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Disregard the above. My rant was based on my own stupidity. As16 is awesome!

This an old thread, but if anyone is reading you might find my thoughts useful at http://tailspinstales.blogspot.com/2007/03/random-thoughts-on-flight-training.html

I'm uninstalling too. Contrails are nice, but no runway effects, and no support.

No ASN, no effects

Yup, I use ASN. I'll do some flights with it off and see what happens. Eager to see this fixed. I'll give up PrecipitFX before I give up ASN.

Well, my last post was sure confusing. Did I, or didn't I, use Steve's Fixer? Both, actually. I tried Precipi tFX first without running Steve's Fixer. Liked the results. But because the devs said to use it, I then did, and had the contrail problems, but fixed them using their advice to uncheck the Exclude Particle Effects in Steve's Fixer. But I'm doing something wrong: no tire spray on landing barely noticeable propwash on takeoff and in a few plane lengths even that small amount goes away altogether Suggestions?

I, too, installed and run PrecipitFX (with ASN) under DX-10 without Steve's fixes. Very happy with the results overall. Had the problem with contrails showing only a certain angles, but unchecking the Exclude Particle Effects in Steve's Fixer solved the problem. Not sure what's going on here; the props don't seem to create any prop blast on takeoff: This CaptainSim C-130 doesn't produce contrails either, all though the A2A B17 produces very nice ones with no frame rate impact. .

Fixed! The contrails are awesome. After almost 50 years of real life flying, when I did my best to avoid bad weather, I'm now going out of my way to find rain, snow and BS (blowing sand) with weather close to minimums because it, well, just looks so damn real!

Perhaps that's the problem? The installation instructions say nothing about changing the texture settings. I simply ran the installer, then the program, picked the first Soft Cloud texture set, and went flying. If you have a blurry mess, something must be set up wrong?

Yes, you're missing something, you're missing a whole lot!. Didn't do anything but run it to insert new textures and these screenshots will give you an idea how awesome it is, no tweaks involved. Best 11 bucks I ever spent. FSX, Active Sky Next. Yes, works very well with mountains. Don't look good from below? (Ignore the landing lights in the clouds. It's an Air Corps thing, I guess.)

Well DUH! The one thing I didn't try. Yes, the Kensington Trackball was the problem. Unplugged it, plugged in a regular mouse and LINDA is happy.

I found my solution: the Kensington Trackball I was using cause the problem. Wen't back to simple mouse and LINDA is happy.

Went through and unplugged each USB device, one by one. Restarting LINDA each time. Error persists. Unplugged everything but keyboard and trackball. Error persists.

Great, thanks.

So LINSA is unusable at this point?

Thanks Andy. But 'we failed' means there's no hope, no work around, no way to use LINDA?

The error is in a pop-up window that appears as soon as I launch LINDA. Any contribution you might offer will be greatly appreciated!

Infatuated with A2As B-17, I borrowed a Saitek yoke and stowed the Warthog stick/throttle I've used for a couple of years. Discovered I have a lot fewer buttons and switches without the HOTAS (duh), so I reconnected two Cougar MFDs and found, in the process, that FSUIPC doesn't talk to the three Saitek panels I use (thank you sweet wife). So I installed LINDA 1.13 by copying all the files into the FSX modules folder (after backing it up), and cut the stuff out of the FSUIPC4.ini and FSX controls file as directed. LINDA boots with an immediate 'Invalid pointer operation' error but otherwise claims everything is okay although it shows no devices. I've spent several hours scouring the web with Google's help, discovered I'm by no means the first with this headache, but haven't found a solution. I'm WIn7 SP1, FSX SP2 Accel, don't use Win8, TripleHead2Go, a second mouse or touch screen which have all been blamed as the problem and solution in the past. FWIW I used to run LINDA 1.11 but uninstalled it. Still, I wonder about registry issues. For that matter, ever since I installed the yoke my system has been very weird--slow to start, crash on shut down, etc. But after restart, when such occurs, it behaves itself. So... Anyone have any ideas?

Same problem. No solution?