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It looks like the used system, with the SSD's and gtx970 you already have is worth getting. You won't actually realize a lot of performance increase with the 4790K over the 4930K...

I was curious where the best place to look would be for operating the various native aircraft available in P3D. I decided to try taking a P-51 out for a spin and promptly killed the engine... I'm not sure what I didn't do properly (probably something to do with oil or coolant) but it got me to thinking that good reference material would be nice to have. A repository of all of them would be great if it exists.

I agree...using one or two SSD drives will not make a bit of difference in how FSX runs... HOWEVER, for the sake of simplicity, using one SSD for OS and applications is my personal preference...put the data files on a regular HDD and configure windows accordingly...

Right about the power supply but I can find a whole lot of MB's with two PCIe X16 slots for well, well, under the $300 mark. As for the case and cooling, yeah, could be an issue... However, the additional video card isn't needed anyway for multiple monitor use.

That indicates that you have somehow lost administrator control of your system. If you have multiple user profiles, ONE, or more, of them should be an administrator level user with all permissions.

I hate it when that happens...

Wobbie, when I upgraded my graphics card, not only did the frame rate increase but, the performance/responsiveness of my simulator overall greatly improved... no more delays between moving a control and seeing the effect so the whole experience improved. I can only speculate as to why that happened.

With the 610 and two monitors, the frame rate was usable at about 20FPS average. The real problem was that I had a lot of artifacts and horizontal lines that looked like garbled video showing. I upgraded to a GTX 760 and it ran both monitors fine and frame rates went up about 60%. Right now, I have the gtx 760 driving the main simulator monitor and the 610 installed to drive my second monitor. Both monitors are working quite well in that configuration but, doing that did not improve anything really...

That might be fine for FS2004 but, if you plan to 'expand' your simulator experience, you might soon find that the graphics card and the processor are not quite up to snuff. If you can, go for a better graphics card and processor. AMD FX series is OK but you'll want faster clock speeds and possibly more cores. I'm running a GTX 760 graphics card and an FX-6350 six core processor at over 4GHZ. It's doing well until I also start doing screen capture to record my simulator flights... then the frame rates drop a bit and the processor gets hotter than what is good for it. I had a 610 for a graphics card but, it simply could not keep up with two monitors.

You already know that you will probably have to contact Microsoft support in order to activate Windows on the new MB. Once that's done, everything should cook right along. I seriously doubt you'll have to do a full reinstall of Windows. Enjoy the performance increase!

It depends on the level of realism you want to experience. If you want to get as real as you can, then the pedals are a requirement. Otherwise, if you're not too worried about coordinating turns so that the tail isn't flung around or if crashing in crosswind landings is kind of a fun thing to do, or try to beat, then you could be happy without them.

Exactly...

So much to learn! I'll be busy for the next year and a half...which is actually what I want.

OK, guys, think I got it now. thank you! I guess I had it a bit wrong on what the prop pitch control would do for me and also how the sim would react... tapping the brakes during taxi it is!

Thanks WarpD... I can see how things could get bad with high, unopposed, RPM. But, I noticed this mostly during taxi to runway. At first, I thought it was a throttle issue that I could not regulate my taxi speed without basically cutting the throttle completely, letting the airplane slow a bit, the barely apply throttle until it neared 20 knots and cut it again. Then, I figured, if I can reduce the prop pitch, then the throttle would have less immediate effect and perhaps I could taxi at a respectable 10 knots instead of 20. But, no matter where I have the prop pitch lever, the airplane is soon taxiing at 20 knots with barely any throttle at all.

Do any other programs or games experience freezing or similar symptoms?

I can assign a lever axis to the propeller pitch and when I look in the cockpit, I can see the associated lever move as I move the lever on my controller so, that seems to work just fine. The thing is that whether the lever is at 0% pitch or 100% pitch, the aircraft responds exactly the same to throttle...like it's stuck at 100% all the time. If I try to take off with the lever set at 0%, I can do so easily even though I do get a warning light. So, it would appear that I either do not understand prop pitch or I have not properly configured my controls... This is with P3D default aircraft like the King Air 350 and such... all the propeller aircraft I have tried respond the same so far.

I went from a gtx660 to a gtx760, for a variety of reasons, and more than doubled the fps I get. I really think your cpu running at 3.4GHZ (interpreting #.40) is good enough for the most part and the upgrade of your graphics card will yield the most in performance increase. So, with that in mind, go for the beswt graphic card you can realistically afford...

Thanks! that led me in the right direction! I now have FSUIPC set so that Ctrl+ '-' fine steps on zoom out and Ctrl+ '+' fine steps zooming in...

Other than getting EZDok or other addon payware, I was wondering if there was a way to have the zoom function take 'smaller steps'. When using either the keyboard for zooming in and out or the mouse wheel (FSUIPC), the zoom will go quite a bit farther than I would prefer. If there is a setting in a configuration file I can change on that, I would be most grateful for someone telling me where it is and what effect the changes might have.

Thanks! I've been running the trial version for the last several days and planned on buying...

That should get the job done...and then some!

Hmmmm, I'm only going by the 'best current' technical advise I had at the time I built my system... they were saying that the SSD's would fail quicker the more write cycles any given memory location went through... of course, the same could be said of magnetic media too I think so, you're probably right on target.

You're right "Reverse thrust" is not there. Look under throttle controls for "decrease" or "decrease rapidly". THAT is how you reverse the thrust.

Assign those switches to revers thrust and enable them to repeat (like what happens if you hold down a keyboard key)... that way, the longer they are in that position, the more reverse thrust will be applied until you get full reverse thrust.