Jeff H

:lol: Cheers!! Jeff

Not too much time. LoL A first post that's not much more than "sour grapes" doesn't really strike me as something that will take a turn in a positive direction. The End!!

The link that Kyle directed you to was not in an AVSIM forum, it is in the PMDG General Forum, which is where your post would have been more appropriately placed, given that the topic has nothing to do with the T7. Have a Nice Day!! :smile: Jeff

But there's also this from earlier this year. http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-security-essentials-no-new-installations-after-april-7000025225/

This might help get things sorted for your friend. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/437045-key-request-failure/?p=2945600 If not, either Ronzie or Ray Proudfoot can usually get the registration issues taken care of. They're here pretty frequently. You could drop one of them a PM if they don't respond here. Hope that helps. Cheers, Jeff

Hey Bruce, glad you got it sorted. There's a program that I wholeheartedly recommend for keeping your computer clean of spyware, keyloggers, and other crap. It;s called Spybot Search and Destroy. It's an excellent program that will find stuff that even MalwareBytes will miss. It's free and very well supported. You can purchase an upgrade that will provide some advanced features, but I've found the free version to be excellent and very effective. Cheers, Jeff

Sorry, you can't do that. One purchase, one license, one computer. Cheers, Jeff

Thanks, Mel. I'm going to play around some more over the next couple of days. I appreciate all the advice. I'll just keep at it 'til I get it right. I might actually get to a point where I can release some of these airports I'm working on. :smile: Cheers!!

Wow, that explains a lot.

What happened to those three planes afterward? It does take a little while for everything to settle into a flow. It could well be the 100% AI setting. Looks like you're running pretty much every airline WOAI offers, lol. Sadly, everything we do in FS often involves compromise. Go arounds are one of the things we just learn to accept. I'm only at the airport for a few minutes on a flight so I just use enough AI to give me the right feel with as few AI conflicts as possible. Sorry it didn't work so well for ya. Cheers, Jeff

Reducing the mipmap slider to 4 doesn't necessarily translate into better FPS, but it does have a positive impact on texture loading times and reducing prolonged blurriness, particularly in the case of photo scenery. As for FS9 using multiple cores, it will do it but from what I've observed the affinity has to be reset every time you start FS for it to do so effectively. Mine is set to use both of my cores, but in order for me to see it actually happen, I have to start FS, then go into task manager and disable one core, click ok, and then go back in and re-enable the core I just disabled. Then FS9 uses both cores effectively. If you monitor your CPU core usage as I do, you will see the change quite clearly. This doesn't make FS9 use more of your CPU however, it only spreads what it does use across the cores, the effective amount of processor resources the sim uses doesn't change. Hope this clears up some of the questions for you. Cheers, Jeff

Oooh, ouch. Sorry to hear, Bruce. I can't say one way or the other about the site or application you're referring to, but I wanted to mention a couple of things that might help. First, that virus, from what I've read, could potentially wipe out your hard drive. I know there was a virus out there that would encrypt your drive and if you paid the demand, they would send you a key to decrypt it (maybe). A couple of things I would try before trusting an unverified program is first, try to boot into safe mode and see if you can get in. I'd also take a chance and give Microsoft a call. Since you're on win 8 and this virus has been around for a while, they might be able to help you out. The best thing would be if you had a backup of your drive or your registry you could revert to, but you still need to get into your system to do that. I hope you get it sorted out short of having to reformat the drive. Best of luck, Jeff

Some of the posts in the other threads have postulated scenarios worthy of a Tom Clancy novel!! They'd be entertaining if not for the fact that they are tied to such a real life tragedy. :smile:

That's a great post Paul. I know we all go through things in life that aren't always obvious to others. I've had a few things going on myself that are making life extremely difficult at the moment, and then to really put the whammy on it, I lost my mom just recently, so the time I spend here has been my escape too. Hang in there, and know that when all else seems out of sorts, you always have friends here for support. All the Best, Jeff

Let us know how it works for you. Remember to let it run for a bit because, if I remember right, AISmooth doesn't really start working until one aircraft has landed. Just FYI. :smile: Cheers.