The FS2004 (FS9) Forum

Well I finally seem to have FS9 setup to run smooth as, with minimal shimmering and smooth as you like.My next problem is getting rid of the "flashing clouds" which appear in the distance.....is there any fix to the settings of cfg file for this?I have tried moving my cloud sliders to reduce anc increase the drawn and visible distance but I still get some "flashing" of distant clouds....almost as if there's lightening in them (there's not!)Thanks in advance....

Hello,unfortunately - due to personal reasons - I have to give up building my Boeing 777 cockpit simulator. If anybody is interested in these parts, you can follow this link for images and a detailed description. The parts should be sold complete, not in parts. Thank you for your interest.Hallo,aus pers

Hi,Something which never happened before started to annoy me in fs9 since a while. I dont use any addon weather program yet, no ActiveSky, no REX, nothing, at the moment.However I have downloaded and installed the nice HDE clouds from Pablo Diaz recently, and I wonder if these cloud textures could be the cuplrit. I noticed they arent mipped.Here's the problem: when setting up a layer of stratus, at let's say 3000feets AGL, and some cirrus at FL600, when flying at FL150 for instance, I noticed that there were an uncommanded cloud layer following my plane. That looks really idiotic, and I have no idea where that cloud layer come from: I checked my registered version of FSUI…

I am missing the IMHO greatest ever forum moderator..... any news on his whereabouts?.I hope he is ok. :(

Hey everyone,Thanks for everyone's advice earlier on about my performance issue; I took the CPU into Best Buy and they had a look at it, and told me that my resolution setting were off. Having fixed it, I took my computer home, and started up FS9, and it worked perfectly - for a while. After about a week or so, the same performance problem came up (with the FPS slowing every few minutes whenever I shifted my view away from the 2D cockpit). In any event, I decided to try an uninstall/reinstall of FS9. After this happened, the splash screen for FS9 showed up, then sat for a few minutes, then the entire program shut down - without an error message of any kind. I went to…

Hey all,I remember reading that FS9 only uses one core, so I went through the task list (in windows task manager) and right clicked on FS9.exe*32 (im using Win7 64bit). Went to set affinity and it is already set at use all cores...I only expected that it would be using one core...Am I missing something here? Can I force FS9 to use both cores at the same time?

I purchased active camera for FS2004 many years ago, but uninstalled it a couple years back. Today I reinstalled it, but am having a problem. When in Virtual cockpit mode, the view moves with every move of the mouse. I dont recall this happening before. Is there a way I can make it only move when I press and hold a button on the mouse? Also, this does not seem t be an issue while on the ground. Thanks! BTW, the support forums at active camera are down.

I have a slightly different problem than previously encountered.I have some FS2002 scenery for Szczecin (EPSC) which works well in FS2004. I altered the stock afcad (using afcad 2.21) to fit this scenery and all AI lands on the runway in its new position and follows taxiways, etc well.The parked AI sat at the wrong height initially (about 3ft too low) when I first go to the airport, so I used JABBGL2 to raise the height.Now when I start up there everything sits correctly. However, landing AI still lands at the old height and appear to have lost their undercarriage when taxying around. The airport elevation in the afcad agrees with the height put in with JABBGL2.I thought…

I have had FS2004 for years. I defrag regularly and turn off my antivirus before starting the sim. If I recall, it used to take 5 minutes or less to execute FS9.exe until I got the create a flight screen. It now takes 10 minutes or so for me to be able to create a flight.I have tons of addon aircraft and scenery (including photorealistic). I don't see why this should matter as none are chosen until I create a flight. I even disabled much of the scenery but it still takes that blasted 10 minutes or so to load.I'm running a P4 3.4Gig processor with 2Gig memory on an ASUS P4C800 motherboard.s I don't overclock anything.Can anyone help as to why I might be getting such …

Hi all i have a question, I run the PMDG 737 on shuttle flights in the uk i have UK2000 egbb, egss and egph, AES, active sky and radar contact installed all my sliders are maxed and i use a two monitor setup ( PMDG panel on lower and outside views on a upper) All runs great and and my frames are locked at 25fps, with this the lowest it drops is around 20fps when i fly around the london area. Now i recently started doing some shuttle flights in the USA and mainly fly from KBOS to KSTL, i use the freeware KBOS with AES and get again around 20fps i use a freeware KSTL and i am lucky to get 11fps around the airport area which is awfull, I've noticed it alot around the USA th…

Another issue I am trying to resolve regards the "popping" up of Autogen in the immediate vicinity of the a/c (1-2nm maybe). Is there anyway to either draw the autogen earlier (ie when more distant) or to set it to a level so that there aren't additional autogen buildings popping up.....it's very distracting!!

Hi. All, I am having an issue with the VC lighting in Maddog 2008 and others are experiencing this too judging by their forum.I posted this in the Maddog forum without any success.in the Maddog VC, with all panel background lights on, (and yes acft. fully powered) the ADI, HSI, FMC lighting and DFGS segment (glareshield autoflight panel)displays are so dim they are barely readable in their fully bright settings. if you turn on cockpit floodlighting they become bright as normal.All lighting works normally in the 2D panels.The issue seems to only affect the vector drawn elements of the panel gauges, So I am suspecting a graphics issue.Has anyone else seen this and found a f…

Area 51 board appears to have gone by the wayside.Anyone know if there is server trouble, or more difficulties?'Cheers,Neil

Does anyone know where I can find freeware scenery for Bethel, Alaska? All I can find for FS2004 are AFCAD files.Thanks,Markus

Hey everyone,I would like to know how to change the manufacturer label that appears over the AI traffic while it is in flight.For example the majority of my AI traffic comes up and says something like Aardvark Boeing 737, FSPainter A319, TheFruitStand or things of that nature.I do not in anyway want to discredit the creators of these aircraft but I would like while Im flying to be able to see the name of the company of the planes I am seeing. For example Southwest 737, Air France 747 etc. I am somewhat knowledgeable in the cfg files and Im fairly certain that is where these changes would take place but I dont know which lines to edit.Thanks in advance.

What is causing the horizon in FS9 to move up and down as you pan around the aircraft? Also clouds disappear and reappear. It's like the contours of mountain are shown and then the horizon gets flat and the horizon is rising if panning one way and sinking if panning the other way.This is almost only when NOT using a program like Active Sky where you can limit the upper visibility to get a soft horizon. But even with Active Sky in use I sometimes see the horizon moving.My visibility slider in FS9 is set to 60 mi/96 km.Anyone else seeing this?

Hi all! :(I have some great helos in my FS9 hangar but the engine soundpack is not always that great. I know there are good soundpacks from TSS but the problem is that they only work with the "Engine_Type" set to "1" (= Jet) in the Aircraft.cfg and this conflicts with the cool "Turbine Start Panel" by Steve Hanley (turbinestart.zip here in the lib) which requires the "Engine_Type" to be set to turboprop.I've tried several freeware helo soundpacks theyself require an "Engine_Type" set to turboprop but they were quiet disappointing regarding quality.So, anyone of you has an idea about a good and free helo soundpack that works with the "Engine_Type" set to turboprop?Many tha…

I have tried to download the Tacoma Narrows Airport Scenery from the link posted on the AVSIM main News page, but Kaspersky is giving me a trojan alert that either the web site or the file contaims malware. Is anyone else having this problem or is it a false report? Thanks

This probably belongs in the RM forum, but maybe someone here can offer some additional insight...Anyone merged multiple files using the same base track, but with different formations?Here's what I'm aiming for:It starts as a trail takeoff, closes up for some close-spaced passes, then goes to a box 4 formation, and then back to an open trail for landing.

Last week I installed UT2004 USA, and then a few days ago I installed UT Canada/Alaska. I love what this program does to my Fs2004. It's like the "cherry on top". I tried a test flight from KSEA to CYVR and was disappointed to see that the shores lines in between were INCORRECT. The land did not extend all of the way to the "shoreline" It's like the shoreline had a breakwater built along many places on the shore. I hope you know what I mean. I left both of the install positions just where they fell in the Scenery Library. I was thinking maybe their positions were wrong in the scenery library and that was the cause of the shoreline problem. I tried "google" to see if I…

Hi,When installing FS9 in a Win7 64 bit OS can I just load it in the default location ? Thanks.Jack

Hi,I got my new computer yesterday and i went to fly on fs9 and i had a problem with my yoke system. My aircraft won't turn whilst on the ground but will in the air. The alierons are moving when i turn the yoke system but the aircraft isn't. It won't turn with the Arrow keys either. It seems that the wheel is locked into place.Do you know why it is doing this and how i can fix it?ThanksDale Johnson

Hello all,I have been flying since FS2002 and I am a member of Vatsim and belong to a virtual airline, but I never spent money on Payware planes , utillities or scenery/weather. In fact I have never really invested time looking at payware items, because I just thought newer version of Flight Sim ( I now and have known better)would be released into the future and wouldn't need to. Since I just bought a new computer and it is stellar with great performance of both, I have been bitten with the bug. I bought my first payware plane, the Carenado Mooney and now I need help...I want to buy some more add-ons. I only want a few to start. I want to buy some awesome scenery ( I mos…

Since Upgrading to Windows 7 32 Bit I've been unable to get the electrics to work - aircraft as dead as a doornail!I followed this path = Flights/Aircraft/Failures/Systems, where I found a red tick in the Electrical Failures box. So I pressed the reset button to clear the box. Went through the startup procedure, same deal, failure; I tried half a dozen times, no success.If anyone can halp I would appreciate it.Back in the PSS days I seem to recall something similar; though the Temp PSS Forum has now been closed, so no assistance from John Rooum :( Ken

Hi all.I would like to get rid of the installed Autopilot in CaptSim C130 (FS9 Version) and replace it with one that's more user friendly and still retain the popup feature if possible please. The one I want to use is BIB Autopilot Gauge. I have FSPanel if I need it. Thanks in advance............John :(