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I'm upgrading my video card from a Geforce 3 TI 200 to an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Thinking about the 256MB one but I've heard the extra 128MB dosn't do much for FS9.My comp is a 2.5ghz with an ASUS P4PE mb, 1gb RAM and XP Home.I understand that FS9 is "cpu bound," but the better card will allow me to turn on AA and increase my ansiowhatever. Will I not get a framerate boost as well? I have my slider set to 20 frames max, but around congested airports with clouds I drop under 10 fps frequently. I'd be hugely disappointed if the sim looked better but wasn't faster, hehe. Thx!rgds,billg

I still cant get a solid ceiling in FS9. I have tried 2D and 3D in various configurations. I always get the IFR hole right around my aircraft. Or worse I will be in the clouds with the hole and when I climb above them I can see through them at all distances.I can kind of get a work around by setting a low visibility, but then its to low of a vis to do a non precison approach. Is it Video Card related? It did the exact same thing on my older machine. The sim looks and runs great, but with this issue I cant really use it for real world approach practice.P4 2.4Ghz512MBGeForce 4 128mb Ti 4400

I had to reinstall FS 2004. When I startup, Simcharts cannot be found. I don't remember where I got the Simcharts package. I checked the Jeppesen website but could not get any help there.

does enyone know, when using real world weather, how can I change CAVOK visability from 10 Sm to higher visability ?thanx

Just curious, how many hurricane hunters we have out there and what a/c do you plan to use? How about wx program?

I like flying with AI traffic, but I'm finding the default FS2004 AI traffic to be unrealistic and I've read it can adversely affect frame rates.So, I want to add some realistic AI traffic. Anyone have some recommendations for FS2004? I've seen Project AI, but am not familiar with any others.On PAI's site, they talk about how to disable all default AI traffic. But, I just want to disable the default commercial traffic while leaving the default GA traffic alone. I like having some GA AI traffic. Anyone know if there's a way to do this?Thanks in advance for your help,Dave

How can I look up at the tail (close Up). Because I have to move so far away to see the tail but it's tooo far. So, what should I do?

I wonder if someone could help here. I have installed the Lago Twin Otter and find that I can't get the ADF to the decimal freq. If I want 296.5 for example, the decimal cannot be input and it does not show the xxx.5 or zero, just displays the rounded freq. Perhaps it's me missing something.ThanksAnthony

I have found very nice scenery of Detroit airport (DTW) and found a AFCAD for the scenery, but when the planes land on the new runway at DTW (runway 04L/22R) all the AI planes taxi in the grass to the terminal. I tried re-making the taxi lines so the planes would follow the taxiway, but that didn't help. The planes still don't follow the lines I made (they didn't follow the lines in the original AFCAD either)Any ideas on why the planes are not following the lines in the AFCAD? Anyway to get the plane to follow the lines?

Hi,I'm planning to fly Europe, but I need some enroute information chart, SIDS & STARS, where can I download all this stuff?Thanx in advanceJaime CuellarMonterrey, Mexico

Hi,I can not get rid of a strange video related issue with clouds in FS2004.When passing inside a cloud, it loose horizontal thickness at all in spot plane view as if my plan is just braeking through a thin paper. With cockpit view, visibility is reduced gradually by clouds texture as I approach and pass through the clouds.I tried many setting but unable to detect the cause of it. I use;FSUIPC 3.07 ... same result even removedFPS fix ver.2 ... alternative clouds texture. same happens with default txture.100% 3D clouds ... in FS display settingFSmeteo 6.3 .... same result with FS default weather.My hardware is;Athlon XP 2200+ATI Radeon 9500pro w/latest Omega driver based…

If you find them don't get them they make fs9 look like fs6.No fog clouds are blue.

Hy could someone please email me or direct me to a site where I could get the original fs2004 fx-contrail_l.fx and fx_contrail_s.fx files THANKS ALOT FOR THE HELP

Today something is really wierd with fs9. I noticed black squares around trees and other sceneries that I havn't before noticed. Can someone direct me on how to fix this problem. I noticed it when I changed the mega scenery textures to wi in one folder and it started having problems. Now I think I might go back to the well known date before installation of mega scenery and see if it goes back. If it doesn't "GOODYE FS2004" "Hello FS2002".

I'm a little frustrated over how I have my USB CH PEDALS treating me. I find it hard to believe that in a Cessna 172/182 that I am training in on MSFS that in the real aircraft I get such an out of control yaw when trying to keep the nose of the aircraft centered on the runway when taking off? Have I just note done an adequate job of tweaking the settings for these ch pedals? As soon as I go max power, I understand the aircraft will want to yaw to one side. So when I try to correct with adding opposite direction rudder pedal it just whips me to the opposite side of the runway, I try to correct that, and I whip right back. So My take off on the runway look like zig-zag-zig…

Well I've decided to give FS2004 a second chance...I like many others experienced and still am experiencing terrible frame rates with a high performance machine (2.4 running 2.9 and GeForce 4200Ti card) ILS approach into YWG gave me an average frame rate of 7 tonite. (Done all the tweaks) I have very limited HD space left over due to FS2002 still being installed (less than 1 GB)... the question then is will FS2004 be effected by this? Does it cache anything and it can't with my limited HD space now?? Or is it something else somewhere?Chris

With the constant debate over Fs9 I have to state that it works fine with my HP 2.4 and Gforce card.So why am I going back to earlier version?Simple answer is the Dreamfleet 737. I could not get into the defaults heavy jets. Once I was in Dreamfleets cockpit nothing else is close to it..I did buy PDMG

I've flown FS9 since the day it came out and I'm still amazed at the things they put in here.Today I was fying from Idaho Falls Regional to Boeing Field (Seattle) around 7:30 pm local time. I was flying towards the sun and, amazingly, I started to get a headache looking at the sun :-sun1. I was really amazed. I really felt like I needed sunglasses :-cool. I didn't even have the brightness on my monitor turned up. Maybe it's my subconscious mind playing tricks on me:D.Ah well. I love FS9 even with all the things going on with it.

Is there any way to observe another players panel view in multiplay? The instructor station is great, but it would be fantastic if someone could observe the panel or views of another aircraft.What I would like to do is demo things for a friend and have him be able to view from inside the aircraft. Perhaps this is asking way to much.

Here a couple of questions. I hate the default aircraft that fs2002.1. is there a step by step for dummies how to get downloaded ai aircraft and gates to work in fs2002. 2. What are all of the programs will I need to download.3.Will the dowloaded ai aircraft easier on my fps than the default fs2002 aircraft and if so can the default ai aircraft be deleted.

When switching to spot mode I'm getting blurry textures quite often. Sometimes, if I hit the alt key as if I'm going to bring down a menu, then click the screen again to restart the sim, they'll go away. Other times, it takes a few minutes for the blurs to clear up. I've tried renaming my fs9.cfg so that a default one is generated but the same problem happens. I have the lastest ATI drivers, and my system is a 2.5 ghz with 1gb ram. This is what the display setting looks like in my fs9.cfg...{DISPLAY.Device.RADEON 9800 PRO.0}Mode=1600x1200x32TriLinear=1textureAGP=0PanelAsTexture=0Any help appreciated!rgds,billgEDIT: changed the square brackets...

My Suncom SFS HOTAS just bit the dust, and I am looking to buy some new controllers, and I was wondering about some technical issues. I ordered a CH Products USB 20 btn Yoke, but I want to get a HOTAS as well so I can fly Helos. I was looking at getting a USB Saitek X45. I have WINXP, and my question is, will WINXP and FS9 recognize both of these controllers connected at the same time, and would I be able to fly with the yoke, and use the throttle of the saitek at the same time? Also, would there be any conflicts between the CH products and Saitek programming software?

Logbooks1) Add a wx notes section to the logbook that automatically puts the weather of the departure and arrival airports on each flight logged.2) Add a section to the logbook that shows the beginning and ending hobbs time.3) Add a section to the logbook that automatically adds (but can be changed like the flight time) the amount of landings with a running total.NP

I hope that someone may know how I should handle this.When installing the new Radeon drivers (after un-installing the prior ones, etc. as per ATI instructions), an error message appeared stating "Zero Display Service Error". The error message was qualified as "severe". I clicked OK and proceeded. All aps and other games/simulations ran fine except for FS-ACOF. Uninstalled, re-installed, same. The program stops loading after the scenery loading box. Un-installed drivers, FS, re-installed all - still same.Any advice would be most appreciated, FS-ACOF no longer operational and error message even when trying the install prior ATI drivers with which I never had problems in the…

Hi,Does anybody know if a paintkit for the King Air 350 exists?.ThanksDan.