The FLY General Discussion Forum

I went over to www.guru3d.com and installed the latest drivers. Fly! II looks to run a tad smoother with a slight increase in framerate. If you adventureous, give 'em a try. Of course, your milage may vary :-beerchug Pete

All of you who might think that Fly!2 is "dead", but don't want it to be:I am sure that among you, there might be some good C++ people, scenery people, aircraft people, etc.Could you please email me at [email protected] - please attach your developer abilities. I am particularly interested in C++ skills - anything that has a history of flight-sim related work should be detailed as well.Thanks,

After applying patch 230, I get a problem with the graphics. Polygones and undefinable objects are drawn all over the place. I have changed the adapter from Matrox G400 to Nvidia Gforce2 MX400 and also changed the drivers and tried several versions of the drivers, but this does'nt help. Well, I can ofcourse leave the 230 patch and run on 210. Have anyone else run into this problem, and found a sollution?Regards Erlend

Who here thinks JimmyBob, Larry and Michael are each separate personalities of the same multiple-personality individual? You know that would have to be *sorta* fun, getting to argue with yourself in a public forum over the silliest issue... Gate-crashing it may be, but "they" prolly don't even know it!:-lolOk, ok. I apologize to all three of you... It wasn't very nice of me, but it struck my funny bone when the possibility popped in my head this too early morning.With apologies,http://members.rogers.com/eelvish/elrondlogo.gifhttp://members.rogers.com/eelvish/flyurl.gif

Some screenshots I took today on a flight from ENBR to ENZV.http://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/pilatus01.JPGhttp://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/pilatus06.JPGhttp://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/pilatus07.JPGhttp://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/pilatus08.JPGhttp://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/pilatus09.JPG

There has been alot of activity here lately, and some questions asking about the current status of Fly!. I felt it only fair to give everyone a status on what has happened since the beginning of the year.For those keeping score at home, official funding on Fly! II ran out in April 2001. During the summer and fall of 2001, we attempted to pitch Fly! III to a large group of publishers. There was absolutely NO interest. We've seen light interest in combat flight sims, and some interest in "fantasy" flight sims (ala Crimson Skies), but absolutely no interest in GA sims. This became even more obvious after 9/11 -- no one wanted to be associated with a PC simulator where you co…

I'm going slightly mad....After struggeling with a graphics problem (that was solved by running DirextX 8 T&L) I got problems with the game controller (Microsoft Sidewinder Pro), that I solved by replacing the Sound adapter (disabled the onbord sound adapter), and now I thought everything should work, but now it's like there is a brake on the planes. It's almost impossible to pick up enough speed to lift of, and the plane responds like a whale.I planned to join a fly-in this sunday, (that's why a bought a new motherboard & CPU and installed WinXP), but right now this seems go down the drain. Arrrrrghhhhh...Please, anyone - help!:-vuur Erlend

Howdy - I am putting Fly! back on my system after a reformat and new video card. Does anyone have a good VCF for a Radeon 8500 128 mb card that they wouldn't mind sharing? Thanks!Travis

Made a couple of exploratory flights with the Citabria and the PA-28 over the Big Island tonight. Here are a few shots for your enjoyment. I must say that Don did an excellent job with his rendering of Hawaii. The lava looks very real and beautiful from above. Keep up the good job with the other islands. Thanks again, Don. Cheers.http://www.flyskyward.com/1.jpghttp://www.flyskyward.com/2.jpghttp://www.flyskyward.com/3.jpg

If I click on the NAV button that selects the the nav setting on the HSI FLY2 crashes out to Windows . None of the others have this problem. Please help as I just love that TBM.System is Athlon 1.4ghzGeforce 3Ti 200 (64mbs)DDR512mbs DDR ram Asus A7V 266 mainboardSB LIVE!80gig Seagate19inch Siemens monitorCH Pro rudder pedals and CH yoke (both USB)NVIDIA 29.80 drivers (Seem to work ok, but no speed increse noticed)Windows XP ProFLY2 european Retail to patch 4.

Can you guys please tell me what advantages FLY 2 has over FS2K2?ThanksAstro

Has anyone been able to connect to the FlyII multiplayer server this week? OR how long does it take to re-boot a server??

Hi There.just like to know if anyone has made taxiways for the above.Thanks.

Hello!Previously there were many posts about the performance of fly2.Now I made a site where you can add hardware details, and framerate values. So if you fill the table, it helps the otherrs to choose the right hardware to this great sim.Please visit http://[email protected]

And if so, screenshots??Pascal was good enough to produce that tutorial, and I was wondering if any of you have used it to create scenery? The steps are long and tedious, but if memory serves, the results are spectacular!I personally would LOVE to get my hands on some already "modified" texture sources (with the "drop" shadows in and all) so I could plug them into TS and roll my own scenery. But I guess there'd be a copyright issue with distributing the textures, eah?-Greg

Can anyone explain me why the graphic in FLY II looks gloomy and have no life in color? I mean there is always a layer of glosery and does not have great realisme, same thing for the water, why the water look all the same color all over the world? sometime I see line in the horizon? the visibility is locked ? My installation is wrong or whats ? I need standard graphics here, IMHO FLYI still better than FLY II in many area.FLYI simersEric

I took the decathlon out for a little spin today :)here are the pics from the trip!!http://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/dec01.JPGhttp://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/dec02.JPGhttp://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/dec03.JPGhttp://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/dec04.JPGhttp://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/div/dec06.JPG

Some shots of the RealAir Simulations Citabria, which a just bought thanks to an excellent review in Computer Pilot magazine...Shots are here: http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID47/6219.htmlAnd AndyD was that your review in Computer Pilot? If it was nice review because you convinced me to go buy the planes and they fly great!Jason

I thaugh of a quick way of doing taxiways earlier that produces very good results. You can obtain them online but you will not get all of them. If you goto your local airport you will find the airport facility directory. Just scan the ones you want and import into taxiway editor and sizeup. Works great. This post was ment for some people beause they may not know how to create them. If you need anymore help I can help.

Hi Fly! friends,If you value your privacy and/or "Fair Use" rights in the least way, please read this post in the general forum and help stamp this despicable software out from GameSpot and others:http://ftp.avsim.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboa...orum=DCForumID6I can't encourage you enough to read this and exert your influence.Take care,http://members.rogers.com/eelvish/elrondlogo.gifhttp://members.rogers.com/eelvish/flyurl.gif

Is there a Fly! or Fly! 2 demo? If there is would you please direct me to it? thanks. Grant Z.

I can remember us questioning the future of Fly!2 several months ago, but what it all really boils down to is what direction TRI are going in terms of the Fly! series.I for one would just like a straight answer from TRI, I think I already know the answer, but there is always a little hope.I would be grateful for a little information Richard, just some simple answers as to whether TRI are finished with any more future Fly! products, or are you still looking for a new publisher.If you are indeed finished with the Fly! series, can we as a group (as discussed before) - look at other alternatives for future enhancements.It has been playing on my mind for so long now, I really …

After reading the "A Challenge To The Fly! II Community" thread I had a question. Would the Fly/Fly2k/Fly2! developers be interested in something like this: A web site devoted to ongoing projects for fly. Developers could post their project at the current stage including the code and raw data for all to see and download. Kinda like to open source guys do. This would have a few cool effects. Some people like myself learn faster from example. Taking a peek at the files of your project will help others learn how to create/improve addons for fly. You other developers could help each other if you should have a question or get stuck on something. This may make it easie…

I have recently discovered something that may help lots of people. I had a ATA66 hard drive and recently converted to an ATA100 hard drive. With the ATA66 FLY2 would go maybe 15 or less frames a sec. Now with the ATA100 it just flys! Its never been so smooth!

Hello everyone:Last evening, while trying to fly out of JFK, my unit crashed to the desktop and revealed this error message:"Cant load texture Datad2031597917A3514.raw file not foundfile: Texture.cppline: 1376"Obviously, without this file, I am unable to start a flight plan from JFK, (or for that matter I assume be able to fly into JFK). Would someone be so kind as to send me the file ([email protected]) or direct me to its location?Thank you in advance for your help.Curtis