PasturePilot

Okay, yea Ctrl+L does it in FU3 and the labels do show (not sure how I missed trying that the first time).Had an interesting hiccup in the meantime. One night I had both programs working, the next morning they both threw up 'reference memory' errors, not even getting to the home screens. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times, same thing. Then tried the only thing I could think of that would change the startup behavior at all, I added the "nomovie" line to the .cfg's and they both work again. And my Windows Updates are set to manual, so I don't see how anything could have changed from one day to the next. Weird...Ray

I recently installed FU2 and FU3 for the first time on my Windows Vista laptop thanks to the posts in this forum, I can't believe they both work pretty well lol. I bought both new when each came out, and haven't flown them in years. Especially enjoying FU2 again, for some reason I like it more than FU3. Can't say I'll do much to modify them, I'm just happy to have them going again to fiddle around a bit, but I'm experiencing a few annoyances, which I have seen mentioned and not resolved in previous posts, just checking to see if there are any more thoughts on them:1. FPS drop when ATC menu opensThis actually wasn't an issue for me back in the day, any drop in framerate was barely noticeable. But on my current system it makes a huge difference, drops from 30 or 40 fps to 10-15.2. 'Skiddish' airplanesI saw mention of airplanes skidding sideways when taxiing here:http://forum.avsim.n...__1#entry622042I'm seeing this in FU2 as well, in all planes in all locations, not continuously but at random. This is something else I can't recall being an issue back in the day. At least I spend most of my time in the air!These may just be graphics issues, don't know if there's anything that can be done about these either:3. AI TagsThe AI tags (Alt+L in FU2) don't seem to be showing up very well; only viewable from a few perspectives, and flickering at best. Did the key combo for that change in FU3? Because I'm not seeing them at all there.4. Haze in FU2Changing the visibility in the weather menu doesn't really seem to change the flight visibility in the game very much. I do recall having this issue even on an old setup with a Voodoo Banshee card. With that card's original drivers, the game seemed flawless graphics wise. But I lost that CD, and when I first installed newer drivers for that card I noticed this visibility issue. Same thing on newer systems. Taking it down to 1 mile does increase the haze, but can still see a good 5-10 miles. No problems with FU3 haze, though it's always seemed oddly yellowish/pinkish to me rather than white/gray?Any thoughts?Some info on my current setup:Dell XPS M1530 (laptop)Vista 32Intel Core2Duo T8300 2.4 GHz4 GB RAM256 MB Nvidia GeForce 8600M GTThanks and (almost) Happy New Year!Ray Davidowski