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I still envision Prepar3D to includ a realistic dazzling-effect, like in DCS World 2 - have a look here (froogle): Developers like PMDG could then include the adjustable sun blinds to reduce the effect... This would add such a great amount of realism for approaches performed in the early hours or the evening (e.g. RWY 28 at SFO) Not really related to the actual topic, but just my hopes for the future

There's a screenshot I took earlier... I noticed that fog (visibility) and even the flashes of the thunderstorm are shown, but no clouds! Anybody seeing the same thing?

Hi there, I just bought the 777-300ER Extension package (again :wink: ). One thing I love is of course is the Taxi-Camera, or GMCS, and thank you very much for making it not just a 2D popup, but implemented into the VC (I guess through some cooperation with LM!?) Anyway... is it a limitation to P3D, that in the bottom two pictures (central landing gear) no weather is being rendered? Or is it a method of yours to reduce the impact on performance? I noticed it on all my testflights so far and was just curious, not that it really bothers me... Sorry that I got no screenshot ready, but I guess you get my point! Cheers! Carl

I had the same "problem" when I first loaded up the 777 into Prepar3D in a dawn/dusk situation with the sun coming from the back. As I understand this "limitiation of the VC model", P3D only simulates the shadows of the model that is loaded right at this moment, which would be either the external, or the internal (VC), not both. (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) When you move "outside" of the VC (like through the windows if you understand what I mean) by using EZDOK or just the key-commands from P3D you will see what is model and only this will cast shadows! The only two ways I see this problem to be solved would either be PMDG adding the whole external model to the VC, which would probably be a hard hit on the framerates, or the guys behind Prepar3D find a workaround in the code of the simulator itself to combine both models for the shadows to display correctly! Hope this helped you..

In my case the reason is that I have an EZDOK camera spot looking down just onto the FMC and lower EICAS

Hey guys, Normally I can fly the 777 without any crashes, except for the following: I'm in the middle of a longer flight (today it was KIAD-KSFO), using the Auto Time Compression feature (enabled all the time) and start to plan my approach. In order to do that I pull up the NAV page on the lower EICAS and want to look at certain waypoints around my destination, so I go to the EFIS panel and turn this knob (normally on NAV) to PLAN. This is the moment when FSX crashes. It happened to me twice now, doing exactly the same. I don't know wether it really helps but I looked up for the crash report (Win 7): Sry it's in German... Protokollname: Application Quelle: Application Error Datum: 10.05.2014 20:21:34 Ereignis-ID: 1000 Aufgabenkategorie:(100) Ebene: Fehler Schlüsselwörter:Klassisch Benutzer: Nicht zutreffend Computer: CarlsPC Beschreibung: Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: fsx.exe, Version: 10.0.61472.0, Zeitstempel: 0x475e17d3 Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: PMDG_777X.DLL, Version: 1.0.0.0, Zeitstempel: 0x52256029 Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000005 Fehleroffset: 0x00247710 ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x1784 Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x01cf6c706106707a Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: E:\Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: E:\Flight Simulator X\GAUGES\PMDG_777X.DLL Berichtskennung: ea931303-d86f-11e3-8dc8-bc5ff43b4fb2 Ereignis-XML: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Application Error" /> <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID> <Level>2</Level> <Task>100</Task> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-05-10T18:21:34.000000000Z" /> <EventRecordID>174510</EventRecordID> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer> CarlsPC </Computer> <Security /> </System> <EventData> <Data>fsx.exe</Data> <Data>10.0.61472.0</Data> <Data>475e17d3</Data> <Data>PMDG_777X.DLL</Data> <Data>1.0.0.0</Data> <Data>52256029</Data> <Data>c0000005</Data> <Data>00247710</Data> <Data>1784</Data> <Data>01cf6c706106707a</Data> <Data>E:\Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe</Data> <Data>E:\Flight Simulator X\GAUGES\PMDG_777X.DLL</Data> <Data>ea931303-d86f-11e3-8dc8-bc5ff43b4fb2</Data> </EventData> </Event> (System is in my signature!) Does anyone know a solution to this or did the Dev-Team already have a look into this problem? It would be great if this could be fixed with a future update... Greetings! Carl

Thanks for the replies! About the graphics, I used an old trick to get most out of FSX for video recording: - record the scene with FSRecorder - replay it, but with 1/2 or 1/3 of the normal speed (by doing this you can easily turn up your settings to the maximum, regardless of your system, but fps > 10!) - capture your display with Fraps - speed it up 3x using any video editing program you like The ocean textures are part of REX.

Hey guys! I just uploaded a video on YouTube I did some weeks ago and I just wanted to share it because I just love this approach!

hope to see this done by PMDG somewhen in the future

Seems like someone was testing the brakes nice screenshots! Upload your pictures on a website like ImageShack or photobucket, copy the link and insert it in your post using the Image-Button

After flying this incredibly beautiful and perfectly developed bird a few days now, this is the least I can do to show my gratefulness to the best addon-company of the whole fsim-world! This is the config-file for Aerosoft's AES (Airport Enhancement Services) for the PMDG 777 LR (only!) The doors no. 1, 2 & 4 on each side are in use and everything is as perfectly aligned as I could, hope you like it! Just place the downloaded file inside the T7-folder located here: {Flight Simulator X}\SimObjects\Airplanes\PMDG 777-200LR. >> DOWNLOAD << (dropbox) ... the forum still seems to be a little buggy, sry for the double-post!

After flying this incredibly beautiful and perfectly developed bird a few days now, this is the least I can do to show my gratefulness to the best addon-company of the whole fsim-world! This is the config-file for Aerosoft's AES (Airport Enhancement Services) for the PMDG 777 LR (only!) The doors no. 1, 2 & 4 on each side are in use and everything is as perfectly aligned as I could, hope you like it! Just place the downloaded file inside the T7-folder located here: {Flight Simulator X}\SimObjects\Airplanes\PMDG 777-200LR. >> DOWNLOAD << (dropbox)

... the fingerprints on the displays ??

Well, c'mon guys, at least there is one on movie series we Germans can be proud of ... although T. Aigner is Austrian, ... hmm anyways!

thanks for speaking straight out of my mind Brent- I know what your point is and I wasn't going to start such a discussion. Btw, I do fly the NGX pretty much every day with always different conditions and surroundings, but the more I enjoy her mastering all these situation, the more I'm looking forward to trying all of them in the 777-my favorite-with the same or even better quality. It's just a normal thing in the modern human life that you always want something new. You can't doubt that ...

yeah I noticed this already, just like 'before' in the thread title, anyways, it doesn't change the fact! hurry up ... !

Guys- I can bearly stand this silence about the T7 anymore, it makes me feel like there's sth big coming up, pure excitement Looking forward!!

definitely 777+expansions and the queen as well, love both of them. I don't really care for the DC-6, I'm not into these old things looking forward...

There is a method for a VNAV flight: If you e.g. need to have 240kts/10'000ft in your descend and your FMC tells you "DRAG REQUIRED" it doesn't necessarily mean you have to deploy the SPEEDBRAKES, but you can also press SPEED INHIBIT next to your speed selection and accelerate a little (by 5-7kts). I know you actually want to slow down, but since the physics says "the drag increases with the square of the speed" it means that you will be down faster AND have more time to reduce the speed! (finally: same altitude but less speed - works the same way with the speedbrakes, it's just a different method) I saw a video on youtube about this shortly after the NGX was released, but can't find it anymore, sry

Seriously, do you really think PMDG would create the T7 in their usual quality and ruin it because they forgot to think about the sound!? Has the sound in the NGX being bad? No, so why worrying about the T7? I'm sure, you don't have to request this, since the sound is one of the major things after the graphics and system depth (my opinion).

I think it's a nice attemp, although as you can see at 1:22 ff e.g. the outside cameras are just static pictures; I like the coffee, though ;) But I think nobody can compete with PMDG. Sry, not even FSLabs with their A320, but that's off-topic...

I just got to know about the upcoming Ivy Bridge from INTEL. I will probably change to the i5-3570K (only a few bucks more than the 2500K) and invest a little bit more in a Z77-motherboard, so I can definitely support my front USB3.0 port with a internal header, which the P8Z68-V LX unfortunately doesn't have. Since I won't come home until the end of June, I will have a lot of time to check how this new generation is doing its job. What do you think about this?

ok thanks guys for all these advices!! seems like I have a problem to explain what I'm going to do with the harddrives ;) When I buy this system: 1. SSD (60GB) = only Windows 7 (no programs like office etc.) 2. HDD (1TB) = all programs (office, photoshop, etc.) & all games (FSX, CoD, etc.) & personal files ... months later (after I bought a 2nd SSD): 1. SSD (60GB) = only Windows 7 (still no programs) 2. SSD (124GB) = only FSX 3. HDD (1TB) = all programs & all the other games & personal files I hope you can understand what I mean :D

From what I read, my case seems to be too small for this cooler. On the other side I really want to stay with a/this watercooling device and want to know how far I can go with this on my 2500K. I don't even want to go too high so I will have this CPU for a long time ;). I think, either way is fine. It was kind of important on HDDs, since they had far lower transfer speeds. I decided to finally have two SDDs, so I can easily reset my OS or install a different one, without the need to reinstall FSX or other programs I might have had on the same SSD.

no, you probably didn't see my 1TB Seagater Barracuda. There I will have all my programs (at the beginning including FSX, until I get the 2nd SSD) and all my files.