Jim Young

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You should monitor the AVSIM Microsoft Flight Simulator forum. No one really knows but I heard from a developer somewhere that it will run better than P3D and FSX even in computers with lower power. You might find a discussion about this in the MS Flight Sim Forum. Current projection for release is Nov 2020. P3DV3 and earlier are 32-bit applications and you would have a good chance of running old stuff there. P3Dv4 is a 64-bit app and you may run into issues with textures not compatible.

Display driver settings should be using native resolution and try the various scaling settings under Display>Adjust desktop size and position. Mine is currently set at Full Screen. In P3D settings, make sure the native resolution is also shown correctly. Have no other suggestions if that does not work. It should work correctly no matter the size of the monitor.

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To add, I'm not too excited about the title too.

Just woke up from a very long nap and apologize for the delay in responding. The reason I removed the thread was because of the following quote in the AOL article: “This is such a s**t show,” one employee wrote to another on a chat system in mid-2018. “Totally,” a colleague replied, “I’ll be shocked if the FAA passes this t**d.” I do not know why AOL author decided to put that into his/her article. I was hoping you would have posted another related article w/o the four-letter words. I think links to other websites are an extension of the AVSIM web pages. Now, "s**t" is not all that bad but it is a word that is not allowed on AVSIM. Certainly you could have found another link about this story that did not contain words we ban on AVSIM. For instance, here's another article that did not include the four letter words - https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/business/boeing-documents/index.html Before I make a link to an article, I make sure it is not filled with inappropriate/banned words on AVSIM and, if it does, I do not link it or will find a similar article or summarize the article in my OP. I hope this explains why I removed the link.

Enable all cores. You cannot assign FSX to just cores 3 thru 8. FSX was developed in 2006 and developers had no idea whatsoever what a core was when FSX was released. If you have ANY tweaks in your FSX.cfg, get rid of them. See the AVSIM FSX Configuration Guide.

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I heard Iran is not going to turn the black boxes over to Boeing so they can try to determine the cause of the crash. I know what my gut is telling me about that.

Download completed. Yeah! This is not just a repaint but it contains everything needed to have a complete aircraft! The OS777-300ER_Emirates folder goes under the Airplane folder in your FSX directory. There is a modules folder and those two files go into the main FSX/Modules folder (just the files). There is an Effects folder. Move all of this files over to the FSX/Effects folder. Make sure you unzip the file zipped file first and then just move the OS777-300ER-Emirates to the SimObjects/Airplane folder. Here are the directions located in the Readme file: INSTALL FSX: 1. Unzip to a Tempfolder. 2. Move the folder 'OS777-300ER_Emirates' to the 'FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes' directory.

It looks like this is just an add-on texture for the Posky 777-300ER and just a repaint. Did you install the aircraft? I'm trying to download the file now but it looks like it will take all night for the download to complete as I do not have a premium membership.

I continue to read reviews and more reviews about the Odyssey G9 so my decision to buy is not set in concrete. Good thing monitor makers announce the product long before the release. I'm not excited about the Korean based LG Electronics and definitely prefer Samsung so it does not make much difference to me if LG has a product that may out-shine similar monitors, including those made down the street by Samsung. I think the 38 inch size of the LG is about perfect for gaming but, as you indicate, think this monitor is very expensive at $1800. I have done more research on Samsung's Odyssey G9 and some "experts" are saying you will need a very powerful computer for gaming. I have a powerful computer but know MSFS2020 will have a lot of textures to render and may have difficulties rendering the textures on a 49 inch monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate (maybe even a 60Hz refresh rate). At 60 Hz, it would probably be okay but it would be a waste of money to go to a 240Hz. So buying the G9 would only be a future proof purchase in the hopes GPU's and CPU's will be released sometime in the near future to give me anything close to 240Hz. I could probably get to 120Mz with lower P3D or MSFS2K20 but that does not sound exciting. Right now, I think the OP is getting the best purchase at 49 inches and the 120Hz refresh rate. I heard Microsoft is planning to use tech to allow higher FPS on systems that are not all that powerful so getting to 120Hz may soon be attainable but not 240Hz. I have the Dell 34 inch monitor and like it a lot and will probably sit back and watch the reviews or comments here on AVSIM from someone who purchased the Odyssey G9. To get back on topic, it is possible to do what you want. I split my 34 inch screen in the middle with Dell's Display Manager and put Spot View on the right screen and it works perfectly with no depreciation of FPS. This way, when you land, you can also watch your pinpoint landing on the center of the runway! The software that comes with your monitor should provide the ability to split the screen in several different ways (I split the main screen so that it fills 3/4's of the screen). You simply undock the second view and move the view to the other screen. This is the first time I have done anything like this on my Dell 34 inch screen and it is pretty neat (thanks for the idea). If you click on the spot view screen to make it active, you can use your controller to look around the aircraft and go to other views, even back into the VC. With the Display Manager still open while running P3DV4, I can split the screen in another configuration without having to restart P3D. You can go to either screen without pausing the sim but the outside view will have different sounds. You will have plenty of time to experiment once you get your new monitor. I have a second monitor hooked up too and can move the second view over to that monitor and leave the full VC on the 34" screen too. Fun stuff!

Check this link - https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=128981

These have already all been reported to the AVSIM Tech. We hope to find a fix soon. Thanks for report and apologize for any inconvenience.

See also the pinned topic at the top of this forum.

The Microsoft activation server will be there almost forever as FSX is not the only MS software that requires activation.

Absolutely no problems with P3Dv4! I suspect X-Plane will have no issues too. I have FSX (boxed) installed but, if I ever run into issues with it again, it will be gone MSFS2020, to be released sometime this year, will replace FSX (boxed).

There are many who have had the infamous ntdll.dll error even as far back as fs9 (maybe FS2K2). I have had the error several times over the years and once, Ray and I worked together in resolving an ntdll/StackHash error we both were getting (turned out to be aircraft textures belonging to US Air Force AI aircraft installed by MyTrafficX. We just knew it was MTX and not the exact reason). The latest ntdll I had was with ASP4 about a year ago. I would be sitting at a Wash Dulles (FlightBeam) gate in a PMDG 777 or CS 757 in heavy weather (it really did not matter the aircraft). At the gate or just after takeoff, the sim would crash and throw the ntdll.dll error as the faulting module. I could replicate it 100% of the time but only in heavy weather. If it was just raining or drizzling, no crash. It had to be heavy weather. I sent a trouble ticket to HiFi explaining the issue. Before DaveO could diagnose it (he's very good), I remembered the AVSIM CTD Guide where it was recommended the dll.xml (there are usually two in P3DV4 or higher) should be renamed and the sim restarted. I had not done this yet and decided to give it a try while waiting for an answer from HiFi. Set up similar scenarios with heavy weather at Dulles. No crash at the gate. No crash at takeoff and no crash at cruising level. I would reactivate the dll.xml's I had renamed, run the scenario with heavy weather and immediately got a ntdll CTD. I knew it had to be one of the modules being loaded by the dll.xml's but which one? I had so many. I remembered Carenado installed the CMeteoXml.dll. I had heard it was most likely the gauge was used for depicting weather in Carenado aircraft. I knew that everyone who owned P3D had this module installed as some Carenado aircraft were installed as the default in P3D. I disabled CMeteoXml in the dll.xml and the crashes stopped. So, this is part of the "fun" we get whenever we get an unexplained CTD in P3D or FSX... spending many hours, days, and weeks searching and investigating the cause(s) for a faulting module like the ntdll. Lockheed Martin could have made it much easier for me by showing CMeteoXml.dll as the faulting module but it threw the ntdll.dll instead. As I remember, Carenado said it was an issue with P3D and not Carenado and Lockheed techs were going to issue an update to P3D to fix it. The problem went away after an update to P3D was released. The AVSIM CTD Guide, page 35, provides other possible fixes I found while searching all FS forums around the Internet.

Normally, the ntdll error occurs when the cpu voltages are too high or too low. This is why AVSIM recommends going back to the Optimal defaults in the BIOS. Some people have fixed this problem by renaming their p3D.cfg and letting it rebuild. Your HDD is most likely not at fault. When there is a hardware problem, your system should trigger a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The aircraft from FSLabs is not at fault. You have another add-on that is not compatible. Did you update your drivers. There are updates to the sys bus, usb ports, hdd's, etc., etc. Just search the Internet. I use Driver Booster and, when I first installed my brand new system, Driver Booster found a lot of updates. It's free. Best regards, Jim

Page 26, AVSIM CTD Guide provides information on Microsoft Visual's and Microsoft.net (there's a link to a repair program). This error is thrown when there is a problem with the installation or you do not have the right Microsoft.net needed by the developer to run his add-on. In regards to anti-virus programs, Windows Defender does a lot of damage too. They have an Exclusion feature where they will block anything they do not trust (not quarantine) to save you from mean people. You have to exclude all of your FSX-SE folders to include those belonging to add-ons. Microsoft had to do it as people around the world said their Windows OS was allowing viruses to get through and to "fix it". Of course it was not Microsoft's fault but damage was done anyway. So Microsoft has decided to exclude files and folders of add-ons they do not like or used an old installer to install the program. If you want more info on the faulting module, go to the following link: https://www.processlibrary.com/en/directory/files/msvcrt/20015/

Page 26, AVSIM CTD Guide provides information on Microsoft Visual's and Microsoft.net (there's a link to a repair program). This error is thrown when there is a problem with the installation or you do not have the right Microsoft.net needed by the developer to run his add-on. In leak91's case, the issue was solely with FSXWX and we have seen a lot of issues with FSXWX lately. Best regards, Jim

I believe it is because PMDG has its own camera views and they are conflicting with EZCA3. Read where it says in the manual to disable one or the other.

After 16 pages, topic is going/went South and is no longer of any value to the community. Topic locked.

This is what word/initials not allowed was designed to do. It is a sub-forum of this forum and cost comparisons should be discussed there. AVSIM is only trying to keep the peace here in "this" topic and forum.

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