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Amazing and surreal.

I recently bought an official Xbox Bluetooth controller from Argos to use for the drone in MSFS2024. After several attempts trying to pair it in Win 11, I found out my motherboard does not support Bluetooth, so I bought a Bluetooth dongle which Win 11 recognised straight away, but still the controller still cant connect with Win 11. I have watched and followed lots of YT vids on how to pair but without success. The thing I have noticed when I go into settings and "Bluetooth & devices" Bluetooth is enabled but it says "Discoverable as "JCC", but JCC is a previous user name from my last system, but I did just transferred the windows boot drive to this current system, but made a few changes including changing my current username. I am at a loss on how to solve this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for looking. John.

Thanks SA for your suggestions. Will look into it.

Sorry, missed a digit out, the GPU I have is a RTX 4080, last gen.

Thinking of upgrading from a I7 13700k (running at stock speed, turbo too hot and too loud), Asus B660 MB, & 32 gig DDR4, To a Ryzen 7-7700k on a Asus Prime X870-P, and 64 gig Crucial pro DDR5. Already got an RTX 480 GC. Mainly using for MSFS 2024 and some train sims and the odd game like RDR II. Can't really afford much better than this setup. Any advice or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for looking. John.

Does anyone know if BATC are addressing the problems mentioned, or is it an Asobo issue that has not been fixed, which is usually the case.

I have been in touch with Scan, and they are looking into it. The system is about 2 years old, quite a high spec at the time, and have checked for a build up of dust. Sill open to any suggestions you guys may have.

Thanks for the reply, but my system was built by a professional builder (Scan) and they put in 4 fans for airflow, but the problem with the AIO is when it is under load with intense graphics as with MSFS.

My Corsair AIO H100xELIte cooler runs very hot and the fans on the radiator are very noisy when running MSFS 2024 sim, plus some other games that are very graphical. Very cool and quiet otherwise. Is there any setting I can make to cool and quiet this cooler down when running MSFS. Thanks for looking.

Hi, Is this FSHUD in the screenshots ?.

Hi Tony, I do apologise I should have mentioned in my first post that I had installed "GB PRO" and runs and loads fine. The problems was with the Europe sceneries. However I have been trying the north America scenery, starting with W2XP_US_West which loaded fully, so Installed the other US sceneries, North South etc, which all loaded fully with no problems. I then tried some Europe sceneries and so far have installed W2XP_Europe_2, Europe_3, Europe_4, and although the loading time is around 5 minutes before XP is fully loaded, I don't mind waiting knowing that they do now run. Still not sure why Europe_1 doesn't seem to load, but as you say GB PRO covers nearly all of that. I want to thank you for all your help and suggestions, it was very much appreciated, and I will be donating to W2XP. John. Hi Michael, Just watched your "Welcome to Birmingham" video which was amazing. BTW did you use any AI traffic, and do you know if there is a version of EGBB without the cross runway, which is now taxiway (Tango & Lima). Cheers, John.

Hi Tony, I start up at EGBB which loads fully (as all other airports) without the Europe scenery installed. With Europe installed as I said before it only gets as far as "Reading New Scenery Files". When I click the X to close XP it says "X-Plane not responding", and I have to click on a box to close the program. I have tried to paste my log file here but when I right click and bring up the menu, the paste option in greyed out, so this window will not let me paste anything in it, don't know why. Any other options ?. Thanks, John.

Hi Tony, Thanks for the reply. I downloaded the World-Models from your web site (World-Models-Master) and replaced it with the one from Simheaven. I also replaced the W2XP_Europe with the smaller file W2XP_Europe_1_West, hoping that would load quicker, but still the same result still only gets to "Loading New Scenery Files" even after 20 minutes. I could post my log file but not sure how on this site. I would be grateful for any more help. Thanks, John.

Hi, I have 16GB of DDR 4 system ram and 4GB of video ram (GTX980). I also have the latest world models installed. I will check my log file and post it here. Thanks for the reply. John.

Hi, I am just getting into X-plane, had been using FSX. Anyway I have been trying to improve the default scenery so I download "W2XP_ Europe" scenery from Simheaven, installed it in my "Custom Scenery" folder, installed all the various libraries (R2,FF,world models,openscenery X), made sure W2XP_Europe was in the right order, just below the Airports, in the scenery ini file. Before installing W2XP__Europe, XP would take about 30-45 SECONDS to fully load, with W2XP_Europe, the loading screen in XP gets to saying "Loading New Scenery Files", and that's where it stays, I have left it loading like this for 40 MINUETES and although the hard disk light is flashing, it stll never fully loads, so I have to take out W2XP_Europe, and XP loads normally. Am I doing something wrong ?. BTW, using XP10.42 steam edition. Thanks, John.

Hi, I am about to install P3D 2.5, coming from FSX-SE. I have a reasonable system, X-99 [email protected], 980 GPU (EVGA SC), 16 meg DDR4 Memory. Performance on FSX-SE was fairly good, but as I am going over to P3D, which takes advantage of good GPUs, would I see better performance with another 980 in SLI, or swap for a 980ti, (can't afford to buy 2 980ti). I also use the system for other types of sims as well as flight sims and a couple of games. any advice guys, would be appreciated. Thanks, John.

Hi Brian, Thanks for your comments. I thought I would get more replies but hey-ho, I might post in another section of the forum. I will be migrating over to P3D as soon as Windows 10 is released and fairly stable. John.

Hi, I have a EVAG 980 GPU (not overclocked) in my system at the moment, along with X99 M/B, 5820 chip (o/c to 4.3) and 16 meg DDR4 Memory. I am thinking of migrating to P3D from FSX-SE, so would P3D take advantage of another 980 in SLI, or would a single 980 ti be better. Would also use the cards for other Sims and games. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, John.

Hi Guys, I am also thinking of going over to P3D, I have FSX-SE at the moment, but as "Rich" says P3D will take advantage of a good GPU. I recently got a new system (around 5 months ago), which is X99, 5820 o/c to 4.3, EVAG 980 GPU (not overclocked), 16 meg DDR4 Memory. Performance in FSX-SE is quite good, but if I did migrate to P3D, would I see better performance with the 980, also I am thinking of getting another 980 in SLI, not only for flight sims but to improve other types of sims and games. I did read Nvidia or P3D was bringing out an update to take advantage of SLI, can anyone confirm this ?. The other question (sorry for all the questions) is do I drop the SLI idea and swap the 980 for a 980 ti which I think is around 30% more powerful than the standard 980. Sorry for the long post, any advice from you guys would be appreciated. Thanks, John.

Hi Jude, Yes, installing DX9 does fix the display problem, thanks. John.

Hi, Thanks for the info on DX9 etc, will check it all out.

Hi Guys, Just to let you know, I have now got P3D to display. A guy over on the P3D forum said he had the same problem, and found that DX9 was not installed, so I DL it from MS and installed it and it runs fine. Why the DX in Win 8 is not backward compatible I don't know. Anyway thanks guys for all your suggestions.

Thanks again guys for all your input. I have tried various Nvida drivers, even went back to the generic windows 8 driver, but still no display. It would be good if someone else out there has had the same problem as myself, but has managed a fix for it. It seems though that I will have to have win 7 on as a dual boot just to run P3D. Still think it is not very good PR, LM not supporting Win 8.

Thanks Guys for your comments, But I can't understand why other people are running P3D and Win 8 with no problems, if it is not compatible. it seemed that any new version of windows that came out in the past always ran FSX, which is what P3D is, so why is Win 8 any different, and if it is why haven't LM produced and update/fix like many other companies have done ?. All very annoying !!

Hi Guys hope you can help. I am trying out Win8, and all my progs work with no problem, but when I installed and ran P3D, everything loads up and I can even hear the sound of the default planes engine, BUT NO DISPALY, except for the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, and a bar at the top saying P3D Academic version, but everything in-between is black. I can press escape and get the "End Flight" box with all the options, and can exit from this, but cant get any other menus because I can't see them. Have installed the latest Nvida drivers for my GTX 580, also tried various compatibility modes in win 8, all with the same result. Also tried changing resolutions, no joy, and switching from window to full screen mode, same result. Had no problems whatsoever in Win 7. Any help would be much appreciated. John.