hoolieman

Cheers. All working fine now. Just need to adjust FOV settings and I'm home and dry...

Thank you

After installing P3D (4.4) and PMDG737800 base package (1.20.8465) (from PMDG account Previous Orders / downloadable product info. page) on backup PC. MSG - PMDG DEBUG "Warning: the PMDG product was unable to create its work files. Please make sure that you are running Preper3D as administrator" Administrator privileges confirmed (Win10 account identity confirmed) Removed parental control software. Uninstalled and reinstalled PMDG. Uninstalled, re-downloaded and re-installed PMDG PMDG package still unloadable within P3D. Sim installation on back-up PC was due the following issue on primary PC: P3D & PMDG737 running stable for 18 months. Last week's Windows update had caused 2 issues. 1) [3rd party sim showing long load times and "The sound system could not be initialized! This could be because your sound hardware unavailable."] P3D also showing longer load times and when using PMDG aircraft there's a dramatic drop in frame rate to about 2 frames/sec. I've uninstalled and reinstalled P3D with guidance from the following pages: https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/519397-problems-purchasing-downloading-installing-or-activating-prepar3d/?tab=comments https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/523907-uninstallingreinstalling-prepar3d-v4/ https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/512291-uninstallingdeactivating-prepar3d-v3-v4/ (the only files I re-instated after the install were the saved PMDG737 scenarios in the "Prepar3D v4 Files" folder which I subsequently removed) PMDG737 worked briefly although the visuals took much longer to appear after initial load. After a couple of days the frame rate issue returned rendering the software unusable. I've also temporarily reduced the main monitor frame rate to 60hz from 120hz (3440x1440 G-sync) but this has no effect. 2nd monitor is 1920x1080 Avermedia Live Gamer HD Lite Pcie card installed but never used. TrackIR software's installed but not been used since the Windows update. Before I venture down the Windows recovery route any advice to resolve these issues would be most appreciated.