A32xx

Hi Sascha, there's a genuine link on Mediafire which still works: https://www.mediafire.com/?zg3zw8tfc4fc0

...and why not, it's a great idea! I know that the earlier MS flight sims can be played on emulators, so why not try the later ones too.

On Win7 x64 you need to run FS9 and all it's add-on programs as Administrator, or commands like this are over-ridden by the system.

You must have done mate, there's no FS98 forum here!

I gave up on weather engines a few years ago for all the above reasons - plus I found that I was spending more time fiddling than flying! I have been using FSMetar ever since, and although the website has now disappeared the program is still available on the web archive website (sorry I can't remember the name or address, I'm not at my FS PC just now). FSMetar is a very small program which only downloads weather data and you can choose from NOAA or VATSIM servers (I use VATSIM). For clouds, I use the freeware HD clouds which I tinted myself using Photoshop - Sepia tint believe it or not, which doesn't look right in Photoshop but looks fine (to me!) in FS2004, the tint fades the further away the clouds are. I have visibilty fixed at 30 miles and this, along with the cloud tint and FSMetar data works perfectly for me at all altitudes and conditions - winds aloft, turbulence, thermals and all.

Hi sarp_79, nice idea! I have all the WOAI packages except military, and all their flightplans are based on real-world ones, so I can visit any of the larger airline's websites and view their Destinations map for a good idea of where their WOAI fleet will fly to. A compilation of links to all the airline websites' Destination Maps and Schedules would be interesting...

Hi Tilly, I've just downloaded and taxied the Hastings around Church Fenton AB (UK2000 Scenery) with no problems using brakes or parking brakes, releasing brakes and then setting off again. I'm also using Win7 64bit. Something may have altered your FS9.cfg keyboard commands or, more likely, your FSUIPC joystick commands which can be aircraft specific. Might be worth a check!

Re: Victoria Plus Canada scenery issue - it's likely to be a missing scenery .bmp, try running process monitor while at Camel Point again, then see which .bmp appears in the error log. If you have the bitmap, copy it into the main Texture folder. If you don't have it, copy and rename a similar one as the missing bitmap. Try creating a separate thread for the heli question, there are plenty of rotorheads hovering around here to help!

Hi sarp_79, I've never heard of a shadow bitmap which could be edited as such - but there may be one somewhere! I do know that you can darken the shadows with ENB Series and/or SweetFX graphics tweakers if your rig can take it - on mine it's a framerate killer so I only use it for screenshots but the effects can be very realistic indeed.

Hi John, glad that's cured it for you. How it works is that the Scenery/World/Scenery files over-ride the Addon Scenery files, so whenever you find runway 'peeling' textures or bleed-throughs you can use this fix. As Harald says, this is quite common because the scenery designer will most likely use a different terrain mesh to you and me. That VW must be worth quite a few Euro's Harald, I hope the Owner's Club don't know you use it for Altitude testing! :wink:

Hi John, sorry I should have said copy the addon AFCAD.

Your Cessna altimeter should only be around 3.5ft higher than the airport altitude, so there's a problem with the airport scenery and the underlying terrain mesh. A quick fix is to copy the AFCAD file and paste it into your Scenery/World/Scenery folder, then change the filename to AF2_UKLR_elevation_adjustment.bgl to distinguish it from the 'active' AFCAD.

From the Urban Dictionary definition: "On a message board, posting something irrelevent on a really old topic to bring it to the top of the list topics." This post is not irrelevant, it is correcting some incorrect information in the earlier post.

Hi Richard, well done with the screenshots! I think I see what you mean - the buildings have 'flat' colours with no 'photoreal' appearance except for the glazed sections. Mine are the same, it's the way the textures have been created and nothing to do with graphics settings. The only thing which may make a difference is setting your display settings as shown below, I have everything on and at 100% where possible: These settings still give me very similar results to yours at Barcelona:

1-You can adjust the engine volume slider in the FS2004 Sound options screen. 2-You can hover your mouse over each display and mousewheel up or down to adjust the brightness.

Hi Richard, there's a tutorial here: http://www.avsim.com/topic/479802-how-do-i-post-a-screenshot/

My apologies Brian, it looks like the airport is always shown with North at 12 o'clock but you can mousewheel over the Range button to zoom out.

Hi Brian, according to the manual: Press Knob 1 to centre the layout image to the airport origin vertically and press Knob 2 to centre the layout image to the airport origin horizontally.

Maybe it's the textures themselves. Have you used dxtfixerx before? If not, it's in the library here and I highly recommend running it on all your scenery and aircraft directories. It would be really useful if you could post a screen shot of the affected textures, a picture is worth a thousand words as they say!

Hi Richard, I think Sascha meant the NVidia Inspector settings if you use it. If I may ask a silly question, do you have Render To Texture ticked in your Display settings like this:

Hi Richard, I'm not sure this will help, but your texture bandwidth is 60, mine is: TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=1024

Thanks Dave, I did promise to print some of my Scenery.cfg entries here for comparison, so here goes fwiw: [Area.053] Title=uk2000 part 1 Layer=99 Active=TRUE Required=FALSE Local=Addon Scenery\UK2000 part 1 I don't think the line order is significant, but your example above has the line "Remote=" with no TRUE or FALSE statement, whereas none of my entries have that line at all. As an experiment it might be worth (after making a backup first) doing a find and replace all Remote= entries in Notepad to remove it and trying the DB Builder again. Also, none of my entries have abbreviated scenery paths like this: Local=..\..\Scotflight\ScotFlight scenery Mine are in full, like this: Local=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\LAGO\Reggio Although FS is quite happy with the abbreviated path, maybe DB Builder requires the full path? P.S. Thought for the weekend: Why is Abbreviation such a long word?

Hi Dave, I think we've eliminated afd file names and scenery.cfg entries (mine are the same layout as yours) and apchart installs it's own runtime libraries, so I suspect Internet Security/Antivirus is blocking certain calls from the DB Builder. I use Comodo Internet Security because it's free and pretty keen - even when you switch it off it's still on in the background. I added the apchart.exe and DB Builder.exe to Comodo's 'Allowed' program list just in case it started popping up 'allow or deny' requests while DB Builder was running, can you do the same with your IS/AV or shut it down while running DB Builder?

Hi Richard, there should have been an install disk that came with your graphics card, the drivers will be on that.

I'll check my Scenery.cfg lines layout for you this evening, (I'm at w*rk too) but I wouldn't want to start re-ordering them manually either - I wonder if the DB Builder searches .bgl files for certain file names? Most of my AFCAD's begin with AF2, but I also have a few AFX and ADE afd's which I'll also check this evening. Come to think of it I'm sure the radio frequencies and taxi numbers it displays can only come from the actual afd files rather than scenery.cfg. Another thought: why would the compiler work in Win7 x64 but not in XP SP3? Most apps like this require a particular version of .Net Framework and Visual C++ runtimes installed. I don't know which versions apchart requires, but I have them all installed up to the current versions.