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When you do a speedtest the results are in bits per second (so your getting 50 megabits/sec) when you download a file in chrome it shows in bytes per second. There are 8 bits in one byte so you can multiply the chrome download speed by 8 to convert to bits/sec which should be close to the speedtest result

https://github.com/AIRLegend/aitrack

Its free, runs on the PC and uses your webcam.. so unlike smartphone versions there is no lag waiting for the data to be sent across wifi.

Start a new free flight, select departure point and choose flight conditions, select custom weather, change the ground level wind to be a 90 degree x-wind at 25 kts, add another wind layer at 2000 feet same direction/speed, click back to map view, see the wind has updated in the icon, load the flight, roll past the limp looking wind sock, rotate and take hands off the controls and I'm flying straight as an arrow.

Anyone else have this, or anyone else have wind working correctly? (live weather is disabled)

When I switch to external view, how can I stop the camera floating around the aircraft? I want just a locked position? 

Works good inside cockpit but when I switch camera to outside it doesn't work. Anyway to have it work in both? 

Started the sim today after using it for 2 weeks, for some reason it started asking me all the initial setup questions again. When I went into controllers, all my controllers have been defaulted again.

I'm resigned to the fact I will need to redo them all again, but is there a file somewhere I can backup once I have done it again incase this happens again?

Saitek cessna yoke = no

Saitek throttle quadrant =no

Saitrk trim wheel=no

Saitek combat rudder pedals =yes

18 hours ago, pinepix62 said:

The axis for the throttle quadrant linked to my Saitek yoke did not show up as a separate device but as additional axes on the yoke (5 in total), the same goes for the buttons on the quadrant.

genius, thats what my issue was, would have never figured that out! cheers.

That's weird, i just have one and it hasn't shown up at all. Did it just show up for you or did you have to plug unplug it to detect it? 

Seems like there is a resolution for controllers (manually setting them up) but what about panels? I have saitek multi panel / radio panel / switch panel no life from any of them by default.

I installed spad.next trial which seems to get them working but would prefer a free solution.

I actually managed to solve my issue, the "min movement" value in fsuipc was very high for the throttle, after changing that to a lower value I managed to get a far better improvement in throttle repsonse, I would not say butter smooth but lets call it $50 smooth!

try plugging into USB port that is directly on the motherboard and try a few different port,s sounds like its not getting enough juice.

Hi all,

I have the saitek throttle quadrant, been using it for a while now and have it configured in fsuipc. What I am noticing is, with the mixture lever, it works pretty good, its reasonably smooth and idle cutoff on the lever shows 0% on the sim, and rich on the lever shows 100% on the sim so all good there. but the throttle lever, I go full throttle and sometimes it will show 100%, some times 88% almost something different everytime. When I pull back to idle on the lever (into the detent area) sometimes its 0% sometimes its 12% etc - same spot different value.

When I looked at the axis config in FSUIPC, sure enough, putting the lever to full 4-5 times in a row shows a different max value everytime! The other issue is, using the throttle from idle 0% and slowly pushing it up wont register any change until it jumps to 26% so its not smooth at all. Have played around with the slope but has not made any difference.

I guess this is a cheap hardware issue, but would be great if there was a way to fix it. If all also fails I might try setup the pitch lever as the throttle!

Would be interested to see comparison of the 8600k vs the 7700k. More power per thread on the 7700k and only a tad more expensive.

Hi, no its not a good PC.

CPU is most important, you would have no luck trying to run pmdg on that. If you are wanting to get a machine for flight sim your minimum would be i5 2600k + gtx 680

For a good experience you would need a minimum i5 6600k + gtx 970

Hi guys, is it true under win7 I cannot run one monitor at 4k and another at a lower resolution?

Also how can I be sure that the conenction type I want to use, ie. HDMI will support 4k, I heard that also may be a bit of a gotcha with 4K TV's. Is there something I should look for in the specs?

If you have the money, definitely go for the better CPU, P3D and especially FSX will use it to its full potential.

I think Titan Z is too overkill, P3D certainly wont use it to its full potential, FSX will barely touch it -unless you a planning on using this machine for other gaming. A GTX 1070 with 8GB Ram is plenty (or the 1080).

GTX 970 here with 4K on 43" Visio.  Works like a charm.

 

Are you overclocking?  One thing I have noticed is that P3D crashes after about 10 minutes every time if I overclock above multiplier of 43.  Windows doesn't crash, just P3D.  If I drop multiplier to 43x, then P3D will run all day long.

I can now successfully run 4k without issue. Believe it or not, it was all due to having disabled windows page file. When I built this pc some years ago it was the first time i had used an SSD, and I read somewhere if you had 8Gb+ of RAM you should disable it, never had an issue until I flicked DSR on and ran P3D at 4k, almost instant OOM or crash. I enabled page file on my mechanical drive only, and never had a crash since!

That is useful information. Any idea what response time and contrast ratio your Vizio is?

When I tried running DSR and running P3D at 4k, P3D would crash in less than a minute so I'm not sure I should be going for a 4k!

Yes I have 4 monitors connected to my PC, 2 are for flight sim, 1 is the 37 in LCD and the other is a 15inch LCD vga monitor.

I feel like the refresh rate of the TV may not suitable for gaming, also the price difference between a 27inch PC monitor and a 37inch TV is massive, which makes me think I am really missing out on something by using a TV.

Hi all,

I recently upgraded my graphics card to a GTX 980 (was on a 580), I have been able to crank up my display settings a fair bit, but the picture is still not smooth like others I have seen on youtube. (Neither is performance but I am well aware my CPU needs an upgrade too!)

I am using a Panasonic 37inch TV, its 1080p connected via HDMI running at 60hz  (10,000:1 Contrast and 100Hz Motion Picture Pro) . Am I wrecking my experience with a display like this? I have a real monitor on the other side of my desktop, which was when I bought it very high end (Samsung syncmaster) but its only 22inch and only does 1680x1050.

I like the size of this screen, unfortunately 4k screens in this size are still a bit pricey for me and my system I don't think will cope, anyone else using TV in this way and getting good results?

In many cases this is due to erratic content in dll.xml or exe.xml files. Best way to investigate, make a  backup copy of those files and delete the original ones. See what happens. When P3D loads correctly you have to investigate which entry in the xml files is the culprit. If you have ASN or AS16 running, run the latest patch/update again, this has sometimes cured my dll.xml and has repaired depending files.

legend thanks for that, renaming both those files allows me to startup. when I can be bothered this weekend ill have to play trial and error to figure out what is causing the issue!

Hi all,

p3d 3.3.5, everything was working fine, now the problem is, when I run prepar3d the splash screen disappears at about 5% into building scenery, and that's it, it wont complete the load, problem is, the process is still running, so because it hasn't actually crashed, there are no logs in event viewer or anything to indicate what the problem is.

Is there anywhere else I can look for logs that would indicate what the issue is? I have removed all my new addons, and rebooted, and cleared shaders folder etc but still same issue.

I see you have your operating system installed on an economy 5400rpm drive. That is very slow, to be honest I think you have shot yourself in the foot a little bit with that awesome set-up and then slowing it all down like that.

If I were you I would grab a cheap SSD off ebay, only needs to be small and migrate your windows onto that and use the mechanical purely for file storage and applications that don't need speed.

Check out Rob's post, he gives a good list at the bottom of the post on what settings will work best for you in regards to refresh rate vs frame rate

http://www.avsim.com/topic/475413-try-30hz-he-saiditll-be-smooth-he-said/?p=3301853

Also note I have been having great success using half refresh rate in NI on a 60hz monitor.