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I went ahead and installed the new driver. No particular improvements noticed, but also no particular problems noticed, at least so far. At least the driver is now up to date.

Has anyone tried the new driver with an older RTX 30** card? I have a 3080, and I'm still on driver 581.08. It works well enough, but I don't like getting too far behind in driver updates. I had tried moving up to one of the 600 driver series before, but it was a stuttery mess, and so I rolled back. I guess I could experiment, but I hate having to uninstall/reinstall drivers if I don't like the result. Thanks for any advice.

Thanks for the suggestions. I cleared all cookies associated with FSto, then added UBlock Origins Lite, and turned off Browser Guard, and that allowed me to get back in to FSto without problem and pop ups. I then turned Browser Guard back on, and now no problems (I like Malwarebytes and their Browser Guard) . But I still have a sour taste in my mouth about this, and I stand by what I said before: I would kindly request all those talented people who freely upload their addons and products to Flightsim.to to also use the new guaranteed forever free site Hangar Addons at https://hangaraddons.com/ Lest we forget, it can be dangerous to have all the flightsim addons in one basket, as we saw with the AVsim Library disaster of a decade ago. Thanks all.

I guess it had to happen sooner or later. When I went to access Flightsim.to this morning, I got the message that I could no longer access the site unless I turned off my ad blocker. The problem is, I don't use an ad blocker, I use Malwarebytes Browser Guard. And Browser Guard doesn't block ads per se, it blocks, "malware, scams, phishing and trackers". I take this to mean that Flightsim.to doesn't want to merely display adds, it also wants to install tracking cookies in my pc to monitor my browsing habits. And that I draw the line at. I also very much dislike financial blackmail, which I take this to be. If they want to run a voluntary donation drive, then I would be more than happy to contribute. So, I would kindly request all those talented people who freely upload their addons and products to Flightsim.to to also use the new guaranteed forever free site Hangar Addons at https://hangaraddons.com/ I won't be visiting Flightsim.to any longer. Sorry for the rant everyone, and maybe it's something we all should get used to and just bow our heads, but as said this kind of thing makes my blood boil.

Not yet on MP, at least last time I looked a few hours ago. It is available on Orbx: https://orbxdirect.com/product/burningbluedesign-global-vegetation

I'm not certain, but I think the fauna is like the default shipping: you have to be close enough before any animals appear. That said, I haven't seen much of any animals. But once when I landed in the middle of the South Australian outback, and had the avatar out and walking around just to take a look, a herd of wild cgi horses, maybe half a dozen or more, came thundering over the hill and past me. Although all cqi grey in colour, and maybe not that realistic looking, still it was kind of a startling moment, what with pounding hooves and dust clouds rising up (I had Fauna set to Ultra). So the fauna are there if you happen to be in the right place at the right time, and I guess close enough for them to appear.

Well, yesterday, just for the heck of it, I fired up P3D4.5 (I still have it installed, I don't know why) and went for a flight. I lasted 5 minutes before I signed out and went back to 2024. Agreed, there are a lot of visual anomalies in 2024 that should get fixed, but there are a whole lot more in past flight sims, including 2020. Maybe MSFS 2028, or perhaps MSFS 2032, will be better...

Just fyi, according to Flysimware on their Discord channel (I quote): "The current issue is not with the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 servers themselves. It is a Microsoft/Xbox authentication service outage that's affecting Xbox services across multiple games and applications, including MSFS 2024".

And so maybe that's why I've had no problems starting MSFS 2024 today because I purchased from Steam.

Vancouver, Canada: just tried, and no problems starting and flying in MSFS 2024 here. I had also tried maybe an hour and a half ago just to look in the MP to see if anything new, and no problems then either. Luck of the draw I guess.

I'm trying to learn the Dauphin, and making some progress, but I have a question about the Beep Trim in SAS mode. According to the manual (section 13.3.3), when ASE is de-selected, either by selecting SAS or turning the TRIM FEEL CYC switch off, the Beep Trim should then act as a conventional trim. I assumed this meant the Beep Trim would then act as corrective trimming, like in the Hughes 500, to counteract the effect a spring loaded joy stick. But when I try using SAS or turn the TFC switch off, the Beep Trim no longer works. I can still manually fly the Dauphin, but I have to hold the stick (cyclic) against the springs, which gets old really fast. Am I missing something? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but as said, still very much learning.

Note that there are keyboard assignments available for Left and Right Rudder trim and Left and Right Aileron trim, as well as resets for both. Sorry, I'm not at the sim right now to see what the default key assignments are (not all have default keys assigned, but are available). You can search for them in the sim. The other thing I've done, since I also don't have foot pedals, is to assign Left-Right differential braking to the same axis as my rudder control. It works for some planes that only have differential braking for ground taxiing. Just some suggestions.

@Paladin2005 : you're correct, only some of the default Reims Rocket liveries, like the Reims Rocket N7774J, have proper dynamic registration. The rest, like the D-EEDL or the D-EEZU, appear to have fixed registration, and if you try to use the dynamic registration to add your own, it will appear underneath the fixed registration, as you noticed. I didn't try all the available default liveries, so you may need to go through yourself to find out which have proper dynamic registration. I don't know if there's anyway to fix the fixed registration liveries, and make them dynamic. I think all you could do is speak to the dev, or either do yourself, or get someone to do, your desired livery with dynamic registration.

Hi Bert. What they're talking about is under: General -> Online -> Traffic Type -> Real Time Online/AI Offline (experimental)/Off. Note that the Traffic Type setting makes no distinction between AI Air Traffic and AI Shipping traffic. so the setting you choose here effects both. If you use Real Time Online, you'll see lots of GAIST ships, in their real life positions, but the data feed gives no indication of type or size, and just about all boats and ships over 30 feet these days have transponders. The result, especially visible in busy harbours, is that you get huge oil tankers and container ships stacked up on top of each other like cordwood, where there should be just pleasure and fishing boats. But if you use AI Offline, you hardly see any GAIST ships at all. Hendrik could only suggest using Real Time Online when flying over open ocean, and switching to AI Offline when over harbours. Personally, I went to using the payware Seafront Simulations. It's OK, with good ship models, and fills the oceans with ships, but not as complete coverage as GAIST. They get around the shipping problem by using an outboard app that doesn't use the sims own AI shipping engine. But if GAIST ever got working properly in 2024, I would go back to using it. -Bob

Sorry, delete post, not what I thought might be causing the right veering effect in my planes.