DragonAsh

Sheesh - a simple 'he didn't have it before, the sig was added retroactively' would have sufficed. Don't know why you have to make veiled threats when I was merely trying to clarify the requirements in a bit of a light-hearted fashion; heck I even added a little smiley face just so it was clear I wasn't shouting etc.

Am I missing something here? His full name is in his signature. As is mine. As is yours, btw. Do we need to have our full name in each and every post as well even if it's in our sig?? If so - you might want to start adding your full name - first and last - in each post :-)

Pretty good catch, I looked at that forever, even magnifying the image and couldn't make it out...

Buddy of mine posted the attached to my Facebook group. We're trying to figure out what plane we're looking at. Only clue we were given is that he took this waiting to take off from Chicago O'Hare.

Basically what it says in the title. I have a Saitek Radio Panel and SPAD. Up until now it's worked flawlessly. The last two times I've flown the PMDG 777, however, when I try to use Com 2, it doesn't work. Specifically, I can change the standby number with no problem, and can see the change is being recognized because the Com2 in the cockpit changes as well. But when I hit Act/Stby to make the standby number active, it resets 'standby' to whatever number I happened to already have active at the time. Com 2 is the only button this happens with; every other button (Com 1, Nav 1/2 etc) all work flawlessly. It has always worked flawlessly with the PMDG 777 as well. Since the problem appeared I haven't yet flown another airplane so don't know if this is a problem specifically with the PMDG or not. I'm on Windows 10 64-bit, FSX:Steam and everything is up to date. TIA, Scott

When you request 'Preflight check list please', what does the FS2Crew status bar say? It should say Pre Flight Checklist, I believe in white letters, to indicate that the FO has finished the pre-flight procedures. If it is <Pre Flight Procedures> in orange-ish font, it means the FO isn't ready yet. (I can't remember, but doesn't the FO say at some point, "I'm ready for the checklist"?) Are you saying that no matter how long you wait, the FO never completes the pre-flight proceduers?

Windows 10 here. I was already on a pretty beefy machine, but FS still feels a bit more lively, and Win10 overall definitely feels faster at just about everything, from boot up to loading programs. I just did an upgrade, not a clean install. Why not just do an update, see how you like it and how things work? It's a very quick and painless process to roll back to Win 7 within 30 days if you don't like it (you can of course go back to Win7 even after 30 days, it's just not quite as quick). The upgrade process itself is very quick and you lose nothing by rolling back other than a few minutes of your time.

Somewhat late to this thread, but thought I'd add my bit for future readers. That's a nice system, great performance yet still good value. One option you might have considered is to just have one 500G SSD as your 'main' drive, and have the second drive be a 2TB regular hard drive for files, backups and such. Given the significantly higher cost, having an SSD as a backup drive is somewhat over-kill (unless you're accessing it in-program a ton), and 500GB really isn't all that big. Just a thought; if nothing else you can always take out of the SSDs and make it the main drive in your other PC. Slightly more a concern for me is the power supply; 650W feels on the low side for the GTX 970 and that CPU. That's a great card, btw; great cost/performance ratio. It's the card I use in my main rig while I wait for the price of the Titan to come down to a level that doesn't require a second mortgage. Might want to double-check the recommended PSU for your card. Just as a quick check, based on a core i7 LGA 2011 CPU, standard desktop mobo, GTX 970, 4GB DDR3 x 2, 2 SSDs and no optical drive, newegg's power supply calculator recommends PSU wattage of at least 700W. Other than that, it's a nice system; you're going to love flying on it. Have fun!

*Shrug* I have a pretty beefy machine, so for me the gains haven't been earth-shatteringly noticeable - yet even I've noticed small improvements in frame rates and memory usage, particularly on longer flights in resource hogs such as PMDG's 777. I'm not an IT guy, so you may well be correct in saying that there's nothing in Win10 that directly impacts the performance of FSX - but that doesn't mean there isn't an improvement if Win10 does directly impact the overall performance of the PC, including optimized memory management and such, right? There are still a few quirks here and there with Win10 that need to be ironed out. If you're a bit paranoid about privacy (why would you be posting online) you'll probably want to be a bit diligent. But as an OS Win10 is just flat-out better at pretty much everything - and if you don't like it, go back to what you had and you can get back every penny you paid for it. Oh wait....

Sheesh - paranoid much? You do realize those are merely settings that you have *complete control over* right?

Just to clarify: I do think it highly likely that you will not be able to use your old Win 7/8.1 product key on a *new* PC if you're still using Windows 10 - in other words, Win10 is free if you're upgrading from the old OS, it's not free to install on a new PC while you keep using Win 7 etc. on a second PC. That's not saying your product key is killed - this has always been the case; if you purchased an upgrade version of a new OS, you could only install it on a PC that already had an existing working version of an earlier OS (or in some cases a full version of MS Office). There were ways of getting around it...doesn't mean it was legal. The only difference here is that you're getting the Windows 10 upgrade for free. There has been nothing - nada, zero, zilch - from Microsoft suggesting that you could not go back from Win 10 to your old OS, with the product key being usable again after uninstalling Win 10. It gets harder after 30 days because the convenient 'roll-back' option disappears. There are some quirks related to retail vs OEM versions and possible issues with hardware changes, but those are not 'new' to Win10, those have always been issues. If people want to claim evidence of something based on an internet post, here's another internet post, a comment to the same article quoted by the thread starter:

Excellent, exactly what I wanted to hear! (well, not exactly; 'a new version is coming out tomorrow, for the upcoming PMDG 747 V2 which is also coming out tomorrow) is what I wanted to hear. More time to spend with the 777 :-)

You're saying you want proof that Microsoft *isn't* deactivating your Windows 7/8.1 product key 30 days after you install Windows 10? You want proof that the world isn't actually run by Martians while I'm at it? I repeat - people freaking about the 'I can't go back to my old O/S!' are doing so because the system removes the quick 'n' easy roll-back option after 30 days. It has nothing, zero, zilch to do with ability to re-install. If you're doing the update to Windows 10 on a working, activated, legitimate version of Win 7/8.1, the product key for the earlier OS is saved. Or you can wipe everything and do a full re-install that way, either with the disc or after downloading an ISO file - Microsoft has made the ISO images of both the Win7 and Win10 files available - again, assuming you have a product key. The only possible exception to this would probably be significant hardware changes. Instead of asking for proof of something that doesn't exist, why don't you provide your proof that Microsoft is deactivating the earlier O/S product key? You know, actual proof, and not a post from another internet forum? Do you really think Microsoft would simply ignore the conditions outlined in the original contract agreement they made with people that purchased their versions of Win 7/8.1?

**shock horror* a software company wants people to use their product! Microsoft provided support for WinXP long, long long after Win 7 came out. You think they're going to shut down Win7/8.1 just for kicks and giggles? They're committed to extended support for those systems through 2020 and 2023, respectively (Win10 extends through 2025). The whole 'you only have a month to make up your mind' is a bogeyman spread either unintentionally by less-intelligent people - you know, the ones that get taken in by the 'your computer is infected' fake anti-virus popups, or intentionally by trolls. If you perform an update from Win 7 or Win 8.1 to Win 10, for 30 days there is a 'go back to your previous OS' choice from the Start menu (look under 'Update and security'). It removes Win 10 and puts you back on your previous OS. After 30 days, the system removes the several gigabytes of installation files - probably to free up space (if you haven't already deleted the files yourself, probably for the same reason). But there is nothing - absolutely nothing - from stopping you from doing a clean reinstall of Win 7/8.1 or heck go hard-core and reinstall WinXP if you want, assuming you have a purchased version and an ISO file on a disc or USB drive and a product key. Long-time simmers have almost certainly done their share of reinstalls over the years as it is.... Stop this stupid spreading of a rumor that is obviously, ridiculously wrong (or would be to anyone that spent a minute or two thinking about it).

(Originally posted in the legacy 747 forum, but perhaps that's not being looked at, so thought I'd try my luck here). I've just been promoted to Captain at my VA, which means the 747 is now available to me. I've gotten so used to FS2Crew as my First Officer, I wouldn't dream of hopping in to the Queen of the Skies without him...except the current 747 options look a bit...dated. Do the 747 voiced products work with FSX:SE? And perhaps more importantly, is a 'Reboot' of the 747 product in the works? Thanks in advance guys, Scott