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Ramón: Thank you so much. I followed your directions to the letter and FSX loaded all the db material. Now loading the Accel. Again, thank you so much! Spot on! mGN

Hi: I upgraded to WIN 7 and while setting up partitions, accidentally deleted my entire FSX installation that was in its own partition. So, there should be nothing left from the old install. I set up a new partition for the drive dedicated to FSX and installed the program. When I try to run FSX Gold it stops with a screen that says "Flight Simulator requires at least one each of the following to run: an airport, a VOR, an NDB, and a waypoint. There is currently no waypoints in the dataset. Flight Simulator will now exit." I did a repair install, nothing changed. And, when I looked at the scenery.cfg in C:\Program Data\Microsoft\FSX, its top lines refer to FS9 ([General] Title=FS9 World Scenery Description=FS9 Scenery Data What is going on? Thanks for your help. mGN

I'm using FSX with Saitek Throttle Quad (with the Saitek drivers) and MultiPanel (with SPAD). When I fly the Eaglesoft CJ-1 on an ILS approach using the Appr mode, everything goes fine until I disengage the A/P. At that point, the A/P is still in control of the throttle settings (as if it is still running and controlling the approach) ... if I click the IAS button on the Multipanel, the engines spool down and I can control the remainder of the approach -- even with that, sometimes I have to run the Throttle Quad up and then back down to where I want the throttle setting. This creates too much excitement at a critical time!Has anyone encountered this problem? Any ideas?Thanks,maestrogn

I'm flying the Lear 45 with Ernie Alston's add-on panel. The instruments show up fine in the Dusk, Dawn and Night modes, but the Day mode has no lighting ... the panel is so dark it is almost unreadable.Shift/L will toggle the cockpit lighting knob on the electronics panel, but nothing happens.Any ideas??maestrogn

Not really. Saitek used the FSUIPC code without completing a usage license with Pete Dawson. So, Pete, understandably will not support Saitek. A solution might be in the new LINDA that I assume builds onto FSUIPC 4. M

Well, FSX is totally installed (with the Accel) and flies just fine. Now, I have to figure out how to set up the Saitek throttle quad and AP. Alas, my favorite plane, the Embraer Legacy will not couple with the Saitek A/P so I have to go with a default FSX aircraft (either Lear45 or the Citation). So far, frame rates are fine with the scenery slider up full. The panel in the default plane is garbage, so I'm going to add one of the better panels and just hope that it will not mess up the Saitek A/P (that only works with default planes ... something they don't say in their advertising). Then, we start to load in the scenery enhancers, etc and see what happens to the frame rate!!!!!! Thanks for all the help so far. M

I thank you for the advice. I load FSX this morning and will use the Bojote tweak ... what an incredible help that will be. I don't wish to become the source of infinite questions, but does shader model refer to something in the Bojote site? M

Thanks to all for the help so far. I'm at the machine right now, so I can report that my video card is ATI Radeon HD 4200. I assume that's bad? Also, to Ironmaiden -- what is the Bojote tweak? M

Thanks, Iam. Nice video. It will be a very interesting test this weekend when I try to run FSX. I'm saving your text so I can refer to it as I set things up. My main concern is my old ATI card, so I might have to spring for a newer video card ... Speaking of cores, the reason I bought the Gold edition of FSX was so it could use those 4 cores right from the git-go. Thank you so much for taking all that time to explain to this total neophyte. maestrogn

I'm away from that computer, but it is a quite old ATI video card. I just looked at some higher end cards and got instant sticker shock. It may force me to stay with my tricked out FS9 (with all kinds of scenery add-ins). I would love all the FSX eye candy ... but $250+ for a GPU right now is a bit of a stretch. Any advice? maestrogn

Thanks for that reply. I had a reply on another forum that suggested upgrading the video card (to GPU?) first, and then processor. Does that make sense to you? Not having any experience with FSX, what frame rate is considered desirable and where does the 27-29 fit into that scheme. maestrogn

FSX Gold should arrive via UPS today. Just trying to get a heads up if this is going to turn into a very expensive upgrade from FS9. Thanks for the help.

Thanks, Torkermax. Any idea on frame rates? I'd like to stay with the present CPU (recession, don't you know) and will only buy a new CPU if I absolutely have to. Maestrogn

Thanks Torkermax. I thought that some download from MS, or even the Accelerator package that comes with Gold was supposed to solve the core problem and that all 4 cores would be utilized.

I am upgrading from FS9 to FSX (Gold). I have an AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core with 4 gigs of RAM. How will this do with FSX Gold? Any tips on overclocking? Etc. Thanks, Maestrogn