ground unless I keep the idle up quite abit. Even if I set them to auto mixture in the FS settings they will quit. Been a FS9 user since day one and have no idea how to fix this one. Any ideas out there? Paul

Hi, Anybody know if there is a way to use Google Earth in FS9 as a moving map? Thanks, Paul

Excellent sceneries, One of best I ever downloaded. Paul

Hi Rafal, I thought maybe it has something to do with Windows 7. I'm new to it, having used XP for many years. There have been a couple of bgl files in the past with Windows 7 where I have had to go into the properties section of the file and give permission for windows to use the file. Most likely I should not have installed FS9 in the Program Files (x86), but rather installed it outside of (x86). Must say though that other than a couple of glitches, that I worked out, it works great under (x86). Paul

Hi all,Update to my own problem: I fixed the loading problem, it was that I had three mesh bgl's located in the Scenery/World/Scenery folder. As soon as I removed them the Chicago area now loads with no problems. Paul

Hi,If I try to go to KORD, KCGX, etc., in the Chicago area FS9 crashes when loading the terrain files. I've tried turning off all add-on sceneries but to no avail. I keep a back up of FS9 on an external drive and have reloaded the scenery and texture files from a previous date when I had no problems. It still crashes. Any other areas in the USA or World that I can think of load fine, even with add on sceneries. Have tried to let FS9 rebuild its cfg file, but nothing seems to work. Does anybody know of any files that would affect this area, being as I have a complete copy of FS9 on external drive I can copy over to FS9 on hard drive? Maybe I've missed something. I've been with FS9 since it's begining and would say that I'm very knowlegable of it's files and folders and how it works, but this one's got me stumped. Thanks, Paul

Thanks Joe, just could'nt remember Paul

Hi All,It's been a long time since I set up a folder for Mesh scenery and just can't remember if you need to include a texture folder even though there is no textures to put in it. Thanks, Paul

Thanks for the tip Grameb. I think the problem is that I installed FS9 in the X86 location of Program files. Think I'll move FS9 out of there. Paul

Hi All, I just installed the VOZ scenery in my new computer with uses Windows 7 64 bit. It is the only add-on so far that does'nt work with FS9. My old Dell was Windows XP. It seemed to install it ok, but the VOZ switcher won't work. This scenery is not all that important to me, although I do like to use it from time to time. Anyone else tried it with Windows 7?? Paul

Bev textures are great, although not sure if they are still being sold. Paul

Thanks Loyd,I'm new to FSX, have been a long time user of FS9. FS9 files would expand and were very easy to put back into FS9. Paul

HI, Does anybody know on which Disk the FSX texture files are, and what they are called? I see alot of cabinet files. I need to recopy them back into FSX. Thanks, Paul