BobG

Hey thanks Guys remember I aint as computer savvy as all that?rather than get into stuff that might be beyond me?,I will just re download on E the FSX Active Sky & UTs, Thanks anyway BobG

Thanks Doug,the E drive is not an external one,I added it during a recent upgrade with Canada Computers,,(processor & Vid card) was just afraid to move anything because its working so well,so will put all Flight Sim stuff on E,will do it as you suggested remove from C & reinstall on E Thanks BobG

I am a bit of a computer moron ,so please excuse a dumb question I have 2 drives,the primary C 111GBs only 5.22 GPs free,,I now have a second drive E 1.81 TBs almost empty my question does FSX,Active Sky,Ultimate Terrain,(US,Canada & Europe)have to be on the primary drive C to run properly? I would have liked to put all the Flight sim stuff on the new drive,leaving all the other household emails stuff on C sorry if this has been answered a thousand times,but I would like to do it right,every thing runs great now but am having issues with other non sim stuff probably because C is over full, Thanks your advice much appreciated BobG

Hey,spot on,love those NDB,Vor approaches the worse the weather the better,the sim really helped me in the real thing IFR,& general navigation,remember the ATP flight test in lessons 20002,? auto pilot was disabled, took me ages to pass that,got my ppl in the 70,s,used to commute real life,daily from Peterborough On Canada to Toronto ,Pearson,lol no transponder,steam gages, in a 172, VFR, no less ,had to call in over Oshawa, & no delay meant no delay, specially on final ,,lol, ok ok Ikno ,I kno "the good ol days" The Sim ,IFR practice saved my bacon many times when I got myself into weather ,situations that were at best "Special VFR in the real thing lol BobG

All OK went to patch properties,changed to Win 7 & full admin,UTX USA ,Canada & Europe, Accel all upgraded to where they should be,lol,how'd I miss that BOBG

I recently purchased cd's UTX Canada & UTX USA for fsx,,UTX Canada upgraded fine,but when I try to use the patch button for USA from 1.20b to 4.1, I get a message to reboot as windows is preventing the upgrade?have disabled securities & windows fire wall,& logged as administrator rebooted but Patch prep button wont activate,,my system is win 7 64 bit & apart from the upgrades both setup tools are working fine ,can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks BobG

Just took a look at mine,sorry should have said failures & reset failures button in Aircraft tab , all options,even though you dont have any failures set, BobG

I seem to get that same prob in the default B737, periodically,go to failures in realism settings,& set default on on all of the failure options,restores auto throttle settings for me,will start holding the set speed again,long as auto speed hold is lit BobG

Thanks Guys, got it,just had to put panel 3 assignment back in & assign in buttons/keys lol Thanks again

Had a terrible week new processor,,had to reload fsx, Acceleration,,Active sky,Fsuipc,reset CH yoke & Peddles & Throt Quad,ran into the 1722\1603 error,had to do the fsx register reset MSKB928080 thing,( thanks to Avsim, MS told me fsx is obsolete no support?)finally got every thing back as it was,except I can no longer call up the stock Garmin gps on the on board B737,I had it mapped to Shift3 on fsuipc,can get it by mouse of course,shift3 brings up nothing,although the shift#s will bring up all the other guages,so I have no key stroke to assign a button to,I did do the gauge insert thing in ASky which should have moved the panels,I understand,havent tried removing them?cant bring them up anyway?got to RTFM Iknow, Guess I should be happy to have most every thing back,but hate having use mouse for it? Thanks for any help Regards BobG

Thanks, will do long overdue, updates,

Guess I was hoping for something like the runway tree clearing app,? BobG

Thanks Rick,will look into it,but was looking for an easy fix,was afraid of "a lot of work"lol,just showing my age BobG

Not a major prob but just wondered?due to the age of FSX,many runways have been renamed, re their magnetic heading,for example the sim directed me to runway 9L, Ft Lauderdale Florida,which is now 10L,my home airport Waterloo Regional Ontario Canada,runway 7 is now runway 8,I use Simplates Ultra & Active Sky,fortunately not many frequencies have changed, & its easy to figure which runway plate, to use,is there a fix for this? BobG

Thanks 738 FLY, Thanks for the info,so the sim does apply the settings,dont think it can make allowances for wet or icy snow covered runways tho??,but good to know I am not wasting my time setting it,will count on reversers anyway & glad I don't have to pay for the brake linings using max AB? Thanks again BobG

In the sim, flying the in house 737,I always set the auto brake to max when landing on short runways,& use RTO setting on takeoff, does it actually increase braking in the sim? FSX BobG

thanks, thought about that,but dont think I"m comp savvy enough to do that ???,afraid of bios? & dont want to cheap out, if I really need that processor?, did get surround view running ?,but cockpit was a stretched out mess,& even the nvidia control screen kept locking up,even finished up with only the cocpit view window open in flight? gonna have get someone who knows what the heck their doing,? BobG

Hi Richard Can Comp suggested upgrading the processor to a 4790 ? & new mb 297? arround $500+? ,which I guess is my next step ? before I do that I was thinking to try surround view, which I liked the looks of over the virtual views on the other two monitors,supposed to be easier on fps than virtual views,not sure if my system can do it but gonna try setting it up though the Nvidia control panel?? Have FSUIPC4 & widefs ,not sure about how yet? I also have Active Sky to(not next yet) & Ultimate Terrain US & Canada only payware aircraft I have is the A380 ,using the MS 0nboard b737 my usual chariot I can get flying if I drop the weather, (not good for an IFR man) but still poor fps & ctds which I never had with the 660 card & 1 Samsung 22" lol your rite, I would rather be flying Thanks again & what do you think of the propsed upgrade? Bob G

Hi Richard Thanks for the reply,thats just what I got installed today the GTX 780, & 3 -4gb mem cards ,was just trying it out,bit dissapointed,tho I think the card is fantastic,still playing with it?,turned all the sliders down,makes it flyable ,but still only running 10-16 fps & jerky with some freezing,does this mean the processor isnt good enough for the 780 card ? Can Comp were very helpfull, even installed it for me for free & suggested I try the card before changing the processor Did the system performance thing,procesor still lowest score 5.5,will take print out, to them tomorrow,see what they think? will be taking you up on help & advice,am a bit of a computor moron myself, & appreciate the offer,I am in Kitchener & will play with it some more yet,just using virtual side views,will let you know how it goes ? Thanks again for your reply BobG

Thanks everyone, for all your advice,gonna make a trip to Canada Computer,get up graded,but will take my IT friend,flying the 172 was never this complicated lol

I finally added 2 LG 21.5 monitors,to my system IntelDX58SO win 7 64 bit,Nvidia Gforce GTX 660, 22" Samsung Monitor,Processor IntelR Corei7 CPU 920 @2.67 GHz ,Hardware is CH Yoke.Throttle Quad & peddles FSX is on its own partitioned harddrive,I also use Active Sky,FSUIPC4 All worked well before adding the two monitors,now its jerky frames set to 25 getting 6.5 - 10 worse in busy airports,almost unflyable? My IT friend (bit of a computer moron myself) is suggesting processor,motherboard memory upgrade,which I am quite prepared to do ? about $500,or go back to single monitor flying? Do find it a bit of a pain setting up views in new view virtual windows each time, I fly in 2D,usually in house 737,occasionaly A380 love to fly NDB,VOR ILS approaches which I might use one of the monitors for? ,havnt looked yet,but are there any apps that would do that for me,remember my settings when using FSX Any advice gratefully received BobG, Ontario Canada ppl Chicken Hawk 172

Ever since placing FSX on seperate hard drive & reloading Ultimate Terrain,updated to V1.5,when loading I get scenery file 004 missing ok to continue?,it then loads ok but takes forever to start chosen flight (more than 4 minutes),never had either issue before putting UT back on,tried removing reinstalling with & without SP2, now have 4 missing files? Every thing great when it does eventually load Have Win 7 -64 bit Thanks for any help recieved BobG

Hey Guys Was just looking for ideas,wondered what others did?trying reduce keyboard use,ie reverse thrust?have detent now,have to be pretty gentle with 747 on approach short runway? used to yoke throt/pitch mix all, any airplane ?just got quad no suggestions in box?? BobG

Hi Just added Thottle Quad to my CH yoke & peddals,just wondered about set up?asked same in hardware? like to fly in house 747/737/airbus 320/172 for approach plates NDB ,VOR ILS,whats best setup ,aircraft specific?(have FSUIPC) how to setup? for MSX Thanks BobG

Have just added the CH Throttle quad to my CH Peddals & yoke,was trying to decide on a set up,I often fly the in house 747/737/ A320 & 172 like to fly approaches from app plates,have MSX,should I make it aircraft specific?,have FSUIPC4,do I need download the Ch Controller? Any ideas would be appreciated Thanks BobG