Wink207

On short final in VMC there is only one piece of information you look at inside the cockpit. Airspeed. Period. Nothing else. Your eyes are mainly outside looking at the lateral and vertical cues, and airspeed. Cessna or 747, all the same. Who knows what these guys were looking at

Well, I bought TrackIR 4 on sale and got around to working with it today. The install went smooth and it worked immediately with FS 9. However, I noticed a few things right away that I'd like some of your thoughts on if you have TrackIR and use it in FS 9. 1. The normal small movements of the head cause the mouse clicks in VC mode to be somewhat difficult as the mouse finger has to chace the button or switch as it jiggles due to head movement. Sometimes it catches it, and sometimes not. 2. The normal slight movement of the head also cause some shimmering in my panels in VC. 3. I wonder what the frame rate hit is, if any, with the TrackIR software running in the background. I understand there a re a lot of adjustments to make with the TrackIR software and I haven't taken that on yet. But I'd feel better if some folks who have used TrackIR and are happy with the performance and utility could chime in, maybe with a few tips. Your thoughts? Thanks Rick

yes thanks. I found dxdiag and discovered as you say I an running DX9

How do I know what I'm using????

Well, I'd appreciate some ideas on this one. I recently bought an HSI AMD/ATI HD 4670 AGP ll to update my geriatric Dell 8300. The card came with an OEM CD with drivers. I installed that and all went well and I'm very happy with the GPU. So I tried to get happier by installing the latest drivers. Went out to the AMD/ATI web page and downloaded what I thought was the right driver. I went through the driver uninstall process, then went through the installation of the latest driver. When the install dialogue was finished I rebooted but Windows came up in VGA with no Catalyst CM evident. Apparently nothing was installed. Any thoughts on where I went wrong?Thanks

Every now and then I get some sort of weird thing like this. What I do that usually works is start FS 9 by double clicking directly on one of the canned flights or adventures. More often than not, for some unknown to me reason, the nonsense will clear up.

Thank you for your thoughts. Sorry, yes I am running Xp and I've read where Xp can address up to 3 gig of memory. Also the newer memory may be faster than what I have now so I think I will order 2 gig and upgrade, removing the module I have now. As for the auto spoiler behavior, it must be an artifact of my throttle quadrant. I'll continue to fiddle with FSUIPC to see if I can calibrate it to work properly. Thanks again.

I've just returned to FS after a hiatus of several years and am really enjoying the return. I had a couple of questions I would appreciate your input on. 1. I am currently running FS 9 after years of FS 2002. I have an issue which has carried over concerning the auto spoiler deployment on big jets and on the biz jets I am currently flying. The issue is when I arm the auto spoilers on final, it won't stay armed. just jumps out and returns to stowed position almost immediately sometimes, and sometimes after a minute or two. Occasionally it will stay armed to touchdown and deploy as desired, but that is rare. No manner of calibrating the quadrant in Windows, FS, or FSUIPC makes any difference. Do you think this is just an artifact of my Go Flight throttle quadrant, or do others see this behavior as well. I did find, downloaded, and installed a gauge which arms and deploys the auto spoilers and thrust reverse, and that works nicely but I prefer to engage the reversers myself manually. Thoughts?? 2. My system is about 6 years old and consists of a Pentium 3.2 Gig, Radeon 1800 Pro 256, huge hard drive, FS 9, REX, Real Scene, Ultimate Traffic, and 1 Gig memory. The question is do you think my system performance in terms of frame rates would improve if I added another gig of memory. Thoughts??? Thanks in advance.