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Hi Slayer Thanks for advice. I think I tried this, but maybe not. I'll follow your advice and see how I go. I'll report back if I succeeed or don't. Have you tried this in P3D v3.3. Regards Edit - 12 July 2016 SAST 16H00 Ok, tested and it works in P3D v3.3. Once one has clicked the mixture lock buttons everything settles down and one can even perform the full manual start, or the semi-auto Ctrl E start. It seems P3D is a lot more finicky or should I say fastidious, in the startup process. Thanks for the tip Slayer.

Yes a very nice gift from Milviz. Thank you Milviz. Just one issue I have found. It works perfectly with starting up the two engines and following the guide in FSX. Not so in P3D v3.3. Doing the partially automatic mode with the Ctrl E, starts only the left engine. And using the full manual mode just does not start the engines.The mixture levers flutter, the prop levers do not want to move forward, and the one prop lever flutters up and down when Ctrl E is used as start. And I cannot get any of the magneto switches on, except for the left engines left magneto, which only switches on with Ctrl E mode. I have followed all advice on the Milviz forum, and by setting the mixture with the Ctrl-Shift-F4 for full rich option. I have no issues with the default P3D Lockheed P-38's nor the payware addon Lockheed P-38's from FlightSim Developers. So it must be with this model. I know with this becoming a freeware giveaway, there is no support, but hopefully Milviz patch it, if enough of us ask them to fix it for the newest versions of P3D. Regards Andrew Brown

Hi JFMitch Yep I know what to do with the payment recovery process and I am in process with this now. I just posted to warn others. SimPlanet are being very helpful at the moment. Cheers Hi Vic Agreed, I have 40 years IT experience, and my own business for the last three, so I am fortunate to have sacrificial systems which I use to test. I read about all of the others like this that also give blazing reviews of how well they work, only to screw up not only the simulators, but one's registry as well. Wannabe script kiddies con artist programmers/coders!!!!??????? trying to make a quick buck. My thoughts exactly. I agree wholeheartedly, it was quite funny and a joke to read this, but in an open forum I decided to give him my piece of mind. They've already edited out my comments and flagged them as insults. Shows what they've got to hide.

Hello All This is a duplicate of my post at the FSX forum, as it affects both FSX and P3D. I am offering this as a warning of a payware product, advertised at SimPlanet as a new company with two products, with a 40% discount, as a start off advert for them. This is no slate or prejudice on the fine website of SimPlanet, and I have advised them so of what has transpired, along with a request for a refund. This product by Vector Design - Move it to P3D, is riddled with bugs and does not work. From this first very bad experience of a payware product, I would also not trust their other product on offer - FSEquipment Connect to FlightSim. There is now a number of us who bought it with this discount, reported our findings of the various failures and non working operation of this product, and have responded accordingly to the support site of Vector Design. We have been met and treated with disrespect, rudeness and arrogance. Here is a link to their forum, you can read for yourself, first link, and on the other few responses of similiar discussions, second link. http://vectordesign.....php?topic=27.0 http://vectordesign.....php?topic=28.0 Go well, and be safe, even with your payware Regards Andrew Brown

Hello All I'm not sure if I should post this here or in the Prepar3D forum, but it affects both FSX and P3D. I will duplicate it at the P3D forum as well. I am offering this as a warning of a payware product, advertised at SimPlanet as a new company with two products, with a 40% discount, as a start off advert for them. This is no slate or prejudice on the fine website of SimPlanet, and I have advised them so of what has transpired, along with a request for a refund. This product by Vector Design - Move it to P3D, is riddled with bugs and does not work. From this first very bad experience of a payware product, I would also not trust their other product on offer - FSEquipment Connect to FlightSim. There is now a number of us who bought it with this discount, reported our findings of the various failures and non working operation of this product, and have responded accordingly to the support site of Vector Design. We have been met and treated with disrespect, rudeness and arrogance. Here is a link to their forum, you can read for yourself, first link, and on the other few responses of similiar discussions, second link. http://vectordesign.es/forum/index.php?topic=27.0 http://vectordesign.es/forum/index.php?topic=28.0 Go well, and be safe, even with your payware Regards Andrew Brown

You're welcome Yes too true "If it ain't broke don't fix it" in slang is a good line to follow. I tend to swim up rivers against the flow, quoting another human saying going with the flow, much like the Salmon fish. So I say "If it ain't broke, well fix it anyway, as long as you know what you are doing, and accept the consequences". Sorry my weird humour

Hi WebMaximus As to your reply post no.1, the headers on your board are free from the ones wired onto the board chassis. They use the same chipset, and each internal hub can manage up to four USB ports, most boards/chipsets today actually have six to eight of these hubs with a total of 32 ports, but they don't add all of them. Normally six on the board chassis to the rear, a combination of USB 3.0 and 2.0, and then some on the headers, the rest they don't make provision for. So you should have at least two USB 2.0 headers for use (4 USB ports), and if a new board, your's will also have a USB 3.0 header for the front of chassis use. Check your user manual carefully. As to your reply post no.2, this is usually to do with a poorly screened cable used on the external USB hub, it's generally found on cheap and nasty USB hubs, it fails to control the data flow with too many losses. Good quality external hubs have a cable no longer than 1 metre, and is extremely thick, and not so flexible. It's always a good idea to plug high utility devices directly into the USB ports on the board.

Howzit WebMaximus Is your Saitek TQ the USB add-on one. I have both the Saitek yoke with quadrant throttle using the round PS/2 connector plugged into the yoke, and the USB add-on one, and I also initially had troubles. I had upgraded my hardware to the top of the line processor, board, RAM and video card, and decided to upgrade W7 Pro x64 to W10 Pro x64. Most of the ports now on this new hardware are USB 3.0 with one or two USB 2.0, and these USB 3.0 are what gave me grief. In my 40 years of my IT experience and 4 years my own business, I have learnt through research and test at many developer sites, that USB 3.0 is not 100% backward compatible to 2.0, typical marketing hype and bullcrap fed to the masses. I learnt that the Saitek yoke refuses to work on any USB 3.0 ports, no matter what tweaking I do in BIOS/UEFI. And the USB TQ was also intermittent. So best bet how I resolved it, was purchased the add-on connectors that screw onto the free space slots on the EFI bus rail at the back of the PC, using the unused USB 2.0 headers on the board, giving me an extra six USB 2.0 ports. And for me I plugged the USB TQ into one of the three free yoke USB ports and added an AC adapter for extra power onto the yoke, it's provided for, but an optional extra as in AC adapter. I also tested the USB TQ straight into the new USB 2.0 ports and all is resolved now. So this is my advice to you and you should have success. One other thing to do to also guarantee the above, and I advise this for all USB port use with high demand devices, is as below. This works for all of the past Windows operating systems in use. I do this as standard practice on all computers, due to the poor ongoing MS and Intel crap with power management to USB. One opens the device manager, type "device manager" without the quotes, into the W10 "Search" Then click on Device Manager that shows up in the list. Once the Device manager opens it's window, go to the bottom of the list and open the "Universal Serial Bus controllers", by clicking on the little arrow on the left. Then finally right click each and all of the devices listed "....Hubs" select the "Properties" and in the opening window go to the last tab indicating "Power Management" and untick the option that says "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power". Do this for all of the hubs listed on your system, even those that you plug in externally, plug them in now if they are not plugged in. If you are not sure simply right click all USB devices and click "Properties" on all of them. You will see those that have the "Power management" tab to do this. Uncheck all of them that you find and you will have full power all of the time to any plugged in USB device. You might notice, like my Thrustmaster F16 MFD panels do, that the devices with displays and /or LED's will flash through boot up until you have logged in. But it certainly does resolve the majority of power delivery to high capacity devices attached to USB ports. And especially the dim to non-functioning displays on Saitek panels. If this works for you maybe I should change my handle from Screwbottle to GuruMaximus Hee! Hee! Good luck going forward. Cheers Andrew

Hello, I know I am replying to a very old topic, but I would like to enhance this far better than the Microsoft link to the complex author's way of USB power management. This has alway been an issues since the early Windows iterations and it has never been properly resolved bewteen MS and Intel. And I have tested this on on all Windows operating systems desktops, including laptops, up to 10 Home and Pro native and with the 1511 service pack installed. Much easier this way. In a nut shell, one opens the device manager, type "device manager" without the quotes, into the W10 "Search" Then click on Device Manager that show up in the list. Once the Device manager opens it's window, go to the bottom of the list and open the "Universal Serial Bus controllers, by clicking on the little arrow on the left. Then finally right click each and all of the devices listed "....Hubs" select "Properties", in the opening window go to the last tab indicating "Power Management" and untick the option that says "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power". Do this for all of the hubs listed on your system, even those that you plug in, plug them in if not at this time. If you are not sure simply right click all USB devices and click "Properties" on all of them. You will see those that have the "Power management" tab to do this. Uncheck all of them that you find and you will have full power all of the time to any plugged in USB device. I do this as standard practice on all computers, due to the poor ongoing MS and Intel crap with power management to USB. You might notice, like my Thrustmaster F16 MFD panels do, that the displays and /or LED's will flash through boot up until you have logged in. But it certainly does resolve the majority of power delivery to high capacity devices attached to USB ports. And especially the dim to non-functioning displays on Saitek and other brand panels. Good luck going forward. Andrew

Hi AviatorMoser / Daniel Well I was following your posts, and going to try your configuration suggestion, and lo and behold as I started the Steam client, it's updating ??? the second time since last week!!!!! And I put the games into offline mode prior. So this offline mode does not work for the Steam client itself, again annoying no matter how fast it installs, and at the end of the client install, it's now asking me of a choice of offline or online mode. So as one can see the Steam client I will say once again, is in control at all times, and adding to the time for one to start ANY game, something which is taking longer and longer what with the content involved in today's games. Bloatware, never mind if one has the fastest system on the planet, compounded by this client. And I have discovered your settings you offered as a screen shot, the top option, Automatic Updates, I could not change in offline mode, the dropdown is locked, all other options are available, so only when going back online does it unlock. And I tested on all of the games I have installed in Steam, the same result. Strike 2 for Steam.

Hee! Hee! Yeah, done and do that, worn out the T-shirt, now a rag

Here's another fly in the ointment, I have thought about. This is when a hard drive, and yes SDD's much sooner, crash, and they do crash for many unexplainable reasons. Great you now want to restore all Steam games, including your FSX: SE. Hopefully you have run the backup from within the client, on a regular basis to trap the latest updates. And I have done this at the beginning of the year, when I built a new system and wanted a fresh start. With Steam, you have no source disc, or media, so you are reliant on the installation of the Steam client, which will allow one to restore your backed up games content, AFTER the game has installed, IF you have the backup. If not then you are looking at Gigs' of download. Again what do those of us do with low internet and capacity services, or as suggested, limited caps. I took a week to install all of my Steam games, just another "small" issue to consider. I am not ruling out that there is a similiar process with standalone games, but I own my media, and I backup up all of my configuration files, aircraft and scenery once installed, as well as having all of the installers on an external hard drive. So my recovery is quicker, without the use of the Internet, the MAIN difference.

It seems you are not reading the posts here correctly, or my posts, in detail. Nothing to do with "afraid of change" AT ALL, you assume too much!! And it's far from being based on falsehoods. I would very much like to see FSX: SE succeed but while it is managed by the Steam client, it has very serious flaws, that it seems you and others have not considered or found with others in other parts of the world. CodeChris's response below yours is now understanding this. I am a beta tester for many brands of software, so I know how to do due diligence and testing of software, and I have not finished testing all features of the Steam client, to be honest and truthful, it has put me off with it's "fiddling" and download/update issues. But my posts on this forum have revealed both my own and others, way of using this client. Thanks CodeChris, appreciate your reply. At least you now see where I am going with this, for myself and others who will face my same issues. And if I could talk to DTG directly, or even Valve (Steam) I would cover all of these issues, to improve both the client, and the games running under this client. I am not against the success of FSX: SE, but it needs to get closer in use and operation, and I believe they are getting there but missing some existing issues, to those of us that have used FSX for many years in it's current form, and we see many changes that are not condusive to a good experience. For Steam purists, and many using FSX for the first time, or past limited use with a new awakening, with unlimited internet access, these question are never asked, or realised. See my post in reply to france89, point no. 2, yes but only if the game or all games are up to date, can you go offline. It's clearly stated on the Steam forums, I went and checked after being told of the "offline" mode. So catch 22 damned if you update, damned if you don't update. As tf51d posted above, I am sure that eventually the Steam client will insist on doing updates to it's own client, as well as any and all installed games, so this is untested water, as far as I can see.

But what a difference in configuration, which as I said hinders one to get the game started quickly and smoothly. Yes I am fully aware of "configuration" tweaking and tuning, but no other configuration in free standing games hinders me from starting it and seeing it running. And correct I don't like it, or have to like it. Even when a developer can and wants to do something, we all know what will happen in the long run if it irritates consumers to the point of no puchase, it fails. So there has to be a happy medium of the door swinging both ways for developer and consumer to make for a succesful product and sale.

Yeah, and the Sea cables are a joke in themselves. We know of around 8 to 10TB's per second available to us as a country, but no-one knows or can answer as to where it lands and is used. It has got better over the years, so-so and very slowly, but the mainstream of affordable internet to most today is 4Mb/s (512KB/s), with capping up to 100GB, costing around R500.00 pm ($50), and the SP's have the audacity to call this ultrafast internet. Uncapped ADSL is available for a bigger price tag, and forget uncapped mobile data, it does not exist, that is an area where we are royally screwed with exhorbitant pricing.There are changes afoot with privateers, and us the people standing up and fighting back, where we can now on average have 10Mb/s ADSL lines to our homes, with FTTH (Fibre To The Home) available, the catch line is they all cost and are too much in most cases, for the average middle working class, never mind the lower classes. This FTTH is currently for the affluent, and in test phase, and one has to have a community in excess of 100 homes signing up for the FTTH installation, before they will install. Average costs for the maximum speed of 100MB/s per month is R890.00 ($80) for a capped 100GB and R1500.00 ($140) for uncapped, a large monthly outlay, for the "luxury in our country" of true high speed internet. As all of my posts are trying to cover, there is always something that has to be done to Steam before XXXXXXXX can happen, no freedom, sorry. As you guys post replies as "fixes" it exposes more and more hindrances. I rest my case. Well at least this forum has lit up and has had many repsonses, I think very good for this web site and the community.