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Hi Ray Yes correct I'm in Edenvale Johannesburg South Africa, and our Rand is very poor against the UK, Euro and US currencies. So although I quoted in US dollar as the examples, we are nearly 12 to 1 against the US dollar, 13 to 1 against the Euro and nearly 19 to 1 against the BRP. You can see what we pay for in our country. $200 is R2.400 and that is a lot of money for any middle class South African to spend on a piece of PC equipment, hence it is much harder for many of us to easily move over to SSD's. And because we import these types of items, we have to pay the import and customs duties, and our 13% VAT, all compulsory, so you can see how these items end up as final cost to us, no matter if from the UK, US or Europe. Regards Thanks FR Bill for both of your replies to the private LAN and the loss of multiplayer. Both very important issues for LAN'ing around the world. At least I have someone else seeing the issues of FSX: SE, over what was already available and working fine in FSX boxed. Maybe I was not so eloquant in my explanation earlier. It seems I made my comment and am being lambasted by some here, but they are not seeing the global shortcomings that have to be overcome to make this version as succesful as the standalone was/is. But as I like to say, I have skin so thick, even a Rhino would be envious, as to responses here. I can take it, and it sometimes does hurt to get people to push past their comfort zone of the use of something, so as to see the real issues that affects others.

Hi Ray I agree with you on the SSD's performance and a game changer, but not on the pricing in some countries. As my example, my O/S, Windows 7 Pro, is around 80GB, and my FSX installation is currently at 124GB (and it will grow with more aircraft and scenery add-ons), so I need to look at an SSD of 200+GB, the next available one is the 256GB. This drive at my dealer price in my country, as I run my own IT business, is $170, $200 retail, quite a price for myself and many in my country to switch over. As a comparison I can for this same money buy a Seagate 2TB Hybrid (8GB SDD attached to a mechanical drive). Good performance, better than the standard drive of same capacity. And then I run Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu Linux in dual boot configuraiton for my business. The currently avialable 512GB SSD costs $430.00 retail, that is a big price to pay for a storage medium. A 1TB SSD is currently only available for enterprize SAN environments and cost in excess of $3K. So for the benefits of performance of SSD, there is still a big price tag to pay, and limited space, with a far shorter lifespan over mechanical drives (2 to 3 years on average if power cycled once a day, off to on then off, and the amount of write cycles performed per day). This latter lifecycle covered very well by Tom's Hardware. And then as to these lifespans, to choose a SLC (single-layer cell) and MLC (multi-layer cell), the former much more expensive, but longer lasting than MLC, MLC now the mainstream of SSD's to keep cost down. So a lot ot consider in just saying, change over. Regards Spell checker set it as enterprize, and I never checked.

My info is quite correct Thank you! And I disagree with you, Steam is very controlling. As another example, try and install any Steam game where you wish on your SDD or HDD's, like one can easily do with standalone downloadable or boxed products, this being done for many and whatever reasons. So a digital distribution platform with CONTROL. I own the following Steam games, the Half Life Orange box series, iL2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, all of the Sniper Elite series and the Sniper Ghost warrior series, and the action I mentioned is the same as with these games. I have clients and friends who jumped onto the bandwagon with FSX-SE, along with their already installed box set, and they are not happy with the Steam client in the way, as with all of the issues I mentioned. Just after I posted my first post, I opened my Steam client and it went through a 20 minute update, then it wanted to verify my password, which I had to wait for a reply email another 15 minutes later before I could actually open the client to check the games, and lo and behold it started to do updates. One of my favourite listed, iL2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, now lies mostly dormant because of the crap with Steam. I don't enjoy this game anymore, thanks to Steam. I now read the boxes carefully, and only take non-client driven free standing software. And as to my last paragraph, and my point that you seemed to have missed, P3D is now at least way ahead of FSX native and FSX-SE, even with some remaining irritating bugs left, and I can use the majority of my purchased add-ons. AND it does not use or need the Steam client, I am free to install it where I like and start it up when and how I like with no wait of updates etc. Likewise with X-Plane. And like many I have moved on to current active and up to date working SIMS like DCS and X-Plane. And as you mentioned, issues with patches and addons, sure are always there, but I have the control as to how, when and where I download them and install them. Much like a enterprize server system, one does no just install the updates and security patches, without first testing them in a lab type environment to see if or what gets broken. No so with Steam updates, they are pushed down to you and one hopes all works OK. I am not of a spoonfed current generation, so I personally do not like the structure and use of Steam type systems. Hi Codechris See my reply to france89. Interesting, I'll look at that and try again, and maybe FSX-SE has been made into an ofline system. I don't have it, so I'll have to wait to test with my clients and friends that do have it.

I have a few major issues with FSX SE, and that is all around the operation of the Steam client itself. I have adressed this on other forums as well and an unresponded to email, to Dovetail Games. And I have seen no other users around the world raising this at the moment, this in so far as I can find, except in my circle of aquaintences and friends who have the same hobby. The Steam client is invasive and controlling, and I have 12 other Steam games to back up what I am mentioning here. The flip side is I hardly play these anymore due to the huge irritation of the Steam client. I have NO choice or freedom with this client, to do what I want to do. With ANY boxed or pure downloadable version of ANY game, I can choose when I install it, download the updates and update it. For countries that do not have the luxury of huge cheap internet speeds (I am currently on an expensive 4Mb/s - 512KB/s in real terms, line with a limited amount of data capping) this type of controlled gaming is not practical. The client is forever doing updates itself, especially if left unused for a few days, never mind weeks or months, and then wants to do updates for the installed games. And in countries like mine, I am sure there are many out there, we can wait anything from an annoying 10 to 30 minutes, to hours before we can use the SIM. So one can never sit down, tell the client to take a hike along with ALL updates, and get started with the SIM, i.e. enjoy immediately what we purchased, with a day or evening of what the hobby is all about!!! And secondly one can NEVER use the simulator without a permanent internet connection. I am a member of two virtual aviation clubs, and we meet twice a month for a full on ATC planned mission event face to face, and can and do meet every Saturday as a friendly get together. We do not have internet access at the two clubs, nor do we want it. So with this we all use the boxed version and help each other with new found aircraft, scenery, purchases etc at these events, to tune and have fun. As a club should be, comraderie with a common interest. If we had to move over to FSX SE, firstly this would take most of the fun away, and as I said unusable as a standalone SIM for offline LAN gaming. And then one only has to follow all of the posts of issues around the web, with where and how the game is installed, and the add-ons, even as they are being improved. So another learning curve and possible limitation, of what many of us do, and that is tweaking and tinkering with the SIM. We are allowing ourselves to hand over our freedoms and choices, to a gaming control system, that has ALL of the control, and does not listen to it's customer base. For me personally FSX SE will be a non entity while the above is never addressed and corrected, and I will move towards P3D for my "FSX" satisfaction with all of my purchases. And I am already a prolific user of X-Plane, yes sadly I see that it too has a Steam client version, thankfully though in their wisdom, they have kept the boxed version ongoing.

Hee! Hee! nice one. Yeah today marriage is seen as a flippant and nonchalant act in most cases. I remember my late father telling me how a marriage is like a bed of roses, beautiful at the top for the world to see, but plunge your hand in recklessly, and the thorns will tear you to pieces. So marriage is the same, it has the thorns of life, which we must work through carefully to avoid too much damage, nurture the bed and plant as a whole, the result is the beautiful part we see at the top. And I have the proof, a long lasting relationship with the lady of my life. What you put in, you will get out tenfold we are promised in the Good Book. Whoa enough of this now on a virtual avation forum.

I'm late by a month in posting to this thread, so I hope my info will still be valid in helping with the igdumdim32.dll error. This file is related to the Intel graphics drivers found in all of the latest Intel Core i series chips, from Sandy bridge to the current Haswell. So although you mention that your drivers are up to date, I believe your reference is to the ATi/AMD card or the nVidia card you have. And it does not matter what brand of board we have, you will find the Intel video ports on the back built in, and with basic Microsoft reference drivers active. In most BIOS, you can turn this graphics driver off, and your problem will stop but it's not fixed. Your system will then only use the discreet (plugged into the PEG (PCIe Extended Graphics) slot) add-on video card you have in your system. To really fix the error though, use a tool like CPUID or GPUID to identify which Intel graphics chipset you have, it should be one of the HD 4000 series, then go to either you board manufacturers website, or the Intel web site and download the latest driver. Make sure to differentiate between the desktop chipset and the mobile laptop chipset. Install it and your igdumdim32.dll error should be a thing of the past. Now while I indicated that you can turn off the Intel graphics in the BIOS, it is actually a very usefull extra video subsystem that can be used in conjunction with your add-on video card. In my case I have four ports on my discreet card, 1 x DVI, 1 x HDMI and 2 x miniDP. Then on my motherboard, my system a brand new home build a few months old, I have a built in 1 x VGA, 1 x DVI and 1 x HDMI. Intel can now drive three sceens off their latest video chipset. And I have tested it, I got 7 screens running off my system, and not bad frame rates either, 16 to 20FPS with enabled ASN and Orbx scenery and others, with all screens driven with high detail. My current setup is five screens though off this same system below in my signature, running at an average of 30FPS with high FSX settings. So sorry slightly off topic im my last parapgraph but indicating why you should fix the onboard video, and then use it in a multiscreen setup. Cheers Andrew Brown

Born 1959, so 55 as of right now, turn 56 in a weeks time. I'm only as old as the lass I am holding on to, my gorgeous wife of 26 years in marriage. Andrew Brown

Hi Bernd Sorry, showing my bad manners, and I should know better coming from the older generation (55). I should have signed off with my real name, Andrew Brown, you'll find it listed in the files with my team that helped, along with Jahn's team, of the Braddick, the South African Airforce version of the turboprop Dakota. That's great, glad I could share with what seems to be now missing out there in the wild. The files will remain in place for as long as my Box account runs (i.e when I'm dead and flying in the ultimate "air space"). I have the same issue at Sim-Outhouse, also a long standing member. It seems that something goes wrong with either their server, or our parts of the world connecting to it. I send them emails and they fix it, they truly do, and it works for a while, then falls over. So they are always on a backburner for me, as a store or resource for good quality material. So I focus on a local site AvCom, both real world and virtual aviation, and then AVSIM and FlightSim.com. I am also a member of two virtual aviation clubs here in our province called Gauteng. One at Swartkops Airforce base VACS, and one on Kempton Park SIMSA. So I'm glad to at least help out the communtiy in my small part. Have a great day Regards Andrew Brown

I see a large number of people finding the links and downloading the files. I get notifications of the downloads. Hope you are all enjoying both aircraft. Jahn and team also make a great pure DC3. Fly well and fly high. Regards

I need to disagree with you on your statement about high fidelity. I have the entire Carenado fleet for X-Plane, and most of the same models for FSX, and by far they don't compare, not in eye candy and graphic detail, nor in actual flight, preparation etc. The XP Carenado models are a far better joy to fly than the same in FSX. Whether we like it or not and what we have cut our teeth on, FSX has reached it's peak and old age, and remains riddled with bugs never to be fixed, along with P3D carrying over these same issues. There comes a time when we have to acknowledge and accept that everything gets old, and it's time to move on. I have just added to my collection for XP recently, the superb Pilatus PC-12 by Shade Tree Micro, the Diamond DA42 Twin Star by Aerobask, and the latest release of the C-17 Globemaster III from Virtavia (I have the FS9 and FSX version of this from same name as comparison). These are fine models released by very competent names, and the fidelity, flight model and overall satisfaction of my purchase very rewarding. That's why I personally am waiting patiently for the first PMDG model in XP. Again these equivalent models in FSX are no comparison now. Regards

Tried again to add links from Box, four of them refuse to embed. Strange that only one above did ????? [EDIT] Finally, regenerated the share link, and it's working. This is the Braddick add-on sound https://app.box.com/s/g39f91qixxy91p6f24meehdwgc7o4r1e Spray Effects https://app.box.com/s/c00x93qra67k6cny9nlqz9htbpmfcksb Basler add-on sound https://app.box.com/s/94aiyis2zxtn2so2d75603eq67sao49t Basler HD Gauges r3 https://app.box.com/s/mvkufviuhiay4evc3ijqua64evi08jfo

Hi Francois It seems no-one has answered you, but I am, having discovered your post only now, and I can help. Firstly there is an extensive "Documents" folder in the Basler BT-67 v2.0 download that will help you start the aircraft and plan a flight. I cannot find the "ready to print checklist (Basler%20BT67%20Checklist.pdf)" you indicate other than the mentioned PDF's. Here are links to the HD gauges v3 and spray effects, along with a more accurate sound pack. These are linked to my Box online storage. Read all documentation carefully to have a succesful install and update. (Some of the links refuse to post from Box, for some strange reason. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll drop the links in a reply email) You may also be interested in a project I was involved with, and using the help of the same team that designed the Basler. I am South African, and we have the Braddick project here in our SAAF, with modified DC3's and turbo prop engines. The teams involved helped me realise a model that represented our TP Daks, as we call them. My team along with the Basler team are listed in the readme's. The main difference visibly between the Basler and Braddick, is round engine nacelles on the Braddick, side draught exhaust on the Braddick, compared to the Basler, longer extension forward of the wing root to cockpit on the Braddick to the Basler, and the original main wingtips retained from the DC3 on the Braddick, the Basler are squared off. Anyway you can read the full history in the readme's between Jahn and myself. Two links to the base model here http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib.php?do=copyright&fid=170403 http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/15820/fsx-braddick-dc-3tp-c-47tp-turbo-dakota/ And some add-ons I have in my Box account, an HD panel adn updated sound (this latter link will also not post here, as above. Send me a PM for an email address). https://app.box.com/s/gntlrp599eavbzdeem6uae7uy9d9h51t (HD Panel for both Braddick and Basler) Hope this helps you and you see my reply to your request. Cheers

To add my two cents worth, and to not say something that will add conflicting report to my post, I am just going to say HHOORRAAHH!!. At last we who do love XP along with the other combat and non-combat simulators, both modern and long in the tooth, have a quality software house giving us a great model. I see both parties, and us as the consumer/enthusiast, benefitting from this union. PMDG I am sure will discover things inside XP and feed back to Austin, who I hope in his wisdom will surely fix and improve XP. We the consumer and enthusiast will get an even better product in XP through this, and it must happen that as the word of mouth and advertising of this venture of both brands, reaches more and more ears, the base of support for XP will grow. And as I am sure all other parties who produce quality software add-ons will also want in on the action, so again, all benefits and we go forward with ever more exciting changes. This will then spin around for PMDG to offer even more models and features in possible up coming releases for XP. This is a win-win situation for all as I personally see it, and I look forward to those advances no matter what is on offer. I would like to just re-iterate that saying, maybe I don't have it right in it's entirety, but you get what I am on about "You can please all of the people some of time, and some of the people all of the time, but not please all of the people all of the time". With that, I say, I am looking forward to every post and advert, until the day of the launch of this model. I will personally buy it simply because it's the first PMDG for X-Plane, never mind it's complexity and beauty (YYEESS!!) 'nough said. Andrew Brown